Quote from: raspberryseltzer on April 15, 2016, 05:53:53 AM

Quote from: Soros Shorts on April 14, 2016, 12:36:08 PM

Can somebody remind me again why my estimated position in the payout queue keeps slipping as the days go by even if my hashrate and pool hashrate remain relatively constant? I understand it is an estimate, but why does the estimate get longer as bad luck increases?

I think it might be related to this:

"The Payout Queue prioritizes qualifying payouts based on their age (oldest earnings not yet paid). As you continue to mine, your balance increases and so do those ahead of you already in the Queue, so you may be bumped into the next found block chunk of payouts."

eligius.st/~gateway/faq-page#t13n27

If you are mining more consistently, with a good rig, often times smaller miners that haven't been paid in a long time seem to get pushed up to the top of the queue, as soon as they hit the minimum payout threshold.

Thanks, but it doesn't quite explain why the Payout Queue changes during a period when no blocks are found. Unless of course the Payout Queue estimation uses as input the estimated earnings from the next block which is yet to be found.