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.

agreed.

I think most if not all of these questions are "answered" by the Hashlet announcement:

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/720844.0

The issue I can't seem to find a clear answer on is outlined in this screenshot from that hashtalk.org thread:
http://gyazo.com/b81573cf67eda7620bce27f20ae57181

I'm not really sure how buying pools and/or rental services will allow you to increase mining profits. Many of us have been doing this for a long time, and some of us own both a rental service and a pool (lol), and have yet to find that magic 'double' button you guys claim -- I'll keep looking though, that's for sure.

I haven't seen any "rental services" or "pools" announced as acquisitions of GAW, nor heard of any acquisition or buyout of mainstream service providers. I would urge that everyone exercise extreme caution, because as is always the case, the more fantastic-sounding the claims.. the more unlikely to be true they are when zero evidence is being presented.

It is extremely easy to refute the major questions in this thread. Post some details of datacenters with mining equipment, and a transparent record of your actual blocks mined + transactions. That's what blockchains are for, and what nearly every pool out there does.

so i just purchased a hashlet.  let me see a picture of what i bought. not the retail pic. i want to see the actual machine. plugged in, turned on, and running with the rest of the peoples hashlets that were purchased.

ZenPool is at 93 GH/s now. Presumably it's not mining LTC otherwise it wouldn't be able to meet its profitability target. That kind of hashrate will be noticed if it exists. Not sure how accurate CoinWarz is but all the other Scrypt coins combined don't seem to add up to much more than 100 GH/s.

https://zenminer.com/pool/ (scroll down)

http://www.coinwarz.com/miningprofitability/litecoin?sort=hashrate&dir=desc

That's neither a pool nor a rental service.. so I'm a bit lost.

What were the last blocks mined by zenpool? Can you please show us that information as well?