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GoMining

A real, multi-year mining product with three named smart-contract audits and a referral plan that pays on real spend rather than recruitment - attached to a Bitcoin-mining offer with no company-side redemption of principal, a marketed roughly 40%-a-year return its own contract disclaims, and a corporate group whose institutional arm sells the functionally identical proposition as an SEC-registered security.

Reviewed September 11, 2026 Founded GoMining states it began operating in 2021; CEO Mark Zalan’s own reported biography has him joining "since February 2022" - a roughly one-year gap this research could not close, and no 2021 founder distinct from Zalan could be identified anywhere in GoMining’s own materials. Confidence: Medium
DGRADE
5.0/10
Weighted composite

REAL MINING PRODUCT, SECURITIES-SHAPED EXPOSURE

GoMining takes a buyer’s capital in exchange for a marketed roughly 40%-a-year Bitcoin-mining return, keeps full control of the underlying hardware, and gives the buyer no right to redeem principal - the only way out is resale on GoMining’s own thin marketplace, locked for 90 days after purchase.

77.77%
Of the GOMINING token held across just three wallets
independently confirmed by two on-chain analytics sources; token contract not ownership-renounced
None
Income or return disclosure of any kind published
no median, no average net return, no cohort breakdown exists anywhere GoMining publishes
90 days
Minimum lock before a Digital Miner can be resold
on at least one payment channel, per GoMining’s own Terms of Use
~40%/yr
Return figure consistently used in marketing and reviewer commentary
GoMining’s own Terms define "APR" only as a non-binding, purely indicative estimate

Legal status

LEGAL BUT UNRESOLVED - no court, criminal charge, indictment, or securities-regulator enforcement action against GoMining, GoMining Cyprus, GoMining BVI, BMINE, or GoMining IM could be located anywhere in this research, and an SEC EDGAR full-text search returns a complete result set with no enforcement document naming any of them. GoMining IM (BVI) Ltd.’s Form D filing for the $100 million GM Alpha Blocks fund, filed 29 July 2025, is a routine notice of an exempt private-placement offering - a transparency filing, not an enforcement matter, a sanction, or an admission of anything. Separately, gomining.com is confirmed to appear on the Bank of Russia’s public warning-list index at cbr.ru, a live, search-indexed entry - but the exact "signs detected" classification language and the date the entry was added could not be independently read in this research after four separate fetch attempts were blocked. Treat this as a confirmed listing with unread text, not a confirmed finding of a pyramid scheme, fraud, or any specific violation.

Confidence: Medium

Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.

What this actually is

Follow the money

A Cyprus/BVI corporate group selling "Digital Miner" NFTs - BMINE (BVI) Limited-issued tokens that represent an economic claim on a slice of Bitcoin-mining hashrate GoMining says it hosts in its own data centers - alongside a GOMINING utility token, an in-app "Simple Earn" yield feature, a gamified "Miner Wars" mini-game, and a VIP-tiered referral program paying royalties on a direct referral’s real spend.

The real parts should be said first. GoMining reports operating since 2021 with 5M+ registered users, roughly 5,875-5,913 BTC self-reported as paid out to users to date, and three named third-party smart-contract audit firms - CertiK, HashEx, Cyberscope - with publicly posted reports, rather than an unaudited token. It publishes an actual formula for what a buyer nets - pool reward minus electricity and service fees - and a full table of maintenance-fee discounts for paying in its own token. Independent, unaffiliated reviewer testimony and a 3.6-of-5 Trustpilot average across 754 reviews corroborate that withdrawals genuinely work.

Then the structure. A buyer’s money converts permanently into an NFT whose underlying hardware and operations GoMining alone controls; there is no company redemption of principal, and the only exit is resale on GoMining’s own Secondary Marketplace, locked for at least 90 days on at least one payment channel and described by independent reviewers as a thin market. GoMining’s Terms disclaim any guaranteed rate of return, while a roughly 40%-a-year figure is what marketing and reviewer commentary consistently cite.

And the corporate group’s institutional arm sells a version of the identical proposition - capital in, Bitcoin-mining yield out, entirely company-managed - explicitly as a registered security, through a $100 million SEC Form D private placement. That filing is a genuine transparency positive on its own terms; it also shows the operator’s own institutional structuring treats this economic shape as investment-contract-shaped, which is the central fact this report weighs under `sec`.

Daily maintenance and electricity fees are charged in Bitcoin regardless of whether that day’s mining reward covers them, no income or return disclosure of any kind exists anywhere GoMining publishes, and gomining.com appears - unread but confirmed - on the Bank of Russia’s public warning list.

How the disclosed daily maintenance fee splits

GoMining’s own published net-reward formula (PoolReward minus (Electricity + Service) times (1 minus Discounts)) and per-TH fee figures reported by independent aggregation rather than quoted directly from a live primary rate card. This is the fee split only, not a breakdown of participant outcomes - no income or return disclosure of any kind exists to build a participant-outcome split from, which is the finding graded under `partecon`.

