I have a question about the payout specs. I just have a small antminer aimed there which barely got under the
payout threshold last block. I noticed my payout was a bit more than the DGM that I had earned, and was wondering
why. Is that because of the shares paying out some TX amount?
With the greater hash at the pool, my DGM almost gets eaten and I have to keep putting an antminer back at the pool.
If the DGM was all gone, would I still get paid out in shares/TX fees?
The "bit more than the DGM" is just variance and time delays between the time the DGM estimate is calculated and the actual amount paid. It'll always be slightly off.
If your estimated DGM payout is decreasing it means that part of the payment is being put off to a later round. So the bigger hasher is getting more of this rounds payment, yours decreases but you'll get it paid over a longer tail. It's a bit frustrating to see the DGM decrease, especially with the pool having such a long time between blocks, but it's just the way the payment system works out.