My point of view: shit happens, and although this shit probably should not have happened the way it did, well, it's too late now.
Bottom line, I am grateful for Silfax to have had the courage to stay, face all the anger, and deal with the situation as best as he could. I am very glad to at least get back 58% and will not whine for more. Imo this is probably the fairest solution that could be found under these circumstances, and I would not expect Silfax to pay for everyones losses out of his own pocket, if he even can. Most probably Silfax was stressed more by this than anyone else and had serious losses too. Surely everyone learned a lessons from this, and that may well be seen positively.

Quote from: Ethapus on November 11, 2013, 12:57:55 pm

Sorry to drop this noobish question on you, but it is something fundamental that I am just not sure of 

When pool mining (or expecting any other transfers) does the client have to be open, running and correctly synced? Do the coins still arrive if client is not running? What if client is running but lost sync? So far I have been keeping client open at all times and making sure it stayed synced just to be safe 

EDIT: In case I wasn't clear, with client I mean the qt client, or wallet.

Wallet doesn't have to be open.  Look at the wallet as an image of whats on the network.  Its looks at your account and updates.  That data is held on the infrastructure so no, you don't need your wallet open but good to update once a day i suggest.

Thank you very much sir

Ok thanks ssshhh and donshoe, guess it must just be taking this long now because of reduced payout and increased block time. So I will patiently wait 

Sad to see the pool go down for now, is my absolute favorite But do what you have to do bytemaster, get some rest, and I will be very happy if you get it back up and running sometime, no stress