67% 33%
Electricity component of the disclosed daily fee (~$0.018/TH)Service component of the disclosed daily fee (~$0.0089/TH)
ProductPricePays
Digital Miner NFT
The core product: an NFT issued by BMINE (BVI) Limited representing an economic claim on hosted hashrate. No serial-numbered hardware changes hands; the buyer never gains inspection rights over the physical miners.
Variable, priced per TH
one-time purchase
5-15% mining royalty to a referrer
GOMINING token
Utility/governance token for fee discounts, veGOMINING staking votes, and marketplace spend. 77.77% held across three wallets per two independent analytics sources; contract not ownership-renounced.
Market price, ~$0.34-$0.36 at research date
ongoing
10% royalty on a referral’s Simple Earn use
Simple Earn
An in-app yield feature; no company disclosure of its underlying mechanism or historical rate was located in this research.
Variable deposit
ongoing yield
10% royalty on a referral’s use
VIP royalty tiers (Bronze through Legend/Elite)
The top tier is reachable through owned hashrate alone, with no recruiting requirement - a structurally important fact under `comp`.
No purchase required - earned by hashrate owned, tokens staked, or referral spend
ongoing
5% / 7% / 9% / 12% / 14% / 15% mining royalty by tier
Bonus Miners
Non-transferable, non-sellable, non-withdrawable, and revocable by GoMining at its sole discretion at any time; unused bonus rewards are deleted after 90 days if no paid miner has been purchased.
Free, promotional
as awarded
GoMining Card
One of several smaller referral overrides alongside the mining royalty and Simple Earn override.
per $100 of referral card spend
$20 flat bonus to the referrer
Ambassador status
Explicitly defined in GoMining’s own Terms as "not a contractual entitlement" - grantable, modifiable, and revocable at will, including on a trial basis.
Discretionary, invitation-based
as granted
$0.005/kWh electricity royalty on referrals registered after Ambassador status is attained
GoMining Institutional / GM Alpha Blocks Fund
A Delaware limited partnership, Form D-filed 29 July 2025, managed by SEC-IAPD-registered GoMining IM (BVI) Ltd., selling annual distributions from mining yield - the same economic proposition as the retail product, structured explicitly as a registered security.
$100 million target fund size; accredited/qualified investors only
private placement
Background check

Who runs it, and what they ran before

MZ
Mark Zalan
Chief Executive Officer, since February 2022

A named, publicly visible CEO who speaks at industry events and gives on-record interviews - a genuine transparency point relative to anonymous operators. His reported background (Network Implementation Engineer, 1998-2001; left a large industrial employer in 2013; co-founded and ran a Moscow technology company, 2014-2017; advisor to a Moscow venture fund in 2018) comes from a third-party research aggregator and LinkedIn-sourced material, not an independently corroborated HR or court record. No regulatory action, fraud judgment, or criminal proceeding against him could be located anywhere in this research. What was not resolved: the fate of the 2014-2017 company he ran - active, sold, or wound down could not be established - and the roughly one-year gap between GoMining’s stated 2021 founding and his stated 2022 start, with no 2021 founder named anywhere.

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Governance note
A fully offshore, four-entity corporate structure

GoMining (Cyprus) Limited operates the apps; GoMining (BVI) Limited issues the GOMINING token; BMINE (BVI) Limited issues the Digital Miner NFT that actually represents a buyer’s claim on hosted hashrate; GoMining IM (BVI) Ltd. manages the institutional fund. All three retail-facing entities are named and numbered, which is real disclosure - but none files public accounts, and this research found no independent verification that any retail-facing entity itself holds the MiCA crypto-asset-service-provider license its own Terms describe an unnamed "Licensed Partner" as holding on its behalf.

FM
Fakhul Miah, Jeremy Dreier and John D’Agostino
Named principals, GM Alpha Blocks / GoMining Institutional

Listed on the SEC Form D as principals of the general partner and investment manager for the $100 million institutional Bitcoin-mining fund, based in Nashville, Tennessee. Being named on a federal filing is itself a transparency point. Their prior venture track records were not researched in depth in this pass and would need individual FINRA BrokerCheck or SEC IAPD lookups to corroborate.

Registered address

GoMining (Cyprus) Limited, HE450955, Trilogi East Tower, Nicosia district; GoMining (BVI) Limited, 2110978, and BMINE (BVI) Limited, 2120412, both at Trinity Chambers, Road Town, Tortola
Four named, numbered entities disclosed in GoMining’s own Terms of Use - materially more corporate transparency than an anonymous operator - but every one of them is offshore, BVI keeps no public register of company accounts, and no Cyprus registrar filing, revenue figure, or audited financial statement for any of the four entities was located anywhere in this research. GoMining’s own "for investors" page discloses operating metrics - Bitcoin mined, terahash under management - but no revenue, profit, or balance-sheet figure for any entity. A fourth entity, GoMining IM (BVI) Ltd., is registered with the SEC’s Investment Adviser Public Disclosure system (firm #337618) and is named Investment Manager on a Form D filed 29 July 2025 for GM Alpha Blocks US Fund LP, a Delaware limited partnership targeting $100 million from accredited investors.

Compensation plan

What has to be true for you to get paid

To coverYou need
Cover the daily maintenance fee from the mining reward alone ≈$0.0269/TH/day
the disclosed combined electricity (~$0.018/TH) and service (~$0.0089/TH) fee at a 15W/TH efficiency floor, charged daily regardless of Bitcoin’s price or network difficulty that day
Reach the maximum 20% maintenance-fee discount Prepay 360+ days of maintenance in GOMINING tokens
per GoMining’s own published day-count-to-discount table; the discount scales down to 0% for a balance covering 0-17 days, which means holding a token that is 77.77% concentrated across three wallets
Avoid the credit-card purchase fee Fund the Digital Miner purchase in crypto instead of by card
crypto-funded purchases carry a 0% fee versus a stated 4% fee on card purchases, per GoMining’s own schedule
Realize the marketed roughly 40%-a-year return No contractual entitlement to any specific rate exists
GoMining’s own Terms of Use define "APR" only as an estimated, forward-looking, purely indicative metric - the 40% figure is marketing and reviewer commentary, not a company promise this report could find any obligation behind

Read this twice

Three of these four numbers come directly from GoMining’s own published fee schedule and Terms of Use; the fourth - the marketed roughly 40%-a-year figure - comes from independent reviewer and marketing commentary rather than any company guarantee, because GoMining’s own contract explicitly disclaims one. The arithmetic that actually matters is the interaction between the first and the last: the daily fee is owed regardless of outcome, while the headline return is not owed at all. Two unaffiliated reviewers, working independently of each other, make the same point in the record this research reached - that a falling Bitcoin price or a rising network-difficulty figure can leave the daily fee larger than the daily reward, turning a marketed 40%-a-year pitch into a negative one for the same participant in the same product. No company disclosure exists to say how often that has actually happened to real buyers, because no participant-economics disclosure of any kind exists at all.

