Quote from: MinerHQ on March 29, 2018, 11:28:23 PM

Quote from: TheQuin on March 29, 2018, 02:54:29 PM

Constantly changing the weekly withdrawal isn't practical and people would not be happy if it was a dynamic fee and they didn't realise when the fees suddenly went high.

If you make a dynamic and announce it once then it will be users responsibility to check the fees if they enable weekly payment.

Quote from: TheQuin on March 29, 2018, 02:54:29 PM

As you say fees are low and you can get a slow withdrawal for 40 sats, so why the need for a weekly withdrawal?

That is users convenience and you can't ask them why they need. They may not want to go and withdraw manually so they may prefer auto withdrawals every week.

Instead of asking users not to choose weekly withdrawals, why can't you guys remove that feature? What is the use other than the site can get additional profit from the more fee currently?

Quote from: Meow1968 on March 29, 2018, 05:32:15 PM

The auto-withdrawal used to be free. The idea was if you wanted your BTC sooner you'd have to pay a fee, which is reasonable. The change was made when BTC spiked to $20K a few months ago and people started either buying or selling and that drove up transaction fees to outrageous levels. But now that the bubble has burst, the fees have gone way down, which is why I was asking if autowithdrawal could be free again. To me it doesn't matter as much as my first question which was about having the minimum at a level that takes months for an honest player to reach when it used to take a few weeks.

That is true, they can't just increase the fee when it goes up but also need to consider to adjust when it comes down.

We did consider removing weekly withdrawal completely but we have a number of customers that are not active but have invested in recruiting a large number of referrals. They are the ones that typically have auto withdraw turned on and we don't feel it is right to keep changing the fee as they will not necessarily know it has happened. They are also the type of customer that is happy to pay 3000 sats a week for the convenience. For anyone that is actively using the site using the slow withdrawal makes much more sense.

Quote from: Meow1968 on March 29, 2018, 05:32:15 PM

To me it doesn't matter as much as my first question which was about having the minimum at a level that takes months for an honest player to reach when it used to take a few weeks.

Meow

I hear you, it was only 30 free rolls when I started. This is much more a function of Bitcoin and micropayments than a freebitco.in issue. If we reduced it then we could easily get to the point that Tx fees go up again and I'll be answering endless complaints that fee is higher than the withdrawal amount. Just wait until we add other coins and I'm sure we'll offer other options to get your coin out.