Still can't log in.  I thought it was going to work once, but it got so far and just hung.

I tried 2 different internet connections with 4 different computers.

Going to take a break for a while and come back.

Yes, that worked.  I am using FireFox.  Thanks for your reply.  I was starting to think I was nuts!

The login problems happened right when I was going to show off my bitmining so someone.  It was embarassing.

Pool lost about half the speed?

Here they are wiring!!

The town where their biggest private mining farm is located in Sichuan province caught a fire this afternoon, all communications, include Internet and telephone have interrupted over there.

Source?

Someone please explain to me how and what it means for a block to get orphaned.

Thanks,

Tom

An orphan block is a block that doesn't have a known parent in the longest chain.

Not to be confused with a stale block, which is a well-formed block which is no longer part of the difficultywise-longest well-formed blockchain.

The block reward in a staled block is no longer spendable on the difficultywise-longest well-formed blockchain; therefore whoever mined that block does not actually get the reward (or the transaction fees). This phenomenon must be taken into account by mining pools that use any payout strategy other than "proportional".