"The biggest issue with BAN is that they are hiding where the extra 10% is coming from.
Why do people hide things unless they don't want people to know it."
s0br has let it be known, even back when the amount was 25% that he pays it himself. He has bought BTC to cover what the pool does not cover with found blocks. I was once on the chat with him and he thought he had misplace some coins ( like 2 blocks worth) only to find out a day later when he sent out a pool email that his wallet had been compromised. Even thru trials like that the man has always paid and i have a feeling he is well funded. At the beginning he was doing it all himself and found out it may have been a bigger task than he thought but with so many miners here for the "hobby" and mining at a loss why is it so hard to believe someone wants to build a pool that he can use himself even if it is not a financial positive cash flow at this time?
Disclaimer: (I really have no knowledge if the pool is profitable or not).
OK, so he pays it out of his pocket.
Good, that would clear it up ... if he actually said it, not someone else.
I would expect that the official forum thread for the pool that goes on about transparency would also say that.
There have been posts on the forum making all sorts of comments about where it comes from but none in the official forum thread, by him.
Clarifiying it in the official forum thread in the first post ... where he claims that the pool is the most transparent ... would obviously be very appropriate.