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Exposing the Players Behind Recent Presale Scams I’ve been hit with legal threats for exposing what I believe are presale scams, so it’s time to bring everything into the open. This account stands for transparency and free speech, and I won’t be intimidated by individuals hiding behind companies, using legal threats as a smokescreen to cover for their actions. After digging into these operations for quite some time, it’s clear who’s responsible. This is about the truth — and no amount of money or pressure is going to change the facts. These companies and the projects they back — whether they’re directly running them or simply promoting them — are all over the internet. And from what I’ve seen, they’re leaving a path of financial destruction in their wake for countless retail investors in the crypto space. The companies I’m talking about include: • Clickout Media • Finixio • CryptoPR • PsyVentures • Web3Toolkit From what I’ve uncovered, these businesses are primarily owned and run by Adam Grunwerg and Samuel Miranda, both U.K. nationals. These two have built an empire of media outlets and business entities that, in my opinion, are being used to push shady crypto projects all over the Internet, all while doing so under the guise of offering legit news or educational content. Some of the more well-known media outlets connected to them and run through companies under their control include: • 99Bitcoins • Cryptonews.com • Techopedia • Business2Community • ReadWrite And that’s just a fraction of what’s out there. They control a ton of other media companies in different languages, aiming to rope in investors across various regions. The reach is massive, and it’s not just limited to English-speaking countries. For more details, check out this CryptoTicker article from 2023, which digs deeper into the media holdings tied to these companies and individuals. cryptoticker.io/en/finixio-c… The Never-Ending Loop of Failed Projects and New Scams Here’s what really gets me: while the projects they push keep crashing and burning, new ones just keep popping up like clockwork. One fails, and they’ve already got another lined up to reel in fresh investors, leaving the previous ones stuck with nothing. It’s the same cycle of presales they’ve been running since around 2021-2022, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Here’s a small sample of what they’ve been promoting recently: • Slothana • Sealana • Doge20 • DogeVerse • Sponge V2 • Base Dawgz • Weiner AI • PlayDoge • eTukTuk Most of these projects don’t seem to really exist beyond a slick website and a presale. They crash and burn after launch but they still manage to suck in enough people to keep the scam cycle going, likely with their media influence. The old projects get abandoned, and investors are left holding the bag with nothing but vague promises and maybe a few half-baked social media posts to keep up appearances. I didn’t include current projects in the list, but I do have a separate list of those, along with others from the 2022-2023 period. While I’m holding off on publishing that for now, I’m seriously considering releasing it later. There’s a lot more going on here than what meets the eye, and it’s been happening for quite some time. Are They Breaking the Law? Not My Job to Decide. I’m not here to act as a regulator or decide what’s legal. That’s for the authorities to figure out. But based on what I’ve seen — and the legal threats I’ve personally received for just reporting on this — it’s pretty obvious these companies don’t want anyone digging too deep. And that fact alone says a lot. These projects are either barely functioning or exist solely as presale pitches, yet they still manage to reel in investors. Whether or not this crosses into illegal territory isn’t for me to say, but if everything was above board, why the constant legal threats? Why the attempts to silence people like me? Silencing Anyone Who Dares Speak Up And that brings me to my next point: these guys don’t just sit back when someone tries to expose them — they actively go after anyone who digs too deep. Take Rachel Wolcott from Reuters Business Intelligence Unit. She wrote multiple pieces on LinkedIn shedding light on their shady business practices. Where are those articles now? Gone. Completely scrubbed. The same thing happened to Richard MacManus, the former owner of ReadWrite. He wrote an article earlier this year on his personal blog calling out Clickout, who purchased his former publication, and that article has been wiped too. I’m guessing legal pressure had something to do with that. They’re not just going after journalists either. @BinanceStuff, a YouTuber who’s been covering these scams, had his videos restricted in the UK after exposing these projects. NetCrypto, another YouTuber, got hit with the same cease-and-desist letter I did. The pattern is clear: anyone who gets too close to the truth gets silenced. This Isn’t Their First Rodeo This isn’t a new thing for these guys either. Back in 2020, The Guardian reported on Finixio when they were accused of using celebrity names, like Marcus Rashford, to promote Bitcoin investments without permission. At the time, Adam Grunwerg tried to play it off, saying: “This seems to have been missed on occasion by the team since working remotely in lockdown and has since been re-enforced. Please note that email represents less than 1% of revenues in our company, and the specific emails that you mentioned represent less than 1% of emails, so we’re looking at something wrongly sent out (despite using disclaimers and words such as allegedly) that generated 0.001% of company revenues and not a main part of our operations.” They tried to brush it off as a small mistake, but it’s clear that this is just part of their playbook. It’s how they operate, and it’s still happening. You can read more about this story in The Guardian’s report from 2020. theguardian.com/money/2020/n… A Call for Transparency So here’s my challenge to these companies and individuals: if your projects are as legit as you claim, then stand behind them publicly. Stop hiding behind legal threats and cease-and-desist letters. Stop trying to silence people who are just trying to expose what’s really going on. If you’ve got nothing to hide, show some transparency and integrity. Defend your actions openly and let people see the truth. Trying to distance yourselves or hide your involvement with these projects only raises more suspicion. If everything’s above board, why all the secrecy? The harder you work to cover things up, the clearer it becomes that there’s something you don’t want people to see. And guess what? The more you try to silence the conversation, the more curious investors and inquisitive minds will start digging for answers on their own. You can’t keep this hidden forever — eventually, the truth comes out.