Talk:Bitconnect

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Indexing

Google still points to the AfD page which shows that the decision was Delete. Is there some way to update this? Or will it just get fixed by Google over time? I searched bitconnect wikipedia and this came up as the hit: BitConnect - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/BitConnect maybe there's a wikipedia thing that is supposed to be done on the AfD page to do a redirect to the newly KEEP'd page? I'm not really a wikipedia expert Cheesy poof (talk) 05:22, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Google doesn't do that for me (the AfD doesn't come up at all), and even if it did, we wouldn't redirect. That discussion was correctly closed as delete, and that page serves as a record for why the closing admin used her tools to delete the page in October: we keep it around for transparency and for admin accountability. This is a new article that had not been discussed previously, so if it were to be deleted in the future, it would need a new discussion. TonyBallioni (talk) 05:27, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

absolutely weird, now when I search for the same thing (bitconnect wikipedia) I get this result as the first hit! BitConnect - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitConnect - either that is totally uncanny timing, or someone (or some bot) changed something in wikipedia or google! I literally did the exact same search immediately before making that comment around 10 minutes ago - I also made some comments on the AfD page before I realized this article even exists)! anyways, it's all good now! Cheesy poof (talk) 05:37, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

OK - no it still doesn't work 100% depends on the computer/IP etc. Google sometimes points to the AfD page, maybe there should be a wikipedia redirect or indication on this AfD page that the page actually exists? I'm not sure the correct way to do thisCheesy poof (talk) 08:44, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

There is a blue link at the AfD. All someone has to do is click it. There is nothing special about this article that would have us change our standard procedures. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:16, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

I'm just pointing out: some people who google BitConnect wikipedia end up at the AfD page which explicitly states at the top of the article "The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it." and "The result was delete." also, the blue vs red text is in no way an intuitive feature and unless someone has clicked through the help files of wikipedia that explain what a red link vs a blue link means they would not know that just because BitConnect is written in blue it means in fact this AfD was overturned (it doesn't say that anywhere else on the page - the whole page indicates it was a Delete decision.)

Shouldn't there be a policy in place that updates an AfD page if the original decision was delete but it was subsequently overturned? I should probably bring this up somewhere else, but sorry I don't know where I'd normally raise this as a possible issue, or where the AfD policies would be detailed. Thanks! Cheesy poof (talk) 23:46, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Made Minor Updates to Price as of January, 30, 2018

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RS for delisting?

The Bitconnect token was delisted from its last exchange in August - the coin is effectively dead now. Did an RS note it? Even in the lower reaches of the crypto news blogs? (Mine noted it, but I'm not an RS ;-) ) - David Gerard (talk) 12:03, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Found ZDNet, that'll do. There's also quite a bit of coverage in the past week of what happened to the Bitconnect money - David Gerard (talk) 12:07, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

"Prove its legitimacy"

"November 7, 2017, the government of the United Kingdom issued Bitconnect a notice with two months to prove its legitimacy.[1][6]"

This is overegging it. Some guy called Ken Fitzsimmons incorporated a shell company called "Bitconnect Limited". He then did absolutely nothing with it as far as anyone can tell, and 16 months later, Companies House filed a strike-off notice because he didn't bother to file the annual statement of who controlled the company. Fitzsimmons did not respond to the notice (Bitconnect was months away from collapse by then) and Companies House duly dissolved the company.

Companies House is an arm of the UK Government, but they issued their notice to some random shell company called Bitconnect Limited, which isn't the same as issuing a notice to the wider Bitconnect scheme.

A strike-off notice is not a notice "to prove legitimacy". All you have to do is file whatever document it is you haven't bothered to file. Companies House doesn't run any checks on the documents submitted to it so nothing has to be "proven".

I have not edited the article because I will leave it to Wikipedia editors whether to add more detail or just remove the sentence. The strike-off notice had zero regulatory significance and I think the sentence should just be removed. --83.218.138.8 (talk) 14:15, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Alain Giraud role in Bitconnect

Scam Story (2018) 10/10, Alain Giraud Bitconnect Scam Story, 11 August 2018, AlainGiraudBitconnect (talk) 11:05, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

References

claimed "new community"

There's people who keep trying to put in URLs for the supposed "new community" for Bitconnect Coin. The claimed "new community" has zero RS coverage and without that, it should not be noted - David Gerard (talk) 09:37, 24 August 2019 (UTC)