mining its simple math not religion.
Although I'm not in favor of banning anyone, mining is
complex math, not
simple math. Otherwise all so-called profit sites would have the exact same rankings for most profitable coins, and they would be far more accurate than they are... and you would be mining on your own. If, as I did, you've tried a little bit mining by yourself a couple hours a day even with self-developed scripts to help you find best coins, you would have noticed that it is no "simple" math. Well, rather, if you did have accurate real-time values for difficulty, network current hashrate / % of stales, price and prediction algorithms for the fluctuation of each of these in the next hours, then it would be simpler math.
I must admit that h2o has been doing an extremely great job that seems to outperform all other pools that I've tried and any attempt I've been trying on my own. Sure there are imperfections and we surely want to try and improve them (show better graphs/data for instance, actually I'm quite happy with the ones we have, I would just need another curve on the graph), but I wouldn't dare to give suggestions about what to mine (especially as h2o is very sharp about not revealing his secrets, and I don't blame him for that, otherwise it would be easy for others to copy and rob the well-deserved results of his hard work). Sometimes if I believe that I can do better than the curve on the graph, I go mining somewhere else. Generally not for long. And generally at a loss. Try it for a while and if you do manage to do better, then you won't even come back here to complain.
If you don't, just follow, enjoy and bow. And accept that mining is not an exact science (although nowhere near religion), and has its ups and downs, no matter how talented you are.
As for others who report problems with payments etc I haven't had any problems so far, the only thing is the curves that sometimes get stuck on the graph, and as far as I understand, this is much more due to cryptsy issues (having traded on cryptsy, I can confirm nothing is perfect there...) than to the pool operator. The only suggestion I might want to make is to look for other exchange sites, sometimes they have different rates for the same coins and may be more profitable in the short term. But again, I believe that h2o has thought about this and there must be a good reason if he doesn't do it (maybe he does!). At least from my experience, other exchange sites have their own problems too.
Anyway, making a long story short: good job h2o, you earn your higher (very well deserved!) % fees than other pools, go on like this, everyone gets the benefit from it!
