Like I said in previous posts... I explain it again:
The projects are not funded by investors or something, I built all it on my own, however the ad networks pays very less right now, causing negative balance every day.
Therefore it is set to 20$ for Tier 1 now, because before that, 40$ for Tier 1 is too much and we count every views, including ad block views and there was 25% adblock too.. It means we paid 25% more than any hosts, which the rates should be at 30$ for Tier 1, but now its 20$ for Tier 1.
And on top of all, remind that, we pay more server costs than any hosts, just because of encodings.
And for your information, every host is currently in negative balance every day and they are backed by investors...
I do not want to decrease the payout limit, because it bring extra work for processing.
I believe this is right decision, it is better to pay users 100% always than pending payouts.