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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 31/07/2014, 19:37:26 UTC
wow. still nothing from havelock?
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 29/07/2014, 21:56:44 UTC
at this point havelock really needs to make a statement. investors have had no credible information, no answers to any questions and the promised reports have never been issued. this is getting really embarrassing to all involved. at this point, one has to assume that the company doesn't exist and Havelock should post an update on what it intends to do with the funds in escrow.

given that Havelock owns shares in this . . . their silence and withholding of material information is very . . . troubling from an ethical point-of-view.

Update is under review by Havelock.

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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 17/07/2014, 16:23:14 UTC
so is this dead?

no replies to any questions. no financial reports. nothing.

at what point does this thing de-list with funds in escrow going back to shareholders?
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 11/07/2014, 17:13:18 UTC
and now another week? is havelock really sitting on material information - for weeks?

someone's just gotta pull the plug on this one . . .
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Re: [HAVELOCK] PETAMINE - 1,150 TH/S HASH RATE (15GH/S per Unit)
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zevtiefenbach
on 07/07/2014, 18:03:03 UTC
Indeed, just what I was thinking, even the voting is rigged.

there's quite a difference between the vote being "rigged" and the vote not being transparent. instead of making accusations, we could just ask that crytpx make the results public.
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 04/07/2014, 21:00:43 UTC
Update still under review? That's a long time for Havelock to sit on some pretty important information . . .
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Re: KNC Miner [NEPTUNE 3000GHS] GROUP BUY ALL SOLDOUT
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zevtiefenbach
on 26/05/2014, 01:11:10 UTC
1Q6HZqiZDBP36vVn8WQCDJNpP3XQkyj1tR

2 shares

thanks for the transparency and efforts.

did you miss me? no transfer showing up in my wallet.

edit: got it, thanks!
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Re: KNC Miner [NEPTUNE 3000GHS] GROUP BUY ALL SOLDOUT
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zevtiefenbach
on 22/05/2014, 16:59:05 UTC
1Q6HZqiZDBP36vVn8WQCDJNpP3XQkyj1tR

2 shares

thanks for the transparency and efforts.
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 13/05/2014, 17:03:27 UTC
Just to do a bit of math. . .

 

Funds
124 BTC (100 BTC held by Havelock)


124 BTC (total holdings/value of company - decreasing monthly . . .) x 20 % (% of total equity belonging to shareholders) = 24.8 BTC (total equity of shareholders)

24.8 BTC (total shareholder equity) / 62164 (total shares outstanding) = 0.000398944726852 (equity value per share)

present trading value is at about 0.0013. so, in spite of being worth only about 26% of IPO pricing,  there's still a long way for this thing to drop before it starts getting close to its cash value (and the cash value appears to be dropping by about 20 BTC per month).

can havelock or mintspare let us know at what rate and under what conditions they will disperse the remaining funds in escrow? will they continue to bankrollgalfry until there's simply nothing left?
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 13/05/2014, 15:55:47 UTC
Hi Galfry,

What a disappointing update.

You promise investors monthly reports, disappear for several months and then come back with earnings that are about 10% of projection and a statement that you will now move to quarterly reports? Do you have any respect for the terms that you laid out in your prospectus or announced on this thread. You make big proclamation and then deliver close to nothing. Surely now that it is mid-May you would be able to post at a minimum statements from March?

A few questions:

How will you deliver weekly dividends if you are reporting financial results quarterly? A big part of your original pitch was to deliver 40 % of profits to shareholders (at your discretion).

Do you presently project there being any profits in the foreseeable future? When? How will you distribute them to shareholders?

Can you indicate the breakdown of how the approximately $7000/ month in salary is being spent? Can you tell us who is on payroll? Can you indicate which staff are accepting equity instead of salaries?

The projections in your prospectus seem to be wildly optimistic and implausible. Will you be releasing a revised projection that is more in-line with your operational reality?

You had promised to make your operations transparent and post your wallet. Will you do this?




Mintspare Update - Friday, February 14th

Lowering Costs
Our costs have been and will be significantly lower than projected, in part due to significantly budgeted furniture & computer equipment, opting out of a cargo truck and instead using an employee vehicle, and paying some employees fully with my personal equity instead of salaries.

