Genesis Mining

⚖️ Regulatory

Checked against 4 regulator sources — no warnings found.

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• IOSCO Investor Alerts:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗

  Not named on IOSCO’s Investor Alerts Portal as of 2026-07-10 (checked by name and domain). Scored 5.0/5 under this project's pass/fail convention for regulator lists: clean = 5.0, listed = 1.0.

• UK FCA Warning List:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗

  Not named on the UK FCA Warning List as of 2026-07-10 (checked by name and domain). Scored 5.0/5 under this project's pass/fail convention for regulator lists: clean = 5.0, listed = 1.0.

• US SEC PAUSE List:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗

  Not named on the SEC PAUSE list as of 2026-07-10 (checked by name and domain). Scored 5.0/5 under this project's pass/fail convention for regulator lists: clean = 5.0, listed = 1.0.

• US CFTC RED List:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗

  Not named on the CFTC RED List as of 2026-07-10 (checked by name and domain). Scored 5.0/5 under this project's pass/fail convention for regulator lists: clean = 5.0, listed = 1.0.

🛡️ Trust SignalsB

Checked against 3 trust signals — see the per-source breakdown below.

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• ScamAdviser:1.5/5(Very Likely Unsafe)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗
• Website Exists:5.0/5(A)· checked Sep 3, 2026view ↗
• Site History:5.0/5(since 2014)· checked Sep 3, 2026view ↗

Trustpilot Summary1.2★

1.2 from 412 Trustpilot reviews — one of the lowest scores in this directory on a substantial base. The dominant and highly consistent complaint is that funds cannot be withdrawn: reviewers describe balances held for months, support that stops responding, and minimum-withdrawal thresholds that are never met in practice. Several are long-tenured customers describing large accumulated balances. Readers should also be aware that a number of reviews on the profile promote unrelated "recovery" or alternative-investment services, which is a common pattern on distressed listings and should not be treated as endorsement or evidence.

Compiled from public forum/search discussion (via manual research, automated tools, or both), not independently verified. Reflects poster opinions, not confirmed fact.

Google Search SummaryD-

An industry veteran that genuinely operated real mining facilities, but it stopped selling new cloud-mining contracts in early 2021 and has been effectively dormant since. The live complaints are serious and concern money already earned rather than returns: long-standing customers report balances accumulating with no payouts despite transactions visible on-chain, dashboards frozen, payments stopped mid-contract, and support responses that read as designed to delay rather than resolve — one account describes roughly 15 BTC unpaid. No regulator action or fraud finding has emerged, and the company never promised guaranteed returns, so this is not a documented scam; it is an operator whose customers cannot reliably get their funds out. Held at D-.

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Reddit SummaryD- (limited data)

IDENTITY CHECK FIRST, because this is the most dangerous name in the directory to research. Everything in this capture is genuinely about genesis-mining.com, the cloud-mining company — r/GenesisMining, r/altcoin, r/dogecoin, r/CryptoCurrency. NOTHING here relates to Genesis Global Capital, DCG's crypto-lending arm, whose SEC enforcement actions, $21M settlement and Chapter 11 are documented in docs/DYOR_RESEARCH_ACCURACY.md as a confirmed wrong-entity trap. None of that material has been imported into this grade, and none of it should be. THE RECORD IS ANCIENT. Every result is 9 to 12 years old. There is no recent Reddit discussion of this company at all, which is itself the most current fact about it. Two genuine mentions. (1) r/altcoin, 12 years old, a prospective customer weighing Genesis Mining against Farmshares, GAWMiners and buying his own hardware — 'GM appears the best alternative for me right now, but I'm a little afraid of getting into it as they are as new.' One reply offers the mildest possible endorsement, 'I think it is a real site'; two others steer him elsewhere entirely, one toward a rival cloud service and one toward buying Gridseed blades or simply buying coins. Nobody in the thread reports actually having used Genesis Mining. (2) r/GenesisMining, 9 years old, 12 comments: 'Rewards from mining does not match estimates from calculators (ETH). Anybody done analysis of actual rewards from genesis-mining?' That is a customer reporting the payout shortfall that is the characteristic cloud-mining complaint. The daemon did not open it, so only the title is on file. DISCARDED as company marketing rather than customer voice: a 12-year-old 'first cloud hosting provider that accepts Doge!' announcement, a founders' AMA, and a Genesis Mining meme-and-poem contest. GRADE: stored D- affirmed. A rewards-versus-estimates shortfall is a recurring-complaint signal without a fraud allegation behind it, which is the D band, and the only positive on file is a stranger's guess that the site is real. Not moved upward, because 'I think it is a real site' from 2014 is not evidence of service quality; not moved downward, because nothing here alleges non-payment or theft — and the material that WOULD justify a lower grade belongs to a different company with a similar name. Confidence LOW: two mentions, both roughly a decade old, one unread.

Compiled from public forum/search discussion (via manual research, automated tools, or both), not independently verified. Reflects poster opinions, not confirmed fact.

Bitcointalk SummaryD+

Genesis Mining is the subject of the single largest scam-accusation thread on Bitcointalk naming any company we track (741 replies, ~258K views, active 2015-2021). Real, credible complaints recur across years: contracts (including advertised 'lifetime' contracts) getting cancelled early once fees exceeded payout, opaque/unpaid balance tracking, unresponsive support, and apparent astroturfing (a company promo code appeared signed under a defender's post in the same thread). But there's also sustained community pushback arguing this reflects cloud mining's inherently bad economics industry-wide rather than deliberate fraud specific to Genesis Mining, plus at least one genuine recent positive customer testimonial. No confirmed lawsuit or fraud finding surfaced in the thread; it never reached a resolution, it just went quiet. Net: a genuinely disputed reputation with real red flags, not a settled scam verdict.

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