You are confusing two different posts. There was another person here that started investing last July and lost $20k. I started investing in Feb, 2016. The $20,000 is the cash out of pocket that I am out. To get to the payout level I was took nearly $35k investment. I took out maybe $2,500 total - and most of that was to buy a car. The rest was "reinvested" in HashOcean to build up the daily payout. The initial goal was to get 1 btc per day and then collect until my cash out of pocket was received. And then a 50/50 split between cash out and reinvest. There is 2 Factor authentication. Magically, it was shut off and the payout address changed. Definitely an inside job and definitely at the core of their business.
Someone else asked for proof ... I still have access to the account and have screenshots of the investment. Unfortunately, there is not a way to embed a picture in these posts that I can find. I do not have a web serer that can be generally accessed to provide a link. This editor will not allow me to paste an image directly.
Another post talked about missing emails ... no, I did not. As a matter of fact, their support team forwarded me an email chain - which is blatantly fake - that supposedly shows a back and forth over a 12 hour period. It is funny because neither the sent email nor the support response emails every hit my providers servers or my mailbox. No, this was definitely a planned scam. And if Hash Ocean is not behind it, then they are significantly compromised from a security standpoint.
To those with small amounts, it appears that they go after the bigger investors to scam, so you may receive payouts for some time. As has been noted earlier, it WILL, and is destined to by design, collapse. They do not mine anything and have no underlying business value operation. So enjoy receiving pennies or a dollar every day ... it is entertaining and that small amount will not hurt anyone. Just please, do not bet the farm like I did. It is painful.
Cheers.