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HitBTC rumored insolvent: https://zycrypto.com/hitbtc-rumoured-to-be-insolvent-as-customers-decry-inability-to-withdraw-crypto-funds/
I have a small amount of BNK on that exchange and can't withdraw them either.
Its time to raise the curtain and reveal the upcoming addition to Bankera Exchange one of the most popular cryptocurrencies at the moment, Tether! This time we are awarding two contest winners who were both first to guess correctly. Congratulations to Lokman Uddin Mamun from Facebook and Nick Spierings from Twitter.
Bitfinex secretly siphoned $850M out of Tether's funds to conceal their losses: https://btcbrain.com/2019/04/ny-ag-alleges-bitcoin-exchange-misused-tether-to-hide-850m/
Bankera, consider adding another, publicly audited stablecoin.
Glad to see a decent spokesperson finally getting hired. Someone with actual experience was so very badly needed, it's a shame it took so long.
What is the procedure for selling BNK on HitBTC?
you hit the sell button, lol
Bankera has invited a critical investor who is preparing a lawsuit against Bankera.
Info from Telegram:
Ingrid Schuurmans:
Hi all, this group is meant for all Bankera investors who have lost faith in the team. Right now we are preparing for a class action for which you can register with me. Info will be here and on FB, Bankera ICO Investors Community.
Info from the bankera chat.
joye October 9, 2018 10:58 AM
Guys, our team decided to invite one of the Bankera's community contributors to our office in Vilnius to meet a team and see on what we are working on now. Community member Ingrid was selected to receive an official invitation. We do believe that Ingrid will be happy to accept it and share her experience with a community as well! 😉
Info from Telegram:
Ingrid Schuurmans:
Hi all, this group is meant for all Bankera investors who have lost faith in the team. Right now we are preparing for a class action for which you can register with me. Info will be here and on FB, Bankera ICO Investors Community.
Info from the bankera chat.
joye October 9, 2018 10:58 AM
Guys, our team decided to invite one of the Bankera's community contributors to our office in Vilnius to meet a team and see on what we are working on now. Community member Ingrid was selected to receive an official invitation. We do believe that Ingrid will be happy to accept it and share her experience with a community as well! 😉
So, Vytautas is gonna wine & dine some antsy "community member" who wanted her Lambo & Gucci bag yesterday. It's not a bad way to play it, but Vytautas - you don't have to go all the way with her if you don't want to
No one will blame you 
The exchange isn't a problem as is. The problem lies in the fact that they are moving away further and further from the original plan. The plan was to make a crypto bank! BANKERA not EXCHANGERA If you have read everything correctly i have asked multiple times if and when they applied for a banking license.
The answer to that was:
that it would be a waiste of time and resrouces to go and get a banking license because Pervesk already has one.
Next to that we always have been told that pervesk was part of the whole "eco-system", but yesterday they told us there will be no wr from Pervesk.
So to keep it simpel. The revenue which should make our wr is now done by a sister company which they can let charge every price as they are the owners and whatver goos into Pervesk they don't have to share with you and me.
And for Bankera there will be no banking license what was the idea what attracted me to the project.
The answer to that was:
that it would be a waiste of time and resrouces to go and get a banking license because Pervesk already has one.
Next to that we always have been told that pervesk was part of the whole "eco-system", but yesterday they told us there will be no wr from Pervesk.
So to keep it simpel. The revenue which should make our wr is now done by a sister company which they can let charge every price as they are the owners and whatver goos into Pervesk they don't have to share with you and me.
And for Bankera there will be no banking license what was the idea what attracted me to the project.
From the whitepaper:
To achieve this, Bankera will not only become a regulated European bank, but
also will seek to become authorised issuer and acquirer of payment cards and obtain
banking licenses in key jurisdictions to avoid dependency on the correspondent bank
services, which are extremely fragile nowadays as identified by the World Bank when
they concluded that correspondent banking relationships (CBRs) are declining due to
several factors including AML risk or reduction of risk.
Are you saying they have gone on record completely changing their tune about not wanting to rely on correspondent banks (like Pervesk) and abandoned the goal to become a fully licenced bank?
I'm not saying anything. This is what i'm trying to find out, if you read the last few pages this is the conclusion one might draw. But you tell me what you make out of it?
Unless you can produce concrete evidence Bankera has gone 180 on their promise to become a fully licenced bank, you're just contributing to the FUD. Running around like chicken little yelling "Is the sky falling?!?!?! Is it?!?!?!?" is not helping anybody.
The exchange isn't a problem as is. The problem lies in the fact that they are moving away further and further from the original plan. The plan was to make a crypto bank! BANKERA not EXCHANGERA If you have read everything correctly i have asked multiple times if and when they applied for a banking license.
The answer to that was:
that it would be a waiste of time and resrouces to go and get a banking license because Pervesk already has one.
Next to that we always have been told that pervesk was part of the whole "eco-system", but yesterday they told us there will be no wr from Pervesk.
So to keep it simpel. The revenue which should make our wr is now done by a sister company which they can let charge every price as they are the owners and whatver goos into Pervesk they don't have to share with you and me.
