Well I'd say it's definetely not healthy for the CPU in the long term.

Yes there's been a block reward halving yesterday. Look at vergecurrency twitter/reddit or sth.

Well I'm afraid you can't do much with a laptop. You could try adding a cooling pad or lowering the load on cpu if your miner allows to do so.

Or if the laptop hasn't been serviced for a long time give it a proper cleaning and while doing that replace thermal compounds on cpu and gpu.

96 degrees on what exactly? CPU, GPU?

Tell us more about your build (closed, open?) and cooling. Photos could help.

Maybe there's a need to spread the word about the pool on some other sites?

I read about CF on the vergercurrency reddit and was really looking forward for the launch of X17 pool but after mining for ~4 days and seeing 1-3 miners online and no payouts I switched back to my previous pool... but I'm gonna keep an eye on the situation and possibly will be back later.

Until then I'd also like to ask for adding my shares to Blake2s pool if there's such possibility:

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By pending balance I meant yeah I have a count of my shares, but I don't know how much XVG I'm gonna get for that - don't know if there's any way of calculating that tho.

Let me just ask one more question:

so, theoretically, if we're extremely unlucky and 'we' (as Coinfoundry) don't find a block like ever, I may not get paid?

Sorry if it sounds lame but I'm fairly new in the business.

Yes I know, although I don't know if I understand it correctly.

So when the miner says:

x17 block 2098163, diff...

x17 block 2098164, diff...

etc.

does it mean the block was found or completed or ?