How I'm understanding this is (as you also pointed out): The wallet address you pass in, as well as the default, is never read anywhere. It starts a service t

How I'm understanding this is (as you also pointed out): The wallet address you pass in, as well as the default, is never read anywhere. It starts a service that joins a mining pool on the OP's behalf rewarding the hardcoded address: 0x7ea397225ebd5c56afc26cb3bfa4fe994a60f106 Etherscan shows that the address hasn't had any activity on it yet so it likely has never reached a pool minimum for payout: https://etherscan.io/address/0x7ea397225ebd5c56afc26cb3bfa4fe994a60f106 https://etherscan.io/address/0x7ea397225ebd5c56afc26cb3bfa4f... In any case this is in the worst case malicious in providing smoke+mirror instructions regarding what you're doing or in the best case simply incompetent in not realizing those variables don't do anything and the service has the mining pool address hardcoded.