I'm wondering if combined mining is actually a waste of computational effort -
Bitminter has 11.5TH and got 17 BTC blocks today so far + 79 NMC blocks
Slush got just 9.7TH but got 25 BTC blocks today so far + 1 NMC block
So, if that's the case - I'd rather have BTC than MNC.
we can have both, nmc wont take anything at all away from btc. It just needs to be set up.
I don't think that's the case, Slush created the stratum protocol and has said merged mining doesn't work (yet or at all I'm not sure).