Quote from: CYPER on December 27, 2013, 12:27:07 AM

Quote from: mdude77 on December 27, 2013, 12:18:06 AM

Quote from: CYPER on December 27, 2013, 12:00:05 AM

Quote from: mdude77 on December 26, 2013, 11:54:55 PM

Quote from: CYPER on December 26, 2013, 11:51:22 PM

And 3% fee out of 2500TH/s are not enough for that?
Here's a very simple calculation: 3% is 75TH/s, which is around 32BTC a day.
Still not enough for better customer support?

BTC Guild is as good as it gets. That's why the hashrate is here.

Remember he has to keep a slushpool of BTC for bad luck streaks on PPS. That money doesn't come from nowhere.

I'm sure the daily hosting fees aren't small either.

M

With a 5% fee on PPS the bad luck is not so bad Grin

What I am saying is that with the amount of income the owner receive he can absolutely afford a dedicated customer support and still continue to be filthy rich.
Your post sounds like: after he pays his hosting and PPS bad luck he barely has something left, which can't be further from the truth.

I'm not convinced he's filthy rich.

There are other pools. Feel free to try them out, you'll see why BTC Guild is the #1 pool.

M

Well I guess if you compare him to Bill Gates then he would not be considered filthy rich Grin

Then again if you compare the pool to Ghash.io then it would not be considered #1 in terms of hashing speed.
It's all about perspective really.
But that is not the point - the point was that a pool that has 2.5PH/s speed and is charging a minimum of 3% fee should provide a good and timely customer support.

I had a question above, that remained unanswered, so I will forward it to the pool email, so let's see if it get answered in a timely manner.

Try looking up how much bandwidth costs alone, across two continent dedicated servers, and private servers with this amount of PH would cost on any two global co-location facilities. See if you think he's rich after that. Not saying he's living on a diet of Ramen, but he's not exactly lounging in Monaco either. He does have to keep a sizeable chunk of BTC in both backup Cold Storage and in the hot wallet for the pool at all times, just in case.

Also Eleuthria is usually extremely quick to respond. Assuming he celebrates it, Christmas may not be the time to expect an instant or even a day after response. Let the guy sip his eggnog.