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Bitmain Antpool not paying account balance
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drm88
on 20/12/2017, 04:06:03 UTC
I have about 40 USD worth of Dash not getting sent to my wallet. Has anyone else had this issue and if so how did you fix it? Any help is appreciated!
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Bitmain Antpool 24 hour earnings are ZERO
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drm88
on 18/12/2017, 11:06:11 UTC
I have just started mining recently and have been mining with Bitmain's antpool for a awhile now and noticed that over the past 2-3 days my d3s 24 hour earnings have dropped dramatically and in the past 24 hours have gone to all the way to zero. Maybe I am being paranoid but I am wondering if I am being scammed here because my hashrate is well over 80 GH/S and I know that their pool accounts for around 40% of the total DASH network. Anyone else ever had similar issues with antpool and were they ever resolved? If not is there any other x11 pools people can recommend?
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I think Waves Platform stole my bitcoin
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drm88
on 11/11/2017, 00:03:57 UTC
I sent btc from my waves account to my bitcoin.com wallet and it completely disappeared. No sign of it after 8-9 hours. I copy and pasted my address into the send and instead of going to my wallet it was sent to    3PAs2qSeUAfgqSKS8LpZPKGYEjJKcud9Djr which is apparently belongs to the waves platform in some capacity
- https://support.wavesplatform.com/forums/2-knowledge-base/topics/3455-how-does-the-bitcoin-gateway-work/

I have tried contacting them and got no response. I really think that they are stealing coins from small traders.
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Re: Bitmain purchase with wire transfer expired - scam or not?
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drm88
on 21/09/2017, 19:59:54 UTC
It is hard not to be worried right now because I just found out that my bank amended my wire transfer to go to 'Bitmain Technologies AND Limited' instead of 'Bitmain Technologies Limited'. I have no idea why they did that, but it looks like my money may be gone at this point as both sides are refusing to cooperate and help me figure out this situation. Looks like an intentional sabotage from my bank, which has been trying to screw anyone involved with cryptocurrencies and incessantly insisting it is a 'fraud' and a 'ponzi scheme'.
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Re: Bitmain purchase with wire transfer expired - scam or not?
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drm88
on 21/09/2017, 06:39:57 UTC
Disorganized? Interesting way of describing things.

I called their U.S. phone number and a robotic directory operator tells me they are bitmain. I go through all the options and get a person (after several tries) and the woman on the other end tells me that not only are they not bitmain but that they don't know where bitmain is located or what their Chinese phone number is, which is very strange considering the robot voice seemed to say otherwise.

I then called their Chinese phone number and when they finally picked up it was possibly the most hostile customer service I have ever experienced in terms of being made to felt like I was some sort of subhuman harassing my superior by simply calling to find out about my order being expired after I paid. Right off the bat the person on the other end was talking to me in a venomous tone like I had done something to piss her off just by calling, almost like she wanted to start screaming at me and cussing me out. I was extremely polite as well so I couldn't figure out what her issue was or why she seemed so angry. Anyways, I tried to figure out what the issue was and she just read me some message telling me to 'wait 7 days wait patiently' and then hung up. Not very comforting.

I tried calling a second time another day to see if I would have a different experience and I didn't, same type of hostility and arrogance. Seems to be a thing with these people.

The emails weren't much better. I have emailed/contacted support 8 times now and they have only responded 3 times and 2 of those were emails telling me to 'wait 7 days' and to 'be patient', while the other one was a link to an article saying that same exact thing in much more detail. Seems like what a scammer would tell you do - "wait patiently while we get your wire transfer and disappear leaving you with no recourse" - and after the initial experience with the American phone number and the people claiming not to be bitmain and the hostility from the Chinese side of the operation....well, this doesn't sit very well with me. Maybe that is just how the Chinese do business? I don't know.

Anyways, that being said, this is my first time doing business with Bitmain, let alone a Chinese company. I don't know if they are a scam or not. I am just trying to figure out if this is the norm and if I should or should not be worried. I have done business with Russians before and when things were going like this it usually ended up being a scam so I'm feeling uneasy.

