To be honest I'm a bit surprised by all this unraveling so quickly. It looks like the "floor" was the last straw for many.
I am and I'm not.
In some ways I thought the collapse would come the day the investors got their hp converted XPY. I was surprised everybody didn't just run for the hills the second they could. But then I guess we had information most other investors didn't.
We've had many broken promises, like hashlet buyback, zenpool, SHA256 mining, etc and HT community has shown a lot of tolerance for those shenanigans in the past. And they still are holding up quite well even in this shitstorm.
What's different now is that GAW no longer operates in a bubble (i.e. ZenCloud), they have touched The Real World with their Paycoin. Now external actors like Litecoin or Shapeshift calling GAW out is something entirely new. Looks like they've been watching this for a while, it wasn't just us in our own "bubble thread".