Another thing I don't understand is why the "Balance" column sometimes reset without being paid.
From what I see in the "How it works" page, the 50% reduction applies to shares :
"Share value reduction is 50% per block
if pool on current round does not find a block, miners shares are keep (up to 99 blocks), but their value is reduced by 50% everytime we dont found a block. when pool has positive balance, all share are summed up to block# where payment will be made, and burst payment are made proportional to total share owned up to this time"
The balance in my understandig is supposed to be left untouched till it reach or exceed the minimum payout and then reset after the payment is been issued. Is that wrong?
Again, thanks to shed some light
those words not saying anything about balance, its share value, its completely different, balance is untouched until it exceed minimum payout, then your balance will be zero and you will got payment
nonce -> deadline -> CR. share value -> AR. share value -> balance -> payout
I've said the same thing
Anyway, the balance column keep reset itself, maybe is just a display glitch and behind the curtains everything work fine....
What about the blocks I've found? Wasn't I supposed to get an higher share? And while it's true that the shares keep halving every time the pool doesn't find a block, in this case (ie block found) the pool wasn't supposed to have a positive balance? The same happened today, block found and no different payout.
Thank you very much for your time
p.s. sorry for my poor English
share halving is to make sure recent share is rewarded more than older share, if you found a block, then your latest share will be higher than anyone else (only for that round), but when payment was going to be made couple blocks later (there is delay between when block is found and pool received the reward), the condition could change, its because there could be other miner that has better cumulative share than yours, even if you are the block finder
US and SG has difference curve, this mainly affect the above condition, US pool has greater chance that block finder does not always have highest payout, its because the share value more distrbuted evenly, so there is more chance that other miner has better cumulative share than block finder. contrary to US, on SG pool block finder is rewarded exponentially better share, so there is less chance that other non-block finder can compete with your exponentially better share because of block you just found, but on SG pool if you dont found block the regular share will be exponentially small too.
balance is reset and sometime you see tx amount is still zero, its because your balance is moved to pending payment list, tx amount will be still zero if the payment is not confirmed yet by network within that round time, if the payment was failed, that amount will be put back to your balance
