in case you didn't notice or don't have an account on crypto-trade.com, there was a newsletter by today, that also can be found here:
02/03/2014 Newsletter - 2nd FebruaryDear Crypto-Trade user,
First of all we would like to apologize deeply for the inconvenience that were caused to our shareholders by the delayed dividend payments in recent months.
In its original intention Crypto-Trade was not designed to be a stock exchange in addition to a place where people can trade their Crypto Currencies. But after the closure of btct.co and litecoinglobal.com, where our shares were hosted back in the days, something had to be done.
So we built this feature from scratch, in order to support you with an adequat and save replacement. Yes, we were aware of the problems that usually come with such a huge change to a website's infrastructure, but the time and effort was definitely underestimated here and we're really sorry about that.
The good news is, these problems are solved now.
We implemented an automated dividend payment system that already handled the latest dividends from 01/12/2013 to 27/01/2014.
Any future dividends for CTL and CTB will now be payed on every Sunday. Yes, that's right: dividends will be payed weekly from now on (we even decided about daily dividends in the future - but for now it's weekly).
As you already might have noticed, there were further changes to the dividends as you know them. Let us explain this:
Dividens will now be granted in every Crypto Currency, proportionately to their traded volume.
So regardless of owning CTB or CTL shares you will get an amount of every coin that's hosted on our site as part of your dividends.
What might look like a bad joke to you at first sight has mainly two reasons: first of all our prior calculations were imprecise because of the fluctuations in prices that are inherent to every coin.
Secondly we always made a loss with transfering and converting huge amounts of all coins to Bitcoin and Litecoin.
Needless to say that this transaction had been quite a piece of work, because we had to use another exchange therefor.
But again, this has been solved by now and we hope that all of you agree with this essential change and are satisfied with the solution.
Another change to the IPO that you might like to hear is that the total amount of all issued shares was halfed - from 50,000 to 25,000.
This means that every issued share is now representing 0.002% instead of 0.001% of Crypto-Trade's net profits. We already changed this on the shareholders page, the IPO will follow soon.
Let us say just another word about the dividends:
As a tribute to our initial supporters and early adopters, we were granting a 100% bonus on all shares in the past months, meaning that all net profits since the beginning of the IPO in June 2013 were completely issued to our shareholders (For those of you who are new to Crypto-Trade, you can read about that on the old btct.co site, i.e. in the july dividends statement).
Paying this ultimate bonus was always a pleasure for us as Crypto-Trade was a small exchange that didn't imply much work, costs and risks.
This has changed now. We're proud of having more than 20,000 registered users in our database, and with Gults-Gulch-Organic and ActiveMiningCorp two renowned external IPOs joined our securities section. As a consequence of that, the last dividends implied only the regular amount that's stated in the IPO. We're sorry if this caused any confusion, especially for our new users, but in order to bring Crypto-Trade to the next level, we are reliant to handle it that way.
In order to assure clearity and orderly of the upcoming dividends, we must adapt the shareholders page to the weekly payments.
As long as this hasn't been finished you can do some math for your forecast:
To calculate your dividends for Crypto Currency:
X: X *0.002 (=0.2% fees) /2 (50% shareholders ratio) /Y (=issued shares) *Z (=amount of your shares)
What else?
Ultracoin (UTC) will celebrate its launch on Crypto-Trade at February, 7th. So if you're into this coin, make sure that you'll be online that day.
The decision to host Ultracoin was made after intensive and productive talks with their devs and because of the potential for synergie between UTC and us.
So this might be one of many further steps to increase our general trading volume. We're looking forward to the launch and are well prepared for it.
You might want to take a look at their official thread on Bitcointalk:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=413978.0;topicseenSince many people are asking about the implementation of Dogecoin and Maxcoin: yes, we're taking a closer look on those.
But this will definitely not happen before the UTC premiere.
For those of you who haven't logged in for a while, Crypto-Trade now supports 2-Factor-Authentication as an additional security layer for logins and withdrawals.
You can setup your key in the 2FA section via your user menu or by following this link:
https://crypto-trade.com/member/2faAfter that, please visit your profile page and especially the "extra security" tab in order to configure your 2FA to your needs.
Furthermore we added another payment processor to our site: Since January, 10th you can use Egopay (
www.egopay.com) to deposit and withdraw your fiat money.
All fees incurred by the transfer of fiat money can be found on our fees page:
https://crypto-trade.com/fees.
Some final words..
We're aware of the fact that our communication with you in the past month had some massive need of improvement (to be honest, it was terrible), and we promise that this will change from now on. Hopefuly you see this newsletter as a first step in the right direction - it won't be the last.
If you have any questions or ideas, please step by in the chat and let us know.
For reporting major and serious concerns regarding your account or the usage of Crypto-Trade, please use our new helpdesk, as the chatbox is not the right place for that. You can find the helpdesk by clicking on 'support' in the upper menu or by following this link:
http://helpdesk.crypto-trade.com/We would like to encourage everyone who has stopped using our service to come back and take a second look.
In the meanwhile, please feel free to follow us on twitter (@Crypto_Trade), as we will start using our account more often from now on.
Best Regards,
Crypto-Trade Team