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Currently not, although it is on the TODO list.  NMC payouts currently just happen roughly once per day.

(Perhaps I should do an FAQ in my reserved post above, with this being the first!

I like the FAQ idea, and the reserved posts for you and Luke-Jr. That should make information dissemination easier, and maybe cut down on some of the stupid questions (don't mean those posted regarding NMC stats posted right after this thread was started - those are good). While I'm not a fan of double posting and redundant work, perhaps a short blip taken from your site regarding your payment system may be useful, since I'm sure there are those who hear about your pool, join it, and are then confused about their payouts. Just kicking ideas around, though. Might save people from constantly saying, "Go read the description on the site!" Nevertheless, I like the FAQ, since when the time comes and I have a stupid question, the answer may be right there in front of me.

I meant to mention this at an earlier date, but it was when you (WK) were working you ass off resolving the problems from last weekend or whenever that was, but do you, or anyone else, know if it was a specific batch from KnC that was causing users problems on your pool? I have an October Mercury, but I run several BFL units as well. I switched the KnC over first to check out your pool and used the standard URL/Port info using BFGminer 3.4.0 that was embedded in BertMod 3.0. I never experienced any problems whatsoever. In fact, since that was my test run and it all went so well, I switched all of my miners to Eligius. At some point I went to your actual homepage, and only then saw the info about KnC miners using the other port (after 3-4 days of testing, I think). Never had an issue there, obviously. My KnC died about 9 days ago, and I should be putting it back online tomorrow, if all goes according to plan. Is there any reason why I can't, or shouldn't, run that miner on the standard 3334 port? Of course if I notice issues on my end, I'll switch, but I also ask because I don't know enough about the background that led to your efforts of setting up a separate port for KnC users. Basically, I want to be sure that if I were to set it to the standard port that I wouldn't be potentially causing issues for the pool and other miners. (See, stupid question! lol) In seriousness, I don't know, and don't want to cause any problems. I'll likely go ahead and set it to the KnC designated port, but am simply curious. If the response requires an answer as long as this post (I always write like this, so my apologies to anyone why sticks with one of my posts all the way to the end), don't waste your energy on a detailed response. I won't be offended if this goes unanswered. I can always dig through the old thread when I have an hour or two to spare. If it's an easy response, I'd be grateful to have it. Again, don't expend much energy on me, since I can instructions already given.

Are any stats available on your shelved shares, and where they are in the shelved share queue? Raw data would probably be too much, but something like a list filled with x number of shelved shares worth y BTC from block z, and the shelved share queue depth to that point?

In on the first page to say that Eligius is the most stable BTC pool I've used in the year I've been mining.  I started off on Slush's, then BTCGuild, then Eclipse, P2Pool, and even some time on GHash.io. 

I keep on coming back to Eligius as my primary pool.

Keep up the hard work guys.

Is it too complicated to add some more shitforks for merged mining?

Also, if I may ask, I have a few tiny suggestions that should be really easy to add, but would improve the stats, I believe.

1. On the home page of the stats, you put at the bottom the PPS value-per-share. But I think it is a really important value that would deserve to be put in the header alongside the pool hashrate/round luck/time... Or at least, put on userstats pages with the estimate of daily earnings.

2. Putting a link to the payout queue in the top menu, with "Home", "My eligius", etc...

3. Moving the GitHub link to the footer, or put it on the home page. (I don't believe that the GitHub is something the users will frequently go to, so it doesn't need such a proeminent place)

4. Putting a link to the configurable options in the userstats page.

5. In fact, change the "structure" of My Eligius so that clicking on "My Eligius" prompts for a user's address; inputting the address brings you directly to the userstats page, from which there would be a link to the configurable options, or to "logout"/change address. I believe it would be "cleaner", faster to navigate the site than with the intermediate "menu" page that you get once you "logged" in.

6. In the pool-wide stats page (Home), put a graph of the "historical" luck, so we know if recently, we have been increasing of decreasing the amount of shelved shares.

7. In userstats page, you put the percentage of shares rewarded, but it would be great if you could also put the "value" of the shelved share, so one knows that if he were to leave the pool NOW, he should expect to be, eventuelly, payed out that amount of BTC when the pool gets lucky. It can be calculated from the other displayed stats, but I think it is an important value.

But don't get me wrong, I love the pool! Theses are just suggestions, you do what you want.

280.06510396 BTC in manual payments applied to balances from tx 01c17411ff6a4278ada87c28dad74b9d1e79c799743fd2d63dac945645123ab3

It is quite simply just luck, which varies greatly in either direction.  The fastest block ever for Eligius was block 277,885 ... which was mined 3 seconds after 277,884.

-wk