I can confirm seeing at least 150MH or so on epools when diff is low. There are definitely other large entities mining ARG, stopping multipoool really won't do much except in the low beats you'll get your coins twice as fast which will still be very unprofitable. It's not enough of a difference to sway anyone's decision.
Not sure why ARG has been the "example" coin out of all of this. I would re-iterate, if anything the fact that ARG can withstand such large diff swings is a real testament to the design of the coin!
Flound is just doing his pool justice, that is his JOB, he's not trying to destroy any coin in the process. If anything, slowing the rate of mining as he's done is making the current share of ARG worth more. Nobody is using ARG in time sensitive transactions so there's no real harm, and from what we've seen so far the block chain will never stall like CNC.
I would suggest though, Flound, maybe you would open up ARG and charge a mandatory fee instead of trying to get a bounty. Most of the premine has been accounted for and i think any remainder would just stand to top up the digibank of baritus.
Nonsense, I am often the only one mining epools and it's below 1MH/s on high diff, the highest I have seen it was 78MH/s on low diff, and that occurred many minutes after muiltipool has already hopped to ARG. Individual miners hopping from Coinchoose are seldom as fast as a whole pool hopping.
I don't know if I most ARG miners would call loosing 4,000 blocks per day "withstanding a large diff swing", I certainly don't. and that's why many ARG miners are angry. arg.epools.org hasn't found a block in over 12hours, and probably wont before the next diff swing, so the two miners on there will have wasted about 12hours or more of electricity yet we represent about 6% of the global net hash so without us the diff would stay high for hours longer.
btw
http://arg.scryptmining.com has way more than 70% of the ARG net hash currently, a couple of people from there should swing over to one of the other pools to balance it out a bit.
