Wow, I have been away from this thread for a long time now.

What are the latest news on "Marcelo"?

I lost about 0.4btc total in S.CC; not the biggest part of my initial investment. Some weeks I'm able to withdraw from 0.01 to 0.02, receiving the btc within three days (not that I think I'll be able to recover a meaningful part of my loss, though).

What is funny is that, if I sold my MHS, I'd get less than they "produce" in a month. ROI would be awesome if true, right?

Any news? Is everyone in a similar situation? Are debates here still going on 24/7?

Hey guys, I'm not a supporter of S.CC at all, and I've lost hard earned money here, but just to let you know: I tried withdrawing ~0.012btc last monday and I've just seen it has arrived at the destination wallet today.

I don't know what was the current pattern with withdrawals since I haven't been following this thred anymore, but after 5 or 6 days I have received this small amount. Maybe some of the guys here who have invested big money in still have a chance of saving a small part of it all.

Auto-invest turned on again? F'n seriously?

We don't even need to discuss withdrawals when we don't have control of OUR money INSIDE the platform. This should already raise some serious disbelief.

I'm just waiting to see a message like "The script that managed everybody's auto-invest option had a problem and turned this feature on for everybody, it will be fixed soon".

People lose the value of their money when khs price decreases, rarely are able to withdraw the reduced amount and, to top it off, cannot even control what's left of the money INSIDE the website itself.

Money is given so Marcelo can take it and play with the crumbs. This is ridiculous, and what is even more ridiculous is that some people will believe his excuse later in pious fashion.

That depends. In both cases you are worried about earning fiat, not bitcoin, which goes against the idea of Bitcoin itself.

Furthermore, holding bitcoin expecting to get rich later is what happens among most bitcoin buyers and probably the HUGEST barrier to bitcoin growth and adoption. Bitcoin should be used as a currency, to buy and sell things. Sitting on huge amounts of bitcoin can be profitable in the long run dollar/euro/yen/general fiat wise, but it does not make Bitcoin work the way it should.

It is a coin, to be used for trading, not an antique artifact to hold until its value grows exponentially and you convert it back to conventional money.

And I'm not blaming anyone directly, I have this mentality myself and only used 5% of my bought bitcoin for shopping.

What is more significant price wise? Bill Gates buying more BTC for his foundation (a guy from the technology area investing) or Mike Tyson opening his own ATM (a more mainstream celeb investing)?

Is something different going on? My balance is constantly rising, but my mining history is normal as always and no Buy/Sell orders have been executed.

Stop talking to yourself. Convince people this is a scam with numbers (like most other guys do), not with poorly written english nonsense.

I can't withdraw now because of "Invalid values". The amount is smaller than my balance. What now?

So, no chat, and now Mining history has been deleted?

Atualmente, a NegocieCoins banca a fee de 0,0002 que eles próprios estabeleceram pras transferências serem ágeis. Não sei por quanto tempo isso vai durar!

Fala galera. Eu decidi "arriscar" e me cadastrar com a Negocie porque o preço deles estava em menos de 820 reais com taxa de 0% de depósito, enquanto estava cerca de 860 na FoxBit há dois dias. Me cadastrei, foi tudo validado rapidamente e comprei BTC bem abaixo do preço das outras exchanges brasileiras com agilidade. A plataforma nem se compara à da FoxBit ou à do Mercado Bitcoin, mas nada que prejudicasse minhas negociações; vou continuar utilizando a NegocieCoins como uma de minhas opções.

Ontem eles chegaram a cerca de 12.5BTC de volume, hoje isso caiu bastante, como pode ser analisado no ExchangeWars.

A empresa tem escritório em Curitiba (segundo confirmado pelo responsável que me adicionou no Facebook - eu já tinha constatado isso ao jogar o CNPJ pra consulta na Receita Federal e pela localização da agência na qual está a conta pra qual se transfere o dinheiro).

