roadrunner Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 A U.S. state has issued a cease and desist order to a company purportedly engaged in cryptocurrency mining. This order follows a temporary cease and desist order to the company two months ago which it did not respond to. Also read: Yahoo! Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space Cease and Desist Order The U.S. State of North Carolina issued a cease and desist order to Power Mining Pool (PMP) last week. After some investigation, the state’s Securities Division declared: The Securities Division found that PMP is violating the Securities Act by: a. offering unregistered securities in the form of ‘mining pool shares;’ b. offering securities while it is not registered to do so; and c. making material misstatements when offering securities. The order mandates the company and any person, employee, officer, director, entity, or independent contractor under its direction or control to permanently cease and desist from selling securities in the state until the security is registered or exempt. They also must not act as a securities dealer, salesman, or agent unless registered with the state. Furthermore, they must not engage in fraud in connection with the offer or sale of any security, or violate other provisions and rules of the state. This order follows a temporary cease and desist order issued by the same division on March 2. However, the company has neither responded to the order nor requested a hearing. Instead, its website, which is its principal place of business, went offline on March 6, the order revealed. Questionable Operations The State of North Carolina described PMP as an online business that is unregistered in any jurisdiction, without a physical place of business and “The individuals who managed PMP are not identified.” The company represents that it owns and operates mining rigs capable of mining seven different cryptocurrencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It also represents that these rigs track the profitability of each of the seven cryptos and automatically “switch resources away from less profitable coins.” PMP also offers mining pool shares to investors to mine on their behalf. “Investors who purchase mining pool shares must first purchase bitcoin with their fiat currency, such as the U.S. Dollar or Euro,” the order detailed. “Next, PMP directs investors to deposit their bitcoin into PMP’s bitcoin wallet in order to set up an account on the PMP website.” The company then claims to mine cryptocurrencies on investors’ behalf and purported to pay investors the fiat value of the coins mined. Investors can also “trade the mined coins for bitcoin.” PMP claims that it will pay the investors “on any profits we make in the trading pool” every three hours. The Secretary of State of North Carolina wrote: The mining pool shares are securities and are not registered with the Administrator…PMP willfully fails to disclose material facts when offering the mining pool shares. What do you think of North Carolina shutting down Power Mining Pool? Let us know in the comments section below. Images courtesy of Shutterstock. Need to calculate your bitcoin holdings? Check our tools section. The post US State Shuts Down Cryptocurrency Mining Company appeared first on Bitcoin News. View the full article Quote Link to comment https://slingbank.com/forums/topic/82-us-state-shuts-down-cryptocurrency-mining-company/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenisMNE Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 It will be hard for cryptocurrencies to fight a war with USA banks. No man can excape a bank and I am afraid cryptocurrencies will have the same faith. Only time will tell what will happen with it.If banks recognized crypto, which is highly unlikely, we would have some interesting things going on with economy. Quote Link to comment https://slingbank.com/forums/topic/82-us-state-shuts-down-cryptocurrency-mining-company/#findComment-120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrstnmaula Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 china is more free market than europe or the us. They also have lower taxes and less paperwork while creating a company. The reason they are doing better than we are, is lack of democracy, that is extremely destructive and leads to socialism. Back in the days, when the west was still healthy, only people that OWNED LAND could vote, so that poor could not steal from those that had money, by the power of the state. Quote Link to comment https://slingbank.com/forums/topic/82-us-state-shuts-down-cryptocurrency-mining-company/#findComment-137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenisMNE Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 1 minute ago, chrstnmaula said: china is more free market than europe or the us. They also have lower taxes and less paperwork while creating a company. The reason they are doing better than we are, is lack of democracy, that is extremely destructive and leads to socialism. Back in the days, when the west was still healthy, only people that OWNED LAND could vote, so that poor could not steal from those that had money, by the power of the state. That is not true. China is a socialist country that has centralized market. It does not work in a principle of a '' invisible hand'' of market. I can not agree that China is more free in market than US/Europe. Quote Link to comment https://slingbank.com/forums/topic/82-us-state-shuts-down-cryptocurrency-mining-company/#findComment-138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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