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Hpool possibly mines other coins on OUR computers #609

Open szamaq opened 3 years ago

szamaq commented 3 years ago

Dear chia miners / diggers / exctractors (or plotters, whatever).

Chia netspace is near 22 EB. Chia is worth near 500$ and 1 TB monthly is worth around 6$. Many of you (and me) started to think that there is no business to dig more and more. Or even keep plotted disks for months. It was very profitable up to a month ago. Now as you see it will be less and less profitable with every day.

Hpool knows it too.

Since few days I observe that EVERY of my rig plotting with hpool software SLOWED down for about 1/3. If single plot took (example) 21k seconds, now it takes 28k s. If it took 31k s (different pcs = different cpus) now it takes around 41k s. One third more on 4 PCs. So what happens here? There are now new processes in system and cpu utilization is on the same level (which is obviously max).

So I checked PC with original (from chia.net) software. If plot took x seconds earlier, now it takes the same. No more, no less.

So only PCs with hpool software magically slowed down. This looks like hpool understands that Chia is going down and time for plotting and mining it is over - only big whales will stay but they can stop using hpool. This means hpool mines/digs other coins on our PCs.

In 2 days I`m finishing my opened HDDs and not going to open unboxed. It is not worth anymore. So going to sell unboxed now and plotted ones when I stop earning from them (less than 0,01 chia per day).

Chia plotters/miners: have you observer this slow down?

nazreen commented 3 years ago

hey, message me on reddit, @dotslashperson I feel this way too as CPU utilisation is very high on the computer I have the miner on