quick question.
I have prescious little mining experience, but what little proper mining I did was done during the 24 hrs or so before the whale appeared. I was on http://pool.darkcoin.io averaging around 2300 - 2500kh/s, but fluctuating from anything just under 1000 to 3500. I presume that fluctuation thats reported is purely down to the time the hashes are accepted and the rate at which the data is measured (every 15 secs?)

Anyway, what I have noticed is that during the good times (a day or so) and even when we went to 90 difficulty, whatever the pool thought I was due based on my hash (at the time, which I understand changes constantly) I only seemed to be getting roughly half of what I should be???

Am I missing something obvious here?

this dolphin, very tired, push push push...

After all that work, not getting any blocks at all. is lotterypool working?

Edit: 30% pool invalids , all those super hard blocks at a loss and now miss out on all the easy ones