why would it take ages to sync?
I was using Blockchain 5 mins ago and the TX is confirmed now.

I believe that you can send a message through the system here that will allow you to tell him what address you want the payout to go to.

Hi, it's probably a good idea to put at least one other pool in the .conf file in the same format as you're using already, with a comma between the brackets so it looks like this:
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This will mean you can use the stratum or longpoll from the other pool to detect new blocks faster, so you can start solo mining them at the same time other pools see them.

Yeah that looks fine.
Best share will stay at 0 until you submit a block (or get one rejected)

Not quite sure why that happens for scrypt when sha256 shows a best share value.

Looks good to me. You may want to reconsider solo mining at that hashrate since it may only net you an average (long term) of about 2-3 blocks per day. If you expect difficulty to climb you may find that you win less DGC mining solo than you would have made via a pool.

Yes, they are really powerful boards and selling the FPGAs alone will get you the money back.

Sure, why not?  It won't be until you're dicked over that you'll see the benefit of Bitcoin (I hope you've been reading the news lately, btw, or you might not understand what I mean.)

Anyway, give it some time, and it'll be made easy peasy.  Trading gold for bread isn't a simple task, either; difference being, Bitcoin's got a technological and commercial gap it has to cross.  Gold is created from an exploding star and has been around for billions of years before the dawn of man, and I still can't send it to Bill in South Africa in a matter of seconds.