Quote from: ProfMac on May 28, 2016, 03:35:20 AM

Quote from: luffy on May 26, 2016, 11:09:35 AM

Quote from: wizkid057 on May 24, 2016, 03:09:11 PM

Quote from: luffy on May 24, 2016, 01:33:58 PM

something is wrong with payouts!
i see this in 'Estimated Position in Payout Queue' area:
"Less than 25 BTC ahead in queue, putting this user's payout in our next block"
but after 4 blocks the message is the same and i haven't seen any payment yet!

Payouts are fine. Open a ticket if you think otherwise for some reason.

after 4 blocks i received my payout!
but the estimated position sometimes is totally wrong!

Probably 1/4 of the posts in this thread are about the payout queue.

There are two rules: payouts have to be above a certain threshold, and the oldest eligible payouts are at the head of the line. The payouts always follow those rules, no software is broken, no shenanigans are perpetrated. These rules seem to be good rules.

When a slow machine that has not been paid out in a long time finally passes the threshold, it goes to the head of the payout and everyone else gets bumped lower by one.

There's one minor exception to this: When the coinbase transaction is full (beyond the size that some mining hardware can handle without a performance penalty... mainly poorly coded or low memory embedded miners) a few smaller payouts near the bottom of the top block of the queue can be shifted out to the next block out of order in favor of some slightly newer but larger amounts due to other miners in order to better get the majority of the coinbase payout to miners vs Eligius's offline wallets. This out of order replacement is limited to 5% of the addresses paid in the block, so for the most part queue position isn't adversely affected. But it's a necessary exception to allow to make sure that the coinbase's block subsidy is best utilized and sent to miners vs being set aside for manual payouts.

Anyway, I'm still working on the new code for the pool and I've made some pretty good progress. I've had to play catch up on some other responsibilities, but I'm still dedicating a good chunk of my schedule towards getting things done here.

My goal is to potentially recruit some tight lipped beta testers in about a week to help me test out some things in the sandbox (most likely via our IRC channel and some other private invites). Assuming all goes well with the sandbox betas and live betas I'm shooting for a full pool transformation soon after.

Have I mentioned I'm very excited about all of this?

Some hints at upcoming features (disclaimer: may not all be available immediately):

Ability to mine with all valid address types, not just version 0 addresses (1xxxx)
Ability to change your payout address securely (!)
Enhanced stats with worker and account data histories from present back to the beginning of time
Live worker stats (give or take 10-15 seconds)
Enhanced stats API
Much more

That's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Grin