I'm a trader of 25 years. IMO Amfeix is just another Ponzi scheme. Yes, they payout atm. All Ponzi schemes will pay out until they can't.
The way Ponzi schemes work is that most people leave their funds in there wanting more incredible returns. This fact is what supports a Ponzi scheme.
The returns claimed are impossible for even pro traders to attain. Unreal returns are the first red flag.
The second is the lack of review comments. If this scheme has been running since January then where are all the satisfied comments? They only go back as far as May.
The lack of transparency is the next red flag. Legitimate investment funds must provide all information about who runs it, where they are located and how they do it.
All the Bitcoin so-called "investment" schemes have failed. Bitconnect even listed on exchanges to be traded and lasted for years. It worked until it collapsed.
The other ones, Bitpetite and the other recent one (can't remember its name) were scams. If the return is too good to be true it probably isn't real.
You might not think 0.1 BTC as a min investment is much but that's over $1,000 atm. If you get even one thousand people to pitch in that's a million dollars.
This scheme will collapse just like the others. Having said that, if you get in early on any Ponzi scheme you can make money if you withdraw your profits.
Letting everything ride forever guarantees that you will be taken in the end. If you can get your money back, withdraw it then you can let the rest ride.
This way you haven't lost your money. It's just that human greed takes over most people's minds. They WANT TO believe it's true and ignore all the red flags.
Conclusion: If you have a thousand bucks to lose then go for it. When/if you get your money back, withdraw your initial investment and then you've got nothing to lose.
Great points just a couple of notes:
1. If you knowingly go in a ponzi scheme and you get out before collapse, then upon collapse the liquidators can chase you for the whole money not just the progit and you get cents on the dollar like anyone else if anything at all. The only defense against this in the instance of Amfeix is that it is pseudo-anonymous so what you need to do is open 100 accounts and put in each small amount to make it not worth chasing you back on a per account basis. I'm not teaching you how to be a crook I'm exposing the trick to make it ineffective via imposing some form of logging maybe ip addresses, funding wallet, etc.
2. It is claimed somewhere on this forum that 80% of the profit go for you and 20% to the fund
2.1. What abt the 10% of the person whose link you used, and the 10% of the person whose link was used by the person who gave you the link etc.
2.2. If I'm the fund manager and I'm making profits, why would I share with you? why would i need your money in the first place?
Best form for this ponzi to collapse is: sell BTC to USD now and wait for it to crash to $3K again and then give everyone their
BTC0.1 back. It could happen tomorrow or it could happen in 10 years: when the fund breaks it will be locked till they can refund the BTC. This is the position Mt Gox wishes it is in and this is the position these people want to put themselves in.