Wait, so hardware that was in YOUR hands, mining whatever pools YOU wanted them to mine were wildly unprofitable? But the hashlets controlled by the evil empire known as GAW actually were able to break even plus a little profit?
I call scam.
If I count the time from when hashlets were introduced until the hashpoints became the XPY pre-cursor, I did not make enough BTC after fees to pay for the outlay of prime and zen hashlets I own (lost about $300 when I worked the spreadsheet). It is only when I factor in the sale of all my free XPY that I broke even.
Even then, some of the profits are still on paper, so I can't really say just how much in the black I am until the money is in my hand. I worked in Silicon Valley during the bubble and knew a lot of paper millionaires who didn't become real millionaires. Unless you can convert that 'paper' to liquid cash, it is still just 'paper'.
Oh and Merry Christmas everyone!