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Title: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on April 30, 2016, 08:19:06 PM
So Mycelium is organising a "crowdsale". If you've been in their website you've most definitely heard about it because they're doing their best to get the word out. I'm here to give you the hard truth though, this is quite possibly the worst place to put your money in and most certainly a guaranteed loss of principal. Don't give them money unless you consider it a donation. Here's why:

Part 1
Unacceptable practices:
Giving a 10% discount to people expressing interest prior to the sale.  (https://archive.is/6QVa8#selection-136.1-147.45)
You don't have to be a genius to see how bad of a practice this is for securities (note: this crowdsale isn't even a security) that are supposedly representing a stake in a company.

Promising investors part of the money received from future crowdsales (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-570.0-570.3)
In their own words:
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You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.
Remember that a Cyprus-based holding company is involved, and Mycelium operations are supposedly Latvian-based. This is a borderline pyramid scheme setup and illegal for securities in most of the world.

Absolutely zero legal fallback (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-797.8-786.6)
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There will be no refunds. Token is not a security, is not listed, authorized, issued or traded on any regulated market.

No ETA on project rollout
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.msg14677405#msg14677405) and the creators have no clear idea how it's going to be built or even what it's going to be. You're you would literally be buying a stake in vapourware.

Mycelium's supposed address is a rent-a-desk service's address. (http://www.desksurfing.net/desks/1423-darbavieta)
part 2
Why this has a high chance of being a loss:
First things first, up to this point, could you name anything that Mycelium did that was a commercial success? Their wallet software was free and not monetized, which is nice for users but not for potential investors. A supposed advantage of this crowdsale is dividends but there's no talk about how they're going to turn in profit.

They are granting themselvs the right to repurchase shares at the initial price. (https://web.archive.org/web/20160430121948/https://wallet.mycelium.com/crowdsale.pdf)
There's no clear plan on how this project is potentially going to turn in profit, but even in the unlikely event that the project becomes profitable, they could buy back the shares at the initial price and end their obligation to investors.

Can only invest in the wallet but there's no guarantee that the money will be spent on it instead of other projects (https://archive.is/PLTOU#selection-2093.0-2099.362) (that Mycelium won't pay investors dividends for)
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And do I have a guarantee that the collected funds will only be used for the wallet project and not for the rest of the company?
Not entirely, but that's mainly because eventually all of the rest of our company will be rolled into this wallet. Most of the expense will be used to pay Wallet developer salaries, but some of our resources (like office and general brand marketing) are shared, so it would be difficult to keep completely separate. Sorry I can't give a more satisfactory answer.

Tokens are released in their own platform. (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-669.67-669.160)
So fair distribution is entirely based on trust, as well as trading. Yet they claim that Token owners can either sell them on the open market at any moment or redeem to us if conditions are met (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-771.0-771.106), which is misleading at best.

Especially risky when you look at this from a legal perspective:
You're a US citizen, right? Where's your company based/registered at?

For now yes. It's not my company, I am technically just a contractor. It's registered in Cyprus, with the Wallet division registered in Latvia.

My advice on this would be to stay away. It looks bad in every way possible, there's no guarantee that Mycelium have the supposed platform ready or even that they're working on it. Don't fall for their misleading advertising, this looks bad no matter how you look at it. Only send money if you consider it a donation.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: cjmoles on May 01, 2016, 01:06:03 AM
Thanks for the affirmation....This is exactly the way I see it too.  But, what's so confusing to me is that they seem to be serious!  Their crowdsale terms don't make a lick of sense from an investor's point of view, or from any angle for that matter, but is there anything at all in their offer that might justify an investment rather than a donation?  SMILE--I'm thinking about donating out of pure confusion but can I at least expect a t-shirt, coffee mug, or something for my support?  I guess what I'm asking: is it a pure scam or is it a genuine project?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbite111 on May 01, 2016, 01:29:26 AM
Pure money grab on the heels of all these icos. Reminds me of the dot com bubble.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Anon_7716 on May 01, 2016, 01:34:43 AM
So glad that there's someone who gives an offer to do a donation, but that makes me puzzled is why you are not giving a support/gifts to donors to support your activities..??, can you provide real evidence for these activities so that I could trust this.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Monnt on May 01, 2016, 01:36:27 AM
But as mycelium has stated, they are aiming to become a full blown finance company. Their fees should be able to fund their dividends.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Anon_7716 on May 01, 2016, 01:40:54 AM
But as mycelium has stated, they are aiming to become a full blown finance company. Their fees should be able to fund their dividends.
I am very happy if it could come true, but is later after the company became a financial firm mycelium full blown will remain committed to its investment ..??,


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Bit_Happy on May 01, 2016, 01:41:25 AM

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You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.

I get $45 Million USD!
Good quote, which clearly shows they are speaking to people who fall for Ponzi schemes.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Wendigo on May 01, 2016, 04:14:02 AM
The one thing that puts me off is the fact that we are not buying any shares in their company and not even 'real' shares in their Mycelium Wallet but we are getting fantasy tokens instead which are not traded on any stock markets whatsoever. How can be sure that we could sell these tokens to anyone later on for a profit? What if Mycelium starts buying back all the tokens for cheaper than we have bought them? I mean all this crowdsale can go south very fast for the investors. I think I am going to stay away from this one.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: manav1112 on May 01, 2016, 04:23:01 AM

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You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.

I get $45 Million USD!
Good quote, which clearly shows they are speaking to people who fall for Ponzi schemes.

Exactly what I thought, sounds like a typical Ponzi scheme type thing!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 02, 2016, 12:42:50 AM
But as mycelium has stated, they are aiming to become a full blown finance company. Their fees should be able to fund their dividends.
That's if you trust them. Normally when buying securities a third party is responsible with trading and distribution, in Mycelium's case you'd also have to fully trust them with that. Their crowdsale doesn't even have to abide to regulations because it's not a security, there's no fallback if they try to defraud investors.

Thanks for the affirmation....This is exactly the way I see it too.  But, what's so confusing to me is that they seem to be serious!  Their crowdsale terms don't make a lick of sense from an investor's point of view, or from any angle for that matter, but is there anything at all in their offer that might justify an investment rather than a donation?  SMILE--I'm thinking about donating out of pure confusion but can I at least expect a t-shirt, coffee mug, or something for my support?  I guess what I'm asking: is it a pure scam or is it a genuine project?
There's no way for me to tell if it's a pure scam from now since they haven't even released their shares or product. It seems bad though and that's why I recommend not putting money you can't afford to lose in that initiative. However, this might as well be a legitimate project but the potential of it to be profitable enough to be a decent investment also doesn't seem good. I believe the marketing from Mycelium is trying to mislead people into giving them more money instead of asking for donations.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Bitware on May 02, 2016, 11:53:33 AM
Agreed. This has scam written all over it. If they want to sell shares, then do it right and sell actual shares through the proper channels as negotiable securities.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: elasticband on May 02, 2016, 12:00:16 PM
i was shocked to see my favourite mobile wallet touting


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: _Victory_ on May 02, 2016, 12:16:53 PM
I have not yet decided if I will get involved with this one. It a pretty big name, but it has a lot of negatives... :-\


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: DimensionZ on May 02, 2016, 12:27:58 PM
I have decided to stay away from this one. I don't like the idea of buying digital tokens for something like their Mycelium wallet which is not even stocks of a real company. And I don't know how they can put a worth of $100 million to $900 million on something that is basically free for everyone to use. What am I missing here? It looks like a get rich quick scheme that can blow up in our faces.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 02, 2016, 06:55:29 PM
Somebody shared the original crowdsale pdf with me privately. I've uploaded it to archive.org
https://ia601503.us.archive.org/23/items/Mycelium_crowdsale/crowdsale.pdf

Comparing the two documents programmatically is hard because the later update of the PDF was styled with a different pdf editor and contains proper line breaks whereas pasting the first one in an editor results to it having 1800+ lines. I'll try reading them to do an analysis when I have time.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: manav1112 on May 03, 2016, 05:00:17 AM
Somebody shared the original crowdsale pdf with me privately. I've uploaded it to archive.org
https://ia601503.us.archive.org/23/items/Mycelium_crowdsale/crowdsale.pdf

Comparing the two documents programmatically is hard because the later update of the PDF was styled with a different pdf editor and contains proper line breaks whereas pasting the first one in an editor results to it having 1800+ lines. I'll try reading them to do an analysis when I have time.


Thanks for the file as well


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: MingLee on May 03, 2016, 05:03:58 AM
I had a feeling it was a series of donations, and I'm glad that I didn't think twice about buying into this.

If they could get the bloody thing out sooner, then maybe people would be more interested in ""investing"", but that doesn't look like it is anytime soon and chances are they will be pressed for funds.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Quickseller on May 03, 2016, 05:21:59 AM
I haven't really looked very closely at the crowd sale, however I have glanced at a few articles and read some headlines, and my impression was that it was most likely some kind of donation solicitation.

If you use Mycelium on a regular basis (and benefit from their product/wallet) then I would suggest that you donate/"invest" in order to give the devs some kind of incentives to continue their work on Mycelium.

A similar principle for armory is true as they (at least previously) accept donations to support the development of armory.

I personally use (and recommend) electrum and would most likely donate to thomasv if he/electrum accepted donations.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: manav1112 on May 03, 2016, 11:08:20 AM
Make it look nice like half the people on crowdfunding sites do, and then people think its legit and invest.

Simple!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bassmaster on May 03, 2016, 01:57:31 PM
How is this setup any different than Ethereum, Lisk, or Waves ICO's ?

Ethereum was selling ETH tokens used to pay for smart contracts on the platform.  It's true that the platform wasn't built till later, but Vitalik Buterin had a fantastic reputation for contributing to the Bitcoin community and for his technical competence.  If someone believed that Ethereum would later become a success, then the value of ETH would rise accordingly as the "fuel" of the platform.

These "Mycelium tokens" have no use outside of speculation/donation.  There is little reason to think the wallet will make a profit, but even if it does, there is no reason for the value of these tokens to rise accordingly.  If there was a direct tie between profits and dividends, then there might be a thin thread connecting the two, but I didn't see any.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: manav1112 on May 03, 2016, 03:14:00 PM
How is this setup any different than Ethereum, Lisk, or Waves ICO's ?

Ethereum was selling ETH tokens used to pay for smart contracts on the platform.  It's true that the platform wasn't built till later, but Vitalik Buterin had a fantastic reputation for contributing to the Bitcoin community and for his technical competence.  If someone believed that Ethereum would later become a success, then the value of ETH would rise accordingly as the "fuel" of the platform.

These "Mycelium tokens" have no use outside of speculation/donation.  There is little reason to think the wallet will make a profit, but even if it does, there is no reason for the value of these tokens to rise accordingly.  If there was a direct tie between profits and dividends, then there might be a thin thread connecting the two, but I didn't see any.

Ok, I see your point.  With Ethereum or Lisk, the tokens are supposedly valuable because they must be purchased in order to run the decentralized applications or smart contracts.

With the mycelium token, there is no reason anyone must purchase the tokens?  (other than a promise of dividends)

I still have to read the whole mycelium proposal

Yes buying the tokens is more like donating rather than purchasing or investing.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordoliver on May 03, 2016, 05:31:35 PM
does anyone have any transactions shown in the account after investing? Theres nothing after more than a day in mine...


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 03, 2016, 06:53:33 PM
does anyone have any transactions shown in the account after investing? Theres nothing after more than a day in mine...

It takes up to 24 hours for funds to show up based on what their page says. I don't know why they're doing that with bitcoin though, perhaps they keep logs but only go through them once a day. This is more of an old, bank-like practice if you ask me. ::)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordoliver on May 03, 2016, 09:06:21 PM
does anyone have any transactions shown in the account after investing? Theres nothing after more than a day in mine...

It takes up to 24 hours for funds to show up based on what their page says. I don't know why they're doing that with bitcoin though, perhaps they keep logs but only go through them once a day. This is more of an old, bank-like practice if you ask me. ::)
yea but still its more than 24h already...


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 03, 2016, 09:12:28 PM
does anyone have any transactions shown in the account after investing? Theres nothing after more than a day in mine...

It takes up to 24 hours for funds to show up based on what their page says. I don't know why they're doing that with bitcoin though, perhaps they keep logs but only go through them once a day. This is more of an old, bank-like practice if you ask me. ::)
yea but still its more than 24h already...
Well I don't know, feel free to contact them if you think it's crucial.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordoliver on May 03, 2016, 11:12:10 PM
does anyone have any transactions shown in the account after investing? Theres nothing after more than a day in mine...

It takes up to 24 hours for funds to show up based on what their page says. I don't know why they're doing that with bitcoin though, perhaps they keep logs but only go through them once a day. This is more of an old, bank-like practice if you ask me. ::)
yea but still its more than 24h already...
Well I don't know, feel free to contact them if you think it's crucial.

yes I know, but my question was for other participants and their experience...


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 03, 2016, 11:52:50 PM
yes I know, but my question was for other participants and their experience...

To be honest, I did put in 0.01 BTC and it showed up the next day. Although it didn't account for the 10% "discount". I'm sorry if you're having issues, that's why I didn't put any significant amount of money in that personally, I mostly see this as a donation so far.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: serfsup on May 04, 2016, 05:14:00 AM
does anyone have any transactions shown in the account after investing? Theres nothing after more than a day in mine...

I put in a small amount just after the crowd sale opened and I was only just now able to log in and see the bitcoin transaction and an MT balance on the dashboard.  So they are definitely working on it.

The 10% extra MT was not there for me either.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordoliver on May 04, 2016, 06:18:02 AM
ok, now my balance is also showing up. Maybe because I signed the document so late.
But its also without the 10%.
In my mail stood a NaN behind my email address like this:
xxx@xxx.comNaN
was it the same with you? Maybe thats why their script didn't recognize the same email address. Script problem?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: TheCryptoMint on May 04, 2016, 01:03:52 PM
Well I have to dissagree here. I put 10 BTC into this as I trust myselium thoroughly. Its the APP I use with my trezor and now they are going to incorporate the colored token system with waves is promising indeed.

I dont think its a risk that you will lose money and really believe the token value will escalate quickly on the free market like any other coin.

I am an ICO guy and this interests me a lot. Not as much as lisk or waves but it does interest me :)

Good luck everyone which ever way you chose :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 04, 2016, 01:25:54 PM
coolest wallert ever. I trust these guys.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bcmine on May 04, 2016, 08:14:18 PM
coolest wallert ever. I trust these guys.

we like the wallet. i like electrum too, and with this donations, they are going to built it up for to a bigger "wallett". Somehow it will be also connected with waves, when launched.

pretty cool tech they are building. i trust them too, just waiting at the end of the funding to see how its making and if I want to put money on that.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: vapourminer on May 04, 2016, 11:32:33 PM
i sent a small amount in. if its a donation, so be it. i like the wallet and the fact that my trezor works with it.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: serfsup on May 05, 2016, 08:35:25 AM
I logged in to the dashboard today and saw they added the 10% additional MT to the MT balance.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordoliver on May 05, 2016, 05:12:05 PM
I logged in to the dashboard today and saw they added the 10% additional MT to the MT balance.

confirmed. same here. Seems like they were working on it.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 05, 2016, 10:05:42 PM
I find it troubling that so much bitcoin has been put into this crowdsale already. So far there's no clear plan on how the wallet could be profitable, or even about how the shares could be transferred/sold and we already see 1283 bitcoin in (according to stats reported by Mycelium ofc).


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: TheCryptoMint on May 09, 2016, 10:17:17 AM
I find it troubling that so much bitcoin has been put into this crowdsale already. So far there's no clear plan on how the wallet could be profitable, or even about how the shares could be transferred/sold and we already see 1283 bitcoin in (according to stats reported by Mycelium ofc).

You are right here 50% of my bitcoin is in crowdsales now lol... For me to get a return we need a lot of fresh blood into crypto lol.


Lets hope the halving brings that.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Fademigo on May 09, 2016, 10:20:33 AM
If mycellium is not good crowdsale and won't be profit, any advices where we can invest?  ;)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: TheCryptoMint on May 09, 2016, 11:01:28 AM
If mycellium is not good crowdsale and won't be profit, any advices where we can invest?  ;)


Well thats tricky. I would say wait for lisk to come out and grab some cheap :) 


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 09, 2016, 11:48:14 AM
If mycellium is not good crowdsale and won't be profit, any advices where we can invest?  ;)


Well thats tricky. I would say wait for lisk to come out and grab some cheap :) 

Yep you are so right wait for Lisk. Market indicators are showing its gonna hit around 0.01 soon. Then when the DAPPS start rolling in the sky is the limit..

When it launches anything under 0.005 I am gonna be scooping up like there is no tomorrow.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 09, 2016, 11:56:23 AM
If mycellium is not good crowdsale and won't be profit, any advices where we can invest?  ;)
That depends on how much money you have and what returns you're looking for. Currently I'd say that that "The Dao (https://daohub.org/)" is a relatively risk-free investment, at least for the short term. You can invest with BTC -indirectly- by acquiring ETH.

If mycellium is not good crowdsale and won't be profit, any advices where we can invest?  ;)


Well thats tricky. I would say wait for lisk to come out and grab some cheap :) 

Yep you are so right wait for Lisk. Market indicators are showing its gonna hit around 0.01 soon. Then when the DAPPS start rolling in the sky is the limit..

When it launches anything under 0.005 I am gonna be scooping up like there is no tomorrow.
Lisk is risky as well, not just financially. Have a look:
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Please note, currently there is no protection against unauthorized system calls made from the running dapp. Therefore, running untrusted code is not yet advisable, and could potentially lead to loss of funds. Work is underway to provide a fully sandboxed environment in which to run untrusted code.
Source (https://archive.is/RvmWY)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 09, 2016, 12:07:12 PM
If mycellium is not good crowdsale and won't be profit, any advices where we can invest?  ;)
That depends on how much money you have and what returns you're looking for. Currently I'd say that that "The Dao (https://daohub.org/)" is a relatively risk-free investment, at least for the short term. You can invest with BTC -indirectly- by acquiring ETH.

If mycellium is not good crowdsale and won't be profit, any advices where we can invest?  ;)


Well thats tricky. I would say wait for lisk to come out and grab some cheap :) 

Yep you are so right wait for Lisk. Market indicators are showing its gonna hit around 0.01 soon. Then when the DAPPS start rolling in the sky is the limit..

When it launches anything under 0.005 I am gonna be scooping up like there is no tomorrow.
Lisk is risky as well, not just financially. Have a look:
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Please note, currently there is no protection against unauthorized system calls made from the running dapp. Therefore, running untrusted code is not yet advisable, and could potentially lead to loss of funds. Work is underway to provide a fully sandboxed environment in which to run untrusted code.
Source (https://archive.is/RvmWY)

Yep they have a few upgrades to do with lisk but they are working on it. I am working on a DAPP myself and aware of that but have no doubt in my mind this will be 100% secure soon.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: crazywack on May 09, 2016, 12:12:23 PM
I have to agree. After asking questions, and reading the terms I have no choice but to pass. Unless it becomes the wallet to end all wallets I don't see getting my money back. It's a shame they decided to go this route since it's my fave for mobile, but initial valuation is to damn high...


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 09, 2016, 12:16:51 PM
I have to agree. After asking questions, and reading the terms I have no choice but to pass. Unless it becomes the wallet to end all wallets I don't see getting my money back. It's a shame they decided to go this route since it's my fave for mobile, but initial valuation is to damn high...

Well I think you guys are missing the point (or I am). Isnt this token going to be tradeable? Therefore with all the hype coming up the holders will coin it in? If they sell the token? The tokens will be a balance on your mycelium wallet with all your waves on.

Personally I put some into this its not bad at all :)


This, lisk and waves and DAO. Apart from that just hold your bitcoin for the halving :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: crazywack on May 09, 2016, 12:18:41 PM
I have to agree. After asking questions, and reading the terms I have no choice but to pass. Unless it becomes the wallet to end all wallets I don't see getting my money back. It's a shame they decided to go this route since it's my fave for mobile, but initial valuation is to damn high...

Well I think you guys are missing the point (or I am). Isnt this token going to be tradeable? Therefore with all the hype coming up the holders will coin it in? If they sell the token? The tokens will be a balance on your mycelium wallet with all your waves on.

Personally I put some into this its not bad at all :)


This, lisk and waves and DAO. Apart from that just hold your bitcoin for the halving :)

Could be right but your looking at a year before a working prototype is marketable on this. Goal was December but they already said they were going to move it back.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 09, 2016, 12:27:47 PM
wow a year? Man I didnt know that lol

maybe waves will be a while too then? huh well might put more into DAO then lol


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 09, 2016, 12:41:37 PM
I have to agree. After asking questions, and reading the terms I have no choice but to pass. Unless it becomes the wallet to end all wallets I don't see getting my money back. It's a shame they decided to go this route since it's my fave for mobile, but initial valuation is to damn high...

Well I think you guys are missing the point (or I am). Isnt this token going to be tradeable? Therefore with all the hype coming up the holders will coin it in? If they sell the token? The tokens will be a balance on your mycelium wallet with all your waves on.

Personally I put some into this its not bad at all :)


This, lisk and waves and DAO. Apart from that just hold your bitcoin for the halving :)

Could be right but your looking at a year before a working prototype is marketable on this. Goal was December but they already said they were going to move it back.
Can you give me a source? I should add this to the OP if it's true.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: calkob on May 09, 2016, 12:53:49 PM
Dont like the sound of that, and i was thinking of looking at an investment myself.  >:(


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 09, 2016, 12:57:13 PM
Or maybe people are saying bad things about it because they invested and want more of the share of the wallet to themselves lol

 ;D

You have to take what you read on this forum with a pinch of salt and make a decision yourself.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 09, 2016, 03:33:06 PM
where's the ROI proposition?

am i a giver to crypto charities?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: crazywack on May 09, 2016, 07:11:01 PM
I have to agree. After asking questions, and reading the terms I have no choice but to pass. Unless it becomes the wallet to end all wallets I don't see getting my money back. It's a shame they decided to go this route since it's my fave for mobile, but initial valuation is to damn high...

Well I think you guys are missing the point (or I am). Isnt this token going to be tradeable? Therefore with all the hype coming up the holders will coin it in? If they sell the token? The tokens will be a balance on your mycelium wallet with all your waves on.

Personally I put some into this its not bad at all :)


This, lisk and waves and DAO. Apart from that just hold your bitcoin for the halving :)

Could be right but your looking at a year before a working prototype is marketable on this. Goal was December but they already said they were going to move it back.
Can you give me a source? I should add this to the OP if it's true.


Here's from the other thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.0)

I'll edit this with the Reddit post too.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: forzendiablo on May 10, 2016, 10:14:36 PM
i am NOT putting a dime on this


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 11, 2016, 11:49:46 AM
i am NOT putting a dime on this

thanks :) A bigger % for me then hehe  ;D


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 11, 2016, 12:12:34 PM
is Mycelium going to corner the wallet market? i would invest if the terms were more generous. 5% of just the wallet product is mean.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 11, 2016, 04:30:01 PM
is Mycelium going to corner the wallet market? i would invest if the terms were more generous. 5% of just the wallet product is mean.
Not many bitcoiners people think like you (sadly, I would add). The non-dilutable share that gives investors rights to receive future investments sounds nice but it's a very non-standard practice for securities and even illegal in many jurisdictions. I'm afraid that this promise has lead to many people putting money into this, not for the product, but for the fact that Mycelium promised them a 5% stake on future investments. This isn't a viable model for investment, let alone that all the risk is put on investors.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 11, 2016, 07:47:44 PM
Part 1
Unacceptable practices:
Giving a 10% discount to people expressing interest prior to the sale.  (https://archive.is/6QVa8#selection-136.1-147.45)
You don't have to be a genius to see how bad of a practice this is for securities (note: this crowdsale isn't even a security) that are supposedly representing a stake in a company.

