I reckon the exit scam is still in the works.  Most likely, the new owners have been setting it up since FBC BV changed hands (my best guess is this happened sometime in the spring of 2023) and they're going to let the domain lapse in October and run away with the money.  It's possible there will be a mass banwave of users from the countries prohibited by the TOS before that, which would likely be the majority of FBC users because the list includes the United States, and that would give them a "legitimate" basis to keep most of the money they're going to steal.

Somehow I'm not particularly inclined to trust that someone named "fbtcvip" is delivering unbiased and objective news about FBC, but this looks convincing.  I'm still taking it with a grain of salt though

It seems they've changed the FUN savings program to only 10% APY instead of 25%, hopefully that doesn't affect my locked FUN.  It's also displaying that I have membership benefits, shockingly, but it says I get 1 WOF spin per day instead of the 13 I should be getting, and it doesn't seem to be actually giving me this alleged WOF spin.

I'm guessing that every so often they randomly ban someone with a bunch of funds stored, make up an arbitrary reason, and take the money.  Seems like exactly the kind of thing they'd do.  They've probably got some garbage about "we may terminate your account for any reason at any time" in the terms of use that lets them get away with it.

I've noticed your roadmap is missing a couple very important tourist destinations, like Paying-Out-Premium-Benefits City and Renewing-The-Domain-Registrationsburg.  You might wanna stop by those on your little journey, they're not too far out of your way.

A bunch of people are saying they're getting their WOF spins credited now but I'm still not getting mine.  What gives?  Could it have something to do with the number of them, maybe?  I'm supposed to be getting 13 a day, maybe they're only paying out for people who have less?

Well, look who decided to grace us with their presence.  As long as you're playing around with this pump-and-dump nonsense, could you maybe also look into giving out the at least a hundred thousand spins that you collectively owe the users of this site, or calling either of the last two Lambo winners?  Or tell the folks upstairs to stop lying to us about FBC not changing hands?  Or explain why you're blithering on about "Q1 2026" when you've already made it abundantly clear that the site isn't even making it to Halloween?  You're just going to pivot completely to FUN-related stuff without any fanfare, aren't you?

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Zero unclaimed spins, huh?

I still haven't gotten any of mine, so I'm guessing it's completely random or arbitrary which users it's coming back for.  I'm owed several hundred by this point and I doubt I'll ever receive any of them before the site shuts down in October

Maybe that's their idea of an April Fools' Day prank?

Better idea, guys, maybe your prank should be fixing the site and keeping it fixed!  That would sure get us good, I bet we'd get a real kick out of that one

I wish I could, but I was naïve and foolish and locked half a million FUN that won't reach maturity until after the site shuts down so I'm kind of SOL on this one.  I bought them at 2 sats so I could've made a pretty penny off of this if only I'd just not locked it

But if the current owners really do care, that raises a ton of new questions about how they've been handling things.  Why was CSFBC completely silent from last August until the beginning of March when there have constantly been issues in that time?  Why are they insisting certain issues don't exist?  Why, when asked directly if there are any plans to renew the site's domain, did CSFBC actively ignore the question?  If the current owners care enough about their reputation to have someone run damage control on Bitcointalk, why don't they also care enough to put out a statement saying "we're not going to run away with your money on October 10" or "here's what actually happened to the other FBC spokespeople" or even just a simple apology for the past several months of nonsense?  If there are codebase issues they can't fix, why haven't they put a hiring page up to try and find someone who can?  If the site did change hands and the current owners really do care, why didn't CSFBC tell the truth about it?  What are they trying to hide?  If the owners actually care, then this set of circumstances indicates a truly appalling amount of incompetence from everyone involved, and I honestly don't think that's the case.

Since this hasn't been answered in a week, despite CSFBC actively posting and addressing website downtime in that time, I'm going to interpret it as an official statement from FBC that they're planning to shut down when the domain registration lapses.  I'd advise people to withdraw as soon as possible and get this information out however they can—tell your friends, post on other sites, contact crypto news outlets, whatever you can do to get the word out there that FBC is shutting down and probably taking everyone's money with them.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, the site has gone down yet again!

It's only a bank run if they actually process any of the withdrawals.  They could just as easily run off with all the money instead

I can confirm, loading on a browser where I'm not logged in leads to the login page but trying to log in takes you to the error page.  There's something fishy going on here, I'm sure of it

But still no answer to my question about whether or not you guys are renewing the domain registration, I see...

Down again (for me at least)

Oh, they've got a "back-end" issue, all right: their coding is ass!

In all seriousness, though, this is going to end up being a pretty bad look for FBC whether or not they fix whatever broke during that downtime.  If they don't fix it, that would be a new and frankly impressive level of negligence.  If they DO fix it, it means that this whole time they could've fixed any of the smaller, easier-to-fix problems that people have been complaining about for ages and are actively choosing not to.  Which one do you folks think is more likely?

Oh, this is a bad sign.  This is a REALLY bad sign.  I can't think of any reason this would happen unless they're really desperate to prevent people from dumping their FUN the moment it's unlocked.  If that's true, it likely means that either they're in a really precarious financial position or they're planning to take the money and run sometime in the very near future, possibly both.  I suppose it's possible that the FUN-unlocking system isn't automated and the person who manually does it is busy, but that seems like kind of a silly thing not to automate.