Recovery program beginning in January for PB Mining customers.

[ponder]

    this is unacceptable, with no replies, i have 1675 gh, payout is usually from 40 to 50 dollars for me, today 2 dollars, these people are insane, they can't even run a simple electric bond company anymore, stupid AFRIkaanas, obvious someone wanted to go more skydiving and probably bought 2 new homes for christmas

[ponder]

what exactly are pb saying happened to the money? i mean i checked blockchain too and money has been moving through the addresses, a little bit over 200,000 dollars today moved, 200 thousand dollars, and they couldn't give me my 40 dollars? now i'm starting to get angry, i expected for a little fee for maintenance, but not this , has anyone really emailed them and got a refund? and if the refund was issued, it would not be a problem for someone to see proof of blockchain, i'm pretty sure those operating the main bitcoin server sees the private and public keys anyway

[botolo86]

Unfortunately PBMining is the perfect example of why Bitcoin will never become mainstream. The anonymity of transfers and addresses' ownership has become  a tool in the hands of scammers, instead of a system to protect privacy.

As long as bitcoin payments and addresses are anonymous, scams will happen and normal people will keep the distance from Bitcoin.

[finbad]

huh?

exchanging in $100 USD bills  is by far the most untraceable of all currencies.

in fact the de facto currency for drugs, weapons, et etc is the $100 US bill.

by god you are stupit.

[ponder]

could they be trying to upgrade equipment?

[camsarria]

Got payed... Weird

[UKBC]

Got paid today 85p :-( normally I get around £16.50 a week........ Hope he does the right thing.......

[beatljuice]

I was paid today. About 4.5% of what I should have gotten.

I realize a lot of people are mad about loosing money, as they should be. But the way people act on here does not give me much hope for the future of humanity. I like to think that Bitcoiners are better than the average person, but a lot of you are just fucking dicks!

[UKBC]

I will second that 

[SimplisticStu]

I third that for sure

[botolo86]

huh?

exchanging in $100 USD bills  is by far the most untraceable of all currencies.

in fact the de facto currency for drugs, weapons, et etc is the $100 US bill.

by god you are stupit.

Ehm, I am talking about normal people, not drug dealers. If I buy something with my credit card and the seller does not deliver, I can dispute the charge, have my money back and the credit card company has all the data about the seller and they can go against him. With Bitcoins, I pay someone and if he does not deliver, I can't dispute the transaction, I am not going to get my money back and I don't even know who the seller is because the protocol is anonymous.

Edit: what I am trying to say here is that unfortunately the bitcoin protocol makes it super easy to scam people. The more scams happen, the more people are damaged, the more other people will stay away from our beloved protocol.

[MichaelNZ]

I realize a lot of people are mad about loosing money, as they should be. But the way people act on here does not give me much hope for the future of humanity. I like to think that Bitcoiners are better than the average person, but a lot of you are just fucking dicks!

Absolutely no argument from me on this at all ... There has been some of the worst behavior I have ever seen in any forum on here over recent times.

[UKBC]

I love my beloved Bitcoin, I pay using Xapo everyday by there card and I do all my banking with them. I want bitcoin to blossom to what is should be, I understand as well as you lot do about MTGOX and Silk road but all of these scams I personally feel are giving Bitcoin another negative slant for people to advertise about and is not doing the Bitcoin industry any good at all.

[zrsmith]

The company is registered in Canada and he is in Europe,the CIA could not get him so dont blow money on lawyers.For those living in the US the IRS treat it as property so you claim a loss on your taxes.

Thanks for that insight ... Can always use some loss to offset earnings.

+1

[ponder]

has anyone here really had a conversation with pbmining about this? and what is the recovery program?

[dcarnelutti]

I dont have any money in PBMining, but i dont get why he can't keep working and mining. It seems like a collapsed Ponzi.

Anyway i hope everyone gets some money back

[5ick3uffalo]

PBMining always paid, every week.

As it stands now, this I far from a scam.

Payout today was very low though

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[UKBC]

I am prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. just he could be a little more honest about things. I like to be treated how I treat others and if I was in his position I would just tell the full truth so we all know where we are.. its not nice not knowing, or feel why is he paying us dust but what happened to the insurance and that he has always the cash to pay everyone no matter what happens.

[MichaelNZ]

has anyone here really had a conversation with pbmining about this? and what is the recovery program?

One user in here, airwolf, has claimed to be PB's biggest customer and that he has spoken to Boyko to negotiate a full refund of his GH/s at 0.0014BTC ... airwolf has not yet provided any transaction ID so that his claim can be verified as true.

Other than that, people have been threatening to "visit" him for a "talk" ... I for one sincerely hope that is nothing more than forum hot air.

But as I've said before, we deserve to know the truth.

[ponder]

bull, i saw over 200 thousand dollars move around today with those pbmining adresses, common, they could have given me my 45 dollars, really, i guess we have to use cloud services that have phone numbers and real adresses with business id numbers