It's a common practice for companies to sell, or give away for free, stock to employees and company insiders. We are just doing this for the initial public. Note our "insiders," those being managers and owners, will not be buying to avoid any conflicts of interest.


Promising investors part of the money received from future crowdsales (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-570.0-570.3)
In their own words:
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You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.
Remember that a Cyprus-based holding company is involved, and Mycelium operations are supposedly Latvian-based. This is a borderline pyramid scheme setup and illegal for securities in most of the world.

You buy a share of company stock at $x. That means you are literally owner of $x amount of the company, including company assets such as cash. If the company valuation grows, such as from a second round of investments or from increased revenues, your $x worth of stock grows. Then if the company offers to repurchase stock shares, you can trade your stock for the amount of cash that you literally already own. How is this set up any different?


Absolutely zero legal fallback (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-797.8-786.6)
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There will be no refunds. Token is not a security, is not listed, authorized, issued or traded on any regulated market.

Wrong about no legal feedback. Yes, tokens are not traded on regulated markets, but SARs typically are not. You do get a legal signed contract between you and the company which gives you the legal right to any growth in company value, which you can take to court to claim your right. This isn't just ETH token that only represents what people feel about ETH's growth, this is an actual legal contract granting you legal rights.
As for no refunds, refunds aren't given during valuation sales because otherwise those sales would never go anywhere. A few people invest, see too little has been invested, and pull back out. Next group invests, sees too little, and pulls out. Valuation never goes above zero. That's why there are no refunds in these types of sales.

No ETA on project rollout
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.msg14677405#msg14677405)

You said no ETA, and then literally linked to where an ETA was given. We're sorry we can't give you an exact date, but we have experience launching big projects, and know they will always be delayed beyond whatever date is giver. So we see no point besides a generalization. Remember Butterfly Labs? Etherium? Practically everything else in this space?


and the creators have no clear idea how it's going to be built or even what it's going to be. You're you would literally be buying a stake in vapourware.
part 2

It is being build on ReactNative, with Bitcore as the initial bitcoin library. The initial planning began in August, development began in late October, and the project has been in development for over 6 months. At this point the development platform is set up, UI is done, app development has started and works for sending coins, and we are currently in the process of developing the API. Regarding what it's going to be, it's on the web page, the press releases, and a dozen or so articles discussing it in depth, about what it will be, what our business plans are, and how it will make money. Or you could ask. We are not a secretive company. I'm all over the place and am pretty easy to reach.

Why this has a high chance of being a loss:
First things first, up to this point, could you name anything that Mycelium did that was a commercial success? Their wallet software was free and not monetized, which is nice for users but not for potential investors. A supposed advantage of this crowdsale is dividends but there's no talk about how they're going to turn in profit.

Mycelium Entropy was a success. More than half was sold our before it was done, the rest was sold out, and then some, shortly after. Demand was so high we ran out of units. We made a pretty good profit on that. The wallet itself is a success too. Consistently ranked among the top bitcoin wallets, over 300,000 downloads, over 200,000 active users, a strong brand recognition and an extremely loyal user base.

They are granting themselvs the right to repurchase shares at the initial price. (https://web.archive.org/web/20160430121948/https://wallet.mycelium.com/crowdsale.pdf)
There's no clear plan on how this project is potentially going to turn in profit, but even in the unlikely event that the project becomes profitable, they could buy back the shares at the initial price and end their obligation to investors.

Regarding the shares being bought back at the initial price, you, along with unfortunately many others, misunderstood what these shares you are buying are. The token itself is just a contract, used to prove that you are a legitimate owner. Think of them as just a really expensive piece of paper. What those tokens give you are Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR), which grants you a legal right to any increase in company valuation. So if you buy a token for $1, and the company grows 10 times, your token is still worth $1, which is what we will repurchase it for, but your SAR, the right attached to that token, is worth $9, which you can exchange for cash, or if we ever have an IPO, can convert directly to equivalent share of stock. And, should the wallet ever get a profit, those tokens will be converted to dividend paying assets, allowing you to receive a share of those profits. Basically, instead of the usual shares of stock that we are used to, which themselves grow with company value, SARs themselves don't grow, but have a right attached to them which, when combined with the SAR, grow together like a share of stock would.

Can only invest in the wallet but there's no guarantee that the money will be spent on it instead of other projects (https://archive.is/PLTOU#selection-2093.0-2099.362) (that Mycelium won't pay investors dividends for)
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And do I have a guarantee that the collected funds will only be used for the wallet project and not for the rest of the company?
Not entirely, but that's mainly because eventually all of the rest of our company will be rolled into this wallet. Most of the expense will be used to pay Wallet developer salaries, but some of our resources (like office and general brand marketing) are shared, so it would be difficult to keep completely separate. Sorry I can't give a more satisfactory answer.

We have only one Accounting, Legal, and HR department for the whole company. And it's very likely that other of Mycelium's projects will just be rolled into the wallet eventually anyway. I know this raises some concerns, but I can't give a better answer in this case.

Tokens are released in their own platform. (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-669.67-669.160)
So fair distribution is entirely based on trust, as well as trading. Yet they claim that Token owners can either sell them on the open market at any moment or redeem to us if conditions are met (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-771.0-771.106), which is misleading at best.

Tokens will be issued as colored coins, which you can hold and trade now in Colu wallet, and will be able to hold and trade from within Mycelium wallet by the end of the month. We expect exchanges will adopt the Colu platform and allow trading them on the market soon too. So I don't know why this is misleading.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 11, 2016, 08:13:36 PM
On to the rest...

The one thing that puts me off is the fact that we are not buying any shares in their company

You are buying legal ownership to company assets. These are actual legal SAR's.

How can be sure that we could sell these tokens to anyone later on for a profit?

This is an investment in a startup. Profits are never guaranteed. But if the company becomes more valuable, or starts turning a profit, the legal contract you receive with the token binds the company to pay you your increased share of the company, should you ask to receive it.

Their crowdsale doesn't even have to abide to regulations because it's not a security, there's no fallback if they try to defraud investors.

There's no fall back on the SEC, but there is still fallback on the legal system. You can take your contract to court to sue us if we defraud you.

And I don't know how they can put a worth of $100 million to $900 million on something that is basically free for everyone to use. What am I missing here? It looks like a get rich quick scheme that can blow up in our faces.

We did not put any worth on our company. That's what the sale is for, to see what the market believes our company (the wallet division, at least) is worth. The $100 was just round (unfortunately high) numbers to explain the math easier.


Somebody shared the original crowdsale pdf with me privately. I've uploaded it to archive.org
https://ia601503.us.archive.org/23/items/Mycelium_crowdsale/crowdsale.pdf

This wasn't a privately secretly shared document, this document was publicly available here https://wallet.mycelium.com/elements/documentation.html since the beginning. Only things changed since then was supposed to be times added to the date (we initially said May 1st, but pushed it to midnight May 1st due to running out of time to prepare) and formatting. If there are other differences, please let me know.


If they could get the bloody thing out sooner, then maybe people would be more interested in ""investing"", but that doesn't look like it is anytime soon and chances are they will be pressed for funds.

We are currently funded through the end of the year, and should have enough funds to get this project done. We will need the extra funds to develop the necessary business relationships and APIs after, and to hopefully hire three more devs to get it out sooner (one iOS, one Android, one UI). Also don't forget this is the initial 5% sale. We will be doing a 20% sale, to "real" investors and VCs, later.

How is this setup any different than Ethereum, Lisk, or Waves ICO's ?

I don't know about Lisk or Waves, but with Etherium you buy currency tied to the project, on the speculation that the currency itself will be useful. With this, you are literally buying stake ownership in the company, which will grow along with the company like any other investment, and has a future possibility of paying dividends should the company become profitable. This isn't just a donation.

Goal was December but they already said they were going to move it back.

Goal was August, actually, but Microsoft screwed us over, so we had to move it back to "end of the year"


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 11, 2016, 08:14:17 PM
And an indepth interview about what we're actually doing here https://news.bitcoin.com/interview-rassah-mycelium/


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: danijel on May 12, 2016, 08:21:42 AM
Part 1
Unacceptable practices:
Giving a 10% discount to people expressing interest prior to the sale.  (https://archive.is/6QVa8#selection-136.1-147.45)
You don't have to be a genius to see how bad of a practice this is for securities (note: this crowdsale isn't even a security) that are supposedly representing a stake in a company.

It's a common practice for companies to sell, or give away for free, stock to employees and company insiders. We are just doing this for the initial public. Note our "insiders," those being managers and owners, will not be buying to avoid any conflicts of interest.


Promising investors part of the money received from future crowdsales (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-570.0-570.3)
In their own words:
Quote
You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.
Remember that a Cyprus-based holding company is involved, and Mycelium operations are supposedly Latvian-based. This is a borderline pyramid scheme setup and illegal for securities in most of the world.

You buy a share of company stock at $x. That means you are literally owner of $x amount of the company, including company assets such as cash. If the company valuation grows, such as from a second round of investments or from increased revenues, your $x worth of stock grows. Then if the company offers to repurchase stock shares, you can trade your stock for the amount of cash that you literally already own. How is this set up any different?


Absolutely zero legal fallback (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-797.8-786.6)
Quote
There will be no refunds. Token is not a security, is not listed, authorized, issued or traded on any regulated market.

Wrong about no legal feedback. Yes, tokens are not traded on regulated markets, but SARs typically are not. You do get a legal signed contract between you and the company which gives you the legal right to any growth in company value, which you can take to court to claim your right. This isn't just ETH token that only represents what people feel about ETH's growth, this is an actual legal contract granting you legal rights.
As for no refunds, refunds aren't given during valuation sales because otherwise those sales would never go anywhere. A few people invest, see too little has been invested, and pull back out. Next group invests, sees too little, and pulls out. Valuation never goes above zero. That's why there are no refunds in these types of sales.

No ETA on project rollout
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.msg14677405#msg14677405)

You said no ETA, and then literally linked to where an ETA was given. We're sorry we can't give you an exact date, but we have experience launching big projects, and know they will always be delayed beyond whatever date is giver. So we see no point besides a generalization. Remember Butterfly Labs? Etherium? Practically everything else in this space?


and the creators have no clear idea how it's going to be built or even what it's going to be. You're you would literally be buying a stake in vapourware.
part 2

It is being build on ReactNative, with Bitcore as the initial bitcoin library. The initial planning began in August, development began in late October, and the project has been in development for over 6 months. At this point the development platform is set up, UI is done, app development has started and works for sending coins, and we are currently in the process of developing the API. Regarding what it's going to be, it's on the web page, the press releases, and a dozen or so articles discussing it in depth, about what it will be, what our business plans are, and how it will make money. Or you could ask. We are not a secretive company. I'm all over the place and am pretty easy to reach.

Why this has a high chance of being a loss:
First things first, up to this point, could you name anything that Mycelium did that was a commercial success? Their wallet software was free and not monetized, which is nice for users but not for potential investors. A supposed advantage of this crowdsale is dividends but there's no talk about how they're going to turn in profit.

Mycelium Entropy was a success. More than half was sold our before it was done, the rest was sold out, and then some, shortly after. Demand was so high we ran out of units. We made a pretty good profit on that. The wallet itself is a success too. Consistently ranked among the top bitcoin wallets, over 300,000 downloads, over 200,000 active users, a strong brand recognition and an extremely loyal user base.

They are granting themselvs the right to repurchase shares at the initial price. (https://web.archive.org/web/20160430121948/https://wallet.mycelium.com/crowdsale.pdf)
There's no clear plan on how this project is potentially going to turn in profit, but even in the unlikely event that the project becomes profitable, they could buy back the shares at the initial price and end their obligation to investors.

Regarding the shares being bought back at the initial price, you, along with unfortunately many others, misunderstood what these shares you are buying are. The token itself is just a contract, used to prove that you are a legitimate owner. Think of them as just a really expensive piece of paper. What those tokens give you are Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR), which grants you a legal right to any increase in company valuation. So if you buy a token for $1, and the company grows 10 times, your token is still worth $1, which is what we will repurchase it for, but your SAR, the right attached to that token, is worth $9, which you can exchange for cash, or if we ever have an IPO, can convert directly to equivalent share of stock. And, should the wallet ever get a profit, those tokens will be converted to dividend paying assets, allowing you to receive a share of those profits. Basically, instead of the usual shares of stock that we are used to, which themselves grow with company value, SARs themselves don't grow, but have a right attached to them which, when combined with the SAR, grow together like a share of stock would.

Can only invest in the wallet but there's no guarantee that the money will be spent on it instead of other projects (https://archive.is/PLTOU#selection-2093.0-2099.362) (that Mycelium won't pay investors dividends for)
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And do I have a guarantee that the collected funds will only be used for the wallet project and not for the rest of the company?
Not entirely, but that's mainly because eventually all of the rest of our company will be rolled into this wallet. Most of the expense will be used to pay Wallet developer salaries, but some of our resources (like office and general brand marketing) are shared, so it would be difficult to keep completely separate. Sorry I can't give a more satisfactory answer.

We have only one Accounting, Legal, and HR department for the whole company. And it's very likely that other of Mycelium's projects will just be rolled into the wallet eventually anyway. I know this raises some concerns, but I can't give a better answer in this case.

Tokens are released in their own platform. (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-669.67-669.160)
So fair distribution is entirely based on trust, as well as trading. Yet they claim that Token owners can either sell them on the open market at any moment or redeem to us if conditions are met (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-771.0-771.106), which is misleading at best.

Tokens will be issued as colored coins, which you can hold and trade now in Colu wallet, and will be able to hold and trade from within Mycelium wallet by the end of the month. We expect exchanges will adopt the Colu platform and allow trading them on the market soon too. So I don't know why this is misleading.



wel thank you for explaining .i invested some coin but i was a little woried becouse a lot of people think that this is a scam.
now the sky is clear i feel good.
thank you


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 12, 2016, 08:39:47 AM
Rassah is god :)

Mycelium is the best.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 12, 2016, 09:11:59 AM
Thanks for the response.

I won't go through responding to Rassah's points as I evidence to support parts of my post he was responding to was and still is in the OP. Whether people want to believe his claims over evidence is something I have no control over. I did my part at highlighting why putting money with Mycelium doesn't seem like a good idea from an investor's perspective but aside of that there's not much I can do to prevent money from being burned.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 12, 2016, 09:19:56 AM
Thanks for the response.

I won't go through responding to Rassah's points as I evidence to support parts of my post he was responding to was and still is in the OP. Whether people want to believe his claims over evidence is something I have no control over. I did my part at highlighting why putting money with Mycelium doesn't seem like a good idea from an investor's perspective but aside of that there's not much I can do to prevent money from being burned.

i appreciate your efforts.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 12, 2016, 09:22:34 AM
Thanks for the response.

I won't go through responding to Rassah's points as I evidence to support parts of my post he was responding to was and still is in the OP. Whether people want to believe his claims over evidence is something I have no control over. I did my part at highlighting why putting money with Mycelium doesn't seem like a good idea from an investor's perspective but aside of that there's not much I can do to prevent money from being burned.

I appreciate your work though as it protects people. But I am a hardcore investor and a bit of hype of the new mother god of wallets for many cryptos is gonna sent the mycelium token price up like any other hyped crypto :)

Thats why I went in this.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on May 12, 2016, 09:38:09 AM
Well with over 6 investments I am in to the tune of 20 Bitcoin and like all crypto investments you take your chances. I have some in Waves and stayed well clear of the new xpy Ions.With interest in banks so low you just have to take some chances but then again I am single and my mortgage paid off.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 12, 2016, 09:54:30 AM
Well with over 6 investments I am in to the tune of 20 Bitcoin and like all crypto investments you take your chances. I have some in Waves and stayed well clear of the new xpy Ions.With interest in banks so low you just have to take some chances but then again I am single and my mortgage paid off.

Wow! Im only 11 BTC in this lucky you!!!!!1 There is another wild card on here https://rise.vision/ico

I think more risky but higher risk = greater returns :) I only went in 0.5 BTC

Crypto is the future dont worry you will be mega riiiich :)


Happy bitcoin everyone.








Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 12, 2016, 10:01:26 AM
Well with over 6 investments I am in to the tune of 20 Bitcoin and like all crypto investments you take your chances. I have some in Waves and stayed well clear of the new xpy Ions.With interest in banks so low you just have to take some chances but then again I am single and my mortgage paid off.

Wow! Im only 11 BTC in this lucky you!!!!!1 There is another wild card on here https://rise.vision/ico

I think more risky but higher risk = greater returns :) I only went in 0.5 BTC

Crypto is the future dont worry you will be mega riiiich :)


Happy bitcoin everyone.








https://medium.com/@icocountdown/why-has-rise-been-delisted-from-icocountdown-com-2907e956d5a4#.7bm1pbjzm

Alex is not so sure about Rise. it's so hard to tell what is and what is not legitimate in the ICO world. throwing money at the wall and seeing what sticks is not my way of investing. i need solid background information. Elastic, for example, looks interesting but the project leaders will not disclose a single fact about who they are and refuse to use escrow for the funds. i just don't get that kind of attitude.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 12, 2016, 10:18:18 AM
Thanks for the response.

I won't go through responding to Rassah's points as I evidence to support parts of my post he was responding to was and still is in the OP. Whether people want to believe his claims over evidence is something I have no control over. I did my part at highlighting why putting money with Mycelium doesn't seem like a good idea from an investor's perspective but aside of that there's not much I can do to prevent money from being burned.

I appreciate your work though as it protects people. But I am a hardcore investor and a bit of hype of the new mother god of wallets for many cryptos is gonna sent the mycelium token price up like any other hyped crypto :)

Thats why I went in this.
Well with over 6 investments I am in to the tune of 20 Bitcoin and like all crypto investments you take your chances. I have some in Waves and stayed well clear of the new xpy Ions.With interest in banks so low you just have to take some chances but then again I am single and my mortgage paid off.

Goodspeed.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on May 12, 2016, 10:39:04 AM
@Alani123 Thanks for your side of the argument and a lot of valid points but I was impressed by the fact Waves approached them to collaborate on their platform and the fact they now have stopped working on third party software and only working on there own from an apps point of view.The points on both sides could be debated all day.@Gravitate thanks for the heads up on that ICO I risked a few hundred dollars well 350 to be exact just in case it hits the jackpot


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 13, 2016, 05:15:12 PM
I did my part at highlighting why putting money with Mycelium doesn't seem like a good idea from an investor's perspective...

Considering bitcoin itself has outperformed every other investment, and is expected to in the future, I can't really argue with that sentiment...

Why they even need to make a crowdsale in first place?
I saw many bitcoin startup/company make crowdsale/crowdfunding, but some of them are fail :(
In fact, i don't understand how can they make huge money/profit.

We spent 8 figures of our own founder's money to get Mycelium to where it is now. After Ruble and Bitcoin both crashed in value, he felt a bit broke and was tired of spending his own money. So we got some private investors. We also now believe that the wallet is strong enough to break out and start earning its own money, so we offered 5% non-dilutable stake to our users to share in what we hope will be that earnings potential, partially as a way to thank them for their support. We'll be selling 20% of the stake later, to actual professional investors and VCs to help fund the wallet the rest of the way.

We can make huge money/profit in the same way that Google Android makes huge money/profit: the Android OS is free, but many of the apps you buy cost money, and Google takes a cut on app sales. That's what we're building, but with our apps being specific to crypto finance.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: darcycooper on May 13, 2016, 06:40:00 PM
I did my part at highlighting why putting money with Mycelium doesn't seem like a good idea from an investor's perspective...

Considering bitcoin itself has outperformed every other investment, and is expected to in the future, I can't really argue with that sentiment...

Why they even need to make a crowdsale in first place?
I saw many bitcoin startup/company make crowdsale/crowdfunding, but some of them are fail :(
In fact, i don't understand how can they make huge money/profit.

We spent 8 figures of our own founder's money to get Mycelium to where it is now. After Ruble and Bitcoin both crashed in value, he felt a bit broke and was tired of spending his own money. So we got some private investors.

Lol, so now you want to make your investors 'feel broke'?

The wallet makes no money! Stop calling this an investment.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 13, 2016, 07:03:38 PM
I did my part at highlighting why putting money with Mycelium doesn't seem like a good idea from an investor's perspective...

Considering bitcoin itself has outperformed every other investment, and is expected to in the future, I can't really argue with that sentiment...
What a statement. This is only true if you pick the right time frame. Bitcoin could also end up on a list of the worst performing currencies with the right timeframe.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 15, 2016, 12:31:46 AM
The wallet makes no money! Stop calling this an investment.

The wallet makes money, and this is investment in the new wallet that will make more. It is possible to invest in things that are just starting out, not making money, but have a huge potential to.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 15, 2016, 12:44:06 AM
The wallet makes no money! Stop calling this an investment.

The wallet makes money, and this is investment in the new wallet that will make more. It is possible to invest in things that are just starting out, not making money, but have a huge potential to.
Looking at your statements (and avatar), I'm reminded that the same mindset lead to $185 million being invested into a cat-shaped handheld barcode reader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat) in the 00s. When talking about the potential of something that doesn't exist yet or hasn't been released, you're literally talking about potential vapourware.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: forzendiablo on May 15, 2016, 01:17:49 AM
mycellium will end as scam

beware.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 15, 2016, 04:13:11 AM
mycellium will end as scam

Why do you think that? I'm in charge of this wallet project, and I've spent years building a very trustworthy and ethical reputation. That's more valuable to me than any amount of money. Especially considering I'm an ancap who believes that if bitcoin wins over national currencies, without government oversight your reputation will be the most important thing. My hope is that we will have decentralized reputation systems, and everyone who has scammed and got away with it so far will be exposed, and no one would want anything to do with them. This project might fail, of course. There's no guarantee of returns or profit. But considering this is my project that I hope launches Mycelium to the top and gets me recognition, it won't be failing from a lack of me trying.

Alanis I remember that Barcode scanner. Saw it at CompUSA once.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 15, 2016, 07:56:34 AM
mycellium will end as scam

Why do you think that? I'm in charge of this wallet project, and I've spent years building a very trustworthy and ethical reputation. That's more valuable to me than any amount of money. Especially considering I'm an ancap who believes that if bitcoin wins over national currencies, without government oversight your reputation will be the most important thing. My hope is that we will have decentralized reputation systems, and everyone who has scammed and got away with it so far will be exposed, and no one would want anything to do with them. This project might fail, of course. There's no guarantee of returns or profit. But considering this is my project that I hope launches Mycelium to the top and gets me recognition, it won't be failing from a lack of me trying.

Alanis I remember that Barcode scanner. Saw it at CompUSA once.

Reading that reply just made me even more excited about the project :) awesome. I wish I could get involved more in the project somehow than just this..


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: forzendiablo on May 15, 2016, 11:56:48 PM
mycellium will end as scam

Why do you think that? I'm in charge of this wallet project, and I've spent years building a very trustworthy and ethical reputation. That's more valuable to me than any amount of money. Especially considering I'm an ancap who believes that if bitcoin wins over national currencies, without government oversight your reputation will be the most important thing. My hope is that we will have decentralized reputation systems, and everyone who has scammed and got away with it so far will be exposed, and no one would want anything to do with them. This project might fail, of course. There's no guarantee of returns or profit. But considering this is my project that I hope launches Mycelium to the top and gets me recognition, it won't be failing from a lack of me trying.

