I am the CMO of a Beijing-based Bitcoin wallet service called HaoBTC (our website is haobtc.com ). Our company was incorporated in August, 2014 and is operated by a local team of eight people - prior to that, the same team had operated Openblock.com, China's first on-chain wallet service. Wu Gang, the CEO of the company is well-known in the Chinese BTC community as one of China's earliest miners.
On November 1, 2014, we introduced Bank, a fractional-reserve service that pays out interest hourly.
The rationale behind such a service is that we want to grow users and we are confident of our superior mining cost efficiency - cheaper off-grid hydro-power, cheaper rent and cheaper miners, etc.
For about five months, we refrained from actively marketing this service and capped the max amount of deposits at 4,000 BTC, an amount, that in an event of catastrophe, can be guaranteed by our own asset.
Only recently, after we felt more confident, we started to actively reach out for international users.
However, the responses are fairly skeptical.
People are very weary of anything that has to do with "cloud mining".
Some demand us to provide proof.
While we are happy to accommodate such requests, we also want to know what kind of proof is deemed as legitimate - some suggest photos, and we do have photos taken inside our mining operations, but those can be easily faked.
So my question is what do we need to do to convince potential users that we are a legitimate business rather than a fly-by-night ponzi scam?
Best,
Eric
Skype:ericmuxl
Email:
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