I'm around since almost the beginning of this site, being among the first to reach Premium status. My thoughts about the HPower topic are as follows.
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SCAM": I disagree with this. I don't think the site is a scam, as it payed me constantly. Only a site-owner which doesn't honor its own promises. Or changes things as it sees fit, without acknowledging it did.
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whining newbies": this discussion applies only to those being around for awhile and which bought HPower with their own money, by deposit, when no limitations were in place. If you weren't affected by this, doesn't mean it's all nice and shiny. If now you buy a 1-year contract and in 2 months you get a notice that your 2-months contract has expired I don't think you'll be happy. Or?
History.
After the site was launched, the deposits were introduced and you could buy HPower with them. Were they added because people asked or because the site needed capital? Only jamboom knows the answer.
The news from 7th of January 2018 introduced deposits,
but no limitations!:
https://cryptomininggame.com/news/important-update-v0-97-deposit-and-dash-miningI think it was an error not to limit from the start how much HPower can be bough by deposits. Unless it was intentional, as capital was needed. A leader-board was available at that time, so I can tell you that there were people having 10000+ HPower(!). Yeah, things were starting to go crazy and it wasn't sustainable. So measures had to be and were put in place: removed leader-board, so people will stop asking "BUT HOW R THEY HAVING SO MUCH POWER?!?!?", reduced the max HPower you can buy by deposit (2500), 1-year contracts and so on. These measures were needed, otherwise the site would've not survived.
The 1-year contracts and HPower by deposit to max 2500 appeared ONLY later, in 26th of March, when withdraw to HPower was introduced:
https://cryptomininggame.com/news/important-update-v0-995-withdraw-to-hpower-and-moreDuring the discussions related to 26th of March update jamboom sad this (to which @BitcoinsHunter is referring to):
Of course, the couple of users who have more won't be truncated their hpower.
Having now in my account history that I bought a 1-year contract in 2018-01-10, which now is TERMINATED, is kind of impossible, if it was to be fair, isn't is jamboom?
ConclusionsDon't get me wrong, I recovered all the money I've invested, and some, but this doesn't change the fact that jamboom is lying, forcing now the 1-year contracts and saying "
but it was like this always". He promised something when (probably) capital was needed, but now, as the site has taken off, he/she has forgotten those promises. Is it greed? I may be wrong, but I would say yes.
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