Any increased profitability from merged mining?

[wingding]

I know that Namecoin can be merged mined with Bitcoin, and that Namecoins can be sold at some price. So I have a few questions:

1. Do bitcoin mining pools merge mine Namecoin or other cc to increase profitability?
2. If so, how much does this increase profit?
2. Can you be a pool member and merge mine another cc individually - or does it have to be done centrally by the pool?

[QuintLeo]

To do merge mining, you either have to do it yourself (you CAN run P2Pool but you can't be a member OF a pool), *OR* the pool itself has to do merge mining (I get a large number of DOGE from the Litecoin pool I work with, small bonus not a big help though).

[VictorGT]

At Slushpool you can see the payments for merge mining namecoin.

I run an U3 about 55 GHs/s, and slushpool gives me 2100 satohis per BTC block...

And also 2 satoshis per NMC block... And not many MNC blocks per day.
¿10, 20?

Near to 0 for small miners.

[mtx_demon]

To do merge mining, you either have to do it yourself (you CAN run P2Pool but you can't be a member OF a pool), *OR* the pool itself has to do merge mining (I get a large number of DOGE from the Litecoin pool I work with, small bonus not a big help though).

Where do you mine LTC? I was mining on coinotron.com but I felt just losing time and money only.

[QuintLeo]

LiteGuardian.

 The only issue I have with them is they never updated their "estimated payout" figure to account for the block halfing last summer - but it's easy enough to just "divide by 2" on that estimale.

 I find that the Dodge merge-mined rewards more or less evens out to the pool fee.

 They're also one of the VERY few pools that never had a reported issue with Alcheminers (not that I have any of those, but I was looking - they sold out on the final batch too fast).