because you cannot rent any hash power without the Bots or whatever driving up the price....its a damn shame and i am about ready to bail on NiceHash...only problem is now my BTC will not be released for 24 hours so I can use them on a FAIR site ....the anti Bot crap doesn't work---
We don't have anti bot rules, we actually support them, that is why there is API available. We just don't support market manipulation in any dishonest way.
Everyone may use the bot placing and managing orders as long as intentions are fair - to compete with other orders in a fair manner - that is - if you pay more, you get more.
A quick look at the scrypt market on westhash shows 95 active orders, and what appears to be 1 person holding 75 of them (consecutive order numbers and/or all the same or very similar price)
There isn't anything that can be done about it though, any way you can think of to stop it is soon defeated, eg limit on number of orders just use multiple accounts. IP Limit, switching ip's is very easy.
You are right, I also do not see any solution, but maybe some other have good idea. Actually the point is not to restrict someone, point is to give a possibility for others to mine.
True, that is why we are working on several possible solutions - two of them already mentioned and will be integrated in the system in following days/weeks and there is also a third one. We will provide a basic bot software, including source code, for everyone to use, for free. Those with some little coding knowledge will be able to easily extend and modify it to suit own needs (such as linking with wallets, exchanges and so on to get mining profitability data and be able to adjust maximal price for orders).
You are right, I also do not see any solution, but maybe some other have good idea. Actually the point is not to restrict someone, point is to give a possibility for others to mine.
