That was all he was asking about. That was his suspicion and you basically confirmed it. He never asked about luck (as it doesn't factor in AT ALL in his example, you should re-read what he has posted) or any of your other useless contributions. So why are you still being this rude and calling him a delusional idiot when he brought up a point you ended up confirming? A very good point I might add. That example he pasted from the Bitmain forum was very valuable in that it showed how big the gap between a regular data center maintenance fee and that of Hashnest is. A small part of the maintenance fee being a built in profit margin would be fine but the huge gap from the example shows that this might be an issue. (And keep in mind that the US data center probably has a profit margin built into their own maintenance cost as well, yet this huge gap exists..)

I don't believe Hashnest will do anything about their maintenance fee, though, even if we all complained. As long as they're making money and their customers are making a little bit of money, nothing's gonna change. Even after they've become nonprofitable, I highly doubt they're going to adjust their maintenance rate as that would cut into their sales of S9 machines, which will come to Hashnest as soon as the S7s become obsolete.