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getdifficulty reports 0.24236496 for me, which I think is roughly consistent with the mining rate I've been getting (about 3-4 blocks per hour at 700-800 khps, and there doesn't seem to be anyone else mining on namecoin testnet). That sounds about right: ;;bc,calcd 800 0.24236496 (01:42:03 PM) grib...

I still seem to have a problem with slow mining using merge mining as it's taken 7 hours to get this 2011-08-14T10:09:41.168619,solve,0,0,1,1,1 I've got many of these 2011-08-14T09:53:57.364787,solve,0,0,0,1,1 the "difficulty" : 0.06198025, one the 2nd aux in this case mm2TEST should not have taken ...

If you want to do some testing of merge mining I have setup 2 new chains to play with using MultiCoin-exp I have a low power chain with difficulty of .05 bitcoin.conf.mergmineTEST and the new high difficulty of 23509.0 with bitcoin.conf.beerA . For more details see bellow. We now are at preliminary ...

Your last changes seem to have done the trick for the problems I was seeing. I've now merged your mergedmine branch commit 6849ac73f3577c1b445787993d134a596c89c09b with my branch of MultiCoin-exp last released commit 4e13e3527eca861964bb. preliminary test are good. more details of setup and continue...