Alanis I remember that Barcode scanner. Saw it at CompUSA once.

thanc for reply but all u guys do is have no way to incentive so u make extra "token" that u will dump on users in the end
i like this wallet but the way u now are goign means something is not working right


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 16, 2016, 07:16:06 AM
mycellium will end as scam

Why do you think that? I'm in charge of this wallet project, and I've spent years building a very trustworthy and ethical reputation. That's more valuable to me than any amount of money. Especially considering I'm an ancap who believes that if bitcoin wins over national currencies, without government oversight your reputation will be the most important thing. My hope is that we will have decentralized reputation systems, and everyone who has scammed and got away with it so far will be exposed, and no one would want anything to do with them. This project might fail, of course. There's no guarantee of returns or profit. But considering this is my project that I hope launches Mycelium to the top and gets me recognition, it won't be failing from a lack of me trying.

Alanis I remember that Barcode scanner. Saw it at CompUSA once.

Reading that reply just made me even more excited about the project :) awesome. I wish I could get involved more in the project somehow than just this..

always try to reflect on how something you read makes you feel, especially in the world of investing.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: TheCryptoMint on May 16, 2016, 01:02:14 PM
mycellium will end as scam

Why do you think that? I'm in charge of this wallet project, and I've spent years building a very trustworthy and ethical reputation. That's more valuable to me than any amount of money. Especially considering I'm an ancap who believes that if bitcoin wins over national currencies, without government oversight your reputation will be the most important thing. My hope is that we will have decentralized reputation systems, and everyone who has scammed and got away with it so far will be exposed, and no one would want anything to do with them. This project might fail, of course. There's no guarantee of returns or profit. But considering this is my project that I hope launches Mycelium to the top and gets me recognition, it won't be failing from a lack of me trying.

Alanis I remember that Barcode scanner. Saw it at CompUSA once.

Reading that reply just made me even more excited about the project :) awesome. I wish I could get involved more in the project somehow than just this..

always try to reflect on how something you read makes you feel, especially in the world of investing.

Very good Point indeed. Its easy to get caught up and before you know it you put 10 btc in. Well I did that and after I read more I put another 5 in :)

If it was a donation I would have put 0.0001 BTC in simple as that.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: whored on May 16, 2016, 01:18:42 PM
mycellium will end as scam

Why do you think that? I'm in charge of this wallet project, and I've spent years building a very trustworthy and ethical reputation. That's more valuable to me than any amount of money. Especially considering I'm an ancap who believes that if bitcoin wins over national currencies, without government oversight your reputation will be the most important thing. My hope is that we will have decentralized reputation systems, and everyone who has scammed and got away with it so far will be exposed, and no one would want anything to do with them. This project might fail, of course. There's no guarantee of returns or profit. But considering this is my project that I hope launches Mycelium to the top and gets me recognition, it won't be failing from a lack of me trying.

Alanis I remember that Barcode scanner. Saw it at CompUSA once.

thanc for reply but all u guys do is have no way to incentive so u make extra "token" that u will dump on users in the end
i like this wallet but the way u now are goign means something is not working right

Not strictly an "exit scam" tho. Mycelium explicitly states that its digital tokens give you no rights whatsoever, are basically a gift to Mycelium. How is that misleading?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: TheCryptoMint on May 16, 2016, 01:38:12 PM
mycellium will end as scam

Why do you think that? I'm in charge of this wallet project, and I've spent years building a very trustworthy and ethical reputation. That's more valuable to me than any amount of money. Especially considering I'm an ancap who believes that if bitcoin wins over national currencies, without government oversight your reputation will be the most important thing. My hope is that we will have decentralized reputation systems, and everyone who has scammed and got away with it so far will be exposed, and no one would want anything to do with them. This project might fail, of course. There's no guarantee of returns or profit. But considering this is my project that I hope launches Mycelium to the top and gets me recognition, it won't be failing from a lack of me trying.

Alanis I remember that Barcode scanner. Saw it at CompUSA once.

thanc for reply but all u guys do is have no way to incentive so u make extra "token" that u will dump on users in the end
i like this wallet but the way u now are goign means something is not working right

Not strictly an "exit scam" tho. Mycelium explicitly states that its digital tokens give you no rights whatsoever, are basically a gift to Mycelium. How is that misleading?

But they are tradable :) bitcoin gives you no rights either apart from a figure in your wallet. Yet you can sell them for 400 usd.

I am quite happy a lot of people are missing the point here as more of the 5% will be mine.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: whored on May 16, 2016, 01:44:55 PM
mycellium will end as scam

Why do you think that? I'm in charge of this wallet project, and I've spent years building a very trustworthy and ethical reputation. That's more valuable to me than any amount of money. Especially considering I'm an ancap who believes that if bitcoin wins over national currencies, without government oversight your reputation will be the most important thing. My hope is that we will have decentralized reputation systems, and everyone who has scammed and got away with it so far will be exposed, and no one would want anything to do with them. This project might fail, of course. There's no guarantee of returns or profit. But considering this is my project that I hope launches Mycelium to the top and gets me recognition, it won't be failing from a lack of me trying.

Alanis I remember that Barcode scanner. Saw it at CompUSA once.

thanc for reply but all u guys do is have no way to incentive so u make extra "token" that u will dump on users in the end
i like this wallet but the way u now are goign means something is not working right

Not strictly an "exit scam" tho. Mycelium explicitly states that its digital tokens give you no rights whatsoever, are basically a gift to Mycelium. How is that misleading?

But they are tradable :) bitcoin gives you no rights either apart from a figure in your wallet. Yet you can sell them for 400 usd.

I am quite happy a lot of people are missing the point here as more of the 5% will be mine.

Sure, they're tradable, as are AsicMiner share on Havelock.*
As long as you're not the greatest of the greater fools, you should do fine, irregardless of whether Mycelium becomes a successful business or spends your coin on hookers & blow :)

There is a fairly established and liquid market for BTC, I know approximately how much I'll get per coin. Mycelium tokens? not so much.

>as more of the 5% will be mine
5% of what, if it's not impolite to ask?

*AsicMiner doesn't exist. Hasn't for about two years. The shares are still trading. Sorta.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 16, 2016, 01:47:46 PM
mycellium will end as scam

Why do you think that? I'm in charge of this wallet project, and I've spent years building a very trustworthy and ethical reputation. That's more valuable to me than any amount of money. Especially considering I'm an ancap who believes that if bitcoin wins over national currencies, without government oversight your reputation will be the most important thing. My hope is that we will have decentralized reputation systems, and everyone who has scammed and got away with it so far will be exposed, and no one would want anything to do with them. This project might fail, of course. There's no guarantee of returns or profit. But considering this is my project that I hope launches Mycelium to the top and gets me recognition, it won't be failing from a lack of me trying.

Alanis I remember that Barcode scanner. Saw it at CompUSA once.

thanc for reply but all u guys do is have no way to incentive so u make extra "token" that u will dump on users in the end
i like this wallet but the way u now are goign means something is not working right

Not strictly an "exit scam" tho. Mycelium explicitly states that its digital tokens give you no rights whatsoever, are basically a gift to Mycelium. How is that misleading?

But they are tradable :) bitcoin gives you no rights either apart from a figure in your wallet. Yet you can sell them for 400 usd.

I am quite happy a lot of people are missing the point here as more of the 5% will be mine.
If that's the case, you're also missing the point. If people aren't interested now, why would they buy a share later on when it'd take so long for the product to launch? This isn't comparable to other ICOs or crowdsales because the product isn't set for launch right after the sale. It'd be safe to assume that there wouldn't much (if any) buying pressure to help early investors to liquidate their stake before the launch (which there's no ETA for).


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 16, 2016, 02:37:50 PM
i can''t imagine any serious investor going for this proposition. taking shares in the actual company (and more than a share of just 5%) might be worth considering as an investment in a diversified portfolio of other investments.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: mookid on May 17, 2016, 03:25:57 AM
This reminds me of the whole Oculus Rift fiasco, the project was funded throught a Kickstarter, they collected millions, and yet, Facebook came, made the 'owners' rich and the backers of the project didn't get anything.

Only DAO's can solve this problem, it would be cool to have equity in a company in a trustless decentralised way.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: tomkat on May 17, 2016, 06:56:53 AM
I have decided to stay away from this one. I don't like the idea of buying digital tokens for something like their Mycelium wallet which is not even stocks of a real company. And I don't know how they can put a worth of $100 million to $900 million on something that is basically free for everyone to use. What am I missing here? It looks like a get rich quick scheme that can blow up in our faces.

They'll just sell another fancy token - easy peasy ... :-)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: TheCryptoMint on May 17, 2016, 09:45:46 AM
This reminds me of the whole Oculus Rift fiasco, the project was funded throught a Kickstarter, they collected millions, and yet, Facebook came, made the 'owners' rich and the backers of the project didn't get anything.

Only DAO's can solve this problem, it would be cool to have equity in a company in a trustless decentralised way.

YES I Agree the DAO is amazing. I put 20 BTC into that lets hope it succeeds.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 17, 2016, 09:49:30 AM
2000 bitcoin in so far anyway. I am still positive that the tokens will be worth a great deal when the new wallet launches. I can wait till next year for that. By that time the block halving will have settled down and the btc price will be slowly rising :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 17, 2016, 04:21:35 PM
all u guys do is have no way to incentive so u make extra "token" that u will dump on users in the end

This isn't a "token" like some altcoin or something. This is an actual stake ownership in the company. We are selling 5% of company ownership (the Wallet division), not just random tokens that don't mean anything.

Not strictly an "exit scam" tho. Mycelium explicitly states that its digital tokens give you no rights whatsoever, are basically a gift to Mycelium. How is that misleading?

Where do you get the idea that these tokens give you no rights whatsoever? When buying, you have to sign a contract with Mycelium that has a legal binding. It gives you legal rights to any increase in company valuation, and makes the token a transferable contract that grants you ownership rights to 5% of the company (which would go down if you pull your increased valuation cash out, of course).

The whole thing may be moot by now anyway though, since we set a cap of 7,500, and some private investors may have filled it all up by now. We won't update the final amount on the site until we know we have the money.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 17, 2016, 04:33:15 PM
all u guys do is have no way to incentive so u make extra "token" that u will dump on users in the end

This isn't a "token" like some altcoin or something. This is an actual stake ownership in the company. We are selling 5% of company ownership (the Wallet division), not just random tokens that don't mean anything.

Not strictly an "exit scam" tho. Mycelium explicitly states that its digital tokens give you no rights whatsoever, are basically a gift to Mycelium. How is that misleading?

Where do you get the idea that these tokens give you no rights whatsoever? When buying, you have to sign a contract with Mycelium that has a legal binding. It gives you legal rights to any increase in company valuation, and makes the token a transferable contract that grants you ownership rights to 5% of the company (which would go down if you pull your increased valuation cash out, of course).

The whole thing may be moot by now anyway though, since we set a cap of 7,500, and some private investors may have filled it all up by now. We won't update the final amount on the site until we know we have the money.

"private investors" - when compared to what other kind of investors, in the context of an ICO?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 17, 2016, 05:16:20 PM
"private investors" - when compared to what other kind of investors, in the context of an ICO?

As in those who didn't go through the online site, instead talking to our CEO in person and investing directly. We have had a few large investors expressing interest in wanting to invest without anyone else knowing who they are for whatever reason. Seems they went through with their stated interest after all. Maybe. Still waiting to confirm the funds.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 17, 2016, 05:24:11 PM
"private investors" - when compared to what other kind of investors, in the context of an ICO?

Can I be a private investor?

As in those who didn't go through the online site, instead talking to our CEO in person and investing directly. We have had a few large investors expressing interest in wanting to invest without anyone else knowing who they are for whatever reason. Seems they went through with their stated interest after all. Maybe. Still waiting to confirm the funds.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 17, 2016, 05:34:51 PM
Not strictly an "exit scam" tho. Mycelium explicitly states that its digital tokens give you no rights whatsoever, are basically a gift to Mycelium. How is that misleading?

Where do you get the idea that these tokens give you no rights whatsoever? When buying, you have to sign a contract with Mycelium that has a legal binding. It gives you legal rights to any increase in company valuation, and makes the token a transferable contract that grants you ownership rights to 5% of the company (which would go down if you pull your increased valuation cash out, of course).

From your website, bottom of the page:
"Token is not a security, is not listed, authorized, issued or traded on any regulated market." It's explicitly a token, not a security, because you are not registered with the SEC. "Increase in company valuation" is meaningless if I have no idea who is doing the "valuation," the methadology of this "valuation," or what, for that matter, is exactly being "valuated." From your site again: "The crowdsale offer refers to the Wallet project only," i.e. NOT Mycelium the company.

These are legally SAR contracts and give you all the same rights. It's a contract granting you ownership of a portion of the company, and any growth therein. And why would Mycelium register with the SEC when it's not a US company?
Company valuation is explicitly spelled out in the contract as trigger events, and happens any time another sale of company happens (we plan to sell 20% of dilutable shares next), or when company becomes profitable, or when someone buys out the company. The wallet division is wholly owned by a separate Mycelium entity, which is what is being sold off here. Mycelium the company owns things like Entropy, Gear, Swish, and Card, which are still too early to even know if they are profitable, and will be funded by personal and other private investment. The wallet is being sold in this manner because we believe it is the only product so far that actually has the potential to make money. You are free to invest in the whole company as well, just know that it's extremely risky right now.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 17, 2016, 06:02:08 PM
Not strictly an "exit scam" tho. Mycelium explicitly states that its digital tokens give you no rights whatsoever, are basically a gift to Mycelium. How is that misleading?

Where do you get the idea that these tokens give you no rights whatsoever? When buying, you have to sign a contract with Mycelium that has a legal binding. It gives you legal rights to any increase in company valuation, and makes the token a transferable contract that grants you ownership rights to 5% of the company (which would go down if you pull your increased valuation cash out, of course).

From your website, bottom of the page:
"Token is not a security, is not listed, authorized, issued or traded on any regulated market." It's explicitly a token, not a security, because you are not registered with the SEC. "Increase in company valuation" is meaningless if I have no idea who is doing the "valuation," the methadology of this "valuation," or what, for that matter, is exactly being "valuated." From your site again: "The crowdsale offer refers to the Wallet project only," i.e. NOT Mycelium the company.

These are legally SAR contracts and give you all the same rights. It's a contract granting you ownership of a portion of the company, and any growth therein. And why would Mycelium register with the SEC when it's not a US company?
Company valuation is explicitly spelled out in the contract as trigger events, and happens any time another sale of company happens (we plan to sell 20% of dilutable shares next), or when company becomes profitable, or when someone buys out the company. The wallet division is wholly owned by a separate Mycelium entity, which is what is being sold off here. Mycelium the company owns things like Entropy, Gear, Swish, and Card, which are still too early to even know if they are profitable, and will be funded by personal and other private investment. The wallet is being sold in this manner because we believe it is the only product so far that actually has the potential to make money. You are free to invest in the whole company as well, just know that it's extremely risky right now.

why the two jurisdictions?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 17, 2016, 06:23:03 PM
Not strictly an "exit scam" tho. Mycelium explicitly states that its digital tokens give you no rights whatsoever, are basically a gift to Mycelium. How is that misleading?

Where do you get the idea that these tokens give you no rights whatsoever? When buying, you have to sign a contract with Mycelium that has a legal binding. It gives you legal rights to any increase in company valuation, and makes the token a transferable contract that grants you ownership rights to 5% of the company (which would go down if you pull your increased valuation cash out, of course).

From your website, bottom of the page:
"Token is not a security, is not listed, authorized, issued or traded on any regulated market." It's explicitly a token, not a security, because you are not registered with the SEC. "Increase in company valuation" is meaningless if I have no idea who is doing the "valuation," the methadology of this "valuation," or what, for that matter, is exactly being "valuated." From your site again: "The crowdsale offer refers to the Wallet project only," i.e. NOT Mycelium the company.

These are legally SAR contracts and give you all the same rights. It's a contract granting you ownership of a portion of the company, and any growth therein. And why would Mycelium register with the SEC when it's not a US company?

To sell securities to US nationals. It's teh law :(
You're a US citizen, right? Where's your company based/registered at?

P.S. How are these "tokens" "legally SAR contracts"? In what jurisdiction? Do you know what SARs are?

Did you check the OP?
Remember that a Cyprus-based holding company is involved, and Mycelium operations are supposedly Latvian-based.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 17, 2016, 06:47:57 PM
why the two jurisdictions?

Because we live in the world that we live in, where the answer to this is always "for legal and tax purposes." We used to be registered in Austria, but moved to Cyprus for those reasons.


These are legally SAR contracts and give you all the same rights. It's a contract granting you ownership of a portion of the company, and any growth therein. And why would Mycelium register with the SEC when it's not a US company?

To sell securities to US nationals. It's teh law :(

We're not selling securities. And please do not break the law by buying these if it's illegal where you live.


You're a US citizen, right? Where's your company based/registered at?

For now yes. It's not my company, I am technically just a contractor. It's registered in Cyprus, with the Wallet division registered in Latvia.


P.S. How are these "tokens" "legally SAR contracts"? In what jurisdiction? Do you know what SARs are?

When you buy them, you have to agree to and sign a contract with the company. The token is just an easy way to prove ownership. The jurisdiction may be listed in the contract, but considering we only ask for proof of ownership of the toke, and don't have any way of knowing where you are, jurisdiction doesn't matter for us. We'll honor it just based on honoring contracts being the ethical thing to do (AnCaps, remember?). Since this is a legal contract, most jurisdictions should be able to honor them too, but you'll have to check with your lawyer. Yes, we know what SARs are.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 17, 2016, 06:50:33 PM
^Sorry, was lazy of me. Just checked. Latvian addy is a rent-a-desk, 10 Euro per day. http://www.desksurfing.net/desks/1423-darbavieta
Nice catch. Added to the OP.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 17, 2016, 07:05:33 PM
it seems that this discussion has become academic as private investors have apparently filled the allocation.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 17, 2016, 07:12:46 PM
it seems that this discussion has become academic as private investors have apparently filled the allocation.
Dunno, there are some newbies that pop up here and there doing detective work. TurkistatnRising for example, found out (and posted) that Mycelium's physical address is actually a rent-a-desk service's address on his second post. On the one hand, we've got people claiming to have invested thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin in this and they're shamelessly shilling for Mycelium and on the other hand we get people like TurkistatnRising posting here, doing detective work on Mycelium (seemingly) with no gain on their end. It's weird, but this kind of balances shilling out.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 17, 2016, 08:07:16 PM
it seems that this discussion has become academic as private investors have apparently filled the allocation.
Dunno, there are some newbies that pop up here and there doing detective work. TurkistatnRising for example, found out (and posted) that Mycelium's physical address is actually a rent-a-desk service's address on his second post. On the one hand, we've got people claiming to have invested thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin in this and they're shamelessly shilling for Mycelium and on the other hand we get people like TurkistatnRising posting here, doing detective work on Mycelium (seemingly) with no gain on their end. It's weird, but this kind of balances shilling out.

i'm all for digging for the truth. i appreciate the efforts being made.



Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 17, 2016, 09:28:08 PM
Sure you are selling unregistered securities. If calling them "tokens" is the extent of your cunning, I'm afraid you're in for a rude awakening.

I am not a lawyer. You are not a lawyer either. I'm sure in some jurisdictions, like NYC, anything you sell is illegal. Our legal team said this is ok. I can only trust their word on this.

You do understand that being "just a contractor" absolves you no more than "being just a runner," correct? Otherwise everyone would rent a desk in Latvia, push unregistered securities, and claim to be working for Keyser Söze when they got popped.

I am not the one selling these tokens. I am not the one receiving the money from the sale either. I'm just answering questions on what these are, how they work, and what the company expects. I'm not promising profits, I'm not saying this is legal (consult your own lawyer before you buy this) and I'm not claiming this is a good idea. I am also not participating in this sale myself. None of the managers and owners are.

Nah, you do not know what SARs are. For starters, SARs are not sold but issued to employees.

Yes, we know. There's no rule against selling them either. So we're trying something new.


Regarding detective work, I'm not sure why it's needed. I'm not hiding anything. Everything about the company and the sale is public. All the addresses, along with all our names and faces are right here https://wallet.mycelium.com/about.html Regarding the mailing address, please use e-mail. We all live all around the world, and our CEO travels a lot. Also, don't forget that our customers are typically the grey market types, not the everything-by-the-book types, and we have built our reputation within that space (where reputation is everything), so that's probably why there's such a disconnect between Mycelium "shills" and the "detectives." Some trust us based on our philosophy, others think it's sketchy to not have absolutely everything covered by legal. For me, personally, I have been in this space for years (since early 2011), have practically dedicated my life to it, and don't have any plans to disappear with the money. I may quit the company in a very public way if I believe that it is doing something I believe is unethical (like spying on our users, or using money inappropriately), since I don't exactly need the money myself (technically retired over two years ago). But I hope to be in this space and this business community for as long as I can.

Seriously, though, what would you like to know?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 17, 2016, 11:07:02 PM
I don't need to be a lawyer to know selling unregistered securities is illegal.

But you need to be a lawyer to know if what we're selling is securities, and what jurisdictions they should be registered in, and which they're already legal in. I've heard all of this already since the start of this sale. As I said, consult your lawyer. If you think this is illegal where you live, please don't break laws and don't participate.

Have no idea who your "legal team" is, but if they, like you, feel that "anything you sell [in NYC] is illegal," they're lunatics, not lawyers.  NYC is full of stores. Stores sell things.

I meant anything investment wise. There's a reason NYC is on the same list as North Korea and Iran with a lot of bitcoin companies. Worse yet, these guys can make things illegal retroactively, so fuckem.

"Sale of unregistered securities" includes promotion, and promotion is, loosely speaking, doing anything instrumental to such sales.

Pretty sure whoever draws up brochures for companies that does IPOs isn't help liable should that IPO go south. But, again, I am not a lawyer. If you are not a lawyer either, then your advice is not valid either (and probably illegal in the state of NY :D
Lol no, you simply don't understand that the quality of not being sold is what's called SAR's defining quality.

It is. You are getting a right to appreciation of company value, with the right to have it be converted into stock should the company go through an IPO. We're just not giving this away for free.

Stop giving away worthless legal advice, unless you are a lawyer. If you have some questions or concerns about the company or the project, feel free to ask/address them. If you are confused as to what kind of philosophy our owners and developers have, I can explain that too.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: DarkStar_ on May 17, 2016, 11:46:33 PM
Pure money grab on the heels of all these icos. Reminds me of the dot com bubble.
Says the guy wearing a signature, advertising an ICO xD .
Thanks for the heads up about this. Now I can go warn people about it since I was never planning (luckily) to get involved with Mycelium's crowdsale. I thought it looked legit at first glance and I actually considered buying a small share, but there isn't a chance I will purchase a share anymore after reading this..


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 18, 2016, 06:40:17 PM
One of the guys who wanted to buy a lot seems to be a bit flakey, so may not invest after all (we don't know either way). But the crowdsale ends in 12 hours, so I guess that won't matter. We just added Glidera support, and will be demonstrating Mycelium Swish at the National Restaurant Association in Chicago, and long term plan to incorporate Swish into our new wallet as well, so even more revenues should that succeed (that system is super easy to use!). All the people talking about "Randian heroes" or whatever said whatever they wanted to say, and I've answered whatever questions people had, so now it's just my job to work and try to make this happen, and their job to sit on their asses and watch.


https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/mycelium-bitcoin-wallet-crowdsale-closes-in-on-million-fundraise-integrates-glidera-1463584565


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 18, 2016, 09:48:31 PM
Would suggesting you start by proofing your press release be too forward?

I don't work for that, or any of the dozen other bitcoin news companies that interviewed me. I usually catch and email them about issues (Core nose?), but I can only do so much.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: yayayo on May 18, 2016, 10:49:25 PM
I think it's a free market after all. People should just do their homework and then decide if a investment makes sense ore not. Provided that there are no hidden terms, it's not a crime to have simply bad terms in an offering, because nobody is forced to buy it. You can't save people from bad decisions.

