Value of coins going down?  Hmmm... well, if I remember my supply/demand economics an increase in supply with constant demand will decrease value/price.

It seems that there are plenty of coins out there, and the amount of mining capacity is increasing daily.  So supply is increasing.  Now, what about the demand?  Is there ANYTHING that actually is increasing demand lately?  Good news to get speculators to drop their money so we can pick it up?  Has someone created a killer app that will utilize any crypto currencies?  What has changed other than perhaps the mood of speculators?

Look - we all have to accept that the effective $/Mh is going to keep dropping month over month unless something happens to actually put all these numbers (cryptocoins) to work.  If anyone here REALLY believes that there is real value in the coins right now (i.e. enough uses to justify the 'average Joe' buying/holding/using them) please explain.  Everything I read is hopeful and or speculative. 

Don't misunderstand - I really do believe there will be a place for this type of technology in the future.  I just don't see it right now.  If/when my mother sees a need to have some crypto currency then I'll know it has gone mainstream.  I can see paths to this future and I like them, but I don't know that it will ever happen; certainly there is a good chance it will happen in a different way than any of us can predict right now.

For now I mine for value.  I like to gamble on keeping a small portion too, but I believe in making hay while the sun is shining and I expect it may be past noon on this fine day.  I also know there will be another day after this one.. hopefully I get my crops planted early.

Per the front page:
"Username: Your Bitcoin Address [invalid mining addresses are considered a donation to the pool]"

The pool thanks you for your donation I'm sure

As to the suggestion to allow holding of some alt-coins. I think it would be unnecessary complexity to the whole system.  More book keeping etc for the pool.

IF you want to collect some alt-coins "just in case" then take your btc from WP and go buy whatever you wish to hold.  Sure you have to pay a transaction fee but that is probably minimal in the big picture.

Is Cryptsy going the way of MtGox?  I would think that any/all exchanges would recognize that even greater than liquidity access is of primary concern...

Interesting, thanks for the perspective.

Your profitability is pegged against litecoin - Is it the most profitable single coin out there? 

I did a quick compare to Doge here : http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/miningtobtc-ltc-doge.html because Doge was brought up earlier in discussion.  Seems that as Doge seems to be a bit stronger than LiteCoin it may be a better benchmark for comparison. 

I realize you can't cater to every coin, but perhaps put a couple other 'big' ones on there and it could help sell your site better?

I tried different settings etc, still running about 10% rejects.  Guess I'm just not set up right for this pool... daily value is less than when I was mining Doge alone so I'm going back to that for a while.   I will keep checking and re-try in a bit, perhaps after the reject issue is figured out.  I hate losing 10% of my capacity like this.

If anyone has additional suggestions I'm game, but I can't really take the time to disconnect/reconnect a bunch of times in order to resolve this.

Yes I have had 24hrs of stable (relatively speaking) runtime.  At least no failovers that I know of.

Looking at the chart, my hashrate seems to jump quite a bit hour to hour which simply doesn't make sense to me.  The reported reject rates on the page is only for the last hour (I do believe, correct me if wrong) so I can't really know if I'm having massively greater rejects during the times reported.  I'm seeing what looks like 1.25-1.75 rates over the last 24hrs which is a significant variance.

My overall 24hr rate is reported as 1.5Mh

Can you explain more on this as it seems with 375Mh/s you do have considerable power.

Another related topic; It would be nice if you could have a section on your site that gives more details on what users are contributing.  I've been trying to figure out how different changes are affecting my rejects.  I"ve had up to 15% that I've seen and as low as 5.8%.  The average of my observations seems to be about 9.8%.  Neither your "hash rate" or my rejects seems to exactly match cgminer's output (consistently shows > 1.7Mh yet you show my 24hr average at 1.5Mh/s).  Since clearly some coins are more profitable than others and switches come w/o warning I am finding it very difficult to tweak for reductions.

If you (or anyone else) has suggestions on optimizing, I'm willing to try any reasonable thing.

How has your net value of the BTC allocated to you (even with the rejects) compare to the net value of what you get from middlecoin?

I'll have to say that after more than 24hrs on this one I'm debating going back to Doge exclusively as it seems I may not be getting as much value here - I'm getting close to 10% rejects...

I have 4 270's - I am trying I=17, was running 19 when mining Doge only.  Seems I still get about 5% reject right now, but better than the 10%+ I had at 19.  Will likely see if 18 is better, but I need more runtime to average things out and the disconnects really throw out the averages so I will just stay put until it seems stable.

Whoo hoo!  Finally a full hour of production!  Stats showing 1.7Mh/s for the last hour which seems about right...

Now to get that 10% reject rate down... Hmmm..

BTW, for me it looks like stats were updated about 10 minutes past the hour.  Will watch to see if this is consistent or not.

It looks like I'm connected again now - was offline an hour or so ago; had a bad night, effectively didn't get any real mining done on this pool so perhaps this is a sign of improvement.

Work stopped here - failed over to backup pool.  Something isn't right

Question:  You show stats by the hour; is this on the hour, quarter after? I.e. if I know I joined at 1:30, and I check back at 2:30, is this going to show the full hour or is it going to be perhaps 1/2 hr (1:30 until 2:00)?