I love slush's pool, been using it exclusively for months now. I happened to see something about the POT (pay on target) method on Ozcoin where you get more shares if you're the guy who finds the block, than with PPS. Intrigued I decided to give it a shot, and I'm liking it.

I'm wondering if slush would consider adding this in as an option for workers to choose?

Has anyone else tried POT long term? So far my results are favorable.

So butterfly labs just fudged my order and only sent me 1 out of the 2 mining boxes i ordered, which are both Jalapeno's
I called them and they are sending me another one right away.

In the meantime though, the 1 they sent me is hashing at 8.3 GH/s

Edit: Forgot to mention, they have excellent customer service.

Some people typo the amount they want to send as the fee.   Once its sent, too late

That's one side of the coin, but it's nice because it gives you the best of both worlds--you get the consistency of pool mining but you still can taste some of the sweetness of finding the block.

I'm actually being paid just as much through POT as I would normally be paid on Slush (actually, I've been getting more consistent returns by a little bit). I've also found 2 or 3 blocks in the past, so it would be neat to see a little higher bump for doing so.

20685   2013-11-01 17:25:32   6:02:53   1402679276   78300   0.00000000   267325   25.04368520    73 confirmations left

Nice joke, zero results out of 87300 shares? Anyone got this?

Gave it a few hours...result:

20685   2013-11-01 17:25:32   6:02:53   1402679276   78300   0.00000000   267325   25.04368520    53 confirmations left

Not nice!

Well, I just mentioned it as an option because some folks are loyal to pools (as am I), and since I like slush's alot, I figured I'd toss the suggestion. The other pool I'm on lets you choose which payment type you want, so it lets the users tailor it to themselves.

Nobody is trying to push you off.

It seems like slush's pool is hitting some bum luck the past few days which is why I switched to the other pool just to try it out. Just reporting back my findings.

Is it possible that Slush's pool have a mind of its own?  I've been pointing my miners to other pools for the sake of checking and comparing results.  When I came back to Slush's and resumed mining,  my reward balance was about 0.05 btc less than the last time I checked it out (all confirmed).  In a similar situation last week, I lost about 0.22 btc when I came back to Slush's and resumed mining.  I've let many unexplained losses slide before but this is really getting ridiculous.  I'd hate to make any accusation of pilfering but given these circumstances, I can't help think about it.

Slush, what's going on?  And while I'm at it, you don't even come to your own thread/forum anymore and address concerns of pool members.

Edit:  Changed "skimming" to a more appropriate term -- "pilfering".

Considering the current value of a coin, these btc cents that are mysteriously disappearing into thin air are no longer trivial; not especially to me as my hashing rate is relatively slow and it takes me an awful long time to accumulate them.  Multiply these btc cents with the number of miner accounts in the pool...I leave this to everybody's imagination.  And speaking of which, there's really no total number of miners/accounts in Slush's stats, is there?