Awh, 268 days :-(
Out of interest, is it possible to just "abort" and walk away from the block?!
Or do things not quite work like that :-D
Are other pools working on the same block at the same time?
Over time, is the chance of the block being "stale" increasing?
We arent working on the same block for 268 days. Everytine the network gets a block solved we essentially have to start again. On average a block is found on the network every 10mins. When that happens the “hash” that we have to calculate changes, so we essentially start again. It is purely down to luck that one of the workers on the pool will find the correct hash for each block every 10mins or so.