That's what I said. About the formatting.
The survey on the site right now shows that an exchange API is needed to accept multiple currencies while giving providers the ability to select how to receive payments. Using an API we would not take a fee for the exchange as the actual exchange would have a fee built in.
Honestly adding the highlighting and warning was not an easy decision as it clutters everything and detracts from the site. It was only decided after finding that close to or over the 50% of all rigs on the site performed lower on the providers pools than their declared speed. (Originally we were going to take away declared speed and use a rolling 24 hour average. This would have made providers rig speeds dependent on customer pools and really would have made bad pools reflect on providers) The current system is designed to show a more accurate depiction of rated speeds without taking into account bad customer pools.
At some point, you have to put the burden on the renter to determine if he is getting a good deal or not. Warning them will only go so far. The information was already there to begin with, it just wasn't as obvious. You have made it very obvious at the expense of the general appearance of the website. I completely understand why you did it. I've watched many a provider get paid for hashes they weren't providing and it was frustrating to try to compete against that. They were gaming the system by charging for phantom hashes and could afford a lower lease price as a result. Right now I'm charging for 31 MH/s, but actually hashing between 31.6 -31.83 MH/s. That .60-.83MH/s discount is bigger that some providers rig offerings.
To alleviate payment type headaches, perhaps you should consider something like the 'multipool.us' approach; Allow people to pay in multiple types, but offer people the option to either keep the payment in the coin it was paid in, or
Leaserig will convert it to BTC for a small fee and pay it out that way. Since you are pushing the hourly payment approach, that puts you squarely in the middle of the transaction already. In for a satoshi, in for a BTC, right?
Bolded text please. It kind of sucks having to convert my LTC and DOGE to BTC after a 72hr lease and the prices are no where near where they were before.
Cryptsy provides this service, but also charges me a withdrawal fee. I agree with you in that it would be a massive headache to try to watch hourly prices and exchanges. I'm not terribly fond of the idea at all.
I do this for income, to pay back the loan I took out to purchase the equipment. Until LTC ends up on Coinbase, BTC is unfortunately the only thing I'm genuinely interested in getting paid. The more steps in between that and what my customer wants to pay, the worse it is.
In the end, I'm left wondering why the burden of exchanging coins should be put to the providers? We are priced in BTC, the payments are pegged against their exchange value to BTC, and payments are tracked in BTC equivalent. It seems a lot more straight forward to let customers do their own exchanging to BTC from DOGE/LTC/Whatever and leave it at that. Accepting DOGE has been a headache I don't need, but I do it to stay competitive. I don't like the extra fees, and I don't like all the manual steps needed to get paid. IMHO, Leaserig should have stuck with BTC and left it alone.