Same here, sorry to hear that.  I'm mining a lot of Namecoin, when it hits $250, all will be good.

..and it looks like we are less than three hours away from a just under 5% increase in difficulty, and an expected return of 0.0108BTC per Th/Day. 

I've been trying for 10 days, but it's been a sellers market on both nicehash and westhash since the last difficulty adjustment (mmr too, and betrarigs is a mess).  If the expected return is 0.01131 per TH/Day, it only makes sense - for me - to buy at ≥ 5% below that.  ..and it looks like it will get 'worse' on Monday, based on current network hash rate.

But I hope you solve one, and it's loaded with transaction fees.

No, my rig was offline because I took it offline on January 28th via 'Do not allow renting of this rig' - and today, in the 'Down for Maintenance' state it was alive and hashing nothing but rejects for 5-6 hours.  Rig #9239, check you logs.  It wasn't rented, it wasn't available to rent.

Betarigs was my highest priority pool. You gave me the ability to take my rig offline and failover to my primary pool when I wanted.  Or go online and make my rig available for renting while I mined at my primary pool until you found me a renter - at which time you'd go alive.

Here, my rig was offline and not available for rent - YET betarigs went alive, causing my miners to switch from my primary pool to betarigs. ..to an unrented rig, just rejects. Stolen maybe a strong word, but your error caused my miners to mine to an effectively dead pool.  [Edit: for between 5-6 hours]

Transition pains is one thing, but what the hell?!

I set my rig to go offline on January 28th, and it has been offline since.  Until sometime earlier today, it became ONLINE - as in hashing away to nothing but rejects, but it still shows OFFLINE and not available to rent on betarigs.  Sorry guys, you've stolen my hashing power and thrown it away - this is costly and unacceptable. 



http://aimsports.com/mike9/betarigs.png

http://aimsports.com/mike9/miner1.png

http://aimsports.com/mike9/miner2.png

http://aimsports.com/mike9/miner3.png

http://aimsports.com/mike9/miner4.png

http://aimsports.com/mike9/miner5.png

http://aimsports.com/mike9/miner6.png

http://aimsports.com/mike9/miner7.png

http://aimsports.com/mike9/miner8.png

Hash is overpriced (for me) because of the increase in difficulty, but if you're gonna do it, please solve one.

From the westhash.com home page:
http://aimsports.com/mike9/westhashpaying.png

They are paying 0.0116 at this moment. (Edit: for SHA-256)

Yeah, like you're connected with an ethernet cable.

I get a little better numbers from my office - on westhash, not f2:

PING westhash.com (141.101.127.76): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=6.906 ms
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=5.956 ms
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=6.868 ms
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=6.564 ms
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=6.255 ms
^C

It is behaving correctly, westhash is paying 0.0115 at the moment.  So you're not mining there since 0.0115<0.0122.

If you are certain that you can outperform variance and expected return, then that's an argument for buying from Westhash.

As to speed and locale, if I ping each from the US west coast, the results are:

PING westhash.com (141.101.127.76): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=13.977 ms
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=16.071 ms
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=16.676 ms
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=14.928 ms
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=15.658 ms
64 bytes from 141.101.127.76: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=13.533 ms
^C

PING f2pool.com (112.124.23.109): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 112.124.23.109: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=291.457 ms
64 bytes from 112.124.23.109: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=295.321 ms
64 bytes from 112.124.23.109: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=520.498 ms
64 bytes from 112.124.23.109: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=439.079 ms
64 bytes from 112.124.23.109: icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=360.980 ms
64 bytes from 112.124.23.109: icmp_seq=5 ttl=49 time=299.082 ms
^C

Except "Bitcoin mining profit:"  of 0.0122 BTC/TH/Day is now 0.0113, as of 8 blocks ago.  Your source of calculation, including Nicehash just hasn't updated yet.  Not trying to argue here..

..now with the difficulty increase two blocks ago, the profit is "high" - paying ~6% above the expected return.

I don't think you need the Tor browser installed.  If you have command line access to cgminer, I think you just use the 'usewithtor' command and the mmpool Tor address.

There's a couple still hashing away..

http://aimsports.com/mike9/hash1.png

http://aimsports.com/mike9/hash2.png

The site is available via Tor @ phkttm64gbquasaq.onion 

I don't know if mining on Tor is up.  I'm not sure I can configure my miners to usewithtor via the GUI interface, and will wait a bit longer before giving the command line a go.

If someone else wants to try, from the FAQ:
cgminer using TOR
    Stratum at difficulty 32: usewithtor ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://phkttm64gbquasaq.onion:3333 -u myusername -p d=32

Are you using anything in addition to p=value in the password field?  Does your rollover pool show Alive, even while mining on Nicehash?  

My settings are similar to philipma's, and work exactly as expected on multiple miners.  I'm on fw v2.6.9 - I don't know where *it* went to, or why it was pulled (edit: current fw shows v2.6.1)

(another edit) only use the #xnsub on Nicehash and Westhash, not on your fallover pool(s).

As you have, plus adding #xnsub to the end of the URL and a restart worked for me on all miners.  i.e.

Holy $#i%! Good call!

6% is from a drop in difficulty that has not recovered yet.  It's currently a buyers market.