Quote from: Litesire on April 18, 2016, 06:12:48 PM

Thanks for explaining. I am interested in putting 7 btc towards this project, is your personal details available to the community in the event something goes wrong.

Partially. I have a desire to remain anonymous, to some degree. That's due to an atrocious past, which resulted in ending up with Complex PTSS, from which I'm not yet fully recovered.

The private keys though, are shared with a trusted community member, Jero. I have yet to discuss as well with Rijk, if he would wish to store them as well, but he is currently on a holiday. I will pick it up with him once he is back.

Quote from: MaNI on April 18, 2016, 06:42:11 PM

Just to make sure it is 100% clear, the Gulden shares project is run by a community member and is not something we as the dev team are involved with, we do not have any direct oversight of the project or control over the funds involved with it etc.

While I do appreciate the support the project brings in terms of hash rate etc. there is always ultimately a risk when handing money over to an individual in a situation like this, that individual ultimately has complete control over the money you entrust them with and it is out of our power to ensure that everything goes smoothly, some caution should always be exercised in terms of how much money you are willing to expose to this sort of risk.

This is not to say that I specifically think George has sinister motives there has been nothing so far that would indicate this - however of course things can go wrong even without sinister motives - at the end of the day as the dev team we have to trust people to make their own judgement on what they do with their money so we leave everyone to make their own decision on this sort of thing, I just feel that it does need to be clear that the dev team is not involved here though so that an informed decision can be reached.

Aye. And to be even more clear, nobody within the community knows who I am, where I live, how do I look like, etc. Just some average details, likely an IP number, and it's equally fair to state those could just as well be easily faked. I'm perfectly honest in that I'm not yet ready to give up my full personal details, as per my reply in the above.

Having said such, I second what MaNI stated, and urge anyone to take head of his words. Rijk is the owner of the domain www.guldenshares.com, Jero is handling the statistics and has the private keys as well, payments are being processed by Nocks, and I am the one executing and handling the daily transactions (and thus, indeed have the final control over the money).

Quote from: vlom on April 18, 2016, 07:31:46 PM

mhh, and what is the difference between mining a scypt-rig by myself and sending you some btc?
i pay you once and get some nlg until you stopp paying? then it is like some odd cloud mining contract?

Kindly have a look at the following topic, where the project is explained: https://community.gulden.com/t/project-hybrid/1424

Quote from: Litesire on April 18, 2016, 07:36:31 PM

George if the community has your personal details then please send me your btc address for the 140 shares.

Kindly note the above in this post. The community has my details and the private keys, though not my personal details Wink

If Guldenshares is still something you would like to join, then direct payments cannot be accepted. Guldenshares.com is not owned by me, I have only limited access on viewing the statistics of the participants (their Gulden wallet address, and how many shares each has). In order to have the database properly functioning and correctly updated, all purchases will have to be made through Guldenshares.com.

Quote from: Litesire on April 18, 2016, 08:05:13 PM

I am going to take a step back from buying the shares , the dev team and one member of the community in personal message said George is anonymous. This person said he does trust George but I am too risk averse for this.

No problem at all; I get that a lot, and perfectly understand Wink