Yeah man, I'm sorry. I'm 100% inclined to believe this is a scam for MANY reasons. The hash rate does not add up; I feel rewards don't vary like they should when compared to other websites that are mining with 100% certainty (like HashNest, where sequential rewards may vary 900% based on pure block mining luck); I live in Brazil and if the pool is really located here, there is NO WAY he can afford to pay the light bill (just for comparison: if someone in his state bought a BTC miner like an AntminerS5, the maintenance would go from the current 48% in China to 128% in Curitiba's state, Paraná - Brazil). At the same time I've only bet what I can afford to lose and it's been fun to be a part of such a risky hash market, where I'm probably not even trading real hash.
But claiming you've lost so many khs and then mention OUT OF NOWHERE, after various posts here complaining, another friend absurdly lost even more? I'll have to call bullshit on this one.
I really appreciate this insight on power rates. Things at SCC have been off for several weeks now ever since:
1. The site didn't pay out for several days because the "datacenter" was "shut down" due to "irregularities in the power contract."
2. That old rate was apparently abusrdly profitable to run miners.
3. After the outage, the new power rate was nearly double for a time, until a "new contract" came into play and the rate was once again reduced.
Given what you're telling us about power costs in Brazil, it seems like mining there would never be profitable under any conditions.
