"I've identified and fixed an issue causing blocks to be lost. Profits should hopefully be better now."
Wonder where those lost blocks went..................
That statement is of great concern on many many levels. This was basically what many people were suspecting and complaining about for several weeks. Was that code issue recently identified, and/or recently introduced into the system? With which layer was the issue identified? What happened to the blocks not registered against user accounts? They certainly did not disappear. These are questions we will obviously never get answers for.
It comes down to a bottom-line type of situation. If H20 can deliver the most profits, anonymity will be afforded; However, he can not expect to deliver poor results and keep the anonymity. As of right now, anyone mining on MC this month (up to and including today) has earned significantly less than they would on a competing pool. Therefore, it makes sense to just move.
I have nothing personal against H20. This is just business. Nobody is forcing him to run the pool or forcing you to mine here. My advice to him would be: You're going to have to choose whether long-term viability of the pool is of importance or whether or not you're going to handle this as "make as much as I can while the iron is hot under."
It seems like the long-term viability and competitiveness of the pool is not really in his interest. Perhaps he is just looking to make as much as he can right now as the future is too uncertain. Nobody can answer those questions except H20 and it does not appear he wants to answer them. Unless he can quickly turn around and start outperforming all his competitors, this pool is not going to bounce back. The rate of addressing returns and issues is better at every other multipool. In order to deal with very poor customer service, MC is going to have to really start to outperform other pools but that is very unlike to happen because the arbitrage opportunities are declining everyday. Other multipools are competing vigorously for the marketshare H20 had unchallenged just a month ago.