The two numbers are entirely unrelated. Ghost does not take 40% of your earnings. If you take a platform such as Wordpress, you can pay $5 every month to have it hosted, and eventually set up a payment system on top. It's not Wordpress taking a cut of your payments, it's you paying them for a service you would have to pay them for anyways, payments setup or not.
This part of the copy confused me too.
What percentage of ghost users set up payments at all? I'm guessing it is a tiny fraction, making the ratio of the two numbers meaningless.
(Independently, the two numbers are each a great achievement!)