cryptoproffesionals

$DOGE
Introducción
Dogecoin (DOGE), creada originalmente como una criptomoneda inspirada en un meme, ha experimentado importantes fluctuaciones en su valor y popularidad. Los acontecimientos recientes, en particular la participación de figuras de alto perfil como Elon Musk y Donald Trump, han reavivado el interés en Dogecoin. Este artículo explora cómo Dogecoin puede convertirse en una criptomoneda valiosa en los próximos días y si tiene el potencial de convertirse en una moneda corriente en los próximos años.
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$BTC **"Faultcoins"** is slang in crypto communities for **altcoins** (any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin) or **shitcoins** — low-quality, highly speculative tokens that critics call "faulty" because most are riddled with problems, scams, or destined to crash to near-zero.

People use the term to highlight how these coins (especially meme coins, new launches, or overhyped projects) promise massive gains but often deliver total losses, unlike Bitcoin, which has survived multiple cycles.

### How Faultcoins (Altcoins/Shitcoins) Destroy Lives
They don’t “destroy lives” on their own — people destroy their own lives by chasing them with bad decisions, greed, FOMO, or addiction. Here’s how it happens in practice:

1. **Massive, permanent financial wipeouts**
Most altcoins fail hard. Studies and market data show ~99% of altcoins either go to zero or never recover their all-time highs. In crashes, altcoins get obliterated far worse than Bitcoin (e.g., one recent bloodbath wiped ~$131 billion from the altcoin ecosystem alone).
Real examples: People put life savings, retirement money, or borrowed funds into “the next 100x” coin → it rugs, dumps 90-99%, or slowly bleeds to nothing. One viral post described someone who turned $10,000 into $1,000 in six months. In India, thousands of families have been hit by similar scams.

2. **Scams and rug pulls are extremely common**
The altcoin space is full of fraud: developers raise millions then abandon the project (rug pull), pump-and-dump schemes, fake volume on exchanges, meme coins created just to fleece retail. Up to 90% of new crypto projects have been called outright scams in some analyses.
In India alone, crypto scams have reached billions of dollars — fake apps, “guaranteed high returns” schemes, hacked wallets, and international fraud rings (e.g., Gujarat cases linked to overseas wallets). Victims lose homes, businesses, or entire savings.

3. **Gambling addiction disguised as “investing”**
Constant price checking, Twitter hype, Discord pumps → it becomes compulsive. Studies link heavy crypto trading (especially volatile altcoins) to higher depression, anxiety, loneliness, poor sleep, and financial ruin. Some treatment centers now handle “crypto addiction” alongside drugs/alcohol because the dopamine hits are similar to gambling.
Real stories: People quit jobs, ignore families, borrow heavily, then spiral into depression when the portfolio collapses. Gambling addiction has one of the highest suicide rates of any addiction — and crypto trading can trigger the same cycle.

4. **Leverage, liquidations, and debt**
Many trade altcoins on margin or futures. A 10-20% drop wipes out leveraged positions. Record liquidations (billions in a single day) hit altcoin traders hardest. People end up in debt, selling assets, or worse.

5. **Life disruption and opportunity cost**
- Quitting stable jobs to “trade full-time.”
- Family fights over lost money.
- Mental health collapse from watching numbers 24/7.
- Missing out on real investments (stocks, property, skills) while chasing moonshots.

### The Pattern That Repeats
Bull market → FOMO into hyped altcoins/meme coins → prices pump on hype and leverage → insiders/early buyers dump → retail left holding bags → bear market → most coins go to zero or near-zero → repeat next cycle. Bitcoin usually survives and recovers; “faultcoins” usually don’t.

### Bottom Line (Especially for India)
If you or someone you know got burned by altcoins, it’s painfully common. The coins themselves aren’t magic — they’re high-risk speculation in a largely unregulated space full of predators. The destruction comes from treating them like a get-rich-quick scheme instead of gambling with money you can afford to lose entirely.

**Protect yourself**:
- Stick mostly to Bitcoin (proven survivor).
- Never invest more than you can lose.
- Avoid leverage on altcoins.
- Ignore hype, Telegram groups, and “guaranteed returns.”
- If it’s already destroying your mental health or finances — stop, seek help (there are crypto addiction resources now), and focus on real income.

Crypto has created millionaires, but “faultcoins” have also created far more broke, depressed, and regretful people. The difference is almost always risk management and not falling for the fantasy.

