I think you SHOULD post an address to donate too. All those people who have mined coins and/or made a buck should donate you some for this opportunity and your work. So do it, do it now! I'll be happy to donate myself.

Yes, i agree, you should 100% put a donation address and everyone should send at least 10-20 coins if they have over say 200 coins really. I'm sure most would do this certainly.

+1 to Sunny!

Let's get him some XPM's!

Hello, my name is sunny king, please send all your XPM to my donation address:AbgfctW53ZdrfTsbeDahzrNrAYmHLraHeC

(j/k just for the lols)

Yes, it can be a bit misleading if you aren't thinking logarithmically.  For some of the currencies, there are numbers like 4000% in there at the beginning and, without the log scale, that just wipes out the rest of the chart.  All the numbers near 100% look like indistinguishable little lines sitting on the bottom of the chart.  You are right that the log scale is not necessary (at the moment) for any of the primecoin charts.  But I want to be consistent on the site so people know what to expect.  To get the best of both worlds, I intend to make a control on the chart that can turn on and off the log scale.  I've added this in my TODO section on the methodology page.  It's not a current priority though.  For now, please hover over the bars to look at the precise values.

Admins responded fairly quickly to my inquiry and got things running again.  I'm now getting speeds ranging from 300 or so pps on really old hardware (an Athlon 64 3700+ and a 2.8-GHz Pentium 4, with the Athlon 64 tending to run a little bit faster) to about 2500 pps on a VPS with eight Xeon E5-2670 cores. A Core 2 Quad Q6600 is good for about 1500 pps.  The pool has found four blocks in the past two days (plus two orphans), but nothing since I started mining there.  We'll see what happens overnight. I was getting nowhere fast with solo mining.

I backup mine to dropbox then backup my entire dropbox folder to iDrive. Someone could delete you files from you dropbox folder while you were away (or you could to it by mistake) and then the dropbox sync would delete them from everywhere else, permanently. iDrive keeps a fresh copy with every backup and does not delete old ones unless you explicitly tell it to.

If the network was only seeing new miners then the difficulty adjustments would be able to keep up.  But the very poor performance of the initial CPU mining code has been worked over to give something like x100 better performance in just a day, meanwhile miners are increasing quantitatively as well but probably by something like x10.

If the initial code had been properly optimized then starting difficulty could have been nearly 9 and we wouldn't be seeing such a short block time.  This is a lesson, if your going to release a new algorithm for CPU mining, optimize the CPU code or else you've get quasi-ASIC like behavior in which hash rates explode and the coins may end up monopolized by people who have access to the high potency mining ability even if this is by software rather then hardware.

Starting difficulty would have still been where Sunny set it, 7. I don't know what the distribution looks like, but I am still finding blocks on 5 micro instances and a laptop running while I am sleeping. If difficulty adjustments took two weeks, I would agree with you, but it's dynamic.