I need more, too.  crap.

That's why I was asking...

When?  Today?

Already getting better:

Pool luck (1 day, 7 days, 30 days):   97%, 95%, 101%

But we don't want it to get TOO high or the difficulty will go up, right? 

"The difficulty is adjusted every 2016 blocks based on the time it took to find the previous 2016 blocks. At the desired rate of one block each 10 minutes, 2016 blocks would take exactly two weeks to find. If the previous 2016 blocks took more than two weeks to find, the difficulty is reduced. If they took less than two weeks, the difficulty is increased. The change in difficulty is in proportion to the amount of time over or under two weeks the previous 2016 blocks took to find."

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty


But now that ASIC miners are cheap and people like me can get into this, we may be out of luck and the difficulty will continue to skyrocket.

Thanks!  When I have any BTC of substance, I want the option.  Hopefully, my investment is not for naught.  All this anti-BTC talk among the governments lately is disconcerting and uncool.

So what is the preferred method to covert BTC dollars?  Is there a more reliable method for withdrawing hard currency?  While I want to keep my BTC, some places, like the landlord for example, does not take BTC.