Does somebody stil mine on middlecoin?
~1000Mh, decades of BTC balance is not a dust ))

Lazy and ignorant bots and hobby miners who aren't paying much attention. Although, if you're stuck on script the return from the pools is a choice  between poor and not-good anyway.

Funny thing though is that Middlecoin was number one on poolpicker.eu yesterday and the hash rate doubled. Miners are funny people.

The general conciseness seems to be that Middlecoin is just running all by itself with no one in charge or maintaining it. So, miners should beware.

This raises all sorts of questions for me. Like, why? And, how can it keep running at all?

Not only that, but according to poolpicker.eu it's average return is in line with other script pools for the last few weeks. Of course, all script pools are doing crap now... But my point is that middlecoin is supposedly doing it with both hands tied behind it's back.

How can it do that?

This might have more to do with the way poolpicker calculates or perhaps is even led to arrive at its daily numbers. For example poolpicker for quite some time lists coinking as the top choice in SHA-256 section, however as far as I'm aware coinking isn't actually paying dailies for BTC mining. And without actually issuing daily balance payouts for BTC mining the pool couldn't possibly reach its poolpicker listed daily SHA-256 payout figures. I know this first hand as I run one asic miner for few days to coinking's sha256 pool and my account hasn't been paid for those few days of BTC mining for about a month now, with payment estimate figure in dashboard mysteriously shrinking every day to now a fraction of the original estimate. Several posters here confirmed they had similar experience with that pool, we even posed the question to the owner or one of the owners of coinking on this forum and he chose not to answer any of us.

So either poolpicker base the estimates on numbers released specifically for them by pools, rather than actual mining, or maybe some pools are clever enough to pay little differently to the right account in order to make daily statistics look a little better. Obviously this is purely my speculation.

I agree with middlecoin being in auto pilot mode at the moment, it took forever for my test run balance to move from "Immature Unexchanged" to "Unexchanged" field and nothing moved any further for days. Looking through the stats you can clearly see payments are being issued daily at 2:30 in the night, but it looks like exchanging mechanism (rather than payout) triggers only if address balance is high enough (probably around 0.01 BTC). I always have a dedicated test rig pointed at the pool before committing to a larger scale mining - and I've seen this abandoned/auto pilot mode many times - p2pool.org has few coins with active users but last payouts 4 or 5 weeks ago, couple of my test runs on mega multi pool vanished into black hole, although, to be fair, some coins/pools have such scarce traffic that it might be just some verification issue or unmaintained setup stuck on preforked settings or similar. I just presume most of those pools are some sort of student ventures set up in dorms that remain abandoned until school year starts or something.  

Your advice is good and I agree.

My question is a bit more subtle though: Is it really possible for a mining pool to run for months unattended?

How do the server bills at Amazon get paid. (and with what? it can't make much more then about $10 a day in fees). What happens if a coin changes software? an exchange changes interface? and

I realize that no one with answers seems to be talking but the more I think about it the stranger it seems.

Another profit pool that is new is http://leetpools.net - Looking for new miners.

BCT Thread here: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/702527.0

My "Immature Unexchanged Balance (estimated BTC)" all went to "Unexchanged Balance (estimated BTC)" but didnt go any further
to "balance". It stuck in "Unexchanged Balance (estimated BTC)".....and yes, my Unexchanged Balance  is over .01 btc....and i have no active hashrate because
i dont want to throw my money into ab big black hole  ....another hint could be that if you take a look at the front page of middlecoin.com you´ll see
an embedded twitter window....the last tweet was from Mar 7.....and the last activity from the dev was April 11.....look at this:

Name:    h2odysee
Posts:    489
Activity:    238
Position:    Full Member
Date Registered:    May 01, 2013, 10:43:23 PM
Last Active:    April 11, 2014, 10:05:20 PM


I think that will speak for its own, does it? Maybe there happened something very bad to h2odysee

Strange. But as it is written.......

It is true that strange things have been going on for a while. Just read back in this thread. The owner has seemed to stop maintaining the pool and dropped out of sight for some reason.

People are getting paid though. Just doing a quick look around I can't find anyone who had a balance over .01 who didn't get paid last night. So that part isn't true. It does look like everyone is running a high unexchanged, so some coins aren't being sold for some reason.

Like I said yesterday, If it's broken if will be interesting to see if anyone fixes if.

Woha, it is really awesome to see this thread alive agian I was a big fan of middlecoin in it's early days - brilliant innovative idea, outstanding profits and misterious operator (h2o) ... And it is trully unbelivable that this pool is still alive ... still so many miners. However, I do not believe that this pool runs by itself ... 5 (or more) servers, distibuted database, connections to exchanges ... no way that this runs by itself - especially if you look at the history of middlecion with no so many but stil occasional issues, downtime, etc. ... Ayway, it is great to see a cryptocion service still being alive (even though slowly fading away) after more then a year! Congratulations to h2o who is for sure on some beach with a beer in his left hand and a wallet, full of Bitcoins in his right hand