If we were to inflate our numbers by 4x but are still winning at the rate that we claim (~20min at the time of posting), where would we get all this chia from to pay people out? You think that we infusing 60 blocks/day out of our own pockets? Also, use the method OP is using to verify every block claimed by the pool, you’ll find that all 70-80 blocks that we find are indeed block rewards by our farmers.
In https://pool.garden we include block confirmation height, not the height of the block that has been won. Keep in mind, it is NOT the confirmation height of the incoming transation to the wallet, becuase that coin is created by a seperate “absorb” transaction.
After thinking about it a bit, height of the original block is probably more interesting to display, so we will switch to that value shortly.
Thanks for doing this research @dontfoolusplz and bringing this to our attention.
Indeed we were showing the wrong blocks in the statistics which I agree was confusing.
We fixed this and now show the proper height and header hash of the original block farmed by the pool participant.
We hope this clears things up and makes things more transparent. We would appreciate a double check and an update on your side.
Thank you for your honesty and response. Unfortunately I can not edit the original post anymore, there seems to be a time limit for editions in the forum. Maybe an admin can transform this thread into a wiki post so we can edit it.
I’ve upvoted your comment in the meanwhile so other users can see it stick out and know that your pool is legit.
If you read the post carefully you can see that I am not claiming that FrenchFarmers is faking rewards, but that they seem to be artificially making their netspace bigger than it really is. This has been confirmed by the leaked code of an ex-frenchfarmers developer.
We don’t know why they do this but we can speculate that they are faking their netspace to attract more farmers.
what do you think about findchia? they recently won blocks, they seem very nice, its even too cool to be there and it’s interesting to know if they are legal or not