Everybody in the cryptocurrency world is having a substantial dispute about BitConnect. Both sides are aiming to respond to, "Is BitConnect a Scam?"
BitConnect lacks a doubt the greatest questionable cryptocurrency out on the market due to its distinct methods of working and bring in brand-new clients. It has actually gone from less than a $50 million market cap back in May of 2017 to where it is now at $1.5 billion market cap. Shockingly it has actually gone up to a 6th position in the total market cap list within the last 5 months.
BitConnect specifies themselves as "an open source, peer-to-peer, community-owned decentralized cryptocurrency that permits individuals to keep and invest their wealth in a non-government regulated currency, as well as make a considerable interest on the financial investment."
The support to BitConnect is the BitConnect Financing program.
Users have the choice to exchange BTC for BCC and provide it for an amount of time. Throughout that time, the initial BTC provided cannot be withdrawn. Not even with a charge. And within that time, the BTC provided makes interest. Users have actually reported balancing near to 1% interest each day.
BitConnect enables users to withdraw their interest daily or reinvest it back into the program for more earnings. This permits the "Capital Back" to be sped up. You now comprehend why BitConnect is so unique from all the other cryptocurrencies and why individuals are presuming it is a Scam.
Let's have a look at a few of the scam opinions that individuals have about BitConnect and exactly what my ideas and conclusion are.
Is BitConnect a Rip-off?
Rip-off Claim # 1: There is no other way any monetary investment that can ensure a revenue of 1% each day. BitConnect should be a Ponzi scam.
My Ideas: To be reasonable BitConnect does not ensure this. In fact, they state that there will be lots of days where there is 0% interest. They do have a volatility software application chart that maps all the interest acquired daily throughout weeks, months and years.
Nevertheless, inning accordance with BitConnect's volatility software application chart, they do typical near to 1% of interest each day although there are days with 0% interest. This is hard to believe that they have the ability to attain this. The factor being is due to the fact that this is intensifying interest and the reason individuals make back their preliminary financial investment extremely rapidly.
For instance, if somebody provided $100 dollars, the interest made within a day would be $1 dollar presuming it is 1% daily. However then the 2nd day, the 1% interest would be $101 dollars. The interest would then be $1.01. By the 3rd day, the 1% interest would be of $103 dollars, etc.
BitConnect declares they have a trading bot that does numerous trades in between BTC and BCC and earns a profit that way. They have actually not shared any details about the bot nor the code to this trading bot openly.
My Conclusion: That users are not permitted to withdraw their staked BTC is an issue, however, BitConnect does permit users to withdraw their day-to-day interest. Due to the intensifying interest, users can normally withdraw BTC comparable to their preliminary financial investment within 6-10 months.
When it comes to how they preserve such a high level of interest % each day, I can see how a trading bot can accomplish that with cryptocurrency. Unlike stocks, Bitcoin and BitConnect coin can move 5-10% in worth within a matter of minutes and totally be down as much as 40% within a week and rise almost as quick.
Rip-off Claim # 2: Given that the source code for the trading bot has actually not been exposed or shown openly, the trading bot should be totally fake.
My ideas: I do not like this argument since if I had the exact same sort of program, why would I share it? Perhaps it deserves billions.
My Conclusion: Even If BitConnect does not reveal the source code nor show it indicates that they do not have it.
Fraud Claim # 3: How come you can just purchase and trade BitConnect Coin (BCC) on BitConnect's own exchange? They need to be controlling their coin worth.
My ideas: If BCC just existed on BitConnects own exchange, I can see how they can control the cost. However, they aren't the only exchanges that trade BCC. Livecoin and Novaexchange both trade BCC. The mass bulk of trades are done on BitConnect's own exchange, however, I can see why.
My Conclusion: BitConnect Coin (BCC)'s worth is increasing just since increasingly more individuals are taking part in the financing program and hence making the 7.2 million BCC in circulation uncommon. Because BCC actually has no use besides to be utilized for loaning, it makes good sense that bulk of the coins and trading are on being done within BitConnect's own exchange.
