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[JollyGood]

What is the connection between SpectroCoin and Bankera?

I just started taking an interest in Bankera because of a PM I received. I see SpectroCoin support Bankera and Bankera support SpectroCoin - so what is the connection between them?

Would appreciate some replies just so I can understand things better. Thank you.

[LTU_btc]

What is the connection between SpectroCoin and Bankera?

I just started taking an interest in Bankera because of a PM I received. I see SpectroCoin support Bankera and Bankera support SpectroCoin - so what is the connection between them?

Would appreciate some replies just so I can understand things better. Thank you.

Answer is simple - Bankera is developped by Spectrocoin, it's their ICO project. Here is link for further reading:
https://cryptobriefing.com/bankera-bnk-token-spectrocoin/

[JollyGood]

What is the connection between SpectroCoin and Bankera?

I just started taking an interest in Bankera because of a PM I received. I see SpectroCoin support Bankera and Bankera support SpectroCoin - so what is the connection between them?

Would appreciate some replies just so I can understand things better. Thank you.

Answer is simple - Bankera is developped by Spectrocoin, it's their ICO project. Here is link for further reading:
https://cryptobriefing.com/bankera-bnk-token-spectrocoin/

Thank you for the post and the link.

So in short, Spectrocoin is the company and Bankera is the offshoot.

[SpectroCoin_support]

What is the connection between SpectroCoin and Bankera?

I just started taking an interest in Bankera because of a PM I received. I see SpectroCoin support Bankera and Bankera support SpectroCoin - so what is the connection between them?

Would appreciate some replies just so I can understand things better. Thank you.

Hello,

Bankera's team has a blog post detailing the project and the ecosystem's structure: https://blog.bankera.com/2019/05/21/developing-bankeras-ecosystem-our-vision/.

[JollyGood]

What is the connection between SpectroCoin and Bankera?

I just started taking an interest in Bankera because of a PM I received. I see SpectroCoin support Bankera and Bankera support SpectroCoin - so what is the connection between them?

Would appreciate some replies just so I can understand things better. Thank you.

Hello,

Bankera's team has a blog post detailing the project and the ecosystem's structure: https://blog.bankera.com/2019/05/21/developing-bankeras-ecosystem-our-vision/.

Thank you for the post.

Your feedback Trust is very bad. Highly respected members of the community have left negative Trust for you and clearly stated in the Bankera thread what they think of you and listed scam allegations.

What are your views on that? What do you say to counter those claims?

[SpectroCoin_support]

What is the connection between SpectroCoin and Bankera?

I just started taking an interest in Bankera because of a PM I received. I see SpectroCoin support Bankera and Bankera support SpectroCoin - so what is the connection between them?

Would appreciate some replies just so I can understand things better. Thank you.

Hello,

Bankera's team has a blog post detailing the project and the ecosystem's structure: https://blog.bankera.com/2019/05/21/developing-bankeras-ecosystem-our-vision/.

Thank you for the post.

Your feedback Trust is very bad. Highly respected members of the community have left negative Trust for you and clearly stated in the Bankera thread what they think of you and listed scam allegations.

What are your views on that? What do you say to counter those claims?

Respectfully, claims are only claims. Our business has been up and running for 6 years with about 1 million clients as of now using SpectroCoin - Bankera ICO finished successfully and by now have 2 products under the brand name Bankera, Bankera Exchange and Bankera Loans, with more to come in the near and far future. Some cases can be attributed to reasons that we cannot share publicly in respect to GDPR and privacy procedures and so they are communicated directly with the clients. We provide all the tools for our users to be safe and secure from 2FA to email notifications if any new IP logs into your account and a large number of wallets to store your crypto and fiat and easy withdrawal options while having an instant currency exchange and free and instant peer to peer (among SpectroCoin users) transactions. Most importantly, a 24/7 support team at your disposal to assist you in any issue you may face.

[JollyGood]

What is the connection between SpectroCoin and Bankera?

I just started taking an interest in Bankera because of a PM I received. I see SpectroCoin support Bankera and Bankera support SpectroCoin - so what is the connection between them?

Would appreciate some replies just so I can understand things better. Thank you.

Hello,

Bankera's team has a blog post detailing the project and the ecosystem's structure: https://blog.bankera.com/2019/05/21/developing-bankeras-ecosystem-our-vision/.

Thank you for the post.

Your feedback Trust is very bad. Highly respected members of the community have left negative Trust for you and clearly stated in the Bankera thread what they think of you and listed scam allegations.

What are your views on that? What do you say to counter those claims?

