Great finds.

Another telling sign is that if you look on their main page, they'll say that ICO benchmark has them rated at 4.8/5, while in reality, there is absolutely nothing that comes up when you search up their coin on ICO Benchmark.

The entire site is fishy as well and I don't even know what their project is about or what their goals are, apart from trying to suck in investor money and most likely taking off with that sum of money. They even state themselves that they are some sort of "charity" (most likely just a cover story since their team is fake), so consider all investments donation to a scammer.

I think that bitcoin's role in the economy in the future is probably best described as somewhat of that of gold right now. However, it is much more convenient to transact with bitcoin compared to gold, and there will definitely be a lot more adoption coming in in the future.

Fiat will continue to be issued by the governments around the world as long as they are in power. They may use blockchain technology to issue fiat digitally, but it doesn't change the fact that fiat is still there, and still used by all people.

For me, bitcoin will be sort of a safe haven store of value and an alternative means of transacting anonymously for citizens around the globe who do not want to lose value from holding fiat or do not want to have their purchases tracked by the government. It won't replace fiat, but as you said, will co-exist with fiat.

It's definitely an absurd amount to be paying to be listed.

150k euro could be more than the transaction volume that is generated on their platform altogether during the 1 year period that the contract lasts, and that is only the listing fees. It's Euro as well, so it's actually closer to $200k.

Also, I don't get why you need to pay $25 to get a quote. Another way for them to make money.

I don't think that it necessarily means that they are scam, they are just offering a hell of an overpriced service for sure. They themselves basically admit this through saying that now a refund will be made at the end of the contract term, which raises an important question of whether or not previous paid clients will get a refund as well?

Seems like that either dogeminer have started a new scam altogether after ditching their old dogeminer.cc scam, or that some scammer saw the success of the Dogeminer scam and decided to make his own iteration of it.

You don't really need to look any further than the fact that they are offering 4%+ per day in profits, which clearly labels them a ponzi. But more likely than not they will not even pay out the early investors and just scam investors outright.

The payment proof page is most likely completely fabricated as well.

There's been a ton of so called "cloud mining" sites that are offering absurd guaranteed profits that have been exposed in the past, but unfortunately, there will always be people falling for these types of scams.

What would be the primary advantage that you would have over already established competitors such as the likes of CCN and Coindesk? I get that it's a news aggregator, but most of these major news pieces would already be independently covered by each of these aforementioned sites anyways.

I do like the idea of aggregating major crypto tweets together, though. However, that section is obviously not finished at the moment since it says that there are "no posts to display".

Just wondering as well - are the news pieces automatically updated, or are they manually hand picked?

Apart from that, i'd like to see at least some sort of price feed for bitcoin and other altcoin prices, since your role is to provide a "one site for all" sort of thing. An interactive chart would be nice.

It's most likely a scam.

The so called "team" gives off a completely unprofessional feel to it, with the fact that it's confirmed they use stock photos in order to fill up their team with somewhat legitimate names, as well as probably faking their pre-sale income in order to attract more investors in the ICO phase means that they are extremely shady at best.


They literally admit that they are not competent here, and yet still claims that $2 million of investments have come in the pre-sale phase. Nothing is right about this project.

Honestly depends on whether online casinos are allowed in a certain country or not. Some countries have licensing requirements as well, while others have more of a grey area when it comes to activity such as this since crypto may not be recognized as real money in their country.

There isn't really any sort of repercussion even if you do play at a casino that is unlicensed in your country, but it's definitely risky and the casino itself will be the primary target of any legal pursuit by the regulators.

If you're thinking of opening a crypto casino then you better do some research and consult a lawyer about potentially obtaining a license. If you're just playing, then I'd suggest picking the most trustworthy one instead of the "most licensed" one.

Escrow isn't something that is controlled or moderated by anyone. Anyone is able to become an escrow given that you are trusted enough and there is demand for your services within the community. If someone goes scam, then they will be given negative trust, however, they won't be banned.

I don't know why you can't find any escrow, because clearly, there is a ton. Look around the services section, and you should find some trustworthy ones that are still active. However, just be careful because a lot aren't trusted at all. Ask around the community before going with one particular person.

I personally would trust Darkstar (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2724325.msg27877712#msg27877712 is his escrow thread), and SebastianJu. Both of them are fairly active. Darkstar only charges 0.0005 BTC or 0.7% of the escrow amount, which is pretty much close to 0 fees.

The tax itself makes absolutely no sense.

They are essentially taxing people to access something that isn't even theirs to begin with. And if you ask anyone else around the globe about how they feel about Uganda's tax on social media websites, you'll find that most responses will be 'absurd' or the like.

As the article says, $20 a year might not be significant to us, but it's literally 3% of the average Ugandan income.

The tax scheme just doesn't make sense and the government is trying their best to enforce it. A complete waste of time and energy, and it's essentially an attempt to censor the entire internet in their country by the process of doing this.

I don't think that we've seen the bottom yet despite the fact that we're currently on a small bull run from sub-$6000 to over $6800.

I just don't believe that, looking at the magnitude of last year's pumps, we can safely say that this is the start of the recovery. Although I know that 2014's bear market which lasted until mid-2015 isn't going to be exactly mirrored during this bear market, I do believe that prices are going to continue to stay low (whether continuing to hover around the $6k region or potentially going even lower) for at least until the end of the year.

