Quote from: wizkid057 on September 10, 2017, 10:22:29 PM

Quote from: rockmoney on September 10, 2017, 09:45:18 PM

Can you please let me know the best way to contact a pool administrator regarding an unpaid balance from well over a year ago? I meant to contact someone during the pool upgrade a while back, but read that all payments were going to be settled. Unfortunately, I never received my payment although my current balance is 0.01259032 BTC, and would appreciate a PM from @wizkid057 (or any other trusted persons who are authorized to help resolve payment issues).

Looking forward to hearing back soon, and appreciate your assistance regarding this matter - Thanks!

Not sure where you're getting your number from, but the frozen stats pages do not represent balances as they were at the Eligius Ra->Hu transition. Every single balance due has been paid.

All Eligius miners are paid in full with the minor exception for those who are/were active since the Hu transition and have balances below ~0.01 BTC. Aside from that, Eligius has no balances due to miners at present. Zero. Nada. Zip. I've wasted enough time verifying and debunking people's claims about how Eligius owes them something. I'm simply not going to put any additional effort into such claims at this point and will be ignoring them from now on. I already knew for a fact that Eligius has paid all miners due any payment, and I've reconfirmed this at least a dozen times in the past month or so when I've gotten messages from people claiming to be owed something. I was happy to investigate and show they were incorrect, but I'm not going to waste any more effort doing so in the future.

I'm actually finding it kind of funny that people are coming out of the woodwork now that bitcoin/USD exchange is pretty high asking about balances from ages ago that were either already paid or not due in the first place.

Some of the stories people give when trying to cheat me/Eligius out of a few bucks are pretty incredible, too. Some are pretty amusing. My favorite is one where this guy on IRC needed 0.001 BTC that Eligius "owed" him (already paid, actually, like a year ago) or else he was going to default on his mortgage, be evicted, etc... sitting on a Comcast residential internet connection. Sorry, if you can afford to sit there on the internet and try to scam me out of five bucks, you either can actually afford to pay your bills, or you need to get your priorities straight. Either way, not my problem. *sigh*

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For those wondering what the deal is with Eligius lately, it's pretty much my fault things have not been moving forward. Not that it's anyone's business here, but pretty much as soon as I got time to work on finishing the pool software things started taking a bad turn in several aspects of my life. Most notable is that I'm dealing with what is turning into an overly messy divorce, and that is taking up a great deal of my free time since my ex-wife-to-be seems to have lost her mind and is just making things as difficult as they possibly can be, even in self-defeating ways. I also had a problem with a large contract job that I completed recently, and dealing with that is taking significant time, effort, and funds to battle. Long story short, my customer is making pretty outrageous claims that are clearly and provably false. Nevertheless, going to have to battle them in court over this. (All of this is unrelated to Eligius, just to note).

I have been putting time into the pool, mostly for maintenance and updates lately. But after the first couple of days of full-time effort on completing the upgrades I've not had enough of a free moment of work time to really dedicate to it. I am really trying to get things back on track here, and I do appreciate the support folks have shown through what has become a pretty ridiculous delay in upgrades here. Unfortunately, the pool hasn't found a block in over three months, and with the network difficulty where it is I'm not even sure where that would put us even if I were to complete the new interface tomorrow.

I've been tossing around some ideas on how to proceed, as I'd prefer Eligius not simply die off if I don't have the time to dedicate to it as I should. One such idea would be to get Luke-Jr back on board, if he is at a point where he would have the time to work on Eligius again, at least until I get out of this rut of mine. (Do wish him well, by the way, as he is likely going to get at least some impact from Irma soon.) An alternative plan would be to hire some trusted developers to complete the work I've started, however I'm probably not in a situation where it would be sensible of me make that significant of a donation to Eligius. Overall, I'm pretty much left with just working hard to get other things out of the way so I can make time to work on this and get it done.

A new block 495555 is coming. It looks like the good luck is back to you.