Here's what I think happens with these popular, highly anticipated coins with lots of Mhash at multiple pools.
Each of the large pools start mining based off of the current block chain. Because the difficulty is so low, block generations are occurring nearly instantly. Meanwhile, the network, users and pools are ddosing each other trying to get connections and updates. Competing block chains don't have enough time to propagate globally before N more blocks are found locally in a pool. So, each local pool has a block chain that could potentially stay longer than the updates that it is seeing from elsewhere. Other smaller pools and users are getting updates from these competing pools and either sticking with the closest/longest or switching back and forth.
As the difficulty goes up and speed of block generation finally goes down, you eventually get a more globally consistent block chain. However, potentially the vast majority of users find that they didn't get on the longest eventual chain and suddenly their coins disappear.
I would say that the solution probably lies in either much better pool communication (even under ddos type conditions) and/or raising the starting difficulty and slowing block generation to a liveable level quickly. If you don't have a globally consistent block chain then these coin launches are going to keep looking bad and anger a lot of participants.
Would love to hear other's thoughts.
I think you're right
I would agree, but we were finding absolutely no blocks in that time. The pool did find stale shares which were reported on the frontend, and in between the 1000% rounds there were brief 2-3 blocks around 30-300%
So, the front end was updating like it should, matching with the shares I was submitting and the shares of the pool. No blocks though...
Spork--
You know, the scam thing didn't start till you came on here advertising YOUR pool while shit was exceptionally fucked up. On top of that, you had the nerve to post this...
"and stop joining the other scam pools where people take your coins and run!
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You looked like a scammer, had no intention of rectifying the issue for some time while advertizing a dead pool and calling others out. As of now, you've taken the coins and ran.
Ridiculous. Now we still have no idea what happened and you act like a little baby. Hope you learned something, and hopefully your brash actions didn't waste more knowledge.
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