hey what is with n0nplusultra pool? How long they want to do maintenance? Or are they dead ?
I think they closed pools, because someone hacked in their pools and steal all coins from all wallets.
I know, but it still is not a reason for closing it forever. Or maybe they just flee out with our money and we think they got hacked.
Hey there...
I'm the operator of the pool... actually if there is a security bug in the pool software it would be very stupid to just open up the pool again because if the problem isn't found yet and properly fixed the same thing could just happen again... Also if you read my statement here in the forum or the "news" post on the pools websites, i already stated that i'm uncertain if i'll continue the pools...
Unfortunately one can never know. It's all too simple to claimed to be hacked and owner's coins gone when in all probability the pool owners are pocketing the coins. Funny how since the pool closed with all the coins the price collapsed as if the coins were dumped.
Hence pools do carry a certain risk and based on trust but there will always be pools who will abused that trust.
Real companies would have public liability insurance to insure against this kind of theft. Pool operators are fly-by-night operations.
What can be done?
As far as i know nothing except to stick with the pools that have proven to be reliable so far and set the auto-payout as low as possible.
I have to agree with The One, one can never know and there is actually no way for me to prove to you that i didn't steal the coins myself. But if i would have stolen all your coins, I probably would have just closed down the pool sites and would be gone by now and wouldn't be here now to write to you....
Also I want to agree with The One, concerning the low auto-payouts this is one of the most important security meassures a miner must take....
For all of you who are interested in the future of the n0nplusultra pools please keep an eye on
http://n0nplusultra.net, for now it is an empty site but in the next days i'll start a blog there to post updates about the future of our pools and also i'll report you about the payouts of the funds we mined in the time from the attack until i noticed the attack... please note that i'll have to manually payout those funds so it will take me some time to finish them...
I'll also write again here in the thread when the blog goes online so you guys are up-to-date....
Kanamatras