Hey guys,I'm Steve, an early bitcoin advocate an bitcoin entrepeneur. I was the storeowner guy in the Rise and Rise of Bitcoin documentary (the guy that looks like Jeff Goldblum kinda). Anyway, there is this ponzi scheme company, Bitclub, that is opening meetups in various cities "educating" people on bitcoin. But what they're REALLY doing is selling a cloud mining ponzi scheme. Here's the story:Someone opened up a bitcoin related meetup in my area - http://bit.ly/1P47I5e and I joined. Then, one of their people contacted me. I have a small physical storefront devoted to bitcoin, and he said he was real excited about this, wanted to meet me, blah blah. But then he started spewing stuff about cloud mining and telling me shit that I knew was factually incorrect. And that's when I knew something was up. Also, he was giving me the whole "hard sell" over the phone, he just wouldn't take no for an answer. I finally hung up on him because he was a complete idiot.So I decided to attend the meetup the following Monday. I was the only one there. Some other guy, obviously a sales rep, came and was telling me how great cloud mining was blah blah and trying to get me to join this "bitclub" thing. He too, didn't know what he was talking about. He didn't even know what the blockchain was! I later left because the meetup wasn't fun, the guy was an idiot, no one was there, and I didn't want to deal with his hard sell tactics.So I went home and researched these guys, and sure enough: http://bit.ly/1JWayun (i particularly like the first post) http://bit.ly/1JWaSJB hate shit like this. One of the things I really liked about the bitcoin community is the whole hippie/hacker element to it and I hate it when shit like this fucks up the vibe. So I informed the guys at meetup.com about this, hopefully they'll shut them down. But there are others in other cities, so please be aware of this. If anyone out there experienced this, please inform the proper authorities (whether it be meetup.com, or potential "recruits", or the authorities or whatever).I plan on putting a warning on my company website about bitclub, because I feel the company is misleading people and a lot of people are going to be suckered out of a lot of money. I also feel that this will also give the bitcoin community a bad name. I don't want people equating "bitcoin" with "scam". But I also don't want bitclub giving me legal hassle saying it's "slander and libel" or whatever (I'm not well versed in law). Any lawyers out there know of any legal land mines to avoid before I post this up? via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/1JWaACB
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