I see August 1st as the day of reckoning for a lot of the services that I have been recently using or monitoring. So far, I have invested in Bitconnect.co, Control-Finance.com, USI-Tech.info,Ambis.biz and BtcClock.io.
This could be a good bench mark for the industry, not necessarily making them more trustworthy but that they will hang for a while longer. It is still up in the air when Bitconnect.co will have that planned expense paid Thailand Investors Meeting. Is it a smoke screen or diversion to get you not to worry about the August 1st apocalypse? Although they seem like a pretty good company, with a growing BCC coin, and pretty active in the community as a whole.
Looks like it's going gang busters for them. I am still waiting for Mr. Lanzer to do a $20K total withdraw in the next two months.
Although the trend for both of these companies is sky rocketing, BtcClock.io has gone dark! Well, mostly, they have stopped paying out; you can still deposit and reinvest but if you want to get a payout you are out of luck. Facebook page is offline, and a cryptic message to the users has been left.
Dear users!
With deep regret we have to inform you that we're forced to stop our platform’s activity.
The reason is avalanche-like funds withdrawals because of the coming SegWit.
Until the last moment we have been trying to fulfill the commitments. That has been done at the expense of our trading strategy, but we tried to meet our clients’ needs first of all.
But the today's crash of the BTC-E exchange has become too strong hit for us, because last time the most of funds were traded there.
But we promise that in the nearest time we'll create a new project and come back to you.
Sincerely,
BTCCLOCK Team.
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@lomis/btcclock-3-84-scam-alert
What does this mean? They might come back after August 1st? Or come back with something different? But nothing about what we all most desperately want to know: where the fluck is our dough? So did they just SCAM us? I am 30/70, but I do find it a little comforting that they did leave with a small semblance of an excuse.
Man, what does this say about the stability of the whole BTC investment community? This is going to make for a big pause and reevaluation. They were one of the most popular investment engines, and they are still climbing even after the fact of not paying out. Squeezing the tap for every last possible sucker, maybe? Well either way, we will probably get a more definite answer in August.
The other 3 sites pale in comparison in trend to the above two sites. Control-Finance.com, USI-Tech.info, and Ambis.biz.
Swisscredit.com, I put that in for reference. They definitely ran off with the loot. The site is down and everything. It just goes to show, you don't have to be big like gang busters to pull the plug.
Full disclaimer, I do have investments in all the above sites, [not swisscredit]. I am planning on doing a wait and see before I proceed further. The coming Aug-Apocalypse, (see what I did there?) could be great/terrifying/nothing like Y2K. I do have a little cash poised if BTC should do a dive.
Thanks for reading and let me know what you think!