1. A delay in payment is never to the benefit of the people owed money. With any delay, there is a risk of not being paid what you're owed, and the longer the delay the greater the risk. As the people who are owed money, it is always in our best interest to have our payment as soon as possible.
I understand what you are saying, if you don't have the money, if you haven't received it yet, there is always a risk that you won't get paid. Although in this case, I think the risk is very low.
2. The small rounding in payments that happens is not really a good justification for the delay. That is, I don't consider getting a few hundred extra sats to really make up for having to wait 6 weeks or more for payment. This is just an opinion, others may disagree and there's no right answer to an opinion, but I just want to float that I in particular would prefer prompt payments over a little extra dust.
I actually prefer to be paid a little more, even if it's just a little. What I miss is a little more formality.
3. Given the very long delays, I would have figured that the weekly payments could be consolidated into a lump sum payment instead of making 6-7 separate transactions. This greatly increases the expense to us since we have far more transaction inputs this way and will pay more in fees to move the bitcoin in the future because of it. This is my biggest concern in all of this. It's one thing if you're getting paid every week, then the transaction fees are what they are. But we're not being paid every week, we're being paid about every 6-7 weeks and then getting 6-7 transactions instead of just 1. If lump sum payments were made, that would partially justify the delay in payments, as it would benefit us since we would only have 1 input instead of 6-7 different inputs for the same amount of bitcoin. But the way things are now, we're waiting for very long periods of time and then our payments are coming in a way that maximize our expenses and for no reason. I ask that this policy be reconsidered, such that if we are expected to wait so long, our payments be consolidated into one transaction.
I believe that this is done because it is much easier to check and verify if there has been an error. Now you can clearly see if you have been underpaid by 3 posts in week 4. But if you were paid all together, you would simply see that you are missing 4 posts to be paid in the total weeks.
LoyceV's post is a good guide to consolidate inputs:
Mempool empty! Use this opportunity to Consolidate your small inputs!Nowadays you can consolidate your inputs for pennies, and even when fees are high, it is good to follow the post because there are times of the week when you can consolidate inputs for cheap.
A quick note about the delayed payments, again, they have always eventually been paid, but the delay is gradually getting longer between payments. Below is a list of payments over the last year, along with the time between payments.
Payment Date Days Since Last Payment Date
7/14/2020 ---
8/12/2020 29
9/12/2020 31
10/9/2020 27
11/6/2020 28
11/11/2020 5
12/18/2020 37
2/4/2021 48
3/16/2021 40
4/29/2021 44
6/14/2021 46
*Current Days Unpaid 46
The current delay is in line with the recent periods as long as it comes now. But you can see the trend is clearly getting longer between payments, as it used to be every 4 weeks and now we're at every 6-7 weeks.
Yes, as I said, I miss a little more formality. Here you never know when you are going to get paid.
