Have you done a full check of our companies to see if we are legit or not ?
I know that wasn't addressed to me, but I'm in the process of unpicking your rather unorthodox company "structure."
Would be investors should know that there are essentially two types of "passive income opportunity" on offer with bot trading.
Type 1
API keys allow an investor to deposit funds directly on an exchange and then share trading access to their account with the third party bot manager. An
example here (not a recommendation, just an example).
Whether or not the bot is successful is one thing, but the fact that it cannot withdraw funds from your exchange account means the only non trading risk to your capital is an exchange "hack" or moonlight flit.
Type 2
Is to send investment funds directly to the bot owner, who then trades with your money in a conventional client/investment manager relationship. As this is crypto and fund managers (such as BitWolf) are unregulated, this adds an extra dimension to complete capital risk, as they can simply disappear when they have collected substantial deposits. Or claim a "hack", as has happened many times.
Bitwolf is obviously Type 2, so their structure and backing are hugely important.
So, who or what is Bitwolf legally, and what is to stop it disappearing with your investment, leaving you no recourse?
BitWolf Capital is an entity.....
An entity....this is an obvious fact, but not information of use. A flea on a dog is an entity.
Is it a legally established "entity" with capital backing from shareholders?
Is it any more than two words?
What other information is there about this "entity"?
There is an address in London on the Bitwolf website
37, Ludgate Hill,
London EC4M 7JN
This address has 1,382 companies registered there, including a
virtual office and mail forwarding operation...... of Hashcore Investment SRL
On the Hash-Core website, there are three "entities" mentioned: Hashcore Mining, HashCore USA and HashCore Investment.
1) HashCore USA appears to be an entity similar to BitWolf, insofaras it exists because it is said to exist, not because it has any actual legal identity (that I have found so far).
2) HashCore Mining is said to be "A Xedis Technology Ltd brand" with a Hong Kong address. All that is known about Xedis (at present) is that it was registered five years ago as a Private Company.
3) HashCore Investment. Following the helpful link above leads to the Romanian company details. Registered in 2003, it has never traded in any meaningful way (probably why it only needed one employee) until just recently (2018) when it made ~$10k profit. No mention of Bitwolf and HashCore Investment's relationship can be found until one looks at the people involved. I am not doxxing anyone here, just collating publicly available information about the person known as Darren Moon.
Mr. Moon claims in his
Linkedin to be CEO and Co-Founder of both Bitwolf Capital and Hashcore Investment (and others).
I guess it's possible to claim to be CEO and Co-Founder of any "entity", so Bitwolf CEO and Co-Founder he is.
With HashCore Investment, it's slightly different because, as mentioned above, that was legally registered back in 2003. Mr. Moon claims to be Co-Founder since 2017. Can one be a Co Founder of an entity 14 years after it was founded?
There's quite a bit more to look at as Mr. Moon* has a substantial history but, as it stands, I find it difficult to see where the buck would actually stop in the theoretical situation where BitWolf attracted substantial investment and something awful happened. To whom would an impoverished investor go for redress?:
A virtual office address in London?
A dormant Romanian company with unknown capital and one employee?
A private Hong Kong registered company?
*I am in no way suggesting that Mr. Moon is a scammer.