...now, wait... I'm the one now who say... calm down folks!
yup, it was me  .

...cannot really speak out of personal experiences as I have no contract at btc, yet at least I never heard complaints from any side about not having been payed so far. the source of payments seems to be a pretty distributed model, some mining, some reinvestment, some whatever... how they manage it under the rugs is everything else than thought to be transparent, yet they seem to have a lot of happy customers...