To sides of the coin:

First, so far I always got my payouts without problems as soon as they reached the withdrawl limit.

Second: After they ended the contracts they promised that we can withdraw below limit too. Then started the contracts again. Wasn't happy with that but well, ok so far. Didn't check for some time but now I see still not generating any results for days. According to their rules contracts should be ended an balances should be paid.

Sent them a letter again but I doubt they will react ... sad to see that a legit company (and I still believe the were before the crash) turns into a scam because obviously they start to run out of money :-(
Etherum contracts still generate (low) results. So I will see in a month when I reach payout limit there if the still at least pay out that.

Follow Up:

Just received an email that they say to implement an option for withdrawing amounts under the limit soon.

Well, they sent out a letter that they terminate contracts due to not generating profits longterm anymore.

In their FAQ they state that when your contract ends and the amount you have accumulated is still below the min payout you are allowed to withdraw anyway.
We will now see if they stand to their word.

So far they asked for a verification by ID and selfie. Did so and it's processed now. Let's see if they allow payout then.

I am a big fan of Hasflare but reccommending them now with your own referal link is just cheap!
At the moment no inverstment in cloud mining can be proftable due to the low exchange rate. The only one earning is you on the cost of others!

Of course cloud mining with Hashflare might become worth it again (especially fo those who can't afford antminers) if the cryptos recover ... but right now recommending an inverstment is not fair to newcomers!

Currently, definately no ... with the current exchange rate price for hashpower is way to high, as well is maintenance cost.
No proftable investment until cryptocurrencies recovered a lot.

Advice for newbies: Before accusing somebody of Scam maybe read something about Bitcoin ... then you would know about rising difficulty and knowing why profits decrease. Advanced lesson: read about how they calculate maintanence fee, which is a fixed $-amount that is deucted in BTC. Therefore, the lower the BTC the higher the fee. And the profi lesson: RTFM - Read the f**** manual ... in this case the FAQ. Then you would know that after your contract expires you are allowed to withdraw regardless if you meet the limit or not.

But yes, crying Scam and saying it's their fault is so much easier.

As far as I know, yes.


Agree on that.
Estimation for 1 year result with my 1.5 TH/s BTC went down from around $1.300 to around $600 now.
But before people again cry "SCAM" ... that's the risk of mining and investing, as much there is a risk with trading. So it's not Hashflare's fault.

This is valid for people with own hardware and energy costs as well. We all can only hope that the price recovers and stays on a better level ... because this can lead to a point were mining at all becomes unprofitable, which will hurt the BTC severly.

What's suspicious about an information that is clearly printed in the FAQs and can be read by everyone before someone decides to buy some mining capacity?

I like Hashflare in general but they have two problems at the moment: Their prices and the current Exchange Rate

They increased prices before christmas. It was $1,50 per 10 GH/s and is now $2,20 for BTC mining.
While this was still ok when the BTC was high it is more difficult now with the lower BTC. At the moment expect ROI within 4-5 months (was 2-3 before).
I addition their maintance fee is a fixed $-Amount but will be deducted in BTC (so the lower the BTC the higher the fee)

Same ist for ETH mining (also this is maintenance free). ROI was around 5 months, down to 3-4 months before the ETH followed the BTC down from his max. and is now closer to 6 months.

So if you expect that Cryptos will go up significantly again and you have no problem to hodl your mined coins some time than it might be still a good thing.
If you expect the Cryptos stay at the current level for a very long time (or even go down further) it might be not a worthwhile investment.

For me I currently re-invest mined BTC into more ETH mining power as I expect the ETH to have more potential to rise again. But this is just my opinion!

One more remark: The min. withdraw for BTC is quite high at over $500 (but should decrease again sometimes later). Ether min withdraw is around $95.

Yes, Minergate offers Cloud Mining. But there are some threads here in the forum that show that at least for Cloud Ming their results are way below of what you should expect. So most probably legit but not worth the investment.

Says who?
You have a friend who heard that somebody knows a guy who‘s brother has a colleague that read somewhere that they are scammers? 

