Yes, bitp.it fakes stats.
BTW: anyone has an idea why I only mine at nofee until the next check and then fall back to the backuppool? They are significantly under the 40% and everytime i restart my bithopper it immediately begins mining there...
BTW: anyone has an idea why I only mine at nofee until the next check and then fall back to the backuppool? They are significantly under the 40% and everytime i restart my bithopper it immediately begins mining there...
Yes, as I mentioned above bitpit are faking their stats to zero hashrate and zero total shares. So you just don't go there until the scoring is changed. All bitpit did was stop hoppers to buy time until they could get a new scoring system in place. It wasn't an active attack, all they've tried to do is defend until their new scoring is up.
bclc on the other hand are taking their stats off, then back on to get hoppers there, and then more recently has started cycling seemingly random rates between 7000 and 90000 total shares on their json feed - but not if you view the json feed by browser. So they're actually targeting any proxy that is using bclc, and are trying to trap 'hoppers there for full rounds. There are work-arounds, but it's still an active attack, so no, I won't be going to bclc when 'hopping is done.
Yes, I read the thread. Still, imo the sensible thing to do would have been keeping the stats as they were until the new system was in place. They broke functionality for everybody and effectively trapped hoppers as well.
So did btcg and they have no plans to go prop as far as I know (could be wrong). All I'm saying is that when hopping is no longer profitable, I'll be moving to pools that are proactive to protect their full time miners without trying to damage hoppers intentionally. I will not be moving to a pool that spends an awful lot of time and energy playing a game of fakery and making no plans to do anything that will be of actual benefit to their miners.
Pools I'd consider moving to afterward, based on how they acted during the 'Hopping era", how they treat their miners or how much they rely on security by obscurity alone:
I'd move to -
Bitp.it
Eclipse MC
Mineco.in
I would not move to -
BitcoinPool
BTCGuild
Bitcoins-lc
Deepbit