$BTC
Exactamente hace 5 años hoy (13 Feb 2021):
Capitalización total del mercado cripto ≈ **$1.5 Trillion**
Dominio de Bitcoin ≈ **58%**

Hoy (13 Feb 2026):
Capitalización total del mercado cripto ≈ **$2.3 Trillion**
Dominio de Bitcoin ≈ **58.5%**

¿Ganancia neta para el BTC en 5 años? Aproximadamente **+53%**.

Eso es todo.
Tocamos **$3T+** en 2021, cayó a **$800B** en 2022, subió de nuevo en 2024-25… y ahora estamos básicamente de vuelta donde estábamos — solo que con más monedas, más cicatrices, y muchos más “veteranos” que todavía están en pérdida.

How a “Decentralized Internet” Project with a Fraud-Charged Founder Pumped to $350M Market Cap, Then Hyper-Inflated Its Supply to 224 Quadrillion Tokens and Left Holders with Pennies

This is not financial advice. This is my real story + the documented facts.

My Personal Loss – $10,000 Gone
In September 2023 I read **Bybit’s own official article** titled “tomiNet (TOMI): Creating a Truly Free World Wide Web”.
It was glowing:

- TOMI had risen 2,400% from its ATL
- PricePrediction.net forecast: **$9.14 in 2025 → $54.79 in 2030**
- DigitalCoinPrice: **$14 in 2025 → $40.92 in 2030**
- The article literally asked “Is tomiNet a Good Investment?” and strongly implied yes.

I trusted a top-5 exchange. I put in **$10,000**.

Today, February 2026, I still hold **1,500,000+ TOMI**.
Current market price ≈ **$0.00000000005** (five zeros after the decimal + 5).
My entire bag is worth **less than $0.08**.

Bybit itself **delisted TOMI in October 2025** citing “significant project risk”.

The Founder – Moshe Hogeg
The co-founder and public face of Tomi was **Moshe Hogeg** — the same Israeli entrepreneur who was arrested in 2021 on suspicion of **$290 million crypto fraud** plus sexual offences.
He was released on $22 million bail but the investigation continued.
While under investigation and house arrest, Hogeg launched Tomi in early 2023, raised **$40 million**, pumped the token, and appeared as CEO at events.

He later stepped back to “advisor”, but the damage was done.

The Supply Scam – From 4.28 Billion to 224 Quadrillion Tokens
This is the real killer.

Original tokenomics (2023):
- Total supply ≈ 4.28 billion TOMI
- Heavy allocations to “future daily auctions”, team, etc.

What actually happened:
The project had **no hard max supply**. Through daily auctions, ecosystem rewards, and other mechanisms they **minted trillions upon trillions** of new tokens.

Current on-chain reality (Feb 2026):
- Circulating supply: **223,977,777,820,110,533 TOMI** (224 quadrillion)
- That’s roughly **52,000×** more tokens than the original supply.

This is textbook **hyper-dilution**. Every holder got crushed by endless new supply flooding the market while the team/insiders sold or distributed to themselves.

I Warned the Exchanges in 2023–2024
As soon as I dug into the founder’s background and saw the supply mechanics, I contacted multiple exchanges that were listing and promoting TOMI:

- Sent detailed emails with links to Hogeg’s fraud investigation
- Pointed out the unlimited supply design
- Asked them to at least add warnings or pause promotions

**Every single one ignored me.**

They kept listing, kept the trading pairs alive, some even ran their own bullish articles and campaigns. Then, when the price had already collapsed to near zero in 2025, they quietly **delisted**:

- Bybit → October 2025 (“significant project risk”)
- KuCoin → September/October 2025
- Bitfinex → February 2025
- CoinDCX, CoinSpot, and others followed

They made their listing fees and trading volumes while the token was pumping. When it went to zero, they cut losses and moved on.

Timeline of the Scam
- Jan 2023 → Launch at ~$1.15
- Jun 2023 → ATH $6.59–$7.13 (market cap ~$350M)
- Sep 2023 → Bybit publishes the exact article that trapped me
- 2024 → Slow bleed as supply inflation accelerates
- 2025 → Price collapses to fractions of a cent → mass delistings
- Feb 2026 → Trading at ~$0.00000000005, market cap ~$11–13M (mostly illiquid)

Why This Was a Classic Supply + Founder Scam
1. **Fraud-charged founder** using a new project to raise fresh capital while old cases were still open.
2. **Aggressive hype** on major exchanges (Bybit article is still online as of now).
3. **Unlimited/inflationary tokenomics** hidden behind fancy words like “daily auctions” and “ecosystem rewards”.
4. **Exit liquidity** for insiders and early investors while retail bought the top.
5. **Radio silence** from the team once the price died.

