Thanks for the info. I presumed that the Coinwarz data was more or less real-time data in terms of end nodes hashing on the network, but averaging based on blocks sounds more practical.

I noticed that there were fluctuations previously, this time though it was quite a big difference, is there an actual realtime tool to be able to verify the current hashing on any coin.

Glad to hear not missed out on any coins, I agree, apart from the occasional most coins in the last 3 months are just surplus to demand and poor cash in attempts on existing communities and strong brands.

It will be interesting though to see what happens to the difficulty as mining becomes less profitable for small time home miners, the difficulty could drop some more and level out making it much more appealing for longer time mining, although as said before the actual value of something isnt the price of something, so the low price of Bitcoin doesn't put me off at all.

Thanks for the responses - thought better to say something just in case something was afoot elsewhere.