Edit: How far does BTC trail after the period ?
Bitcoin uses 8 decimal places.
Has anyone managed to get their ASIC running on BLF's easyminer android app with this pool?
I have tried every combo of settings I can think of but it just doesnt seem to work.
There should be a tab named something like "custom" or "manual". It has a command line field, where there is an example bfgminer command before you type anything. You need to put in something like:
bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u user_worker -p X
Where user and worker are your user and worker names. Alternatively if you have a default worker you can just put -u user. In the example above I just put X for password, since any password is accepted at Bitminter.
This results in a "ramping up" effect that is confusing, and also means that mining for a few hours doesn't give a figure that you can use to estimate what you would make mining over a longer period of time.
Yeah, I think an easier way of looking at it can be from the point of view of a single accepted proof of work. It goes into a shift. As soon as the shift is completed it becomes eligible for payments from new blocks that are found. Whether you keep mining or stop, it will keep getting paid from each new block we find until 10 more shifts are completed. After that this proof of work is no longer in one of the 10 latest shifts.
So after you do some work it takes 10 shifts (currently about 10 hours) before the work is fully paid. +20 hours if prepay is turned off, but you can see the amount as unconfirmed before that.