I am stubbornly refusing to call it a ponzi simply because GAW does not need to use new customers' funds to pay old customers (the typical definition of a ponzi).
How do you know? What if the customer sales on market 10% (5% for sell 5% for buy) are whats supporting the payouts? As well as the new staker sales etc. Everything is being pushed to paycoin yet the customers are paying in BTC. Something isn't right. People are reinvesting BTC earned from payouts so nothing is leaving the eco system which would be typical of a mining contract... you pay upfront to take excess out.
This is all going to come crashing down i believe the day paycoin hits if it does. People are trying to get big amounts of paycoin with the expectation that they can go on paybase or whatever it is and sell @ $20. Shouldn't that $250 million backing allow people to withdraw @ that price? (unless that $250 million backing isn't real).
Who are the partners... why aren't they named? Sure NDA yeah yeah... is there a date they will come out and say who it is?
I think its way too dangerous. Its going to collapse eventually when enough strain happens. Its just at the start of it all with everyone establishing big investments for big returns. Come return time i think there is going to be alot of anger and tears.
Well good and valid points. I think the biggest problem people have with Gawminers, and rightfully so, is transparency is only is trust us from past actions. We don't see the whole picture yet.
Doesn't mean they have ill intentions, but does cause people in crytos especially to be very skeptical. We have been screwed a lot in this new market place, where scams are more predominant than legit coins or businesses. So this thread IMO is good for talking about this coin and company.
I think until we see the whole plan with partners, then just are only going to have lots of uncertainty. Some will either win very big in trusting gaw, or will lose big. Time will tell.
If this was a genuine financial transaction, such as a bond or stock offering, hiding the "investors" under an NDA would be illegal, the entire deal would have government regulator scrutiny and financial industry scrutiny. The fact that nobody can scrutinize the facts of this because GAW won't release the facts, or they don't actually exist, should be enough for anyone with a single brain cell to run away from this as fast as they possibly can. No good can come out of this. IMO, it is most likely a scam, many people will be ruined financially and sadly some suicides will result from this mess.
I agree with you on not being able to see what's going on for sure. Like i said i'm on fence. But as i said in last post to me finding out if he has 100 million like he says, or whatever amount investors bought into makes all the difference.
Also if he got that many investors to pay that much, then most likely this is legit and using USD NOT bitcoin from these investors he cannot hide from law. He'd be locked up pretty quickly if he purposefully scamed in dollars.
There is no chance he got 100 million in bitcoin from investors.
I will say this, maybe pressuring gaw to show it's finanicals or if we can look them up from this venture capital investment he's made, if it's been done in USD, their has to be a record of this somewhere i'd imagine.
There is no backers. The kind of people that make these type of investments are not stupid. They know that their involvement would pump the value of the investment. If there was legitimate money in the amount he suggest the investors would be yelling off the rooftops they invested and have confidence in this scheme. The fact that there is silence suggest that no real financial investors exist. Look at any big financial deal. It is immediately whopped up with press releases, photo ops and what not. No, Virginia, there are no investors.