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Eight dollars thirty-three is GoMining’s own disclosed aggregate divided out: the company states "5,000+ referrers worldwide" and "more than $500,000 paid out to our partners over the past year," which implies roughly $100 per referrer per year - company-supplied, unaudited, and almost certainly skewed well above what a typical referrer earns given GoMining’s own custom, higher-rate terms for top promoters and agencies. The cost line is $0 because qualifying as a referrer requires no subscription - only a one-time Digital Miner purchase, already covered in the entry cost above. This slider does not include the separate ~$0.0269/TH/day maintenance-fee drag on any hashrate you hold yourself, which is charged regardless of whether mining that day was profitable and is detailed in the break-even table above. Your own subscription cost of $0/mo is included.

Your money

What it costs to replace this yourself

This research did not benchmark GoMining’s disclosed fee rate against any named competing hosted-mining or cloud-mining provider’s own rate card - that comparison was out of scope for this brief and no primary competitor rate card was found to cite. What follows instead compares GoMining’s own disclosed terms against the two comparisons any buyer can make without naming a specific competitor: running the equivalent hardware yourself, and simply holding Bitcoin.

What they sell youWhat you'd use insteadYour cost
Digital Miner NFT - hashrate hosted and operated entirely by GoMiningSelf-owned ASIC hardware, self-arranged colocation or home hostingUpfront hardware and setup cost, plus an electricity or hosting contract negotiated directly, with no company fee layered on top
Combined maintenance fee - approximately $0.0269 per TH per day at a 15W/TH efficiency floorA directly negotiated hosting or colocation contract’s own per-TH rateCould not be benchmarked against a named provider in this research; get any hosting quote in dollars-per-TH-per-day and compare it directly against GoMining’s published figure
Up to 20% fee discount for prepaying 360+ days of maintenance in GOMINING tokensPaying maintenance or hosting fees in cash as billedNo token-concentration or contract-control exposure, at the cost of forgoing the discount
4% fee on credit-card-funded purchasesFunding the purchase in crypto instead0%, per GoMining’s own published fee schedule
90-day resale lock, no company redemption of principal, exit only through GoMining’s own Secondary MarketplaceBuying spot Bitcoin directly on the open marketImmediate custody, no lock-up, no maintenance fee, and no NFT wrapper standing between the buyer and the asset
No income or return disclosure of any kindA regulated brokerage or fund publishing an audited performance historyThe comparison itself cannot be completed - GoMining publishes no net-return figure for a prospective buyer to weigh against anything
Total as sold
A per-TH cost this research could not benchmark against any named competitor, on top of a purchase price with a 90-day resale lock and no company redemption right
Total, built yourself
Whatever a directly negotiated hosting contract or a straightforward Bitcoin purchase costs - both fully quotable and comparable in advance, unlike GoMining’s own offer

Price-to-value

GoMining’s fee disclosure is genuinely more specific than most of this category offers, and that is a real credit. But the two comparisons a buyer actually needs - what a competing hosted-mining contract charges per TH, and what simply buying Bitcoin outright would have returned over the same period with none of the lock-up or fee drag - are not made by GoMining’s own marketing, and this research could not complete them independently either. A buyer is left comparing GoMining only against itself.

Odds of profit

Three operators, five horizons

Probability of cumulative net profit

Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%3 mo6 mo1 yr3 yr5 yr 49% 55% 60%
Pure buyer, no referrals - buys one Digital Miner, never refers anyone, pays maintenance from the mining rewardBuyer + casual referrer (Bronze-Gold VIP) - same purchase, refers a handful of friends who buy or upgrade minersHigh-volume promoter (Platinum-Legend or custom terms) - builds a real referral base, negotiates custom agency terms above the published ladder

Pure buyer, no referrals

buys one Digital Miner, never refers anyone, pays maintenance from the mining reward

HorizonP(profit)Median
3 mo 34% −$70
6 mo 37% −$90
1 yr 44% +$30
3 yr 47% +$160
5 yr 49% +$380

Buyer + casual referrer (Bronze-Gold VIP)

same purchase, refers a handful of friends who buy or upgrade miners

HorizonP(profit)Median
3 mo 37% −$40
6 mo 41% −$30
1 yr 49% +$150
3 yr 53% +$540
5 yr 55% +$1,150

High-volume promoter (Platinum-Legend or custom terms)

builds a real referral base, negotiates custom agency terms above the published ladder

HorizonP(profit)Median
3 mo 29% −$800
6 mo 41% −$500
1 yr 54% +$1,900
3 yr 58% +$7,800
5 yr 60% +$16,500

Methodology note. Every figure in these three cohorts is MODELED by this report, not anchored to any company-published outcome. GoMining publishes no income or return disclosure of any kind - no median, no average net figure, no cohort breakdown - so there is no participant-economics document for this table to be built from, unlike most reports on this site. The modeling instead combines GoMining’s own disclosed fee schedule (≈$0.0269/TH/day combined maintenance, up to 20% discount for prepaying in GOMINING tokens, 4% card-purchase fee), the range between the marketed roughly 40%-a-year figure and the fee-exceeding-reward downside two independent reviewers describe, the referral royalty ladder (5-15% on direct referrals’ spend) for the two cohorts that recruit, and the resale-only exit with its 90-day lock. Treat the `p` figures and dollar ranges as this report’s own estimate of plausible outcomes under those disclosed terms, not as a claim about what any actual GoMining participant has earned - because GoMining itself has never published that number.

Go-to-market

Where you are actually allowed to promote this

Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.

