there is one thing I do not like about this pool. It seems the pool owners may be tied in with unethical business practices of their own. as all the machines I order from china have automatically been mining in this pool. I hav a feeling the owners of this pooll are in fact the manufactures of the mining equipment we purchase. When the equipment arrives at your house it is not new equipment it is wel overused and you can tell by the scratches on the casings, some of them have lower quality replacement fans used, none of the power supplies are the same. then if you get one that happens to have something really wrong like a ASIC Chip burnt out or a whole module burnt out they want you to pay for the shipping to return it to them, they wont send a new module to replace the broken one they sold you. It just seems unethical from the get go. they make hundreds of thousands of BTC mining w3ith the equipment before they sell it, then charge you full price with no discount.
I just find it very weird or VERY coincidental that Discuss pool is used for everything you purchase out of china, all testing is done on that pool. How I came to this conclusion and the real funny thing is when you get the equipment the values they used as an example to sell you the product does not match what you actually get even when mining on Discuss pool thru your own account. this tells me one thing, they are connected directly to the mining servers with no internet needed from the miner to the server, thus resulting in much higher speeds. Anyone in mining knows if you could eliminate the internet travel from the machinbe to the server your results will be much higher than someone mining thru internet 3000 miles away will get. And as no one is buying much mining equipment now you notice their hashrate has almost tripped in the past 2 months.
JMHO
Added note:
I love how in this industry the most unethical people are getting rewarded the most and all the community follows them like sad little puppies on a string. Trust me if they were not so unethical they would thank you for not having a mind of your own and making your own decisions. there are a few pools out there that conduct themselves with ethics and honestly and payout better than Discuss and Ghash.io.