Quick note is remember that payouts are taken at a snapshot. So if you buy a few hours before payouts run you might not qualify for it and be placed in the next week's payout.

Overall the support and PR are great for GAW however they have some MAJOR flaws. First a lot of the promises they give fall flat. For example primes being able to mine SHA was promised many many weeks ago. Another fiasco was the whole prime buyback promises. First they say you can sell it for 80% of what you paid. Then they change it to 80% - what you mined then they just flatout did not offer any buyback and let it open in the market (which they flip flopped over whether it would be in the market or not). A lot of value that is seen in GAW is speculative. So now we can mine hashpoints but guess what they have no value as of yet. WE used to be able to buy hashlets with it but that was turned off.  Of course there are many positive things about the company such as support, accommodation for lower pool payouts with hashpoint mining, constant updates and communication, listening to user feedback, etc but I feel the positives have been said over and over again compared to the negatives. And no I am not a hater but I am certainly not blinded to the negatives.

i think the main problem is everyone in the past few days said they won these cards from a "contest". That puts most people in a very skeptical situation since how many cards were there in these contests. You will have to be more specific.

What do you mean by clear. The payment will clear after a set number of confirmations but I believe they might have some manual portion to giving you the contract. It usually will be in your account within 12-24 hours after you initiate the transaction but usually sooner.

In theory yes but currently no. The bottleneck is not the hard drive or SSD speed its more of the RAM and CPU when plotting and mining (although with mining the requirements are significantly lower). Usb 2 may see less performance but a usb3 hard drive or any internal hard drive will never be the bottleneck

No you do not get to access them. You simply use the shares and pick how you want to get paid (btc,ftc,ltc,etc). Its a simple display almost like a stock where you get paid dividends but do not see behind the operations

Bitmain will forever have contributed something great to bitcoin mining. It ended the whole preorder for asic miners. They set the standard for no preorders on miners and waiting months (although now they did do a preorder with their scrypt miner). Bitmain is probably still one of the most reliable sources for miners. As a company they are still great and fulfill orders like they say they would. ROI is different than the company operations. ROI is getting harder with any miner since the price of bitcoin went down greatly. It makes it harder when buying from Bitmain because it is harder for them as well.

Bitcoin is not big enough for either company to get involved. It was discussed many times even when bitcoin was at $1000. I think back then it was 2-3% of people use bitcoin which is nothing for these companies.

Some people will only ship to the same country to avoid the hassle of dealing with customs, seizured packages, etc. Also the probability of the package getting damaged or lost goes up with international. If you are talking about ebay it is easier to scam people with if you are talking on btc forums then see the first few sentences.

LTCgear has the best ROI potential. A lot of people have reach ROI but who knows how legit they are. I bit the bullet and bought in last week. Received my first payment without a hitch. Other cloud mining companies have a much harder time to reach ROI this includes cex, pbmining, scrypt.cc, gawminers, etc. If I had to pick another company to put my money into (which I have) it would be either Gawminers or pbmining. Pbmining is probably just as risky as ltcgear (maybe slightly less due to more realistic payouts). gawminers hashlets have been good but the payouts are consistently decreasing making it a very bad time to invest now. A lot of people over there are praying the hype they have been saying will be followed through.

People keep saying pbmining is a ponzi. ANY operation can fail and make you lose your investment. Look at bitcoin trader. They just lost everyone's bitcoins now. Look at gox months ago. THese were all legit companies that stole peoples funds. Another person with reputable reputation was tradefortress with the whole inputs.io scam. The point is ALL investments have risks. THe greater the risk the greater the reward especially with bitcoin stuff. For example my most profitable investments were newer companies like cex when they first started. People were skeptical but there were no fees and people made a killing compared to now where its extremely hard to make a profit but its now a reputable company. I am pretty sure pbmining is legit of course no one can make an guarantees. MANY people reached ROI and there is no reason to believe more people will not

I do not worry GAW has been good to us just wish they did more for us recently. Its annoying when they make announcement of exciting stuff then fail to deliver (SHA mining with primes for example was promised weeks ago). They are now teasing us with hashbase but so far that does not really excite me. All the bells and whistles are nice but if a nice ROI is not seen the bells and whistles are pointless.

so far GAW has been pretty transparent (webcasts, conferences in vegas, etc) but the main issue is the features that are suppose to hit the hashlets. We are constantly being teased with great things for primes but so far nothing substantial has been done. (SHA mining was offered weeks ago and still is not out). My personal opinion is hashlets are great and can be profitable especially if you play the market right and get good deals. The only concerning thing for me is all these announcements about things to come. I would prefer they would only announce them when they are ready or within a week or so. For example they announces the PRIME buyback for 80% then changed it to 40-what you mined and then just opened it up to the market. They need to be more concrete with their announcements. Just my 2 cents.

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I participated in the previous giveaway and received the incentive quickly. I recommend the pool and have been mining on the pool ever since. Besides the one downtime the pool has been stable. hopefully more people will join this great pool. The devs of the pool seem to be really active

Good start but you might have wanted to leave it on the pool a bit so others could have seen it (maybe a day or at least half a day). I like how you guys have operated so far but you will have the pessimists saying it could have easily been photoshopped. If other users would have either confirmed it or taken the screenshot themselves it would give you guys more reputation. On another note keep up the great work, listening to your customers is the best way to stand out with the competition.

weird I purchased some gh Monday morning EST and it went through in an hour or two. Hopefully PBmining gets back to you they are usually pretty good. Did you try pming them on this forum?

Well I sent 2 coins because of this. 3 coins total and 1 went to the fee. So he was taken care of

Sent enjoy mining!

IF you want I will give a review for a vouch copy. I am a senior member with some built trust from previous transactions. If not that is fine too but make sure you pick someone who is at least a full member or more