its about time some1 in the know went and updated the OP...
(for the benefit of newcomers)
(howto could be updated too, but i know time is constrained!)
the introduction spiel is abruptly cut short,
theres a few outdated links there and it seems a few things have changed in the past month, with pools and software
past couple of days i havent had much paid out from Mininghere pool, so ive decided to have a go at some of the other pools
the information about which pool to join, based on the what the calculator says and the average payout of the pools miners,
is hardly telling me anything, if anything just confusing me more :/
im trying the Devs V2 pool atm, but keep getting "no valid shares to submit to pool" at each block
(oh now i see one of the instances has found a share, wow - so it appears to be working, and another instance found 2 shares from same block, so dont be put off when you see 'No valid shares to submit to pool' for a while!)
all i did was move my generated plots on each drive into the pocminer_pools\plots folder on each drive,
as you need 1 instance of pocminer_pool miner for each plots folder you have..
(^ for those not so PC savvy)
In my experience pools pay out about 70% of what the calculator says. It also seems as though solo mining you make about 70% of what the calculator says, sometimes much less (never more then 100% in my experience though).
Best pool I used seemed to be the dev pool with the most consistent and equal payouts. I used a couple other pools before going back to solo.
I'd highly suggest new people carefully look at Burst before diving in. I'm starting to regret it. The only reason the 'value' of the coin is so high is because a lot of people are holding it. If you look at Poloniex you can see what's happening as miners are dumping on it (it's slowly declining) without anyone actually buying it because they want it. If everyone that mined was dumping it then the coin would immediately bottom out. It's artificially high as I pointed out last fall.
There definitely needs to be a feature added on the blockchain so people can see the deadline that won a block for verification purposes. I really don't know why it hasn't been done. Since we're all essentially playing the lottery, what lottery doesn't show you the winning numbers?
..... BTW, did you just start with 7.2TB recently? 
