I started mining few weeks ago. After several experiment, I started mining with ghash.io.
Everything was fine until yesterday except downtime of their site. I was earning steadily
from this pool.
To improve connectivity I used their ip(stratum+tcp://88.150.205.242:3333)
instead of stratum+tcp://uk1.ghash.io:3333. I found no problem with it. Everything was
ok in my account with ghash.io. It was showing shiftworks, shares, hash rate, changes
in hash rate etc. perfectly.
However yesterday ghash.io was getting fewer blocks than usual. I checked
blockchain.info and found that blocks found with ip(88.150.205.242) were not distributed
among the miners. Only blocks found with ghash.io were shared with miners.
Very interestingly after my complaint ghash.io is again getting block in their usual manner.
Screenshots are shown here:
https://sites.google.com/site/bitcoin4bd/My concerns
1. Is it really matters in using ip:port or domain:port
2. If ip:port is not acceptable, why the site showing all my info
3. Are they stealing BTC from miner secretly?
Waiting for their reply.