Well, I didn't read it carefully yet as I'm trying to finish payouts now (and there is 5.30 am already). But I'll focus on it later, right?

yes

Pool is currently bitcoin-block centric, because I didn't expect more parallel blockchains year ago, so I solved this in the following way: Once bitcoin block is found, I take all namecoin blocks mined during this time and spread them between namecoin users using their score. So basically it is "user_score / score_of_all_namecoin_users * nmc_blocks_cnt * 50". And this is handled as additional block reward to *bitcoin* block, which is the reason why is NMC reward displayed on Bitcoin block stats. With current low namecoin difficulty I see this mechanism as pretty fair, but I'm preparing to rewrite pool for full support of parallel blockchains, with separate scoring etc, so this should be considered as a "quick and temporary solution".

SAC: Sorry, I don't understand the question. There are not "unassigned NMC". It works in way that mined namecoins are distributed only between pool users with namecoin wallet on profile (and I'm taking 2% as usual).

And yes, all mined coins are 'assigned' to anybody. The question is if they're assigned in right way . But I tracked rewarding for few users and it looks fine so far. So I'm preparing to push red button now...

I cross-calculated everything and it fits for me. I'm ready for paying out, so now is last chance to change anything

You see some problems with confirmed reward? Too low? Now the confirmed reward is completely calculated, so tell me NOW if you see anything wrong.

If you claimed your NMC address before 17.10.2011 @ (around) 6pm UTC, you'll receive all coins you deserve (since MM started), which you obviously did. All people who filled nmc address later are earning namecoins since today.

Only those from now, unfortunately. You missed gold rush for few hours .

Oh well, like small kids before Christmas :-D

People, stop being impatient, please . It's in progress. Those "Processing..." are pending because I stopped automatic jobs, because it is already calculating old namecoin blocks.

DeathAndTaxes: It is processing much slower than I expected. But I hope you will see namecoins on your wallet in few hours.

While rewards for old blocks are processing, I added firstbits support for Bitcoin wallet on profile. Now you can enter only first bits of your address and pool it automatically translates to full address.

You can read more about neat firstbits idea on http://www.firstbits.com

No, hidden merged mining isn't possible. From last deepbit block (well, last published in stats - http://blockexplorer.com/rawblock/000000000000067ec6ceda3a41036012b2fc0e2839408f85348a270cda23bc2c) I see that deepbit isn't merged mining thus not hiding anything.

I'm experiencing issues with bitcoin backends, which is the reason that some miners have connection problems; that's also the reason why NMC payouts aren't out, because I'm investigating this.

I updated the system, it is ready. I need to trace few first payouts, but I'm too tired to make some stupid mistake. There is already 70k NMC confirmed, so it's not a fun anymore . It's 4am here, I'll take short rest and finish it on the morning.

Just tried to buy 0.141 BTC via sms, works nice. If you want bitcoins _now_, I can recommend it.

Year ago I ordered my first bitcoins (well, 0.20 BTC) using similar service; it was my first experience with Bitcoins at all. I agree that prices are high, but it's the easiest way how to start playing with Bitcoins for many people. So I wish you a success, because it's always good to have yet another way how to purchase the best coins on the world .

There was a problem on one backend for ~40 minutes. It's repaired, I'm sorry for troubles.

It may take few minutes until reward of last round is displayed properly, as in this case.

Btw for all people waiting for nmc accounting; I'm very sorry but I really asleep, cause my daily regime is totally broken. But I still have free Saturday, so it's definitely the date when accounting will be ready.