Coinmine is doing a very decent job as a pool and he's simply picking up the people that leave other pools because he's doing a better job. Should he be DDOSed for that? I think he was relatively cooperative, yet when the official pool went down for changes, the hashrate of coinmine exploded again (which is natural as he picked up a few extra gigahashes). Then the official pool didn't recover the hashrate after the server transfer and also had the orphan problem etc etc. So, naturally, people will opt for what works.

A simple email or pm to an understanding pool owner will do the trick in most cases. I think, from what I've read in his public responses, that he understands the issue, but then again what can he do with the network spikes when a large pool goes down and people use him as a failover? Even if he aims for a 30% market, he can still find himself at >50% on a day where 2 other pools are DDOSed, or are down for whatever reason. We simply need more pools that have a decent hashrate to avoid variance penalties and are operated in a smooth way so that people can diversify their hashrate. P2Pools are good as a concept but I'm getting too many issues, rejects etc. The situation is getting better for sure, relative to one month ago, as there are now much more options to choose from. And it'll probably get better with time.

i know what is going on in the pools. If pool owners contact me , i can explain fake hash vulnerability. All stratum pools need to fix this problem.

We need DRK Poker....  Please....

I don't think people are asking you to close shop, just take some measures to reduce the percentage from 50 down to 30 or 40, like an increased fee as an incentive for some people to switch. It's not like you'll be losing money from that (increase from 1% to 2% = double money, 3% = triple money etc etc). When it's ok again, you reduce the fee.

50% is unfortunately a danger for the network, even if you have the best of intentions. I mean someone can hack your pool and then, through the 50%, do some "weird" things. This should be prevented as a possibility.

+1, its highly stable, why would miners leave. Also its a good business for you with all the fees. Why do ppl think doublespending once is worth it on a good coin with bright future.

Having a pool with 50% is like printing money - I agree it wouldn't make sense to do anything to risk that position. But as someone already said, someone could hack the pool, and investors looking outside will get wary of investing if they see it being so strongly centralized.

Here is problem: https://github.com/MPOS/php-mpos/issues/1938

Thanks. Let's hope it is patched fast. Do you want to make a thread in the Alt Currencies subforum to alert all pools? Most people don't check each coin thread in announcement sections.

This has to be fixed ASAP!

Does this stratum issue require any action from miners? E.g. do we need to download a new sgminer or change the stratum+tcp address? I'll be gone for 3 weeks and I hope I can just keep my miner running 24/7 as it is.