Rip-off Claim # 4: BitConnect's affiliate program is a pyramid plan. This is how they draw in numerous new members
My ideas: The meaning of a pyramid plan is a program where the made benefit from referring new members to the program is higher than the earnings acquired by offering an item or from a service. From my investigating, nearly every member that display their brand-new discovered wealth or everyday incomes is from the loaning program and not from the recommendation program.
My Conclusion: The Avons and Herbalife's of the world have actually made pyramid plans legal. They are now called MLMs. BitConnect's affiliate program is no different. And the primary reason it's not a pyramid plan is since members make a lot more cash with loaning (which in this case is the primary service) than with referring new members.
Fraud Claim # 5: BitConnect's creators are concealed. This is so they can flee from the authorities when the entire thing collapses.
My Ideas: To this day, nobody still understands who "Satoshi Nakamoto" is. Even if you do not know the creator, does not suggest its a rip-off. Nevertheless, because Bitcoin's release, every cryptocurrency with any type of authenticity has actually revealed who the creators are.
My Conclusion: I can see how a surprise group can be viewed as dubious however it does not show that they are doing it simply to conceal from the authorities.
My final thoughts-- Is BitConnect a Rip-off?
At this moment, I can not conclude that BitConnect is a fraud. A lot of rip-off claims merely does not hold up and none shows BitConnect is a rip-off.
I do believe BitConnect does look a little dubious however not exposing more about their loaning program. They do not do a great task describing particularly exactly what their trading bot does, exactly what it searches for, how it's so effective etc. Nevertheless, I think it is possible that a trading bot that can make the sort of interest the loaning program is offering just due to how unpredictable the Bitcoin market is.
I get how the creators wish to avoid of the spotlight and not handle federal government harassments however it would go a long way to reveal that this company with $1.5 billion in market cap is genuine.
I myself in the past have lost money on stocks, horses and few other things. I decided to invest just a $100 into Bitconnect and so far so good I am earning interest daily.
If it does work out, then very happy days. If it doesn't work out then as far as I'm concerned a $100 is not a big loss. To me its worth the risk.
Go and have a look for yourself and decide if you are happy to take the risk or not?
I agree, and I am doing the same exact thing.
If you'd like to see a true case study of what the numbers look like after 90 days with just a $100 initial investment, please feel free to read the article I posted yesterday:
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@tolkatore/bitconnect-1-year-experiment-or-day-090-results-or-usd100-initial-investment
Thanks for your comment! Will read your post later :)
Great article, I could not have written anything better than you on bitconnect. I basically came to the same conclusion based on my experience in financial stocks. Your comparison of Herbalife was exactly my thought too. Why can ponzi schemes not work if they are established and well financed. All your points and conclusions are valid. I too made a initial small investment into bitconnect about a week ago and am very satisfy with the results.
I am currently watching the quantity of BCC coins because they changed after I started my investment. This dramatically affected their market cap. I believe it has to do with the inner workings of BCC people but can not understand why the coins dropped as there is mining operations running. What to get your opinion on that. Thanks.
Thanks for your comment! Here are my thoughts on your question. Because coinmarketcap has decided that non-circulating coins should not be calculated into the marketcap value. Therefore ~5 Million BCC coins were taken out of circulation as they are locked up into active loans. There are still 8.3M total supply, but only 2.1M are circulating. This is the best conclusion I can give you. Hope it helps you?
Great article. I understand the concerns and risk of Bitconnect, but I can't understand why the haters are so passionate about it. If a person only invests what they can afford to lose, it is no different than someone investing in a business startup that they believe will succeed. Why are we considered idiots just because we are taking a calculated risk in a platform that could very well succeed?
Thank you for your great comment @gentryt! I am 100% in agreement with you... Wish their wier more people thinking the same way as you do. If you have joined Bitconnect and does succeed then we will all be laughing at the end of the day. All the best to you:)