Giving the benefit of the doubt, I again mined on icyhash for the coinye launch (of the 5 pools I pre-programmed, it was the only one functioning at launch time). I had to leave the house, there was no time to decrypt the wallet and setup auto-payout. I was mining from within 10 minutes of launch, and there were many reports of miners on this site receiving significantly fewer coins than other pools, for no obvious reason, longer than usual blocks, incorrect payouts, etc.
Not my faultThe next morning the pool goes offline due to supposed DDOS. Pool owner gets very upset and agitated, first states he will only give out coins if the DDOSer comes forward, lashes out at community several times, and then decides to threaten everyone to format his server and delete everyone's coins. Incredibly immature behavior all around.
I apologize for the immature behavior.Pool owner recants, and states he will pay everyone who PM's him within 24 hrs. Isolated reports come in of both 'i got paid' and 'i still didn't get paid.' I sent a PM with the IP address, username, and wallet address as requested. no response. After 24 hours, I send a second PM with all the information, still no response. I call him out in the thread, more than once, no response.
I paid every single person who PMed me with valid information. Here's your transaction you're accusing me of not receiving.Status: 3341 confirmations
Date: 1/9/2014 21:47
To: 5VAb9hGu7ncqViGkpdngJvisppDKp5rujT payout
Debit: -173013.00 COYE
Transaction fee: -1.00 COYE
Net amount: -173014.00 COYE
Transaction ID: 21752144c7d85a144cd1b195f22e6366185bd2c1293c7f687f4ba74f0eb38189
Here's a screenshot of my wallet showing payouts:
http://someimage.com/Q8zFwVj
The next day he begins advertising that his pool is now open again, and with DDOS protection. He spams this several times throughout the forum. I start complaining rather loudly in the coinye thread in response, and he replies with 'just send me a pm' (I've already sent 4 over the last 7 days).
Yes, it was open again.I've logged into my account at icyhash for coinye and the balance is 0, when it should be somewhere in the 500K-1million range (still a fraction of what miners at other pools got). The owner refuses to respond in any way to my PMs or public thread call-outs. It was suggested that I post the ordeal here. Thanks for your time, and please be careful out there.
You clearly didn't read the post where I mentioned over and over again it was created with a fresh start and to contact me to resolve outstanding balances. You resolved your balances (see transaction id above).This person has lashed out at the community several times for activities such as DDOS which are clearly outside of anyone's control. After many profanity laced insults (coinye thread), he threatened to delete everyone's coins off his server. There is an awful lot about this situation that isn't right, I've seen other posts of 'where's my coins?' and i hope those individuals come here to share their stories as well. In the meantime, this guy has been running around all day still spamming his pool, and even doing coin giveaways, etc. Please use extreme caution when dealing with this individual.
You're seeing it from your point of view and not mine. You didn't invest hours and hours of your time half way through the night to get things working and stable. This site and these pools are not worth my time anymore. If people are going to jump up and shout "scam" when I'm being screwed over by problem after problem and someone's DDOS attacks, then this I what's going to happen. My time is more valuable than that and will be use for better projects.