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Silkcoin is clearly part of a big wave of scams. They always include a high level of graphic design, flaky or non existent white papers, a promise of a decentralised exchange. Personally I can spot the graphic designer a mile off. They get away with it by being flashy and also seem to have an army of sock puppets that will slap you down if you argue against them. I expect it here too.

He worked on Numus, blackcoin, sharecoin, coinOpend, Coinmarket, EDGECOIN and now Silkcoin.



Too many links to post, go research, you will see the same style, the same promises.

Thanks for the info, but post some sources of proof or it all means nothing.

I have gave coins that have the same game and design, I leave it to others to make up their own mind. I have no 100% cast iron proof but I think people should be notified of the obvious pattern. They need to do the leg work and decide for themselves.

Plus I got threatened by a member clearly involved in the scam. You don't threaten stupid trolls unless they are pulling your scam down.


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You know, what are you doing especially on this forum is higly dangerous -calling people names. There are people with a vast resources and I advise you to check archives how did those people ended when they messed with wrong people here.

See this was originally a bitcoin forum and lots of people here got rich, there is a big concentration of people with money and they dont know what to do with it, but hey they surely can take revenge on others ,-)

I advise you to stop before you get into some real trouble.
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You are willing to put all this dirty laundry in the open but won't post your proof?  ::)

Ok if I was invested in a coin and I heard what I'm saying I at least have a chance to check it out and be alert to a potential scam. After that I couldn't give a damn. It's their problem. I'm no Mother Theresa. But I do believe in trying to explore the truth. And I could be wrong.


All I'm gonna do now is wait.

You're an idiot. You could say any of the new altcoins are "potentially scams" without any proof at all and you would have a non-zero probability of being right in one way or another because nearly all altcoins are scams in one way or another... Funny though, silkcoin is one of the few new coins that has actually been coming through on what it promises (so far). You could find blatant and obvious scams to expose if that is what you are really after, but instead you decide to target a coin which so far has no reason to be suspected a scam?

Wanna bet a BTC i'm right? Or at least apoligise for calling me an idiot for highlighting a scam for people to avoid losing their money?


You know what, if I'm wrong then the coin wont be in anyway affected by what i'm saying. Do you think anyone wil care I said it was all BS if it proves not to be BS?  Give people info and let them decide, but your suggeting I somehow keep my mouth shut or something for the good of the community? Bizarre really.


The fact no one suspects it as a scam is why its so dangerous, duh! Lot of people gonna lose a lot of money.

How many graphic designers you know? Does that mean all our "jeans" are worthless. Waiting for answer.

really? I just buy some.

y, u should post your proof

iTs hard cause on many of the scams they deleted the visuals. Numus looked exactly like Silkcoin, with exactly the same claims of decentralised store etc. You get used to seeing the same thing you can't help make the link.

check out a few of these scams that have Ben linked to the same webdesigner already who was involved in Numus.

https://bitcointa.lk/threads/for-hire-visual-web-designer.205394/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=519856.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=599438.0

http://digitalcoin.co/forums/index.php/topic,625.0.html

http://cryptosource.org/coinmart-co-a-cryptocurrency-marketplace-for-btc-ltc-dgc-in-development/


what really sparked me on Silkcoin is there is a guy with name  'insertnamehere' as his I'd. have was a big cheerleader for Numus even when it was shown by others it was a scam. He popped up the other day starting a thread about how great Silkcoin wallet was. I saw the same design as past scams and it was pretty clear what was going on.


The funny thing is they also are involved in legit work. I believe they did the design for Cryptsy. It might be possible to find them.

So, you saw something that's visually similar and previous devs worked on it too and you start calling everything a scam.
Without any proof this thread is useless. The only conclusion of this is that you got butthurt in some previous alt deals.

I see not only at SC thread you are throwing accusations on other Alts too. This will not get you anything.

Your wrong but I respect you freedom to be wrong.

And thanks for providing me a chance to bump this thread. the mods deleted it when i tried the old fashioned way.


Throwing accusations on other Alts? Bizzare comment. the coins i listed are already shown to be scams, they have left with peoples money. What more proof do you need, hahaha

Nope, all are not listed scam yet but for you everything is a scam. Well keep doing that another chance for me to buy cheap coins. :D

This is interesting, could someone give links to such archives?

I know I am going against my own advice, but I suggest everyone sage this thread unless OP wants to post some actual sources. Quit bumping until then. Happy Monday everyone!

My screename says D A N D R U F F haha. Now you have proven to be a troll. MODS I am reporting this silly childish thread, especially now that this poster has threatened a member here.

I now see you deleted your post for attempting to DOX a member I have no affiliation with. I put forward advisement to the moderating community to ban the user gorillajam for personal threats against members as well as "witch-hunting" while attempting to dox/post personal information of members of this board.

https://i.imgur.com/DR5CZeZ.jpg

So you create a topic and in the OP, ADMIT that you just have a feeling.

Then, you say that if people want ACTUAL proof they have to do their own "legwork"

That you were just creating this topic to let everyone know that you have this feeling.

The graphic design is similar?

There are trends in Graphic Design btw. Lmfao

Last but not least, you go on to say that you have a feeling that these people have done work on projects that have turned out NOT to be scams.

OK
Entertainment at best
Waste of time at worst

But you definitely are nuts dude lol
Good luck out there man, keep on fighting the good fight lol.

The weirdest thing is I think you were attempting to help, maybe LOL

Please people if you comment on this thread it just keeps it where people can see it, I wish I could get this message out without commenting myself, lol!

Cheers for the bump!