Respectfully, claims are only claims. Our business has been up and running for 6 years with about 1 million clients as of now using SpectroCoin - Bankera ICO finished successfully and by now have 2 products under the brand name Bankera, Bankera Exchange and Bankera Loans, with more to come in the near and far future. Some cases can be attributed to reasons that we cannot share publicly in respect to GDPR and privacy procedures and so they are communicated directly with the clients. We provide all the tools for our users to be safe and secure from 2FA to email notifications if any new IP logs into your account and a large number of wallets to store your crypto and fiat and easy withdrawal options while having an instant currency exchange and free and instant peer to peer (among SpectroCoin users) transactions. Most importantly, a 24/7 support team at your disposal to assist you in any issue you may face.

Thank you for the post.

How many of those 1 million clients you claim to have can you break down in to groups? How many of those 1 million clients are investors in Bankera? How many are investors in SpectroCoin? How many are SpectroCoin card holders? How do you assess your active user base? If someone signed up 12 months ago but never used the service is that user still counted as a client even though they are effectively not?

I have grave concerns looking at Bankera website (https://bankera.com/#/faq/other):

"Why is there no information on your website about the ICO, team members, and advisors?" - Once the ICO stage was over, we shifted our focus to product and service development. These steps are also reflected in the new website design. Part of the members were on the advisory board just for the pre-ICO/ICO period — as they have completed their job, they moved on to other projects. Others are still working with us — they are contacted when their expertise is needed. Also, Bankera's team and advisory board have expanded rapidly — a lot of new people with a background in legal, compliance, finance, and other fields have joined Bankera. Some advisors who work in the law and financial industries, for example, cannot be publicly associated with private projects, so the advisory board is kept private, at least for now. You will find information on our official channels if we are able to announce new advisors.

All I see is an excuse to not name names and in my opinion that is because of what there is to hide. Why hide it? Why use excuses to not make that information public? who in their right mind would invest in a business that does not make known who the CEO, CFO, CTO, Advisors, Marketing Team, Developers and other board members are?

When looking at the Terms and Conditions (https://bankera.com/docs/Bankeras-Terms-and-Conditions.pdf), again I see things of concern. "Finalify Ltd" is mentioned twice regarding ownership of "Bankera" yet "SpectroCoin" is mentioned 31 times and even though the contract is between the end user (investor) and Bankera (Finalify Ltd), there is a clause of agreeing to terms and conditions of SpectroCoin which make absolutely no sense because Finalify Ltd which unsurprisingly is based in the Virgin Islands along with the BNK token and Bankera brand name are entering in to the contract with the end user.

[SpectroCoin_support]

Hello,

In reference to active users, we evaluate the number by real-time active users. The number provided earlier is the number of total users, yes, there are inactive users among the million. We do not have the information of the number of active users, but within the whole ecosystem, Bankera's WR blog posts specify the total revenue of the company each week and it can show how active users are interacting with our ecosystem. The numbers of revenues vary each week and during the bull market, the numbers were higher as expected. Nevertheless, the platforms are active and users use them frequently as we work on more solutions to our services and will provide more.

In reference to employees and advisors, the FAQ page showcases the point why the names are not on our website. Though, you can find the names of people who contributed to Bankera on https://bankera.lt/. Also, LinkedIn pages show the employees who have listed Bankera or SpectroCoin or else in their profiles. Advisors names are not visible due to the reasons explained in the FAQ answer.

Why SpectroCoin is referenced in the T&C's. We will check with the team about why that is the case and get back to you.

[JollyGood]

Hello,

In reference to active users, we evaluate the number by real-time active users. The number provided earlier is the number of total users, yes, there are inactive users among the million. We do not have the information of the number of active users, but within the whole ecosystem, Bankera's WR blog posts specify the total revenue of the company each week and it can show how active users are interacting with our ecosystem. The numbers of revenues vary each week and during the bull market, the numbers were higher as expected. Nevertheless, the platforms are active and users use them frequently as we work on more solutions to our services and will provide more.

In reference to employees and advisors, the FAQ page showcases the point why the names are not on our website. Though, you can find the names of people who contributed to Bankera on https://bankera.lt/. Also, LinkedIn pages show the employees who have listed Bankera or SpectroCoin or else in their profiles. Advisors names are not visible due to the reasons explained in the FAQ answer.

Why SpectroCoin is referenced in the T&C's. We will check with the team about why that is the case and get back to you.

Thank you, looking forward to your detailed post.

[JollyGood]

@ SpectroCoin_support

The other thing I picked up was the need for the sock-puppet accounts that had the one agenda and a sole purpose to pump the Bankera thread in order to imply the state of the ICO and the Bankera project was either in-demand or going well.

