I understand when people say that crypto is high risk/high reward, but in the case of Factom i can't see any real risk long term. I'm invested at 490 and (thanks to the manipulators) 370k and have quite a large amount and even seeing the price slipping its not any significant worry to me whatsoever. Factom has had no real 'news' for a few weeks now and thats what these crypto pump and dump groups thrive off. But.. it is only a matter of time, a real short time in the grand scheme of things until we see M2 released and also M3.

The only thing i want from the factom team is a safe wallet so i can bury my factoids for the next 5 years or so. I can't see Factom seeing any price under 200k again. If people think this is a re-run of the charts from March then you will be upset in the coming weeks. My reason for holding my coins is because i see the value that they will hold in months/years to come. Also, as much as i would love to follow crypto news all day, i work, and i expect an instant heavy rise when the next news piece comes out or M2 testnet is released and i worry i will just end up buying back in higher. We saw the other day within 30 minutes 1300btc of FCT dumped and a real dip in the price. When the manipulators want to raise the price, it takes just as little time to do so!

I don't get involved with the trolls on here (of which there are many) and i suggest people do their own research and decide for themselves if they see a future profit in holding factoids (you are crazy if you don't hold any ).

Any way to check net hash rate?
Block times are getting longer and longer.

That sounds like a heating problem. Are you running on a laptop? If you are mining with all cores 24x7, try reducing the number of miners to "all_cpu_cores -1", so leave 1 or 2 cores off mining and see if that helps you with the instability.