The Problem I see with GAW right now(and yes I am sure there are more) is they Keep pushing out the Conversion from HP to Paycoin. Its like someone stated before its like the state farm commercial. I got a dollar for you. With the dollar hanging off the end of the fish hook. How blind do you have to be to see the hook keeps going out more and more.
That is only the most recent "tip of the iceburg". I have been with GAW since almost the beginning the the pattern is pretty darn black and white by now...
(1) It started with hosted miners, sold by GAW and hosted for "free" (included in price for one mont to one year when purchased through GAW). GAW promised many features to the hosting that never materialized. Power outages and network problems mean lots of down time or partially working miners (which, in fairness, Josh provided compensation for in the form of store credits for me at least). No features ever materialized. Lots of problems with various pools (compatibility).
(2) GAW started zencloud as an upgrade to their hosted miner solution. They claimed to have a new datacenter where all the power problems would be solved, and new software with all the bells and whistles (to come). Pools on zencloud were limited but were promised to open up. Josh offered to switch me over for "free" to the new "beta" platform. Miraculously, transferring a hosted miner from the old crummy data center to the new Zencloud datacenter took only minutes. Must have some fast runners over there.
(3) Shortly thereafter, Josh announced hashlets. Originally marketed as the next evolution of mining. All owners of hosted miners were offered the opportunity to "upgrade" to hashlet mining. Oh, and new features promised for Zencloud hosted mining? Forget it. Pool choice narrowed and development (if it was ever in development at all) stopped. Upgrading hosted miners from Zencloud to hashlets was virtually compelled if you wanted to make any money and use the new "zenpool" which at the time was returning 2-4x what LTC mining was returning. That lasted for only 2-3 weeks at which point zenpool become the same crap as other pools, but by then most folks had "upgraded" from hosting to Primes.
(4) After "upgrading" from hosted miners to hashlets, Josh started to come clean that, in fact, unlike with the alleged hosted miners, mining on hashlet via the listed pools did not result in any actual mining on those pools. Instead, profits from from other activities like coin ICOs and renting of servers.
(5) After Zenpool tanked after only a few weeks, and Josh's promise to bring profits back to mining on Zenpool failed to materialize, we suddenly have the annoucement of Hashbase and Hashcoin aka Paycoin. And, as predicable as the sun rising, Josh offered a new scheme to bring back profitability: mining Hashpoints which will convert into Paycoins. Viola, and now we are completely off mining since hashpoints are nothing other than loyalty points.
(6) Now, as you point out, owners are forced to "upgrade" to Hashstakers and to use their loyalty program points (aka Hashpoints) to buy Paycoins to "stake" for 3-6 months while Josh works out his next plan.
Good luck to all of the poor folk who have fallen for this. I have whiplash now from just remembering all the twists and turns.
You forgot "FREE" hosting for life for founding members, that's why they don't sell miners on their main site and sell them on oneminer
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