Yep, I'm also connected on the chan (lainux on irc )

Bitcoin difficulty increased by ~50% on Sunday, thus the payout for the same hashrate decreased by ~50% to compensate.

YoYou should probably provide some evidence for this allegation.

The two balances will be reconciled as soon as the new server undergoes enough testing to be considered stable.
If there are no problems, the old server will be shut down within a few days, at which point old balances will be transferred (added) to the new server.

BTC is not a meaningful unit of rate.  Please update bitpenny.com to publish the actual unit, maybe it's BTC/s, BTC/h, BTC/day or BTC/getwork; I have no idea. Thanks.

Tried this for a short time, did some math and it seems that (for me) this pool pays 8-10% less than slush's pool, so I think I'll stick with the latter .

while testing the old bitpenny server, my payout was about 87.5%, taking into account that max 90% are paid out and expecting 2-3% loss caused by connectivity/overhead, this seemed not too bad.

running on the new server for ~2days now my payouts are impressive,
89-90%, means there's almost zero network-loss.

good job OneFixt!

obviously, but you can't really compare bitpenny with slush's pool anyway,
you could compare it to the pay-per-share mode on deepbit.

Tempted to jump on this at 1.3Ghash/s. Soon as I get my next large payment from BTCPool I come on for a couple hours and see what I get.

Any estimations?

Thanks Tycho

Yep - since each share has X percent chance of being a winning hash, he pays out X-10% for each hash. So you make less, but you also get consistent payouts and can withdraw instantly.