Seems the situation continues as of now. I have also looked at "antpool" which now has 1PH rate (25-33% of hashrate of entire network) and their blocks found seem normal. I am now a bit worrying if these extremely large pool would finally overtake all smaller pools like p2pool - looks like it is...
I think some tech geeks should take a look into it asap - all p2pool nodes generated blocks were rendered useless...seriously I don't want to switch back to nicehash...
I have decided to setup my own p2pool node simply because the latency from NZ to anywhere in the world is a bit crazy. I felt it would be easier for me to get it running on Linux than trying to get it working on Windows ;) So I tried setting it up on Ubuntu - it is a bit tough for me, not only...
Just would like to share some personal experience with iBeLink.co site. I had ordered 2x DM22G miners from the website, and apparently they are using coinpayments.net for transaction. I had been redirected to the transaction page for the wallet address to make BTC payment, and the page was...