We paid for the mines we have. Dropping off bonuses or giving full refunds is the only acceptable way to handle this. If any mines must be "closed" a full refund must be given to the customer. Bonuses were actually calculated into the monthly earnings of each mine that was sold. Dropping them will reduce everyone's return by about 25% per month. That is irritating, but significantly more acceptable than cancelling mines we have paid for.
I'm just concerned that this took place immediately after everyone bought their mines, and it has to do with Cryptsy. I stopped using Cryptsy over a year and a half ago. If I understand what Sector was saying, they basically had a large amount of BTC on Cryptsy and lost it when the exchange went under. It has been well known that Cryptsy was going under for months, and they didn't withdraw everything? The fact that their servers are "arrested" shouldn't be a problem if they backed them up offline. We've all lived through so many scams and traps, it's hard not to be jaded. I want to believe them, but part of me thinks that they knew that they had lost over 22% of their trading funds with Cryptsy before the big mine sale and that it was done just to make the funds back through sales. Those funds would then be used in active trading and they would likely try to double/triple the money as BTC dumps. Dropping our bonuses then allows them to reduce what they have advertised to pay by about 25%-30%, thus giving them breathing run to continue doubling the money in trade. I'm sure the majority of customers will be happy to just continue receiving payouts.
I would just say that there should be a specific time frame set for when the bonuses will recommence. I for one noticed that my account went 7 days without a single bonus ore. It has seemed to me that they have been reducing bonus ore for the past 2 weeks. When I first started, I was getting 1 bonus ore every day. It led me to believe that accounts would get about 5-7 bonus ores per week. The past 2 weeks it has dropped to 1 bonus ore per week. Significant reduction. This reduction started happening a week before the withdrawal issue came up on 1/11. Not sure if others with mid sized accounts and up have noticed something similar?
I really want Ore-mine to continue and be successful. I just like to make sure that we all know exactly what is going on and there are no surprises or omissions of truth.
You do make good points but I still stand with my argument that it is a complicated ponzi with just enough seeding money to make it seem as if they are paying I'm just concerned that this took place immediately after everyone bought their mines, and it has to do with Cryptsy. I stopped using Cryptsy over a year and a half ago. If I understand what Sector was saying, they basically had a large amount of BTC on Cryptsy and lost it when the exchange went under. It has been well known that Cryptsy was going under for months, and they didn't withdraw everything? The fact that their servers are "arrested" shouldn't be a problem if they backed them up offline. We've all lived through so many scams and traps, it's hard not to be jaded. I want to believe them, but part of me thinks that they knew that they had lost over 22% of their trading funds with Cryptsy before the big mine sale and that it was done just to make the funds back through sales. Those funds would then be used in active trading and they would likely try to double/triple the money as BTC dumps. Dropping our bonuses then allows them to reduce what they have advertised to pay by about 25%-30%, thus giving them breathing run to continue doubling the money in trade. I'm sure the majority of customers will be happy to just continue receiving payouts.
I would just say that there should be a specific time frame set for when the bonuses will recommence. I for one noticed that my account went 7 days without a single bonus ore. It has seemed to me that they have been reducing bonus ore for the past 2 weeks. When I first started, I was getting 1 bonus ore every day. It led me to believe that accounts would get about 5-7 bonus ores per week. The past 2 weeks it has dropped to 1 bonus ore per week. Significant reduction. This reduction started happening a week before the withdrawal issue came up on 1/11. Not sure if others with mid sized accounts and up have noticed something similar?
I really want Ore-mine to continue and be successful. I just like to make sure that we all know exactly what is going on and there are no surprises or omissions of truth.
Still, I hope you can get us out of this mess, and if we have to sacrifice our production bonus, I'd be (painfully) okay with it, but not too much if you'd cut our production. Let's try to cut losses as less as we can. 
