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ETH Uncle mined, block on the site and no increase in my balance
Hi,
I have two questions
I'm sure you're aware that we've mined another uncle this weekend. Strangely enough the related block shows up in the pool page instead of the uncle. The reward is 3 ETH (no gas). This should obviously be the uncle with a lower reward. I couldn't find an explanation on what happened?
I've been mining "casually" for a while and have collected ~7,88T shares (last screenshot I took shows that) but all my shares have disappeared. This morning I started at 0 again. And my pending balance did not increase. I expected to get my share of the uncle we mined. I also expected my shares not to be reset to 0. I guess there was a bug somewhere. I use 0x001E1ac4115c0ebDf5AEb6aCad6D85D627cA2438. Could you look into this?
Thanks
PS. looks like you got little sleep again this weekend ;-)
Customer support service by UserEcho
Jorn, I'm fully aware that the block was actually an uncle, so was the pool. There was a bug with the block reward calculation for that uncle that has been fixed. But since we've treated and paid the block the way it is listed on the pool's block list (the pool paid more than it was worth), I've decided to leave it as it is to avoid causing confusion.
The reason that you've got nothing can be most likely attributed to your casual mining style. We are using PPLNS which tolerates on- and off-mining to some degree but what most people fail to realize is that if you're stop mining for a long enough time, shares of other miners may push your shares partially or - in the worst case - completely out of the calculation window. The description of Round 5 in the FAQ illustrates this scenario. In short, accumulating shares alone is no guarantee that you'll get a payment. Nevertheless, to alleviate the effect of this for our pools with with lower than average hashrate, I've adjusted the Window Size for most pools to be twice as wide - causing that "Round 5 Effect" to be less severe as more shares will fit in.
Anyhow, its my personal belief that loyalty - especially when it comes to our pools that take weeks to find a block - must be rewarded somehow even if the system worked as intended. Therefore I've sent you a little compensation from my personal wallet (none of the pool's could afford issuing any kind of bailouts due to the super low fees).
I mine about 20MH/s for at least 12 hours every weekday. I've done that since before block 4698923. Last Friday I was at 7.88T. This morning I found my shares reset to 0. I don't understand how that happened. Even the shares I got last Friday have already been pushed out? Even though the round wasn't that long with 41% effort?
Maybe I am totally misunderstanding the concepts, but I think this isn't supposed to happen.
I do appreciate the gesture but you taking time to support (even) the little guys is enough for me. I know it's hard to get a pool business of the ground. I do notice that the ETH pool is slowly but steadily growing. So cheers to that.