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Title: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: sgk on March 25, 2015, 05:24:55 AM
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[...]Digital exchange platform PayBase is being accused of scamming its customers. For about a week, users have reported the website, which functions as a wallet and an exchange for Paycoin, an alternative digital currency that launched in December​ 2014, has stopped withdrawals.

A Reddit user posted in subreddit r/Bitcoin on Sunday that the site “has gone full blown Mt. Gox on everyone,” referring to the implosion of the world’s first Bitcoin exchange in February 2014 that resulted the disappearance of around 750,000 of customers’ bitcoins.[...]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/digital-currency-platform-paybase-accused-of-taking-off-with-customers-money


Title: Re: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: odolvlobo on March 25, 2015, 04:25:38 PM
Nobody saw this coming.  ;)


Title: Re: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: el_rlee on March 25, 2015, 07:24:09 PM
What? Scam in the cryptocurrency world? Who would have thought of that ;D


Title: Re: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: indiemax on March 25, 2015, 09:21:00 PM
please bring on the regulation and jail the scammers


Title: Re: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: Snipe85 on March 25, 2015, 10:54:48 PM
And the drama continues. How can you even compare some altcoin exchange, dealing in its own altcoin to Gox?
Those who stayed with them after XPY went from 18 to 0.5 USD and are now saying they were scammed have a delayed fuse. You were parted with most of your money long ago.


Title: Re: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: gentlemand on March 26, 2015, 01:04:07 AM
It's pretty disturbing reading the posts of the faithful in their forum. I don't see how the faith could've been maintained for so long. Just goes to show how powerful an emotion greed is and how quick people are to place trust in those who promise them the earth.

It's weird though. To be into Paycoin, you'd have to have been around crypto for a while and observed the endless broken promises and scams.


Title: Re: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: zoinky on March 26, 2015, 02:44:00 AM
It's pretty disturbing reading the posts of the faithful in their forum. I don't see how the faith could've been maintained for so long. Just goes to show how powerful an emotion greed is and how quick people are to place trust in those who promise them the earth.

It's weird though. To be into Paycoin, you'd have to have been around crypto for a while and observed the endless broken promises and scams.

Paid PR.


Title: Re: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: Armis on March 26, 2015, 06:52:37 PM
And the drama continues. How can you even compare some altcoin exchange, dealing in its own altcoin to Gox?

simple, Gox was the major force in the early beginnings that made BTCs rate fly through the roof, so from $10 to $1000 was mainly gox.   And on the other side of things, the downward performance of btc in 2014 was mainly gox.   2015 is the first real time gox is not a major part of the direction of btc


Title: Re: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: SirWilliam on March 26, 2015, 08:24:38 PM
Man alive, how could anyone NOT trust a face like that?

https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrink_200_200/p/2/005/045/0b1/3a8405d.jpg


http://hashersunited.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Josh-Garza.jpg

What is that, gypsy chic?


Title: Re: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: gentlemand on March 26, 2015, 08:32:22 PM

eh... i will give humanity abit higher standard by saying.... those are paid shills.

I might be wrong and god bless human race if so  :-\


Let's keep on hoping. If life has taught me anything so far...

I'd better keep that to myself if you're feeling fragile at the moment.


Title: Re: [2015-03-25] Motherboard: PayBase Accused of Absconding with Customers' Money
Post by: Snipe85 on March 26, 2015, 09:49:16 PM
And the drama continues. How can you even compare some altcoin exchange, dealing in its own altcoin to Gox?

simple, Gox was the major force in the early beginnings that made BTCs rate fly through the roof, so from $10 to $1000 was mainly gox.   And on the other side of things, the downward performance of btc in 2014 was mainly gox.   2015 is the first real time gox is not a major part of the direction of btc

You haven't answered my question. We all know Gox was one of the main players in 2013... What's your point? How does it relate to an altcoin exchange that started small and ended even smaller?