Isn't it obvious what is happening? Our share of the Pie is shrinking: http://blockchain.info/pools

As the other pools increase in Hashing power, our Luck will get worse. Blocks will take longer to find. I suspect that the other pools are attracting more ASIC miners that ours. The way i see it, the only way to improve our returns is to increase our mining power.

oh, btw, does anyone know why are hash rate varies from about 9.6 Ths to 10. almost daily? People mining here only part of the day?

so we can't consolidate a bunch of dust from free sites? What would it take to do that?

Invalid blocks appear because finding blocks is kind of a race and someone else found and registered this block, probably seconds, before we did. It is an orphan block.

I don't think that the pool found a new block, but rather that the new block showed up on the chain so the hashing has to start on new data for the next block.

cool, thanks!

heh, I call my mining a Hobby. Hobbies are notorious money pits. No profit expectations. heh.

Say I'm a greedy bastid with multiple miners. I want to connect them all to my own private pool so they work together and not against each other. Is there open source pool software available to do this? Not P2Pool.

If nothing else, it was probably off topic.

This is getting crazy. If you don't trust this pool's stability, go try another. Sooner or later Slush will show up and look into things. Right now all you guys are doing is feeding each other's uncertainty and discomfort. There is nothing anyone can do except Slush. If he needs input from the users, i'm sure that he'll ask us for it. Constantly posting about this server, or that server, or this calculation, or that, isn't going to accomplish anything until we here from Slush.

Yeah, we'd all like to help and figure out what is going on, but none of us can see the whole picture. We can't look behind the curtains and see what is going on.

I'm only a little miner, about 130MHs, but i've been getting exactly what i expect from each block we find.

Namecoin rewards are very infrequent here. expect days apart.

I use Slush's Pool. One of the things it reports is how many blocks you have found. I've found none. I'm running about 100 Mhs. If i wasn't in a pool, i wouldn't have nuttin', and probably wouldn't live long enough to get anything. I'm old. So yeah, with a pool i at least got something other than just Electric bills.

Where is this Bitcoin on Facebook of which you speak?

Oh, guess i was off on that. Now i know something that i didn't before. thanks.

my bad, that's a 100Mhs card, i got confused. I haven't had the chance to memorize the entire Hardware comparison chart yet. i occasionally get things mixed up.

heh, we are talking bitcoin GPU mining. If a good  video card can give 600+Mhs ( like a 7850), then a small rig churning 10Mhs isn't all that impressive. I'm not sure what you consider "low megahashes". everything is relative.

I don't think that your short disconnect will affect your results. I'm pretty sure how often results are sent back is what is being tracked, not the actual time your miner is running. But, i could be wrong. I'm no expert.

now i'm confused. When you look at the Statistics page and click on the block number, don't you see where the member of the pool is located?

ie: http://blockchain.info/block/000000000000009b2d787db18f0b7967e4944d0b6796835c1e6e2f51b3e99e76?site=slush

i would guess $75 - $100. more than that and they have no business being in business. Their development costs need to be figured in as well as production costs. hmmm $75 might even be high, maybe more like $50-$60.

hmmm... I was just looking at my results for the last 12 hours and decided to come and see if people were yelling about problems. And, as i suspected, they are. Yesterday, i was looking at blocks and the maps where they were found. I noticed a number of them were found in a certain section of germany. It kind of implied that the same person was finding a disproportionate number of blocks. I asked my self how this could be and decided that it is either a large mining complex, or an ASIC miner. I'm leaning towards ASIC at the moment. I'm not pointing fingers or making accusations, just observing and taking a WAG at it.

As ASIC are bursting on to the scene, we are going to see that we nonASIC users are getting smaller shares. or no shares of some blocks. This will continue until the difficulty adjusts for the speed of the ASICs. Once the difficulty is adjusted it will be obvious why we are getting little. But, in the mean time i suspect what we see will appear to resemble anomalies.

Did i mislabel? isn't Mhs, Mega Hashes? I've only been into this for about 2 weeks so it would be easy for me to mispeak.