Now someone please explain to me why at least 10 blocks solved by RiePool were magically assigned to XpoolX in a few seconds!
I just want to know why someone is playing games here!
No games here. Your pools share roughly 50 % of the network. Due to propagation speed of the 1st block found (in the chain of ten) xpoolx's result got accepted by the majority of the network a little faster than the block your pool has found.
So the thing is, because xpool's block got accepted and yours not (but the network needed some time to find that out and feed that information back to you) xpoolx already worked on the next block, where as you started on the next block while not knowing for a few seconds that the work done by the miners in your pool is based on your (soon the) orphaned block. So hashpower 'was wasted' on a wrong basis (false block), which gave xpool a slight time advantage to find the next block, where as you had to restart work on the basis of the block which was accepted by the network. This happened (unfortunately) 10 times in a row. And my guess it will always happen when booth of your pools have roughly the same hashpower (between 48 and 52 %) of the while RIC network. That is way a 3rd pool would be quite 'nice' for RIC.
Slightly related topic, a form of attack on the blockchain network (and the involved miners) if somebody has more than 50 % hashpower is the following idea. If you have let's say 90 % of the networks hashpower your probability finding a block before anyone else does, is very high (around 90 %). So if you take that hashpower away the rest of the network takes quite a bit longer to find the next block. Imagine the following: You can calculate roughly how long it would take for the rest of the network to find the next block. Let's say 15 minutes in RIC p2p network (just for arguments sake). So you as the evil attacker calculate the block (within 2 minutes), but don't announce it to the network. Instead you keep mining for 10 more minutes, finding 5 more blocks. So just before the others (the 10 % networks share) finds the result and announces it, you announce the all the blocks within a very short time frame (in our example within 5 minutes). You effectively DOS'ed the 10 % of the network and you can start your game from the beginning. Eventually you while loose from time to time in your game, but most of the time you create close to 100 % of all blocks because of your network superiority. The crazy thing is, that you actually don't need 90 % of the networks hash power to carry out the attack, you need just more than 50 %. In the 90 % example, the 10 % guys will give up mining.
one4many
P.S.: Please stop the cry-baby act and THINK before you write accusations like this.
... take the time and vote please ... The goal would be 30 or 40.
