Topic: [Investment fund] Gamma Bitcoin Fund [Closed] - page 29. (Read 84429 times)

BitcoinRebate was a good idea and if JRO had only done his part and not jumped of the ship so to speak things could have gone well. Instead he bailed and didn't communicate with anyone. I did what I could but it was not my idea and I am no developer, Alberto couldn't pull it off himself, we needed a team but because JRO wasn't there we had none.

Yea...
Bad decisions to invest with him, I have to admit. Probably my worst mistake since the fund start,
//DeaDTerra

To be fair bitcoinrebate never worked from day one either.

He hired trusted forum members as front men to run all this which lured in more investment. Never trust an asset where the guy running the show doesnt have the balls to face investors.

ZIP.A, was an actual project that was developed but it turned out to have a major flaw instead of admitting that and either A, change the task of the project to fix it or B, shut down the project and pay back the investors. JRO thought that he could fix that flaw so he kept paying dividends of a project that was not working keeping a illusion up that everything was fine
//DeaDTerra

Probably no chance at all. ZIP.A was a ponzi scheme.

My trust in DT's skill and integrity remains unshaken. Even after the not cool at all -8.9% figure we are seeing today. I have chosen to believe his speech about how the worse is behind, and hope that we will see profits from now on.

But I would like to know about this ZIP.A and Rebate situation. What happened? Are there chances of getting some money back at all?

I think this is the best way to go. This is an investment fund so if you want fast-in fast-out you should have invested in the first place. (This will be solved with the new plan)
People just need to calm down and not start to panic. It will only cost you more money in the end.
DeaDTerra showed that he is capable of making a profit, but market conditions were hard.
Would really hate it this fund comes to an end just by a small dip in profits ans some panic.

-Timbo925

The other option I would have is to let the rest of the investor take any profit/loses made under this period which wouldn't be fair to them and would case further withdraws.

This was indeed the case and I am trying to process and send out withdraws as soon as I can but liquidation on GLBSE is not a fast matter. I am currently liquidating slower then people are requesting withdraws. This is one of my final pushes towards trying to clear this queue and to get back to normal buisiness, if this is not possible and I have done everything I can to improve the situation, I will have to shut down the fund and start a full liquidation. This is something I want to avoid until the very last moment as it will cause both massive loses and also take a lot of time, but it's the only fair thing I could do. Everyone would share the losses and there would be a final payout of the amount I managed to liquidate from out portfolio, but as said it would be the last thing on my list when all other options have been tried.

It's a dark cycle, too much withdraws causes low liquid BTC amount, which puts on a pressure to start fast liquidation. This forces me to not take opportunities and instead aggressively liquidate which cases further loses due to that our normal operation is disturbed. Which in turn causes more withdraws. See the problem? It has to be broken but it's no easy task.

If anyone has any tip or feedback I would appreciate it
And I am truly sorry for all of this mess, it was nothing I intended to happen and it's nothing I wanted to happen. I have worked my ass off from the start to try to clear up this mess but it's no easy task. Hopefully most of you see that for you that don't, there's not much else to say then I am sorry!

//DeaDTerra

I have to agree with bitcoin.me on this - I also have a withdraw in queue and while I have no problem waiting, it doesn't seem right that we are locked into losses while we must wait for our withdraws to be processed.

I realize that profit and the original balance were not guaranteed, but you also did not require any sort of minimum investment period - it was implied that one could make a withdraw at any time. It was never stated that one could be locked out of their funds during liquidations and reorgs of the portfolio.

The -8% will hurt but I hope we can recover from this. Personally lost already about 7% of my investment but I was aware of the risks involved. I do hope we can start generating some profit otherwise a lot of people will jump ship. I was just wondering how much % we will lose if pirate defaulted. You said before you picked up some cheap PPT shares.

I will be sticking around for at least a month with the new long term investment. It does seem like a good idea so you can use more btc for lending and long term investments in stead of just coins sitting in a wallet not generating anything. Also is their still a change we will see some of the money from ZIP.A an Rebate back? 

Hope we can start making profit soon

-8% is not a punishment, it's a fact that ZIP.A and Rebate is basically worthless, the loss would be realized sometime anyways.
I have never guaranteed profit nor the original balance, you knew there were risks when you invested. A default of some of our investment has always been a risk.
//DeaDTerra

Ive had a withdraw waiting for a week and now I have to lose another 8% as some kind of punishment ?

Thanks....

I hope ZIP.A and Rebate start repaying soon as I have some ZIP.A assets on GLBSE.

The loses will be around 8% and they will be taken today, independent of if you have a withdraw waiting or not. This was inevitable as ZIP.A and Rebate has been locked down and are basically worthless until the issuers start paying back the debt.
I have already liquidated almost all of the investment and with the new system which will be implemented next weekend people have to make a choice of long term vs short term.
So there's no jumping into GBF and then out back again, those times are over. It reduced our profits and causes tons of extra work for me hence the change of the infrastructure.

