Yea, I switched to your Mona pool.   Thx for update.

The XVG-Lyra pool is a bit sad.  :(    

I'm like the only one mining in there, and one other person mining with a CPU.

Dashboard graph not working.   Other stuff works for me.  Been mining straight for days, so it should show values for the last 24 hours.

I get a stats page using that wallet.  

31.084 M Shares

0 Hashrate

Graph says you stopped mining 2 days ago

Its working now.   thx.

You should read up on how pools work.  Pools only pay out when a block is found.  There are not many people in the pool, so the finding of blocks is very inconsistent.   

Check the pool for how many blocks it found and when.

https://coinfoundry.org/pool/eth

There is a blocks tab right under the graph.   

1 block has been found 10 hours ago, the one before that 6 days ago.    Any pool that pays out once every few days isn't going to have consistent income over 107 hours.  You'd have to mine way longer to see the correct average income.

Ah, i get it.  You mean there could be miners who mine for just a few minutes and rack up tiny balances that are not paid out because they have not reached the minimum threshold for payments.

 For the difficulty question, I don't know anything about the ""getblocktemplate" RPC call", but is it getting the difficulty for the Lyra algo?   Each algorithm on Verge has a different difficulty, and the numbers displayed for difficulty always seem wrong for this algo.

"I also want to clear up a misconception here. The amount the pool normally pays out for a block is not directly related to the block-reward."

I don't know what you mean by this.  Why wouldn't the pool pay out the full block reward, minus the fees? 

"Sometimes a significant amount goes into miner wallets that have yet to hit the payment limit."

Isn't this also going to miners?  Its going to miners that haven't hit a payment limit?  Meaning what, the miner isn't listed yet on the Miner List?   I mean, the block rewards go somewhere, so if the reward is not fully paid out to miners, then I don't get where its going.

The block could be found tomorrow, not in 2 weeks, or the block can be found in 4 weeks....  Expecting the block to be found in 2 weeks is where you are going wrong. 

PPLNS uses the last N shares.  Your shares will be part of the last N shares as long as the block is found within a certain amount of shares.   If the block is found after that amount, then your shares will not count.   

You could join the pool, and get shares, and multiple blocks could be found right away, in which case your shares would be counted more than once, since multiple blocks would count N shares back, and your shares would be part of those N shares.   Or the opposite can happen, and a block isn't found, and your shares drop away.

So basically....  You can go mine... and your shares might count, or they might not count.  But you will have mined and acquired some shares that will have a chance at being counted, whether you leave the pool for BTCP or not.