at which point it doesn't make any sense to pay now as technically you'd be paying for only 6 months.
We are almost August which means that you will be paying for 5 months weekly payout considering that this thing will keep on paying until the end of year . Due note that this is more like a
time bomb which can stop anytime sooner and if you are paying a high amount then you are risking alot for it.
Well, yes it depends when one has paid/would like to pay. And of course, whether or not the date of actual payment will be the "new year" for the user or will it be Dec 31 (+/- 6 months).
How long payment would/will come, that is a whole new issue.
Or when Chris suddenly decides to stop paying again, or he shuts it all down after LTC halving. So many things can go wrong again, and he has proven himself unreliable to this point. We're owed payments from mid Dec 2014 to June 2015 IMO. Then we either take hardware, or pay the fee for more hosted mining.