Looking forward to solo mining. Less regular payouts but less fees, so should be better in the long run. Pyramiding isn't really set up for regular payments anyway so I don't see a downside.
Me too, and as I have to waint ~11 Month for full break eveny anyway variance shouldn't really matter on the long run.
Whoops, I was going to check the site and see what the current power was, and run that through tpbitcalc to get an idea of how much variance there would be over 10-12 months. But the site is down ATM. Here's hoping it's back up soon and I'm going to go make up some numbers and see how that works.
For a slightly better guess, I think pyramining mentioned being able to find a block around every three days solomining. As long as I'm not making that up, the variance would generally effect people with accounts larger than 100BTC, although the payouts would be the same (or better).
With a slightly fancier setup, it may be possible at that point to mine directly to the addresses for payout (though that would require the blocks to mature before spending and all that mess).
Edit: Back up!
Edit again:
Using the pool hash rate of 95.7 GH/s and current difficulty a block would be expected on average every 1.4 days
source. So accounts above ~150BTC would notice larger payments less frequently. That seems workable to me at least, once it can be setup to the satisfaction of the pool operator being the last obstacle.