This thread, especially the OP provides excellent irrefutable evidence that a scam was being operated: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5174337.0

Could you kindly explain why it was considered necessary to implement a plan for spreading propaganda and attempting to create fake buzz by using either newbie or purchased sock-puppet accounts just so the Bankera thread remained pumped?

Thank you

[SpectroCoin_support]

Bankera's ICO was held in SpectroCoin - meaning that BNK tokens were distributed through our platform. Additionally, the net transactional revenue is still distributed to those who keep their BNK there, so there was the need to include the agreement to SpectroCoin's T&C as well.

One of Bankera's communication channel with their community is their chat; many users there decided to join bitcointalk and participate in discussions, seeing that many others are not on Bankera's chat - you may join the chat yourself and check the situation with the others. For more details on both topics, you may reach Bankera's team directly through their thread.

[mosprognoz]

For more details on both topics, you may reach Bankera's team directly through their thread.

Sure dude... and he will be immediately attacked by bunch of sock puppet accounts.

[JollyGood]

Bankera's ICO was held in SpectroCoin - meaning that BNK tokens were distributed through our platform. Additionally, the net transactional revenue is still distributed to those who keep their BNK there, so there was the need to include the agreement to SpectroCoin's T&C as well.

One of Bankera's communication channel with their community is their chat; many users there decided to join bitcointalk and participate in discussions, seeing that many others are not on Bankera's chat - you may join the chat yourself and check the situation with the others. For more details on both topics, you may reach Bankera's team directly through their thread.

The mention of "SpectroCoin" in the T&C pdf of Bankera is a complete failure as it does not explain in details who (and what) SpectroCoin are and it does not explain what their end aim and connection to the ICO or Banekra was/is. Bankera itself seems to be a failure as it does not seem to achieved much. The exchange looks like a dull website nobody wants to use.

Major concerns include:

The lack of information on the about us: https://exchange.bankera.com/about

Less than 2000 Twitter followers: https://twitter.com/BankeraExchange

BNK Systems Ltd is shown as the owner of Bankera: https://exchange.bankera.com/terms-of-service
BNK Systems Ltd is not mentioned once in the terms and conditions of the main website: https://bankera.com/docs/Bankeras-Terms-and-Conditions.pdf

What is abundantly clear is that Spectrocoin is the defacto owner of Bankera. Spectrocoin tries to portray itself as a separate entity from Bankera (which in legal terms it is) but morally it is the same team with the same people with the same agenda trying to achieve the same thing. That is something has been attempted continuously.

So if I have this correct, the ICO in March 2018 raised a staggering $151 million: https://icodrops.com/bankera/

Today it has a market value of less than $40 million: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bankera/

There is no real exchange, there is no payment card facility and there is a market value loss of over $110 million in less than 18 months of the ICO ending so it is not exactly a great success is it?

The ICO token price was 0.017 EUR each but currently stands at 0.0014 EUR each.

More of a monumental failure than a success I would say.

Considering that UAB Spectro Finance (Lithuania based company) which operates Spectrocoin effectively launched an ICO for a new venture called Bankera which is a watered down version of Spectrocoin - it raises ethical questions about why an ICO was needed for Bankera when all the tools, facilities and more already existed in Spectrocoin.






I will look around for more information and maybe will update here if I have anything else to say but now I would appreciate a response to the post you completely ingnored:


@ SpectroCoin_support

The other thing I picked up was the need for the sock-puppet accounts that had the one agenda and a sole purpose to pump the Bankera thread in order to imply the state of the ICO and the Bankera project was either in-demand or going well.

This thread, especially the OP provides excellent irrefutable evidence that a scam was being operated: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5174337.0

Could you kindly explain why it was considered necessary to implement a plan for spreading propaganda and attempting to create fake buzz by using either newbie or purchased sock-puppet accounts just so the Bankera thread remained pumped?

Thank you

[SpectroCoin_support]

Hello,

As mentioned earlier, the ecosystem's structure is explained in here: https://blog.bankera.com/2019/05/21/developing-bankeras-ecosystem-our-vision/.

Secondly, you can very simply join Bankera Community Chat and find all those persons anyone claims they are sent by us and contact them and find out what they are all about. We have no hand in it. They are simply there to refute and provide counterarguments. If you wish to read what they wrote and what they are trying to do in Bankera thread, you may very simply go ahead and find all the messages by yourself. Or again, if you wish to, you may join the chat and have a conversation with them or PM them on this forum. We have not sent them to pump the thread. They simply joined to provide counter-arguments by their own will. Bankera thread seems quite since 14th of August. If we wanted them to pump it, they would keep communicating in there and not keep quiet. Before anyone starts judging and believing anything, read the messages and read what they were writing and against what claims.