Read their FAQ and there it says that you get your money regardless of the amount once your contract has ended.

Von "was-auch-immer" zu Bitcoin ist leider sauteuer. Von BTC zu "was-auch-immer" liegt meist eher im Bereich von $5-10. Allerdings hat der Tausch von BTC in anderes ein Minimum von 0.01850571 BTC.

Ich benutze Exodus als Wallet, da ist Shapeshift integriert. Ist insofern nicht schlecht weil man direkt einen gewünschten Betrag eintragen kann und angezeigt bekommt was unten rauskommt bevor man den "Tauschen-Button" drückt.

BTW, Genesis is „out of stock“ on everything.
So no way for new customers at the moment anyway.

Well, if you really know about how mining works you would know that selling lifetime contracts is the real scam. A legit company wouldn't do that. So that's why I am happy that Genesis an Hashflare got rid of lifetime contracts fast enough.

"Lifetime" makes you believe that you pay once and mine for the rest of your life. Very wrong! Lifetime means you will mine as long as your mining result is higher than your costs. And then the contract terminates. The problem: Lifetime contracts are usually more expensive than 1-year contracts. Unfortunately you have no idea how long the contract will last. So ROI and the amount of return is very hard to calculate. With a 1-year contract it's still not easy (due to difficulty change) but you get at least a rough number when you reach your ROI and how much you can expect in relation to your investment.

So for me I never would mine with somebody offering lifetime contracts!

Also den Artikel selber kann man getrost in die Tonne treten ... aber das Interview mit dem Fondsmanager finde ich sehr interessant!

Well, if you follow the link it redirects to something containing:
"source=advendor&tracking_id=xxxxxxxxxxx"

So I assume it's somebody trying to get referrals.

Correct, I had switched to BW from Jan, 11th to 15th when they were best and my results showed the correct expectation.

If you don't check daily the risk distribution might be a good idea. But I take a look daily at the Google-Spreadsheet as well as the Minerlytics Site and switch accordingly. As you said, the quality is usually consistent for at least a couple of days (mostly even longer). So being not on the top side for a day before switching should hurt less than consistently passing on the top results due to a mix.

Mach leider gerade dieselbe Erfahrung.
Zuerst am Laptop mit der Webcam ... nö, könne man nicht lesen. Soll über die App gemacht werden.
Dann tut sich mit der App ewig nix.

Dann statt IdentityTM nun IDNow probiert. Um 23:45 die Verbindung aufgebaut ... bitte warten ... um 24 Uhr Verbindung gekappt, weil Geschätszeit vorbei ist. geht's noch?

Also wieder IdentityTM und nun bereits mehr als eine halbe Stunde nix wegen zu hoher Nachfrage. Um 01 Uhr Nachts? Wie mag das dann erst tagsüber sein?
Vielleicht mal den Wecker auf 4 Uhr morgens stellen. Wobei ... der arme Operator der mich dann identifizieren muss  

Aber ernsthaft, das ist das komplizierteste und unpraktischte Verifizierungsverfahren das ich je erlebt habe. Wenn man schon High-Tec ist, dann sollte die High-Tec wenigstens funktionieren.


Nachtrag: Nach über 1h dann abgebrochen. Aber wer sich einen Spaß erlauben will sollte mal versuchen gleichzeitig von einem anderen Gerät dieselbe Adresse aufzurufen. Dann kriegt man eine Verbindung mit sich selber  Ob man sich dann auch selber verifizieren kann?   
Sehr vertrauenerweckendes System.

Interesting!
I tried each one 100% and got better results in comparison with Dwarfpool (but this was just 2 days each early January) ... but If I compare it with my 100% DP the last days:

2018 JAN 14: 0.00009987 ETH per 1 MH/s
2018 JAN 15: 0.00010244 ETH per 1 MH/s
2018 JAN 16: 0.00010218 ETH per 1 MH/s
2018 JAN 17: 0.00010004 ETH per 1 MH/s

.... so yes, your observation of better results with 50/50 are valid. Just changed back to 50/50 too now.