Do not use this pool http://cga.thedigitalmint.net they stolen like 20 Coins from me i contacted them but no one answers me and i know they have been online so yeah this crooked pool is not worth to mine in it...
It was probably from the fork. That pool was on it. I think it is a reputable pool. If you have proof of your missing coins then contact chickenliver55 and he may reimburse you.
anyone who lost coin message me with proof and ill see what i can do
I have been mining with this pool and I can confirm that they are honest - I received payouts even during the series of orphan blocks.
Immediately after the fork was detected, they were back on the correct chain and the transactoin I sent to Poloniex (which was on the wrong fork for much longer) is now also showing in my Poloniex wallet, apparently they have just now updated / re-sync'ed to the correct block chain, so everything checks out.
The only thing that I am seeing on the pool (and I bet all pools have this problem with CGA until the reward change) is that someone is mining all the interesting blocks, so the pool is now on its second series of finding 8 consecutive blocks of zero rewards. You cannot see this on the pool, but with the block explorer you can search for the pool address and see 8 blocks with all zero rewards, which causes the pool (which ignores zero reward blocks) to show that there are over 100,000 shares submitted from an expected nr of shares of just over 2000, so the work is 5,000% done...
Hopefully the diff swings will reduce as soon as the rewards are more evenly spread and also it will be impossible to not get a reward while constantly finding blocks... (Even Doge is moving away from random block rewards).