We earlier noted that HY International, a purported independent seller of crypto mining rigs, shared an address with an $SOS subsidiary.
Today, $SOS admitted HY was a shell company set up to supposedly preserve the confidentiality of the seller.
Despite the fact that HY is a now-admitted shell company, $SOS looks to have set up its website claiming HY has a diverse array of products and services, and that it is the largest secondary seller of mining rigs in the world.
We noted that $SOS's acquisition target FXK was suspicious because it also appeared to have its website set up by $SOS.
Today: "After discussion among the Company's board of directors, SOS has determined for various reasons, not to pursue the transaction with FXK."
Note we had also pointed out that FXK’s entire website appeared to have been stolen from genuine blockchain company RHY.
RHY later put out a statement condemning the theft.
Contrary to mining plays like $RIOT and $MARA which disclose rig locations, $SOS now opaquely claims its rigs are held in “various confidential locations” and relocated “from time to time” in order to take advantage of lower electricity costs.
Are $SOS investors comfortable hearing that $SOS rigs, bought through an undisclosed shell entity, are held at undisclosed locations, moved around without notice?
Lordstown is an EV SPAC with no revenue and no sellable product, which we believe has grossly misled investors on both its demand and production capabilities. $RIDE
$RIDE has consistently pointed to its book of 100,000 pre-orders as proof of demand for its proposed EV truck.
Our extensive research reveals that the company’s orders appear largely fictitious and used as a prop to raise capital and confer legitimacy.
Today we reveal how ESG-darling $ORA, a developer and operator of geothermal power plants, has engaged in what we believe to be widespread and systematic acts of international corruption.
We expect the blowback to these revelations to be severe, threatening $ORA's contracts in its most lucrative markets. In fact, history is already catching up to Ormat’s senior leadership.
We are short $SOS, which we believe to be an obvious China-based shell game reanimating the corpse of a former China based company that earlier imploded 90% from its highs.
We think SOS is a $0 and has significant regulatory risk.
Stocks tied to blockchain have been on the run lately, swept up in the euphoria of bitcoin breaking all-time highs.
$SOS has ridden this wave, reaching a market cap as high as $1.4b based on its claims of having pivoted into bitcoin mining and blockchain technology development.
We discovered $SOS principal office and headquarters doesn’t appear to exist. We visited the address listed in the company’s SEC filings and found it was a hotel.
A woman who worked for the hotel told us there were “no companies here”.
Today, we reveal how Clover Health and its Wall Street celebrity promoter, Chamath Palihapitiya, misled investors about critical aspects of Clover’s business in the run-up to the company’s SPAC go-public transaction last month. $CLOV
Our investigation into $CLOV has spanned 4 months & more than a dozen interviews with former employees, competitors & experts, dozens of calls to doctor’s offices & a review of thousands of pages of government reports, insurance filings, regulatory filings & marketing materials.
We are short $MVIS. In a market gone mad, this $1.2 billion market cap corporate husk with almost no revenue or intellectual property value is a standout.
It has risen 5,000% from lows this year on misguided retail euphoria over its LiDAR IP portfolio amid a broad EV bubble.
Retail investors have latched onto the company's portfolio of 250+ active patents, but an IP attorney we engaged found that only ~10 $MVIS issued patents even mention LiDAR.
Of those, many are oriented toward consumer/non-automotive use.
These patents haven't faced inter partes review (IPR) challenges yet, significantly reducing their value.
“No one buys patents these days for any real money unless the patents have been put through the test of at least an IPR,” our IP attorney told us.
Tonight, CNBC released a bombshell article detailing multiple allegations of sexual abuse perpetrated by Trevor Milton, $NKLA founder, current largest shareholder (with ~24% ownership), recent Executive Chairman and former CEO.
In light of the latest, let’s discuss the company’s backers, partners and bankers that have all recently tried to absolve themselves of liability by assuring the market and the public of their extensive due-diligence on $NKLA.
Following our report, which contained details of dozens of material false statements by $NKLA, the company failed to even attempt to answer 43 of 53 questions we raised.
Instead, it addressed roughly 10 questions, largely confirming our findings, and ignored the rest.