And for Bankera there will be no banking license what was the idea what attracted me to the project.
The answer to that was:
that it would be a waiste of time and resrouces to go and get a banking license because Pervesk already has one.
Next to that we always have been told that pervesk was part of the whole "eco-system", but yesterday they told us there will be no wr from Pervesk.
So to keep it simpel. The revenue which should make our wr is now done by a sister company which they can let charge every price as they are the owners and whatver goos into Pervesk they don't have to share with you and me.
And for Bankera there will be no banking license what was the idea what attracted me to the project.
From the whitepaper:
To achieve this, Bankera will not only become a regulated European bank, but
also will seek to become authorised issuer and acquirer of payment cards and obtain
banking licenses in key jurisdictions to avoid dependency on the correspondent bank
services, which are extremely fragile nowadays as identified by the World Bank when
they concluded that correspondent banking relationships (CBRs) are declining due to
several factors including AML risk or reduction of risk.
Are you saying they have gone on record completely changing their tune about not wanting to rely on correspondent banks (like Pervesk) and abandoned the goal to become a fully licenced bank?
Ansault thanks for that. I suppose it depends on the interpretation of currency exchange. My interpretation was an extension of SC functionality as a brokerage exchange converting fiat between fiat/ fiat to the big crypto's, crypto back fiat. A trading platform/exchange for just crypto is a different beast all together IMHO.
Given the crypto/blockchain background of this project, I don't think it's a stretch to take it to mean crypto-centric exchange. Spectrocoin's platform was already operational during the ICO and so was the (trading) exchange demo, which any ICO participant could test drive. I don't see any kind of misleading or obfuscation there.
Why is the exchange suddenly a problem anyway? It's a revenue generating mechanism that benefits all token holders.
The exchange was never in the original whitepaper
That's not true, the exchange is first mentioned on page 4 in the whitepaper:
The aim of the ICO is not to test a speculative idea, but to provide the capital to enable Bankera as a
product to expand its existing services to compete with existing banks as an equal
across all areas of operation including payments, lending, currency exchange, and investments.
This is totally incorrect! This was confirmed and then reaffirmed by Bankera's own founders. The exchange was not in the original roadmap and subsequently added because they had a change of direction. When did you come to the party?
I guess people just wanna believe something different...
Next they are going to tell us that Lon Wong is still an advisor :-)
just quoting the whitepaper...
The exchange was never in the original whitepaper
That's not true, the exchange is first mentioned on page 4 in the whitepaper:
The aim of the ICO is not to test a speculative idea, but to provide the capital to enable Bankera as a
product to expand its existing services to compete with existing banks as an equal
across all areas of operation including payments, lending, currency exchange, and investments.
Re: [ANN] SPECTROCOIN.COM Cryptocurrency Exchange, Blockchain Wallet, Prepaid Card
As it is not from our side, we cannot know why exactly they are taking all this long. The cards are not just suspended on SpectroCoin, but on all services that are using the cards' provider services. Once they resolve everything they are having maintenance with, the cards will be working on SpectroCoin.
Have you been in contact with AlliedWallet? Are they giving you the same "maintenance" bs runaround? Have you considered legal recourse since no techincal issue takes 45 days to resolve?
My friend has the plastic card suspended without reason. The support tell that don't see reason for this and open a ticket for the appropriate department. There is almost one week without answer from any department. She don't have an account at bitcointalk. "Bankera" what needed to do to have news about this problem?
Well, I have some news. I contacted Spectrocoin's virtual card provider AlliedWallet (https://www.alliedwallet.com) and was told that MasterCard suspended the virtual card I was using for reasons unknown. They also wanted a copy of my id and utility bill. My Spectrocoin account is fully verified, seems completely redundant having to go through yet another KYC process. I would rather just close the card and transfer the balance back to my SC account.
Allied Wallet is 'probed' by FED -> https://apnews.com/4a72ce1729274f80965d6e4dd2ec4bff
Allied Wallet Review ... not good ... (scroll down on this page to see comments) -> https://www.cardpaymentoptions.com/credit-card-processors/allied-wallet/
a CEO with the vatican ... 'mobster' with 'mobsters'
... -> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/allied-wallet-andy-khawaja-awarded-100000607.html?more about Allied Wallet ->
http://www.therepublic.com/2018/08/02/us-political-donor-allied-wallet/I just saw Tadas from Bankera make a mind blowing statement in the chat. He claims that they never announced the cards because "we had to be sure all is good" and "**** happens".
Translation: they made the cards silently available and anyone who signed up for one became an unknowing guinea pig in their card provider experiment.
When things went south with Allied Wallet, they just left people wondering why their cards don't work. No attempt to contact the card holders to inform them. Not even an email saying "hey, we're having issues with our cards, please hold off using your card until we've resolved them."
Nothing. Complete radio silence.
It's like house Bankera is run by a baby, who hasn't learned how to communicate properly, bounces off of walls and leaves a loaded diaper on the coffee table as a surprise.