That said, I think Mycelium's crowdsale is not attractive at all and I will certainly not "invest". However Bitcoiners are used to invest in almost anything that is offered to them. If you look at the terms (if there are any) of most "Bitcoin stocks", you will discover that the holders of these financial entities have no rights at all. So compared to the peer group Mycelium's offer might actually seem superior...

ya.ya.yo!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Omega.SportSciencie on May 18, 2016, 11:00:37 PM
I can't create new account on the crowdsale...

The notification email never arrives..


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 19, 2016, 02:58:01 AM
I think it's a free market after all. People should just do their homework and then decide if a investment makes sense ore not.

Helping your fellow humans "do their homework," that's part of the free market too :)

Let us know when you start  ;D


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Omega.SportSciencie on May 19, 2016, 06:06:44 AM
I think it's a free market after all. People should just do their homework and then decide if a investment makes sense ore not.

Helping your fellow humans "do their homework," that's part of the free market too :)

Let us know when you start  ;D

What I dont understand is on which platform the mycelium tokens are created? counter party, ethereum, or what.. are they even decentralized? or those tokens only exist in your server.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: target on May 19, 2016, 06:24:25 AM
But as mycelium has stated, they are aiming to become a full blown finance company. Their fees should be able to fund their dividends.

They've gathered 4,772.686 BTC! imagine that. They sure are serious and knowns what they are doing.
Crowdsale is almost over and i've read somewhere that they can get their tokens right after it. If I only have the funds, I may have bought shares.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 19, 2016, 07:13:13 AM
What I dont understand is on which platform the mycelium tokens are created? counter party, ethereum, or what.. are they even decentralized? or those tokens only exist in your server.

They're ColoredCoin tokens. Decentralized, for now on Colu wallet, but will be supported in our own Mycelium Wallet soon.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 19, 2016, 07:26:04 AM
What I dont understand is on which platform the mycelium tokens are created? counter party, ethereum, or what.. are they even decentralized? or those tokens only exist in your server.

They're ColoredCoin tokens. Decentralized, for now on Colu wallet, but will be supported in our own Mycelium Wallet soon.


Wow cool! when is the new wallet gonna be out then?

so glad I invested


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on May 19, 2016, 07:46:17 AM
when is the new wallet gonna be out then?

We're aiming for Fall or by end of the year. The current wallet will be updated with ColoredCoin support too, probably in June.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 19, 2016, 08:39:38 AM
when is the new wallet gonna be out then?

We're aiming for Fall or by end of the year. The current wallet will be updated with ColoredCoin support too, probably in June.
cool man! So 6000 MT in circulation that give you dividends and a stake in the company.

They are going x 100 the crowdsale price. This is gonna be so sweet


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 19, 2016, 03:50:21 PM
The crowdsale seems to be over but there's been a lot of discussion in this thread. I'm probably not locking it as the closing of the crowdsale doesn't mark the end of this adventure, whether you perceive this in a negative or positive light.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: 4emily on May 22, 2016, 07:36:44 PM
What I dont understand is on which platform the mycelium tokens are created? counter party, ethereum, or what.. are they even decentralized? or those tokens only exist in your server.

They're ColoredCoin tokens. Decentralized, for now on Colu wallet, but will be supported in our own Mycelium Wallet soon.

@Rassah

I followed the instructions:

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Receiving your Mycelium Tokens

In order to receive Mycelium Tokens, you have to make sure that:

    You have signed Mycelium Token Sales Agreement (if you have not signed it, please sign it here.)
    Then, go to https://dashboard.colu.co and create an account (thanks to our partner - Colu.co!). Write down the password and keep it in a safe place - it is not possible to restore your password if you lose it!
    Go to Manage Assets, then select Receive Assets
    Copy the receiving address
    Paste this address in the field below - this is where your Mycelium Tokens are stored.

Colu Address

Your Colu Address has been updated successfully.

Use this Colu Address to receive Mycelium Tokens


Do I need to do anything else for the tokens to be transferred to my Colu address or does that happen automatically at some stage?

Thanks.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: M28MmickT on May 23, 2016, 08:04:07 PM
when is the new wallet gonna be out then?

We're aiming for Fall or by end of the year. The current wallet will be updated with ColoredCoin support too, probably in June.

So this dude only waited for the crowdsale to end and then go afk. nice


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 23, 2016, 09:21:27 PM
when is the new wallet gonna be out then?

We're aiming for Fall or by end of the year. The current wallet will be updated with ColoredCoin support too, probably in June.

So this dude only waited for the crowdsale to end and then go afk. nice
You mean the developers? June isn't that far away. Technology for color coins is already out there. Given that Mycelium is going to be implementing an already existing solution I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to keep true to their word by releasing the feature on time.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Bitcoinpro on May 24, 2016, 01:36:10 PM
So Mycelium is organising a "crowdsale". If you've been in their website you've most definitely heard about it because they're doing their best to get the word out. I'm here to give you the hard truth though, this is quite possibly the worst place to put your money in and most certainly a guaranteed loss of principal. Don't give them money unless you consider it a donation. Here's why:

Part 1
Unacceptable practices:
Giving a 10% discount to people expressing interest prior to the sale.  (https://archive.is/6QVa8#selection-136.1-147.45)
You don't have to be a genius to see how bad of a practice this is for securities (note: this crowdsale isn't even a security) that are supposedly representing a stake in a company.

Promising investors part of the money received from future crowdsales (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-570.0-570.3)
In their own words:
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You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.
Remember that a Cyprus-based holding company is involved, and Mycelium operations are supposedly Latvian-based. This is a borderline pyramid scheme setup and illegal for securities in most of the world.

Absolutely zero legal fallback (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-797.8-786.6)
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There will be no refunds. Token is not a security, is not listed, authorized, issued or traded on any regulated market.

No ETA on project rollout
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.msg14677405#msg14677405) and the creators have no clear idea how it's going to be built or even what it's going to be. You're you would literally be buying a stake in vapourware.

Mycelium's supposed address is a rent-a-desk service's address. (http://www.desksurfing.net/desks/1423-darbavieta)
part 2
Why this has a high chance of being a loss:
First things first, up to this point, could you name anything that Mycelium did that was a commercial success? Their wallet software was free and not monetized, which is nice for users but not for potential investors. A supposed advantage of this crowdsale is dividends but there's no talk about how they're going to turn in profit.

They are granting themselvs the right to repurchase shares at the initial price. (https://web.archive.org/web/20160430121948/https://wallet.mycelium.com/crowdsale.pdf)
There's no clear plan on how this project is potentially going to turn in profit, but even in the unlikely event that the project becomes profitable, they could buy back the shares at the initial price and end their obligation to investors.

Can only invest in the wallet but there's no guarantee that the money will be spent on it instead of other projects (https://archive.is/PLTOU#selection-2093.0-2099.362) (that Mycelium won't pay investors dividends for)
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And do I have a guarantee that the collected funds will only be used for the wallet project and not for the rest of the company?
Not entirely, but that's mainly because eventually all of the rest of our company will be rolled into this wallet. Most of the expense will be used to pay Wallet developer salaries, but some of our resources (like office and general brand marketing) are shared, so it would be difficult to keep completely separate. Sorry I can't give a more satisfactory answer.

Tokens are released in their own platform. (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-669.67-669.160)
So fair distribution is entirely based on trust, as well as trading. Yet they claim that Token owners can either sell them on the open market at any moment or redeem to us if conditions are met (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-771.0-771.106), which is misleading at best.

Especially risky when you look at this from a legal perspective:
You're a US citizen, right? Where's your company based/registered at?

For now yes. It's not my company, I am technically just a contractor. It's registered in Cyprus, with the Wallet division registered in Latvia.

My advice on this would be to stay away. It looks bad in every way possible, there's no guarantee that Mycelium have the supposed platform ready or even that they're working on it. Don't fall for their misleading advertising, this looks bad no matter how you look at it. Only send money if you consider it a donation.


Wats ur take on Ethereum?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on May 24, 2016, 02:00:47 PM
when is the new wallet gonna be out then?

We're aiming for Fall or by end of the year. The current wallet will be updated with ColoredCoin support too, probably in June.

So this dude only waited for the crowdsale to end and then go afk. nice

he's probably switched back to retired mode. that was the one thing he said during the sale that put me right off.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: ingiltere on May 24, 2016, 02:03:43 PM
This is the shadiest ICO I've ever seen. They try to run away from legal responsibilities, so they put "donation" term to blame investors if something bad happens. I don't suggest anybody to invest this ICO. Other than that you can invest WAVES. They have a cooperation so you partially invest for Mycelium, too.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Jeremycoin on May 24, 2016, 02:13:43 PM
I've invested my Bitcoin to the crowdsale, and if your theory is true I think I'm safe because I didn't invested too much to it. Even tho if I invested so much Bitcoin to it, I'll be a good person because I just donated a lot of money to them ;)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 24, 2016, 08:23:51 PM
Wats ur take on Ethereum?
Well, I think that the price rise was impressive but I don't think such a price is sustainable. I find the tech behind it interesting.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 24, 2016, 08:47:51 PM
where can you see the price please?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 24, 2016, 10:30:45 PM
where can you see the price please?

Ethereum's price? For short-term to mid-term I'd see it around 12$, beyond that I think it's possible to see the price approaching 10$ and falling below that point by the end of the year. And if it reaches such levels I don't think that there's substantial support for 10$ either.

How do you find that relevant though? Is it because ethereum will be part of the wallet project?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on May 24, 2016, 11:59:48 PM
where can you see the price please?

Ethereum's price? For short-term to mid-term I'd see it around 12$, beyond that I think it's possible to see the price approaching 10$ and falling below that point by the end of the year. And if it reaches such levels I don't think that there's substantial support for 10$ either.

How do you find that relevant though? Is it because ethereum will be part of the wallet project?

nah I had a moment of stupidity. lol forget I asked sorry


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 02, 2016, 06:35:35 AM
Tokens seem to be issued, is the promise of exchanges still unfulfilled now that May is over?

where's best place to follow this project?

Have plans to list tokens on some exchange?

When should we receive the tokens?

Thanks for your time.

We generally post updates on Reddit and our Twitter @MyceliumCom

We're talking to exchanges now.

Tokens will be issued Friday, and sent out Friday through Monday (we had a lot of buyers)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: TheCryptoMint on June 02, 2016, 07:20:48 AM
Tokens seem to be issued, is the promise of exchanges still unfulfilled now that May is over?

where's best place to follow this project?

Have plans to list tokens on some exchange?

When should we receive the tokens?

Thanks for your time.

We generally post updates on Reddit and our Twitter @MyceliumCom

We're talking to exchanges now.

Tokens will be issued Friday, and sent out Friday through Monday (we had a lot of buyers)

Yes I agree! But I have no idea about anything at the moment. No exchange I am not too worried about,. With only 6k of these little beauties in existence we will see some fierce prices :)

To redeam your tokens is extremely strange though. Its a browser based asset platform I just dont like at the moment.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 02, 2016, 10:37:47 AM
Tokens seem to be issued, is the promise of exchanges still unfulfilled now that May is over?

where's best place to follow this project?

Have plans to list tokens on some exchange?

When should we receive the tokens?

Thanks for your time.

We generally post updates on Reddit and our Twitter @MyceliumCom

We're talking to exchanges now.

Tokens will be issued Friday, and sent out Friday through Monday (we had a lot of buyers)

Yes I agree! But I have no idea about anything at the moment. No exchange I am not too worried about,. With only 6k of these little beauties in existence we will see some fierce prices :)

To redeam your tokens is extremely strange though. Its a browser based asset platform I just dont like at the moment.
I noticed the same thing about redeeming the tokens. Sure, it's a third party platform and it's easy to use but web wallets aren't known for their security and uptime. A more independent/trustless solution to handle the token would have been better. But either way, I don't really see a good reason to redeem the tokens if there aren't any exchanges anyway .


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: M28MmickT on June 02, 2016, 08:39:24 PM
When will there be exchanges to trade this token on ?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: dothebeats on June 02, 2016, 08:48:31 PM
I like Mycellium very much because of its wallet, and I also liked their upcoming projects too. What I'm iffy about is the way they pitch their so-called "crowdsale". It's like them saying 'Hey peeps! Give us your money. Don't worry, you'll get a gazillion in return! Rolling out projects? We'll decide it after.. you give us your money!'


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on June 02, 2016, 09:04:30 PM
I like Mycellium very much because of its wallet, and I also liked their upcoming projects too. What I'm iffy about is the way they pitch their so-called "crowdsale". It's like them saying 'Hey peeps! Give us your money. Don't worry, you'll get a gazillion in return! Rolling out projects? We'll decide it after.. you give us your money!'
But did you get any ? :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on June 02, 2016, 09:27:50 PM
A Cyprus/Latvian/Belize/Somalian offshore for all concerned bitcoin company, with no viable business plan, fails to deliver on promises? Or maintain contact with investors after getting their coin? In MY bitcointalk?! :o
Inconceivable!
Has such a thing ever happened here before, Gentlemen?

I have a problem.
I bought some coin  but I did not get any till now.
Support not answering me.. What is wrong?  Help me please ..  
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Posts:    7161
Activity:    1554
Position:    Legendary
Date Registered:    June 08, 2011, 07:12:12 PM
Last Active:    May 25, 2016, 03:25:59 AM

SFYL :(


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on June 02, 2016, 10:07:34 PM
I must admit I asked a question and still no reply for 2 days through a ticket in ICO site.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 03, 2016, 03:03:49 AM
Not to worry though, they're hiring developers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4m8yxj/mycelium_is_hiring_devs/

To develop on iOS and Android...  ::)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 03, 2016, 04:04:47 AM
So this dude only waited for the crowdsale to end and then go afk. nice

Sorry, I'm active in email, Twitter, Skype, Telegram, our crowdsale site, and Reddit, but I just generally don't give a shit about bitcointalk any more. If people have questions or issues about tokens, they just email us and we answer them directly.

he's probably switched back to retired mode. that was the one thing he said during the sale that put me right off.

I'm only "officially" retired. Unofficially I'm working more than I've ever worked before. Though I'm curious what exactly about me being retired would put you off.

This is the shadiest ICO I've ever seen. They try to run away from legal responsibilities, so they put "donation" term to blame investors if something bad happens. I don't suggest anybody to invest this ICO. Other than that you can invest WAVES. They have a cooperation so you partially invest for Mycelium, too.

Don't know where you get the "donation" idea from. Nothing in our documents claims this is any sort of donation. Don't know about WAVES, but we're probably more legit than them too.

Tokens seem to be issued, is the promise of exchanges still unfulfilled now that May is over?

Exchanges weren't promised, I just said we're working on it and hoping to have the tokens traded on them. But don't forget, before an exchange can add something you can trade, that something has to actually exist first. We only started issuing them recently, and are still in the process. There were a lot of buyers.

To redeam your tokens is extremely strange though. Its a browser based asset platform I just dont like at the moment.

You can also use the Colu wallet app on your phone, or wait and withdraw them to the Mycelium Wallet once we add that functionality. Using the browser wallet just seemed like the easiest way to set up and explain it.

A Cyprus/Latvian/Belize/Somalian offshore for all concerned bitcoin company, with no viable business plan, fails to deliver on promises? Or maintain contact with investors after getting their coin?

Hmmm, another one not paying attention...

Not to worry though, they're hiring developers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4m8yxj/mycelium_is_hiring_devs/

To develop on iOS and Android...  ::)

Um, yeah, that's what I said we planned to do with the money, remeber? We have Android and iOS devs already, but we need two more to help out. We're building the new wallet to work the same on both platforms. So... everything going as claimed, according to plan.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 03, 2016, 04:17:46 AM
Tokens seem to be issued, is the promise of exchanges still unfulfilled now that May is over?

Exchanges weren't promised, I just said we're working on it and hoping to have the tokens traded on them. But don't forget, before an exchange can add something you can trade, that something has to actually exist first. We only started issuing them recently, and are still in the process. There were a lot of buyers.
You're right, this is a promise you chose not to make. Although it was implied by being a direct point in your marketing campaigns and through your official website.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 03, 2016, 04:36:04 AM
Tokens seem to be issued, is the promise of exchanges still unfulfilled now that May is over?

Exchanges weren't promised, I just said we're working on it and hoping to have the tokens traded on them. But don't forget, before an exchange can add something you can trade, that something has to actually exist first. We only started issuing them recently, and are still in the process. There were a lot of buyers.
You're right, this is a promise you chose not to make. Although it was implied by being a direct point in your marketing campaigns and through your official website.

You believe that no exchange would be interested in trading Mycelium tokens? Why?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on June 03, 2016, 04:38:16 AM
...Unofficially I'm working more than I've ever worked before. Though I'm curious what exactly about me being retired would put you off.
WTF is your job, being furry & pissing people off?
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Exchanges weren't promised, I just said we're working on it and hoping to have the tokens traded on them.
They deserve nothing. Be firm, punish them. Stop talking to exchanges, that will teach them!
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A Cyprus/Latvian/Belize/Somalian offshore for all concerned bitcoin company, with no viable business plan, fails to deliver on promises? Or maintain contact with investors after getting their coin?

Hmmm, another one not paying attention...
You got my attention now, furball :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 03, 2016, 04:44:58 AM
My job is Product Manager of Mycelium wallet. I'm in charge of the project.

Too little, too late on the paying attention thing. We have a pretty good business plan, which was published and described all over the place, but you missed it because you weren't paying attention, and then made claims like we don't have one. Something about opening one's mouth to remove all doubts... But, not like you're an investor, so I won't bother explaining it again. Google is your friend. We've been delivering on promises and maintaining contact with investors too. Just not here.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on June 03, 2016, 05:03:55 AM
^Can't wait for the finale rack. Gonna be glorious :D


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 03, 2016, 08:49:32 AM
Tokens seem to be issued, is the promise of exchanges still unfulfilled now that May is over?

Exchanges weren't promised, I just said we're working on it and hoping to have the tokens traded on them. But don't forget, before an exchange can add something you can trade, that something has to actually exist first. We only started issuing them recently, and are still in the process. There were a lot of buyers.
You're right, this is a promise you chose not to make. Although it was implied by being a direct point in your marketing campaigns and through your official website.

You believe that no exchange would be interested in trading Mycelium tokens? Why?
It doesn't seem like any exchange rushed to do that, although you said that you tried.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on June 03, 2016, 09:59:54 AM
I'm not suprise he is getting annoyed by comments really he is the manager if this.  I feel lucky to buy tokens and be part of mycelium. They are not going to run off with the bitcoin ffs.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: danijel on June 03, 2016, 10:10:52 AM
everything went good till now..,a little bit of delay... but that is the nature of doing things
a lot of FUD from some people
guys you do a good work :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 03, 2016, 01:39:23 PM
It doesn't seem like any exchange rushed to do that, although you said that you tried.

Never claimed exchanges would rush to do that, or that I would only try until the token sale was over and give up. Still working on it. How long does it usually take for an exchange add new crypto after it's released? Like for Etherium for example? Two? Three months?

I know you're not being impatient, and just being a dick though. Not like you have anything invested in this besides hoping to be proven right about something, anything. But, I guess thanks for digging and keeping people/companies honest?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 03, 2016, 02:01:56 PM
...Unofficially I'm working more than I've ever worked before. Though I'm curious what exactly about me being retired would put you off.
WTF is your job, being furry & pissing people off?

Btw, sorry, am I pissing you off? How? Sorry if I did.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Bitcoinpro on June 03, 2016, 02:18:31 PM
My job is Product Manager of Mycelium wallet. I'm in charge of the project.

Too little, too late on the paying attention thing. We have a pretty good business plan, which was published and described all over the place, but you missed it because you weren't paying attention, and then made claims like we don't have one. Something about opening one's mouth to remove all doubts... But, not like you're an investor, so I won't bother explaining it again. Google is your friend. We've been delivering on promises and maintaining contact with investors too. Just not here.

At least post a link to the business plan if it's the cornerstone to ur argument


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on June 03, 2016, 05:56:06 PM
...Unofficially I'm working more than I've ever worked before. Though I'm curious what exactly about me being retired would put you off.
WTF is your job, being furry & pissing people off?

Btw, sorry, am I pissing you off? How? Sorry if I did.

You got time to post catty comebacks, but couldn't spare 10 minutes to update this thread. There's that.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 04, 2016, 02:06:35 AM
It doesn't seem like any exchange rushed to do that, although you said that you tried.

Never claimed exchanges would rush to do that, or that I would only try until the token sale was over and give up. Still working on it. How long does it usually take for an exchange add new crypto after it's released? Like for Etherium for example? Two? Three months?

I know you're not being impatient, and just being a dick though. Not like you have anything invested in this besides hoping to be proven right about something, anything. But, I guess thanks for digging and keeping people/companies honest?
Calling me a dick over criticism? Well that was unnecessary, why would I need to have put a fortune in your project in the first place? If I wasn't putting out valid questions, as many community members in this thread are doing, I guess that you wouldn't be addressing my criticisms in the first place. You could have chosen to do this, but I'm getting called a dick instead.

But either way, I know what you did promise and what you did not. I do however find your comparison with ethereum aimless. Aithereum gathered millions in its presale yet it had no GUI wallet for a good while. You went with a third party token management system from day one. The reason I'm saying that no exchange seems to have rushed to include your token is because I find it remarkable. There were cryptos that were less legitimate than your token that were traded from day one. And don't worry, I'm not saying that it's you that should be blamed, I can't be sure of what's going on in the background. Perhaps no exchange has included the token so far because there's not enough documentation of the colored coin system that is being used, or it could be the complexity of this non-security.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 04, 2016, 04:45:56 AM
Well I invested quite a bit into Mycelium think its a better deal as some of those other ICOs.Not interested if an exchange wants to trade it or not though I bet many will.Here for the long haul till Mycelium turns into a financial institution.
You dont want to trust a company with the best wallet in the world that delivers constantly but you will trust a Russian with millions of dollars in a NXT clone.People get your priorities right.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: darkfur93 on June 04, 2016, 05:40:22 AM
I really like the idea of using Colored Coins. I never received one before.
The colu interface is alight. Seems like they require you to enter a company name which I just used one of my domain names. It looks like you can export your private key.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 04, 2016, 05:53:41 AM
At least post a link to the business plan if it's the cornerstone to ur argument

It was part of the announcement, and on the wallet website https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.0

Calling me a dick over criticism?

I never call people dick over criticism. I answered your criticisms. You continued to be a dick afterwards.

If I wasn't putting out valid questions, as many community members in this thread are doing, I guess that you wouldn't be addressing my criticisms in the first place.

They're weren't valid questions, they were invalid claims based on you misunderstanding a bunch of fundamentals that were explained in the documents, and in various other online sources. Typically people ask what something is if they don't understand it, instead of gojng, "Aha! Look what I found hidden in this document! Scammers!" After addressing your questions and criticisms, you just kept pressing with "but you promised" and "you missed that date" Even though nothing of sort was promised. Basically you went from criticisms to trying to find any faults for fault's sake, regardless of whether there was any fault. So, a dick.

The reason I'm saying that no exchange seems to have rushed to include your token is because I find it remarkable. There were cryptos that were less legitimate than your token that were traded from day one. And don't worry, I'm not saying that it's you that should be blamed, I can't be sure of what's going on in the background. Perhaps no exchange has included the token so far because there's not enough documentation of the colored coin system that is being used, or it could be the complexity of this non-security.

I'm still surprised you expected this to be added to an exchange so soon, or faulting anyone that it hasn't yet, or caring whether it is or not, since you don't have tokens and don't intent to buy any (see previous paragraph). I've been in this a while, and things being added right away practically never happens. Only time I remember small cryptos being added from day one was on tiny obscure exchanges, with cryptos that were basically copies of other cryptos and thus easy to set up.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Bitcoinpro on June 04, 2016, 06:00:01 AM
another business plan that seems to heavily rely on the word tokin


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 04, 2016, 06:00:39 AM
I really like the idea of using Colored Coins. I never received one before.
The colu interface is alight. Seems like they require you to enter a company name which I just used one of my domain names. It looks like you can export your private key.

