I completely agree. In fact. I think the only reliable productive miner is Genesis, which you do indeed need to pay. I have not done it. I have made enough litecoin on the cryptomax to be able to withdrawal. So that is a success in my book. I mean, they're all a ponzi, but just having fun. I was able to withdrawal once from bitminer, but then i accidentally put in a second btc address, now i have to upgrade $10 in btc to withdrawal. Minegate sends me email updates on the status of my miner, i appreciate that. Startminer is almost at the point I can withdrawal, so will let you know if it happens without a catch. eobot and the rest are pretty slow as free. My sincere advice is, if you can afford throwing down $60-$100 and really want to mine, then Genesis Mining X11 Dash contract. I personally live so check to check that I use that $60 and straight up by BTC from coinbase. I have also had success from moonbitcoin, moondoge, moonlitecoin, freedogecoin faucets. I should post my affiliates here, but that's not what this is about. But yes, I have have been able to withdrawal from them too.
I appreciate your posts and look forward to more. If you go with, or have gone with Genesis, let us know how it goes?!
I also managed to enter a second address to Bitminer, so I messed that up. The rate they show for a free account does seem too good to be true, so I'm interested if anyone got paid. I think Startminer looked like an identical scheme, so I hope they do pay you.
I've found Moondoge to be fairly good as I can get a few cents from it each week with very little effort.
I'm not ready to invest more at the moment, so I'll stick with Eobot and see how it goes. It's all just a bit of fun