Can't speak for other pools, but for me those payouts are combined earnings from masternodes, PoS wallets and fees.
And it's not really an accurate representations of the fees. There are a lot of miners getting paid in their altcoin of choice but the pool's fee's are always converted to BTC.
The more miners using altcoin as payout will give a false impression in the BTC payouts of the "large fee"
anyway, just a light dusting of FUD on this one but should clear it up enough for you.
thnx
Makes sense. Zpool and Hashrefinery payment sizes are really small to question any bad intent. But Ahashpool needs an explanation.
Concerning Zpool, I'm mining on Zpool for a long time and my realised earnings are always higher than Nicehash.
So although you can find a lot FUD about this pool I'm totally confident they are paying better than many other options.
+1000
I have been very consistent with zpool. Always more profitable than switching to another location in my attempts throughout time.
I will also mind you that close to 1BTC was sent regularly not long ago on each payment just in TX fees alone....
But for a pool that does sha256 mining specifically on BTC; phillipma has put a thread out on how they can basically make a KILLING on the fees alone by not splitting the fees among the miners. Look for the thread, its insane but correct math and manner of thinking.