Yeah, that company name is weird. Most people just made something up. Glad to hear Colu is OK and leto you export the private key. I didn't use it because I couldn't participate in this crowdsale.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 04, 2016, 06:01:21 AM
another business plan that seems to heavily rely on the word tokin

You must've missed something. Nothing in the business plan relies on tokens.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Bitcoinpro on June 04, 2016, 06:11:52 AM
another business plan that seems to heavily rely on the word tokin

You must've missed something. Nothing in the business plan relies on tokens.

can u post a link? also never heard of coloured coins or token

coins living up to their reputation  while this smart contract

stuff  sounds great it's to quickly turned into a ponzi

because of no fixed supply and other fairly lax rules that

really don't constitute a real Crypto and are more likely

than not a trick to confuse the consumer away from

Bitcoins and Litecoins


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 04, 2016, 09:29:36 AM
Also I like the Idea your stake is tied to the dollar not Bitcoin


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 04, 2016, 09:43:24 AM
Well I invested quite a bit into Mycelium think its a better deal as some of those other ICOs.Not interested if an exchange wants to trade it or not though I bet many will.Here for the long haul till Mycelium turns into a financial institution.
You dont want to trust a company with the best wallet in the world that delivers constantly but you will trust a Russian with millions of dollars in a NXT clone.People get your priorities right.
It is not an ICO though, which doesn't make the fact that it hasn't been added into any exchanges too surprising, but that's not the only factor. It's not as simple to add colored coins into an exchange when the existing infastructure supports other kinds of tokens. The crowdsale was met with decent success though, based in the money that it attracted. The fact that no exchange Was prepared to add the token at launch kinda gues to show that there wasn't enough interest from third party exchanges, on which Mycelium implied reliance for trading (at least for now). I'm sure that this has been disappointing to certain investors as this non-security hasn't showcased any speculative value so far, which always is in the interest of people that put money in such bitcoin related "investments". But I guess that I am a dick for posting my thoughts on the matter. :P


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitbitch on June 04, 2016, 09:50:54 AM
i would never buy any coin or token if it's not going to be listed on an exchange. alts are not secondary private market assets.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 04, 2016, 10:21:11 AM
I dont think your a dick you have good concerns.The coloured coin is a step up from the normal alt and not easy for an exchange to cope with straight away.Nobody is trading waves and its released a few days except Yobitt and thats a con just.
Good companies look for long term investors so the ability to trade straight away is not top of there agenda.Their will be another crowdsale this year so even if no exchange ever quotes it I am still only tied in a matter of months at the most.(Sorry please excuse my english) Actually want it to convert to B shares myself


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: darcycooper on June 04, 2016, 01:21:57 PM
Well I invested quite a bit into Mycelium think its a better deal as some of those other ICOs.Not interested if an exchange wants to trade it or not though I bet many will.Here for the long haul till Mycelium turns into a financial institution.
You dont want to trust a company with the best wallet in the world that delivers constantly but you will trust a Russian with millions of dollars in a NXT clone.People get your priorities right.
It is not an ICO though, which doesn't make the fact that it hasn't been added into any exchanges too surprising, but that's not the only factor. It's not as simple to add colored coins into an exchange when the existing infastructure supports other kinds of tokens. The crowdsale was met with decent success though, based in the money that it attracted. The fact that no exchange Was prepared to add the token at launch kinda gues to show that there wasn't enough interest from third party exchanges, on which Mycelium implied reliance for trading (at least for now). I'm sure that this has been disappointing to certain investors as this non-security hasn't showcased any speculative value so far, which always is in the interest of people that put money in such bitcoin related "investments". But I guess that I am a dick for posting my thoughts on the matter. :P

First of all, waves and mycelium fucked over their investors by buying each other's icos and esenially just swapping btc back and forth while diluting everyone else.

Second, mycelium raised 5000 btc for 5% of the wallet. The next round is for 25% of the wallet and needs to make 25000 btc for the first round investors to break even. If you invested a lot into this wallet, i feel sorry for you.



Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 04, 2016, 01:35:46 PM
Oh dont you worry Mycelium will be a sell out everytime it has a crowdsale.At least mycelium has a product whats waves got? 


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: reRaise on June 04, 2016, 02:07:35 PM
Mycelium is the best mobile wallet ever, i fully trust in their operations.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 04, 2016, 02:15:23 PM
First of all, waves and mycelium fucked over their investors by buying each other's icos and esenially just swapping btc back and forth while diluting everyone else.

Second, mycelium raised 5000 btc for 5% of the wallet. The next round is for 25% of the wallet and needs to make 25000 btc for the first round investors to break even. If you invested a lot into this wallet, i feel sorry for you.
I am perfectly aware of how ridiculous the assertion that investors could break even by the second round of investments sounds.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: StraightAArdvark on June 04, 2016, 02:16:48 PM
First of all, waves and mycelium fucked over their investors by buying each other's icos and esenially just swapping btc back and forth while diluting everyone else.

Second, mycelium raised 5000 btc for 5% of the wallet. The next round is for 25% of the wallet and needs to make 25000 btc for the first round investors to break even. If you invested a lot into this wallet, i feel sorry for you.

Wait, is that true? :o If so, GG mycelium kids!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: darcycooper on June 04, 2016, 02:26:44 PM
Mycelium is the best mobile wallet ever, i fully trust in their operations.

But it doesnt make any money! Good luck getting your donation back.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Assmaster2000 on June 04, 2016, 03:00:53 PM
Mycelium is the best mobile wallet ever, i fully trust in their operations.

But it doesnt make any money! Good luck getting your donation back.

http://www.brony.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/derpy-hugs-1024x731.png


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 04, 2016, 03:47:43 PM
I don't know why this thread is so appealing to new members. By all means you guys, keep posting whatever you want. I can't moderate the posts anyway. I'm just weirded out by the amount of new accounts replying here.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on June 04, 2016, 07:30:38 PM
I don't know why this thread is so appealing to new members. By all means you guys, keep posting whatever you want. I can't moderate the posts anyway. I'm just weirded out by the amount of new accounts replying here.

I think its funny. I may consider selling 5 of my MT's for 30 times the crowdsale. But no less. So any offers let me know. Can use trusted escrow. I personally feel they will hit over 100 times the crowdsale price.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Velkro on June 04, 2016, 07:38:57 PM
Quote
Promising investors part of the money received from future crowdsales
That should not happen ever. Its so unprofessional and shady :/
Shame on you Mycelium


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: StraightAArdvark on June 04, 2016, 09:24:33 PM
I don't know why this thread is so appealing to new members. By all means you guys, keep posting whatever you want. I can't moderate the posts anyway. I'm just weirded out by the amount of new accounts replying here.

I think its funny. I may consider selling 5 of my MT's for 30 times the crowdsale. But no less. So any offers let me know. Can use trusted escrow. I personally feel they will hit over 100 times the crowdsale price.

x30, you say? lessee ... 5000 btc is 5% of the wallet, so x20 is 100000 BTC ... you're expecting x30 profit so * 30 makes it 3000000 BTC ... how much is that in USD, I wonder? 3000000 * 570 = $1,710,000,000.
Did I get that right? Mycelium wallet needs to be worth one billion seven hundred and ten million US dollars?
Don't let anyone tell you your goals aren't realistic, that one's like money in the bank, bro!

BTW, how's that Lisk investment of yours doing? All good?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 04, 2016, 09:50:36 PM
I don't know why this thread is so appealing to new members. By all means you guys, keep posting whatever you want. I can't moderate the posts anyway. I'm just weirded out by the amount of new accounts replying here.

I think its funny. I may consider selling 5 of my MT's for 30 times the crowdsale. But no less. So any offers let me know. Can use trusted escrow. I personally feel they will hit over 100 times the crowdsale price.

x30, you say? lessee ... 5000 btc is 5% of the wallet, so x20 is 100000 BTC ... you're expecting x30 profit so * 30 makes it 3000000 BTC ... how much is that in USD, I wonder? 3000000 * 570 = $1,710,000,000.
Did I get that right? Mycelium wallet needs to be worth one billion seven hundred and ten million US dollars?
Don't let anyone tell you your goals aren't realistic, that one's like money in the bank, bro!

BTW, how's that Lisk investment of yours doing? All good?
It's funny, many people defending Mycelium here have a history of disastrous investments and no shame about it.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 04, 2016, 11:44:25 PM
I am no newbie as you call us, I have been on here 7 years


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 05, 2016, 01:38:27 AM
I am no newbie as you call us, I have been on here 7 years

Using a newly created account nevertheless, which is what I said. Don't worry though, I don't mind either way.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 05, 2016, 03:05:59 AM
Yes using a new account because my hero account was hacked and destroyed by the morons kids on here and moderators did nothing about it


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Ruskii on June 05, 2016, 03:35:09 AM
I don't know why this thread is so appealing to new members. By all means you guys, keep posting whatever you want. I can't moderate the posts anyway. I'm just weirded out by the amount of new accounts replying here.

I think its funny. I may consider selling 5 of my MT's for 30 times the crowdsale. But no less. So any offers let me know. Can use trusted escrow. I personally feel they will hit over 100 times the crowdsale price.

x30, you say? lessee ... 5000 btc is 5% of the wallet, so x20 is 100000 BTC ... you're expecting x30 profit so * 30 makes it 3000000 BTC ... how much is that in USD, I wonder? 3000000 * 570 = $1,710,000,000.
Did I get that right? Mycelium wallet needs to be worth one billion seven hundred and ten million US dollars?
Don't let anyone tell you your goals aren't realistic, that one's like money in the bank, bro!

BTW, how's that Lisk investment of yours doing? All good?

no... he ment 5 x 30= 150 btc
¬¬


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 05, 2016, 06:40:49 PM
can u post a link? also never heard of coloured coins or token

If you've been around since 2011 and have never heard of colored coins, then I can't help you. You have a lot of reading and catching up to do.

It is not an ICO though,

It's not? How do you figure? Unless you think this is more of an actual IPO as opposed to generally questionable ICO.

which doesn't make the fact that it hasn't been added into any exchanges too surprising,

Why would exchanges not want to add a token if it's not an ICO? And I assure you, the only reason exchanges haven't added it is because it's ridiculous to expect something be added right away. We're all still working on it, albeit not rushing at all.


The fact that no exchange Was prepared to add the token at launch kinda gues to show that there wasn't enough interest from third party exchanges, on which Mycelium implied reliance for trading (at least for now).

We only "implied reliance" on exchanges because that's where people exchange various tokens (duh?) and assumed that that's where they will be traded eventually. If "at least for now," where else do you think they will be traded?
Third parties did not have the time to show interest, since they only found out about this same time as everyone else, just a few days before the sale start. And I would guess rightfully waited to see what will come out of it and wetter it would be worth to add. Seriously, you pushing this idea that "No exchanges added support for the tokens right away, thus it's a failure" is a bit ridiculous. Again, how long did it take for Etherium, which had a lot of anticipation, a lot of prior long term planning, and raised a lot more money, to to get support from exchanges? Two or three months?


I'm sure that this has been disappointing to certain investors

The only people who complained about this so far are just you, who don't own any tokens anyway, and one other guy, who invested without knowing anything about it, just to speculate.

as this non-security hasn't showcased any speculative value so far,

Why do you keep calling it non-security? And why would it have speculative value at this point? It's entirely based on the actual value of the company. Has Mycelium Wallet's value changed in the last few weeks? I don't think so...

i would never buy any coin or token if it's not going to be listed on an exchange. alts are not secondary private market assets.

Why wouldn't it be listed on an exchange?

First of all, waves and mycelium fucked over their investors by buying each other's icos and esenially just swapping btc back and forth while diluting everyone else.

What?! That never happened. As far as we know nobody from Waves bought Mycelium tokens, and we didn't buy any Waves tokens. Mycelium the company doesn't own any part of Waves. If you have any proof for your accusation, please bring it up. Otherwise that's a pretty awful blatant slander.

Second, mycelium raised 5000 btc for 5% of the wallet. The next round is for 25% of the wallet and needs to make 25000 btc for the first round investors to break even. If you invested a lot into this wallet, i feel sorry for you.

First of all, the valuation of Mycelium Wallet is in USD, not BTC. Stop using current BTC prices to valuate it. We don't have to raise 25000 BTC, just some USD. And the next one may be 20%, and will also be dilutable shares. This first round was undilutable. It may not be easy, but we might hit that amount  still, considering our plans.

But it doesnt make any money!

Waves doesn't make any money, Ethereum doesn't make any money, Augur doesn't make any money, all startups don't make any money when you first invest in them. But actually Mycelium does make money, and as stated in the release has plans to make a whole lot of money.

Quote
Promising investors part of the money received from future crowdsales
That should not happen ever. Its so unprofessional and shady :/
Shame on you Mycelium

That's how every single stock, and even bitcoin itself works. The only way you make money is if future investors put in more money. How is that's shady?



Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 05, 2016, 08:10:29 PM
ICOs, which Rassah calls questionable, are generally added on exchanges at the day of release.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 06, 2016, 02:42:16 AM
Yip obscure coins on obscure exchanches,waves not even trading


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: M28MmickT on June 06, 2016, 04:24:38 AM
Tokens who are needed for nothing in a page called colu are worthless for us without any exchange to trade them on, it is the same than if you had never distributed them, or if you stick to show only numbers on your server,  your 2 week distribution time may seem worthless, use those 5,000 btcs to add them into an exchange.!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on June 06, 2016, 09:12:43 AM
Tokens who are needed for nothing in a page called colu are worthless for us without any exchange to trade them on, it is the same than if you had never distributed them, or if you stick to show only numbers on your server,  your 2 week distribution time may seem worthless, use those 5,000 btcs to add them into an exchange.!

It would be good to get them trading soon. then when updates in wallets come the price will get pumped and we can trade them :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 06, 2016, 11:01:51 AM
Tokens who are needed for nothing in a page called colu are worthless for us without any exchange to trade them on, it is the same than if you had never distributed them, or if you stick to show only numbers on your server,  your 2 week distribution time may seem worthless, use those 5,000 btcs to add them into an exchange.!
Or you could trade on the free market as Mycelium suggests. ::) I haven't seen anyone doing that to be honest.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 06, 2016, 12:31:02 PM
once the coins can freely move I would be a buyer


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Bitcoinpro on June 06, 2016, 12:32:37 PM
If its not trading much why would it matter should be a hash power

cut off limit, or an of site portal run by a third party for changing

hardly used alts in BTC


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 07, 2016, 11:14:52 AM
once the coins can freely move I would be a buyer
They can move through colu's third party platform, have you bought any yet? :P


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 08, 2016, 07:37:14 AM
There are people offering to buy and sell on our Telegram group. Colu is also apparently putting up a bounty to get Colored Coins added to an exchange. So, hopefully won't take much longer.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on June 08, 2016, 11:11:10 AM
Awesome Rassah :) that sounds amazing.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Assmaster2000 on June 08, 2016, 11:59:51 AM
So, hopefully won't take much longer.
In Two WeeksTM. 8)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on June 08, 2016, 12:02:06 PM
So, hopefully won't take much longer.
In Two WeeksTM. 8)
how do you know this fact?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Assmaster2000 on June 08, 2016, 12:13:24 PM
So, hopefully won't take much longer.
In Two WeeksTM. 8)
how do you know this fact?

A legendary user, unfamiliar with the phrase "In Two WeeksTM"?
I take it you bought your account Two WeeksTM ago?
In Two WeeksTM = Never. SFYL


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Bitcoinpro on June 08, 2016, 12:40:53 PM
So, hopefully won't take much longer.
In Two WeeksTM. 8)
how do you know this fact?

A legendary user, unfamiliar with the phrase "In Two WeeksTM"?
I take it you bought your account Two WeeksTM ago?
In Two WeeksTM = Never. SFYL


Soon :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: mishra1994u on June 08, 2016, 12:43:41 PM
So glad that there's someone who gives an offer to do a donation, but that makes me puzzled is why you are not giving a support/gifts to donors to support your activities..??, can you provide real evidence for these activities so that I could trust this.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 08, 2016, 12:56:37 PM
So glad that there's someone who gives an offer to do a donation, but that makes me puzzled is why you are not giving a support/gifts to donors to support your activities..??, can you provide real evidence for these activities so that I could trust this.
You sound confused.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: TheCryptoMint on June 08, 2016, 03:17:23 PM
So glad that there's someone who gives an offer to do a donation, but that makes me puzzled is why you are not giving a support/gifts to donors to support your activities..??, can you provide real evidence for these activities so that I could trust this.
You sound confused.

5 times I tried to read and understand this and 5 times I failed. Please put me out of my misery and tell me what you were trying to say?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 08, 2016, 04:17:06 PM
There are people offering to buy and sell on our Telegram group. Colu is also apparently putting up a bounty to get Colored Coins added to an exchange. So, hopefully won't take much longer.
Built a new app based on the Telegram system but with 512 encryption even the NSA cant break this one IM GROUP CHAT at google


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 08, 2016, 04:27:35 PM
Can never understand why people buy into a company then want to sell it straight away.Go daytrade.I want B shares in it


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: rikky05 on June 08, 2016, 11:26:46 PM
Can never understand why people buy into a company then want to sell it straight away.Go daytrade.I want B shares in it

Sorry? Usually when you buy into a company you can trade those shares straight back again whatever you want, even 2 minutes after you bought them, shares are usually called "LIQUID ASSETS" not relique pieces to be hold forever, mycelium crowdsale should be able to be traded much faster than those crypto coins because cryptos ask money for a future project and mycelium was portrayed as shares for something that already exist.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Ruskii on June 09, 2016, 12:48:10 AM
Can never understand why people buy into a company then want to sell it straight away.Go daytrade.I want B shares in it

Sorry? Usually when you buy into a company you can trade those shares straight back again whatever you want, even 2 minutes after you bought them, shares are usually called "LIQUID ASSETS" not relique pieces to be hold forever, mycelium crowdsale should be able to be traded much faster than those crypto coins because cryptos ask money for a future project and mycelium was portrayed as shares for something that already exist.

exactly! on point!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 09, 2016, 03:45:36 AM
So, hopefully won't take much longer.
In Two WeeksTM. 8)

You do know I came up with that with regards to BFL, right? I was the one who started picking on them with that phrase, which is originally a running gag from the movie The Money Pit.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 09, 2016, 03:50:31 AM
Can never understand why people buy into a company then want to sell it straight away.Go daytrade.I want B shares in it

Sorry? Usually when you buy into a company you can trade those shares straight back again whatever you want, even 2 minutes after you bought them, shares are usually called "LIQUID ASSETS" not relique pieces to be hold forever, mycelium crowdsale should be able to be traded much faster than those crypto coins because cryptos ask money for a future project and mycelium was portrayed as shares for something that already exist.

If you want that, go day trade on regulated markets that use the same established technology they've used for a century. We're dealing with completely new protocols and systems here. The issue here isn't whether it already exists, but how long devs take to add code to their exchanges to support new types of crypto. Colored coin isn't supported on any exchanges yet, so can't simply be added like a coin traded on Omni or that simply has its own bitcoind style database ready to be plugged in alongside others. Even if real regulated stocks are added to something like Overstock's tØ, it will likely take weeks before exchanges implement the tØ protocol, simply because it takes time to code, and more time to make sure all your money isn't lost as soon as you execute a trade.

Patience, please!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 09, 2016, 02:07:15 PM
So, hopefully won't take much longer.
In Two WeeksTM. 8)

You do know I came up with that with regards to BFL, right? I was the one who started picking on them with that phrase, which is originally a running gag from the movie The Money Pit.
I had no idea that you were the one to coin this phrase. Funny how some things can get back to you sometimes huh? No offence, I genuinely believe that this is hilarious.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 12, 2016, 01:53:33 PM
One of the funny things about the crypto market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. 
 


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 18, 2016, 10:37:56 AM
Why is it that Mycelium is so persistent at sending out emails to sign their agreement and put a colu address in?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 20, 2016, 02:26:37 AM
Because it's the #1 reason we still get "Why am I not getting my tokens?!" emails


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: M28MmickT on June 20, 2016, 06:05:43 PM
Because it's the #1 reason we still get "Why am I not getting my tokens?!" emails

Ok, sounds legit.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 20, 2016, 08:48:16 PM
Because it's the #1 reason we still get "Why am I not getting my tokens?!" emails
Sounds believable, but it's still kind of an oxymoron. Using email to contact you even though they'd gotten a notification about what they were asing through the same medium.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: M28MmickT on June 28, 2016, 03:19:52 AM
Because it's the #1 reason we still get "Why am I not getting my tokens?!" emails

Are you re-investing those crowdsale BTCs ( or at least a part of them) into wallet/project development?
Your website said the project is valued at around 60k BTCs including the 5k from crowdsale,  wouldn't you get more profit to develop and get that value higher than to take the crowdsale BTCs for you acting like if it was profit you took from selling 5% of your stock value?

Why do you think this worths 60k BTCs? (sources)


Is there any other source of profit for this company besides ads that could be put in the wallet?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on June 28, 2016, 08:29:18 AM
I think they are going to have plugins to their wallet.Like a company selling bitcoin directly to your wallet and taking a cut of profits.All different plugins from different companies,well thats my understanding


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: yoyoamigo on June 29, 2016, 02:57:09 AM
just to check: so there's roughly about <10000 mycelium tokens? as in total available supply?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Anon_7716 on June 29, 2016, 03:10:08 AM
One of the funny things about the crypto market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. 
 

