Quote from: iCEBREAKER on May 21, 2013, 12:57:34 AM

Quote from: conv3rsion on May 20, 2013, 07:27:52 PM

Solo mining provides

1) No operator fees
2) All transaction fees (which have been consistently rising since Bitcoin started)
3) Less risk from pool owner trust
4) Less risk from pool downtime and DDOS attacks

At a cost of
1) More variance (who cares when you have significant hash power)

and
2) No merged mining. This is important because, according to Dustcoin, Namecoin currently adds 6.42% (BTC60.6 or $7410.17 a day) to 21TH of mining.

That's not chump change; perhaps Friedcat can buy merged mining software from Dr. Haribo or doublec.

ASICMiner cannot merge mine will all 21TH or it will destroy the alt coins, both in terms of theri network hash rate (exceeding 51%) and in terms of exchange value (thats a lot of coins now being insta sold). So yes, a portion could go to DEVcoin and IXcoin, and namecoin, but not all or even most of it.

In other words, its not going to be +6.42%

It might be something to explore, but right now I think Friedcat has much more profitable optimizations and expansions to pursue.