Congratulations.... 

I am in 10th place - woohoo...

Thanks for the reply's guys.  I am still mining just taking some of the heat I mean hash down for awhile.  I live in an old house that is hard / expensive to cool off in the summer when it is 80+ degrees F.  I was just in a bad mood when I posted that stuff.  

I know Oliver is an good / honest guy.  It just sucks is all I am really saying.  No-one likes to hear their wife say mining sounds like a scam,  you are going to lose a lot of money and waste your time.  Then have to admit she is right when she reviews the last seven electric bills and shows you proof that she is right.  So I told her "we will hang on to the XMR for a few years and see what it is worth at that time"...  Of course she fired back at me --> it was "worth" over $300 when you started and is "worth" $125 now, see a trend.  She used her fingers to make the "" when she said "worth".  

I apologize for that post.  Bad mood.  I had to admit to my wife that I wasted money, yet again.  I was hoping to show her it was not just another thing I spent money on that did not get a return.  In almost seven months, Over $1,000 on equipment + over $600 in electric for 2 XMR.  She was right, I was wrong - hence the bad mood.  She said think of how much ammo we could have bought. She / we like to go to the range and shoot some holes in targets and now that Trump is president the ammo is a lot cheaper (he allowed the metal producing factories to open back up, way to many regulations here, before Trump all our factories were closing / closed down).  At least I did not wast as much money as I did on my last hobby - solar panels and batteries lol...  No return on that "investment" either - well, they will pay for themselves in about 15 years lol...

What were you guys saying about being just about luck???   Per Oliver about the last block found but orphaned (no payout)...  "The problem with Monero Block 1589929 was a combination with a never before seen sync issue of the daemon and a bug in the pool's block unlocker code".

Over 7B shares gone...  Fuck - Fuck - Fuck...

Over six months into this and I have 2 XMR at a cost of over $600 in electric.  Both of the guys I got interested in mining have over 4 XMR and around 1K H/s less than I do and they started about a month after I did...  This is crazy...  I am creating heat with these computers and now since it is summer I am paying for air conditioning to cool the house.   I am selling / trading this shit, already traded two of the computers Sunday for a 9MM handgun (it is nice to live in the USA - true freedom).  I will be shutting the rest down as the others sell / get traded off.  Fuck this hobby...

Two days later and the block is still not confirmed...  Talk about shitty luck...

Humm...  No word yet...  This cannot be good...

According to ChainRadar that block was found (UTC) 2018-06-07 15:43:46  (https://chainradar.com/xmr/block/1589929).  Wouldn't that be the day before our pool is saying we found the block?

Awesome looks like a block found at 18% effort so that bring us down to 313% effort since the fork.  Looks like the block confirmation status of is still at 0% at 11 hours.  I hope it can be confirmed...

@happyserendipity - I think when it stops mining like that it does not count toward the "effort" calculation.  With that being said I have been having the same "stop mining" issues.  But I have been having that issue before the fork.  It does not happen as much since I created a Proxy and connected my rigs to it locally (XMRig Proxy - https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-proxy).