Did something break? there was a stale block about four hours ago and the payment queue has been empty since then... or is that expected behavior when a stale pops up?
Pool always drops into safety standby when a stale block pops up. While in that mode, the pool sends mined coins to the pool's cold wallet. This is why the payout queue grows over time. Then wk will make a manual payout from the cold wallet, which shrinks the queue back down. We are a bit overdue for such a manual payout at the moment, but I've been mining with the pool for more than a year now, and wk always makes it right in the end.
Wizkid, a long time ago you had mentioned that if people want to be excluded from a manual payout, and only receive generated coins (with the subsequent wait) that we could request that with a signed message sent from our address that we mine on.
I sent that a long time ago, but never got a reply (the PM is long since lost in BitcoinTalk's message history). I know you've been busy, and it's a stupid vanity thing, but if you're able to, I'd like to have some way of requesting to avoid manual payouts at the cost of increased variance if you can do that. If not, I understand, I just like the idea of keeping my mining address "clean" with only Coinbase transactions.
Thanks for running an awesome and slick pool!