Is this because Betarigs is in EU, however, you are leasing a server (potentially) in another place (like the US), to a renter who is somewhere totally different (like Australia). This would introduce quite a bit of latency... Solution would be to offer additional Betarig servers eventually, one in NA, maybe another in Asia

With difficulty of 1024, hashrate will fluctuate more, however, if nothing is showing up then something is wrong, most likely on your end. It makes no sense to "rob" people with 1 rig when there are quite a few with 20+ MH/s who you could take 5-10% potentially from without them noticing (which would add up to what he is supposedly "taking" from you).

More likely is your computers are infected and the mining is being redirected to a different address, or your configs are wrong. If this was a widespread issue, the people who are normally making $500+ a day would be livid on here.

Unfortunately, with the size of the pool right now, I doubt H2O will respond to you individually... he's busy enough keeping the ship above water with regards to the DB I/O issues. In fact, having a few less miners would appeal to most of the bigger players here

Yup, today payout will be around 0.016 BTC per MH/s, however, that is still higher than "normal"... I'd say anything over 0.05 with 4 MH/s I would consider a decent day :]

Another vote for Teamviewer here... works great on Windows 7/8 as well as the BAMT distro of Linux (plus many other mining distros)

Maybe H2O IS the government... O.o

But in all seriousness, as the number of miners (and thus new data points) continues to grow, we will probably continue to experience issues with the DB until it's rewritten to be less I/O intense. As long as my miners are getting accepted shares / my payouts are near where they should be I'm not worried, however, I do understand the frustration some users are feeling over the consistency of these (minor) issues.

Payout was around 0.0185BTC per MH today, which was even better than yesterday (makes sense as DOGE went back up, however, difficulty hasn't moved much). Now we just need BTC to increase in value again :]

Haha, probably true :] The real reason is most likely because he did something on the back-end that "broke" the software that renders the graphs (which H2O doesn't control). Payout was fine and other sites like the one I linked before are updating normally

At least this is slightly more entertaining to read than the "H2O IS STEALING FROM YOU" BS that usually starts flying around this time

Personal graphs are still stuck for me (actually they just haven't updated), however, stats from bfpcoin.com (among other ones that process the raw data) are up to date and accurate from what I can tell. Payout today looks to be around 0.0173BTC per MH/s or so, which is still higher than we've been experiencing.

ASIC's are something everyone needs to come to terms with. The financial incentive wasn't there when LTC was $2-3, however, now those capital costs in development are a lot more attractive. The first round I'm not worried about, and even long-term, until memory gets faster, the differences won't be as large as some think. Power consumption (heat) on the other hand is what many of us are looking forward to... I like GPU's because they have utility (value) outside mining, however, if I can hash faster with less heat/power consumption to worry about, then that's attractive too.

For those worried about the competitive nature of mining... that's the name of the game. There will always be people with over 100x my hashing power, and I recognize that. Likewise, not everyone can afford to even run a 25-30 GPU setup. While we all wish we were H2O, or the guy with 150+ MH/s, that doesn't get you anywhere in life. Also, to the person who said it's just as easy to manage multiple rigs vs 1 or 2 GPUs... not when you have way more parts to clean / configure / make sure they are always working

Agreed, if you are still having issues then I would jump pools for a few hours and see if you notice the same there (then it's you) or you're back to normal (probably a connection issue to Middlecoin). If this was a widespread thing I can guarantee the people who have 20+ MH farms would be up in arms over where their hashing power was going.

...and in the meantime we make double the BTC we usually do (if not more than double)... Still fail to see the problem, as at the end of the day we are left with BTC, not DOGE.

Yeah, this is bringing back bad memories of those DOGE days back in mid December when each rig was making $45-55 a day

Usually a brownout is what causes the damage; a blackout usually doesn't cause any issues (Though keeping the computers on a UPS is ideal)

Are the hashrates lower on one card, or are all the cards hashing slower?  Usually if there's an issue with a card it won't even show up.

Nothing like waking up to see a rig's been down almost all night because of an ethernet address conflict... Still beating yesterday even minus a rig lol

Where do you get 0.06 ?!?!

