Everything’s up and running for me...but I still don’t know what could’ve happened.

Oliver’s UserEcho alerts must be messing up again.

Do you know when this started?  It looks like either 00:00 UTC or thereabout...

You need an assistant, some college kid in computer science who will work for Monero and a resumé reference.

I'm assuming you're 0xabec...etc.?  Did you stop mining after that block from 7 days ago, or after the one you found 9 days ago?

Ah, I see.  I was confused along with MinerOfMonero because the block explorers only show you the valid block.  Is there a way to grab the hash along with the blockheight when you publish the ones we find? I feel like if we’d had that, one of us would’ve eventually tried the monerod query.

Ok, so help me out here.  The way I understand forks, the chain underwent a split (either because we didn't get our block out fast enough or because we put it out at the same time as someone else and the next block was found on their chain).  Either way, we were on the losing side of the reorg.  Is that correct?  If so, which one happened, and why did it take us so long to find out?  Were we mining on a bad chain for that long?  'Cause that's awkward...

Anyway, thanks for the updates and education.

Sorry for your loss, man.  I encourage you not to just drop mining altogether, though. Monero mining is egalitarian and anyone with a CPU can do it with little to no upfront cost such that it doesn’t make sense not to mine. Cut your losses, sell your equipment, take your wife out to dinner, go to the rifle range, blow off some steam, and then just mine with your PC or whatever.

You’re not gonna get rich, but you’re still helping Monero at the expense of the Fed... ;)

Not sure if this can be done, Oliver, but I'm just hobby mining over here for the learnz and lulz, and while I would like to know what happened just out of sheer curiosity, I'll gladly kick my shares from that round out to one or more of the bigger miners with more riding on that block, especially if it can get a payout for someone.  I have no idea if that's possible...