Investigation is ongoing but we already have enough solid information to start the next process. It's going to cost a minimal amount to get the ball rolling but all who have been involved will be notified by authorities soon.
Patience has been appreciated.
in Cambodia ? in China ? Good luck with that
(remains the altcoin canadian mafia
well better than nothing actually)
This. Bernie Madoff ran his scam for 20 years, to the tune of ~$65B - and it really only ended because
he confessed to it for the most part. That was in the US, in arguably the most regulated financial market in the world... and nothing happened for decades!
Thinking that anything will happen via authorities - especially in jurisdictions like Cambodia and China is laughable. Even more laughable if you think there will be any
recovery as a result of this. Though big by crypto standards perhaps, 1K-2K BTC is not enough to cover the legal fees for more than a few weeks if the parties involved live in different states... let alone on opposite sides of the planet!
The only 'justice' that can be served in these instances has to come from investors - simply don't do business with them again. Sucks maybe, but that's the nature of the game. If you still trade on BTER, still buy coins from known scammers, and still look for profits from a pump as much as from organic growth... then you have to also accept that the guilty parties continue to win and aren't likely to stop any time soon.
Of course, transparency was severely lacking (still is) and there are many of us that had no idea, in this case,
who the parties involved were up front (except David)... myself included. However, that's why I'll take my losses for what they were -
gambling losses. I gambled that David had vetted the parties he was getting in bed with and
since he was staking his reputation on it - that I could support an unknown and possibly profit significantly from investing in something that had enough warning signs to scare off much of the competition.
Didn't work out that way of course, but neither does poker or craps most of the time. It still can be a lot of fun to gamble however - but once the casino is
proven to be hiding cards or using weighted dice... you certainly don't keep going back to try to recover your losses
from that same casino.