I don't think that I edited out anything important- just initials for the second wallet address mentioned by the other poster.
1. regarding point#1: it would help to have more luck, but it is unpredictable, as we all know. Close to 100% luck luck during some substantial time frame like several months would definitely be helpful to increase hash rate.
2. regarding payments-maybe I misunderstood the other poster who said that there was a lot of btc in a side wallet(s), which then was partially transferred to a Change wallet. If so, I assumed that it was btc mined prior to the time of manual payout and if it was so, i don't think that current minimal payout level of a particular wallet is relevant and being or not being in the queue might not be relevant as well.
I think that here lies some misunderstanding that quite a few people would like to be clear about: specifically, why you have to be in the queue or above minimal level to get manual payout IF manual payout is for some prior work, assuming that it is so.
thanks
Yeah, if I could increase luck, for sure that would be done... but, in that case I probably would head to Las Vegas instead of running a non-profit mining pool. lol.
...I'll just do a rundown of how payouts work in general and we'll go from there.
...The payout queue is independent of the shares being rewarded. 100% of every satoshi from every block mined by Eligius is rewarded to our miners. All of it. 25 BTC+transaction fees. Unfortunately, paying 2000+ addresses in every block would be silly, so we don't do that. We have a minimum payout. So a local pool balance builds up ("As of Last Block") until the minimum is reached, at which point the miner enters the payout queue in a position based on their last payout (or first share time if they've never had a payout). Then they are paid when the pool finds a block that pays the top of the payout queue, or they are paid when I do a manual payout that pays towards the payout queue.
But, not matter how you look at it, 100% of the funds mined by Eligius end up paid to miners. Obvious exception being donations.
Hope this helps. I'm not sure how much clearer I can make it.
A pretty good writeup.
So, manual is basically the same payout as automatic, just triggered manually....OK.
I think that maybe you need corporate sponsors to bulk up the pool and reduce variance. No fee should be an attraction, one would think.
Personally, i see my long term wallets down to from slightly below 91% to slightly above 94% shares awarded after many months.
I cannot go back, obviously, but your pool needs some serious luck going forward, I would think.
Peace.