Channel
Status
Notes
Direct referral-link sharing
PERMITTED - PAID ON REAL SPEND
The mining royalty is paid on a referral’s actual miner purchases and upgrades, not on a signup fee or recruitment bonus, and the top VIP royalty tier is reachable through owned hashrate alone with no recruiting requirement at all.
KOL and influencer promotion
ACTIVELY COURTED, WITH UNDISCLOSED CUSTOM TERMS
GoMining explicitly offers negotiated royalty rates "independent of your VIP" and an "expanded mining royalty structure" for agencies and large promoters - terms this research could not find published anywhere, creating a real incentive for the best-compensated promoters to amplify return expectations beyond what GoMining’s own disclaimed APR language supports.
Secondary Marketplace resale (the only exit)
COMPANY-OPERATED, REVIEWER-DESCRIBED AS THIN
GoMining is simultaneously the venue operator and, per independent reviewer commentary, one of the few real sources of liquidity; interest in reselling used miners is described as relatively low, with most listed miners less profitable than a newly purchased one.
In-app gamification (Miner Wars, GoBoxes, spells and boosts)
LAYERED DIRECTLY ONTO THE INVESTMENT PRODUCT
GoMining’s own Terms classify Miner Wars as a prize-competition/gaming product. Independent reviewers describe the interface as encouraging impulsive, entertainment-style purchasing rather than sober decision-making.
Paying maintenance fees in GOMINING tokens
DISCOUNTED, BUT TIES THE BUYER TO A CONCENTRATED TOKEN
Up to a 20% discount for prepaying 360+ days of maintenance is real and specifically disclosed - but it requires holding a token that is 77.77% concentrated across three wallets, per two independent on-chain analytics sources, with a contract that is not ownership-renounced.
Card-funded vs. crypto-funded purchase
CARD CARRIES A 4% FEE; CRYPTO IS FREE
A disclosed, specific difference - genuine transparency on the fee side - but it means the buyer, not GoMining, absorbs the cost of using a mainstream payment method.
Marketing the roughly 40%-a-year figure
WIDESPREAD, WHILE THE CONTRACT DISCLAIMS IT
The figure appears consistently across marketing and independent reviewer commentary, while GoMining’s own Terms of Use define "APR" as nothing more than a non-binding, purely indicative estimate - the gap between the promoted number and the contractual obligation is this report’s central marketing-conduct finding.
Institutional placement (GoMining Institutional / GM Alpha Blocks Fund)
FILED WITH THE SEC, RESTRICTED TO ACCREDITED INVESTORS
A genuinely transparent channel - a Form D-filed private placement with named, SEC-registered principals, sold only to qualified participants, rather than marketed to retail buyers as the retail Digital Miner product is.
The evidence

Red flags and green flags

Red flags

15
1No company-side redemption of principal, ever
A buyer’s capital converts permanently into a Digital Miner NFT. The only way to recover it is resale on GoMining’s own Secondary Marketplace, a venue GoMining both operates and, per independent reviewer commentary, dominates in a thin resale market.
2A 90-day resale lock on at least one payment channel
Purchases processed through at least one payment processor carry a documented minimum 90-day restriction before the NFT may be listed for resale at all.
3No refunds under any circumstance
Per GoMining’s stated policy, once a Digital Miner is purchased there is no refund path - only eventual resale, subject to the lock above.
4Extreme token concentration - 77.77% across three wallets
Independently confirmed by two unaffiliated on-chain analytics sources; the concentration is not simply the project’s own treasury (0.00% owner-held), meaning three external wallets hold the overwhelming majority of a token the company markets as central to fee discounts and governance.
5The GOMINING token contract is not ownership-renounced
A named audit firm confirms the contract retains company-controlled functions to set fees, mint, burn, and blacklist addresses - a centralized administrator, not the buyer, holds unilateral control over core token mechanics.
6A roughly 40%-a-year return figure is marketed while the company’s own contract disclaims any guaranteed rate
GoMining’s Terms of Use define "APR" only as a non-binding, purely indicative, forward-looking metric, while marketing and independent reviewer commentary consistently cite a figure around 40% a year.
7No income or return disclosure of any kind exists
Confirmed absent after searching GoMining’s own domain, SEC EDGAR, and general web search for an income-disclosure statement or equivalent - there is no median, no average net return, and no cohort breakdown published anywhere.
8Daily maintenance and electricity fees are charged regardless of mining profitability
The fee is deducted in Bitcoin each day whether or not that day’s pool reward covers it; two unaffiliated reviewers independently flag that a falling Bitcoin price or rising network difficulty can leave the fee larger than the reward.
9No independent proof-of-reserves or facility verification exists for the claimed hashrate
The claimed 16.9-17 million TH/s of mining capacity, and the physical facilities said to host it, have not been independently confirmed by any third-party attestation or site audit found in this research - unverified, not disproven.
10HashEx’s August 2023 audit lists one High and two Medium-severity findings marked "Open"
The report itself states "no issues were resolved in the update" as of its report date, and no confirmed later remediation was located.
11Cyberscope’s most recent audit (October 2024) still shows two Medium findings marked unresolved
The most recent of the three named audits, more current than CertiK’s, still carries specific unresolved findings at its own report date.
12The audit GoMining markets as current is more than five years old
CertiK’s own project page states its last audit was delivered 12 August 2021 - over five years stale relative to GoMining’s own account of its 2021-2026 product roadmap, despite being cited in marketing as evidence of current security.
13Bonus Miners are revocable at GoMining’s sole discretion, for undefined "fraudulent activity"
Free promotional miners are permanently non-transferable and non-withdrawable, and GoMining may revoke them at will with no compensation; unused bonus rewards are automatically deleted after 90 days if no paid miner has been purchased.
14Ambassador status - gating the richest referral economics - is explicitly non-contractual
GoMining’s own Terms define it as something the company "may grant to, modify for, or withdraw from a User" at will, including on a trial basis, meaning the highest referral tier’s benefits are not a vested right.
15gomining.com appears on the Bank of Russia’s public warning list, with the classification text unread
Confirmed to exist via the regulator’s own search-indexed domain; the exact "signs detected" wording and detection date could not be retrieved after four separate attempts in this research. This is a confirmed listing with unread text, not a confirmed finding of a pyramid scheme or fraud.

