Do you think the reason it is taking longer for us to find blocks is because the number of bitcoin transactions are decreasing?
Take a look at this chart -
https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions#Or is this something that is unrelated, and just happens to be dropping at the same time?
There was a burst in number of daily transactions in January just around the time we had a burst in finding blocks.
It's taking longer, because the network difficulty continues to increase every 13 ish days,
but our hashrate has stayed constant for the last little while.
in fact, network difficulty is expect to go up 5% tonight overnight (US nite time)
There is a possibility for this to change. We, the members of the pool, could take a few minutes a day to do some promotional
work. At some point, it's gonna help.