The pool had another 4x difficulty block, continuing its run of bad luck. Thankfully it was followed by a couple of short blocks putting us back to averaging 1.5x difficulty since the difficulty change. After seeing what's happened to Ozcoin, where a PPS bad luck run caused reserve issues and they had to disable PPS, I've re-enabled my DGM payment method testing code and am running that alongside PPS to test and compare results.

I may offer DGM alongside with PPS at some point, or leave it there to enable a switchover if PPS bad luck results in pool reserves getting dangerously low. I like PPS for its simplicity but I'd rather switch to DGM than go bankrupt if the reserves run low. Normally I'd just buy more reserves but the bitcoin price has risen so high since I started the pool that's not really an option when block swings can be 10,000 USD.