How often are payouts made from this pool? Is it only after a block has been found?
That is correct.
Wow, how can anyone afford to miner here? I mean, the design seems great - but at this point with once per year payouts - that's rough. Too bad there isn't some sort of marketing campaign to get a lot of people to jump on all at once the get the blocks coming in faster. It looks like it was doing pretty well at one point - if the payouts were less all the fees usually involved, what prompted people to pull their miners elsewhere? That's a shame.
As you can see "little fish" can't change this situation much. I suppose that the interface and pool help needs to be available in both Chinese and Russian...
Marketing requires money, but a zero fee pool doesn't make any on its own...
What the killer is Even with 2ph it is not enough to matter.
I control 2 ph. If I point it here we need to hit a block a month for me to not suffer variance issues.
2ph is not enough to matter any more. it is .9 btc a month which is about a block every 13 or 14 months
If I had 20 ph it would be a block every 1.3 to 1.4 months
so I need about 40 ph to matter. this is not going to happen anytime soon.