I have been adding to the list of fraudulent websites for some time now, it is now a collection of 900+ domains.
[SCAM ALERT] List 910+ scam websites Most often, these are fake services that offer unrealistic profits such as 100% in 5 days, 230% annually, mostly under the name of cloud mining, money doubler, HYIP and various investment schemes.
An official
MeaTec Mining appeared recently, trying to explain that their service does not belong to this blacklist. It's about infinity-hash.com. I recognized the reason why I added them to this list, for example, is their offers of 33% up to 230% profit annually, which is totally unreal.
They claim that the infinity-hash.com site is only part of the business, where MEATEC LLC (meatec.io) is based. Well, Meatec mentions a more sustainable type of mining business like hosting, collocation even repair service, which actually led me to ask for more opinions.
This is a project by MEATEC LLC (
https://meatec.io/). We are providing colocation mining and hosting since July 2018 and launched Infinity Hash as a separate project to our colocation mining in Q1/Q2 2023 because we hated how traditional cloud mining worked and how low "customer success" with cloud mining was (this is also why the domain is so new).
- This is also disclosed in all FAQs on the more detailed landing pages (including a map link with address etc.)
- MEATEC and Infinity Hash share the same dashboard under different domains with different design, but we decided to separate them a bit to not confuse new users that "just want cloud mining" with all the colocation functionality
- The whois record is points to cloudflare because we are a small team and decided to use Cloudflare after continued DDOS attacks on different pages and our dashboard (here is the postmortem
https://blog.infinity-hash.com/behind-the-scenes/ddos-incidents-november-2023-postmortem/)
Meatec has some basics to be a legal business, it can look quite convincing, but we all know that scammers can be very intelligent and I have seen some very sophisticated scam schemes. However, I would not like to judge based on a little information that I found online.
While their explanation about profit estimations
1. The profit estimations
- "33% Annual In The Bear Market" --> 33% is simply our average APR in the bear market after deducting all costs. Since users can sell their hash rate, we COULD also write 133% (like other projects do) but we don't because we can't guarantee sell prices for hash rate and don't want to lie to users
- "100%+ In the Bull Market" --> Yes, this is what users actually earn during full bull market conditions
- "Below is a conservative profit estimate based on our current miners at various bitcoin prices." --> "profit estimate"
- "Please note, that the below numbers are an estimate and we can’t promise these returns!" --> highly visible and in yellow to drive home the point that this is an estimate
- "Approx. 230% Annual Profit*" --> is right below "$100k / Bitcoin", this is the actual return we calculated for how the project shares work at 100k BTC (full calculation and easy to use calculator available here
https://blog.infinity-hash.com/share-price-calculation/). We are currently using the Whatsminer M50 for the project and have a public electricity price of $0.055 / kWh
- "Approx. 230% Annual Profit*" --> There is also a star here with a centered info line available without scrolling and in normal font size below that says "*If you bought your shares at an average of $1 per share". This might actually not be true since users that bought shares at $1 would probably have much higher returns (just like if you buy a good BTC miner during the bear market and then look at its returns during the bull market when even the actual hardware would cost something like 5x the amount)
Again, the cloud mining scheme does not instil confidence in me at all, I am of the opinion that if someone at some point offers any unrealistic profit, they cannot be trusted
Here is their entire post
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/scam-alert-list-880-scam-websites-updated-12jully-23-5201588.msg63518392#msg63518392 I will also send them a PM with a link to this thread