Hello everyone,
I am Coinsortium's Community Support Manager
Coinsortium is a stock exchange, not a crowdfunding platform like BTCJam or BitlendingClub. What you see listed on the site are securities of crypto companies around the world.
Most of the business there are owned by members of the
Bitcoin Investment Group, a VERY interesting place for crypto-entusiasts.
Now let's talk security:
All company owners are subjected to a strong verification via the
Ardeva service, which as of today is the strongest way to identify someone in the Bitcoin Community.
This is as far as scam-prevention can go, of course there is no guarantee that the person in question is a honest individual (like in "real world" stocks) and he/she may run with the Bitcoins, that is why we always recommend you undertake your own due dilligence too, however should the necessity arise, any listing owner who has been found to abscond will be taken through arbitration and handled acordingly, with the assistance of the verification documents they have submitted to Ardeva.
About Coinsortium itself as of today we have a userbase of 513 users with a trading volume of 220 BTC, it should count for something. As this was a community driven project which has gained traction quicker than expected, we are in the process of encorporating the business, and this should be completed within the next 4 weeks.
As has been mentioned, we have seen a monthly turnover surpass 220 BTC, which of course, we receive a commission from. It is no way in our interest to be anything but honest with our user base. The more users, the more volume, the more profitable the platform becomes.