Green flags

8
1Referral royalties are paid on real product spend, not recruitment
Every documented rate in this research pays on a direct referral’s actual miner purchases, upgrades, or Simple Earn use - never on a signup fee or a separate head-hunting bonus.
2The top referral-royalty tier is reachable without recruiting anyone
VIP status is earned by the highest of owned hashrate, staked GOMINING tokens, or referral activity - a buyer can reach the top-paying tier purely by owning enough hashrate, structurally decoupling the best rate from recruitment volume.
3Named, numbered corporate entities disclosed in the company’s own Terms
Cyprus HE450955, BVI 2110978, and BVI 2120412 are named with registration numbers and addresses - real transparency relative to an anonymous-operator scheme, even though every one of them is offshore.
4The institutional fund is properly SEC-filed, not concealed
GoMining IM (BVI) Ltd. is SEC-IAPD-registered and named Investment Manager on a Form D filed 29 July 2025 for a $100 million private placement with named principals - a genuinely transparent structuring of the institutional side of an economically identical proposition.
5Three independent named audit firms with publicly posted reports
CertiK, HashEx, and Cyberscope have each produced a retrievable report - a real transparency positive relative to an unaudited token, even though each report carries its own reservation (staleness or unresolved findings).
6A published, formula-based net-reward calculation
GoMining discloses exactly how fees reduce mining payouts - pool reward minus electricity and service fees, adjusted for token-payment discounts - rather than leaving the mechanic opaque.
7A full, specific maintenance-fee discount table
A day-count-to-discount-percentage table for the up-to-20% GOMINING-token maintenance discount is published in detail on GoMining’s own help center - genuinely granular fee disclosure.
8A working, independently corroborated withdrawal mechanism
A 3.6-of-5 Trustpilot average across 754 reviews and a second, unaffiliated reviewer’s own successful test withdrawal both indicate that money genuinely comes back out of the product.
What would move this grade

We would like to be wrong about this

Upward

  • A retrievable Bank of Russia listing that turns out to carry no pyramid or fraud classification, or is formally cleared, replacing an unread listing with a resolved one.
  • A named, independent proof-of-reserves attestation or facility audit confirming the claimed 16.9-17 million TH/s of hosted hashrate actually exists at the scale claimed.
  • Publication of a genuine participant-economics disclosure - even an aggregate one - breaking out net returns after fees by cohort, and a current audit replacing the stale 2021 CertiK report GoMining’s marketing still cites.

Downward

  • Any securities-regulator action applying an investment-contract theory to the retail Digital Miner product specifically, rather than only the already-registered institutional fund.
  • Confirmation that the Bank of Russia listing carries a "signs of financial pyramid" classification for gomining.com specifically, or evidence that mining rewards are being funded from new-participant capital rather than real mining revenue.
  • Evidence that the Secondary Marketplace is thinner than reviewer commentary already suggests - that resale below a steep discount is the norm rather than the exception.
The better trade

Grade is D. A real, multi-year Bitcoin-mining product with three named audits and a referral plan that pays on real spend, attached to a structure that takes capital against a marketed roughly 40%-a-year return with no company-side redemption of principal.

Two things here are genuinely better than the category norm. The referral plan pays on a direct referral’s actual purchases and upgrades - never on a signup fee - and the top royalty tier is reachable through owned hashrate alone, with no recruiting requirement at all. And the company submits to real outside scrutiny: three named audit firms, a formula-based fee disclosure specific enough to include a full day-count-to-discount table, and a reviewer-tested withdrawal path backed by a 3.6-of-5 Trustpilot average across 754 reviews. That is a genuine, operating mining business, not a shell.

The exposure sits in the structure, not in any single bad number. A buyer hands over capital in exchange for a marketed Bitcoin-mining return; GoMining alone controls the hardware and the operation; there is no company redemption of principal at any point; and the only exit is resale on a marketplace GoMining itself operates, locked for at least 90 days and described by independent reviewers as thin. GoMining’s own Terms define the advertised return only as a non-binding, purely indicative estimate, while marketing consistently cites roughly 40% a year - a real gap between promotion and contractual obligation. And the same corporate group’s institutional arm sells the functionally identical proposition explicitly as an SEC-registered security, which is the clearest evidence in the file that the operator’s own structuring treats this as investment-contract-shaped.

What is unresolved matters as much as what is confirmed. No income or return disclosure of any kind exists to say what a typical participant actually nets after fees. No independent proof-of-reserves or facility audit confirms the claimed 16.9-17 million TH/s of hosted capacity actually exists at the scale claimed. Two of the three named audits carry unresolved findings at their own report dates, and the one GoMining still markets as current evidence of security is more than five years old. And gomining.com is confirmed to sit on the Bank of Russia’s public warning list, though the exact classification text could not be retrieved - a fact to weigh as an unread listing, not a proven finding.

1

Read the APR disclaimer before the marketing page

GoMining’s own Terms of Use define "APR" only as a non-binding, purely indicative, forward-looking estimate. If a promoter or a marketing page cites roughly 40% a year, ask what obligation actually backs that number - the answer, in the company’s own contract, is none.

2

Price the 90-day lock and the resale market before buying, not after

Principal is never redeemed by the company; the only exit is resale, and it is locked for at least 90 days on at least one payment channel into a market independent reviewers describe as thin. Ask what a comparable used Digital Miner actually sold for recently before assuming resale value equals purchase price.

3

Get a competing per-TH hosting quote before comparing GoMining to nothing

GoMining discloses its own maintenance rate in detail - about $0.0269 per TH per day at a stated efficiency floor - but never benchmarks it against a named competitor. Get an actual quote from a hosting or colocation provider in dollars-per-TH-per-day and do the comparison GoMining’s own marketing does not do.

4

Weigh spot Bitcoin as the plain-language alternative

Buying Bitcoin directly carries no maintenance fee, no 90-day lock, no NFT wrapper, and immediate custody. It also carries no mining-yield component and no referral royalty - which is exactly the trade-off a buyer should be pricing consciously, rather than defaulting into the more complex product because it is the one being marketed.