Yeah indeed it is intelligent, but depending on the situation that occurred. For example they buy when the price is low, crypto and crypto 1617 when low prices then buy crypto smart, nor vice versa. So it is in the market must be smart in crypto specify something things (buy or sell)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 29, 2016, 11:21:20 PM
This seems serious:
http://coincidental.eu/2016/06/29/waves-is-not-ethereum-for-the-sake-of-god-dont-buy-it/

Has there been any comment from Mycelium's team yet? Given that WAVES was part of their marketing campaign, it doesn't seem like they did much (if any) research before asking for people's money for crowdfunding. Perhaps Mycelium will distant it's business from WAVES but this still goes to show that there was no clear plan for what was going to be done with funds from the crowdfunding and it more or less served as a cash injection/donation. In this case, they used WAVES just to gather up hype around their project.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: ahpku on June 29, 2016, 11:49:32 PM
[...] goes to show that there was no clear plan for what was going to be done with funds [...]
Sure there was...
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/f/f4/His_evil_plan.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120406182958


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: yoyoamigo on June 30, 2016, 04:58:15 AM
This seems serious:
http://coincidental.eu/2016/06/29/waves-is-not-ethereum-for-the-sake-of-god-dont-buy-it/

Has there been any comment from Mycelium's team yet? Given that WAVES was part of their marketing campaign, it doesn't seem like they did much (if any) research before asking for people's money for crowdfunding. Perhaps Mycelium will distant it's business from WAVES but this still goes to show that there was no clear plan for what was going to be done with funds from the crowdfunding and it more or less served as a cash injection/donation. In this case, they used WAVES just to gather up hype around their project.

we should wait till End of July 2016. because they have a roadmap till that month. if things don't shape up or show anything more than today, it will be as you say.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 30, 2016, 11:20:58 AM
This seems serious:
http://coincidental.eu/2016/06/29/waves-is-not-ethereum-for-the-sake-of-god-dont-buy-it/

Has there been any comment from Mycelium's team yet? Given that WAVES was part of their marketing campaign, it doesn't seem like they did much (if any) research before asking for people's money for crowdfunding. Perhaps Mycelium will distant it's business from WAVES but this still goes to show that there was no clear plan for what was going to be done with funds from the crowdfunding and it more or less served as a cash injection/donation. In this case, they used WAVES just to gather up hype around their project.

we should wait till End of July 2016. because they have a roadmap till that month. if things don't shape up or show anything more than today, it will be as you say.
Doesn't the fact that WAVES has been blatantly lying to people up to this point already put both them and Mycelium in a bad spot? It's been quite some time since WAVES' ICO took place and there's still no half decent code in their repository, most of the stuff there is either for web-design or other renamed open source projects.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: yoyoamigo on June 30, 2016, 12:47:43 PM
This seems serious:
http://coincidental.eu/2016/06/29/waves-is-not-ethereum-for-the-sake-of-god-dont-buy-it/

Has there been any comment from Mycelium's team yet? Given that WAVES was part of their marketing campaign, it doesn't seem like they did much (if any) research before asking for people's money for crowdfunding. Perhaps Mycelium will distant it's business from WAVES but this still goes to show that there was no clear plan for what was going to be done with funds from the crowdfunding and it more or less served as a cash injection/donation. In this case, they used WAVES just to gather up hype around their project.

we should wait till End of July 2016. because they have a roadmap till that month. if things don't shape up or show anything more than today, it will be as you say.
Doesn't the fact that WAVES has been blatantly lying to people up to this point already put both them and Mycelium in a bad spot? It's been quite some time since WAVES' ICO took place and there's still no half decent code in their repository, most of the stuff there is either for web-design or other renamed open source projects.

i wouldn't be too quick to jump the gun. it hasn't even been a month after the ICO (nearly though. lol!). if all it takes is just a few weeks to say "this project is a total goner"...lol. but whatever it is, we do what floats our boat best. oh and Tai Zen and Leon Fu are still in the WAVES game. so i ain't gonna call the shots first just yet.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on June 30, 2016, 01:32:14 PM
This seems serious:
http://coincidental.eu/2016/06/29/waves-is-not-ethereum-for-the-sake-of-god-dont-buy-it/

Has there been any comment from Mycelium's team yet? Given that WAVES was part of their marketing campaign, it doesn't seem like they did much (if any) research before asking for people's money for crowdfunding. Perhaps Mycelium will distant it's business from WAVES but this still goes to show that there was no clear plan for what was going to be done with funds from the crowdfunding and it more or less served as a cash injection/donation. In this case, they used WAVES just to gather up hype around their project.

we should wait till End of July 2016. because they have a roadmap till that month. if things don't shape up or show anything more than today, it will be as you say.
Doesn't the fact that WAVES has been blatantly lying to people up to this point already put both them and Mycelium in a bad spot? It's been quite some time since WAVES' ICO took place and there's still no half decent code in their repository, most of the stuff there is either for web-design or other renamed open source projects.

i wouldn't be too quick to jump the gun. it hasn't even been a month after the ICO (nearly though. lol!). if all it takes is just a few weeks to say "this project is a total goner"...lol. but whatever it is, we do what floats our boat best. oh and Tai Zen and Leon Fu are still in the WAVES game. so i ain't gonna call the shots first just yet.

waves turned out to be a scam sure. But mycelium seams legit right? You cant really compare the 2 and I invested in Mycelium before the WAVES news. That was merely the icing on the cake. But obviously that now would appear to be chocolate icing which was actually dog shit in disguise.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: ahpku on June 30, 2016, 02:21:44 PM
[...] I invested in Mycelium before the WAVES news. That was merely the icing on the cake. But obviously that now would appear to be chocolate icing which was actually dog shit in disguise.
How's that Mycelium cake with dog shit icing taste? Good?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on June 30, 2016, 02:23:35 PM
[...] I invested in Mycelium before the WAVES news. That was merely the icing on the cake. But obviously that now would appear to be chocolate icing which was actually dog shit in disguise.
How's that Mycelium cake with dog shit icing taste? Good?

Well you can peel off the icing  ;D I still wouldnt eat it though


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 30, 2016, 04:01:43 PM
This seems serious:
http://coincidental.eu/2016/06/29/waves-is-not-ethereum-for-the-sake-of-god-dont-buy-it/

Has there been any comment from Mycelium's team yet? Given that WAVES was part of their marketing campaign, it doesn't seem like they did much (if any) research before asking for people's money for crowdfunding. Perhaps Mycelium will distant it's business from WAVES but this still goes to show that there was no clear plan for what was going to be done with funds from the crowdfunding and it more or less served as a cash injection/donation. In this case, they used WAVES just to gather up hype around their project.

we should wait till End of July 2016. because they have a roadmap till that month. if things don't shape up or show anything more than today, it will be as you say.
Doesn't the fact that WAVES has been blatantly lying to people up to this point already put both them and Mycelium in a bad spot? It's been quite some time since WAVES' ICO took place and there's still no half decent code in their repository, most of the stuff there is either for web-design or other renamed open source projects.

i wouldn't be too quick to jump the gun. it hasn't even been a month after the ICO (nearly though. lol!). if all it takes is just a few weeks to say "this project is a total goner"...lol. but whatever it is, we do what floats our boat best. oh and Tai Zen and Leon Fu are still in the WAVES game. so i ain't gonna call the shots first just yet.

waves turned out to be a scam sure. But mycelium seams legit right? You cant really compare the 2 and I invested in Mycelium before the WAVES news. That was merely the icing on the cake. But obviously that now would appear to be chocolate icing which was actually dog shit in disguise.

WAVES was part of Mycelium's "crowdsale" marketing from early on. Look at the archives.

Edit: namely here's an archive of the "concepts" page with WAVES' logo from April 30
http://archive.is/emzdz
http://archive.li/emzdz/0542d0e4dd5ad566d9700d70d68eb592c47440b8.jpg


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 30, 2016, 08:29:14 PM
Are you re-investing those crowdsale BTCs ( or at least a part of them) into wallet/project development?

That's what they're specifically for.

Your website said the project is valued at around 60k BTCs including the 5k from crowdsale,  wouldn't you get more profit to develop and get that value higher than to take the crowdsale BTCs for you acting like if it was profit you took from selling 5% of your stock value?

I'm not sure what you mean. We didn't consider proceeds from the crowdsale as a profit. Just cash to use to develop the new wallet.

Why do you think this worths 60k BTCs? (sources)

That's what the valuation sale determined.

Is there any other source of profit for this company besides ads that could be put in the wallet?

We won't be putting ads into the wallet. At least we will try to avoid them. Yes, there are other sources of profits for this company. Basically what we are doing with the current wallet already, but on a much larger scale.

just to check: so there's roughly about <10000 mycelium tokens? as in total available supply?

There are a little bit over 5,000 tokens, which account to for 5% of the company. There will be more tokens when we sell more of the company  stake. Total we can't sell more than 100% of the company, or course. But this isn't anecessarily altcoin, so please don't think of it that way.

This seems serious:
http://coincidental.eu/2016/06/29/waves-is-not-ethereum-for-the-sake-of-god-dont-buy-it/

Has there been any comment from Mycelium's team yet? Given that WAVES was part of their marketing campaign, it doesn't seem like they did much (if any) research before asking for people's money for crowdfunding. Perhaps Mycelium will distant it's business from WAVES but this still goes to show that there was no clear plan for what was going to be done with funds from the crowdfunding and it more or less served as a cash injection/donation. In this case, they used WAVES just to gather up hype around their project.

WAVES approached us asking to work with us and develop support (a plugin) for our wallet. No different from other plugins, or other companies who approached us as well (most recent is DASH). We agreed, and considered using their service for some of our internal fiat stuff. But that never meant that we would spend any of the money we raised on them. Just that they said they would like to develop stuff for us, and we said would be willing to include it.

The plan for what to do with the funds has always been clear and clearly stated: To develop a new wallet that supports a plugin architecture, like a crypto finance app store built on top of a personal/business financial management suite. And even more specifically,  to use the funds to hire an Android, an iOS, and a UI developer to help get the project faster to finish.
Sorry if this wasn't clear to you specifically, but since you didn't invest and thus didn't bother to do anything beyond cursory "research" thats not surprising.

If WAVES fails to deliver on their promise, that doesn't really affect us or our plans. If they do deliver, it just gives us one more option on top of Colu, Tether, Ether, Rootstock, Omni, Counterparty...



Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on June 30, 2016, 08:33:00 PM
Note, us creating a plugin architecture is being done exactly so that others can deal with adding their own stuff (WAVES that's being questionable, Ethereum that's having problems, DASH that may become obsolete should bitcoin become anonymous enough) without us having to put any of our own resources into any of those, and so we can spend our time focusing exclusively on Bitcoin.

I'm being told CoinShuffle is nearing completion, and should be ready in July, and SegWit is close to being done as well. We are also reviewing final Keepkey code for the current wallet.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on July 01, 2016, 02:19:38 PM
So any word of exchanges or converting to B shares yet???


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on July 01, 2016, 03:17:50 PM
What's funny to me is that those integrations went from the wallet's main selling point and an integral part of its marketing camaign to optional addons. I didn't mention Ethereum's fundamentally flawed fundamentals because their team has shown willingness to actively develop and improve it. But either Rassah is lying right here, or Mycelium's team lyied when saying that they're running both R&D and practical tests on blockchains. Clearly they didn't research anything about WAVES before making them part of their marketing. Also, this whole "have others integreade with us" doesn't sound like a plan. We're already seeing how this is going with exchanges.
The plan for what to do with the funds has always been clear and clearly stated: To develop a new wallet that supports a plugin architecture, like a crypto finance app store built on top of a personal/business financial management suite. And even more specifically,  to use the funds to hire an Android, an iOS, and a UI developer to help get the project faster to finish.
Sorry if this wasn't clear to you specifically, but since you didn't invest and thus didn't bother to do anything beyond cursory "research" thats not surprising.

If WAVES fails to deliver on their promise, that doesn't really affect us or our plans. If they do deliver, it just gives us one more option on top of Colu, Tether, Ether, Rootstock, Omni, Counterparty...


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Rassah on July 02, 2016, 01:17:08 PM
So any word of exchanges or converting to B shares yet???

No word on exchanges,  but I haven't asked for progress updates in a while.
B-Shares??? We haven't even finished the new wallet yet. We can't convert to shares at least until we actually start making huge profits.

What's funny to me is that those integrations went from the wallet's main selling point and an integral part of its marketing camaign to optional addons.

Like with all your claims so far, they didn't go from one to the other either. Third party integrations went from the wallet's main selling point and an integral part of its marketing camaign... to being the wallet's main selling point and an integral part of its marketing camaign. The only difference is that it will now be much easier to have even more integrations, since integration will no longer depend entirely on us, and people will have more choice over what they want to include. Which has been the marketing campaign from the start.

But keep digging. Maybe you'll find something actually wrong to complain about eventually.

But either Rassah is lying right here, or Mycelium's team lyied when saying that they're running both R&D and practical tests on blockchains.

We have been doing R&D on colored coins, and are using them to issue tokens (practical tests), so we're not lying. We're just not doing it with a lot of blockchains, since, as I mentioned,  our primary focus is still Bitcoin. On which we're also doing plenty of R&D and practical tests.


Clearly they didn't research anything about WAVES before making them part of their marketing. Also, this whole "have others integreade with us" doesn't sound like a plan. We're already seeing how this is going with exchanges.

They're approached us with a business plan and tech idea. They asked to work with us, we said ok. Since they didn't need anything from us, we were fine with it. They might still be ok, who knows, but as I said, they don't affect us. Part of our marketing was also Glidera, which has since been integrated and works, and Colu, which already works with our tokens and is being integrated right now. And with regards to third parties wanting to be integrated, we're about to finish integrating KeepKey hardware wallet support as well. This is all just since mid May. So the plan is going just fine. Exchanges is more a Colu problem, since it's their technology that we are using that needs to be implemented, and really we can only help so much. But I'm glad you found something insignificant to harp on. If this is a major point of concern for you, we can probably arange to buy and resell your tokens for you. Just let me know how much you have and wish to sell. In the mean time, we'll keep focusing on developing useful software.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on July 02, 2016, 10:11:59 PM
So whats the timescale on the new wallett is it 2016 or 2017,and your probably right get wallet out there before trading coins


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: yoyoamigo on July 04, 2016, 09:30:11 AM
so 7th july 2016 will be the day when trading starts? on Bittrex? Polo?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: M28MmickT on July 06, 2016, 06:42:28 PM
Are you re-investing those crowdsale BTCs ( or at least a part of them) into wallet/project development?

That's what they're specifically for.

Your website said the project is valued at around 60k BTCs including the 5k from crowdsale,  wouldn't you get more profit to develop and get that value higher than to take the crowdsale BTCs for you acting like if it was profit you took from selling 5% of your stock value?

I'm not sure what you mean. We didn't consider proceeds from the crowdsale as a profit. Just cash to use to develop the new wallet.

Why do you think this worths 60k BTCs? (sources)

That's what the valuation sale determined.

Is there any other source of profit for this company besides ads that could be put in the wallet?

We won't be putting ads into the wallet. At least we will try to avoid them. Yes, there are other sources of profits for this company. Basically what we are doing with the current wallet already, but on a much larger scale.

just to check: so there's roughly about <10000 mycelium tokens? as in total available supply?

There are a little bit over 5,000 tokens, which account to for 5% of the company. There will be more tokens when we sell more of the company  stake. Total we can't sell more than 100% of the company, or course. But this isn't anecessarily altcoin, so please don't think of it that way.

This seems serious:
http://coincidental.eu/2016/06/29/waves-is-not-ethereum-for-the-sake-of-god-dont-buy-it/

Has there been any comment from Mycelium's team yet? Given that WAVES was part of their marketing campaign, it doesn't seem like they did much (if any) research before asking for people's money for crowdfunding. Perhaps Mycelium will distant it's business from WAVES but this still goes to show that there was no clear plan for what was going to be done with funds from the crowdfunding and it more or less served as a cash injection/donation. In this case, they used WAVES just to gather up hype around their project.

WAVES approached us asking to work with us and develop support (a plugin) for our wallet. No different from other plugins, or other companies who approached us as well (most recent is DASH). We agreed, and considered using their service for some of our internal fiat stuff. But that never meant that we would spend any of the money we raised on them. Just that they said they would like to develop stuff for us, and we said would be willing to include it.

The plan for what to do with the funds has always been clear and clearly stated: To develop a new wallet that supports a plugin architecture, like a crypto finance app store built on top of a personal/business financial management suite. And even more specifically,  to use the funds to hire an Android, an iOS, and a UI developer to help get the project faster to finish.
Sorry if this wasn't clear to you specifically, but since you didn't invest and thus didn't bother to do anything beyond cursory "research" thats not surprising.

If WAVES fails to deliver on their promise, that doesn't really affect us or our plans. If they do deliver, it just gives us one more option on top of Colu, Tether, Ether, Rootstock, Omni, Counterparty...



Thankyou for your responses.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on July 12, 2016, 01:56:43 PM
Happy birthday, Rassah!

so 7th july 2016 will be the day when trading starts? on Bittrex? Polo?
Give it another couple of weeks.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: steve8143 on July 15, 2016, 12:49:04 AM
I am having issues with finding my tokens at Colu
Can anyone help?
I have sent many support tickets with no answer


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: M28MmickT on July 15, 2016, 04:42:10 AM
Still waiting to see this coin an exchange, seeing that Waves trading started long ago and this project has big ties with Waves I expect this market to open soon or at least open a blog and post updates there.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on July 15, 2016, 04:42:55 AM
Best idea to get support is to PM him on here


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on July 15, 2016, 04:44:29 AM
Wonder what each token will be worth


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: groll on July 15, 2016, 05:02:07 AM
So Mycelium is organising a "crowdsale". If you've been in their website you've most definitely heard about it because they're doing their best to get the word out. I'm here to give you the hard truth though, this is quite possibly the worst place to put your money in and most certainly a guaranteed loss of principal. Don't give them money unless you consider it a donation. Here's why:

Part 1
Unacceptable practices:
Giving a 10% discount to people expressing interest prior to the sale.  (https://archive.is/6QVa8#selection-136.1-147.45)
You don't have to be a genius to see how bad of a practice this is for securities (note: this crowdsale isn't even a security) that are supposedly representing a stake in a company.

Promising investors part of the money received from future crowdsales (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-570.0-570.3)
In their own words:
Quote
You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.
Remember that a Cyprus-based holding company is involved, and Mycelium operations are supposedly Latvian-based. This is a borderline pyramid scheme setup and illegal for securities in most of the world.

Absolutely zero legal fallback (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-797.8-786.6)
Quote
There will be no refunds. Token is not a security, is not listed, authorized, issued or traded on any regulated market.

No ETA on project rollout
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.msg14677405#msg14677405) and the creators have no clear idea how it's going to be built or even what it's going to be. You're you would literally be buying a stake in vapourware.

Mycelium's supposed address is a rent-a-desk service's address. (http://www.desksurfing.net/desks/1423-darbavieta)
part 2
Why this has a high chance of being a loss:
First things first, up to this point, could you name anything that Mycelium did that was a commercial success? Their wallet software was free and not monetized, which is nice for users but not for potential investors. A supposed advantage of this crowdsale is dividends but there's no talk about how they're going to turn in profit.

They are granting themselvs the right to repurchase shares at the initial price. (https://web.archive.org/web/20160430121948/https://wallet.mycelium.com/crowdsale.pdf)
There's no clear plan on how this project is potentially going to turn in profit, but even in the unlikely event that the project becomes profitable, they could buy back the shares at the initial price and end their obligation to investors.

Can only invest in the wallet but there's no guarantee that the money will be spent on it instead of other projects (https://archive.is/PLTOU#selection-2093.0-2099.362) (that Mycelium won't pay investors dividends for)
Quote
Quote
And do I have a guarantee that the collected funds will only be used for the wallet project and not for the rest of the company?
Not entirely, but that's mainly because eventually all of the rest of our company will be rolled into this wallet. Most of the expense will be used to pay Wallet developer salaries, but some of our resources (like office and general brand marketing) are shared, so it would be difficult to keep completely separate. Sorry I can't give a more satisfactory answer.

Tokens are released in their own platform. (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-669.67-669.160)
So fair distribution is entirely based on trust, as well as trading. Yet they claim that Token owners can either sell them on the open market at any moment or redeem to us if conditions are met (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-771.0-771.106), which is misleading at best.

Especially risky when you look at this from a legal perspective:
You're a US citizen, right? Where's your company based/registered at?

For now yes. It's not my company, I am technically just a contractor. It's registered in Cyprus, with the Wallet division registered in Latvia.

My advice on this would be to stay away. It looks bad in every way possible, there's no guarantee that Mycelium have the supposed platform ready or even that they're working on it. Don't fall for their misleading advertising, this looks bad no matter how you look at it. Only send money if you consider it a donation.

Thanks for that information. My friends are planning to take part on that crowdsale someone invited them to join and invest. That person told them that it is a good opportunity to earn. But after reading your post I realized that there are no guarantee that you will earn or your money will gonna come back to you. Im gonna spread this information so no one will regret after joining mycelium crowdfunding.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: M28MmickT on July 15, 2016, 06:09:49 AM
So Mycelium is organising a "crowdsale". If you've been in their website you've most definitely heard about it because they're doing their best to get the word out. I'm here to give you the hard truth though, this is quite possibly the worst place to put your money in and most certainly a guaranteed loss of principal. Don't give them money unless you consider it a donation. Here's why:

Part 1
Unacceptable practices:
Giving a 10% discount to people expressing interest prior to the sale.  (https://archive.is/6QVa8#selection-136.1-147.45)
You don't have to be a genius to see how bad of a practice this is for securities (note: this crowdsale isn't even a security) that are supposedly representing a stake in a company.

Promising investors part of the money received from future crowdsales (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-570.0-570.3)
In their own words:
Quote
You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.
Remember that a Cyprus-based holding company is involved, and Mycelium operations are supposedly Latvian-based. This is a borderline pyramid scheme setup and illegal for securities in most of the world.

Absolutely zero legal fallback (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-797.8-786.6)
Quote
There will be no refunds. Token is not a security, is not listed, authorized, issued or traded on any regulated market.

No ETA on project rollout
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.msg14677405#msg14677405) and the creators have no clear idea how it's going to be built or even what it's going to be. You're you would literally be buying a stake in vapourware.

Mycelium's supposed address is a rent-a-desk service's address. (http://www.desksurfing.net/desks/1423-darbavieta)
part 2
Why this has a high chance of being a loss:
First things first, up to this point, could you name anything that Mycelium did that was a commercial success? Their wallet software was free and not monetized, which is nice for users but not for potential investors. A supposed advantage of this crowdsale is dividends but there's no talk about how they're going to turn in profit.

They are granting themselvs the right to repurchase shares at the initial price. (https://web.archive.org/web/20160430121948/https://wallet.mycelium.com/crowdsale.pdf)
There's no clear plan on how this project is potentially going to turn in profit, but even in the unlikely event that the project becomes profitable, they could buy back the shares at the initial price and end their obligation to investors.

Can only invest in the wallet but there's no guarantee that the money will be spent on it instead of other projects (https://archive.is/PLTOU#selection-2093.0-2099.362) (that Mycelium won't pay investors dividends for)
Quote
Quote
And do I have a guarantee that the collected funds will only be used for the wallet project and not for the rest of the company?
Not entirely, but that's mainly because eventually all of the rest of our company will be rolled into this wallet. Most of the expense will be used to pay Wallet developer salaries, but some of our resources (like office and general brand marketing) are shared, so it would be difficult to keep completely separate. Sorry I can't give a more satisfactory answer.

Tokens are released in their own platform. (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-669.67-669.160)
So fair distribution is entirely based on trust, as well as trading. Yet they claim that Token owners can either sell them on the open market at any moment or redeem to us if conditions are met (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-771.0-771.106), which is misleading at best.

Especially risky when you look at this from a legal perspective:
You're a US citizen, right? Where's your company based/registered at?

For now yes. It's not my company, I am technically just a contractor. It's registered in Cyprus, with the Wallet division registered in Latvia.

My advice on this would be to stay away. It looks bad in every way possible, there's no guarantee that Mycelium have the supposed platform ready or even that they're working on it. Don't fall for their misleading advertising, this looks bad no matter how you look at it. Only send money if you consider it a donation.

Thanks for that information. My friends are planning to take part on that crowdsale someone invited them to join and invest. That person told them that it is a good opportunity to earn. But after reading your post I realized that there are no guarantee that you will earn or your money will gonna come back to you. Im gonna spread this information so no one will regret after joining mycelium crowdfunding.

Mycelium crowdsale has already -ended- please read again.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on July 22, 2016, 11:40:15 PM
How I wish I didn't read it before participation :/


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on July 27, 2016, 12:59:00 PM
How I wish I didn't read it before participation :/


I beg your pardon?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on July 27, 2016, 12:59:41 PM
I cant wait for the wallet. We can keep our tokens on it right?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on July 27, 2016, 02:11:48 PM
I cant wait for the wallet.
No need to rush things.
Quote
We can keep our tokens on it right?
Sure!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on July 29, 2016, 03:47:19 AM
You cannot use it as usuall btc?  I though it could  be treat as btc..


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on July 30, 2016, 02:18:23 AM
if mycelium had told investors about the wait lack of news etc they would be lucky to sell aqnything,and Rassah I have 2.4 coins if you want to sell them for me my health dictates that now.Please PM me


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on July 31, 2016, 02:19:53 AM
if mycelium had told investors about the wait lack of news etc they would be lucky to sell aqnything,
You got the point, they had no motivation to do so.
and Rassah I have 2.4 coins if you want to sell them for me my health dictates that now.Please PM me
Oh man. :( If that's really the case, I'm sorry. I tried to warn people with this warning post but a lot of money ended in this crowdsale. I'm not sure if Rassah could help you by selling your shares though. As far as I know, they are not traded in any exchanges so unless you find someone to buy your stake in the open market, you probably won't have much luck selling shares for bitcoin because it seems like there is no upcoming platform to sell shares.

