I can't totally disagree that what you see on the homepage is an estimate,  Though I have yet to find another pool is a viable multi-coin auto exchange alternative.  You?
I was more referring to it as a list of coins that are being mined with SHA256.

There are quite a few coins that use SHA256 as the algo and are still minable today.
Personally I use zpool http://www.zpool.ca/site/mining.
If you click on SHA256 on the right you can see the coins they are mining.

Quoted and verified
http://coinig.com/?adr=1KtBktoMRY7t5ofzabYgLkBRx8k9PsgNoR&msg=This+is+Chuzzlewit+owner+of+this+account+from+bitcointalk.org+and+today+is+July+14%2C+2016&sig=IGpfKMDhrdbrqwMKIilsqsRrmIKDkKHGTHLt%2FGrm%2FKcEqTgiRrKBZI5TIQlQhaV4dUR7u%2Bmkh%2BBqNfBC1yfahtk%3D

With the price being in the mid $600's and the S9's starting to be used I just don't see a large drop soon.

The price of BTC is $200 higher than it was 3 months ago, which is less than 2x but still enough to keep the larger/lower cost miners going.
With the S9's coming online in larger numbers this will also help out the miners to maintain the profit margin they are use to.

I do believe a number of small/home miners, those with electricity above $.05, will slowly but eventually stop.
But that equipment may make it's way to other places where they can still be profitable.

One thing is for sure, I am interested to see what the next 12 months holds for the BTC hashrate.

ETA use to be available for all orders but, NH removed it because they felt it gave too much information about the BTC balance of the order.
I was told it was a standing request by many users.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=562238.3625

But I do have to say I miss it as well.

If you can verify, with time stamped screenshots probably, the fact that the same order number is moving more than the allowed step I will be happy to join you in asking for an explanation.
Though I have been using NH for sometime and have not seen that behavior.

EDIT:
Actually I have order history for sometime, I will have to look to know for sure how long, can you give me an order number or at least an algo?

Every real time market has rules, you just have to learn how to use the rules to get what you want.
I am pretty sure all orders have to follow the rules, you should check the order numbers when you see a large jump down.

If orders could be changed down to any price, the price to the sellers would always be the minimum and that would not be fair to the sellers.
   Without sellers nicehash would not exist.

You can easily change the price down by more than the minimum but creating a new order at the lower price and cancelling the higher order.
   But keep in mind you must pay the order fee on the new order, currently .0001, so consider that in your calculations.

Some recommended adjustments:
2) Special Hardware – If one wants to make money mining he should go with special hardware. This can be GPU's or ASIC's.
3) Energy is not cheap – This is usually your #1 cost, be careful to do your calculations properly.
4) Altcoins – Do not limit yourself to mining BTC, and it might be possible to make some money with CPU mining but I would not do it.

Te original answer to #3 sounds like an argument I saw before
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1514871.0

If miners stop mining the difficulty will go down and the same number of blocks will be mined everyday.
So transactions will still get processed and BTC will still be around.

Harsh!! But yes google can be your friend if you use it.

I agree CPU mining, even with the proper coins, is not so good anymore.
You may want to try some of the multi pools that allow you to mining in a CPU friendly algo and auto convert to BTC

I cant speak for others but depending on what algo you are talking about, NH can be a significant part of the hashing power on zpool.
Depending on the prices on each site, I regularly contribute to zpool from NH on the smaller algo's.
Though my contribution tends to be very spiky, since the prices on zpool and NH are constantly changing.

On NH whoever sets up the order determines where the hashing power is applied and there is no default site, like zpool, where the hash goes.
If there are no orders on NH the algo becomes unavailable to be mined, I have seen this happen when NH adds a new algo or an algo is about to be discontinued.

If you don't mind, What is the difference?

To add a little clarity, a wallet has 1 or many addresses associated with it.
Through your dealings with BTC you use, and maybe publish, different addresses.

For the world to be able to associate addresses with a wallet will depend on how many clues you leave behind.
If you are well known and use the same addresses over and over, you are leaving bread crumbs that allow people to trace you.

Lets say you have 2 bitcointalk accounts and you publish the same address in both, you have now given the world a hint that those 2 accounts are related.
Again let's say you sign up at coinbase and provide them a bunch of real world information and you generate addresses from there. Now your real world identity is associated with those addresses.

The amount of anonymity BTC, or most crypto currencies, provide depends as much on how you use it as it does the technology involved.
You are in control of how anonymous your BTC information is, if you want to stay very hidden you need to work at doing it.

Maxcoin does not seem to happy.

Pool Hash Rate   8.956 GH/s
Current Difficulty   689.5343249
Est. Next Difficulty   712.89577081 (Change in 1 Blocks)
Est. Avg. Time per Round (Network)   57 seconds
Est. Avg. Time per Round (Pool)   5 minutes 30 seconds
Est. Shares this Round   11033 (done: 132004.65%)
Next Network Block   1560400    (Current: 1560399)
Last Block Found   1556235
Time Since Last Block   70 hours 23 minutes 7 seconds

I saw this a while back and your comment reminded me of it.

This was a normal US citizen that traded BTC in person and got tagged as potentially being bad and look what they did to him.
So in general BTC is pseudo anonymous but if a government wants to get you, it really doesn't matter.
http://www.burtw.com/

I would not give the government direct access to my wallet's, not that they need it in the US.
IMHO, BTC is like cash if you really want to know where it came from you can figure it out, If you have enough time and money

But with BTC being pseudo Anonymous it is already possible to piece together some of the trail that tell who's address is who's.
Though there has to be a decent amount of activity in order for the pattern to emerge.
  An old interesting article about it https://www.technologyreview.com/s/518816/mapping-the-bitcoin-economy-could-reveal-users-identities/

I am sure someone will have some other ideas but if you want your BTC to stay anonymous you need multiple wallet's and a reliable mixing service.

This is not a "But", this is the reality of the situation.
People are currently spending $2,000 USD for a new S9 are looking at a similar ROI.
OF course this depends on their actual costs to run the machine and the currently difficulty and the position of Jupiter relative to the moon.

Making lots of coin mining is possible but it is not very likely, why or how can cloud mining be different?
If Genesis is a legitimate company, and I don't know if they are, they cannot offer an ROI sooner that is possible, that is called a scam and why we are talking on this thread today.

I do feel bad for everyone that has been effected by this, although I am not one of them.
I have also had to learn this lesson the hard way when I was just starting out with BTC.

Please Keep in mind, This is like the Wild West and MOST of what you find out there will probably not make you money.
Use the resources that are available to you here, there is a huge amount of information already here.
And dont hesitate to ask questions, you may get beat up a little but, it is better than loosing your coin!!!!

I accept that a miner can determine what is in the block.
But if the miner chooses their transactions and the block is not full, then any remaining space gets filled in with existing waiting transactions, even in descending fee order would be acceptable.
Granted the miners would need to be enticed, or forced, to run that code but, I would think this does not violate too many BTC ground rules and might actually be better in the long run.

Now this is just an idea and I admit my limited knowledge of the bitcoin network is just enough to be dangerous.
I hope and I am not be too naive and I look forward to some reality.

It's all good and thanks for the support!!

I confirm that UFOCoin seems to be behaving better now, generating blocks, updating statistics, etc.