According to them they are leasing most of their hash power to companies (some people even suspected they are doing some code or phone cracking with it) and the payouts are calculated based on the pool payments, so yes it's probably done by a server.
Smells like BS. How can you possible use scrypt/sha256 miners to do anything other than scrypt/sha256 hashing?
They showed the pictures of 2 data centers they were building and a warehouse full of hardware, so the hash is not fake.
Pics don't prove their legitimacy but I'd still love to see them. So far I've only seen a bunch of unplugged miners in a warehouse that they claimed was mining but was clearly not.
What I want to see is a publicly verifiable address which is mining with 250+ GH/s on the scrypt network like they claim.
1/4th of the entire scrypt network is not easy to hide unless it doesn't exist.
I suspect the main difference between GAW and other companies, the one that makes people suspicious, is that the software seems completely separate of the hardware. You're doing all these upgrades, boosts, pool switching in the API, but it doesn't affect your miner directly. It just afects the way your profits are calculated, while they are directing the power to whatever they feel is profitable at the moment.
Why don't they just cut the BS/marketing gimmicks and give people a reasonable deal on hosted hardware?
Why all the games/obfuscation?
What's so hard about having integrity?
Look at Hashnest (owned by Bitmain) for example; they claim to have 4Ph for sale and we can easily verify they own at least that amount.
As you can see here:
http://mempool.info/pools Antpool (Bitmain) has 3% of the network which equates to ~7PH.
Side note: Why are 100% of your posts GAW related?