My first NMC payment from Eligius was in 2013. I have always converted mine to BTC, 0.275btc so far.

Nobody else using this service, nobody knows another way to contact these guys?

Is anybody using this company to host miners or does anyone talk to Lauren or Allen?

I have been using them since 2016 to host a miner but it stopped weeks ago and I have been unable to get a response from email to either Allen Oh or Lauren Miehe, I have tried their Support Page, also PM's to Lauren Miehe aka Dalkore on this site. I have also tried phoning but that just rings out. Does anyone have contact with them?

I am running out of options so I added this thread here, @mods if there is a better sub-forum then please tell me.

When I saw that block I instantly thought of you poor wife....

Is that a wise decision, if the dog loves you perhaps it is time for the wife... 

Because Americans speak English with an American accent. American has morphed and they now do not like a syllable ending with a vowel, so instead of saying Ka they have to add the 'n' and that makes it sound like 'can'. They are also losing the concept of constants that sound like a vowel but change the syllable, forcing isolated vowels to be extended,  so instead of saying 'Ka' followed by 'no' it changes to 'can' followed by 'ou'.

Received pronunciation, old chap, just as my mater and pater would enunciate.

English, fantastic expandable language, spoken in so many different accents and none of them are wrong.

Another block as well, https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/pool/eligius

Queue the thread replies of 'You haven't paid me,  you haven't paid me' and 'Your gonna run away with the btc'

One day they will learn to read back a few pages, to find out why and then hopefully cotton on that everything in the world is not instant.

Well done Wizz, I thought that it would be and it has been worth the wait to keep on mining at Eligius. Finger crossed that the change to Eligius-Hu improves all of our luck

Is there an Europe group by thread, have I missed seeing it?

Not offence taken,  and yes a share is the correct term. I will look further into how the pool generates the work for the miner, the response and what it is combined with from the pool to form the answer.

My thanks to Kano for expanding on BDR as well.

I have always been after this type of data, or more to the point the raw data underneath. I am not sure what BDR is or what the math is behind your CDF figure but given the raw data is it possible for you to confirm that all of the devices are finding a similar number of blocks on average for the same amount of work. I want to put to bed the conspiracy that a particular type of miner firmware could send a low number of successful blocks to a different IP than the pool it is working for.  A single UDP packet containing a small simply encrypted string to a common range of IP addresses such as one in AWS would be difficult to spot but 1 in a 100 or so additional found blocks would certainly help a pool out. Data like this would help to spot an underperforming type of miner.

Most Indian's don't trust banks because they have had so many failures of the last century, they store wealth in wearable gold instead. The I-T Act allows the seizure of gold including jewellery if you have more than $19K per married lady, $8.5K per unmarried lady and $3.8K per male. You then have to prove where you got it from to get it back. Good luck with that in a country where the average worker is paid in cash with no receipt.

Date checked and it is not the 1st April, next step order sanity check.

Nah! They already use gold as their store of wealth.

If these are coming through bitshopper.de then I will buy a few as well. The reduction in shipping and import VAT makes it a payable hobby again in the UK.

It's the way of the world Wizkid. instant gratification, a block has been found, I have hit three bells on the slot machine, pay me now or I will throw a tantrum. Keep plugging away, I for one am very thankful for the job that you do!

It is also good to see the pool luck starting to return

Bitmain's latest wheeze is not to accept packages from courier's forcing them to be returned to the sender.

I had two boards from two different S7's that died, raised repair tickets and sent them, one is one its way back the other will be at some point. Now the warranty period has run out so they will not repair them.

Congratulations on keeping positive Whizkid!

Ignore the whiners, you have proved yourself as both honourable and trustworthy too many times. The veteran/supporting miners and those that understand that variance means 'have multiple miners at more than one pool dumb arse!' will still be around for the next manual pay out.

My thanks and keep up the good work!

I have always struggled to understand what that particular graph meant. Your explanation was simple and easy to understand and I thank you for it.