Topic: Mycelium Wallet Promoting Scam Bookies 1xbit.com - page 3. (Read 1079 times)

Before blaming anyone, take a look at this post: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.56150537

Perhaps that is enough for neutral people to have some faith in 1xBit. Dyor.

Sincerely,
1xBit team

This is Dave's opinion and nothing more: Mycelium and Giszmo are no longer worth our time.

1) Unless I missed it nowhere on the walletsecurity site. Which Giszmo is in charge of does it mention that he is one of the developers of Mycelium. Even if I missed it and it is there it still does not matter because of:

2) There is at least 1 possibly 2 wallets that are reproducible that wallet security lists as unreproducible. And this is by people (or person) who has no idea what that are doing. Just following the posted instructions. Now, it's possible that between the time they posted and it was tested they either the source code or executable was changed to match up with what was there. But that does not matter because:

3) Many wallets are in a constant state of being updated, saying a random person on the internet can compile it and it matches ain't worth shit. Sorry but it's not. And unless we know the process control of updating their site it's worth less then shit. Who owns the domain, who controls the updates, etc. Is it just one person or a team. How are they vetted, etc. And the above don't matter because:

4) You would have to be just interested in making a few dollars to have advertisers in your wallet that you did not check out. And since they are here on this forum it's real easy to see what 1xbit is all about.

Just my opinion and nothing more.
I used mycelium for years and years, but with the token sale crap, and everything else they have done. It's obvious they just no longer care.

-Dave

Since they only use an email as a way of communication, the other way around is to post the issue on their Github issue tracker. I know that is not how the Github issue tracker supposed to be, but it will make them to at least respond to the inquires publicly.

There are also some users complaining about casino ads back then in January[1], I might bump the issues while tagging the dev in the hope they will respond about 1xbit.

[1] https://github.com/mycelium-com/wallet-android/issues/578

Good move... It would make sense if more people send them an email too,( bugging them till we get a positive response)  I sent mine a few weeks ago no response yet; I assumed they are fully cognizant but the bill was too good to be turned down. Too bad I'll have to change my staked address.

I have emailed their support about the issue and asked them to look into it. I may share the details here if they respond to the email, for purposes of clarity. Let us hope they respond positively for the sake of their reputation.

I don't know how reputable Mycelium really is, in fact I would label them just the opposite.  I used to use their wallet on my apple iphone and one day it just stopped working.  Thankfully I had been able to already take all of my funds off of it, but I still looked in to what was going on.  I was surprised to learn that they simply stopped servicing the app.  Just like that they just quite on it, proving no support as far as I could tell as well.  That was pathetic and wrong, that is not how a legit company should be operating.  I will never use their products or services again.

I have been using Mycelium wallet for more than a year now and I have never faced any issues to date. They had been advertising this scam website under media flow but recently they have started promoting them under a new heading Crypto Betting. Such promoting will destroy its reputation, they should reassess their advertisement policy. Associating themselves with a scam betting website will only ruin their customer base.

I do agree with the bolded, and if this is just a bad case of negligence on their part when doing proper research, it doesn't make it much better, as how exactly can you trust their wallet if they can't do something as simple as checking someone's track record before advertising them. I personally never used Mycelium wallet, but if I did, I would probably stop using them at least until this is resolved.


Best case scenario is that they acted irresponsibly and didn't check properly. Question is do you trust companies like that with your own money.

For your information 1xbet.com is different from 1xbit.com don't put the two in the same sentence, 1xbet.com is a legit bookmakers and they are not crypto gambling site they uses local fiat, I'm a big fan and I've been using them for a long time now. What you see on the Bacelona official page is 1xbet.com not 1xbit.com. 1xbit.com is a clone site of 1Xbet.com

If you rent out your apartment to kidnappers what are you? They are not scammers but they are dining with scammers. Precautions is better than cure.

It means that you are also saying that Barcelona, one of the biggest football clubs in the world is also scammer because Barcelona is also having partnership with 1xbet which is known as the main site or sister site of 1xbit?

