Or seeing the the pool owner does not touch the revenue other than to in the past send the block reward to the appropriate miner, he could be saving the earnings for a rainy day. If you look through older posts you will see that the OP did several times send the reward to the block finder who had been using a M address which the pool software does not support.
I worked with the OP on Litecointalk when he first set up the pool, and mined on the pool for several years. He is not trying to take anything from anyone. You can see that as the coins are still in the pools address unspent.
The real issue is where is, or what happened to him, as he has not logged into Bitcointalk since September 2018. I did see that the pool was restarted about 3 weeks ago, but prior to that it had been running for many months without a restart. Was this restart done by the OP, or the Data Center, or was it automatic?
I recently set up an new wallet and did not read this thread first and ended up finding a block with a M address too, so I am in the same boat as several others.
I see currently there ares still 17 different miners on the pool mining to a M address.
We need to get the word out, Number 1 if you personally know the OP tell him to come back on here and settle up with the block finders, adn 2 update the pool page to show a M address won't work for payouts.
I will join the Bounty for getting the OP back here and also pledge 1 LTC
So now the bounty stands at 3 LTC for finding the OP and returning him to the forums, him settling up with the M address block finders, and and updating the pool instructions to not mine with a M address!
-M
I am genuinely appreciative of the information and I really hope you are correct about the OP not keeping the coins for himself.
Do you not have any method to reach out to him, having worked with him before? Or was it just strictly on the board? I wonder if perhaps CK could be reached. It seems they worked with each other as well to get the pool started. Perhaps he has a method to contact him.