I hate to say it but it seems to me that the critics are somewhat right about the pool. How on earth did we not hit a single block for straight 9 hours??? This is plain right ridiculous. I don't think anybody renting machines can even cover the costs right now, not to mention the PC's power bills from the machines running at home.
I tried going solo with a QuadCore and a Dual-Hexacore over the last couple of days, but didn't have any luck either; going solo with rented 2-core machines is of course completely useless...
Any idea on who hits all these blocks?
Furthermore: the pool "shares" have again dropped so hard that some of my small miners keep appearing and disappearing.
Here's some info from my mining docs that might help diagnose a possible issue.
On Jan 25th, 2 out of 3 miners were dropping out of the pool, only 1 out of 3 was showing as mining. Rob fixed the 30k character pool issue and everything returned to normal. To establish a baseline for later comparison, I decided not to update any miners until the 27500 deadline.
Here is an example of the typical number of coins mined a week ago before I updated my miners.
Coins mined (in the last hour): 129.195
Coins mined (in the last 24 hours): 2293.14
Coins mined (in the last week):16542.33
Here is today's results: (9:04am ct)
Coins mined (in the last hour): 20.16
Coins mined (in the last 24 hours): 349.6
Coins mined (in the last week): 8325.78
(Most of the 8325.78 for the week was done before Jan 25.)
Whatever is causing the problem appears to have occurred between Jan 24 and Jan 28.
