Hi Guys
I only mined a few days last week for the first time on eligius, I stopped and turned off because it wasn't until the third day I started to read about when I would get any payout, and it seemed to me that it would be ages, so I stopped, at that time the stats page was telling me that I had 181BTC in the queue before me and that it would be about 7 Blocks until I got my payout, which I thought was to much for me to wait, today a few days later I visited to check on progress and it now says there is 210 BTC or about 8 blocks till my payout
Help, How can it be that I go backwards?
If you stop mining your payout priority decreases, also other miners can join the payout queue.
its unfortunate but I cannot go weeks without getting paid, and even before I stopped the stats page suggested it would be 7 blocks, which was way to long for me, and now its 8 blocks because I stopped, thats a bit of a catch 22 isnt it
Your answer suggests that as I have stopped, I will probably never get my small 0.3 BTC, I am already going backwards, how do I checkout or figure a date for possible checkout
You'll eventually get it if you stop, but don't think you'll be paid out before the people who are submitting new shares. The priority goes to the newest shares submitted, if you drop out your newest shares remain the same while others have newer shares sent to the pool. But what you were missing was, that amount you get paid keeps going up as you stay mining on the pool, once the payout queue is entered you will be paid for every valid share you submit until you are paid out, then you have to wait again to enter the payout queue, so leaving with 7 blocks ahead at 0.30BTC when your turn came up you could have been looking at a 0.6BTC payout.
7 Blocks doesn't necessarily mean weeks, if the pool is lucky and fines 8 Blocks today you could have been paid out today. But if you are living / paying bills daily off of your mining income then you may need to re think the pool you are on, a more reliable payout also usually comes with less of a reward. Also the payout queue is the automated system, wizkid has sent out and cleared the payout queue manually before.