Bad Services from Catex Exchange and BountyHive Member!

[ShitFace]

So, on January Catex Exchange has launched its bounty campaign in this thread and been running until April 19th. This bounty has been managed by member of a popular bounty website, BountyHive, it's vipganyan. I thought he was a great campaign manager and decided to join the campaign and support the project.

On that day, it was mentioned that bounty would end on April 19th and token distribution will end latest on May 20th. But then when the bounty was running for few weeks, the manager changed the date of distribution to July 20th (latest). I was quiet disappointed but stayed calm as it's normal, they might need time to deliver anything. Spreadsheet was updated well for first few weeks and then the manager turned to a lazy guy who never update the spreadsheet anymore until end of campaign.

I felt like I was scammed once the manager locked the campaign thread and campaign spreadsheet then asked 20 days to calculate everything, such as unprofessional person. But still, I remained to calm. When 20 days passed (on May 10th), spreadsheet wasn't updated, still unlocked and I had no idea why. People asked about it on official telegram group and the team told them to ask directly to the manager or put their question on the thread (which is locked). Unfortunately, the manager is not responsive (perhaps he was enjoying bunch of money from managing the campaign) and the team kept telling people to address their bounty related questions to the unresponsive manager or they would get banned from the group and bounty campaign.

People started to think that bounty manager has scammed them and the team told them that it can't be true because the campaign is managed by reputable company (BountyHive). In fact, The manager just a member of BountyHive and he said this campaign is not BountyHive campaign, but a bitcointalk campaign (So his reputation would affect BountyHive). I tend to think that the manager has scammed Catex team by telling them on behalf of BountyHive (BountyHive team has confirmed that Catex campaign wasn't under their management).

So here, I hope we can get clarifications both from Catex Exchange team and the bounty manager. Also, for BountyHive, make sure you hire a professional person to work with and not a person who will just use your name to rob people's time and money.

Important Links
Catex ANN : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5099776.0
Catex Bounty : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5099778.0
Catex Telegram Group : https://t.me/catex_group
Bounty Manager Telegram : https://t.me/FatihBHive
Bounty Manager Bitcointalk Profile : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1548994

[1714900995]

1714900995

[Bitcoin_Arena]

I think this should be a scam accusation.
As far as I know;

1. Bountyhive do not use spreadsheets to calculate stakes or display participants.

2. They don't ask the bounty participants to post weekly reports in the bitcointalk forum.

3.  The Bounty ANNs of ended and active bounties are found on the website off which Catex exchange is not one of them.
Check for yourself: https://bountyhive.io/browse

4. vipganyan just has a bountyhive website link on his profile where he is just trying to gather referrals. It does not mean that he is part of the bountyhive team.

Code:

https://bountyhive.io/r/vipganyan

5. The only person i know in this forum who is associated with bountyhive and probably one of the founders is ColorlessK
Maybe you should try contacting him through PM about the other said "representative"

6. If found guilty of impersonation and also not paying your rewards then i think you should go ahead make a scam accusation against him with your fellow unpaid bounty hunters.
No one should waste time to work with a promise to be given something and then get nothing in the end.

[IconFirm]

5. The only person i know in this forum who is associated with bountyhive and probably one of the founders is ColorlessK
Maybe you should try contacting him through PM about the other said "representative"

I've been warning about bountyhive for months now - it's an absolute scam. From what I can see ColorlessK has been banned on a few coccasions for various dodgyness - he might still be banned so unable to reply, not that he would anyway. Pretty much every project he promotes is a scam, take a look at the bountyhive thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2809836.280

Total scam. Sad that BCT are allowing him to advertise his scam too.

[Blacknavy]

Catex is 100% pre-mined, they sold pre-mined tokens on Catex Exchange at 80 satoshi. There is no volume, no buyers. We have warned many people about Catex in Turkish section.

https://etherscan.io/token/0x6e605c269e0c92e70beeb85486f1fc550f9380bd#balances
https://eksiup.com/images/30/61/vb12460y2wf9.png

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

4. vipganyan just has a bountyhive website link on his profile where he is just trying to gather referrals. It does not mean that he is part of the bountyhive team.

Code:

https://bountyhive.io/r/vipganyan

That most likely isn't the case. for all I know, every bounty participants that intend to or that have used the bountyhive platform to participant in a signature campaign is required to link his Bitcointalk profile to bountyhive profile via profile settings and that can only be done by updating your website URL with bountyhive referral link.

Also OP bountyhive doesn't manage their Signature campaign outside their platform, based on their website " every campaign management is done automatically and later verify by dedicated moderators" so anyone claiming to be managing a signature campaign from the forum for bountyhive must be an imposter. Contact bountyhive moderators on telegram to verify this information and make your enquiries.

[ShitFace]

I think this should be a scam accusation.

