I have not invested in bitconnect for I know it is a Ponzi, I did how ever create an account to see how long it could go.
I think that time has come and it begins.
Email I Just received 6 minutes ago.
I hope no one really "invested" what they could not lose..... I do not know the full details of account deletions for having negative balances but it seems to me they want people to continue depositing their money to continue the ponzi.
I think too it is a ponzi, stay away from it!
Here are some potential things you may see before they "go dark" and run away with your money:
All the while, they are simply prepping to "clean house" and get rid of any evidence that traces back to them. During their website downtime, they will clean up all files related to their operations. They may come back for a bit longer to give you updates on their progress and to tell you everything is great, soon to be running at full steam ahead, but they are just buying more time to back up their bags.
A classic example is Gladiacoin, LOL!!!!! If you were to check out their website today, you'd find NOTHING! Website is GONE!!!!
I don't get it. This is such an obvious scam. Just because people are making money, doesn't mean it's not a scam. Even ponzi participants made money . . off of others.
Many people have heavily invested in bitconnect and the ROI is good too but there is 2 major points which just to get a BS alarm on my head.
Firstly even though Bitconnect token is worth over 100 USD it's not listed in any major exchanges.
Secondly the referral system is quite similar to a pyramid scheme.
There are many people who have invested and got their money back good for them but for one person getting there investment back three person doesn't get it.
Haha I posted about this scam issue 2 days ago and you are right because the concept is very weird. (see my post for analysis) , upped. Another issue is when time will reach for thousands of people who invested to take back their seed money...
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If you really could consistently get this insane amount of interest on your money, everyone in the entire world would use it and know about it. It is undoubtedly a scam that will eventually fall apart. If they somehow knew of a way to get 0.8% / 1% interest each day they would not share it with people but keep it to themselves and be the richest people in the world in a very short time.
The sad part is that when it inevitably collapses, it will damage and tarnish the entire cryptocurrency market as people will be more hesitant to invest in new technologies fearing they might be scams as well.
It's a classic Ponzi scheme, and I hope you are smart enough to understand why an opportunity like this will always be a scam.
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That is good actually because people are becoming very irrational in cryptoland. Good project are getting less valuation than scams. We need a dose of reason, and if the collapse of bitconnect is what it is going to take, then so be it.
Why does coinmarketcap still list it? why do lots of exchanges sell and buy bitconnect tokens? Go on Novaexchange bitconnect tokens are on novaexchange.... at this point it could keep funding itself with bitcoin profitts alone lol
its grown into much more than a normal ponzi, this is more like a federal reserve type scheme, its a ponzi scheme with its own proof of stake crypto currency lol its like a cancer!
and theyre gona have this "control finance" thing where all their loans will be put on some Blockchain thats all decentralized so yeah I guess its gonna keep going, i dunno why coinmarketcap lists it
cant they just have bitconect tokens backed by bitcoin basically?
Like people who invest in bitconnect could have made more money just holding bitcoins right?
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitconnect/
Its very interesting for me, seems like they have a decentralized cryptocurrency, low volume, its always high on the oinmarketcap ranks one of the top 12 crypto currencies actually almost 1 billion marketcap,
LOL look at this hilarious video they show, "what is bitconnect" on their news site, its got people running around in piles of money, money trees, etc
but u know u can just buy bitconnect token on exchanges and stake them in a decentralized QT wallet?
so this is a big problem!
This is a very complex scam
I agree that coin market cap has helped spreading the scam by listing it as a top coin. They have even posted ads for bitconnect for a long time !!!
I also agree that it is a well-played scam with a huge magnitude.
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people make more money holding bitcoin anyway
What effect do you think it will have on the rest of the market if it collapses? A loss of faith in other coins or will the market just brush it off as something that has been coming for a while?
poswallet was hacked and shut down and so proof of stake will keep looking bad, since bitconnect is proof of stake, and etherum is supposed to convert from proof of work to proof of stake, man, u gotta start learning how to stake coins...i guess steam it's like staking, dang i wanna be staking coins though....
Maybe they actually had some technical issues, you can't judge them that quick now do you? I hope they will actually fix it and you'll get your money back pal, best of luck!
can we give them the benefit of the doubt. Let us not judge quickly
Let's give them the benefit of doubt before judging - However it seems really suspicious, you are definetly right with that :)
PS: Is your 5SBD offer still alive?
Whale done!
whale thats a pretty good whale pun there
Wow! Thank you @zeartul for sharing this. It's amazing because I looked into Bitconnect after I joined steemit, but it seemed a little fishy to me. Like you said, let's hope whoever invested in it has only invested what they can afford to lose; what wouldn't cause any pain to their bank account. The email seems very suspicious to me, especially where they said, 'We are not making an accusation that all the accounts that have been suspended have benefited from the website glitch.' If that's not unprofessional and suspicious, I don't know what is!
creepy pic
lol yep
thanks for sharing
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Sad for those who invested on it.
I almost invested there a month ago, good thing i followed my gut feeling. :)
Thank goodness i didn't invest there sorry to those who are victim of it
thanks for sharing
Thank you @zeartul for helping to expose this Ponzi (btw I voted for you as a witness)!
it was always going to happen and people who promoted it should be charged with fraud
That little voice in the back of my head saying "too good to be true", I'm glad I listened to it. The whole bitconnect thing didn't make sense to me either. Their excuse here why people cannot withdraw doesn't make sense either. There were some pretty convincing videos on why it was great too
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the begin of the end. Just like thunderbit and other scams...
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