GoMining’s own contract calls the advertised return "purely indicative" - its marketing calls it roughly 40% a year.
Scorecard

Nine dimensions, weighted

Comp structure & KoscotDoes the plan pay for recruitment or for sales to real customers?
20%
7.5
The mining royalty GoMining pays a referrer - 5% at Bronze up to 15% at Legend/Elite - is paid on what a direct referral actually spends on miner purchases and upgrades, plus 10% of a referral’s Simple Earn yield, $0.005 per kWh of electricity spend for Ambassador-tier referrers, and 2.5% of in-game spend. None of it is paid for the act of recruiting itself, and there is no separate signup or head-hunting bonus. VIP status - which sets the royalty rate - is earned by the highest of three inputs: owned hashrate, staked GOMINING tokens, or referral activity, which means the top-paying tier is reachable by simply owning enough hashrate, with no recruiting requirement at all. The documented rate table pays on direct referrals only, with no published multi-level override, a materially flatter structure than a classic unilevel or binary plan. The deduction is for GoMining’s own disclosed practice of offering undisclosed, custom "agency and network" royalty terms to large promoters and KOLs above the published ladder, and for a reward schedule the company can amend unilaterally at any time.
Securities exposureAny passive return on capital? Howey, staking, tokens, withdrawal friction.
15%
3.0
A buyer hands GoMining money and receives, in return, a Digital Miner NFT: an economic claim on hashrate that GoMining alone hosts, operates, and controls, generating a Bitcoin-mining yield the buyer has no hand in producing. GoMining retains the hardware and the operation; the buyer supplies capital and waits for a return generated by someone else’s effort - the shape of an investment contract, regardless of what the token or NFT is called. There is no company-side redemption of principal at any point: the only way to recover capital is to resell the NFT on GoMining’s own Secondary Marketplace, a venue GoMining itself operates and that independent reviewers describe as thin, locked for at least 90 days after purchase on at least one payment channel. GoMining’s own Terms of Use define "APR" as nothing more than "an estimated… forward-looking and purely indicative metric," disclaiming any guaranteed rate of return - while marketing materials and independent reviewers consistently and repeatedly cite a figure of roughly 40% a year. Both of those are quoted directly from the record and they contradict each other: a promoted number with no contractual obligation behind it. The single strongest piece of evidence that this is not a paper argument: GoMining’s own corporate group runs GoMining IM (BVI) Ltd., an SEC-IAPD-registered investment adviser that filed a Form D on 29 July 2025 for a $100 million fund selling an economically identical proposition - capital in, Bitcoin-mining yield out, managed entirely by the operator - explicitly as a registered security. The operator’s own institutional arm treats this exact structure as investment-contract-shaped. This is not scored at 0, and the distance matters: unlike a bare recruitment-only structure with no underlying activity, there is a real, multi-year operating mining business behind the retail product, with independently produced (if imperfectly resolved) smart-contract audits and a self-reported roughly 5,875-5,913 BTC actually paid out to users since 2021 - a company figure, not an independently verified one, but a real operating history rather than a shell. No securities regulator has yet applied an investment-contract theory to the retail product specifically. Both things are true at once: the exposure is real and structural, and the business behind it is not fabricated.
Ownership & track recordWho runs it, what did they run before, and what happened to it.
15%
5.5
Mark Zalan is a named, publicly visible chief executive who speaks at industry conferences and gives on-record interviews - a real transparency point against the anonymous-operator norm in this category. His reported professional history was sourced from a third-party aggregator and LinkedIn material rather than independently corroborated against a primary employment record, and no regulatory action, fraud judgment, or criminal proceeding against him could be located anywhere in this research - which is the fact keeping this dimension out of the bottom tier. Held down by two unresolved gaps: GoMining states it began operating in 2021, while Zalan’s own biography has him starting "since February 2022," with no 2021 founder identified anywhere in GoMining’s own materials to close that year; and the operating structure is entirely offshore across Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands, with no public financial accounts located for any of the four named entities in the group. The institutional fund’s named principals are at least SEC-registered, a partial offset, but their own prior track records were not corroborated in depth in this research.
Product reality & demandWould a rational buyer purchase this if no income offer existed?
12%
6.0
There is a real product here, not a shell dressed up as one: GoMining reports operating since 2021, with daily Bitcoin payouts, a published formula-based net-reward calculation, and three named third-party smart-contract audits - CertiK (delivered 12 August 2021), HashEx (dated August 2023), and Cyberscope (most recently 15 October 2024) - real independent scrutiny most operators in this category never submit to. Reviewer-tested withdrawal works: a 3.6-of-5 Trustpilot average across 754 reviews and a second, unaffiliated reviewer’s own successful test withdrawal both corroborate that money actually comes back out. Held to the middle for three specific reasons. The audit GoMining still markets prominently as current evidence of security is the CertiK report from August 2021 - over five years stale against the company’s own account of its 2021-2026 product roadmap. The two more recent audits each carry unresolved findings as of their report dates: HashEx’s August 2023 report lists one High and two Medium-severity issues marked "Open," stating in terms that "no issues were resolved in the update," and Cyberscope’s October 2024 report still shows two Medium findings marked unresolved. And no independent proof-of-reserves attestation and no outside verification of the claimed 16.9-17 million TH/s of hosted mining capacity, or of the physical facilities said to host it, could be located anywhere - a gap this research could not close, not a claim this research disproved.
Participant economicsReal cost in, realistic money out, and whether they publish the numbers.
10%
3.5
