a collection of curious characters and interesting events
Before I get to the Bollywood ending to GAWminers I thought I should post some background info. By the time Neal Rauhauser posted his False Light and Tortious Interference manifesto inciting people to attack the Coinfireblog after they broke the news that GAWminers was going to be investigated by the SEC, Josh Garza had already worked out his exit strategy.
Read moreSix weeks after MrCEO, Josh Garza, posted “If it’s all a scam? Then why are we still here?”. That bit of BS was promoted by Garza’s toadie @BadBitCoinOrg. Two months after he made that statement Garza was no longer “still here”. He fled the US to Belgium and then to Dubai until the government there threw him out. Badbitcoin.org @Badbitcoinorg
Read moreFrom the executive offices of Cantor Fitzgerald to the studios of Bollywood, one of the most ambitious confidence games ever to hit the internet is GarzaGate: the bizarre business contortions of Homero “Josh” Garza and his clusterfuck of companies, websites and grandiose schemes. GarzaGate may not involve the most amount of money swindled from investors but it wins the grand
Read moreUPDATE: I just published this post and noticed that the announcement for the new Coincard came from a domain name not on the list. Sure enough, another CPIG domain, registered May 11th. I added the screencap at the bottom The Top Seekrit Crypto Private Investor Group or cPIG as most people are calling it, claims to be a group dedicated
Read moreThe investigation that began in January 2015 into Josh Garza and Gaw Miners by the Securities and Exchange Commission could take a year or two. Some of the information leaked from the investigation allege ponzi schemes, money laundering, dark money from black listed (terrorist) groups and more. There’s quite a list of possible crimes and several 3 letter federal organizations
Read moreThe document below is GAWMiners trademark application for the name ZenCloud. Had GAWMiners taken a few minutes on the USPTO website to check on the availability of that name they would have seen it was already trademarked. They would have saved themselves the $325 application fee not to mention a possible lawsuit for trademark infringement.Their trademark request for ZenCloud was
Read moreJosh Garza first attempted to trademark the name PayBase with his company GAW. The application was turned down December 24th, 2014. He tried again with PayCoin LLC, a new business he created on November 7th, 2014. The second request was also denied on March 16th, 2015.
Read moreThis post is part of a series showing assorted documents from Genius At Work Corporation.The document here is the trademark certificate for the name HashTalk. The application for the trademark was filed on August 22nd, 2014 and notice of approval sent on December 31st, 2014. It was officially registered on April 21st, 2015.HashTalk is one of two trademarks granted to
Read moreThis post is part of a series showing assorted documents from Genius At Work Corporation.The document here is the trademark certificate for the name ZenPoints. The application for the trademark was filed on August 22nd, 2014 and notice of approval sent on December 31st, 2014. It was officially registered on April 7th, 2015ZenPoints is one of two trademarks granted to
Read moreThis post is part of a series showing assorted documents from Genius At Work Corporation.The document here is the trademark application for the name CoinPay. It was filed on November 5th, 2014, through their attorney. The US Patent and Trademark Office automatically assigned a probationary trademark registration number which would become permanent once the USPTO has approved the application. On December
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