I'm getting the feeling that gaw CEO isn't a scammer.
He's just the biggest fucking narcissist on the planet.
That's always been a possibility, with this kind of crap
https://www.google.com/search?q=hashking+video+contestand the general cult of personality he created.
The reason I think it's a scam is because he laid out in his rant against KnC a roadmap that GAW would later follow. His cult of personality was just one way he cultivated a customer base for his bait-and-switch.