No income or yield disclosure of any kind exists anywhere GoMining publishes. This research searched GoMining’s own domain, SEC EDGAR, and general web search for a "GoMining income disclosure statement," "average earnings," and equivalent terms, and found no such document on any GoMining property, in any SEC filing, or anywhere else. What exists instead is a handful of unaudited, aggregate marketing metrics - roughly 5,875-5,913 BTC paid out since 2021, roughly 16.9-17 million TH/s under management, and roughly $500,000 a year paid across more than 5,000 referrers, which implies an average referrer payout of about $100 a year but says nothing about the median, and is almost certainly skewed by the custom, undisclosed terms GoMining offers its largest promoters. Structurally, the maintenance and electricity fee is deducted daily in Bitcoin regardless of whether that day’s mining reward covers it - a one-way cost independent of outcome - and two unaffiliated reviewers independently flag that a falling Bitcoin price or rising network difficulty can leave the fee exceeding the reward outright. This is not scored as low as a company whose own disclosure proves a catastrophic median, because no disclosure exists here either way; the deduction is for the total absence of any published participant-economics figure, layered onto a fee structure that runs against the buyer regardless of results.
Price-to-valueWhat the same capability costs on the open market.
8%
5.0
GoMining removes real friction that a self-directed miner would otherwise carry: sourcing hardware, negotiating electricity contracts, and arranging physical hosting all disappear into a single NFT purchase, and the fee mechanic is disclosed with real specificity - a published formula, a combined maintenance rate of roughly $0.0269 per TH per day at a 15-watt-per-TH efficiency floor, and a full day-count-to-discount table showing up to a 20% reduction for prepaying maintenance in GOMINING tokens. That specificity is a genuine advantage over an opaque cloud-mining scheme, worth crediting on its own terms for a buyer who simply wants Bitcoin-mining exposure without running equipment. Held to the middle because GoMining’s own marketing never benchmarks that per-TH rate against named hosted-mining or colocation providers, and never sets it against the plainer alternative of buying Bitcoin directly on the open market with no maintenance fee, no lock-up, and no NFT wrapper at all - the comparison a buyer actually needs to judge the offer is not made for them, and this research could not independently source a competing per-TH rate card to make it on their behalf.
Payout sustainabilityCan the company fund the plan out of margin, or only out of inflow?
8%
4.0
The payout mechanic is mechanically sound on its own terms: net reward is calculated as the pool reward minus electricity and service fees, tied directly to the hashrate GoMining says it operates rather than to new-participant purchases by design. That is a structurally better starting point than a plan that pays first-generation participants out of second-generation deposits. The problem is that this research could not independently verify the claimed 16.9-17 million TH/s of hosted mining capacity through any third-party proof-of-reserves attestation or facility audit, and no audited financial statement exists for any entity in the group to check the payout mechanic against. Absent that verification, the report cannot confirm that current payouts are funded from real mining revenue rather than partly from new participants’ purchase capital - GoMining’s own disclosed mechanics do not themselves rule out that blend, and nothing in the record this research reached settles the question either way. This is graded as a real, unresolved risk rather than a proven inflow-funded structure; it is not scored lower because no evidence of inflow-funding was actually found, only an inability to rule it out.
Marketing conductIncome claims, regulator run-ins, hype, deadline stacking.
7%
4.0
The central marketing problem is the same contradiction that drives the `sec` score, seen from the promotional side: a roughly 40%-a-year return figure is independently and consistently reported across unaffiliated reviewer and marketing commentary, while GoMining’s own binding Terms of Use define "APR" only as a non-binding, purely indicative, forward-looking estimate - a real gap between what is promoted and what the company is contractually obligated to deliver, which is nothing specific at all. The product’s interface layers gamified mechanics - an in-app "Miner Wars" game with spells, boosts, and loot boxes, described by its own Terms as a prize-competition product - directly onto what is being sold as a mining-yield investment, and independent reviewers describe the effect as encouraging impulsive, entertainment-style purchasing rather than sober decision-making. GoMining also actively courts KOLs and influencers with custom, undisclosed commission terms, which creates a real incentive for promoters to amplify return expectations beyond what the company’s own disclaimed APR language supports. Separately, gomining.com is confirmed to appear on the Bank of Russia’s public warning list - its existence verified directly against the regulator’s own search index - but the exact classification text could not be retrieved in this research after repeated attempts; that must be read as an unread listing on a regulator’s warning list, not a confirmed finding of a pyramid scheme, fraud, or any specific violation, and no further detail could be verified.
Operator terms & exitWho owns the customer, what you forfeit, how hard it is to leave.
5%
3.0
No refunds are given under any circumstance once a Digital Miner is purchased, and GoMining itself never redeems principal - the only way to exit is to resell the NFT on GoMining’s own Secondary Marketplace, a venue GoMining both operates and, per independent reviewer commentary, dominates as one of the few real sources of liquidity in a thin market. That resale is locked for at least 90 days after purchase on at least one payment channel. Free promotional "Bonus Miners" are permanently non-transferable, non-sellable, and non-withdrawable, and GoMining may revoke them at its sole discretion at any time - including for "fraudulent activity" as GoMining alone defines it - with no compensation, and unused bonus rewards are automatically deleted after 90 days if no paid miner has been purchased. Ambassador status, which gates some of the richest referral economics in the program, is explicitly defined in GoMining’s own Terms as "not a contractual entitlement" the company may grant, modify, or withdraw at will. And GoMining reserves the right to amend its Terms of Use at any time, with continued use standing in for acceptance - a material term given how much of the economic bargain, from the fee schedule to the VIP royalty ladder to the Bonus Miner mechanics, lives in cross-referenced help-center pages the company can update unilaterally rather than in a fixed contract exhibit. This is a genuinely difficult structure to exit cleanly.
Weighted composite
4.95
D

