I notice some pools have PPLNS and have 120 confirms before payouts. Is it possible to check how many confirms have been made All I can see on the pool site is the last 50 blocks.

fcpool don’t offer stratum apparently. I mined with them for a few hours and still no payout but with over 1000 unpaid shares. Also I noitced my GPU temps would suddenly drop occasionally but cgminer was not showing any errors. This time the temps on my GPU dropped for a long time so I switched to another pool where I didn’t have this issue.

If you don’t have a lot of khashes is it better to mine on a pool with fewer miners and fewer big khash miners?

I’ve just started mining on fcpool.com using long polling and am getting quite a few share with; ‘rejected … (prevhash-stale)’ Would using stratum help solve this?