I don't know how his pool server is coded, but maybe he should block miners trying to connect with difficulty <32.
If we find a block now, I don't think anyone will get a payout, other than TX fee payouts for the block finder and the pool.
Well, whatever it was resolved relatively quickly.
Oh, and BTW, there is a new kid on the block. 900+ GH/s just check in. #2 hasher from Eligius, which is down with a stratum server failure (only one server, really?)
PS Mr BBAv, set your difficulty to higher than 32. You could easily set to 2048 with your ~1TH.
even though they left a while ago, their PPLNS Share is stuck at 2.84468268 - has been since at least 5am EST (+10 hours ago)
And still is stuck there. Everyone else gets ripped off when the next block is found.
Anyone know how to contact the pool operator?
This pool counts your share of each found block using a "share window" which contains current difficulty * 2 shares.
When you start it takes a while before you get your full paymanet BUT when you leave you keep getting paid for a while too.
Now, if a user with 1 TH/s at his disposal starts mining here he has 1/3 of the full pool hashing power and as such his share of a block should be 1/3 of 25 BTCs after a couple of days.
If this user mined for several hours it will take a while before his submitted shares clear out and he stops getting paid and since when he leaved HHTT lost 1/3 of its hashing power it takes even longer.
Every PPLNS pools behaves like this, the only difference can be in the size of the "share window" used by each pool.
spiccioli.
ps. I think that a PPS pool is a better choice as a back up pool, since you don't risk wasting you hashing in the unlucky situation where your backup pool does not find a block while you're using it and while your submitted shares still give you something back for your work.