Wondering if other pool members are experiencing lack of reward payouts.
My confirmed reward has been way over the payout threshold for at least 3 hours.  Ticket raised with Slush support.
Maybe this is related to the other 'hiccups' experienced over the last few days.

 author=Datelli

Bases on these non-complaining, but realistic figures I have to conclude that bitcoin "profits" have come down by a factor 10. I predict in a few months from now, mining bitcoins doesn't make any sense anymore for the common man


The only way to make money in this game is either BTC surges and stays above $650 (or Euro equivalent) or you can buy mining equipment at a good price (I came up with my own formulas for that) and you sell the machines after 2-3 months, while you can get at least half you purchase price back. Of course, this is all 'work' so the real question is if you are not better off simply buying BTC when cheap(er). Keep in mind that many/most ASIC miner manufacturers run their newest machines for 1-2 months themselves before selling them so they are the only ones really ahead of the game.

Here's the reason: 9548835.185 Ghash/s !

When I turned off my machines a couple weeks ago the pool hash rate was around 6.0 mil.

I say thanks for all the memories.

You would expect less reward per block, but more blocks, so it should balance out.  But the block rate seems slower than expected.  The funny thing is, every time we have a slow one, we seem to have a quick one straight after, so it's probably going to cancel out?  I think it needs more time to settle down, so I'm going to hang around.

that is not true

^Hi bozo, you are absolutely right. If you don't add personal hashrate when the pool hashrate goes up your payout goes down. Theoretically we should solve more blocks in relation to the added hashrate.  If you remember you and I talked about hashrate and mining profits a while back, so we can use those numbers as a reference:

FACTS
Old pool hashrate was 6000000 my 5TH had a 0.02  payout per block.

New pool hashrate is   9650000 my 5TH has a 0.012 payout per block.

ASSUMED
Problem is we are still solving around the same amount of blocks, mabey one or two more. This may be bad pool luck right now and we could start solving more blocks soon. Slushs luck number WAS based on 4-5 blocks per day = 100% luck. We are NOW at 99% luck and there has been 6 blocks solved in the last 24 hours so the new 100% luck must be 7-8 blocks in 24 hours.

Note: Once we stable out - our profits should be slightly higher per day/week/month.

Question?
I know on BTCGuild when their pool hashrate goes up or down dramatically their pool operator eleuthria makes adjustments to their shift block count and could adjust the size of the last N share to help their miners out(this can cause a high orphan rate if it's too low). That is a pplns pool with shifts and this is a score based pool. Is there any adjustments Slush can make to help us out with the larger pool hashrate?

PROBLEMS
I'm out of avalible amps to add more miners.
I've had the same strategy since October last year. Keep 0.02 per BLOCK on slush's pool and 0.02 per DAY on BTCGuild. I can no longer accomplish this due to power restrictions. I will have to keep 0.012 per BLOCK now. I guess I can undervolt/underclock what I have now so I can try to reduce amps and add a couple more small miners.

Take a look at the stats page:
2014-09-08 - 3 blocks
2014-09-09 - 3 blocks
2014-09-10 - 5 blocks
2014-09-11 - 5 blocks
on average 4 blocks per day and then the hashrate increase with 33% = expected 6 blocks per day
2014-09-12 - 8 blocks
2014-09-13 (half the day) - 4 blocks = 6 blocks average ... and the day is not over yet

Before 2014-09-12 I got 0.002 per round and now it's down to 0.00135 or 0.008 per day before and 0.0081 per day now ... as you can it's more NOW than BEFORE
Don't trust me - do the math yourself

@Datelli cold figures from the day i have started mining - the difficulty was ~700k and now it is 27428630902, the BTC price was ~0.05$ and now it's ~500$, but the mining is still not dead and makes sense?

Im pulling out as off now, its hurting, and no one cares to explain, just had a look on Slush's facebook page and a lot of digruntled miners there too.  

Glad your confident over a 3 day higher hash rate average and an extra 1 and a half block per day...lets see how this pans out (meantime, no explanation as to hash rise) other than

"Dear miners, we had a busy night tonight. We were experiencing connectivity issues between our US and Europe datacenters which caused a delay in accounting for your submitted shares. No shares have been lost due to our robust stratum implementation. Once the connectivity has resumed all shares have been accounted for in our Europe data centers. Your Slush pool team."   

CEX has 50 blocks so far today  WTF