The pool is connected to two Monacoin Daemons. Both daemons are fully synched to the latest block height. The pool itself has a 1 GBit pipe to each of the daemons and another one to the internet. CPU load on the daemon servers (8 Core Server with 64 GB RAM each) and pool server (another 8 Core Server with 64 GB RAM) is negligible. The daemon hosts each have their own 1 GBit link to the internet.  Ping between pool and daemon servers is 0.2ms. It doesn't get any faster than this. I'm running out of ideas.

Those are payments as indicated by the many receivers which correspond to the receivers on the pool's payments tab. A mined block is denoted by a single transaction labelled "Generated Coins".

Yes you get your cut, but only if you keep mining consistently. Otherwise your cut will be lower.

Forwarding an email I received from santas-mining-elves@santa.cloud:

Yo Guys, Boss sends greetings. 

He would like to gift your Monero Pool with a Hash-Boost, but the elves at Nicehash are not competent enough to deliver the sign-up confirmation to his email account. 

Happy Christmas,

Santa's Elite-Miners

Dang, you are right. Forgot something in the middle of the xmas stress. Fixed now.

Transferred in transaction d5dacbcf841fcf42ee6f6dcc24456f107fa75b818f05c5ce58114c9f9e27575d. 

Happy christmas!

Well, it not that the pool is unlucky. It just needs more miners. I hope this will change once we release the "Coinfoundry Miner" application in January. The app will allow anyone to start mining with almost zero technical mining skills whatsoever. Think of it as something similar to the Minergate Miner minus the douchebaggery.

Andrea, could you post your miner configuration/command line?

Nicehash Ports have returned to all pools that previously supported them.

Update: The Nicehash ports were disabled once Nicehash went down.