I have no relation with any of the companies involved here. That said, its a bit random that just after the MtGox/AurumXchange deal (
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=30982.0), AurumXchange comes here to bad mouth the new Trade Hill partner. Hopefully you are doing with the best of intentions.
All I want to say is that if you are doing this to help the Bitcoin economy avoid another fiasco, thank you. But if this turns out to be one or various companies using bad tactics and spreading FUD and FEAR to damage competitors at the expense of the reputation of the Bitcoin economy,
I promise you that I will use the little reputation I might have gather in this forums to spread the word so people dont use your services.EDIT: There has been some serious "pr work" in the forums lately by interested parties, trying to appear as normal users. All this has to stop.
1. If you read my previous post where Jered posted the issue with Dwolla, I gave Jered my full support, and I said that I wish the best to Tradehill (as well as camp BX, etc) because competition is good and necessary.
2. I am doing this STRICTLY to protect Tradehill and its users. While it is true that MtGox / Aurumxchange has a long standing working relationship (we were working with them since Jed owned it), we are an independent exchanger, and will provide the SAME services and partner in the SAME way with Tradehill, or any other bitcoin exchanger that wants to do so. The more "ecurrencies" (or in this case shall we call them instruments) we exchange, the better and the bigger the revenue.
3. Like I said in a previous post, I have worked with e-currencies for a long time, been scammed a lot of times, I have learned a lot from the business, and I think there is something of value we e-currency people can bring to the table when it comes to exchanging money. For example, anecdotally, on my previous thread where somebody mentioned Tradehill had FREE sepa transfers I commented how banks in the SEPA zone, as soon as they learn your are in the "e-currency" business, and you start moving a decent amount of money they drop you like flies. This has happened to MtGox, and now as I understand it, Tradehill is having problems with their SEPA account. I didn't "make this happen" or said this with an agenda against Tradehill. I am simply trying to help and bring my experience on things that happened to us before bitcoin even existed
4. I am 100% CONVINCED that Mallick is behind Paxum. I do not have any facts to back this up of course because he is not going to put his name nowhere near Paxum. I know a lot of people in the industry to know I am right. I do not have any factual information to support my claims. I would advice people to proceed with caution, but more than anything, I would advice Jered to proceed with caution because I know he is a decent guy and he will never pass these losses to his customers so he is the one at risk of getting hurt the most.
Time will tell how this goes I guess
Roberto