I really hope you'll consider a PPLNS (or RBPPS?) pool. I'd launch one myself if I had a bit more clue on how it all works. I've been out of programming and web/database development for ~13 years, changed careers. Been fun starting to mine though. But my only PPC pool I'm using now is Coinotron and they keep going up and down, wasting lots of gpu cycles. Gotta get a 2nd pool.

I wonder if a new coin couldn't be started with a way around that. What I'm thinking is two types of blocks, those with a new coin bonus and those without. Th difficulty for ones with new coins works like normal, but the difficulty for "transaction only" blocks remains low or rises much much slower. This way even if an ASIC is jumping in and out, that might disrupt new coin mintage, but transactions can still be flowing even if just some smaller miners are doing transaction only blocks. This would avoid last night's problem of ~6 hours without a block, thus no transactions taking place...

Not to be out done, ailiuzhou has popped in with 328278.7 MH/s (boggles my mind how that is possible) and blocks are flowing smoothly now (3 in past 25 minutes).

There are some threads in the Alt Crypto forum about it. (I couldn't post there, so I posted here.) Difficulty got high, hashing power got low, took 6-7 hours for a block to be found.

Don't know who protonevil is, but I appreciate his 36278.2 MH/s over on Coinotron. Block 100629 has been found and Terracoin client is back in sync.

Ok I finally found what I was trying to sort out. The difficulty you deliver doesn't matter in normal PPS, only the difficulty they are asking for. On POT (Pay On Target) pools, you are paid based on the difficulty you deliver like I was wondering about above.

In a pool with variable difficulty you can set, and PPS paying on each share, is it the difficulty of the share you submit that factors into the earnings you get or just the difficulty you were set at?

For instance, running cgminer you might see a lot of "1/1" giving the pool what it is asking for. If I set difficulty to 2, then I see "2/2" and get twice the payout as a "1/1" (at least how BitParking does it). However what happens when the block I have accepted is "30/2"? Do you get the normal payout for a 2 difficulty block, or do you get 15 times that for delivering a block that was 15x higher difficulty?

What prompted my curiosity earlier was seeing a 47.5K/1 block get accepted earlier while mining PPCoins.

Thanks!

I can' t add this to tacotime's build thread, but Compusa after rebate has this Sapphire 7950 for about $70 cheaper than the one listed in the thread.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7542562&CatId=7387

Good mining, all!