The reason why I didn't put this thread on scam accusation is because I won't say them scam. I just wanted them to provide a good service for their bounty participants and to make them better in treating everyone. However bounty hunters are also human, they have done several processes to help the platform grow. They need to be treated well and fair.

It's not about BountyHive, but about a member of BountyHive (Vipganyan) using name of BountyHive to get a client (Catex) then managed the campaign and treated his participants badly.

[ryzaadit]

The bounty handle by one of member BountyHive, I think BountyHive not part of this Bounty. Here some statement from Telegram BountyHive about Bounty CA.TEX

Hey DK!

Bountyhive hasn't managed nor it has any connection with the Catex campaign.

The Catex bounty manager is solely responsible for the well-being of their campaign so for any inquiries you should contact him.

Source : https://t.me/bountyhive/318691

The manager only working at BountyHive, and he handling the bounty by himself. So basically Team CATEX making a contract directly with one of the teams from BountyHive. If BountyHive handling this bounty, it should publish on their platform, not at Bitcointalk. This bounty manager just make a bad reputation of them and BountyHive, thats was really funny went the distribution already begin without publish the spreadsheet first.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Catex is 100% pre-mined, they sold pre-mined tokens on Catex Exchange at 80 satoshi. There is no volume, no buyers. We have warned many people about Catex in Turkish section.

BUT

Vipganyan could be innocent.

https://etherscan.io/token/0x6e605c269e0c92e70beeb85486f1fc550f9380bd#balances
https://eksiup.com/images/30/61/vb12460y2wf9.png

He is to blame too. OP probably mistook him to be part of bountyhive, but he seems to be alone bounty manager who offers bounty services therefore was his responsibility to do due diligence before working with the said people.
We are talking about time wasted by so many bounty hunters here which can never be recovered and probably money wasted by traders top buy the shit tokens.

Even then when things went wrong and the so called cartex team was not delivering what they had promised, why didn't he just explain to the stakeholders on what happened and open a scam accusation thread for cartex?
Why did he just lock the bounty thread and go quiet?

[wavug]

You guys know whats funny? Catex team noticed that allocated amount in dollars is incorrect (HUGE banner on the top of the bounty thread + 250K USD text in the body) only a month after the end of the bounty and numerous questions from bounty hunters about the exact amount of tokens allocated to the whole bounty. So bounty was running since January 19th, 2019 untill April 19th. Today they said only $25K were allocated, when CATT price was high, now its 3-4 times lower.

They also claim that BountyHive is responsible for carrying out their bounty even though BH admins say the opposite.  

I can't believe Catex team payed money for their bounty and never checked it. There is a huge banner which says $250,000, it's impossible to not notice it. Bounty manager isn't even in the main TG group, bitcointalk bounty thread was locked once bounty ended, same goes for spreadsheet, therefore they're most likely trying to fool us from the very beginning and get almost free advertising.

https://t.me/catex_group/109117



https://t.me/catex_group/109170



This is my favorite 

[Bitcoin_Arena]

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From 250K to 25K
This is shady as hell 
I think catex if they have a profile here and bounty manager should all be tagged for wasting people's time but looks like OP is reluctant to admit that they are scammers.

[kramat]

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From 250K to 25K
This is shady as hell 
I think catex if they have a profile here and bounty manager should all be tagged for wasting people's time but looks like OP is reluctant to admit that they are scammers.

I'm angry and their account here must be tagged this is fraud

[ryzaadit]

I read a couple of post at their telegram, on the first days went the bounty was launch. A few people, asking about the bounty how the reward calculation and the people including the budget "$250.000". The weird thing, they did not try to change this mistake since the first day? I believe the team of CAT.EX know this problem, or maybe he wants to take a profit from this mistake for their own purpose marketing and explain this problem went the bounty & distribution started. I believe they should know about this, but don't want to fix this mistake in the middle of a campaign.

[dr.cheema]

I read a couple of post at their telegram, on the first days went the bounty was launch. A few people, asking about the bounty how the reward calculation and the people including the budget "$250.000". The weird thing, they did not try to change this mistake since the first day? I believe the team of CAT.EX know this problem, or maybe he wants to take a profit from this mistake for their own purpose marketing and explain this problem went the bounty & distribution started. I believe they should know about this, but don't want to fix this mistake in the middle of a campaign.

No doubt! They already knew about this mistake and how bounty manager can mistake like this?
This mistake is not a small issue but very big problem for cat.ex reputation and they should punish bounty manager.
Especially as you said team and bounty manager both are corrupt and very soon Cat.ex team will pay for all this once spreadsheet publish.

[rosezionjohn]

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Typical team member, always blaming the bounty hunters for the price decrease. Could it be that the bounty manager and the team had some issue or misunderstanding? It's not the first time I've seen something like this extreme cut in bounty pool.