This is a bit off topic: is there anyone here that uses IRC and can help with basic stuff? (I haven't been using it for a very long time and need a few advices).

Yes, lets keep on the topic, which reminds me, there haven't been a advertisement for a DOGE pool for almost 10 post? 

Its quite simple:
The price will always follow supply and demand.
If the block reward half, then will the supply drop and if the demand is the same then will the price go up.

No i will not, the block interval is embedded in the protocol.
only the difficulty will increase, to match the block interval.

So many adds for pool's

Its horrible

I agree. I was working on a scrypt FPGA miner in the summer, I gave up when realized that bottleneck is the memory bandwith, which is highly optimized in modern GPU. A scrypt asic will most likely not outperform the GPU anytime soon, there will be a power reduction, however power is only 5-15% lost revenue, when the exhange rates (before DOGE exploded).

I have been mining for more than a year, I have never seen this before.
Obviously a lot of miner have changed to DOGE in the last 48 hours, if you look at all other scrypt, this cause the diff to go down, and the profit to go up. Even LTC is estimated a -7% diff change.
The whole scrypt marked is going up (thats great from a business perspective, even my most optimistic plan do not come close to this).

Can you please elaborate? Are you talking about a scrypt ASIC?  

Not really, the profit for DOGE right now is ~3 times higher, obviously many miners will point their workers at DOGE as long as the exhange rate is so high, and diff is relatively low.

I do agree with some of the things you write.
However mining cost $ in terms of electricity and investment in equipment.
There for as a miner I need to sell some of the harvest, to cover my expenses and secure ROI on my investment.
However I must say, that I am keeping more than I am selling when it comes to DOGE.
That turned out to be a good decision so far.

I am having problem too, I belive their server is totally overloaded, the worker count in the pool has increased with more than a factor 10 the last 48 hours.
I have a large payout pending, I hope they don't mess up.

I am considering to find another pool (even though dogehouse has been super stable and had good payouts), but that will help the pool.

Seriously, cryptsy  
Just got up and saw the rate, transfered some DOGE to vircurex, it took less than 20 min

I think you need too wait 3-4 hours for the blockchain to download.
I am syncing everyday, and it always takes 5-10 min to catch up, and the chain is pretty long by now.

  

I can recommend MSI R9 280X (has twin frozr fan,10 mm), undervolt to 1137 mV.
They perform very stable at 720 kH/s with @ 75C at 65% fan speed.

I was actually experimenting today, with sacrificing hash power for lower noise, they perform well at 690 kH/s @ 78C at 50% fan speed.

50% fan speed is not making much noise.

But the ideal "wife approved" rig, would be to watercool the cards, however the rig will properly never reach ROI.  

I use AX760 in my rig, it is general one of the most low noise PSU you can get.

Was there any changes in the rating system?
Do you have a link?

EDIT:
Found it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423995.0
Basically removing of the newbie restriction, and change of the activity levels a bit.

Oh, your are right, good point (sorry).
I assumed that all true shiba's are hodling

DOGE coin take 10 confirmation, but that goes pretty fast too (I do not have an exact time), but I never had problem putting DOGE on vircurex.
(I must admit I do convert some of my mining DOGE to BTC, since I must be sure to have ROI on my hardware)

I would seriously recommend you too use vircurex if time is important to you.
BTC takes four confirmation to show up on your account, of you pay a tx of min. 0.005 BTC, when you send the bitcoins, then will it take less than 30 min (properly less).

Lolz 

My 714 kH/s worker found block 63027!

Such reward, many fame, wow.