I am sick and tired of scammers in this space taking advantage of people and other coins and getting away with it.In this post I want to highlight the practices of a well known company in this space who scammed a whole community out of nearly $10,000 USD and then did nothing with the money.I'm talking about coinpayments.net and RaiBlocks (yes, now known as Nano).Early in Jan, 2018, coinpayments.net were running promotions to have coins listed on their site. It already looked fairly shady - you could "purchase" votes to have your coin win, and they were then supposed to add it as a supported coin on their site.RaiBlocks won this vote due to some very generous community members donating the money to bring it to the top vote:http://bit.ly/2wzkMxe little while later RaiBlocks had the rename, the BitGrail fiasco occurred, and a large drop in price happened. This caused a lot of the community at the time to leave or get distracted. A few people who stuck around (myself included) tried to follow up the outcome of the coinpayments.net listing with the Nano Core team, who promised to chase it up but never came back with a real answer as to what happened. I suspect they were either ignored by coinpayments or were told "no" and wanted to avoid drama in the community around this... Frankly, I can understand them wanting to steer clear of this kind of drama due to the history with BitGrail.But, I for one am sick of it, and want to call it out for what it is.I don't care if you are a avid Tron supporter, a BTC maximalist, or support Verge... This could happen to anyone, and I'm sick of it. I feel that we as a community shouldn't let things like this slide. People like you or me who were excited by the prospects of what they found donated to this company in good faith. This money has been taken with nothing to show for it. No announcement, no nothing, literally ZERO communication from CoinPayments.net.I'd love to invite CoinPayments.net to respond if they have any reps that post on reddit.
Submitted June 03, 2019 at 11:40AM
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