these token is only used to get discounted for maintanence fee when we purchase their product, not for buying  hashing, am i right ?

This is where I am a little held up. Granted I have already bought tokens. Cryptonoms has already provided one answer but I just don't know if it's enough for me.

If they had a magic tool that they could turn on and effectively mint money, they would. Which essentially they do. I just don't understand what the benefit is of selling us these magical money machines are unless 1) they think they will make more money off the sale of tokens/maintenance than they would mining themselves. Or 2) They are willing to forgo a speculative investment later for a immediate investment now. I guess there is 3) they are just really great people and want to share the wealth so to speak however that one tends to be hard to believe in mosts instances of capitalism.

I just cant help but wonder why they aren't just doing it themselves. I know the answer is "centralization" however they could SO easily get around that.

Mining equipment isn't cheap, and these tokens don't represent ownership of miners just the capacity to run the miners. It's a capital intensive business, so more capital they get the more they can grow. They have access to cheap electricity and talented team to keep miners running, that's their edge in this business and what they are selling. They are also mining for themselves as Gigawatt has been for many years. Seems they are now building out more space and makes more sense to share risks of mining (coin price, difficulty rise ect) while selling us what they do best, keep miners running as cost efficient as possible. I've read about Dave Carlson for many years and his mining operations so I wouldn't worry about being scammed. Mining industry is a cut throat industry but I believe these guys are the best in the business so I'm willing to invest. Before I decide on how much I want to know if I'll be able to sell tokens to access the capital in the future if needed or just rent them out.

Says the guy who has -2 Trust on this forum 

Really interesting, must add a referral link to my Minera project

https://cryptonomos.com/?r=T0UpKufPvJ5Ob1sT6MA8irsS

Have you considered it's the weekend and these peeps could be working 5 days a week? I keep in touch with them on Facebook, they are kind enough and answer most of my questions when they have time. Right now they are probably concentrating on the token sale so their answers could be somewhat delayed.

That's from ~2.5 years ago. All the tips on how to prevent risks are welcome. However, the writer seems a bit too pessimistic on the imminence of the ICOs collapse.

Thanks, somehow the website was staying in my cache, it was displaying 'ico starts in -2 days etc'. Once I refreshed the webpage it worked!

 And Giga Watt isn't technically a startup anyway.

 MegaBigPower been around some years....

As for me, the project is not original. Already there were similar. And the maximum capitalization is very large.