[Please let me know if you have any suggestions or features you'd like added. Thanks!]

I'm still adding features to this, but here's my latest creation...  

I noticed that bitcoinwisdom's difficulty estimator seems to be broken lately, and fork.lol's estimator uses the average of the last 12 hours of blocks which causes some estimate oscillations, I decided to whip up my own.  It's a live-updating visualization of all blocks in the current difficulty period, with some stats including a live projection of the next difficulty adjustment (using the average rate of all blocks mined so far in the current period).  All times displayed are in your local time.  Enjoy!

 CryptoThis - Live-Updating Bitcoin Difficulty Visualizer/Estimator - https://diff.cryptothis.com/

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or features you'd like added.  Thanks!

I'm gearing up to launch a new mining pool...  I'm just curious which coin you all would suggest I launch first.  Something new/small?  I'm open to anything that has some demand or need for a new pool.  Thoughts?

Second question...it looks like uNOMP is now no longer under development/support?  Is there a better alternative these days?  It's been a minute since I ran a pool...

Here's my latest creation, a visualization of several top cryptocurrency market caps and prices, featuring cute little crypto-rockets headed to the moon!

If you enjoy, please consider donating to help me cover hosting costs (donation addresses at top of webpage).  Thanks!

https://moon.cryptothis.com/

Here's one of my Antminer S5's up for auction on EBay.  No reserve.  Enjoy!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/302345550325

I have two Antminer S5's for sale.  Very lightly used and always cooled properly, they still hash right at the published rate, 1155 GH/s each.  These will go up on EBay if I don't end up selling them here.  Let me know if you want any more info or have an offer.

Here's my latest design...a parody of the old computer game "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?".  Available on t-shirts, hoodies, blankets, mugs, and lots more!  Click the image to visit my store.  Thanks!

Here's my very first bitcoin t-shirt design, Bitcoin Genesis!  Available in many styles for men, women and kids in various colors.  Also available as a few non-apparel products.

All proceeds will be converted into bitcoin shortly after I receive them.  If you like this design, please follow my store as I will be adding lots of other designs in the coming weeks and months.  You can expect to see more cryptocurrency-related designs as well as some involving my other interests such as programming, jiu-jitsu, disc golf, billiards, trekking/camping, and more.  Thanks and please let me know if you buy one!

Click the image to go to the store:

In light of the recent decimation of Auroracoin's value, ALTDEX is most likely going to be removing Auroracoin from the index and replacing it with a more stable/valuable altcoin.  Please vote if you'd like to have some say in the future of this altcoin total market index...we already have a couple front runners in mind, but we want to get a sense of what the community prefers to see included in the ALTDEX going forward.

For reference, ALTDEX is currently comprised of the following ten altcoins:

• Litecoin
• Peercoin
• Dogecoin
• Nxt
• Namecoin
• Primecoin
• Feathercoin
• Vertcoin
• Novacoin
• Auroracoin

[Altdex.org - Altcoin Total Market Index]

Announcing:
Altdex.org - Altcoin Total Market Index

I'd like to announce a small beta project of mine: Altdex.org.  It is meant to be a market index (a la S&P 500, Wilshire 5000, etc) representing nearly all of the altcoin market capitalization.  Think of it as an indicator of the overall health of the altcoin economy.  The index recalculates every 60 seconds, and incorporates individual coin market caps, the current USD price of bitcoin, and more.  No need to refresh the page, new data is pulled in automatically.

Keep in mind, I'm still tinkering with things a bit.  I look forward to making this even more useful as an indicator of the altcoin economy...  If I can find the time, I plan to eventually introduce a number of other cryptocurrency market indices, both broad and narrow.

I welcome all feedback, suggestions, and questions!

I'm the sort of person who is quite enthusiastic about investments in general.  I use a variety of investment vehicles:  401k, Roth IRA, DRIPs, 529, P2P Lending, and now of course, cryptocurrencies.  This is my crypto-investment plan at the moment:

- mine on multipools for scrypt coins (my current favorite is trademybit.com, a mere 0.5% mining fee!)
- auto-sell my scrypt coins for BTC/LTC
- keep some percentage of my BTC/LTC balance, and sell the rest for USD$ (pays for the mining overhead and provides dollar-cost averaging for my coins)

This way, I generate a USD income stream, but also build BTC/LTC balances for long term holdings.  I'm mining scrypt at about 800kh/s but will probably expand to a second, larger rig later this year.  What do you guys think?  All comments appreciated!