I'm glad I took the bigger part of my money out. Already one hour and 40 minutes passed after "relaunch time". No trading, no mining. Now, the site is unaccessible AND moments before I couldn't browse it anymore, I noticed my KHS and BTC balance were wiped out. Some people made the same comment on the "Trollbox".

From time to time someone would even state "Something is moving" or "Engines starting" like they were insiders on the server situation. How deeply have people been fooled? Gee.

I've gotten over it, and we were warned tons of times; believing "partially" that it couldn't be true didn't get me anywhere (and selling the BTC that was dragged - by myself - into that hole would give me 20% profit right now). Regular "real world" non-risky investments are usually .8% a month AT BEST. And so many of us could not be happy with HashNest's ~10%. Greed is a bitch.

10:07 in Brazil. No rewards, no trading so far.

Completely agree, just pointing out that Curitiba is not in the states discussed on the news you've posted (Rio and São Paulo); Curitiba is in Paraná (the state where I live and where the situation is even worse since not only the federal government raised the power bill nationwide, the state government has raised it a little more in Paraná).

At least one thing on this website has a high probability of being real: the admin is indeed brazilian. Some people have claimed that he is american / indian because of IP tracking results, but today he answered a message on S.CC's "trollbox" (chat) in perfect portuguese, even using a slang.

I was just stating that the address is not what makes this a hell of a big scam, since the only thing it would be normal for the Admin to conceal is the address itself. SCC's WHOIS also states that the phone is 9999-9999 - it may exist but sounds pretty made up! If he stated that is his address and anyone was welcome to check the whole thing out, sure it should be there, BUT the address is my smallest concern, his smallest lie among the light bill lie, the "hacking" of the website, the whole mining operation itself.

And I'm brazilian, live in Curitiba's State, know the city, it is from that address. You can check Google Street View and then compare with the pictures joaozarate posted.

Hey bro, I also live in Brazil and I think you had a very bright initiative deciding to go to the alleged address and check things out for yourself (instead of just debating rumors here). On the other hand, notice that this is supposed to be a BIG Altcoin mining operation, owning many miners that cost a bunch of money, so it is only rational that they wouldn't publish their real address (because of thefts) - other big american cloud mining services DO show pics of their mining pools, but conceal their addresses.

I agree that this may very likely be a scam, and I really appreciate you took the investigation matters into your own hands, but their address being fake is the smallest concern I could have right now.

@ThorSWO @ThePhwner I know you might see me as just one more guy affirming things in this crazy fucking thread, but there is nothing to be discussed on this power issue.

IF "Marcelo" is from Curitiba and his mining pool is located there, HE WOULDN'T MAKE ONE CENT MINING. The energy cost is just too high; I don't think you could make money mining ANYWHERE in Brazil.

This, obviously, considering he is actually mining AND considering his pool is located in the city where he claims to be from. He could obviously claim it is located somewhere else, then, you'd have to decide if you believe it or not by yourselves. But if he has claimed the miners are in Curitiba, forget it, there's no way this shit is happening.

I don't think that rewards increasing or decreasing can be considered a clue, since most people will just reinvest their rewards and stick around "trading numbers that don't mean anything". The site will crash in 2 cases, I guess:
         When an amount of people owning more than half of the tradable hash decides to sell it all and cash every BTC out (highly unlikely to happen);
         When the admin decides to shut the whole thing down;

And also, increasing rewards might be a manner of increasing the ROI time stated by their calculator and, therefore, attract more people.

For me, it is just a bet. The site crashes down all the time but always comes back; Hash prices are extremely mercurial and the market is easy to manipulate... I cannot see a pattern that shows the website will be shut down or for how long it'll stick around.

You tried to quote me, then you answered writing inside the quote, then you gave up and just posted this message here randomly, not directed to anyone. It was fun editing to watch, but anyway.

I have stated I agree it is a scam, and I do think that at some point the admin will disappear with the coins he has inside his system. However, I don't think he is going to do that little piece by little piece; shit will be shut down in one heavy blow to investors heads IMO. Talk to your friend and discuss another way in which you could've been hacked, IF all this story you tell here (a drama with tons of sudden turns) is true.