Hello Everybody,
@Indianacoin, @AltFaucets, @dead: As you know, we are concentrating on providing detailed and individual support for everyone via
[email protected]. We are handling a lot of requests there every day and if there are any questions from your side, you can be sure to get help there.
@All: As everybody knows our maintenance fee is 0.0012 USD per GHs per day and was 0.0015 USD per GHs per day before. The maintenance fee contains all costs such as hosting space, cooling, active maintenance, security and the by far biggest component - the electricity costs. Those costs are fixed in USD and need to be covered every day by the mining outcomes. Therefor the costs are subtracted from the mining outcomes and the difference is the final amount that gets paid out.
The situation that happened in the last few days was no exception although it caused some surprise for one or another (some of them clearly expressed their thoughts in direct or indirect ways here in the thread). Since transparency is key and we explained and calculated the payouts for everybody individually in our support, I also want to provide an example here that shows that the recent payouts were correct same as all the 500+ payouts before.
Example 1:
In this example let's look at 1 THs contract with 0.0015 USD per GHs per day. On the 20th of September the price of Bitcoin on average during the day was at 230.39 USD/BTC which means that the maintenance fee in BTC is equal to 1.5/230.39=0.0065107 BTC. The total amount of mined coins on that day for 1 THs was 0.0081088434 BTC which therefor resulted in a net payout of 0.0081088434-0.0065107=0.0015981434 BTC.
Example 2:
Let's look at the same day, 1 THs and 0.0012 USD per GHs which is the newer contract. The maintenance fee in this case is equal to 1.2/230.39=0.005208559 BTC. The net payout therefor is equal to 0.0081088434-0.005208559=0.0029 BTC.
Now - to relativize things - let's look at a bitcoin price scenario of 300 USD/BTC. In this case the maintenance fee would be 1.2/300=0.004 BTC and therefor the net payout would equal as much as 0.0081-0.004= 0.0041 BTC.
I hope this helps to understand the numbers.
In future, if there is any question or concern, please contact directly our support and you will get help immediately. This channel is mainly for public announcements and comments from users to the public which are often fair and valid but unfortunately also not so rarely unjustifiably rude and aggressive. Since we value non censorship and think it is important what everybody says we will continue to tolerate the latter ones although we are forced to take action in specially critical situations where people are insulted or uneducated users are led to known to be illegal providers by promising unrealistically high returns and deceiving readers.
Yours
Marco Streng