I'm mycelium user and I noticed about the ads since few weeks ago. To be frank I'm disappointed to see the ads of 1xbit in mycelium, but I do not think that Mycelium is scammer just because of the ads.

Of course, you pay $10 to 100 ordinary people and you get a great base of satisfied users who will spread the good news through their social networks, and in addition, they have an additional motive in promoting their ref links. Then a player appears who has made a deposit of say 1 BTC and when he says that his money has been stolen, his voice in the crowd of 100 votes is almost inaudible.

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Maybe, and maybe they don’t care as long as they benefit from promoting such services. I am of the opinion that it is not professional to make such a mistake, because if you provide a very serious service, then you need to be especially careful what you advertise within that service. Any user of this crypto wallet who becomes a victim of this scam bookmaker will surely become a former user.

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If you think that way, then this forum is also a scam - because not only that this service is advertised on the forum, but the scam is not moderated here.

I have no idea either Mycelium is scam or not but I think those who promote scammers are also scam. By considering this if Mycelium promotes 1xbit then I think Mycelium is scammer too. I am not sure either they are promoting or not as I am not using Mycelium..

As some others said, Mycelium probably didn't do a proper due diligence. I saw 1xbit being promoted on some other legit sites too, so I guess that all these warnings on bitcointalk don't have that big of a reach, unfortunately.

Since they are not active on any social media, I don't see any other way to contact mycelium other than via email, so if enough of us contact them, they might stop promoting 1xbit. Anyway, here is the email address [email protected]

Bitconnect also had heavy promotions back in the day, including on sites like coinmarketcap. Livecoin was also tagged as scam in this forum and a couple of years later, look where it ended. It's all about money, but that does not stop them from being known as scammers. I never trust most of the review sites, especially ones that earn from referrals.

A small search on other sites like reddit and trust pilot immediately gives a picture about the kind of service 1xbit is. SCAM.

I am not familiar with Mycelium wallet nor I am using that anyway. But I heard Mycelium is a well-reputed Bitcoin wallet. Actually, this advertising is a part of business, it's pretty sure they have a business partnership and that's why they are advertising a scam site like 1xbit. Perhaps Mycelium getting short-time benefits from 1xbit but for a long time, they are going to losing potential users. Because once Mycelium's users will join 1xbit and encounter scammy behaviors then definitely that users will leave Mycelium. Or they don't know about 1xbit scammy behaviors like theymos missed it at the beginning of running forum ads.

I tried to build locally the wallet and was able to found out 1xbit CDN images:

https://mycelium-wallet.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/business-partners/1xbit/Mycelium_6_720x422.jpg
https://mycelium-wallet.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/business-partners/1xbit/Mycelium_6_720x1236.jpg

Judging by how the above image URL looks like, it's very likely they partnered up with 1xbit.

I am not using Mycelium wallet so I don't know and I don't care what they used for advertising, but 1xbit is known for aggressive marketing so it's no surprise to see them everywhere, including in bitcointalk signature campaign.
Disable that option to show ads in setting if possible or just switch to better alternative wallets like BlueWallet or Electrum.

They are too smart to know those who deposit to test the system to see if it pays or not and those set of users usually stake with a little amount, in cases like this they sometimes payout those smaller amounts to give you self motivation to come back with a high stake and to have some kind of society backup. But their major targets are high stakers. They act like a Ponzi scheme( pay 100 people, scammed 10,000 people )

If something is unequivocally proven as a scam (and I think in this case there is no doubt), then the problem is that the forum (admin) allows their activities to take place smoothly on the forum. On the other hand, I'm a little surprised that most people think that they really pay unique users (is there any proof of payments at all?), but it seems to me that they have created an account farm that they use as a cover-up for their campaign.

In any case, it would be good for everyone to investigate who they do business with if they want to preserve their reputation - who is next to appear on their ads, maybe Yo-Yo-bit?

I love reading a few of their Media Flow so I left that enabled they do have some interesting crypto news most of the time. I hate wallet with some many ads I've moved my assets to Trustwallet.

The power of money you can see it from their signature campaign here, they offer so much they are buying their way to the top, they pay for almost everything from site reviews to testimonies, to the advertisement.