It has come as a shock to the system and the turning point for many Bitcoin mining services, but with the price slowly falling and falling many have been pushed out of the game. With PB mining already out and even CEX.IO anouncing their temporary leave, the future of Bitcoin looks uncertain. Now it comes as a a shocking announcement (but not for some who may have anticipated this sort of behavious from Josh Garza), that the Zenminer Cloud Mining services have shut down.
The service shut down abruptly leaving customers with now mining power and nothing to show for their money. The company gave no announcement of any shut down and many customers remain cluesless as to why the service would have shut down with Bitcoin prices still above $200. With the mining operations currently profitable for the miners, due to many products which offered a always profitable guarantee, it has been acknowledged the mining operations may have been unsustainable on the companies part. The announcement below was released on the Hash Talk forums and outlined the current situation for GAW.
“As a result of unstable market conditions, diminishing bitcoin value and the unbalanced-cost of maintenance and power, GAW and Zen Cloud mining operations have been indefinitely put on hold, effective immediately. At this time, we can no longer support mining services that place our customers’ value and mining efforts at risk. As the bitcoin value and market evolve, GAW and Zen Cloud mining operations will strategically adjust to meet those market conditions.”
Whilst GAW’s repuation may already have taken a beating from the previous PayCoin fiasco, the shutting down of Zenminer comes as a massive blow with Zenminer one of the biggest mining corporations compared to the likes of CEX.IO. However Zenminer comes as the latest provider to close its doors to the public and this has caused huge confusion among customers who were surpirsed the company was able to survive whilst price hit critical points of $150. Whilst some claim ponzi and others shout scam there is only one way to discover what really happens behind those closed doors.
A typical Zenminer Account now with mining disabled
The new wave of companies closing down has hed a drastic impact on the health of the Bitcoin network on the whole. Whilst the hash rate is dropping, and shockingly the difficulty which hasnt decreased this dramatically for years, the price has been the focus. With a dropping price the inadvertent effect is a dropping hashrate with miners no longer able to pay for operational costs.
The future of Zenminer
To conclude the declining prices of Bitcoin may have played a pivotal role in forcing the service to close its door but with the reputation of Josh Garza at stake (but already tarnished), many point the fingers to him. Having a reputation of going back on promises such as setting a $20 floor for the PayCoin it seems as this may have been inevitable. With the Garza empire slowly crumbling many customers may take the case to court. With Coinbase already on the verge of being taken to court over market manipulation claims, Josh may not be roaming the streets of Bitcoin for too long.
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Garza is a spoiled boy who as a child took a bunch of punches from his friends and now wants to regain. However, people that continue to belive in Paycoin, Gaw etc etc are pure assholes
You had to be pretty naive to have believed in Paycoin to begin with. Their community appears to consist largely of teenagers with all the sophistication you’d expect from them.
GAW miners was obvious scam since they started to offer their hashlets. Anyone who believed that Hashlets will always stay profitable is ultimate fool. BTW according to https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=30days&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address= bitcoin network hashrate is quite same for longer period of time (which means most cloud mining services, which closed doors were purely ponzi schemes and did not mine at all)
Wow, after this first sentence:
“It has come as a shock to the system and the turning point for many
Bitcoin mining services, but with the price slowly falling and falling
many have been pushed out of the game. With PB mining already out and
even CEX.IO anouncing their temporary leave, the future of Bitcoin looks
uncertain.”
I didn’t bother to read the rest of this article.
Everyone on the planet knows Garza, Paycoin and GAW miners was a scam, author of this article must be living in an alternative reality where people thought otherwise.
Bitcoin looking uncertain? Again, this author must be living in an alternative reality, every single day a new article comes out about another start up in Bitcoin, another company accepting Bitcoin, more millions pumped into Bitcoin via VC.
Not sure this author is credible.
Moving on.