Nah in our case we know all the big miners at ckpool for now so we know what they're up to. The strange share submissions were from a new miner with only a tiny hashrate who was trying to send shares from another username.

Yeah, felt stupid suggesting it out of my ignorance!  Turned out being Safari in the new Yosemite Upgrade from Apple.

One can screw up a pool with corrupted shares from what I've read before.  But hey, no need in starting that theory.  If they wish to waste their hashing power on screwing others AND THEMSELVES, go for it!  They can only do it for so long before it is no longer financially beneficial for them to do it.  A LOT of money is being spent on electricity as well to try something like that.

So, like I said, let them "go for it!" Be my guest!  I'll wait it out!  It takes a LOT of money to power 1 or 2 PH/s of rigs.

Not sure how much hashing power it would take to corrupt a pool with 8 PH/s total?  I'm sure it would take at least 500 TH/s; if not more.

^ I was just kidding earlier about the laptop, I figured u were watching The Voice instead of watching the BTC

^ well we do know it can be done..... several months ago BTCguild and Eligius had that farm owned by Smart Miners holding shares back causing honest miners low profits for quite awhile and now we know it's possible to create havoc by using the right pool address with a bad username.....

I don't like the sound of this AT ALL!  It actually pisses me off!

I was on Eligius for about 10 days that began about 20 days ago.

I left and went to CKPool for a while to show my support.  We went into a block winter over there for a while.  Which made me come over here to try to earn enough BTC to get four S4's.  I've been here since the 6th block that was found on the 18th.  Makes me wonder if someone was doing that then while I was at CK's Pool?

LOL

I'm here to be the comedian and chief

I'm not doing so well during this lame block session .  LOL

as in lame duck session.

I'm wondering the same.

I'm wondering if another pool with 1 to 2 Ph/s [Like GHash] is sending us bad shares to mess with us in an effort to get others to leave and hopefully some of us leave and go to their pool?

It makes sense to do it in waves.  I might want to have a look at their hashing power history...

I'll do that right now.

EDIT:  Did not appear to be anything to instigate them.  Still could be though. They have enough hashing power on hand to bounce around from pool to pool to do some crap like that.

It's not like someone has to keep that kind of hashing power here very long.  If they are devious and want to bounce around to several of them in an effort to get people to switch to them, they have the hashing power to do it.  Not saying it couldn't be someone else either.  I could just be paranoid.  Hell, some could call me a conspiracy theorist.  LOL

Just doesn't make sense to me to see that big of changes in the hash rate in such short time frames on this pool.  I think some are jealous of the new beta and could be up to something malicious.  It's possible...

So did I.....new block......*yeah*

But, I really want to know, why are there three blocks in a row with 1 1/2 days all together.....

My first day on here, we found 13 blocks in one day.