You would send it once at the start of this week, and it would not take any of the loses for the liquidation of the rest of the bad assets.
Sorry if I was unclear, the statement was not planned it was more written from heart so I didn't have anyone looking through it except me.

That is not true, the loses will come before the new deposits. I am simply asking people to deposit if they wish for the new start with out clean portfolio.
Thanks for you feedback
//DeaDTerra

Since I invested in GBF, the value of my investment has lost 8.05% not including the current week loss. How much extra loss are we talking about? If there is no reward for long term investors who did not jump off the bandwagon, why would one keep the investment in, take the extra loss you are talking about then take the profits instead of cashing out before you liquidate the remaining bad investments and jumping back in after you have done so?

Moreover, why send you extra money now, before the fund takes a new loss, rather than wait a few weeks and invest in a much saner fund?

It looks like you are asking your faithful investors to share the loss, and even to increase their portion of the next loss to come, without rewarding them appropriately.

Hi!
This is a mid week update.
As mentioned several weeks ago the portfolio has gone through a purging or cleansing if you will, where I have removed and sold off the assets I think were bad or not performing up to our standards. We are almost there, there are two more assets which I think still needs to be removed which are ZIP.A and Rebate. After these have been removed I think our portfolio looks very strong and could perform very well. There are several reasons why this took a lot longer then I thought, the people that have followed the fund will know the bumps in the road so to speak to get to this point. But we are here and I am asking for a leap of faith, There are now about 1000 BTC in the withdraw queue, this withdraw queue is one of the things which has slowed down and reduced our performance throughout this trip towards a good portfolio.

The withdraw problems was not something I saw coming but I have realized is that the current system is flawed and sub optimal for us when we move forward. The chance of bank runs and panic, is to strong. The problem is not in it self that people want to withdraw but that with to many large withdraws that dry out our withdraw "hot wallet", we have to start liquidating assets. Assets as we all know are less then optimal in the sense of liquidity, at least loans,bonds and shares. This leads to that I have to prioritize withdraws over, manual trading,bulk orders, bot trading (margin/arbitrage) and deposit services, as they are more liquid-able then the other assets. As these are the investments that goes well during a bullish bitcoin rally, this has added to the bad performance,

So, what's the plan?
The plan is to cleanse the portfolio from the last bad investments (ZIP.A, Rebate etc), There are two ways to do this, reduce the price slowly and wait for some kind of last dividend or put the bonds value at 0 and take all the loses at once. I would prefer to just take all the loses at once and then move forward with our new and strong portfolio. But to do this I am going to need your help, This is hopefully going to be the LAST negative performance in a long time, our portfolio now consists of only good assets and a great mix of them as well. But what I need from you guys if to trust me this last time, I can turn this around, I can produce profit, I am confident in our portfolio and my ability. I need your help though, by trusting me and not panicking, I can deal with the withdraws at hand and get back to my usual work. Get back to all the things I have had to cut to produce more liquid BTC faster. For those of you that have the courage and the trust for me, I would like to ask for deposits, help me get more liquid btc into the system and we can get back on the road to profit faster.
I know I am asking for a lot, I am asking for a huge favor, to trust someone you don't know even though there has been a history of bad performance, but look beyond that look back at what GBF has done before, what we have done in our glory days. We can do that again but I need your help!

What makes you so confident this will not happen again?
Well with the new system, we will limit the amount of withdraws and we will be able to plan the liquidation a head of time which will help us keep as much of our capital in investments until we need to liquidate them to withdraws. This enabled us to invest more capital for a longer period of time, generally this also means more profit ^^. Because we are not responsible to keep a huge withdraw "hot wallet", I can spend out capital in investment instead of having to save them for new withdraws. I think the new system is far more superior than the old one and that it will lead to that the same problem will not happen again.

This is DeaDTerra asking for a leap of faith, will you jump?

As per usual please post your thoughts and questions
//DeaDTerra

Thanks for all the positive feedback from all off you
Though I don't need your decision just yet. We will probably switch to the new system next week, then you can email/pm me with your decision and we  will set it up
//DeaDTerra

You can split, you simply buy shares and open a account with me.
Though I will not have any conversion back of forth as it's a big waste of my time.
I want the new system to be more efficient then the current one so I can focus on investing instead of management.
//DeaDTerra

Hi!

These sound like good options.

Will it be possible to split current investment- for example 50% long term, and 50% short term?

Or will it be all or nothing one way or the other?

Thanks.

Hello
The short term will trade their balance for GLBSE shares.
Hence they will have no personal account with GBF.
If you want a account you must be a long term investor.
//DeaDTerra

Hi, I think this is a nice change, but how will you keep track on the long term and short term investors?

I think I will be a long term investor when/if this changes take effect.