TSSB and ASC Order Ultra Mining to Shut Down

By Kapil Gauhar

The Texas State Securities Board and Alabama Securities Commission ordered “fraudulent” crypto mining scheme to cease and desist, alleging it vowed to twofold investment in a cloud mining scheme.

The state securities regulators recorded a crisis activity against Ultra Bitcoin Mining and Laura Branch on Wednesday, asserting the strong vowed to double investors’ funds, touted an enormous BTC price rise, offered subsidiary and partner programs and professed to give to COVID-19 cause endeavors without verification.

Ultra Mining supposedly raised $18 million.

As per the order, the investments in hash power have all the earmarks of being securities. The TSSB is asserting that the respondents neglected to enroll before selling these securities, and ‘are taking part in extortion’ by offering misleading statements about the profits.

A press release said –

“The company is promising eye-opening returns. According to the order, they are telling potential investors that a $10,000 investment in computing power will return nearly $10,500 per year. A $50,000 investment will return nearly $52,000 per year.”

The respondents guarantee that ‘BTC is still in a bull market,’ and anticipate that the price should reach about $23,000, and letting investors who deposit at least $10,000 get a more noteworthy portion of the mining power, the order said.

Ultra Mining’s site depicts it as a “cryptocurrency bitcoin cloud mining company.”

The website reads –

“The company provides modern, high-efficiency platform rental services for Bitcoin mining. We guarantee an instant connection, access 24/7, operation without any interruptions, real-time mining monitoring, easy-to-use and secure platform as well daily mining outputs.”

While the site connects a Facebook page, the Twitter and Telegram symbols on the site link to Twitter.com and Telegram.com, as opposed to genuine social media profiles.

Ultra Mining is additionally professing to have given in any event $10,000 to Unicef to battle COVID-19, and claims it will donate more. However,

The order said –

“Respondents … are expressly refusing to provide any information that verifies the donation, that potential investors can rely upon to independently verify the donation or that demonstrates their financial ability to donate the money.”