What Mycelium could do, is go out of their way and make an exception by issuing you a refund, but that's really not their responsibility anymore. You accepted an agreement when putting money with them and now all you're left with is a colored coin and a broken promise.
 
Even trying to fight this legally would be a hustle. I'm not saying that Mycelium's crowdfunding operation was necessarily illegal but they most certainly did everything they could so that they'd have minimum obligations to "investors" by bulletproofing themselves from courts in countries where potential "investors" would be in. They purposefully picked countries with loose laws on securities and companies as well.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on July 31, 2016, 04:56:03 AM
he did say if anyone wanted rid of them he could sell them,but my health is that bad now it wont matter if he does


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on July 31, 2016, 12:54:14 PM
Please PM me

I doubt he'll see this. By his profile page, Last Active:    July 05, 2016, 06:18:03 PM


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on July 31, 2016, 08:31:43 PM
Please PM me

I doubt he'll see this. By his profile page, Last Active:    July 05, 2016, 06:18:03 PM
I'm sure that he's monitoring this thread without logging into his account. Either that or people email him whenever there are negative remarks about the crowdsale. The recent hiatus hasn't given us many things to discuss so I guess that is why he doesn't log in, Rassah definitely doesn't come here to provide support.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on August 01, 2016, 02:53:02 PM
Please PM me

I doubt he'll see this. By his profile page, Last Active:    July 05, 2016, 06:18:03 PM
I'm sure that he's monitoring this thread without logging into his account. Either that or people email him whenever there are negative remarks about the crowdsale. The recent hiatus hasn't given us many things to discuss so I guess that is why he doesn't log in, Rassah definitely doesn't come here to provide support.

Sure, he'll log on eventually, post some smug/catty bullshit, and vanish for another couple of months. Maybe another time after that. By then, people will forget.
Every Bitcoin "investment" ever :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitcurrenty on August 12, 2016, 06:24:06 AM
The colu control panel is down  :( :( :(


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitcurrenty on August 12, 2016, 06:26:14 AM
Any exchange to trade MT???


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitcurrenty on August 12, 2016, 06:39:33 AM
Has the dev run away?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on August 12, 2016, 09:05:27 PM
Has the dev run away?
Do you have any indications to believe so?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: (A)social on August 13, 2016, 08:42:41 AM
Has the dev run away?

Look, it's right there, don't you see him? ;D
https://www.res2ep.scsstatic.ch/content/dam/bluewin/de/lifestyle/reisen/jessi-reisebilder/2014/14-05/uberfullte-strande/72365656.jpg.bwimg.527x350.ts1399992272153.jpg/ueberfuellte_straende.jpg


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on August 13, 2016, 12:10:16 PM
Has the dev run away?
Do you have any indications to believe so?

Dunno about dev, but Rassah was on reddit yesterday https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4xeer1/mycelium_wallet_update_and_road_map/.
https://s10.postimg.org/l7oek902x/dancing_cat.gif
(No, don't bother, nothing new/nothing binding. But is alive.)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Undead_Phenix on August 14, 2016, 01:22:00 AM
Is there any exchange to trade MT?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on August 14, 2016, 06:16:43 AM
Has the dev run away?
Do you have any indications to believe so?

Dunno about dev, but Rassah was on reddit yesterday https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4xeer1/mycelium_wallet_update_and_road_map/.
https://s10.postimg.io/l7oek902x/dancing_cat.gif
(No, don't bother, nothing new/nothing binding. But is alive.)
From that Reddit post:
Quote
As for Waves, after a long and thorough review of their company and technology

Weren't Waves accused as a scam not too long ago? What code did Mycelium's team review that other people didn't get to see?

Is there any exchange to trade MT?

IIRC Rassah said there are only P2P "trades" atm.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: yoyoamigo on August 15, 2016, 02:42:20 AM
Is there any exchange to trade MT?

i heard that its tradable on BitSquare already. may want to check that out.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on August 15, 2016, 01:08:41 PM
tradable on BitSquare

:D


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitcurrenty on August 16, 2016, 04:19:47 AM

@Dev  https://dashboard.colu.co/ can't access now
{"message":"Token expired","status":403}



Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitcurrenty on August 17, 2016, 02:34:30 AM
@DEV, FUCK!!!!!!
 the https://dashboard.colu.co/ is down,please repair it ,my MT is still there!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on August 17, 2016, 03:56:38 PM
@DEV, FUCK!!!!!!
 the https://dashboard.colu.co/ is down,please repair it ,my MT is still there!

Have you tried contacting colu?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Jeremycoin on August 17, 2016, 04:10:09 PM
@DEV, FUCK!!!!!!
 the https://dashboard.colu.co/ is down,please repair it ,my MT is still there!


Probably just a maintenance, because I can access it now.
https://i.imgur.com/l5mqVmX.png


Got the same error after I tried to log in.
Code:
{"message":"Unexpected token type [password_token] for path /","status":403}


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on August 17, 2016, 05:47:54 PM
@DEV, FUCK!!!!!!
 the https://dashboard.colu.co/ is down,please repair it ,my MT is still there!


Probably just a maintenance, because I can access it now.
https://i.imgur.com/l5mqVmX.png


Got the same error after I tried to log in.
Code:
{"message":"Unexpected token type [password_token] for path /","status":403}

HAH! Perhaps Mycelium in Colu is no more. I wonder what will happen to people that had transacted tokens. Has a record of transactions even been kept?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Shawshank on August 17, 2016, 08:03:24 PM
Got the same error after I tried to log in.
Code:
{"message":"Unexpected token type [password_token] for path /","status":403}


It has also happened to me some time ago. You can fix it by deleting cookies and local storage in your browser for colu.co. After that login to dashboard.colu.co with your email and password, go to "User Settings" / "Show my private key" and write it down on a paper so that you are safe.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on August 18, 2016, 09:21:03 AM
Got the same error after I tried to log in.
Code:
{"message":"Unexpected token type [password_token] for path /","status":403}


It has also happened to me some time ago. You can fix it by deleting cookies and local storage in your browser for colu.co. After that login to dashboard.colu.co with your email and password, go to "User Settings" / "Show my private key" and write it down on a paper so that you are safe.

What a workaround. I wonder why Mycelium would pick such a service to host their token if it were to be unmaintained and broken just some time after the launch.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: bitsoldiers on August 18, 2016, 09:30:20 AM
Somebody shared the original crowdsale pdf with me privately. I've uploaded it to archive.org
https://ia601503.us.archive.org/23/items/Mycelium_crowdsale/crowdsale.pdf

Comparing the two documents programmatically is hard because the later update of the PDF was styled with a different pdf editor and contains proper line breaks whereas pasting the first one in an editor results to it having 1800+ lines. I'll try reading them to do an analysis when I have time.


Thanks for the file as well

thanks for the file too..I guess this will go along way, making use of..


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Shawshank on August 19, 2016, 07:03:24 AM
Got the same error after I tried to log in.
Code:
{"message":"Unexpected token type [password_token] for path /","status":403}


It has also happened to me some time ago. You can fix it by deleting cookies and local storage in your browser for colu.co. After that login to dashboard.colu.co with your email and password, go to "User Settings" / "Show my private key" and write it down on a paper so that you are safe.

What a workaround. I wonder why Mycelium would pick such a service to host their token if it were to be unmaintained and broken just some time after the launch.

I am not affiliated to Colu but I have used the API for some time.

The bug you mentioned is somehow weird that it persists because it shows up frequently and I suppose it is not so difficult to fix. However, all in all, Colu is a great product for colored coins (especially for "locked" assets such as the Mycelium token). I totally recommend it as a user and as a developer.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: yoyoamigo on August 21, 2016, 07:57:13 AM
Are there any plans or news already mentioning of adding myceilum tokens to any of the existing exchanges today?
it appears that BitSquare is currently the only one.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on August 22, 2016, 12:47:12 PM
Well I didnt try withdraw any assets yet. My 12 tokens are hopefully still safe! LOL


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: lordlucan on August 22, 2016, 02:56:46 PM
I see MyCelium PR guy gone missing here never a good sign !!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: takingthis4 on August 22, 2016, 05:02:43 PM
Well I didnt try withdraw any assets yet. My 12 tokens are hopefully still safe! LOL
well it should be safe in my opinion then how it can be gone anywhere?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: forzendiablo on August 23, 2016, 03:18:22 AM
I see MyCelium PR guy gone missing here never a good sign !!

was just another scam, funny tho..



Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on August 23, 2016, 03:34:52 PM
I see MyCelium PR guy gone missing here never a good sign !!

was just another scam, funny tho..




Seriously I just got scammed 11 Bitcoin? Noooooooooooooo


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BathSaltsDealer on August 23, 2016, 03:56:04 PM
Everything going as expected, I see?
Sure, he'll log on eventually, post some smug/catty bullshit, and vanish for another couple of months. Maybe another time after that. By then, people will forget.
Every Bitcoin "investment" ever :)

Or not. O well, hope springs eternal :]


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on August 24, 2016, 01:55:02 AM
This thread has been one of the few outlets critical of Mycelium's crowdsale from the start. It's gotten much more attention than the crowdsale's bitcointalk thread too (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.0). I'm not surprised that Rassah isn't commenting here anymore, what is a bit surprising though is the fact that he's given up on bitcointalk entirely. He's doing PR on /r/Bitcoin/ (https://www.reddit.com/user/Rassah) even now but won't even bother with the forum as a whole.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on August 25, 2016, 02:38:55 PM
This thread has been one of the few outlets critical of Mycelium's crowdsale from the start. It's gotten much more attention than the crowdsale's bitcointalk thread too (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452147.0). I'm not surprised that Rassah isn't commenting here anymore, what is a bit surprising though is the fact that he's given up on bitcointalk entirely. He's doing PR on /r/Bitcoin/ (https://www.reddit.com/user/Rassah) even now but won't even bother with the forum as a whole.

To be honest I am not bothered. I trust Rassah, I trust mycelum and I know that the less time they spend on here feeding the trolls the more work they can get on with. The new wallet sounds awesome. Built in tumbling and you can keep your MT's on there also!

I am still excited about it and dont regret putting 11 BTC into it at all! Well actually I am now 10k short of buying a 2nd house to rent out and the money would come in handy now but I am still happy about the investment :) I think. I hope. I pray.





Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on August 26, 2016, 12:33:54 PM
https://crowdsale.mycelium.com/

OK this is now officially down. Tell me we havent been scammed :(


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Jeremycoin on August 26, 2016, 12:44:56 PM
https://crowdsale.mycelium.com/

OK this is now officially down. Tell me we havent been scammed :(

I think we are, but let's hoping that they only had a little problem with something.
Even tho I just invested a little, but I still don't want to get scammed.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on August 26, 2016, 04:02:17 PM
The wallet page is still there so it's not like all evidence of the crowdsale is gone from their page but it's very suspicious that they pulled the entire crowdsale page down. I just archived the current look of the wallet.mycelium.com page (https://web.archive.org/web/20160826160042/https://wallet.mycelium.com/) for reference.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: forzendiablo on August 29, 2016, 02:55:54 AM
The wallet page is still there so it's not like all evidence of the crowdsale is gone from their page but it's very suspicious that they pulled the entire crowdsale page down. I just archived the current look of the wallet.mycelium.com page (https://web.archive.org/web/20160826160042/https://wallet.mycelium.com/) for reference.

i just had the gut feeling this is gonna end as scam


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: GordoZ on August 29, 2016, 04:42:21 AM
Hi! I setted up a sell order in Bitsquare of 0.22 MT for 0.22 BTC.
Just for today. See you there!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on August 29, 2016, 08:42:11 AM
crwowdsale is back after I pestered them on twitter
phew. :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: 4emily on September 13, 2016, 04:51:51 PM
@DEV, FUCK!!!!!!
 the https://dashboard.colu.co/ is down,please repair it ,my MT is still there!


Probably just a maintenance, because I can access it now.
https://i.imgur.com/l5mqVmX.png


Got the same error after I tried to log in.
Code:
{"message":"Unexpected token type [password_token] for path /","status":403}

HAH! Perhaps Mycelium in Colu is no more. I wonder what will happen to people that had transacted tokens. Has a record of transactions even been kept?

Just logged onto my colu.co account no problem - all seems ok

presumably as and when I open a myceliem account on my Android smart phone, I can send my mycelieum tokens to it from my colu.co account. Will post here how I get on.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on September 14, 2016, 10:11:44 PM
@DEV, FUCK!!!!!!
 the https://dashboard.colu.co/ is down,please repair it ,my MT is still there!


Probably just a maintenance, because I can access it now.
https://i.imgur.com/l5mqVmX.png


Got the same error after I tried to log in.
Code:
{"message":"Unexpected token type [password_token] for path /","status":403}

HAH! Perhaps Mycelium in Colu is no more. I wonder what will happen to people that had transacted tokens. Has a record of transactions even been kept?

Just logged onto my colu.co account no problem - all seems ok

presumably as and when I open a myceliem account on my Android smart phone, I can send my mycelieum tokens to it from my colu.co account. Will post here how I get on.
Really? I am looking forward your post!
Regards


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: yoyoamigo on September 27, 2016, 08:40:37 AM
whats the Telegram Group link for Mycelium? anybody still has the link?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: jacafbiz on September 27, 2016, 10:58:28 AM
whats the Telegram Group link for Mycelium? anybody still has the link?

You should be able to get it on their ANN first page during the ICO


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: yoyoamigo on October 09, 2016, 02:50:58 AM
whats the Telegram Group link for Mycelium? anybody still has the link?

You should be able to get it on their ANN first page during the ICO

Oh alright. Much thanks  8)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Transisto on October 09, 2016, 06:08:24 AM
whats the Telegram Group link for Mycelium? anybody still has the link?
https://telegram.me/MyceliumWallet


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: CODERsp on November 06, 2016, 08:52:05 AM
5 months passed since Mycelium Tokens reached colu.co wallets and the only place we can trade it is Bitsquare with no liquidity. Why? Why REP, why ZEC were added to Poloniex, Kraken at launch day and we can't sell our tokens at all. It seems to me, that DEV made his purpose, took our money and the rest of problems are ours. Or tell us, how much time will we wait? 5 years?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Transisto on November 06, 2016, 09:41:31 AM
5 months passed since Mycelium Tokens reached colu.co wallets and the only place we can trade it is Bitsquare with no liquidity. Why? Why REP, why ZEC were added to Poloniex, Kraken at launch day and we can't sell our tokens at all. It seems to me, that DEV made his purpose, took our money and the rest of problems are ours. Or tell us, how much time will we wait? 5 years?

Rassah on Telegram.

Quote
Rassah (Mycelium), [14.10.16 19:09]
FYI, from bittrex-bill
7:06 PM ah ok.  i think we looked at mycelium and decided it was too close to being a security (edited)
7:06 and that we'd wait to launch the market next month after we have location based blocking for markets

David, [14.10.16 20:18]
[In reply to Rassah (Mycelium)]
"location based blocking" as in the ability to block users from specific transaction types in jurisdictions where the regulatory compliance burden is too high for bittrex, maybe? They already operate in the US, so that will probably mean specific states, say, New York?

Rassah (Mycelium), [14.10.16 23:34]
Continued:
bittrex-bill - anyone who does a crowdfund has to pay a 3 btc listing fee.  outside of that, no fee. Our plan is to enter the beta and the end of the month.  so listing the token late november early december should be doable




Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on November 13, 2016, 08:57:54 AM
5 months passed since Mycelium Tokens reached colu.co wallets and the only place we can trade it is Bitsquare with no liquidity. Why? Why REP, why ZEC were added to Poloniex, Kraken at launch day and we can't sell our tokens at all. It seems to me, that DEV made his purpose, took our money and the rest of problems are ours. Or tell us, how much time will we wait? 5 years?

Rassah on Telegram.

Quote
Rassah (Mycelium), [14.10.16 19:09]
FYI, from bittrex-bill
7:06 PM ah ok.  i think we looked at mycelium and decided it was too close to being a security (edited)
7:06 and that we'd wait to launch the market next month after we have location based blocking for markets

David, [14.10.16 20:18]
[In reply to Rassah (Mycelium)]
"location based blocking" as in the ability to block users from specific transaction types in jurisdictions where the regulatory compliance burden is too high for bittrex, maybe? They already operate in the US, so that will probably mean specific states, say, New York?

Rassah (Mycelium), [14.10.16 23:34]
Continued:
bittrex-bill - anyone who does a crowdfund has to pay a 3 btc listing fee.  outside of that, no fee. Our plan is to enter the beta and the end of the month.  so listing the token late november early december should be doable




Is this not a fake?
Is this legit Rassah account?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on November 13, 2016, 09:18:27 PM
Is this not a fake?
Is this legit Rassah account?
I've been away for quite some time, no important updates yet, just more promises. And even those are doubted as fake... :P No really though, do you have any good reasons to suspect that this account was fake? I haven't been keeping up with the telegram chat either.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on November 14, 2016, 04:14:31 PM
BITTREX IN A FEW MONTHS. 1 MCT= 1 LAMBO My body is ready?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on November 15, 2016, 04:06:10 AM
BITTREX IN A FEW MONTHS. 1 MCT= 1 LAMBO My body is ready?
I hope to recover my investment so 1mct=1btc will be good...


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on November 15, 2016, 09:43:49 AM
BITTREX IN A FEW MONTHS. 1 MCT= 1 LAMBO My body is ready?
I hope to recover my investment so 1mct=1btc will be good...

well that will be the min price right?I can imagine it will go up dont worry. Mycelium have it sorted. diid you go in their other crowdsale mass something lol?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on November 15, 2016, 02:49:28 PM
BITTREX IN A FEW MONTHS. 1 MCT= 1 LAMBO My body is ready?
I hope to recover my investment so 1mct=1btc will be good...

well that will be the min price right?I can imagine it will go up dont worry. Mycelium have it sorted. diid you go in their other crowdsale mass something lol?
I am in Mass too :d


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on November 15, 2016, 09:18:34 PM
Good thing you guys haven't lost your sense of humor. Perhaps having a sense of humor was a key factor to "invest" in this in the first place.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on November 15, 2016, 09:24:29 PM
Good thing you guys haven't lost your sense of humor. Perhaps having a sense of humor was a key factor to "invest" in this in the first place.


I think its safe :) whas the big deal in updating us we know they are good for it


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on December 16, 2016, 10:33:00 AM
guys is there a link to the ICO of the MASS NETWORK please? I cant find it :-/


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on December 16, 2016, 10:39:58 AM
there is another one now too. swishcoin LOL


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on December 16, 2016, 02:19:04 PM
I got the news for Mycelium's new crowdsale. Funny how they're asking for more money while they haven't delivered on any of their buzzword powered claims.

Sadly, I'm too busy to look into it at this period of time tbh... If anyone makes a post with a critical analysis of the new crowdsale/ICO I'll make sure to link to it form the OP.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on December 16, 2016, 02:22:12 PM
I got the news for Mycelium's new crowdsale. Funny how they're asking for more money while they haven't delivered on any of their buzzword powered claims.

Sadly, I'm too busy to look into it at this period of time tbh... If anyone makes a post with a critical analysis of the new crowdsale/ICO I'll make sure to link to it form the OP.

I am gonna put 0.1 BTC into it.. You are right though they should deliver this 1st lol!!! This sucks I thought the new wallet would be launching soon.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on January 02, 2017, 09:38:29 AM
I got the news for Mycelium's new crowdsale. Funny how they're asking for more money while they haven't delivered on any of their buzzword powered claims.

Sadly, I'm too busy to look into it at this period of time tbh... If anyone makes a post with a critical analysis of the new crowdsale/ICO I'll make sure to link to it form the OP.

I am gonna put 0.1 BTC into it.. You are right though they should deliver this 1st lol!!! This sucks I thought the new wallet would be launching soon.
Why are you so naive?
I asked  about release few months ago and they answered me it will happen soon but.. there is no release till now :/
If you have spare btc I can give you kindly my btc adress :d I can promise you nothing but I keep my promise contrary to mycelium crowdsale devteam


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: umop-apisdn on January 03, 2017, 05:03:25 PM
So what's the status of this project? I totally forgot about my investment hahah It would be cool to see the wallet finished.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: forzendiablo on January 04, 2017, 02:45:49 AM
So what's the status of this project? I totally forgot about my investment hahah It would be cool to see the wallet finished.


the status is the devs are drinking champagne, eating lobsters and not caring about the rest ;))))))))


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Xester on January 04, 2017, 03:03:02 AM
I got the news for Mycelium's new crowdsale. Funny how they're asking for more money while they haven't delivered on any of their buzzword powered claims.

Sadly, I'm too busy to look into it at this period of time tbh... If anyone makes a post with a critical analysis of the new crowdsale/ICO I'll make sure to link to it form the OP.

I am gonna put 0.1 BTC into it.. You are right though they should deliver this 1st lol!!! This sucks I thought the new wallet would be launching soon.
Why are you so naive?
I asked  about release few months ago and they answered me it will happen soon but.. there is no release till now :/
If you have spare btc I can give you kindly my btc adress :d I can promise you nothing but I keep my promise contrary to mycelium crowdsale devteam


Mycelim probably failed to launch or is not ready to launch yet. The possibility is high, after the tremendous increase of bitcoins starting November of 2016 until January of 2017, that mycelium is being affected by the surge of price increase in bitcoins. This is just an opinion but in any business when there are changes in market value there are times that the site failed to launch.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: RealBitcoin on January 04, 2017, 03:51:13 AM

Promising investors part of the money received from future crowdsales (https://archive.is/i0ACV#selection-570.0-570.3)
In their own words:
Quote
You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.
Remember that a Cyprus-based holding company is involved, and Mycelium operations are supposedly Latvian-based. This is a borderline pyramid scheme setup and illegal for securities in most of the world.


That sounds like a PONZI SCEHEME.

Paying past investors from future investors money  :D


Why can't these wallet softwares develop a commercial arm for themselves. Like for example offer plugins or show ads inside the wallet.

Adding an simple banner ad inside the wallet, consisting of only an image and a URL, it should be safe. (No HTML or Flash ads obviously for security).


Then  every wallet software would have a stable revenue, enough to pay the devs.

Seriously, am I the only person here that can think?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on January 06, 2017, 07:06:45 AM
Is there amywhere to get updates from this? I put 10 bitcoin in I am really scared :(


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: danijel on January 06, 2017, 08:00:56 AM
Is there amywhere to get updates from this? I put 10 bitcoin in I am really scared :(

haha,Gravitate.Just don\t be scared.Trackcoins or coins trac is a fuder,troll.scumbag and I can continiou with bad names.His purpos is only to make people scared.
I invest in the past to mycelium,Lisk,Steem,Stratis.Non of them show me the results so I sell everything and I stick by Gulden.
I regret what I lost by those coins but I do not regret that I still HODL my stash of Gulden.I buy G whenever I can,why??
Becouse Gulden team dont't promise,thay do their job and they deliver.If I have some problems with the wallet they help imidiatly .
And it will be even beter when PRIME 1 and PRIME 2 are coming out ,so my advise to you and all of the others who ouwn Gulden's is ...just HODL them for a 6-10 month ,and then you will see that Gulden is realy real thing and not some scam or whatever you would call it.
Gulden is the future . :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on January 06, 2017, 12:23:01 PM
thanks lol. I have gulden too actually


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: jujugoboom on January 06, 2017, 02:26:44 PM
I got the news for Mycelium's new crowdsale. Funny how they're asking for more money while they haven't delivered on any of their buzzword powered claims.

