Guys,
We're sorry to announce that we are closing our skein pool. It seems that there is an exploit in the stratum that allows hashrates/shares to be falsified.
We applied the latest fixes to to our stratums but still the issue persists. If someone *cough* Ahmed *Cough* manages to find a working stratum then we will gladly re-open.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Regards
Nut
this sucks a fatty.
Try cryptorus.com
whole lot of rejects.
What's your config? were help you out.
its the same one I used for-eve-er on stablehash and nut
Why is nobody mining on skein? Skein is almost always more profitable when compared to other algos. It seems that people like groestl/qubit algo more than skein for GPUs. I am not considering Scrypt since ASICs are out already for Scrypt.
Someone on reddit had the idea to make a profit switching pool to different algo...I think that will make all algos equally profitable.
Is there any update on swapping one of the algos with a new one?....I know Neuromode is collecting the huge data.....
I hope only those algos are selected which are good to GPUs...I mean low wattage and low temps....
SHHHHHHHHH!!! Damnit man I love the <3k diff!!!!
But you are right. When I was done jumping out the proverbial window when I lost nut2pools, I switched to groestl for a bit and the earnings are way lower then with skein.
How can we know that a particular pool is compromised before the pool itself announced?
We can't. We just need to trust the pool operators to monitor their pools and deal with these users appropriately. Only when a pool is compromised is it possible to investigate and work out a fix.
I'm keeping a close eye on my pool.
The issue is the pools ops cant see it either. The shares come in, stratum accepts them, they get counted for the rewards. It's only after a while when you see that userx hasn't found a block after x time that you can SUSPECT that they are cheating. If we banned every user that had an unlucky spell though you'd all get banned sooner or later.
At some stage i will get the issue fixed but i don't have the time right now so rather than let people steal from legitimate miners, we decided to shut the pool rather than let the thieves prosper. Hope you understand.
Regards
Nut
You are honest. Thank you for letting every one know. This will prevent new people from getting into trouble.
Will P2POOLS also have same problem? If not why dont someone create a p2pool?
hear hear to this!
