Underpaying BTC mining fees, underpaying BCH @ 98% block reward(why again? seems unfair to BCH miners), ridiculous contract prices, and no lifetime plans for months, no more pre-orders. What is going on? A little more transparency would be great as I'm sure you guys can understand. A lot of us have invested a lot of money with you guys and I think we deserve to know why prices are increasing so heavily and when we can expect proper block reward payouts(if ever?) I have no plans to mine BTC ever again but I think honesty, openness, and transparency is incredibly important in keeping us miners around. Is it simply a complete lack of Antminer S9 supply from Bitmain? I don't fully understand.
I'm not an upset by any means, simply concerned about future investments.
Sorry, I've been too busy to read this forum thread. I'll try to be as transparent as possible. If there's something that needs my immediate attention, please email
pool@bitcoin.com
Anyway, I'll try to address your concerns
> Underpaying BTC mining fees.
I just increased BTC block reward to 120%. This is more in line with what ViaBTC is paying now. I'm working on a system to automatically adjust the block reward like ViaBTC so I don't have to keep manually changing it.
> underpaying BCH @ 98% block reward
That's not underpaying. We are the highest paying BCH pool in the world. ViaBTC and BTC.com pay about 96% BCH block reward.
> ridiculous contract prices
Our contract prices depend on supply and demand. We increase the prices so that we don't go out of stock too fast. Our contracts have very limited supply and extremely high demand.
Antminer S9s are out of stock everywhere so we're finding it hard to get more stock.