Dude share your proof, I have tried to find any link between them and cannot. The only possible link is that like the brokerage that I am with that recommended DUEC to me, one or both of the two you mentioned may be a referrer. I see one of the things that the anti DUEC shills whine about is no team info. That is true of a large number of Cryptos so does that make them scams? I cannot find a team for Ether or BTC just to mention a couple.
If I didn't know better I would assume that you invested with one or both of the brokerages, lost money and then you started crying "scam" Easy to do when one loses money due to their own stupidity. My dad is a big time investor in a number of fields and he always tells me "Never invest money you cannot afford to lose as investment is ALWAYS a risk." Anyone who believe is a "sure thing" hit me up I have some prime farm land to sell you on 5th Ave in NYC. It's so easy to take pot shots from the cheap seats and as great as the net is, it allows people to hide behind anonymity and say what they choose to regardless of inconvenient things like facts.
Yes in fact DUEC did say they were applying to exchanges back in November, but I can tell you, and you can do the same, that I have made inquiries and I've found out that the exchanges are taking a much longer time to list these days, that's something only the exchanges control surely you guys are smart enough to understand that? I can only think that you are people that see only black and white and do not realize that there is a whole lot of grey in between. My criticism of DUEC is that they could have done a MUCH better job of keeping us informed, that is an error that they seem to have corrected. Personally I would like to know the names of all the exchanges that they've applied to but I do know that a lot of exchanges forbids any announcement until the listing is accepted. I also know from my research that some exchanges charge a big number to list, one of them being HITBtc, so I ask the brain trust, if DUEC has paid HITBtc to list is that something that a scam would do?
You all need to realize that DUOCOIN is being ran by a large worldwide scam organization running many many crypto scams including coin-banks.com and coincrest.com, both of which are currently under investigation by the FBI and the CFTC. Coin-banks is a 100% confirmed scam that hundreds have lost up to millions in, and they accidentally sent one of the victims an email with the coincrest footer on it and when you compare the sites they were almost identicle formating. So after confronted by this victim coin-banks fessed up that they do run coincrest.com as well. So after that confirmation we (the victims) started posting on rep-digger like sites and crypto forums for anyone who was victimized by coincrest.com to come forward. I was contacted by a man who is claiming they have stolen over 100k from him and were shilling this DUOCOIN to him. After 6 months of investigating it's all but confirmed that these people are former forex scammers from isreal running crypto scams all across eastern europe. I can assure you their days are numbered, LE is hot on their heels. If your thinking of investing in this scam think twice. If your already invested try and get out.
Not the person you are responding to, but I'll answer your questions as you bring up some things I said as well
Proof or connection was already posted in this thread:
1. Simple Google search pulls this up -
https://twitter.com/notsofast/status/9058363086223441922. Since a single tweet is not enough to establish proof of a connection, feel free to contact Coincrest. It wasn't enough for me, so I did. My friend that invested $50,000 into this garbage did. And the person that advised him to invest into it also did. They confirmed affiliation in all 3 cases.
I cannot find a team for Ether
Once again, a simple Google search will pull up the original developer and the face of the project - Vitalik Buterin and, subsequently, Ethereum Foundation, which has a public list of members that can be found just as easily -
https://www.ethereum.org/foundation. Very simple to find if you were actually looking... Not only there is no information about anyone behind Duecoin, their ICANN registration is done through a Panamanian proxy service. Why would anyone go through such lengths if not to hide themselves intentionally?
HITBtc, so I ask the brain trust, if DUEC has paid HITBtc to list is that something that a scam would do?
That's exactly what a scam would do:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/exchange-hitbtc-1-month-paid-listings-scam-or-just-very-unethical-2378223. They offer a pump and dump platform with an easy exit. Go look at HitBTC forum and how many people are on there saying their money is being held by HitBTC without explanation. Feel free to use Google to do research as well, since you seem to say things without doing any beforehand. This exchange is just as much a scam as this project is. I won't even bother with addressing the other exchange you brought up, as it's $600k in 24h volume doesn't even put it in the top 100 exchanges. Ironic how everything you've contributed is either an assumption or an allegation, yet you accuse everyone using facts here of bullshiting while that's all you've done yourself.
If I didn't know better I would assume that you invested with one or both of the brokerages
Again with the baseless assumptions... Learn to use facts in discussions. If your father has given you investment advice, I'm sure he also said not to trust ANYONE that promises guaranteed returns. That's what those 2 companies do - promise guaranteed returns. Nothing is guaranteed, especially crypto investments. Giving such guarantee is nothing more than a tool used to trap gullible people and is the first sign of a scam. I mean, you say it yourself:
Anyone who believe is a "sure thing"
And then proceed to contradict yourself by defending them...
It's so easy to take pot shots from the cheap seats and as great as the net is, it allows people to hide behind anonymity and say what they choose to regardless of inconvenient things like facts.
Are you really that oblivious to your own comments here? Because taking cheap pot shots and hiding behind anonymity to ignore any response you can't address is all you've done here. I haven't seen you contribute a single fact, yet you're accusing me of bullshit? It is indeed easy to call someone using facts to expose this scam a shill while using nothing more than empty assumptions, baseless allegations and pathetic insults which is all you've contributed so far. Much easier than countering it with facts. I have yet to see you inconvenience yourself with some of those... Just as I have yet to see a single example of alleged competition you say I'm apparently getting paid by or any proof that me and PeasantForHire are the same person as another worthless contributor here said. You spout BS then cowardly ignore being called out on it instead of addressing it. Anything I've said here has been backed with facts. Anything that's been directed at me has been nothing but meritless bullshit and assumptions. That's the difference between a critic using his own brains and a paid shill reading off a script.