Just a question: does Bitminter includes TX fees in the miners payments?
Now after the halvening this is more important.
Yep. If you click on the height numbers at bitminter.com/blocks you will see how much income there is from each block, and how much is paid out to miners (same number twice).
And you are right, this is now more important. Have a look at my answer to this question:
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5515/how-much-is-a-mining-pool-share-worth-on-averageI ran some numbers there, and transaction fees and namecoins are now starting to matter. Put together they give about 3.4% extra income. So if you mine at a pool with 3% fees which doesn't pay transaction fees and namecoins, that's more like a 6.4% fee, which seems a bit steep.
Doc, are we accidentally still being paid based on a 50 BTC block reward?
No, BitMinter looks at the exact income from a block and shares that out to the miners, so it will never be wrong.
But...
post reward reduction:
The "Expected per block" is wrong.
The amount actually awarded is correct.
Yeah, sorry, I forgot this expected income per block shown on the account details page on the website, that number is based on each block giving 50 BTC. Will fix in a moment.