We appreciate your attempts to finding more about the project in order to make an informed decision, but all the information that needs to be public is public. And most importantly, we don't need to have anyone pumping any threads and that idea is simply beyond comprehension as for years the thread was all negative. The community members joined to share information so that people see the positive and not just the negative and they have stated that in their messages - they have stakes in the project and that is their contribution and they want to provide the positive side of the story (we simply see that from their messages, feel free to have a look at them).

[JollyGood]

Hello,

As mentioned earlier, the ecosystem's structure is explained in here: https://blog.bankera.com/2019/05/21/developing-bankeras-ecosystem-our-vision/.

Secondly, you can very simply join Bankera Community Chat and find all those persons anyone claims they are sent by us and contact them and find out what they are all about. We have no hand in it. They are simply there to refute and provide counterarguments. If you wish to read what they wrote and what they are trying to do in Bankera thread, you may very simply go ahead and find all the messages by yourself. Or again, if you wish to, you may join the chat and have a conversation with them or PM them on this forum. We have not sent them to pump the thread. They simply joined to provide counter-arguments by their own will. Bankera thread seems quite since 14th of August. If we wanted them to pump it, they would keep communicating in there and not keep quiet. Before anyone starts judging and believing anything, read the messages and read what they were writing and against what claims.

We appreciate your attempts to finding more about the project in order to make an informed decision, but all the information that needs to be public is public. And most importantly, we don't need to have anyone pumping any threads and that idea is simply beyond comprehension as for years the thread was all negative. The community members joined to share information so that people see the positive and not just the negative and they have stated that in their messages - they have stakes in the project and that is their contribution and they want to provide the positive side of the story (we simply see that from their messages, feel free to have a look at them).

Thank you for the reply.

I will look in to Bankera further and post there if or when the need arises.

I do have a question which I hope you will answer. How many people from the Spectrocoin board or team are on the Bankera board or team?

[SpectroCoin_support]

The ecosystem has around 120 employees; a few teams (such as translators and design) work for both projects, but others are given different projects to work on, working exclusively for one or the other company.

[JollyGood]

The ecosystem has around 120 employees; a few teams (such as translators and design) work for both projects, but others are given different projects to work on, working exclusively for one or the other company.

So anything up to 120 people including those employed by Spectrocoin happen to work on Bankera without taking a salary from Bankera because Spectrocoin effectively owns Bankera. It means Spectrocoin is pulling all the strings.

And the owners of Spectrocoin are on the board of Bankera too. Interesting.

Thank you for the information you gave. It shows Spectrocoin effectively owns Bankera and though Bankera is a separate legal entity it is effectively created by Spectrocoin to monetise its platform without giving away any of its business. And in doing so it has failed because in the near 18 months since the ICO ended raising over a staggering $150 MILLION there is nothing of substance to see.

All this seems extremely shady to me and does not give any confidence in both projects or the single team behind both of them

[SpectroCoin_support]

The ecosystem has around 120 employees; a few teams (such as translators and design) work for both projects, but others are given different projects to work on, working exclusively for one or the other company.

So anything up to 120 people including those employed by Spectrocoin happen to work on Bankera without taking a salary from Bankera because Spectrocoin effectively owns Bankera. It means Spectrocoin is pulling all the strings.

And the owners of Spectrocoin are on the board of Bankera too. Interesting.

Thank you for the information you gave. It shows Spectrocoin effectively owns Bankera and though Bankera is a separate legal entity it is effectively created by Spectrocoin to monetise its platform without giving away any of its business. And in doing so it has failed because in the near 18 months since the ICO ended raising over a staggering $150 MILLION there is nothing of substance to see.

All this seems extremely shady to me and does not give any confidence in both projects or the single team behind both of them

"The history of Bankera started 6 years ago when three young professionals
with experience in finance and software development founded Spectro
Finance – a FinTech company with the aim to offer cryptocurrency payments
at the dawn of the crypto era.
Even then, the founders were dreaming big and named the company to
represent a spectrum of financial services they were planning to offer. The
product itself was named SpectroCoin, in reference to the broad spectrum of
cryptocurrencies the service sought to support. Ever since it has been
providing crypto brokerage, wallet, debit card, and eventually payment
processing solutions.
In 2017, the company was steadily expanding its services and gaining new
clients. However, having gathered invaluable experience in the FinTech and
crypto markets, the team of then already 40 members decided it is time to
take the next step.
While happy with the product we had, we wanted to take our service beyond
crypto payments and develop a full financial infrastructure for the blockchain
era that would encompass everyday banking and the crypto economy to
offer a financial solution fit for the needs of today’s tech-driven market. We
named the project Bankera.
While we knew we had the know-how necessary to build the blockchain era
bank, we required more capital for the project of this scale. Thus, on the 28th
of August, 2017, Bankera launched an ICO to gather the funds needed to
take our project to the next level." (https://blog.bankera.com/2019/05/21/developing-bankeras-ecosystem-our-vision/).

