Quote from: seamusgalla on August 11, 2014, 10:04:28 AM

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I mine at a very slow rate. I have the privilege of free electricity and bought some mining hardware months ago. This privilege is running out and I wanted to get my last payout and leave the mining world. I got a mining contract of 3.3TH for 3hrs so that I could reach the threshold for a payout and then I was going to pack my bags and go. The block solved in this time was invalid which is just shit luck, but what I can't understand is why my BTC reward was so low while I had a (relative to my usual) massive share count.

Is there anyone who could clear up the reason for this?

Best,
Seamus

My first guess would be that your mining contract expired at some point before that block was resolved and that at that point you went back to your regular mining pace. when the reward was computed on the massive loss of your mining power that those shares were not considered, and that the reward that you would have recieved (if the block had not gone invalid) was based on your lesser hashing rate that would have been brought back online when your contract expired. But this is only my opinion, and there are many more experienced miners on this thread that will surely chime in to correct me if necessary.