Final Lessons (Learned the Expensive Way)
- Never buy because an exchange wrote a bullish article.
- Always check the **founder’s history** (Google is free).
- If tokenomics say “no max supply” or “future daily auctions” → run.
- If the team is under fraud investigation → double run.
- Exchanges care about volume and fees, not your money.

I’m not asking for sympathy or refunds. I took the risk.
But thousands of other retail investors got burned the exact same way because of the hype and the total lack of accountability.

Screenshot of Bybit’s original 2023 article is attached (still live on their Learn page).

This is the complete story of how TOMI went from “the future of the free internet” to a 99.999999% loss in under three years.

DYOR. Stay safe out there.

Hirokado Kohji (also spelled Kohji Hirokado / Hirakido Kohji) – The Japanese “Whale” Who Controlled TOMI’s Minting Machine and Ran the 3-Year Retail Dump
This is the guy the community now calls the real architect of the TOMI supply scam.
### Who He Is
- Japanese crypto investor and self-described “community leader”.
- Lost $38.2 million in the Celsius collapse (2022).
- Immediately pivoted to launching new projects to “recover” the losses.
- Presented as co-founder / team leader of tomiNet alongside Abraham Piha and Moshe Hogeg.
- Participated in the $40M raise (March 2023) and was publicly quoted as a key figure pushing TOMI in Asia.
Multiple sources (CoinMarketCap descriptions, USA Today promo article, tomi’s own announcements) list him as one of the three main founders or “one of the team leaders”.
### His Direct Role in the Unlimited Supply & Dumping (2023–2026)
1. Controlled the Smart Contract & Minting Rights
TOMI launched with no hard max supply. The whitepaper and code allowed:
- Daily auctions
- “Development fund” minting ($10M worth of TOMI per year)
- “Ecosystem rewards” and team allocations
As a core team member with admin keys / multi-sig access, Kohji and his group had the ability to mint new tokens at will. They used it aggressively.
2. The Numbers Don’t Lie (On-Chain Reality)
- Launch (Jan 2023): ~58 million TOMI total supply, priced at ~$7 → $400M FDV.
- Team allocation at launch: 85%+ (only 1.7% went to the community).
- 2023–2025: Kohji’s team minted over 1 billion additional TOMI (claimed as “team monthly budget”).
- That’s roughly 20× the original circulating supply in the first year alone.
- By Feb 2026: Circulating supply exploded to 223.9 quadrillion TOMI (yes, 224,000,000,000,000,000+).
3. The Dumping Pattern (Documented on Etherscan)
- Every time new tokens were minted, they were sent to dozens of fresh wallets.
- Those wallets then deposited straight onto Bybit, OKX, KuCoin (and sometimes Uniswap).
- Bulk-sender contracts were used to avoid detection.
- This happened repeatedly for three straight years (2023, 2024, 2025) while the team kept promoting the project and exchanges kept the pairs live.
Community researchers (@AnonVee_ and others) posted the exact transaction hashes showing the mint → multi-wallet → CEX deposit flow.
### The Perfect Storm He Created
- Raised $40M from retail and VCs (DWF Labs as lead).
- Allocated almost everything to the team.
- Minted tens of billions more tokens over time.
- Dumped relentlessly on the same exchanges that were shilling the token.
- When the price was dead, the exchanges quietly delisted (Bybit Oct 2025, others followed).
Result:
Retail who bought the Bybit-hyped narrative at $3–$7 now hold bags worth less than 0.000001% of their entry.
Kohji and the team allegedly walked away with eight figures (community estimate).
### Same Playbook in His Next Projects
Exactly the same pattern repeated in DOP (92%+ team allocation, massive TGE dump) and now being called out in Incentiv_net.
### Bottom Line
Hirokado Kohji was not just “an investor”.
He was a co-founder with minting privileges who turned the “unlimited supply” mechanism into a 3-year retail extraction machine.
The $40M raise was never meant to build a “free internet”.
It was the initial liquidity for the team to mint, dump, and repeat until nothing was left.
This is why the TOMI supply didn’t just inflate — it was weaponized.
If you’re still holding TOMI: you were on the wrong side of Kohji’s spreadsheet for three years.
DYOR, check the on-chain txs yourself, and never trust a project where one guy controls the mint button.
(Attach the AnonVee thread screenshots + Etherscan examples + the original Bybit article when posting.)
This is the missing piece that turns the TOMI story from “bad tokenomics” into a coordinated, multi-year supply-rug executed by a known repeat offender.

#Tomiscam #CZAMAonBinanceSquare