21027   2013-12-02 23:04:34   5:49:17   1993521951   512952   0.00056257   272726   25.00902152    41 confirmations left
21026   2013-12-02 17:15:17   0:42:40   241981189   59201   0.00557387   272690   25.19850076    5 confirmations left
21025   2013-12-02 16:32:37   10:39:33   3490407934   894361   0.00593625   272687   25.06788253    2 confirmations left

same here

21027 and 21033 need recalculations, my reward is halved again.

I am usually on the short end and only a few times have had the wrong amount go it this direction but those few times it has always been readjusted as I am sure that is what will happen this time.

21010   2013-12-01 03:31:42   1:59:40   639039598       75992   0.00326874   272410   25.14099989    confirmed
21009   2013-12-01 01:32:02   0:04:19   22915150         2918     0.00317004   272399   25.03550690    confirmed
21008   2013-12-01 01:27:43   0:50:06   265077329        31730   0.00294244   272398   25.02827623    confirmed
21007   2013-12-01 00:37:37   7:48:38   2147483647   293119   0.00288164   272385   25.20690867    confirmed
21006   2013-11-30 16:48:59   0:47:42   251032842        29358   0.00278538   272318   25.03404462    confirmed

Round 21007 paid normal for me.

My biggest concern is that it was nearly 8 hours.
Blocks are supposed to be an average of 10 mins.
The average here is more like 2 hours. That is 12 times slower than average.(over the last 30 rounds it was 65hours 31mins, that is 2hours and 11mins per block)

I would like to mine on the other pool that is running at 12 times faster than the average. Does anyone know where it is?

I wonder how many miners who hop to a pool which has just had a good run of luck will also go out and buy a lottery ticket using last week's winning numbers?

The usual reason for low payouts is down to the internet deciding to run slow.

My normal connection speed is approx 8meg

I can be watching an online film and the video is reporting 4.1meg. My miners are also working normally.

The video feed will suddenly freeze and report speeds of 0.1meg(slower than old dial up). 
If the freeze lasts more than a few mins and a block is found during the freeze time, then the payout for that block is low. My miners are still running apparently normally.

If I were to monitor the miner carefully at this time (very difficult with 80+ devices) I would probably see an increase in Reject and Stale results, but within a few mins this would be lost again in the background.

Slush is paying more for the freshest calculations and much less for the older results.
So if the hashes are not getting to the pool before the block is found, then they will not count towards the payout. (The pool thinks you are skipping).
Late arrivals are not counted.

Quote from Slush's Pool:-

How does bitcoin pool work?

Our server gives users blocks of very low difficulty to solve. Each solution found is registered as one 'share'. Occasionally, a solution will happen to also meet the full-strength difficulty requirements of the Bitcoin network, resulting in a successful 25 BTC minting.

This 25 BTC is divided among all of the users that contributed to that round, weighted by the number of shares that they earned. Therefore, the reward earned by a given user is given by the following formula:

(25 BTC + block fees - 2% fee) * (shares found by user's workers) (total shares in current round)
Shares do not carry over from one round to the next. When the pool mine a block, only users who worked on that block are rewarded, and only for work they did on that block. This is an unavoidable consequence of the way that Bitcoin mining in general works.

Late arrivals go in the bin

Some of it went here

21028   2013-12-02 23:33:20   0:28:46   166468331      18121   0.00259365   272729   25.29332793    confirmed
21027   2013-12-02 23:04:34   5:49:17   1993521951  216591   0.02075325   272726   25.00902152    confirmed
21026   2013-12-02 17:15:17   0:42:40   241981189      25581   0.00267538   272690   25.19850076    confirmed

Two different scenarios really mate. The first is when people on here get their knickers in a knot over stats showing "none" or zero after processing is completed, but still taking 15 mins or so until it will show the correct reward. This is normal in my experience and no Btc disappear.
The second, which admittedly is one that should probably be looked into even though it too normally sorts it self out, are the rounds showing a lower reward than normal for some people but a higher reward than normal for others.


Depends on how much you want to outlay initially really. There is no hard and fast answer. You could fork out a grand or so today for a few 100Ghash) machines but you're not going to get them for 3 or 4 months minimum - who knows what the difficulty or return will be then. On the other hand to get anything in hand immediately you are looking at ridiculous mark ups. Block eruptors that were not long ago around $15 on Au Ebay are now going for over $60 each (335Mhash). I wish the media kept their traps shut about the rise of btc it would have made things much cheaper

With block 21027 now being confirmed, is this going to make it tougher to fix?

What happens to those that got extra?

 If I had been one of those that got extra, it would have pushed me over my payout threshold. It would have paid out, but when (or if) it went back to fix it, there would not be enough in my rewards to give back.