That thread is a gold mine
tl;dr
CEO is offering refunds via PM.
CEO has contacted NiceHash to find a solution and also said "a deal is in the works" in response to someone's suggestion that GAW should buy NiceHash.
"If I had our hashing power pointed, it would blow the pool [NiceHash] up. And the profits would be peanuts."
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"I considered pointing my hashing power there to make a point. But wont out of respect for Nice Hash".
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"You will see the payouts on nice hash after we removed it. Just watch".
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"Just know, I did not make the decision lightly, I was up most of the night thinking about it.
I know many of you would be upset. But I just can not put the future of our system at risk. I knew as soon as it got at that you could do this, more people with start trying.
Listen everyone. We have ALWAYS done right by you. I am about to upgrade a Hashlet that was purchased for $16 (in some cases less) to 30-40GH, which is worth twice as much. Where do you think the money to buy that hashing power comes from? Or profits.
My point is, it does not makes sense to invest in to our customer and business they way we do, to then just screw everyone over one pool. So please, think about this before you post."
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"the real solution is our own rental/pool service. Which is coming."