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Bitmain purchase with wire transfer expired - scam or not?
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drm88
on 19/09/2017, 22:56:33 UTC
How long do they usually take? It's been 2 weeks for me and I haven't heard anything from them. They are just ignoring me it looks like. Anyone else have similar issues? If so how long did it take for this issue to get resolved and how did you manage to get them to listen to you?
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Re: Is Bitmain pulling an exit scam?
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drm88
on 18/09/2017, 19:32:16 UTC
If you think like that, I think it's impossible because china just banned bitcoin trading and not prohibits the sale of mining hardware, did you had taken legal steps because you send money through bank transfer, I think you have strong enough evidence to prove that they want trying to commit fraud as you allege but honestly I do not believe they do that.
Nothing is impossible when it comes to the scale of Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency scams/fails. Just look at the Mt.Gox or Bitfinex, they both top exchanges that disappointed everyone.
I am not saying that Bitmain is a scam, and considered their current strong position I wouldn't say so. In their defence, I say that bank transfers of all types can have delayed confirmation times.
Still, it is the best to reach their official help desk first then start a thread here where basically no one has access to their internal system and we can only speculate.


Well, I did try contacting their support and got blown off no less than 7 times now, and I tried opening a thread on their forum and posted the SWIFT and other transaction proof and got no replies as of yet. This is my first time doing business with a Chinese company of any kind so maybe this is the norm and I'm just not used to it (we are quite spoiled here in the U.S. in regards to customer service lol) but it isn't very comforting to have sent them a bitcoin and 1500+ USD in a wire transfer and get ignored like I'm a nobody. For most people that is a lot of money, myself included, and it is bad business to get cash from someone and just blow them off.

As for the bank transfer having delays....I bought into that until the 10th day (today is the 14th). I went to my bank and confirmed everything was legitimate and correct and then contacted bitmain again and got ignored once again. My bank is telling me to wait until Wednesday U.S. East coast time and if everything isn't resolved by then they said they would have a way of getting my wire transfer reversed (hopefully).  

As for Mt.Gox, I think that is a different thing altogether, specifically because of Mark Karpeles and his involvement with Silk Road and organized crime. It isn't really fair to compare a mining operation like Bitmain to an international criminal / potential terrorist and his plot to get rich quick.
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Re: Is Bitmain pulling an exit scam?
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drm88
on 18/09/2017, 17:26:55 UTC
I agree about contacting fellow buyers, but it won't make much of a difference I think. Bitmain is making money hand over fist and there are certainly enough people profiting from all of this for the issue to be ignored by potential buyers. I really feel the best course of action is to get enough people to report them as scammers if the same thing happens to them. The various agencies can't really ignore these things if enough of it is happening.
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Re: Is Bitmain pulling an exit scam?
by
drm88
on 18/09/2017, 07:56:49 UTC
I've tried contacting them on their zendesk support system and emailing them and have even tried calling both their U.S. and Chinese phone numbers and have been repeatedly blown off and ignored. At this point I am 90% sure they scammed (everything seems to point in that direction) and will probably be reporting this as an international scam to the FBI and FTC as it seems like the only course of action left at this point.
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Is Bitmain pulling an exit scam?
by
drm88
on 14/09/2017, 15:36:37 UTC
Just bought an antminer D3 on 9/5/17 and sent them a wire transfer for 1521.41 USD, went to the bank and got the SWIFT and everything which I uploaded, and then my order's status changed to expired and within hours Bitmain started taking new orders of D3s and L3+s, which some people are claiming are the 'expired' orders of previous purchases, which I am afraid might include mine. I tried emailing them several times and got automatic emails linking me to a 'help' article that doesn't do anything to help me and restricts anyone from commenting or asking for help, so I went to the bank again and confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt that they got the money. Apparently I am not the only person to be dealing with this either, it seems like this is a growing trend in the past 2-3 months. Quite a few people are dealing with this, and since China seems to have just banned bitcoin trading it seems like they might be tempted to get as many USD wire transfers as possible and just not fulfill the orders and then claim they are unable to due to the new ban. What is everyone's thoughts on this? I am really not sure if I am being paranoid, but I find it very suspect that they are claiming they can't confirm my wire transfer within a few days when they can confirmed BTC and LTC orders within an hour.