this pool doesn't seem to payout the way it explains itself.. been watching it like a hawk the past week and seems payouts has a mind of its own
a detail on the mechanics (not the theory) would be useful since it doesn't seem to behave in practice as it is intended... basically it seems all accumulated work gets held ransom regardless of current block luck cycles which in theory should be paying out portions past your pay threshold but in practice it just sits there and says you are going further and further behind as if all your current work is old work that has to wait for super luck to include you .. and that doesn't even seem to trigger it either
it is broken
Just your understanding of how things work is broken. The pool is operating as it should.
What some people do not understand is that the payout queue and the rewards from CPPSRB are
completely independent things. The payout queue is a way to get actual coins to miners in transactions on the network. The CPPSRB rewards are the way miner's balances at the pool are increased.
You never are further behind or anything. The payout queue is generally actual coins that will be paid to your address. The rewards are separate from that.
For me as a noob this sounds like chinese.
So when it says 13 block delay here at my address
http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/16bWt62xq5rmQuGscq7L7GuZfYmZkkvN5xhow can I get an estimated value about how long it will take before the BTC arrives in my wallet?
Thank you for your service to mother bitcoin.
The way I work it out (very roughly) is that Eligius generally solves 20+ blocks per day, so 13 will likely take around half a day.
The other way of looking at it is to follow the link to the payment queue, find your address therein, check the "Age" column.
Say, for example, your Age is 1 day 22 hours.
Then look at the top of the queue and at the bottom of the first block. Don't look at the actual top of the first block as that may worry you.
There should be a lot of entries there with a similar age (say for example 2 days 10 hours).
Subtract your Age from that Age and the difference (12 hours) is (roughly) how long it will take you to work your way to the top of the queue.
The actual real amount of time is how long the pool actually takes to solve those 13 blocks that will get you to the top, plus the variance of any more people joining the queue ahead of you as their thresholds are passed and they turn out to have been waiting longer than you for a payout.
Hope that helps, but now I write it down it does sound a little tricky and it took me a while to figure it out myself. YMMV.