There's no negotiations. Zen is not a real pool. Josh arbitrarily decides how much it pays
Any proof of this or bullshit as always?
It has been a known for 2+ months now there is no actual mining going on at GAW/Zen. This is another reason why they have changed their TOS (repeatedly) to disclose "virtual" "digital" miners, etc. when people were inquiring as to why when real hardware was sold by GAW back in June/July with hosting, that hardware was nowhere to be found when it came to ship people their products after the free hosting expired (August-September).
All the strategically angled pictures of the same $50-75K worth of early Zeus sourced hardware (not hooked up to anything) taking up less space than a single grocery store isle in a storage facility (circa early July), which they call a data center, will not change the fact that rented ServerRack and Amazon based cloud servers "ARE" GAW/Zen - nothing more.
Trace their network data routing and it will all be clear.