There were just a few funky things going onwith the pool payouts. for example my minimum payout is set to .4 btc, and yet on the 19th I received a payout of 0.31505007 BTC.

Luck is a real annoyance on pools there are times on other pools I had blocks lasting five days!!!!

I think we are all seeing a drop in luck over the last week with some nice blocks recently. p2pool just picked up 4 within a 24 hour window! but before that only 2 in 6 days.
btw my payout only 2 days ago came through perfectly so no issues there.

I think Eligius needs more nodes and an option to user to selecet sharedifficulty..

2014-06-27 12:41:08,720 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [219ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:21,693 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 1403862024 61319 for prevhash f463930d, clean_jobs=False
2014-06-27 12:41:21,694 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [7196ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:21,694 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [7001ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:21,694 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [6523ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:21,694 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [4105ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:21,695 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [3748ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:21,695 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [3031ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:27,165 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [309ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:31,007 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [272ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:39,130 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [213ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:41,496 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [226ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:43,123 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [295ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 511
2014-06-27 12:41:43,209 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # Setting new difficulty: 255.99609375
2014-06-27 12:41:58,200 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 1403862054 61320 for prevhash f463930d, clean_jobs=False
2014-06-27 12:41:58,201 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [9988ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 255
2014-06-27 12:41:58,201 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [9407ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 255
2014-06-27 12:41:58,201 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [3549ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' REJECTED: (23, u'high-hash', None)
2014-06-27 12:41:58,202 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [2301ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 255
2014-06-27 12:41:58,202 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [1246ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 255
2014-06-27 12:41:59,464 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [224ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' accepted, diff 255
2014-06-27 12:42:05,298 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [387ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' REJECTED: (23, u'high-hash', None)
2014-06-27 12:42:13,390 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 1403862084 61321 for prevhash f463930d, clean_jobs=False


2014-06-27 12:44:59,701 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [15350ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' REJECTED: (20, u'unknown-work', None)
2014-06-27 12:44:59,702 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [11741ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' REJECTED: (20, u'unknown-work', None)
2014-06-27 12:44:59,702 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [11659ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' REJECTED: (20, u'unknown-work', None)
2014-06-27 12:44:59,702 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [10551ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' REJECTED: (20, u'unknown-work', None)
2014-06-27 12:44:59,703 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [7057ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' REJECTED: (20, u'unknown-work', None)
2014-06-27 12:44:59,703 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [5931ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' REJECTED: (20, u'unknown-work', None)
2014-06-27 12:44:59,703 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [5322ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' REJECTED: (20, u'unknown-work', None)
2014-06-27 12:44:59,704 INFO proxy stratum_listener.submit # [5241ms] Share from '1KUeBzZEtGdupam6bK4VfEHFXJhk1C7XCn' REJECTED: (20, u'unknown-work', None)

Looks like stratum proxy acting broken, nothing wrong on the Eligius side.

OK then how manages the stratum proxys then,  I have no clue, is that the interface to the bit-coin network???

Just trying to learn this stuff.

It happens more often than you might think.  In March there were 2 blocks back-to-back that Eligius found in 8 seconds each   Block height # 292091 and 292092.  The last 6 second block found by Eligius happened in February.  There was a 3 second block on 31 December 2013, which is the fastest Eligius block on record since January 2012.

Round time is always luck based.  Doesn't matter if it's long or short.

M

Exactly!  That's why you shouldn't complain with long rounds, because the short rounds average them out.

M

20% dif increase -- wtf

all these increases really F**K me off

Everywhere you look there's people trying to get people interested in Bitcoin - but to be honest -
- increases  make it pretty impossible to earn anything.

Why would you want to invest in mining Bitcoin when you see your investment get wiped out in the same month- ordered 2 S1 - making 5
set them up 3rd June and by end of June they pretty much not earning a penny just back to where I was before

I am not after earning a million ,  a return of investment and a little on top would be nice.

I really hope something bad happens to the greedy people  who are forcing  small scale users like me out

Bitcoin is designed to keep the number of blocks solved to about 1 per 10 minutes.  You aren't the only one trying to make a buck off of it, and the difficulty is adjusting accordingly.  That's the double edged sword of the mining world.

Choose wisely where you put your BTC.

M