Dividends
Dividends will be held back until our official launch in March. They will then be paid on a weekly basis.

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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 09/05/2014, 15:59:24 UTC
Just to be very clear. Last contact from MS was February 28th.

First financial statements were promised for beginning of March and then every month thereafter. Furthermore, there was a promise from MS to post their wallet address.

I think we're getting to the point of a material default on an investor covenant.

What happens when a company on public exchange doesn't feel their reports? They are de-listed. The public needs to know what's going on. Otherwise, the insiders who are in "constant contact" with the company are in an unfairly privileged situation. . .

I think based on the failure of the company to report anything at all about their operations, it becomes the duty of the exchange to disclose what they know.
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Re: [HAVELOCK] SCRYPT 10 GH/s hosted scrypt mining project by CRYPTX - IPO 7 MAY
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zevtiefenbach
on 06/05/2014, 16:36:47 UTC
I don't imply it's a good or bad investment, everyone should do their own due diligence, but from my experience with investing in btc securities (and cryptx is no exception by far)  everyone has a lot activiti and a explenation for everything when they are asking for money. At that stage things are teoretical, but after they receice that money and things get real, then comes the silence. Explenations disapears if something may not go as planned and we are lucky if we get a short comment once a week. This is the most frustrating thing with btc securities for me.
Of course you may turn a profit, of course you may turn a loss, everyone expects that, but the way that theese CEO's change their atitudine after the IPO money have been raised is what really boder me, and I'm sure I'm not speaking only for myself.

Though, I generally agree with what you're saying here, I don't think it's true with respect to Cryptx.

i've been an investor with PETA and i've been really happy with the weekly updates and the respect for post-IPO accountability. Cryptx has done more for PETA shareholders than promised during the recent Havelock IPO.
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Re: [HAVELOCK] PETAMINE 700 TH/s or 8.68 GH/s per share
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zevtiefenbach
on 30/04/2014, 01:35:31 UTC
The fuck are you talking about?
This describes quite well what i think about your posts. First, you insult me because i ask for sources, then:
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And of course they exclude PCB costs because we are using the capital from the IPO for PCBs.
You confirm the reason why i was asking for a source. That the $2.2 number tells only part of the story, the actual cost per GH/s is higher.


And after you confirmed my skepticism, you cover your escape with more insults. It's not very effective..

i've been quietly watching this board for quite a while and i gotta admit that i can't figure out what you're talking about Darkstone2. I'm as skeptical as anyone but the issues that you are raising questions about are completely clear and obvious to me (and apparently everyone else . . . ). The $2.2 # represents the price of the units ordered from China. They are coming ready to hash with about a week of delivery time. No issues. No need for PCBs. Nothing. It is completely straightforward. Cryptx has been utterly clear about the use of the re-investment funds. There has been no ambiguity on this at all.

I can understand why people are so frustrated with your commentary.As far as I can tell, there is no substance to your critique at all. The more forcefully you raise these non-existant issues, the less credibility you have with the public-at-large.

Just my 2 cents from following the thread. . . 
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 29/04/2014, 22:28:23 UTC
double dump.

these seem to be very critical questions to me. . .  insider trading plays the edge of a lot of ethical boundaries. how and when you're trading these stocks is critical to be able to assess the legality of what you're doing and whether your exchange has any credibility. . .


Bump?
Since MS has not issued any financial statements, is it safe to assume that none of the funds were dispersed?  You're still holding all of the raised capital?

Also, thank you for acknowledging that you do trade in the offerings on your "Platform."  Were the 733 shares purchased during the IPO, and/or ware they taken in lieu of fee payments?
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 29/04/2014, 22:24:20 UTC
We act as a third party escrow service. And to answer your question Havelock Investments does not sell any of the Funds we currently list on our Site.

Full Disclosure: we currently own 733 Units in MS, current value is less than 1 Bitcoin. 

This is really fascinating stuff. You run the exchange, you own units of the equity, you have an exclusive and inside knowledge of their operations and you make promotional statements like this:

We have been working with Mintspare closely during the past few months and they have a bright future ahead of them.

