ok, so first of all i knew this day would come, this was never going to be forever, be sustainable or ever be a professional company with ethics. it was always a quick win, quick in and out and get what you can, i’m glad i never went big on this as my first investment in crypto mining. i’m glad i looked at other more professional companies who have invested the resources into proper hardware, cooled warehouses, low cost hydro or thermal energy costs, companies that are doing it the RIGHT way.

There is something wrong with your account or your request. Error code: 0xCC07C9

on my payout this morning i got this message, i usually get a green message to say successfully transferred and i get the funds instantly, not today and i can say that this is potentially the beginning of the end for the daily funds i was receiving. now, because the site magically vanishes i’ve already done my home work on this company. i recorded a little video chat with @dayleeo ahead of time showing what i had found and that i knew i was dealing with a dodgy company.

https://bikubik.com/en/number-13371337-0xCC07C9.html - interesting to me that the error code feels very much to me like some script kiddy dude having far too much fun with his haxer writing. lol, especially when the companies group name listed on companies house is EXITUS, so are they exiting the country, taking the bitcoin and running? heading to the US maybe? -- Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative alphabet for many languages that is used primarily on the Internet. It uses some characters to replace others in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance. For example, leet spellings of the word leet include 1337 and l33t; eleet may be spelled 31337 or 3l33t.

i had tracked their previous mining company nano hash and had done my due diligence on them. they were as shady as they come. potentially fake names, addresses and with glaring inconsistencies between age of the director, the about page and even the group name of EXITUS, it was almost like they were mocking the system, no accounts filed, no social media records, they were scammers, maybe even connected to laundering money, who knows.

i took a measured gamble on this mining contract, i was pretty sure we would get our initial investment back, we did and i had put a little of steemit and did some upgrades from the mined bitcoin in $6 chunks of 50KH/s chunks, i didn’t go crazy, just enough to drip fee a little amount into the account on a daily basis, nice little bitcoin topup account for bills and such like, i knew it would not last, as soon as nano hash went down, vanished off the digital map i knew it was end game and this is how they operated.

different web hosts, one a gaming host, the other a digital ocean account it was fairly obvious to me that this was a paid for project, developed to serve one purpose, receive bitcoin, give a good return quickly and then they would be out with the money, a new kind of digital money laundering if you ask me, they had kept their support and social invisible, just one name, which is probably fake — nathan james, probably some kids faked details with a set of companies under a fake group in his name, i’m guessing that some very angry people are going to be flooding the company register over this complaining about them.

Error with payout. : Microhash the messages in reddit start to appear, this one really hit the mark for me. .. ‘Same error code 0xCC07C9, i am getting. Not even obtained back my ROI. Trady ran away. Bitlake not paying out. now this. I think they are terrorists who are collecting funds by taking away peoples money through such sites. Cryptocurrency has given them free hands to play with peoples money’

and also, someone went down to block exploring level with this comment which i found super interesting, maybe someone hacked the wallet in some way, if so, that’s super damn interesting to me. . . the scammer got hacked or ran off with the funds maybe?

‘not looking great indeed. Only intrigue to me here is the hot wallet still appears to be doing something like paying out withdrawals, with some success. Every w/d I got came from 35xvADT8gRePnCAcrcKEuo1AcNAmDggre4. Follow along to b.info.... https://blockchain.info/address/35xvADT8gRePnCAcrcKEuo1AcNAmDggre4 looking back the past few hours doesn't seem horribly amiss. It is, however, the diversions to https://blockchain.info/address/1GKwSJYgkRk5cMMY9i8saVwu1NoDP42D3s that are glaring middle finger. 115 BTC bled out from the 3X...gre4 address within an hour, a few hours ago (midnight UTC? not sure what time-zone b.info uses) - sliver of hope could be that the hot-wallet is just a bit drained. sliver of scam is that the cold-wallet remains cold and scammy.

i tried to contact support this morning via email, guess what, the email bounced, the story was complete, they had done the digital driveby, the new modern way of doing crypto robbery, and it’s gonna get bigger once they get a taste for the money in the digital pool you know damn well they are already building out another copy of this site elsewhere, setting up, shutting down and they are getting more convincing each time.

it’s fair to say that i had seen it coming, the payout was increasing faster and faster each day, at the payout amount they state in the top bar (which of course could be fake) they say they had paid out 384 bitcoins, that’s 1.5 million dollars ish on on the rough price of 4000 per bitcoin. now if that’s what they have paid out, how much do they take in from orders when they have over 105,892 supposed investers. it was an obvious pump and dump ponzi scheme to bring in some clean money, flip it and do one. in some ways, i’m annoyed that the web software is gonna vanish because it was well built and it worked great each day, the payout was instant to my wallet and i really liked how clean the ui was, they had really done a ‘number’ on their effort to look legit. let’s break that down a little. ..

