While Bitcoin Price Passes $950, OneCoin Leads Top Five Scam Coins
A lot of individuals have fallen victim to cryptocurrency scams by investing in what they thought were real and genuine cryptocurrencies. Despite several campaigns by enthusiasts of already proven cryptocurrencies, altcoin vendors and investors have insisted on the genuineness of their preferred coins. Popularity and followership are definitely not among the properties that qualify a given entity as a real cryptocurrency. As a matter of fact, these characteristics reveal the extent to which these altcoins can be negatively rated at their levels of scam. Angelina Lazar, a rogue economist,....
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OneCoin has developed a sketchy reputation, and now bitcoin evangelist Roger Ver is adding to the mix. In a recent interview, the owner of Bitcoin.com says he believes OneCoin is a fraud, and that investors should always be wary of new coins and read up before they put their money in things they don’t understand: “There is never a cryptocurrency without a wallet. This sounds like more evidence of its fraudulent nature. OneCoin isn’t traded on a single exchange anywhere in the world as far as I know.” OneCoin has been around for over two years, but questions surrounding its authenticity....
Bjorn Bjercke, a cryptocurrency enthusiast and blockchain developer, recently revealed that when OneCoin approached him in an effort to recruit him as Chief Technology Officer (with a supposed pay of $2.5M per year), OneCoin had no blockchain at all. The murky altcoin which has mostly become known as a serious scam has no public-facing blockchain nor software wallets that users can access offline. Its current iteration is much more like a Federal Reserve style system where all trust must be placed in the issuer. And according to Bjercke, who could not talk to us for this article due to his....
Onecoin has been considered a scam by many in the digital currency community. Many governments have issued warnings to its citizens asking them not to invest in Onecoin. Onecoin, the so-called cryptocurrency has been around for almost two years now. The digital currency has received mixed responses from the digital currency community, depending on whom you ask about the infamous Onecoin. While those who are invested in the digital currency tend to speak highly of it, others would either call it a scam or would have never heard about it. What Is the Problem with Onecoin? The concept of....
Bruce Fenton, founder of Bitcoin Foundation, adds his voice to the ubiquitous claims that OneCoin is a Ponzi scheme and its perpetrators should be arrested. In an interview given to Cointelegraph he explains why. Allegations of scam have reached its fever pitch after OneCoin claimed to have successfully launched and transferred old coins to a new Blockchain at an event in Bangkok. It appears the company’s claims are unsubstantiated. Cointelegraph spoke with Bruce Fenton about the situation: Cointelegraph: A couple of days ago OneCoin claimed to have successfully switched on their new....
The Swedish Bitcoin Foundation released an official statement regarding OneCoin, a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that has been around since early 2015. Mats Henricson, the chairman of the Swedish Bitcoin Foundation, wrote in an official statement that the organization believes OneCoin is a fraud and that users who are relatively new to digital currencies and the cryptocurrency industry must be cautious when approaching OneCoin-related programs. Henricson said: “OneCoin has grown immensely large and billions have been put into this phenomenon. But OneCoin is not like the other crypto....