XXXJAYXXX wrote:If it helps at all... The night that I saw the spike.. my profits had increased by about 1500% instantaneously.. I assumed it was an error and was not surprised to see the next morning it had been corrected. I know Chris made some changes the last time this happened... maybe it was those changes that were the "cause" of the share issue? Just a shot in the dark in case it might help 
The problem was a Dash "superblock." These superblocks occur on the second of each month and require some of the block reward to be paid to other addresses.
We weren't aware of that, so these blocks were erroneously interpreted as owing all that reward to us. We were finally able to figure out what the problem was after I posted a message to the Dash developers, and we checked in changes to the mining server to resolve the issue permanently. It will be released sometime later in April, before May 2.