It is pretty funny Bitmain didn't confirm that... I don't know why Josh opened himself up to that if he didn't already have Bitmain on board with the confirmation idea... It just makes him look worse.
And this new update is shit... It doesn't help us with our payouts... Zenpool is now a "Normal" pool and this was their biggest selling point. How did they not know that the contract was expiring and they would need to renegotiate??? I highly doubt that's even true at this point..
Now - All their efforts are geared towards keeping more BTC in Zencloud - Reduced payments, account locks/holds, severely late and restricted withdraw limits... EVERYTHING points to them being super low on BTC.