Quote from: digital on April 25, 2013, 03:02:21 PM

Quote from: anti on April 25, 2013, 02:57:35 PM

Quote from: digital on April 25, 2013, 01:27:13 PM

If you look at the account page on mining.bitcoin.cz, on the left hand news column, first item.

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25.04.2013
Pool is in normal operation, delayed payouts will be processed in the afternoon (UTC).

Which might mean any time from 12:00 to 23:59 UTC, a timespan of about 12h. It was just this month we saw the BTC price drop 60% in less than 6 hours...

I can assure you, you posting about it isn't going to speed things up.

Slush has to do his due diligence before he lets payments fly.

Otherwise he could always just say screw it, anti wants his payment now so he can sell off a few quick btc while the market is hot. Then when things get screwed up and hundreds of btc end up in the wrong place it's not his problem right?

If somebody has a lot of BTC unpaid by the pool and it has been delayed without reason, one might be very angry (and at the extreme track down and sue Slush for financial damages!?) if they lose a lot due to the holdup. Not his problem right? Fortunately, today the BTC value has not dropped much more than a percent at any small period so far. So lets hope for the best...

Its not that I'm ungrateful towards Slush for trying to sort this mess out - quite the opposite. I was just pointing out the problem that even small delays in payments might have catastrophic results for users.

I suggest the minimum payout value be capped to minimize pool liability in case coins do get lost. This would somewhat lower the risk huge damage claims. Of course this would only help for coins mined in the past and not for coins mined during the time payments are not processed.

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