First, this is advertised as a security, so the entire thread really should be here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=78.0Second this is a long post, because as someone who works directly with commodities trade, investing, web development, and writing, it disgusts me to see amateur con artists abusing the good will of potential investors. Mostly because it is just unethical and wrong, but also because when a real person like me tries to source investors, we hit that glass wall of, "Well, look how we got scammed by these idiots, so now we won't invest anymore!"
That said, I'd have to call BS on this site and investment.
Consider the facts.
- Someone claims to have 3,000 BTC, yet provides no proof (all it takes is a code)
- Their website claims to have already sold 23,000+ shares at 0.2 BTC each (another 4,600 BTC)
- This gives them more than 6.2 million USD worth of BTC at today's aggregate rate
So here we have a company that started out with about 3 million USD, give or take. With that amount of capital, they've been unable to:
- produce a business plan or demonstrate any proof of registration with the governing bodies of the UK controlling investment
- produce a marketing plan other than 'give away shares of vaporware' so people tweet us
- produce a website (unless you count that godawful resurrection of the first website I build in Mosaic)
- find someone who can write better than they flip burgers (no offense burger flippers)
So you've got an award winning website, if ugly is the award you're after, a marketing plan you could fit on a bottle cap, and content writing skills that the average 7th grader could top. The design looks more like an old Atari game with some photos and old freeware buttons thrown in.
Now, before anyone says, "What's wrong with that," consider that this company has claimed to have about 3 million USD of their own money (3,000 BTC), and currently more than another 3 million USD from investors (4,600 BTC from their 23,000+ shares). When it is all said and done, they will have sold more than 25,000 additional shares to reach that magic 50,000 number they're after.
That means they'll have what, about 13,000 BTC kicking around in total investment?
So with an estimated net worth exceeding $13,000,000.00, they can't afford to drop a few thousand dollars on a classy website with good photos and outstanding content?
This looks too good to be true because... it probably is. The OP has obviously lied - or there would be some proof other than this:
Call Centre Open 24/7
+442033559040
Business Hours
24/7 Until Further Notice
Email:
support@unitedbitcoinmining.com
Address:
United Mining
Green Park House
15 Stratton Street
London | W1J 8LQor this:
Domain Name: UNITEDBITCOINMINING.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/
Name Server: NS1.WIX.COM
Name Server: NS2.WIX.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 01-jan-2014
Creation Date: 01-jan-2014
Expiration Date: 01-jan-2015
Registrant Name: unitedbitcoinmining.com
Registrant Organization: Domain Discreet Privacy Service
Registrant Street: 12808 Gran Bay Pkwy, West
Registrant City: Jacksonville
Registrant State/Province: FL
Registrant Postal Code: 32258
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.9027492701Now, the good news is that you don't have to spend anything to take a chance on these guys - so you could just look at it like investing in penny stocks. You lose most, and occasionally win some (it's very occasionally - and anyone who says it isn't likely doesn't know another person who won the penny stock lotto - so it's very occasional).
Hopefully you can all laugh at me in a few months (March, he said?) when you're pulling in all of that BTC and I'm pushing my new book and (shameless plug) paying dividends to the people who support it.
Good luck to anyone who invested. At best you'll be laughing the whole way to the bank. At worst, you've just wasted some time.
To the OP - if you want some quality content and design for your site - I'm open to receiving some of those 6 million USD BTC you're currently sitting on so that your site doesn't look like what I occasionally wake up next to when I've had a little too much to drink.
The catch is, I don't work for con artists, so you'll need to show me some verifiable proof that your business is real - otherwise I'm not interested in the work (it's that whole ethics thing).
Hopefully no one misses the Internet and takes my post
too negatively
I just don't like con artists.