So, it hard to tell if you're pumping so that you can dump your shares, or if you're making an honest assessment of the company based on your inside knowledge (because the rest of us thought this company was dead based on their activity and lack of response/accountability/transparency). hard to know what hat you're wearing.

seems to me, that you should just disclose exactly what you know about the company so that you're working on par with the rest of the investors in the community. for example, we have no idea what funds have been transferred from escrow to the company . . . this is very vital material information . . . ideally the company would report this stuff and we would all know (at the same time) but, at the moment, you seem to be the only party that has any access to any information about the company.

this seems very ugly to me.
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 29/04/2014, 18:13:26 UTC

We don't have any inside information that is not made public. We are in constant contact with them to make sure the company is active and making progress.



"The public" has been lead to believe that this forum would be the definitive place for accessing information on this company. Questions have been posed, no answers of any kind have been posted (for months!!!). So clearly you do have information that has not been made public. Ridiculous to say otherwise because no information has been made public by any means whatsoever.

You never answered whether you buy and sell these stocks . . .
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 29/04/2014, 17:57:33 UTC


We do hold the Bitcoins raised during their offering in escrow and only distribute those funds as needed.

That's reassuring. Could you let us know how much of the 310.82 raised via your IPO have been distributed to them?

We have been working with Mintspare closely during the past few months and they have a bright future ahead of them.


This is a little curious. Are you implying that you have inside information of a material nature? We, the rest of the investment community, has no access to any information on this company whatsoever. Do you guys buy and sell these stocks?
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 29/04/2014, 17:09:06 UTC

the longer-term solution is for Havelock to hold IPO funds in escrow and to actually do something proactive to protect their investors and build credibility for their exchange. a start-up goes to the public market for capital fine . . . let's just have a bit of oversight and have Havelock turn-over the funds on a draw-down basis that would comply with their published prospective. . .

other controls. . . a requirement for a publicly viewable wallet and monthly/quarterly financial statements. it seems pretty basic but, if a company doesn't comply with these requirements, they would risk de-listing. these kinds of controls exist on other exchanges and they make sense.

If Havelock halts trading, "investors" are left holding teh bag. 


someone is always going to be left holding the bag. . . but is it really ethical to be offering a forum (and collecting commissions) where people can buy MS when in all likelyhood MS does not really exist? based on the information on Havelock's website, one would think that you are buying into an existing operation. . .  and Havelock, while collecting commissions, and having promoted this company, takes no responsibility in helping "investors" determine whether this company actually exists or is just a fiction. . .
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 29/04/2014, 16:22:48 UTC

Sent Mintspare some of my electronics, and they've yet to credit me with BTC. It's been over a week...

Leads me to believe that this thing is cooked. My guess is that all of the coins that were set aside for bankrolling purchases are gone. I wonder what accountability Havelock has in this? They made a tidy commission on an IPO that has now has all appearances of being a scam - not that it didn't seem shady from day one.

I think it would be highly appropriate for Havelock to take some kind of proactive role in this . . . Like a statement saying something to the effect of: "we have requested Mintspare to provide financial statements and an accounting of all funds dispersed but, regrettably, we are no longer to contact the operator of this project . . . "

At what point does Havelock de-list? Maybe they'll just continue to collect more commissions as this thing trades down to 0.

And . . . Galfry Puechavy . . . remember the name . . . I have a feeling there will be a next time for this guy . . .
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
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zevtiefenbach
on 24/04/2014, 17:48:19 UTC
At first glance, this IPO seemed to offer very poor terms to investors, had a preposterous evaluation of itself and had financial projections that were absurdly un-plausible. An "investment opportunity" that you take to your rich uncle with the hope that he takes pity on you. Though evidently a very poor
"investment", i resisted the temptation to call it a scam . . .

Now, towards the end of April, with still no financials from February or March, with no operational updates, no projections/guidances, one has to wonder about the operator of this project, Galfry Puechavy. He has reneged on his promises to supply reports and transparency and has effectively disappeared with a good chunk of this communities BTC.

At best, he is woefully irresponsible and incompetent at overseeing a publicly traded company. At worst. . . another BTC charlatan.

Anyone in and around Miami that could take a look and see if anything is going on at their physical premise? I think earlier in this thread, Galfry had posted details of where he was setting up his "operations" . . .