Escrow is just a beard, without that magic word they'd have been denounced from day one. Still not sure what the angle is but I'm sure it's there somewhere.
Bait and switch, Kansas City Shuffle, whatnot. They could simply scalp the ones not going for escrow, or use their own validated escrow, there are ways.
Bait and switch, Kansas City Shuffle, whatnot. They could simply scalp the ones not going for escrow, or use their own validated escrow, there are ways.
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or 'Orama thinks it might be a delay scam, an indirect scam, to tie up money in a fictitious product so as to reduce the overall difficulty of the network, thus making existing miners overall more profitable.
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The surprising outcome to me, at this point, will be if Xcrowd is actually legitimately attempting to build a miner. We shall see.
That is also a possibility, but it's quite remote when you factor in what you know about the company(ies) and the principal. ATM, they sorely lack legitimacy. Let's hope they can dispel these doubts with concrete information.