LMFTFY
It's FUD. There's no logic involved, only wilful misinterpretation. You can make it up --- and they do ... the Daily Mail does it all the time.
Cheers
Graham
From what I can tell, The Daily Mail exaggerate the truth.
That's what's going on here.
From what I can tell:
Q. Can SPR be pool mined?
A. Yes.
Q. Would it be advisable to pool mine SPR?
A. No. The pool can steal your money.
Q. Would it be advisable to pool mine with a trusted pool operator?
A. Possibly.
So the OP should be qualified. Pool mining is possible [I don't actually know that for certain yet], but it is discouraged because the pool gets to see information you should not show them.
We've had this before. All the multiplools hold on to your money and then they dump coins onto exchanges. Then they payout. You are never in control of your money until you get paid, and then you don't really know how much you are due.
You can try and belittle the view, but there seems to be some element of truth in what is being discussed. You may not like they way people are going about it, but you can't simply call them out as liars.
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+1 Well said.
Until somebody comes up with a multisig solution to public pool mining that is.
Coins101, this isn't correct. It's not that the pool can see information it shouldn't (all pools see this information), it's that each miner sees information it "shouldn't". Therefore everyone "should" try to steal the block reward immediately, while still receiving payments for submitting shares for blocks they didn't find (though if everyone did that, there wouldn't be a reward left to distribute).
Stonehedge, I don't see how multisig would have any affect whatsoever on this situation.
However, I think a poster on spreadcointalk may have solved the dilemma: each miner mines to their own address (provided to them by the pool) while having a collateral in the pool's possession equal to block reward.
Thanks, luigi1111
That was my bad.
It happens when you argue with someone on the internet and you know they are wrong.