Rich, when the pools are forked they continue mining and carry on earning what they believe is mined. When they get back on the main chain, those coins still need to be paid out. Some of the coins the pool thinks it earned get paid out on the fork and never appear to the miners, but the bulk of them do. I have to deposit coins from my wallet to the pool to allow the pool to payout and resume normal operations. To date I've paid out around 1M Burst to the pools and miners due to forks.
I'm aware of the frustration caused by the forks, and wish there was something I could do to avoid them - but until the devs can find/fix the root cause, they'll occur from time to time. The last mod by the devs made the forks a lot less common - the pools went for weeks without an issue, until the problem over the weekend. Once all the wallets stabilize, and we get more people upgrading from old wallets to new, I'm sure we'll be stable for a long time again. But in the meantime, we just need patience and understanding that we're working on it.
H.
H thanks for the explanation and for your continued support and the significant personal price you have paid when supporting Forked Pools. There must be subtle differences to Pools / Forks as I have definitely seen Forks where payments are Queued and not paid to Miners?
Here's hoping the Dev's can come up with a full fix as otherwise as the Network grows the costs could become unsupportable. As an interim measure it would be good if a simple piece of monitoring code could be added to the Pools such that when they are Forked they just stop accepting Deadlines?
pool.burstcoin.eu was as I am sure you know Forked for some time Today.
Rich