I'm at 0.085 here after transmission charges + other fees, however, 0.06 must be hydro :]

The sparks / fires are usually caused by ripple capacitors for the VRAM exploding on startup :] I've had 2 Gigabyte 7950's do this so far, however, they both still work fine.

It's always the same... the rig shuts down without warning, then when you turn it back on... BOOM...

The good news is I never had an issue (so far) with rigs exploding while running.

I've had it happen on both powered and unpowered risers... usually the issue is just poor PCB layout in that not enough cooling air gets to this part of the board.

I've also destroyed 1 Mobo when this occurred and the other Mobo lost a PCI-E slot so be careful...

What's your address? Does it show up fine on the blockchain?

Holy DOGE lol... Amazing what a little publicity and a good cause can do :-) We just exchanged a lot of ours at over .220, which I think was a good move. It didn't get much higher than this when it was first introduced, and better to have happy pool miners with BTC than unhappy pool miners IF we held too long and ended up having to revise unexchanged down.

Something that some people new to this might not know... As DOGE continues to rise, more scrypt hashpower is being transferred to it. As a result, other scrypt coins will experience lower difficulty retargets, increasing scrypt/BTC profitability beyond just DOGE :]

...and once again everything resolves itself (even before the conspiracy's started lol)

If you want to compare payouts, today was right around 0.0151 BTC per MH/s for me, which I'll gladly take.

I also finished the day with more unexchanged than I started with :] (Some may view this as more H2O can "steal", however, I'd rather we hold onto coins and sell them when they are near their peaks )

I'll be nice and answer them (though the payout question changes daily)

Right now, 2.2MH/s (pretty average 3 or 4 card rig depending on what cards you are using) will make around 0.03 BTC a day

This totally varies based on the profitability of alt-coins, however, 0.013BTC per MH per day has been a pretty good figure recently.

Initial payout is when you reach 0.01BTC, so probably your first day with a 2.2MH/s rig. We have been floating some extra unexchanged recently, riding the wave that is DOGE, however, normally most of what you mine is exchanged within a day or two... three at the most. For every day after that, as long as you reach 0.01BTC you will get paid out, which, again, with a 2.2MH/s rig, should be every day (assuming you have good uptime)

I would hope that the coins with strong fundamentals will be able to survive getting hit with multi-pool traffic, however, this is certainly a new frontier, and we can't discount the possibility that we may damage a "good" coin. Then again, we have examples of forks, 51% attacks, etc with BTC, FTC and others, and those are still around even after many posted about the "critical condition" they were in at the time. Heck, BTC has had so many times in its relatively short history when it's future was thrown into question, however, thus far it's always bounced back. We will damage a small coin if we mine it with the hashpower we have, however, there are a number of ways to mitigate this, through algorithms in the coins themselves to dynamically redistributing pool hashing power so that we don't so quickly overwhelm a "small" coin. Remember how long FTC was "stuck" when the exchange rate dropped and the difficulty was crazy high? Those dedicated to it banded together and made sure transactions still went through and the coin didn't die :]

Anyways, more relevant to your issue, the "slow" miners and higher difficulty shouldn't affect payout. I know it seems that way when you're working on a share for 8 minutes and then the pool switches coins, however, unless my 2am statistics brain is shot, the probability of solving does not increase with time (The likelihood that a block WAS solved increases with time until one is, however, the instantaneous probability doesn't). If you have a miner that just received work vs one that's hashing away for 8 minutes, assuming they are otherwise identical, both have an equal likelihood of solving at any one instant in time. Otherwise it's like saying it's more likely to flip a heads after you just flipped 3 tails in a row... nope still 50/50. Sometimes a miner will take less than a second, other times it will take an hour. That's where the whole "luck" thing comes into play.

That said, there's definitely an issue in your hashing if your accepted shares dropped that much after we went to 1024. Without having experienced the same issue it's tough to hypothesize. I'll let you know tomorrow if I figure it out :]  May have to fire up the 135KH/s laptop to test with to see if I can replicate it