Maybe I'm totally wrong here, but have GAW actually outright stated they are mining scrypt? In the advertising they say the hashlet can change algorithm (new features coming soon). Is it as simple as they are mining multi-algorithms and spreading the hash across all coins?
If you could get decent hash out of Scrypt N while keeping the heat and power draw to a minimum, this would do it.
My money is on next-gen multi-algorithm ASIC miners.
Yes, they have stated it is Scrypt, many times. It's listed as Scrypt miner on ZenCloud, the CEO specifically referred to this as an initiative to help Litecoin and Scrypt profitability. This doesn't mean they can't backpedal from these claims and justify that with some kind of good intention. However there isn't enough hashrate anywhere outside Scrypt to support their claimed capacities, certainly not in Scrypt-N. Last known ZenPool hashrate was 250+ GH/s (Scrypt).
Curiously though in their PR they refer to it as "Bitcoin mining", presumably to make it more understandable to the wider audience.
The way I see it, 1 of 2 things might be happening.
1. The zenpool isn't skimming off the top of each miners profits like some mp do - it doesn't need to do this since its theirs and people buy shares to mine there.
2. *I am using round numbers here so dont quote me on this example ok - say the datacenter has 1 gig to allocate - whats to say they dont have 1.5 gig running so the remaining is purely used to prop up the payments only. As more people buy hashlets it increases both
happy to be wrong, debate whatever.
See above. It's declared at 250 GH/s, would have to be nearly double that to make payments sustainable. See also the first post of the thread, there is more detail on that.