Prohashing Mining Pool Forums

gestalt wrote:I totally understand if you have to make this adjustment to keep the place running. However, I'm going to play devils advocate for a minute here. There doesn't appear to be anything in your policies that actually allows you to make this adjustment.

AppleMiner wrote:If you are mining correctly and the pool's software incorrectly credits you with too much money, we will pay you the average earnings for that day plus an additional 15% as an apology for the times that the earnings were incorrect.

Error policy
In order to remain ahead of the competition, Prohashing pursues an aggressive development schedule. Unfortunately, sometimes bugs occur that affect balances. The following policy governs what happens when errors are discovered in balances.

Because solo mining passes on the variance to the miner, orphaned blocks are not credited to earnings.

The profitability of the individual coin accounting for the difficulty, block reward, transaction fees, orphan rate, and sell price. If this coin has an orphan bonus, then the profitability will include the orphan bonus. Note that actual profitability will be the sum of a running coin and all merge mined coins. Because these statistics are dependent on Prohashing's environment, they are useful for insight into our system but aren't representatiive of the most profitable coins at other pools.

gestalt wrote:I totally understand if you have to make this adjustment to keep the place running. However, I'm going to play devils advocate for a minute here. There doesn't appear to be anything in your policies that actually allows you to make this adjustment. The low luck section doesn't apply since this is not a case of miners not finding blocks when they should. The blocks were found, they were just orphaned. Also, the errors section doesn't seem to apply as this was not a bug, but an external network wide event. If you were to consider it hacking or an attack, you policy seems to still require payment. Also, the pay per share model doesn't seem to allow for not paying because blocks were orphaned. I don't see any critical difference between these orphaned blocks and other orphaned blocks that would allow for an adjustment.

I personally would much rather accept the correction than have the pool shut down. However, unless I am missing something or looking at something wrong, it looks like this adjustment might violate your own policies.