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Title: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: bluebit on October 15, 2014, 06:33:35 pm: Glad BTSX wasn't trade on mintpal.

Site is offline: https://www.mintpal.com/

News: http://www.coindesk.com/moolah-mintpal-closure-bankruptcy/
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: happybit on October 16, 2014, 02:51:47 am: Yes :'(

Not sure how much I had there, I have buy/sell orders on many exchanges, and lost track of this one! :(
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: jsidhu on October 16, 2014, 02:57:12 am: friends and I were affected by moolah to the effect of 1000 btc .. I'd hope alex cooperates or whatever his real name is or im sure there will be legal action.
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: feedthemcake on October 16, 2014, 02:59:41 am: Quote from: jsidhu on October 16, 2014, 02:57:12 am
friends and I were affected by moolah to the effect of 1000 btc .. I'd hope alex cooperates or whatever his real name is or im sure there will be legal action.

Really? That much? I thought they only raised 750 btc?
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: happybit on October 16, 2014, 02:59:59 am: Quote from: jsidhu on October 16, 2014, 02:57:12 am
friends and I were affected by moolah to the effect of 1000 btc .. I'd hope alex cooperates or whatever his real name is or im sure there will be legal action.

you may want to repoort it here also:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=824211.0;all
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: jsidhu on October 16, 2014, 03:14:40 am: Quote from: feedthemcake on October 16, 2014, 02:59:41 am
Quote from: jsidhu on October 16, 2014, 02:57:12 am
friends and I were affected by moolah to the effect of 1000 btc .. I'd hope alex cooperates or whatever his real name is or im sure there will be legal action.

Really? That much? I thought they only raised 750 btc?
Syscoin raised 1500 and got 500 so far
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: jsidhu on October 16, 2014, 03:27:01 am: Well i helped them out with some dev work but they are out over 750btc atleast cause of this but the guys still talking so hopefully he will come to his senses and send that escrow money.. some of which Im sure I would have gotten but really I just enjoy coding the stuff.
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: donkeypong on October 16, 2014, 04:45:20 am: The Moolah guy seemed like a very cool dude at first, with all the charity work he was doing and stuff. Tried to do too much, too fast, I guess. I've never cared for Mintpal, but I wish best of success to anyone who has lost money. I think these folks are more ethical than most. Hopefully, everyone gets their money back.
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: sva_h4cky0 on October 16, 2014, 05:37:56 am: fyi, i dont know is true or not

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jd5nb/moolah_ceo_and_mintpal_operator_alex_green_is/
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: happybit on October 16, 2014, 09:08:15 pm: MINTPAL IS WORKING!!!!

People are reporting success in removing funds!!!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=824211.0;all
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: jsidhu on October 16, 2014, 09:10:30 pm: He gave back 250btc worth of sys used to buy sys at market after release... 50 million syscoin.. now he has until tomorrow to pay the btc or it goes legal.
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: nomoreheroes7 on October 17, 2014, 12:02:52 am: Man, poor Syscoin...what a crazy situation. I had 2 BTC invested in the IPO, but had to cash it out at break-even once all the madness of the launch started. Hopefully they can pull through...great group of guys.
Title: Re: Anyone affected by Mintpal?
Post by: jsidhu on October 17, 2014, 06:49:18 am: Ya the pools werent ready but the core code was good just last min changes screwed us.. live and learn.. wasnt my choice I helped put out the fire though.. and now with more tech coming thru its a goid buy.. assets and other new services coming.. it could rival counterparty once the ball gets rolling I think.