Thanks davideak, ranlo... you guys are the best!
NP! I am still a bit confused as to why our earnings are showing up differently than the Neptune earnings. Here's my previous post (row # and stats may be different now -- this was over a week ago):
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My row shows these stats (Row 12):
Payment After Deductions: 0.00316318
Remainder: 0.000000007204298
Total Payments: -
Neptune Earnings: 0.009924167393713
These don't appear to match up properly, being that it shows total earnings as being almost 0.01 BTC but the amount paid out to be caught up at less than 1/3 of that.
Also, is there any way to set a minimum threshold for payments so we don't get a lot of micro-transactions?
Sorry ranlo, I've been really busy lately, but I think this will answer your questions...
If you look on the first page the
KnCMiner Neptune Spreadsheet on row 4 (Order # 0) you'll notice that column D states "SWMC Investor Pool," that is the 300 GHS that was reserved for previous investors. Being in the investor class, your earnings are part of the SWMC Investor Pool portion of BTC mined with the Neptune, and as such, the Electrical/Maintenance/Transaction Fees have already been deducted on the first page.
The second page "Investor Sheet" is a breakdown of how the BTC earnings are divided amongst all previous investors. Your "Payment After Deductions" is your share of the Neptune's BTC earnings that was paid during the last payment, except that I did not have your payment address at the time of the last payment so the payment was not sent. The reason the "Last Payment Sent" column states "Paid - MINERPAY, SWMCHEX" is a reminder that you have been paid your MINERPAY and SWMCHEX, but the last BTC payment is still owed to you. The amount will be sent with the next payment.
The "Remainder" is the amount of BTC you are due but can not be sent because the Bitcoin client does not send amounts below 8 decimals in size. This amount will accumulate until the total remainder amounts add-up to an amount above 8 decimals, then that amount (minus any further remaining amount below 8 decimals) will be included into the next payment.
The "Neptune Earnings" is the total BTC that your share has earned to-date.
As for a minimum payment threshold. The way Counterparty works when sending a distributed payment is that the payment is automatically split-up between the total assets and proportionally sent to each address that holds the asset. So no, there is no way to set a payment threshold for individual address' when using Counterparty.
The first payment was more of a token payment to indicate that I was making good on my promises. The amounts sent were smaller than will be typical because mining had only been operational for a few days. The rest of the payments should be larger, but will gradually decrease over time as the difficulty level increases and earnings decrease. I may extend the length of time between payments to minimize the cost percentage for the transaction fees when the earnings decline to a certain level.
Does that clear it up for you? If not, just let me know what is not clear and I will explain...
