Please stop asking about "payout address": if there were no payouts, it is 100% irrelevant.
I didn't.
Well, I wasn't addressing this specifically to you, sorry...
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?
This reads to me that Garr first tried to write it off as pool's bad luck, then understood that he won't be able to produce any evidence, and later mentioned solo mining. It's just a bullshit excuse.
If we continue asking about it Garr will say that by "our pool" he meant some kind of an internal pool (for all hardware which Garr manages), which is basically equivalent to solo mining.
Most likely Garr doesn't have enough bitcoins to compensate for this loss... Have you noticed that he is delinquent on FIMB loan?
So basically he provides some vague and weird explanations, communicating as infrequently as possible, in hope to win time: when cointerra hardware arrives, he'll get some bitcoins from mining (his personal stake in cognitive, for example) and would be able pay off FIMB interest, and maybe will compensate the loss of dividends in September/November.