As we bring this namecoin party to a close, I think it important to thank the little people who toiled away tirelessly to kill the last difficulty. And though I will be taking my entire 11.5Gbps back to BTC mining, I look forward to the next namecoin party in two or three months.
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The party will probably come again one more time, before the 24000th namecoin block arrives. After that, it's unknown due to the merged mining.Sorry I just had one of my blocks rejected and I got a little emotional.
I think without merge mining, namecoin mining is doomed to these massive mining throughput swings. Unless of course the prices keep up with the difficulty.