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Oct 6th, 2016 at 12:08 am (Q)
Open letter from Bruce Fenton, former president of Bitcoin Foundation and long time enthusiast and activist in the cryptocurrency space (posted 30 minutes ago in GitHub):
(Note: anyone may use and fwd to any authority):
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Draft.md
letter-crypto
Dear ______,
We the undersigned are writing to you to express concern over what we believe to be the illegal business practices of a business known as OneCoin.
Collectively we are a group of leading technical developers, business people, adopters, investors and others active in the field of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.
We believe that the existence of fraud, theft and scams by those purporting to be in our industry is not only harmful to the public but also to this technology. In short, we believe OneCoin is engaging in classic fraudulent behavior but placing it in the wrapper of this legitimate and legal technology while never actually using the technology.
OneCoin is a very large global network with many patricipants. OneCoin purports tversicrypto currency, but after investigation by several active technologists, economic experts and executives from the crypto currency industry, we believe the venture to be a fraudulent effort to rob investors based on dishonest marketing and fraudulent tactics.
Specific concerns with OneCoin include the following:
OneCoin promises extremely high rates of return bordering on the mathematically impossible
OneCoin claims to be backed with a “blockchain” there is no evidence that there really is such a blockchain by any readable definition
OneCoin has lack of transparency as to what exactly it is offering to its investors
since OneCoin claims that proceeds will only be released after months or years it makes victims less likely to be aware they have been victims
OneCoin claims to be based on blockchain technology but there is no evidence that any such blockchain has been developed
the marketing meetings and presentations of OneCoin make use of unsubstantiated claims and misleading information (such as the use of stock footage claiming it was “mining” a cryptocurrency
the tokens generated in the OneCoin project are locked up for a significant period of time, causing investors to believe there will be future value to these in some years when this is extremely unlikely, probably impossible
OneCoin places arbitrary values on fictitious tokens which do not have a relation to real value on any major exchange or other free market or independent measurement of value
We request that OneCoin be investigated for violation of existing laws and that your agency consider issuing a consumer warning.
Sincerely,
[Please add your name and either company or a couple words on background / credentials)]
SOURCE:
https://github.com/BruceFenton/letter-crypto/blob/master/Draft.md