Its interesting to see GAW/ZenMiner posting here on an unmoderated thread, given the extremely heavy handed moderation present on their own forum ("HashTalk") and discontinuation of their previous bitcointalk thread for GAW a while back. I'm eager to see what feedback and discussion we'll see in this thread, as most of the recent feedback on GAW/ZenMiner outside of HashTalk has been negative. Perhaps Eric can shed some light on several issues that have been banned from discussion on HashTalk or have failed to be addressed by Eric, Josh, Amber, or other GAW representatives:
1) Total lack of any real mining from ZenMiner Cloud, as confirmed by more than 50% of the pools ZenMiner Cloud claims to allow miners to select. No increase in hashrate, workers, etc. from ZenMiner Cloud, nor "affiliation" or "private stratums" that Eric/Josh have claimed in the past, as commented on by at least four of the ZenMiner Cloud user-selectable pools.
2) No documented evidence of physical miners or an actual datacenter presence, as much as you guys like to post photo/video propaganda of Josh being the "scrypt king" -- just seems odd you won't post any kind of proof.
3) Extremely heavy handed moderation on HashTalk of any discussion of these issues or any other question/topic that you dislike.
4) Increasingly large delays in shipping orders both from GAW and ZenMiner.
5) Decreasing amount of non-ZenMiner Cloud hardware available for purchase at GAW (and increasing prices on the few items that are available).
6) "Interest" on ZenMiner Cloud held-bitcoin -- seems an awful lot like a ponzi scheme.
7) Discontinuation of "founders club" benefits like the promised upgrade paths, free hosting for life, etc. without any announcement or discussion possible - again due to heavy handed moderation on HashTalk, and refusal of customer service representatives to address the issue.
These are great statements/questions. I'm in no way affiliated with Zen or GAW, was just posting from my experience with them. They have treated me very well, but not without hiccups. In my mind I assumed they were always using a larger machine or some type of cloud service the whole time. When you wanted to take delivery they sent ya one from Hong Kong er where everdafuck they are producing them. But I don't understand why they won't show any proof, of anything. Since posting here, I've also noticed a couple of my questions and statements have been removed from Hashtalk. I'm getting sketched out.