That BTCLend thing is shady as hell. I doubt they have the proper licenses etc to do what they are doing, which essentially falls under banking regulations here in the US. I know sites like LendingClub spent years trying to do P2P lending in fiat, and still don't have it available in all states. Now this site pops up, owned by some questionable individual, and offers BTC loans with cashtakers as collateral... yeah right, I'm sure authorities would like to talk to them.
Hi Guys, this Carmelo. BTCLend CEO. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions. Or at lease let me know if asking on a wild thread. Let's try to avoid the general practice of flaming people without basis. I am happy to answer ALL of your questions and concerns. Let's start with, we do not deal with FIAT. We are an independent company owned by 3 partners. None associated with GAW. We do not point fingers thou. We are pro XPY because we are heavy invested. However our priority is BTC.
Feel free to reach out to me anytime! Ask me anything at all.
I will answer all questions given no one is insulting or offending anyone.
Like I said, I am invested, meaning that I hold coin. I rather not works towards damaging XPY if I own XPY, just comon sense in my book. And yes, you are correct. It may end up being zero and I may lose all my XPY. What does that have to do with the integrity of BTCLend? That is the part I don't understand. Just because I did an investment that may turn into something or it may turn into nothing it does not mean that I do not have integrity or that I am running a shady business.
One quick thing,about the guy saying that he requested to be deleted. One thing I have learned is that there are LOTS and LOTS of scammers in the crypto arena. Therefor, if a guys from Helibronn send me an email asking for his account to be deleted, claiming that its because I am associated with GAW (for the record, we are not associated with GAW, We support Paycoin) it raises flags intermediately. Maybe he is trying to erase his tracks, maybe he has multiple accounts and has scammed an investor and wants to be removed? Who know, so we proceed to delete any open loans he has and delete him from BTCLend. However, we will hold his documentation for a period of time just in case he is linked to a scam in the coming days. If he send me a notarized letter to the address posted in the website. I will gladly deleted all his documents since the notarized document serves as prove of identity.
We are here to make BTCLending Safe for our investors. We only have happy customers so far and no one can claim they have lost BTC or gotten scam.
About riding the wave. Not sure how, the only thing we are doing so far as to help XPY holders is allowing them to use it as the current value for collateral. This adds more security to the loans they take. We will be doing the same thing in the next couple of days for a BTC Mining company. Their users will be able to use their mining contracts as collateral. It just about adding an extra layer of trust to the loan.
I just think if you are truly here to be this major player in Paycoin and want Paycoin to succeed then these are the things you will do:
1. Hold large amounts of Paycoin and have proof on the blockchain.
2. Call for the elimination of the pre-mine and ousting Josh Garza from anything to do with Paycoin. His fraud is obvious to everyone.
3. Call for major fixes to the wallet and the code that is currently not maintained.
Oh, and how do you feel about kraken.com having the domain btclend.com?