I wouldn't recommend mining at this pool, I used to mine there, but honestly there are better LTC mining pool alternatives.
That isn't what turned me off though. What did it was that in their forum they opened a topic about how they're developing a Litecoin FPGA. The thread was extremely shady looking, absolutely no proof of anything, just lots of promises in text and of course they're raising money for developing it, over 300LTC worth so far. I then posted in the topic "I'm not sure if this is trolling, or serious" because Scrypt is developed to be ASIC and FPGA proof. If one was created for Scrypt it would require lots of memory, which is something ASICs and FPGAs don't offer. A "project developer" then replied with "How can a thread be trolling?" I then replied with "Your concept design is a hot swap enclosure with your logo pasted on top of it" which is the only real "proof" they have of their creation on their website. I was then promptly banned.
That's not all they've done, they take advantage of bad situations. Ex. when Hypernova lost nearly all their funds, in the Reddit topic netcodepool pops in and basically says "What a shame, at least our pool is working right and everyone pool-less now should join it" which shows that netcode doesn't want diversity in the LTC network, which is what keeps the network alive. I would definitely stay away from this pool, their payment methods are a bit shady as well. I wasn't paid for over 15,000 shares of work (which is 3+ hours of mining) and when I asked why, they replied with "you only get paid for when you're actively mining." So if you stop mining but still have a large unpaid share rate, those shares will have all gone to waste.
Wow. Troll much?
I've been on Net Code Pool for a long while and I have had no issues at all. Some member on there is trying to develop a Litecoin FPGA...If you are interested, great contact them. If not, don't contact them. It's that simple. You can go on MCXNOW, Cryptsy and even on here BitCoinTalk and hear all manner of amazing things going on. It doesn't mean that the owners of those pools / websites are involved in anything. Just that member of the forum that is talking about it is involved with that activity. Your argument meets the fallacy of applying a specific to a generality.
Next, with regard to Hypernova, I personally LOST 7 LTC to Hypernova that I still haven't received. That is why I was pissed at them and I posted that comment that is taken way out of context. I went to NetCodePool because, to this day, I've been paid for all the work that I've done on the pool. Furthermore, they have an active community, contests and things like that. When members have mining problems, one or more of the pool members actively jump in and try to help. So for those reasons, I wanted to share with other people that were previously mining on Hypernova that maybe NCP is worth a look. There are plenty of pools to choose from and it's not like I was saying "EVERYONE JOIN NCP NAOOOO!". It's more like...if you were screwed by Hypernova, consider NCP as I have. The reasons that I was suggesting it is because they seem really legit and responsive. Compared to Hypernova where (as I said) I lost 7 LTC.
So, I would take your griping and complaints with a complete grain of salt as it seems to be not based on any truth. Just trolling.
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