You seem to have not read this link we provided earlier. It is a public acknowledgment of what you claim. It is not like a hidden fact that people needed to dig for. Also why the need for ICO.

"However, current regulatory and legal frameworks have not been too friendly
in terms of the use of cryptocurrencies in the financial sector. It became
increasingly harder to build a unified entity that would encompass core
banking and cryptocurrency services at the same time.
Instead, we have decided to develop our solutions as separate units: the
whole ecosystem of Bankera could be now seen as a puzzle, with every
product of ours acting as a piece of the full picture that we are aiming to
complete.
From the start, we already had one significant puzzle piece – our first
product SpectroCoin. Nevertheless, we had no plans to slow down and
began working on new products, as well as improving the old ones." (https://blog.bankera.com/2019/05/21/developing-bankeras-ecosystem-our-vision/).

This explains why each of our products is a legal entity by itself.

[JollyGood]

"The history of Bankera started 6 years ago when three young professionals
with experience in finance and software development founded Spectro
Finance – a FinTech company with the aim to offer cryptocurrency payments
at the dawn of the crypto era.
Even then, the founders were dreaming big and named the company to
represent a spectrum of financial services they were planning to offer. The
product itself was named SpectroCoin, in reference to the broad spectrum of
cryptocurrencies the service sought to support. Ever since it has been
providing crypto brokerage, wallet, debit card, and eventually payment
processing solutions.
In 2017, the company was steadily expanding its services and gaining new
clients. However, having gathered invaluable experience in the FinTech and
crypto markets, the team of then already 40 members decided it is time to
take the next step.
While happy with the product we had, we wanted to take our service beyond
crypto payments and develop a full financial infrastructure for the blockchain
era that would encompass everyday banking and the crypto economy to
offer a financial solution fit for the needs of today’s tech-driven market. We
named the project Bankera.
While we knew we had the know-how necessary to build the blockchain era
bank, we required more capital for the project of this scale. Thus, on the 28th
of August, 2017, Bankera launched an ICO to gather the funds needed to
take our project to the next level." (https://blog.bankera.com/2019/05/21/developing-bankeras-ecosystem-our-vision/).

You seem to have not read this link we provided earlier. It is a public acknowledgment of what you claim. It is not like a hidden fact that people needed to dig for. Also why the need for ICO.

"However, current regulatory and legal frameworks have not been too friendly
in terms of the use of cryptocurrencies in the financial sector. It became
increasingly harder to build a unified entity that would encompass core
banking and cryptocurrency services at the same time.
Instead, we have decided to develop our solutions as separate units: the
whole ecosystem of Bankera could be now seen as a puzzle, with every
product of ours acting as a piece of the full picture that we are aiming to
complete.
From the start, we already had one significant puzzle piece – our first
product SpectroCoin. Nevertheless, we had no plans to slow down and
began working on new products, as well as improving the old ones." (https://blog.bankera.com/2019/05/21/developing-bankeras-ecosystem-our-vision/).

This explains why each of our products is a legal entity by itself.

Thank you for the post.

I did read it and it also explains by reading between the lines. I see nothing of substance to enforce a view that the copy and paste text above tries to create because most if not all the reasons provided as to why Spectrocoin and Bankera are legally separate entities - seem to be excuses.

One thing is for sure, it seems the ICO and its scale was designed to ensure the Spectrocoin/Bankera team had liquid capital. How exactly that money was spent, how much of it remains and how much is needed to be spent on making a success of the "project" remains to be seen.

So far the only winners seem to be the ones who held the 30% of Bankera tokens before the ICO (thus made million of USD$ for free) and quite possibly those that are/were controlling the funds post-ICO unless audits are carried out.

[SpectroCoin_support]

If they are one or separate legal entities, the fact remains it is publicly disclosed and the legal reasons behind are not mentioned - it is hard as mentioned - time is better spent on more important things if it will cost a lot of time. The team founded Spectro Finance and the companies within it are SpectroCoin, Bankera - that's the point of the quotes, who in the team works in which product or if someone carries responsibilities in both, that does not make a difference.
The ICO was created for more capital as capital is needed for banking services/products such as Bankera Loans.