Views on AlternatePool.com ?

Is this for real? Anybody lost their hashes or received substantial rewards, or any other experiences?
There was 0 results for it on these forums and even Google didn't seem to find any further info about the site. Roll Eyes

I started mining there earlier today. Haven't received a payout yet, but everything seems to be working ok. I think I'm going to switch to middlecoin though, as it has more support on this forum. I'm planning on doing 24 hours at each and comparing the results.

I recommend HashCows if you're not mining LTC

There's a lot more detail into what they mining and when it gets sold/paid out on the main stats page. Middlecoin turned me off b/c it's such a black box, really no information.

https://hashco.ws/stats.php
https://hashco.ws/profits.html

Maybe AlternatePools is being managed by Bigvern, the webmaster of Litebonk.com, FCPool and Cryptsy exchange.

It's in his tweets.

U can ask him about it.

Quote from: foroplus on November 27, 2013, 09:49:53 AM

Maybe AlternatePools is being managed by Bigvern, the webmaster of Litebonk.com, FCPool and Cryptsy exchange.

It's in his tweets.

U can ask him about it.

I tried to go to one of Bigvern's old pools and it redirected me to http://alternatepool.com/

Then did a whois on the domain and it does belong to him so it's probably pretty good.

I am going to try it now.

It's a cool idea not know what coin you are mining, that way if he gets enough users he can do a pretty awesome 51% attack with it.

I can't connect to Alternatepool, anyone having same issue?

Quote from: Burninj on December 09, 2013, 10:41:26 PM

I can't connect to Alternatepool, anyone having same issue?

Same here (for more than 3 or 4 days now, I think). It worked for me two days ago, but after restarting miner it's not working again.

It's a little annoying as I have some unpaid btc on some addresses there. Until this problem pool was fine. Almost no info on your progress,but working and paying ok.

EDIT: sent a message via site form, but with all the crazy stuff happening over cryptsy I doubt he'll notice. This would be my second email message, first was ignored.

This pool is dying anyway... went from 200 Mhs to less than 20 Mhs now.
The guy behind it should sort connection issues...

can't connect too. have some btc's there left.... Sad

It worked really well the first time i connected for it (for about a hour), then the second time i did 8 hours and got 1/4th of the amount.

After that I could not even connect to the pool, and sent to support messages and got no reply.

Is there an official cryptsy thread on this forum? Could not find it, otherwise we could move our concerns there, as it's bigvern's pool.

I saw the pool dropping from 19Mhs to 2mhs then 0 yesterday. It's dead for the moment.

Owner should pay out to everyone then. I'm sure he CAN afford it.

Quote from: Burninj on December 13, 2013, 08:14:05 AM

I saw the pool dropping from 19Mhs to 2mhs then 0 yesterday. It's dead for the moment.

too bad! I really liked this pool...
Hopefully the owner will pay out to everyone!

Looks like it's working again.

Quote from: greyw00lf on December 13, 2013, 11:01:51 PM

Looks like it's working again.

yeah, looks that way. thanks for update.

time to tip over the account balance

Goddamnit. Had to restart miner pointed to this pool and as a result - cannot connect again. Hashrate dropping again. Either they are doing that on purpose (who in a right mind...) or they need to get their shit together.

Quote from: PrintMule on December 15, 2013, 12:24:37 AM

Damnit, did same mistake, cant connect again, wtf is going on with this pool.
Thats raging cause its paying so well compared to other switching pools Sad

Quote from: Burninj on December 15, 2013, 11:42:26 AM

Damnit, did same mistake, cant connect again, wtf is going on with this pool.
Thats raging cause its paying so well compared to other switching pools Sad

thats true....