Having said that, we've probably already seen the worst of the dumps already considering that prices are only around 35% of what the peak price was last year, although it's very unlikely that we can say this will be the definitive turnaround point.

The thing isn't really that Bitify favours buyers or anything.

From what I've heard, as long as you have got sufficient proof in order to prove that you're in the right and the other party is trying to scam you, they should be able to release your funds from escrow. You did respond within the 72h timeframe, so there is really nothing to worry about.

However, it's definitely unprofessional the way that they have dragged this case on for 1 week. Escrow shouldn't take that long to resolve disputes. Next time if it involves bitcoin, imo you should just go with a forum escrow. But for now - be patient, and keeping waiting.

It's a good thing that these crypto exchanges are fighting back, imo.

They have the right to operate their business within India. Bitcoin isn't even illegal. There is no reason for the central bank to demand all the commercial banks of India to cease support of all bitcoin transactions all of a sudden.


This will be an extremely interesting case to watch imo. If the court can stay unbiased and open minded, then there is a pretty good chance that we may see the regulation be repealed. However, I would still not be very optimistic at this stage.

Read the damn OP and title before you apply.

It goes without saying that blockchain is already starting to become integrated into existing services that are provided by corporations, including the record keeping of banking services. Even governments themselves have started to test blockchain, for example, Venezuela with the Petro.

Are these things necessarily that good to bitcoin, though? I mean, banking services will continue to exist. They are definitely not dead. And blockchain IMO will definitely be of benefit in some areas that you mentioned, whether having an immutable database or even for KYC.

It doesn't really have a direct impact to decentralized cryptocurrencies that should really be the focus here, such as bitcoin. Well, I guess it does promote the use of blockchain as an actual viable way to conduct business through, but not much more than that.

I'm fairly sure that poloniex doesn't even accept credit cards. Only coinbase does.

If your bank doesn't allow you to purchase bitcoin with credit card, then there is really no way out. Either you have to purchase with debit, or potentially take a cash advance from your credit card first and deposit into your debit card before buying.

Since you said that it's a prohibition on the bank's end, I don't see any other way around it unless you are willing to face the risks. I'm not sure what BOA's policy regarding credit card buying is exactly, though. You might want to seek clarification into whether you are able to still purchase but at a higher interest rate, or it's just outright banned.

But honestly, the fact that you're not even allowed to purchase certain things from a bank and the suspensions that people get on their bank account (not just CCs) when they receive a sum of money from a crypto business is just all more reason to start using decentralized cryptos.

Well, I think that it is extremely realistic.

Considering the fact that for most of history, the gold/silver ratio was actually around 12-16, and right now that figure is more in the vicinity of 80-100, it's safe to say that some kind of adjustment to this ratio downwards will be coming soon.

That's a primary reason why I'm bullish on silver, much more so than gold. Both of them are still good store of values in the long run, though. That's a given. I'd always hold at least some silver and bitcoin as a long term hedge in my portfolio.

I'm guessing that what you need is an alt coin exchange because you had problems with Kucoin.

Binance is obviously the one to go with, here. You get 2 BTC unverified per day worth of withdrawals which is similar to what Kucoin offers to unverified traders. If you are able to be verified, then even better, although that is obviously not required.

Another exchange that I would recommend would be shapeshift. Even though you may be getting around 2-3% worse than market spot prices for your coins, I think that amount is worth the convenience and the peace of mind.

The fact that they are stealing identities of others on the internet to build their supposed "team" essentially labels them as a scam straight away. Identity theft is not only inethical and is most likely in breach of some laws worldwide, due to the fact that they are using the stolen identities in an attempt to raise money.

I would definitely consider this to be nothing but a fraud, until they provide an acceptable explanation of why the CEO's name was all of a sudden changed  

Their logo and site seems to be developed quite cheaply. Domain was acquired a month before they started asking investors for money.

Even if we disregard all of this, their business model is extremely vague and generic. The idea of a stable crypto backed by gold has already been repeated so many times. Even if they do deliver the token to you, from my understanding, you need to believe their claim that they're running a full reserve with gold futures. Virtually no point in holding or buying this token.

Don't believe in anything that he says.

He has zero reputation on the forum. He's trying to get you to contact him off the site on other communication channels. He's got a self moderated sales thread on the forum to avoid any victims from complaining on his thread as well.

Never deal without escrow in these cases, when people are trying to sell you any sort of good or service of substantial value. You simply can't take their word for it.

The amount of youtube and instagram followers are absolutely irrelevent when it comes to his trustworthiness. The fact that he doesn't accept escrow means that he's got something to hide. All legitimate members of the community, even the most trustworthy ones, will accept escrow if you demand.

I feel like that you have to make a clear distinction between bitcoin and blockchain.

Bitcoin is one of the only real promising blockchain projects, and one of the only useful ones out there at the moment. A lot of other blockchain projects are just there to try to get investors to give them money.

He has obviously still sold out on his bitcoin position because of his beliefs, which to me, is probably an illogical move to make considering the low prices of bitcoin in the bear market that he is getting for selling right now. My advice would be not investing in random ICOs or whatnot, but investing in bitcoin which Wozniak actually said positive things about himself (points such as decentralisation of supply, store of value etc. that just makes it far better as an asset to store wealth compared to USD).