What are talking about?  I do not care of overall diff raise, it is absolutely clear and inevitably.
But about bad luck will be never covered with such raise now +10% per 2 weeks.  It is 90% for last months here.

A Major problem is we are having way to many orphans!!!  5.56% just this week.. Honestly im wondering if its time to shut down nmc merged mining.. As its causing to much network strain.. OR the pool has issues with the 40 ph.  it never used to be like this when we were at 15 ph steady.. this all started with the 15 ph user that jumped on .. just saying.. Been with slush off and on since march 2014.  Left a while back due to low monthly percentage.. now looks like we are headed that direction again.. im giving it till january to figure this out and then ill reavaluate ..

http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/11/november-29th-2015-mining-pool.html

You can see here with the latest onslaught of orphans we are avg over 1 per week.. thats a lot of btc lost!!!  250k usd at current market value. id say thats more then enough incentive to get this sorted out!!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W41C3Yq_LS4/VlurxHeJ_6I/AAAAAAAAEpA/vmTObMaRcTU/s1600/0_table_26_weeks.29112015.png

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d57heinz

Yeah i sure missed that.. Wish i would have known it was the third.  I did just check slush news which i should have checked prior to posting.. It looks like They are still activily trying to mitigate the issue. I know a month or so ago he had issues with teh relay network which i thought was fixed but maybe that wasnt so.. Slush pool has been around a very long time. I believe the first actual mining pool. I feel confident the issues will subside thats why im not quick to jump ship. with the recent network jumps in diff it may be that his way of calculating the amount you should have in the month is affected by the diff. idk..   i really am expecting one day soon that we hit a crazy streak of blocks..  Be a nice xmas present..  Anyway hold tight and see how it goes.. could be a bad string of variance coupled with some orphans that very well could fall well within the variance of orphans a pool might expect to get.. I think under 1 or 2 percent per year is expected. .  https://mining.bitcoin.cz/news/

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d57heinz

ahh my bad.. i seen the facebook feed on the right of dec 3rd.  I knew he posted that he was having issues on his facebook back in late october..  guess that is the last bit of news he posted.. Its been a really rough couple months here to say the least..

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d57heinz

can Slush rep come on here and explain whats wrong please

One or more of the switches are off  - please check your controls

I am ruining the planet for nothing....................

I'm not going to spam this forum by making specific recommendations but there is another good pool to move your hash to.

Im not saying slush is doing this..but I know its possible to move a stratum port to another pool  >> say a pps pool for a few hours.. Then swap it back.. All within the time so your machine will never notice.. This is a major issue i have with putting trust into another pool.. This should never have had to be an issue if we all stayed more decentralized!! ie solo mining.  

this could explain the odd swings in hashrate we been experiencing idk..

If you look at this chart you can see the general decline in "luck" for two of the largest pools. http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/12/december-6th-2015-mining-pool-statistics_7.html . Wish f2pool was included aswell for better reference.. But it looks to me like the bigger you get the worse your luck gets.. Starting at the 52 wk chart and working your way to last week you can see th general direction the luck is headed for the largest of the pools .. Not to say it wont pick up but sure isnt looking good...

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d57heinz

Agreed...

That's why I left.  It's just too damn suspicious for me as well.

 I didnt know that slush was ever caught doing that.. Be nice if you can see the end destination of the mining wallet someway.. I know you can setup a proxy that would be on the same port as your pool.. then within 30 seconds shut down the pool stratum .. fire up the proxy. and bam  you are now mining with everyone hash at a pps pool.. so easy that it makes it awfully tempting.. 

Now this could actually be about luck.. Organofcorti did a pc on this back in july  about mining luck  http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/07/faq-bitcoin-mining-and-luck-statistic.html.. You will see 75 % bad luck vs 25% good luck as the bad luck streaks last much longer.  Now according to him in time you should get to neutral luck.. well here is a scenario i have that will keep you from ever getting a chance at catching your luck back... So if a pool is say 10 peta for arguments sake and we have the rest of the network growing at exponential rate.. If the small pool get a streak of bad luck it can be devastating and here is why i think so.. if it say takes 10000 blocks to even out for arguments sake.. by even out i mean neutral luck.  If the network was steady that is no growth or decline in speed we will then have a steady diff.. This allows a smaller pool who might experience a ruff patch to catch up.. Yes it will take them 10 times longer than the other two pools time wise to go thru 10k blocks.. But according to statistics over time we should even out our luck.  But the problem we have is a growing network.. But its not across the board. its only a few pools.. and whats worse is its the largest of the pools.. So what happens is the diff keeps increasing. never allowing for the smaller pools to catch up on there blocks.. now with the halving coming close and there seems to be a huge push from the big boys on hashrate.. i think if a smaller pool sees a bad streak it could possibly never recover as we keep decreasing reward every 2 years roughly.  i hope im not off the wall here in my thinking.  what you all think??

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d57heinz