According to posts on BitcoinPool's own forum, it appears that the missing payments issue is indeed more widespread than just the one single instance noticed before.
The user audaibnjad has so far tracked 2 more blocks for which is hasn't been properly paid.
http://www.bitcoinpool.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26
The user audaibnjad has so far tracked 2 more blocks for which is hasn't been properly paid.
http://www.bitcoinpool.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26
In the interest of being objective, Geebus posted that this is due to blocks being invalid and not passing confirmation. This should also fix the discrepancy in the historical payouts.
http://www.bitcoinpool.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27
Geebus hadn't found the issue yet when I posted about it.
But what Geebus found is also very interesting... Out of the last 50 blocks that the pool has found, 4 of them have been invalid.
That's an 8% invalid rate over the past 50 blocks!
In the mean time (during basically the same time period), Slush's pool has only had 2 invalid blocks out of the past 500 (0.4%). And Tycho's pool pays 48.5BTC for each block found even if it is eventually found to be invalid.