From his reply, he said he came across a Bitcoin mining website that was shared via a YouTube video. The mining site mines Bitcoin in small quantities, which he decided to buy some mining power to accumulate faster. He successfully purchased one of the mining power worth $80, but the site eventually shut down a week later without allowing any withdrawals.
This story isn't new and I'm not surprised we still have victims falling for this type of scam. Their targets has to be newbie as those are the set of people that'll fall for this type of scam. The old members should already know about that there's nothing real with cloud mining because they're all scams or operating a big ponzi schemes that uses the money of new members to pay the old members and the cycle repeat in the same manner until the scam get exposed. Mining Bitcoin is now costly that $80 can't give you anything reasonable so why would someone buy $80 worth of mining power and expect to get profits if what he's engaged in isn't ponzi schemes. Your friend was a newbie and that's why he got scammed and this is a lesson for others to avoid quick money schemes.
I couldn't just leave him hanging with that mentality towards Bitcoin. I showed him some love by converting $10 worth of Bitcoin from my personal funds, sending it to him, and also sent him the BTT link so he can learn from a large Bitcoin community. I have done my part, and I repeat: there is no such thing as getting rich quick. I am glad he has joined the community, but wouldn't want to be mentioned.
Well this doesn't deserved to be announced, when you do good you don't have to blow your own horn. If the praises was coming from the affected users that'll be more reasonable but coming from you, it just seems like a cheap hurt for merit and to blow your own horn. Your thread mightn't have represented any of this things I have said but that's how it looks like. Next time when you do good keep quiet, this part of the thread wasn't necessary. Simply warning people about cloud mining scams would had been great without having to add this part and the large image.