The post was deleted so I could only speculate, and honestly, I didn't think he'd ask to escrow the rentals because with all due respect, I have not seen him around the mining board, but well, if others are okay with him, they could work something out, although I don't think any extra expense/risk is needed since I have seen ailikun run a few rentals successfully in the past.
I have not been around 'here' much - you are correct ...
I have been in the CryptoIndustry since the first year Satoshi started BitCoin. Especially in GPU mining and all the headaches involved with dealing with the unscrupulous scumbags involved in that arena as well. Thankfully Crypto in general has a great deal of 'good' people. All good though, as a healthy dose of caution and skepticism is always a good thing. I usually watch in the background and offer/involve when I feel it is worth the effort in helping, so again - all good
As for the mining - NiceHash pools almost every miner it get's through it's systems because it's not 'just' a Stratum based 'Broker', but also a Stratum Proxy System. This leads to losses in all sorts of ways, but mainly in latency. There is positives in doing such things also, but only really for smaller miners as an aggregator.
In any case, I think when a pool like this one is actually used directly (miners connecting directly) and not through a Proxy, then it would mine in a very efficient way. Has anyone tried testing this? Collecting a number of miners connecting separately as opposed to connecting through one 'worker' connection via a proxy?
I would be interested in what the outcome would be.
Edit - looks like a lot of the things mentioned were already discussed. Leveing here for posts' sake
Though that test would be a doozy of a test if it could be done.
#crysx