Our team is currently working on the integration of cards from a different provider, while also working on our own card solution. As we have more news about it, we will post them.
That is super nice, but what are you doing today to help those who have lost access to their funds, because your partner suspended their cards?
My friend has the plastic card suspended without reason. The support tell that don't see reason for this and open a ticket for the appropriate department. There is almost one week without answer from any department. She don't have an account at bitcointalk. "Bankera" what needed to do to have news about this problem?
Well, I have some news. I contacted Spectrocoin's virtual card provider AlliedWallet (https://www.alliedwallet.com) and was told that MasterCard suspended the virtual card I was using for reasons unknown. They also wanted a copy of my id and utility bill. My Spectrocoin account is fully verified, seems completely redundant having to go through yet another KYC process. I would rather just close the card and transfer the balance back to my SC account.
Thanks for contacting them .It has to be spectrocoin duty buy they don't care.Problem is that there is no unload option on cards
I did some probing into Alliedwallets background. Nothing good turned up. This is how they made headlines a couple of weeks ago:
Posted: Aug. 3, 2018 7:00 am Updated: Aug. 3, 2018 1:22 pm
NEW YORK (AP) Federal authorities looking into the illegal sale of prescription drugs online are probing the business practices of payment processor Allied Wallet, according to a person with direct knowledge of the case. Allied Wallet's CEO has donated millions of dollars to both political parties in recent years.
The Associated Press reported Thursday that Ahmad "Andy" Khawaja's company has helped pornographers, shady debt collectors and offshore gamblers access the international banking system, often by using dummy corporations formed abroad and fake websites to disguise the underlying business.
The AP obtained thousands of internal records that showed the company did so while Khawaja, Allied Wallet and top executives contributed at least $6 million to Democratic and Republican candidates and groups. The donations earned Khawaja access to Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign and a post-election Oval Office visit with Donald Trump.
Now, criminal investigators from the Federal Drug Administration who scrutinize online pharmacies are examining records related to Khawaja's Los Angeles-based company, according to a grand jury subpoena reviewed by the AP.
Full article
They also had an episode with the FBI back in 2010:
Allied Wallet reached a civil settlement with the FBI in 2010 for a sum of $13.3 million, which the FBI had seized in an online gambling raid. According to the FBI, Allied Wallet knowingly partnered with a Scottsdale, Arizona-based bank to process offshore wire transfers and other payments related to gambling through an Isle of Man company called Pokerstars. Allied Wallet forfeited the total amount seized by the FBI and has not been cited for similar illegal activity since the ruling.
And then there is this:
The second issue we found was that Allied Wallet appeared to be operating a website designed to look like that of the Colorado DMV. The website, which had a .org domain, contained language specifying that it was privately owned and was not affiliated with the DMV, but this text was not featured prominently, especially when compared to the large, linked text encouraging visitors to renew or replace their drivers licenses through the website. The site charged visitors $14.95 to renew or replace their licenses and was not shy about collecting visitors credit card numbers. At the very least, it appeared to be at the very least an attempt to dupe unsuspecting visitors into paying Allied Wallet unnecessarily for a service that is actually provided by the government.
AW and cards issued by them are probably on all kinds of watch/blacklists, which explains their short lifespan and other problems. Spectrocoin either made a very poor decision when they decided to partner up with AW or there is some kind of connection between SC and AW that I'm not privy to. Whatever the case, I recommend steer clear of those AlliedWallet cards or be ready to have your balance frozen.
Anyone else having problems accessing their virtual card balance on Spectrocoin?
I always had that problem together with card load.From few days cards are not working
Support chat is saying all the same that it is his provider problem but i think different
It is not safe keep bigger amount of money on cards even if cards will be back
that problem is repeating from over one month
That's my conclusion as well. Those cards are not reliable. Don't keep large amounts of funds on them.
My friend has the plastic card suspended without reason. The support tell that don't see reason for this and open a ticket for the appropriate department. There is almost one week without answer from any department. She don't have an account at bitcointalk. "Bankera" what needed to do to have news about this problem?
Well, I have some news. I contacted Spectrocoin's virtual card provider AlliedWallet (https://www.alliedwallet.com) and was told that MasterCard suspended the virtual card I was using for reasons unknown. They also wanted a copy of my id and utility bill. My Spectrocoin account is fully verified, seems completely redundant having to go through yet another KYC process. I would rather just close the card and transfer the balance back to my SC account.
Current BNK daily volume is really low, less than 100k.
But I can bet that it will increase up to 5 times after Bankera exchange takes off.
So hodl and stay tuned.
But I can bet that it will increase up to 5 times after Bankera exchange takes off.
So hodl and stay tuned.
Less than 100K/day? Where are you seeing that? BNK/ETH is showing 455K last HOUR on HitBtc.
Current BNK Volumes from HitBTC:
BNK/ETH: 3.4 ETH
BNK/BTC: 5.7 BTC
Check yourself.
yea, "volume" usually means the number of individual shares or tokens traded. when talking about dollar or euro or eth volume (price multiplied by number of tokens traded), it should be explicitly stated.