Scam Alert - Coinspace

Scam Alert - Coinspace

A reader wrote in to CCN, concerned about what is an obvious scam to a veteran Bitcoiner, but might actually rope new folks in with ease. The concerned reader wrote: Basically they are building a pyramid scheme (sorry, I mean binary member system), where you can buy in and get some hashing power from their cloud mining service. Also they claim, that they will release a new cryptocurrency (S-Coin), which only they will be mining. More absurdly - when the coin comes out, they claim that it will have a value of 1€ and after some time even more. Also the rewards for members are extravagant....


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