Please stop asking about "payout address": if there were no payouts, it is 100% irrelevant.
I didn't. I am looking forward to a statement in clear simple terms from Garr255 (a bit more than "oh, by the way...").
If you read from
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67547.msg3790160#msg3790160 :
The calculations being used here can only estimate the output of a given mining rig + pool combination. It turns out that our pool has had a bad luck streak for a good while and we have since switched to mineb.tc which is proving to be a bit more reliable, with more consistent payouts. We should see output much closer to these calculations with the coming dividends.
and just a little bit later:
Correct. Usually Cognitive can solo mine consistently enough to make sizable payouts, but it was an unlucky few weeks and I have changed the pool strategy accordingly.
This reads to me: We were mining at a pool (first bold), had bad luck and switched to mineb.tc. Then two posts later solo mining is mentioned. So which one was it initially? Pool or solo?
I have read this whole thread since it started and I do not recall any other mention of solo mining, a good number of mention of different pools though.