According to wafflepool, around 17% of their current payout is from litecoin for this round
http://wafflepool.com/statsSo maybe they are just focusing on other coins. Seems plausible
Yes, of course they would need to be mining other alt coins. LTC is not the most profitable alt and that is the entire point of multipools. There are several other problems though, if one starts with this plausible and necessary assumption.
Look here for raw data:
http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/?sort=profit&dir=descTaking the top 25 most profitable coins (excluding LTC, 24) for the day provides a culmulative total of 149,749MH, which is just a smidge less than the current 150,795MH Zenpool has posted.
1. Problem #1: Zenpool is currently providing more hash than the the top 25 most profitable (non-LTC) alt coins
combined have on their entire networks.
2. Problem #2: My current daily payout (and everyday so far) with my Hashlet is ~1.45-2.05x higher than LTC could provide. That would require non-LTC mining on 90%+ of Zenpools hashrate.
Conclusions?
So, unless no one else in the world is mining then we know Zenpool is not mining those top 25 altcoins. Yet we also know they are not mining LTC very heavily, if the payouts are dependent upon actual daily mining rates.
So, what are they actually mining? Where is the money coming from for these payouts? Which of these assumptions is incorrect? One of them must be.
I may have made a mistake with raw data here, so someone please run the numbers yourself and see where the heck Zenpool could be hiding that much hashrate.