Hashie and LTCGear Users: Where are our Bitcoins?

Hashie and LTCGear Users: Where are our Bitcoins?

Two cloud-mining sites, Hashie.co and LTCGear have seemingly up and vanished. While LTC later reappeared, no payouts have been received and the website is bearing no further details. Cloud-mining is always a risky business, as it involves others mining bitcoin for you. Many who don't fully understand cryptocurrency look at the process as a positive action in the sense that they can reap the rewards without performing the "labor." With that said if you can't trust yourself to get things done, who can you trust? Several cloud-mining platforms have been revealed as defective or as hidden....


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