DogeLayer Faces Allegations of Fake Hashrate Farming

Community members alleged SN80 is reporting ~3.3 TH/s of fabricated hashrate via 230 "virtual" workers to farm subnet emissions without real mining output. On-chain analysis showed the pool's DOGE wallets received zero blocks over 4 days despite claimed hashrate. DogeLayer attributed the issue to a hacker attack on May 17 and claimed hot wallets were swapped for security; simultaneously, critics documented an unauthenticated "Create Virtual Miner" API endpoint that was quietly patched this week.

• •Pool's two DOGE wallets went dead May 17; zero inflow for 4 days despite 3.3 TH/s claimed hashrate.
• •230 workers named .virtual001–.virtual230 tied to single operator; real scrypt mining would find blocks every minutes.
• •Unauthenticated POST /api/admin/virtual-miners endpoint exposed; team patched auth this week without disclosure.
• •DogeLayer denied allegations, cited hacker attack and wallet rotation; refused to disclose current reward addresses.