It's a shame about the ScarletRose scam.  I know we were all looking for something that was (at least for now) too good to be true.  I imagine smolen is probably snickering at us all right now 

A question about smelter, then, specifically worksize.  When I am pool mining with scrypt, I notice that when I raise my worksize the pool server notes a higher share rate even though my hashrate is less than if I lower my worksize.  Is the same true with solo mining for QRK or SRC with smelter? I notice a hashrate drop of 40% when I increase my WS from 128 -> 256, but will this translate to a 40% drop in block discovery rate or does the worksize compensate for that?

I have managed to find 1 block of SRC with smelter, so I am definitely looking forward to future development of this project.  Keep up the good work.

This will be my first post after a while of bouncing around reading various boards here.  It was definitely difficult to figure out how to post anything on this forum considering I generally don't think of myself as a n00b to cryptocurrency and didn't bother to look through the newbie topics before now.  Furthermore, for now I only want to post a specific question on a specific topic that is outside the n00b areas.  I think this practice of only being able to post to specific topics should be changed.  Someone new should be able to make 1 post on any topic, then wait the standard 4 hours before being able to post anything else, as seems to be the prerogative of the moderators here.  This is enough time for spammers to be found and dealt with appropriately.  Posting on a topic such as this one in a generalized area is highly inefficient.  I hope some more thought will be put into this soon to avoid dissuading otherwise potentially-substantial posters from joining (and no, I don't consider any post of mine to be particularly substantial; I have a question to ask, not any kind of profound statement or breakthrough technology to share).