Well, let me show you some proof of how bitconnect's ponzi works.
I decided to """invest""" 100$ (1BCC at the time) into their lending platform in order to see what the hell they are doing with it. Its clear to see on the blockchain.
I made some screenshots (and uploaded them externally, dont want to spam the forum with hugeass pictures)
Anyway heres Part1:
http://sk.uploads.im/ksjTE.pngThe picture contains 3 screenshots.
The 1st one is my bitconnect online wallet, where to I transferred 1BCC on Sep 24th 20:23 and I "lent" it right after that. (disregard the transactions on the adress after that event, that is just me selling/get rid of my remaining coins. inb4 "fuck you, you say its a scam but still you invested in it" - i decided to buy a lot of cheap coins back in march, bcc was just one of them, without really looking more into it.)
They didnt move it until the next day, Sep 25th 7:00 to bundle it up with a bunch of other coins (which other users lent during the same time period) in order to make a sum of 2000 BCC, which they then moved to a new adress. (2nd and 3rd screenshot)
If they really had a BITCOIN trading bot to profit from the BITCOIN volatility, they would need BITCOINS and not BITCONNECT COINS to profit from it, so I figured they would use the 2000BCC to buy back BTC in order to invest in any bot. But the blockchain shows that THEY WERE DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH IT. At least not for 8 days. (from Sep 25th to Oct 3rd, then they started moving it, and by moving it i mean paying out """interest""" of the next users that lend.)
Part2:
Well alright, I waited a day to see if I get any interest paid out and it in fact I did. I saw about 1,5$ in my """dollar wallet""". Once I hit the
http://sj.uploads.im/BanOS.png button, I had 0.014BCC in my bitconnect online wallet, available to be withdrawn. I figured, if they dont do shit with the BCC that I lent them, where the fuck do those new BCC come from? So I checked the blockchain.
http://sl.uploads.im/hzslU.pngI transferred the BCC to my local wallet on the 3rd screenshot, and decided to trace those coins (which took about half an hour of clicking)
And guess what,I traced them back to YET ANOTHER ADDRESS WHICH HAD 2000 BCC ON IT, once again created by combining BCC that users lent (on Sep 25th 00:02, 7 hours before I lent my BCC - screenshot 1&2)
In other words: my """interest""" came from the coins of other users, and thats the PONZI. GOT IT?
The strategy is this:
As soon as people lend their BCC, they are at least frozen for 120 days (depending on the sum) and unable to be sold by the user, which in turn reduces the available supply of BCC and pumps up the price. Combine that with the price increase of BTC, and the BCC coin's price got to where it is now.
Putting it short: this isnt FUD, these are the facts.
FACT1: Your interest is paid with the BCC of other lenders. (I figure they just have a random number generator, which calculates the daily interest rate. sometimes its higher, sometimes lower.)
FACT2: The bitconnect owners/developers own 5,5M of the 8M coins that exist. It was heavily premined and they can control the market with it. Their coins are worth about 1B USD at the current price. (I dare you to trace the richest adresses back to the 1st block that was ever mined)
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/bcc/#!rich Check the rich list and you will see that there are a lot of adresses with exactly 2000 BCC on it.
FACT3: They didnt give a fuck about their own roadmap since august. webstaking was never enabled.
https://bitconnectcoin.co/roadmapbottom line, if anyone tells you to invest in the awesome bitconnect trading bot/lending platform, tell them to invest in a shotgun instead and shoot their brains out cause theyre not using it anyway.