Sadly, I'm too busy to look into it at this period of time tbh... If anyone makes a post with a critical analysis of the new crowdsale/ICO I'll make sure to link to it form the OP.

I am gonna put 0.1 BTC into it.. You are right though they should deliver this 1st lol!!! This sucks I thought the new wallet would be launching soon.
Why are you so naive?
I asked  about release few months ago and they answered me it will happen soon but.. there is no release till now :/
If you have spare btc I can give you kindly my btc adress :d I can promise you nothing but I keep my promise contrary to mycelium crowdsale devteam


mycelium is definitely a scam, they can claim the project fails because you are donators, lol. Naive investors. 6000 BTC was screwed.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on January 07, 2017, 10:55:16 AM
I got the news for Mycelium's new crowdsale. Funny how they're asking for more money while they haven't delivered on any of their buzzword powered claims.

Sadly, I'm too busy to look into it at this period of time tbh... If anyone makes a post with a critical analysis of the new crowdsale/ICO I'll make sure to link to it form the OP.

I am gonna put 0.1 BTC into it.. You are right though they should deliver this 1st lol!!! This sucks I thought the new wallet would be launching soon.
Why are you so naive?
I asked  about release few months ago and they answered me it will happen soon but.. there is no release till now :/
If you have spare btc I can give you kindly my btc adress :d I can promise you nothing but I keep my promise contrary to mycelium crowdsale devteam


Mycelim probably failed to launch or is not ready to launch yet. The possibility is high, after the tremendous increase of bitcoins starting November of 2016 until January of 2017, that mycelium is being affected by the surge of price increase in bitcoins. This is just an opinion but in any business when there are changes in market value there are times that the site failed to launch.
There hasn't been any transparency as to how they handled the funds through, right? We can't be sure as to what price they cashed out and what amount of their bitcoin donations was cashed out.

Also, by "release", do you mean release of the full initial investment? Has anyone been succesfull in doing that?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on January 14, 2017, 04:48:11 AM
I got the news for Mycelium's new crowdsale. Funny how they're asking for more money while they haven't delivered on any of their buzzword powered claims.

Sadly, I'm too busy to look into it at this period of time tbh... If anyone makes a post with a critical analysis of the new crowdsale/ICO I'll make sure to link to it form the OP.

I am gonna put 0.1 BTC into it.. You are right though they should deliver this 1st lol!!! This sucks I thought the new wallet would be launching soon.
Why are you so naive?
I asked  about release few months ago and they answered me it will happen soon but.. there is no release till now :/
If you have spare btc I can give you kindly my btc adress :d I can promise you nothing but I keep my promise contrary to mycelium crowdsale devteam


mycelium is definitely a scam, they can claim the project fails because you are donators, lol. Naive investors. 6000 BTC was screwed.

. 6000 BTC was screwed.
It is very huge amount. Now I am glad I have invested much much less.. but If I only have my btc available I could earn at least 300% from ICO..


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Wendigo on January 14, 2017, 06:39:50 AM
So what's the status of this project? I totally forgot about my investment hahah It would be cool to see the wallet finished.


the status is the devs are drinking champagne, eating lobsters and not caring about the rest ;))))))))

These are the life goals of 100% of all the population on Bitcointalk.



Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on January 15, 2017, 01:03:22 PM
It's kinda odd how much time it took for people to start being skeptical. At least it happened, although with come. Scam accusations are just NOW started being spouted against Mycelium, but when I made this post many people were skeptical about MY claims, even though evidence to support everything I was posting was out there. Hard to tell if early naysayers were shills or plain foolish.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on January 17, 2017, 03:42:00 PM
It's kinda odd how much time it took for people to start being skeptical. At least it happened, although with come. Scam accusations are just NOW started being spouted against Mycelium, but when I made this post many people were skeptical about MY claims, even though evidence to support everything I was posting was out there. Hard to tell if early naysayers were shills or plain foolish.

Mycelium were so good who would have expected a scam though? Plus all the other ICO's they have taken milliomns and millions lol.

I am still keeping an open mind but this is really scary I gotta say with no blog or communication.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on January 17, 2017, 03:45:25 PM
https://blog.wavesplatform.com/mycelium-and-waves-platform-announce-shared-roadmap-64438ebb3f37#.78b8q037w


Check out this!! Exciting :) they are probably just busy


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on January 17, 2017, 04:26:55 PM
https://blog.wavesplatform.com/mycelium-and-waves-platform-announce-shared-roadmap-64438ebb3f37#.78b8q037w


Check out this!! Exciting :) they are probably just busy
A post from July 2016? This isn't new and on the contrary was part of the material to promote the ICO before parties responsible went AWOL.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on January 18, 2017, 01:11:16 PM
LOL sorry I mean this
https://card.mycelium.com/


Something is happening. Now if they are gonna put WAVES these cards I can see this  quite litterally one of the main ways crypto can go mainstream. Hold tight guys hehe


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: jacafbiz on January 18, 2017, 02:18:24 PM
So what's the status of this project? I totally forgot about my investment hahah It would be cool to see the wallet finished.


the status is the devs are drinking champagne, eating lobsters and not caring about the rest ;))))))))

These are the life goals of 100% of all the population on Bitcointalk.


It is very important for investors to read the terms of every ICO very well before investing in any project, the OP seems to be right, going to one year now nothing is been heard after the ICO


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: target on January 18, 2017, 03:02:04 PM
LOL sorry I mean this
https://card.mycelium.com/

Something is happening. Now if they are gonna put WAVES these cards I can see this  quite litterally one of the main ways crypto can go mainstream. Hold tight guys hehe

The two seem to have mess up last year. I have invested to Waves which I thought can go places after months because the funds they got from investors are enormous - 30K BTC. People trusted them with the help of Mycelium.  Its either I can't stand watching its value dips or I run out of patience because they said value take years to accomplish just like ETH. I think they are just not doing their best.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on January 18, 2017, 03:26:14 PM
LOL sorry I mean this
https://card.mycelium.com/


Something is happening. Now if they are gonna put WAVES these cards I can see this  quite litterally one of the main ways crypto can go mainstream. Hold tight guys hehe
This isn't new either, the Bitcoin Card project has been around since 2012 (https://archive.fo/DIcnA). Mycelium has been "working on it" with seeminly no progress other than redesigning the project's web page for years. In my humble opinion, it's a project with no real world use so it's no wonder that there's no apparent progress.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: SolarFlareProject on January 18, 2017, 04:33:08 PM
Anyone have notice of how works runs and launch ICO with https://gear.mycelium.com/ (https://gear.mycelium.com/)?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on January 18, 2017, 04:36:01 PM
LOL sorry I mean this
https://card.mycelium.com/

Something is happening. Now if they are gonna put WAVES these cards I can see this  quite litterally one of the main ways crypto can go mainstream. Hold tight guys hehe

The two seem to have mess up last year. I have invested to Waves which I thought can go places after months because the funds they got from investors are enormous - 30K BTC. People trusted them with the help of Mycelium.  Its either I can't stand watching its value dips or I run out of patience because they said value take years to accomplish just like ETH. I think they are just not doing their best.

here are what mycelium will acheive:
1] Fiat accounts: fully-fledged, blockchain based.
2] Inexpensive remittance: most popular corridors.
3] Debit cards. Wallet - linked and in-wallet-issued.
4] Personal finance: convenient handling of bills and invoices.
5] Investments: efficient portfolios and hedging.
6] Escrow-protected business transactions and bets.
7] Crypto assets creation and exchange.


They are doing it. lol just because they dont update doesn't mean they are not doing it. Also WAVES might be integrating into these cards as it will be the 1st compatible token...


As far as I am concerned they both could explode at any moment. I could be wrong but hey.. I dont think so. You will see :)

I am seriously not worried anymore after seeing the updates on the sites and I will be using their wallets on the new exchange I am involved with for the tokens they look amazing. I did apply on their web site and see if they reply. I will let you know.

WAVES will get there trust me. These quite times are whale accumulation and also dont forget there were a lot sold at 0.00001 BTC each so this will be limiting the price also! Actually this is part I was worried about with waves... How many bought at this price lol. Could be a lot. VBut eventually they will sell them off and the price will rise.



Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on January 18, 2017, 04:47:59 PM
Anyone have notice of how works runs and launch ICO with https://gear.mycelium.com/ (https://gear.mycelium.com/)?

Wow I never saw this before I am looking into it as we doing a small ICO soon! thanks for the link :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: SolarFlareProject on January 18, 2017, 06:40:27 PM
Anyone have notice of how works runs and launch ICO with https://gear.mycelium.com/ (https://gear.mycelium.com/)?

Wow I never saw this before I am looking into it as we doing a small ICO soon! thanks for the link :)

Glad to help, i had an answer from Mycelium support that report:
"Mycelium Gear was already successfully used in the several ICOs. Widgets and gateways have "Donation mode" setting, which allows to accept any amount while marking order as fully paid."
We are also running our ICO and are still looking to best way to run it, and maybe this can be a good solution.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on January 20, 2017, 02:44:43 PM
Anyone have notice of how works runs and launch ICO with https://gear.mycelium.com/ (https://gear.mycelium.com/)?

Wow I never saw this before I am looking into it as we doing a small ICO soon! thanks for the link :)

Glad to help, i had an answer from Mycelium support that report:
"Mycelium Gear was already successfully used in the several ICOs. Widgets and gateways have "Donation mode" setting, which allows to accept any amount while marking order as fully paid."
We are also running our ICO and are still looking to best way to run it, and maybe this can be a good solution.



what part are you using for the ICO the multi sig part with escrow?
We are gonna stick with eth smart contract as its easier I think but I am not sure.... I hate eth lol


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on January 29, 2017, 08:39:31 AM
Anyone have notice of how works runs and launch ICO with https://gear.mycelium.com/ (https://gear.mycelium.com/)?
Nice, but we are still not even an inch closer to have more than useless colored coins in our Colu wallet :|


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on January 31, 2017, 02:24:26 PM
I heard from them they will be significantly delayed. this is software I am not surprised in the slightest. Probably another year till we see something. I hope after all this they dont buy us out lol. I want the equity :)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on January 31, 2017, 05:32:33 PM
I heard from them they will be significantly delayed. this is software I am not surprised in the slightest. Probably another year till we see something. I hope after all this they dont buy us out lol. I want the equity :)
Would you provide a source for this? Should we perceive this as a rumor or was it said by someone in a position with Mycelium through one of their recognized channels?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: seektree on February 02, 2017, 04:36:29 PM
I invested 1 BTC, anyone want to buy my token @ a resonable offer?  pm me.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on February 05, 2017, 12:48:36 PM
I invested 1 BTC, anyone want to buy my token @ a resonable offer?  pm me.
Try look for OTC thread..


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: seektree on February 06, 2017, 05:14:46 PM
I invested 1 BTC, anyone want to buy my token @ a resonable offer?  pm me.
Try look for OTC thread..

link?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on February 22, 2017, 03:28:04 PM
I invested 1 BTC, anyone want to buy my token @ a resonable offer?  pm me.

I will pay 0.5 BTC if you like.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gravitate on February 22, 2017, 03:28:36 PM
I heard from them they will be significantly delayed. this is software I am not surprised in the slightest. Probably another year till we see something. I hope after all this they dont buy us out lol. I want the equity :)
Would you provide a source for this? Should we perceive this as a rumor or was it said by someone in a position with Mycelium through one of their recognized channels?

Sorry it was via PM I am afraid.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on February 23, 2017, 04:11:04 PM
I heard from them they will be significantly delayed. this is software I am not surprised in the slightest. Probably another year till we see something. I hope after all this they dont buy us out lol. I want the equity :)
Would you provide a source for this? Should we perceive this as a rumor or was it said by someone in a position with Mycelium through one of their recognized channels?

Sorry it was via PM I am afraid.
Aight. It's been quite a while since Mycelium released anything through their official channels about this project and the fact that they already asked for support with something else doesn't really help the potential outlook but. The more time that passes without any notice from devs, the more impressed I'd be if any promises were actually fulfilled, perhaps that's part of the plan.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: seektree on March 01, 2017, 11:57:10 PM
I invested 1 BTC, anyone want to buy my token @ a resonable offer?  pm me.

I will pay 0.5 BTC if you like.

sounds good to me. let me know when?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: jupiter00000 on March 14, 2017, 11:18:04 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5zfowc/dear_mycelium_wallet/


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on March 18, 2017, 10:26:46 PM
Does anyone from here contact Rasah personally?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 22, 2017, 01:08:20 AM
Former Mycelium Employee Quit After Token Sale Funds Were Used for Vacation
https://coinjournal.net/former-mycelium-employee-quit-token-sale-funds-used-vacation/


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: serfsup on June 29, 2017, 09:05:08 PM
Former Mycelium Employee Quit After Token Sale Funds Were Used for Vacation
https://coinjournal.net/former-mycelium-employee-quit-token-sale-funds-used-vacation/

Hope it was a nice vacation considering all the btc they took in from the crowdsale.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on June 29, 2017, 11:00:43 PM
Former Mycelium Employee Quit After Token Sale Funds Were Used for Vacation
https://coinjournal.net/former-mycelium-employee-quit-token-sale-funds-used-vacation/

Hope it was a nice vacation considering all the btc they took in from the crowdsale.

Most probably was. It doesn,'t seem like the supposed products is anywhere near release even after so long. This meeting was probably nothing more than recreational.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gentlemand on June 29, 2017, 11:56:51 PM
Hope it was a nice vacation considering all the btc they took in from the crowdsale.

It's hardly the Maldives. Flights within Europe cost about 50 Euros. Companies can spend countless thousands on a new toilet strategy.

Having said that it's pretty stunning that such a high profile operation has precisely nothing to show for all that money so far.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on June 30, 2017, 11:53:27 AM
Former Mycelium Employee Quit After Token Sale Funds Were Used for Vacation
https://coinjournal.net/former-mycelium-employee-quit-token-sale-funds-used-vacation/

Hope it was a nice vacation considering all the btc they took in from the crowdsale.


What can solace us is that if we think they spend this bitcoin when BTC was $200 and how much they lost in compare if they hold BTC at least BTC crossed $2000 mark  ::)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: serfsup on July 01, 2017, 09:04:31 PM
What can solace us is that if we think they spend this bitcoin when BTC was $200 and how much they lost in compare if they hold BTC at least BTC crossed $2000 mark  ::)

No solace in that.  Even at $200, and I think it was actually around $400 to $450 at the time, it was a lot money that they took in.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on July 02, 2017, 10:57:33 AM
What can solace us is that if we think they spend this bitcoin when BTC was $200 and how much they lost in compare if they hold BTC at least BTC crossed $2000 mark  ::)

No solace in that.  Even at $200, and I think it was actually around $400 to $450 at the time, it was a lot money that they took in.
They could take even  at $500,  but they could at $2500 so they lose 80percent of what they stole :D Karma


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on July 02, 2017, 06:51:10 PM
The price of bitcoin is something that's been left unclear about this cowdsale. Provided that the luck of the funds received by Mycelium is unknown to some extent it'd be hard to make predictions. Whether or not the funds were converted, the fact that no product has yet been represented and there's been no disclosure of what work might've been put into it (if any) it'd be hard to make out a capitalization, let alone see how devs are allocating funds.

Mycelium's wallet crowdsale by all means has not been anywhere close to being an investment as my predictions were right so far form what it seems.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: BartS on July 02, 2017, 08:33:08 PM
Pure money grab on the heels of all these icos. Reminds me of the dot com bubble.
In a way you are right, many of these projects have no future at all, but they are going to earn a lot of money with them, so to pout your money in those projects is to risk your financial well being.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: squatz1 on July 02, 2017, 09:17:57 PM
Lets just go to the point and say that this is something along the lines of an investment, I just can't see a wallet company ever going to be able to turn a profit in an age where there are so many of them and they're not really charging a dime to do anything right now, the only company which I can think is charging people to be using their wallet services is going to have to be BitGo. But the only reason for that is due to them being more of a corporate / company option with added security features.

Even if it is an investment, there's no money there.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: European Central Bank on July 02, 2017, 09:48:44 PM
Lets just go to the point and say that this is something along the lines of an investment, I just can't see a wallet company ever going to be able to turn a profit in an age where there are so many of them and they're not really charging a dime to do anything right now, the only company which I can think is charging people to be using their wallet services is going to have to be BitGo. But the only reason for that is due to them being more of a corporate / company option with added security features.

Even if it is an investment, there's no money there.

i'd guess many of them are simply building something up in the hope of being bought out. then it's the buyer's problem to monetise it.

there are avenues to make money. you can buy and sell inside the wallet, do stuff like have links to trezor sales, and they also gather information about usage to sell on like pretty much every other internet company.

being able to trace where money is spent and how much could be extremely valuable in the years to come.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: serfsup on July 27, 2017, 05:24:05 AM
https://twitter.com/Rassah/status/890069656391823362

"I'm stepping away from @MyceliumCom. Seems like a good time to part ways. More info to come later."


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 12, 2018, 12:01:51 AM
Colu's service will be shutting down on the 1st of June 2018. The whole concept of colored coins seems to be dying now. End of an era for Mycelium? The project was dead anyway but not their worthless token will also banish...  :P

Also, remember the person that had stepped down, Rassah? He was spamming this thread to defend Mycelium's scam back in the day.

This is him now:
https://i.imgur.com/Cn4qbyR.png
This is what a 5,131.445 BTC crowdfund looks like. 8)


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 12, 2018, 12:18:46 AM
From Mycelium's telegram:
https://i.imgur.com/layALcl.png

I don't know what lawsuit is being discussed but it sounds to me like Rassah might be forgetting some things here and there. Not only did he take part in the crowdsale, he tried to convince investors that everything was fine by claiming that the frauds of Mycelium were legitimate practices.

Let's not let this guy forget. Look at his replies in this thread and you'll get what I mean.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: mishax1 on May 12, 2018, 05:37:37 AM
Where is the lawsuit ?

as this is clearly states that this is a security:
Quote
You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 12, 2018, 10:44:05 AM
Where is the lawsuit ?

as this is clearly states that this is a security:
Quote
You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.
https://i.imgur.com/ZkiUvqH.png
Here's one mention to a lawsuit I found on Telegram.

There might be other ones too. The operation of Mycelium is currently headlined from Russia with its CEO also being there. From what I understand though, the perpetration of their scam involved trips to California during the crowdsale.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: European Central Bank on May 12, 2018, 10:50:50 AM
Where is the lawsuit ?

as this is clearly states that this is a security:
Quote
You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.

i can't bring myself to sympathise with anyone who thought this was a promising proposal. that reads like something put together by a school kid. this was always a dead end milking the good will they generated.

whoever ran it should be pursued to the ends of the earth but the people who gave them money need to slap themselves too.

props to the OP. he nailed it completely.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: freesia_pnp888 on May 12, 2018, 11:39:57 AM
OMG! please come true!


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: mishax1 on May 12, 2018, 02:20:22 PM
Where is the lawsuit ?

as this is clearly states that this is a security:
Quote
You get the share of Mycelium and the right to receive money whenever Mycelium gets more expensive. Let's suppose that this time, with this crowdsale, it will be valued at 100 million USD. Imagine that when we sell another portion one year later it will be valued at 1 billion USD. So you will get 900 million USD multiplied by your portion (if you are the owner of 5% you will get 5% of 900 million = 45 million). Your initial investment stays with you: you keep owning this right and it is non-dilutable. The next 20% we sell will be dilutable.
https://i.imgur.com/ZkiUvqH.png
Here's one mention to a lawsuit I found on Telegram.

There might be other ones too. The operation of Mycelium is currently headlined from Russia with its CEO also being there. From what I understand though, the perpetration of their scam involved trips to California during the crowdsale.

Cool. 
Sent Mark a pm.
Thanks


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: KR$N on May 12, 2018, 02:45:55 PM
I'm sorry for going little offtopic, but is it safe to continue using their mobile wallet?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: gentlemand on May 12, 2018, 04:57:50 PM
I'm sorry for going little offtopic, but is it safe to continue using their mobile wallet?

I use it all the time as do many thousands of others without any problems. I've never heard of anyone being the victim of anything the developers might have done. If we did we'd know about it instantly.

This crowd sale thing was the result of crappy management who may not be involved any more at all for all we know.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: mishax1 on May 12, 2018, 05:17:44 PM
I'm sorry for going little offtopic, but is it safe to continue using their mobile wallet?

It's safe, but no longer recommended since they focus on altcoin development instead of Bitcoin.

I'm using a Segwit capable wallet Samourai.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Wiliam heil on May 13, 2018, 01:26:25 PM
Has the dev run away?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 14, 2018, 05:21:58 PM
Telegram allows for the deletion of messages. Here's an archive of Mycelium's Telegram group (@MyceliumWallet).
https://archive.org/details/telegram-messages-dump-mycelium
https://paste.ee/p/JD0Mv - warning, big load.

For future reference. Be it lulz, courts, a combination of the two or anything else.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: Troysen on May 14, 2018, 07:42:44 PM

Its quite unfortunate that it got to this, The sad thing is that there are victims in this ear of information where people criticize and share their views bout emerging issues, most people who have been victimized either missed the warning or just chose to ignore the heed.sorry for the cictims, you will be more cautious next time


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alex massi on May 15, 2018, 05:16:04 PM
Oh dont you worry Mycelium will be a sell out everytime it has a crowdsale.At least mycelium has a product whats waves got?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on May 15, 2018, 08:21:02 PM
Oh dont you worry Mycelium will be a sell out everytime it has a crowdsale.At least mycelium has a product whats waves got?
Not to defend Waves but at least it delivered on SOME promises and has a functional platform.

Mycelium raised more than 5000 BTC and mismanaged funds.

Over those years:
No promises covered
No profit from wallet (no business model either)
No major developments
Burned through most of the funds (allegedly)
Miscalculation of how long anything would take to develop (can't even allocate the team to implement segwit)

Mycelium supposedly employees a development team and yet feature releases are so slow... Is there any oversight? Are those devs incompetent? Who knows... Not even their 'management' knew back in the day.

Also allegedly, the CEO decided to sell the raised BTC at a dip somehwere around 600$ per BTC. I don't know if it's true or just a story they try to sell to make courts have more leniency on them, but let's suppose that it's true.

If they were burning through their BTC reserves slowly at least they would have had more than 10x the funds to sustain development by now.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: adamvp on November 27, 2018, 02:41:49 PM
Do we have any update in mycelium funds matter?


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: vapourminer on November 27, 2018, 03:49:24 PM
i remember sending a small amount back in the day, then jumping through a few hoops to do something other to register it or something. cant even remember what i did now lol.

im sure i can figure it out but at the moment why bother.

btw i still use mycelium as my phone wallet. at least it works and ive never had a problem with it.

but im sure interested in the full story if anyone has some links to share.


Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: alani123 on November 27, 2018, 04:40:35 PM
There's discussion in the Mycelium Telegram group. https://t.me/MyceliumWallet Really it's the only point of reference when people ask for Updates. I haven't been keeping up & my thread served its purpose I hope.
In terms of the MT token that came out of the sale I made this thread about, I think it's stuck in limbo right now. Practically speaking, I it's useless anyway. But it's also in a limbo state right now because the service that was being used to access it shut down. The devs say they're working on a solution to bring it in the wallet but I have no idea how that went.


Rassah is in that Telegram group too. While it's the official group for Mycelium, discussion in it isn't always pro-Mycelium. And Rassah no longer works there. It is my opinion that he appears to be regretful for how things turned and no longer shows his support for the project.



Title: Re: Mycelium's "crowdsale": basically a donation, not an investment by any means
Post by: vapourminer on November 27, 2018, 08:54:57 PM
thanks. i do remember turning something into a token or something.

ill have to do some reading when i get the chance.