The switcher had been stuck on litecoin for 2 hours prior to the payout today. Sorry about that.
... rejected hashrate skyrockets. In addition, after that happens, my accepted and my rejected hash rate added together do not equal my total hashrate, and they should.
I have been noticing that as well. When the reject rate increases, the total hashrate drops. At first I was thinking it was that people were using --no-submit-stale, but that shouldn't account for that much hashrate loss.
High hash rates and luck lead to lower rejects, while ping also plays a smaller factor. The smaller miners (5xxx and 6xxx cards) get crushed with these coins, while fast cards don't fare all that much better with 512 difficulty coins.
If I'm misunderstanding something, I apologize. I'd appreciate an explanation to understand properly, though.
Yeah, I think you're right about 5xxx and 6xxx cards getting more reject rates. So they are hurting.
But also, the people on the top end are hurting too. They are losing out on profits they could have had if we had switched to high block rate coins more often. The people doing the best are in the middle, because I average the stats when choosing coins.
I've talked way too much about difficulty in this thread. It doesn't play a factor.