Perhaps a novice question, but in the past couple of weeks my Apollos haven't been producing the same 24 hours rewards at litecoinpool - it's dropped. Please tell me it's not because of anything with the Apollos. The only change I've noticed is the difficulty has gone up from 8,917,884 to 10,360,375. Am I right to conclude "difficulty" = more work required of the Apollos and therefore less payout in a given 24 hour period?
Hey - like I said, I'm a novice but confirmation would be nice.
Yes more miners have joined the network, therefore difficulty has gone up, and your rewards go down the same percentage if your hash-rate stays the same. Nothing wrong with your Apollos, this is how most block chains are designed to run.