weird.

The wave pattern theoretically caused by the 1 minute blocktime seems to have disappeared, but now difficulty seems anything but smooth after the fork.

http://chainradar.com/xmr/chart

as you click through the different coins on chainradar, this seems to be related to the network hashrate - at least the magnitude of the swings.

I ponder if "difficulty sniping" will become a thing at some point. Or difficulty manipulation. Imagine you have a lot of hashpower, like 10 MH.

2.04 - Mon, Jun 6th peak 1:50
1.64 - Mon, Jun 6th bottom 18:33

The delta of those 2 is considerable. I don't feel like doing the math right now, but theoretically your more likely to have a dice roll result that meets the 1.64 difficulty than the 2.04 difficulty, just due to the change in the volume of the "winning" results space, right?

So ultimately, if you have considerable hashrate available that can be switched on and off, you would monitor the network till it dips, slam on your MH machine, and then find a bunch of blocks until the algorithm adjusts to your hashpower. Then you'd switch off, saving money by not using electricity, and wait for it to die down again.

This would wreak havoc on blocktimes.

In other news, a brief glance at the timestamps on moneroblocks.info suggests that the backwards time stamping pool is offline. YAY.

clearly a slow day at work.

We've seen this for awhile now, throw in a pull request. There's no reason (that I can think of) that the addition of a algorithm check cannot be thrown in to que/skip miners to not receive blocks that are low diff (in comparison) if they have not worked on previous higher diff one's within a set timeframe. Sounds like a trivial addition for a hardfork and one that should alleviate gamers of the system.

Hexadecimal sounds like a payment id. Addresses have additional characters. If you're sending coins to an exchange you need to send them to an address, but also include the payment id in the TX.

Indeed. But, had you invested that 2k last week, you would have saved roughly 40 cents usd per coin! ... IOTW, this coin is not for people who think it will just always rise... This coin moves ... A LOT... Just strap in for the ride. I too dumped 1k into it again last night @ 1USD per coin!

Yes, you are correct. Speaking as someone who once held over 8K XMR, I can see & realize your skepticism!!  

You really have to know the coin and what is going on for development to make intelligent investments.

Like, right now, XMR is sort of rallying because of news in the media... it will die down and drop back to ~.84 USD again maybe when no new interest comes about for a few weeks like usual - but who knows. maybe not. Smoothie has certainly ignited interest, and let's face it, it's a lot  harder to buy XMR than to sell it on Poloniex the past few days.

The fact that the official GUI wallet is not even done yet, provides more future incentive in being long on this coin. I didn't buy 1K USD worth for nothing. I don't plan to dump it, in fact, I may win an auction of smoothies so I will need them to buy and fund the coin set, or I will just hodl and dump much later at a higher profit. This coin has already hit 1.80 USD at a few points I believe, but I may be wrong.  

Buddy just emailed this figured i'd share Lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8273HGqxEc

I will pay 1 BTC or equivalent in Monero to whoever provides a script for installing bitsquare on raspberry pi.

More info here:
https://forum.bitsquare.io/t/1-btc-bounty-for-bitsquare-on-raspberry-pi/209

Now I'm feeling kind of like I should have bought a raspberry pi at some point 

So when exactly does monero's ICO start? If the team will.

Based on your post history you clearly bring a lot to the table:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=858653;sa=showPosts

Welcome to the Monero community!