McKnight... we will remove the hashdot link shortly. as for your missing coins im not sure what to say about that. it seems that you arent the only one though that has run into this issue. i had a similar issue when i was mining another coin a while back with a different pool. lost about $1k worth of crypto at that time. id definitely recommend the official pool. im mining there and have been from the start. ive never missed a payment or had any sort of down time at all on the pools end.