Because returns are shit now. I'm surprised bankrolls are still so big.
Me too. I divested most of my investment (in BaB at least, increased BaD a little) and it's been interesting tracking the bankroll. Like March 24 and June 27 you saw some pretty large investments ( 154 and 131 btc, respectively). I guess it shows that one mans poor returns are another mans good returns.
It also makes me kind of think that privately funded bankrolls are almost silly. If you can get your whole bankroll paid for, and be paying only like ~15% commission .... almost seems silly to not do that.
I would never imagine a day would come that I would say something positive about bustabit against your point
. However I think there is a "trust" issue at hand that many people still think that no matter how much return they get, it is still fine. I am one of those people, I keep my bitcoins here, if there were other coins available I would keep them here as well, not because I get good returns, in fact I do not get any return I used to get even with lower funding available (which I assume should mean I own bigger portion now that there is less available) yet it still doesn't bother me.
The reason for this is that where else could I put my bitcoins that would be as trustworthy as bustabit and still give me bigger returns? There are few other places that I can think of, and I just didn't bother to move there because return wasn't that much bigger, or even smaller. So, it is not just about numbers in my case, there could be others like me.