Quote from: ThePhwner on August 19, 2015, 03:34:57 AM

Quote from: iambitcoin5 on August 19, 2015, 03:23:51 AM

Now that I think about it did anybody catch that weird spooky article online about scrypt.cc with title "Will Scrypt.CC Be The Next Hyip to Fail" exactly two weeks before the "hack"? Pretty strange if you ask me. Its as if they knew something was coming. I'll be happy to post the link if requested.

https://bitcoinnewsmagazine.com/will-scrypt-cc-be-the-next-cloud-mining-hyip-to-fail/

FWIW a lot of people got nervous around that time, and it coincides with LTC price increasing quite a bit and ScryptCC rewards dropping. A lot of people noticed that trend and decided to pull out. It was actually what tipped me off to something not being quite right. Not to mention that article uses the same piece of evidence Cryptodevil has explained time and time again, the simple analysis of the LTC Network Hashrate va. Marcelo's claims.

To your point, the author may have known something, but probably not anything sinister. Just people watching coin prices, expecting payouts to coincide with increases, and realizing they didn't. A similar event happened with the "Nice Hashlets" at GAWMiners - NiceHash prices spiked one night, Hashlet payouts couldn;t keep up, they discontinued the NiceHashlet, and ultimately revealed that Hashlets didn't mine and were an investment vehicle based on mining payouts. Just like ScryptCC payouts not matching LTC mining rewards, because there's no mining taking place...

Oddly enough with both of these mining scams, it was simple analysis of the facts that got people skeptical and not anyone's inside information.

No inside information just common sense. scrypt.cc was an obvious ponzi to me the hard part was convincing others. Hope I helped a few people save some bitcoin.