Quote from: eleuthria on December 22, 2011, 04:25:49 PM

Quote from: deepceleron on December 22, 2011, 08:36:30 AM

Quote from: Graet on December 19, 2011, 01:58:01 AM

http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/FAQ has an interestring slant on it - register for nmc or the pool keeps them

Maybe that's how the other "non-merged" pools work, you don't know they are actually running merged mining, and they do keep them...

Rhetorical: The hashrate of Namecoin is now about 40% of Bitcoin; do all the pools with merged mining add up to that?

40% sounds pretty close. BTC Guild + Slush + Eligius alone aren't far off from it. There certainly aren't any LARGE pools that are hiding merged mining as far as I can tell. You can check yourself though by looking at blocks solved by "non-merged" pools. You can't hide the fact that you're merged mining if you post which blocks your pool is finding.

Exactly. Really the only pool with a chance of hiding it would be a pure PPS pool which provides no block data.
"We pay xxx BTC per valid share." The agreement is simply a set compensation per share. In that case they aren't exactly cheating unless they are asked and lie.

As far as the 40%. It isn't very easy to merge mine when solo mining. If you could solo merge easier I think we would get over 50%. Interestingly both NMC & BTC seem to have stabilized their hashrates.