Quote from: alienesb on October 21, 2014, 07:40:29 PM

Quote from: cma3 on October 21, 2014, 07:12:03 PM

Quote from: Tripjammer on October 21, 2014, 06:54:48 PM

I am still avg about .04 per day after costs with about 135 mh/s with mostly zenhashlets....but it was .06-.07 just last Friday...

LTCgear is the way to go right now...are they holding up in payouts?

I considered LTCGear how are their lower end offerings doing? (ie: FarmShare, ASIC share,Mod M1s)

I dont want to hijack this thread. But it seems that the general consensus, even on Hashtalk, is that LTCGear (which, strangely enough is allowed to live on HT) is the go to place for diversification alongside of GAW.

LTCG is amazing but there are a lot of unknowns just like GAW. Pretty much all of these cloud services should be taken as gambles, some are less so than others. Because of the payout at LTCG I'd put them as a higher risk investment than GAW but I'd put GAW as higher than say Genesis because the latter is more transparent especially when it comes to showing the actual hardware.

Spread your risk accordingly.

Roger that @alienesb ,thanks!

Quote from: KC6TTR on October 21, 2014, 07:48:15 PM

Here is my Excel spreadsheet I use to generate what my minimums should be regarding payout vs. fees. I have not bought or sold anything in a while now so unfortunately the Zens are not looking good since the pool crashed a few day ago. Basically, my 300MH/s and 3000GH/s have dropped almost 50% in earnings over the previous 10 days where my home farm - about half the size of my GAW/Zen account - has declined less than 1% in the same amount of time and remains more profitable with my mainstream pools. Yes, I have solar power feeding these monsters, but still... something is not right on Front!

http://booth.pro/data/ZenCloud_BasicStats_102114.xlsx
(the auto BTC price updates every 10min unless you disable it. Just add your miner data and pool rates to see the magic)

Enjoy - your mileage may very.

Scott

Fantastic Scott! i will be studying this tonight, Thanks for sharing!

Quote from: eightcylinders on October 21, 2014, 08:53:20 PM

There are definitely some risks with LTCGear many of the same as with GAW: lack of transparency, above market profits, below market prices being the major red flags.

However, you can trace the payouts to the mined coins (unlike GAW, where the payouts are not traceable as far as I have been able to tell). There is a thread on litecointalk.org where one of the recent payouts (Oct 7 I think) was traced to a single solo miner with a massive number of found blocks (that doesn't mean a single machine of course). That at least shows me there is mining activity. Still have concerns I would not invest too much but I did transfer over 50% of my former GAW hashlets to LTCgear (and FYI I have more than 100% of the hashpower, and about double the payout versus GAW).

Interesting insight about LTCG. From the limited research I did (mostly anecdotal accounts from users) I am gauging them in much the same way you describe. Thanks for weighing in on this, its very helpful.