Hey Rapture,

Well a Mandatory donation percent is generally called a fee. Who is going to mine with a 5% fee, when people are complaining about their payouts on a 0% fee....
The problem is that the hosting costs 150$ a month to have the server running, it then takes up close to 6 hours a day of my time to keep it running

The problem is, the pool was put there as a way to drive up the price of UTC and get a payout for their efforts of what they earned automatically converted to Ultracoin. But instead, the majority of people complained that their payout was low, or they could have done better on wafflepool or this or that, yet after explaining to every single person, that having 40 Miners and expecting payouts equivalent to pools with 6000 miners is not going to happen. A long side that, the price of UTC fluctuates a lot, so what they get paid out is what the price of Ultracoin has been throughout the day.