above your comment in the Bitminter vs. Eligius thread. Any explanation why the orphan rate is much higher than expected. There are 8 orphan out of 188 blocks since the DGM-switch. This equals 4.2% ophans, much more than normal! Now it matters, because you are not paying orphan blocks anymore. Taking your numbers, the effective Bitparking fee is 4,7%.
I've
mentioned this before but not all those orphans were real orphans but were the result of the pool paying out on stale submissions that solved a block. I flagged them as orphans in the pool accounting system as it's the only way to note in the reserves that a payment was made but no income received. The bug causing this was fixed before the switch to the pool not paying for orphans.
Since the switch there have been two orphan blocks, both genuine close races. The most recent one I think our block was submitted something like 10 seconds after the racing block - not much you can do about that.