Strange: all pools always have an address "mining" more than 50%...

[manobra]

Hi, after jumping from pool to pool (in order to understand how it works as Well if worth it or not), I've realized that every pool always have some address that appear to be mining 50% (some times 99%) more than everybody.

Example: while the average "velocity" is 100/500 Kh/s, there is always 1 address playing with 16 Mh/s! (Fake numbers, as i'm talking about all coins).

If you ask The pool manager about that, The answer is The same: there's someone mining to this address...

We have been watching many types of scam...

Is there a way to "audit" a pool? Or a list of The trusted ones?

It happens with many other coins as well...

Am I too much afraid?

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[c0inbuster]

Maybe you should sum hash rate and calculate average earning of the pool and see if that's really what the pool is earning.
You can also use your hash rate and use a calculator to see if what you are mining is what is expected.

[manobra]

All these pools have a page that u can check The miners.

And there u can see: i.e.: reward = 25 coins => 0.00324 for everybody (a lot of average miners) and 22 for only one address: djrbdodsndbdjdnbdsjdjsjbsjxsnsna (that address running at xx Mh/s).

It is not necessary to check hash rate or else... Everything is in that statistics page.

The problem is not my hash hate. It is published there as well.

The pool manager could insert an address manualy on statistcs page, to appear that it was a valid address, and without actually mining, He get these coins. If you do the math (hash rate/all miners/reward/etc...), it will appear to be ok.

Take The example numbers above: while all miners at 100-500 Kh/s there's always at least one running at 20 Mh/s.... Doing The math, of course all miners will deserve 0.00123 while this one will deserve 20.123.

Have someone saw this kind of behavior too?

[organofcorti]

This is fairly standard. I've followed miner hashrate distributions for over a year, and they tend to be pareto distributed. Here's a chart of hashrate distributions for several pools for last week - very bottom heavy:

[manobra]

Nice! Thank you for reply.

I was afraid that there was no one looking at this issue.

Tks!