You think its bad here .Check out the latest posts on bitmain talk..  If i was anyone of anyone and had any money in hashnest id be pulling it out.. They seem to be on a rather slippery slope as of late..  

Lets see if i got it right..

1)Support has always been shit.

2)Send us the junk miners of their farms.  2 week or longer turn around time when they inevitably break due to being used or just piss poorly made.. ON TIME sensitive machines no less

3)No compensation from batch 1 fiasco of s7

4)Gouging on miner price when they know they are only good for 6 months tops!  roi is over 9 months to a year

5)Spv mining

6)mining empty blocks or ones that are half full which isnt any better when the network is backlogged  Transaction Ages 379h 45m 56s  Thats how far back we are!!!  and its ever increasing as the majority of hash is in pool that practice bad network behaviour.   Thankfully we have pools that see Satoshi's vision and fill the blocks or we would be far worse in backlogged transactions..

At this point id be alarmed as hell at the past record bitmain has been showing.. The pattern should be becoming much more apparent..  Like my dad always said.. Money talks Bullshit walks.

Let me know if ive missed anything

Best Regards
d57heinz

yes also a fork of the network. forgot that BIG one lol.. Thanks:)

Pool front end down, right?

So, will Antpool die naturally or will it need help?

Is it possible to modify/enhance Bitcoin to reject/ignore blocks from Antpool?  If we don't forward their crap empty blocks then no one will build on top of them, right?

Oh, good points; can we be more surgical and blacklist just blocks below some threshold in size from anyone?  Hmm, unless the mempool is low enough then small or empty blocks are ok.  Hmm, filling up a block with junk transactions isn't what we want.  Oh, maybe their mempool was low at the moment due to something, e.g. network issues.  Hey, this might not be an easy issue.

Does any have an idea how i can register with antpool ??

Goodbye (再见) AntPool.  Hello Kano!

There is no good/acceptable reason at all. Not including Bitcoin transactions goes directly against what Bitcoin is about. I am glad you see that you cannot mine here in good conscience and I hope other miners follow suit or Antpool change their ways (either is acceptable to me  ).

Some people claim its because of the great firewall but truth is its all about maximizing their profits and getting as many blocks as quickly possible. Not including transactions is seen as being a quicker way to relay found blocks but other pools like kano and ck process full blocks quicker than antpool do empty blocks. The other thing with antpool (and others) is the SPV mining too. I hope pool miners on antpool experience delays in paying/receiving BTC so they can see the effect mining empty blocks has. Funnily enough Antpool doesn't even include their own transactions in their blocks  

Please move your machines over to Bitminter:).  Ive been monitoring his site for the last month.. No restarts.  Steady block finds.. And they have been mining since 2011
Here is the thread.. https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/788753.0..  I promoted kano pool for a long time but i feel he has grown close to capacity.  Having to restart the servers often.. (not that it effects performance of block finds but it does disconnect miners).  Bitminter is currently 4.4 petahash and could use a nice boost like kano has received in the past couple months.  Need to keep supporting the small pools and help them grow.. they are the ones that are including the transactions.. Sadly Antpool has their head so far up their ass that they no longer see the light of day.  If you look here this is what pisses me off with all the politics being unnecessarily brought into bitcoin.. If antpool would just fill all their blocks they mined empty in the last week alone it would make up 45000 transactions at 1800 trans per block.https://btc.com/en/stats/pool?pool_mode=week. antpool mined 25 empty blocks.>  ANTPOOL needs to figure out how to fill their blocks or they have to drop their share of the network since its crippling it  Let us not forget the network is only as strong as its weakest link!!!.. All the bickering and bs about needing larger blocks isnt necessary if the big players on the network did what they are required of to participate.> Soon id say we should start talking about how to reject empty blocks when the mempool has any transactions.> Problem solved.  No need for a block if their isnt anything new to add to the blockchain.

Antpool get your shit together!  

Best Regards
d57heinz

Edit looking here i notice a trend of antpool finding more and more empty blocks.. Over three hundred in the last 3 months.> Pathetic!!!   More than enough to cover the backlog and then some .... WTF

start here https://btc.com/en/stats/pool?pool_mode=month3 and click your way down to 24 hour and watch the percentage of empty blocks rise!!

and btcc also starting to trend upwards.. both of them avg under 800 kb a block. 
   Pool   Hash Rate Share   Hash Rate   Blocks Found   Empty Blocks Percentage   Avg. Block Size (Bytes)   Avg. Tx Fees Per Block (BTC)   Tx Fees % of Block Reward
2   AntPool     23.85 %   267.74 PH/s   31                                 19.35 %   723,123                                        0.31806409                   1.27 %
3   BTCC               15.38 %   172.73 PH/s   20                                  5.00 %   781,928                                        0.31814662                   1.27 %