so the front page of the site sayings the following things to build confidence in you to come onboard as paying user. …

• secure and protected BY (trying to build in security to build trust)
• the ssl certificate was a touch to build in trust (because SSL is safe! lol!)
• the virus scan, which is probably complete bullshit
• amazon web services, maybe for the backend process but certainly not the website, the website of nano hash was built on digital ocean, i’m guessing by the developer of nano hash and the backend and micro hash was hosted on a gaming company host in germany, i’m guessing this was two kids in their twenties that built this but who knows was the source of the funds for the build out of the software because that bit it pretty well written.
• 100% ddos protected, that’s complete shite. no site can say that, and they never even put this through something like cloudflare, all these things should be initial red flags, when something is too good to be true it probably is, remember that with anything you invest in.
• initial signup free mining was 15 KH/s, when it had been going twenty days it dropped down to 10, they were starting to make their plans of exit, i believed they took a guess at a calculation of how many users vs how much actual mining power, who knows who they used to do the mining, maybe the mining kit was sourced with illegal money?
• the ‘lifetime’ investment, instant red flag, your telling me i can max out at 86000 gh/s for £4500 and this thing is gonna mine for me for life and pay out $1000 a day forever? get a fucking grip people. what world are you living in.
• payout in 24 hours, again, building in trust that you can access what you earn, nano hash was 12 hours, i found that however was doing this was literally using the sites to A/B split test things, when nano hash dns and web server went down i know it would not be long until this did too.
• everything in that front end screen in yellow, look how it’s trying to build in trust and saying everything you want to hear. you KNOW why you want to invest, you want to make profit, quick and dirty, in and out. ..
• the profit calculator, oh man, that was a nice touch if i do say so myself, you see people love money, they love to see how MUCH they are gonna make, it was well written and the fact that it did what it said was the hook, the ability to buy and deposit with your micro hash balance, i mean, they knew that would hook people in, that was designed to attack you right where you are weak, the ability to invest in little amounts back in in the hope you would acquire more, baiting you each time. ..

another thing you should be aware of is that any business registered in the uk should display their company details in the footer of the website, they did not, this is an instant red light for me, if they don’t have that (even if they do) you should do your investigation into the company and the directors and see if they have any social media accounts — they had none, just some dodgy address which i’m presuming is fake, fake company, fake directors and actually BAITING people who do investigate this. i mean come on the group they established the two companies under was called EXITUS — instant red flag! :)

conclusion

you MUST do your due diligence, you must ask questions, ask the wisdom of the crowds, check company documents, have they filed accounts, do the numbers add up, do they have the actual location they say they have, are they are social media, do they post regularly, does support reply in a timely manner, does the website and ssl certificate match up, who partners with them, do a reddit search, google search, twitter search, companies house search if listed in the uk. do your homework before putting any money into anything that is crypto mining. i’ll leave you on this statement.

do not invest any money you cannot afford to lose in anything crypto based. it’s a new wild west and the people will the money are playing the field, when AI comes online. it’s game over.

lots of love,
the dmouse 2017 x

p.s — i find it super interesting that around half a million dollars was removed from that hot wallet that pays people around midnight, i think the scammer jumped into the wallet (or maybe a hacker got access somehow) and made off with the money, follow the breadcrumbs people because someone has half a million in dollars right now sipping an ice cool drink on a flight to a new life. .. DO YOUR RESEARCH.. . . PLEASE!

p.p.s - yes i took a educated gamble with around $50 initially and did load up on additional hashing power, i was in the hole around $150 with 1320 kh/s of power. i did however get all of my money back a little extra. i wrote this in the hope that other people will do research instead of investing life savings into a 'quick win' --- i just hope nobody went for the big package with money they needed in the last 24 hrs because they must be in a world of hurt right now. . . ;(

UPDATE
i found a new site https://www.thunderbit.io that's been up 3 days since i wrote this blog post, i believe it to be part of the same crew / group who are doing this. literally they are changing a bit each time, updating, different style, but if you look closely parts match, icons, wording.. .. DO NOT FALL INTO THE TRAP.

PLEASE SHARE, RESTEEM AND TELL OTHERS ABOUT THE DANGERS OF CLOUD MINING, ALWAYS DO YOUR RESEARCH, IF IT SOUNDS TO GOOD TO BE TRUE. IT ABSOLUTELY IS.

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