This idiot gorrila calls every coin a scam, I believe I even heard him say NEM was a scam, I wouldn't trust this nutcase... even though silk did look a bit scammy when I checked em out when they were first out

everytime a newbie sockpuppet made only a few days ago pops up and defends Silkcoin and tries to attack me It adds to my argument, you know that right?

I personally don't want to control new coins and not let people decide for themselves in a completely free market. But part of a free market is freedom to say when you think someone is scamming. Without anominity we wouldn't have innovations like NXT or Qora. The positives always beat the negatives if people are free.


people can easily protect themselves if they don't act like children and think someone is going to hold their hand and the world is full of people handing out flowers. I like the cut and thrust of alt coins. These threads are the place to be in cryptocurrency in my opinion. Once people make a few obvious mistakes they start to actually learn what and who to trust and how to protect yourself, it's not that difficult.


I was thinking today these new scams that include scam coins and exchanges that do actually trade like Sharecoin actually help alt coins. people need to start not trusting stupid coins and new exchanges, this could be the death of shitcoins, which will be an organic process and not cause anyone tried to make it happen.

Only time will tell us, i see no proof here only speculation.

I see it as more a pointing out something that look suspicious. Yeah the title is a strong statement but how else can you tell people something on here unless you shout in their ears.


It's more a hey you should be careful of that over there it looks a lot like a similar well known scam. check it out yourself to be sure it's ok. So I see what I'm doing is more an alerting to a potential danger that giving a cast iron proof of a scam.


Let's not forget, almost all the big scams on here had no 100% proof it was a scam before they ran off. it's almost impossible to know until it's too late. Picking up on clues is all we have.

Alerting is the best anyone can do. I would want some warning of a potential danger, I don't know about you?

so if you know theyre a part of " big wave of scam" , use previous market data from other coin they did, and it should be the same, which would mean you know when ups and downs for this coin on the market will be.
easy profit for you that way, but doing what u just did without real proof is not usefull, only harmful
imho ofc

I named the past scams as a group because IF you know anything about them or checked them yourselves you would know they have very similar patterns. same webdesign of a high level that is the first reason people think they are legit, they avoid escrow, they include as a big promise a decentralised store and social media, they have tons of sock puppets running around on the thread that get aggressive if you highlight issue, all newbies, all agreeing with each each other, all accounts opened for a week or so only.

I don't know what market data you are talking about?

You have mistaken me for someone who is trying to play around with the price.

so this guy was right all along ..

first: I am not owning any Silkcoin and I am not part of it.
but i can understand why trolls are threatened and they maybe should also open their eyes.

imagine you put a lot of effort and money in creating a coin. Even if this is only a pump and dump coin, it would be also not a scam but legal and its still a lot of effort.
But imagine this coin is really your life. You hired a designer, that already made a few good logos, also if the coins themselves were not the burner, but you liked the design.

So you created that coin and try to make it shine and want to protect it.
Now comes a troll and tries to drag it down. What would you do?

If every developer ran away because of trolls we would not have any coins. Dumping coins and running away is pretty "low".

whats the point sticking on a coin with bad reputation?
Like trying to rescue a oversalted soup with other ingredients...
noone wants to eat it...

The only thing I couldn't understand is why no one else can spot that Silkcoin was exactly like a bunch of other scams.


You would think after people lost money on scams like Nummus, Edgecoin, Coinmart etc they would spot the same guys involved a mile off.

Same design, same promises of a decentralized exchange, same thread 90% of Newbies telling each other they have the best coin in the world, same premine, same video design. The amazing thing with the video was I can't be 100% cause they deleted the old one but i'm 99% it was even the same video as Nummus with the logo changed. People must of seen it!

To me it was the obvious thing in the world. But not one person backed me up that must of seen those scams.

It came from originally the Silkcoin developer acting like he had been abandoned by developers when in fact he was covering his tracks cause he would of run off had people not found out who he was. He seems to of fooled everyone again, I give him credit for that.

I know nothing about this Murraycoin developer, and based on no information I'm suspicious that within hours the guy wrote up some plan to revive the coin and started a thread. My gut feeling is he could of been the guy behind all these scams cause clearly they had some skills.

Its all bullshit though, people can make mistakes if they want, I wont hold anyones hand. 

guy... it was no scam... you made it a scam...

WTF are you talking about?

ok, lets help you a little.
You are a coin developer and want to implement something later. You are announcing it and are working on it. Really fucking hard.
But somehow it doesn't work. Ok you have a delay. But people are screaming already "scam". The longer to take, the more they are screaming.
Especially our well know trolls. So now you have only 2 choices. And how you choose depends on your charakter.

Choice 1: the stable character
He goes on and is working harder because he wants to show the people, that he didn't scam with that feature. And finally he will release and rescue the coin.

Choice 2: the less stable character
He thinks: I was working that hard and they only call me scammer? Fuck you all! And it turns out to be a real scam (keep in mind, it was not before!). He is implementing the feature probably even in another coin, because those people didn't call him scammer... that was the revenge...

Guess what the majority of people are? Are they stable?

Dude I linked the same name as two other scams to Silkcoin who ran off with almost no criticism before they did. STFU you look stupid now.

NO ONE with a legitimate coin needs to fear FUD however extreme. The attacks form me came cause no one would directly address the info I gave, just calling me a troll from brand new newbie accounts. The guy NEVER had a plan to create a decentralized Store you jackass. lol



reply if you want but im not going to, I cant be bothered..

You probably didn't want to do it... I don't call you bad because of it, but I want to open your eyes...

People that are unstable are not only one time unstable...
You will probably find another coin in the next months, that has a decentralized shop. And that's maybe the same guy.
Never say never... ok, maybe he wanted to scam. But maybe also not. It is not as clear as you think.