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The following are Neal Rauhauser’s comments from the website Hashtalk.org which was shut down by its owner, Josh Garza the CEO of GAW Miners. The site was briefly reincarnated as Hashtalk.ch before Garza closed it down again on June 15th. GAWCEO is Josh Garza, the conman who pulled off a huge Ponzi scam through GAWMiners and is currently being investigated by
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 more@Badbitcoinblog runs a website that warns the public about digital currency scams. It was thought to be impartial but when Josh Garza and GAW Miners began having problems Badbitcoinblog was in the first line of defense making excuses for GAW, even denying there was an SEC investigation going on.There are a couple tweets to me that I’ve highlighted. By March
Read moreThis message was left Thursday evening by MrCeo aka Josh Garza on his website, hashtalk.ch. You’ll notice he makes absolutely no mention that he’s the subject of an SEC investigation. Or that the SEC investigation was made public at the same time he says the value of Paycoin started to drop. He also doesn’t mention reneging on payment for his million
Read moreThe domain btc.com was purchased by Josh Garza for a million dollars. He then made an agreement with bitcoinist which put bitcoinist in charge of content on the btc website. Garza, once again, failed to deliver what he promised when he didn’t make payments on the btc.com website. The press release below is from bitcoinist. But don’t worry, Josh is
Read moreIn August of last year Josh Garza paid a million dollars for the BTC.com website. Today the website disappeared.Coincidentally, also today was the launch of reservations for the new CoinCard credit card by CPIG. That site is also MIA. These strange happenings could be a repeat of Garza once again changing his mind or Garza once again finding he can’t deliver
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
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