Dimension profile

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Comp structure& Koscot 7.5 Securitiesexposure 3.0 Ownership &track record 5.5 Product reality& demand 6.0 Participanteconomics 3.5 Price-to-value 5.0 Payoutsustainability 4.0 Marketingconduct 4.0 Operator terms& exit 3.0

Hard caps that bind here

Cap at D Nothing in this file rises to a binding cap. No litigated finding, indictment, consent order, or confirmed regulatory enforcement action against GoMining or any named individual could be located anywhere in this research - the closest the file comes is a Bank of Russia warning-list entry whose text could not be read, and a routine SEC Form D notice that is a transparency filing, not a sanction. The nine weighted dimension scores already land the composite at 4.95, on the boundary between the D and D+ bands, with no need for a cap to explain the grade. This entry states a ceiling only: were the Bank of Russia listing’s text retrieved and found to carry a "signs of financial pyramid" or comparable fraud designation specifically for gomining.com, that would be a materially different fact and could bind a lower cap.
Cap at D A second scenario that would bind a cap rather than simply move a dimension score: independent proof-of-reserves or a facility audit showing the claimed 16.9-17 million TH/s of hosted mining capacity is materially overstated or does not exist at the scale claimed. That has not happened - this research found an absence of independent verification, not evidence of a false claim - so it is named here as what would have to be true, not as something established. As written, the nine numbers alone set the grade.
Cap at D A third scenario: evidence that mining rewards paid to users are funded, in whole or part, from new-participant purchase capital rather than actual mining revenue. This research found no evidence either way - it is recorded in `payout` and `product` as an open question, not a finding - but it is the single largest unresolved question in this file and, if resolved against the company, would be the clearest possible case for a binding cap. None of the three scenarios above has occurred. The composite already sits at the D/D+ boundary on the nine dimension scores alone.

The lowest binding cap wins, regardless of the weighted arithmetic.

Sources consulted

What we read

Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.

  1. GoMining Terms of Use for Products and Apps
    Policies & proceduresTier 1GoMining (Cyprus) Limited / GoMining (BVI) Limited / BMINE (BVI) Limited · 2026-07-16archived copy

    Primary contract document. Names all three operating entities with registration numbers and addresses; defines "APR" as a non-binding, purely indicative, forward-looking metric only; defines "Ambassador Status" and "Bonus Miner" as discretionary and revocable at GoMining’s sole discretion; references MiCA ART/EMT token categories and an unnamed "Licensed Partner" CASP.

    Not established by this document: The full document runs far longer than what was retrieved; the Secondary Marketplace clause, refund policy, and governing-law/arbitration clauses were not fully captured in the retrieved excerpt.

  2. About GoMining’s Bitcoin Mining Ecosystem
    Company documentTier 3GoMining · 2026archived copy

    Self-reported founding year (2021), user count (5M+), staff count (300+), total TH/s (16M+), facility locations, and a hardware-vendor partnership claim.

    Not established by this document: No named founder distinct from CEO Zalan; no revenue or financial figures; facility claims not independently verified.

  3. GoMining for Investors: Metrics and Audits
    Company documentTier 3GoMining · 2026archived copy

    Self-reported key statistics (7 years, 5,913 BTC total mined, 16,957,806 TH/s) and named audit partners.

    Not established by this document: No audited financials; the BTC-mined figure differs slightly from the referral-program page figure (5,875 vs 5,913).

  4. Maintenance fees and discounts
    Company documentTier 2GoMining Help Center · 2026archived copy

    The full net-reward formula and the complete day-count-to-discount-percentage table for the up-to-20% GOMINING-token maintenance discount.

    Not established by this document: Does not itself give the underlying dollars-per-TH service and electricity rate card; those figures came from a secondary aggregation.

  5. GoMining Referral Program - earn from every friend you invite
    Compensation planTier 1GoMining · 2026archived copy

    Primary comp-plan page: VIP royalty ladder (5-15%), Simple Earn 10% override, $0.005/kWh electricity royalty, $20 card bonus, 2.5% Miner Wars royalty, self-reported program scale ($500K+/year across 5,000+ referrers), and custom terms for KOLs/agencies.

    Not established by this document: Does not itself state whether any L2/deeper-level override exists or its rate.

  6. Referral & Ambassador Program - GoMining Docs
    Compensation planTier 1GoMining · 2026archived copy

    Defines the exact referral reward percentages, eligibility exclusions, and the Ambassador electricity-royalty formula and calculation schedule.

    Not established by this document: Silent on any L2 payout; states rates are "subject to change."

  7. VIP program
    Compensation planTier 1GoMining · 2026archived copy

    Confirms VIP status is based on the highest of mining power owned, veGOMINING votes staked, or 180-day referral activity - the top royalty tier is reachable without recruiting.

    Not established by this document: Does not list the full benefit table for every tier beyond referral royalty.

  8. Become a True GoMining Partner
    Company documentTier 3GoMining (company blog) · 2026-07-16archived copy

    States the full VIP royalty ladder explicitly: Bronze 5%, Silver 7%, Gold 9%, Platinum 12%, Diamond 14%, Legend/Elite 15%.

    Not established by this document: A company blog post, not the binding contract text.

  9. GoMining Review: Scam, Ponzi… or Both?
    ReportingTier 3Juristique (Pascal Fromager) · 2025-10-27archived copy

    An independent hands-on reviewer who paid in Bitcoin and tested withdrawal successfully; reports the roughly 40%-a-year advertised return, thin secondary-market resale demand, and names the BVI entities by full address.

    Not established by this document: An opinion/review piece, not a regulator or court document; the author’s methodology was not independently audited by this research.

  10. Gomining Review: Fraudulent Cloud Mining Operation
    ReportingTier 3Radley Finance · 2025-06-12archived copy

    An independent critical reviewer alleging no regulation and no transparency; used only as one of two sources corroborating general "unregulated/thin transparency" sentiment, not relied on alone for any specific fact.

    Not established by this document: Contains a factual claim (that the domain was only registered in 2025) that conflicts with GoMining’s own 2021-founding claim and other reviewers’ accounts; treated with caution and not used as a sole source for any fact in this report.

  11. GOMINING.COM | Bank of Russia
    RegulatorTier 1Bank of Russia (Central Bank of the Russian Federation) · 2025archived copy

    A search-engine-indexed page title confirms a live cbr.ru warning-list entry for GOMINING.COM exists on the Bank of Russia’s official domain.

    Not established by this document: This research could not fetch the full page content directly (blocked by network egress restrictions and repeated crawl errors across four separate attempts) - the exact "signs detected" classification language and precise dates were not independently read; inferred only by format analogy to adjacent, directly-read cbr.ru entries.

  12. List of entities with detected signs of illegal activities in the financial market
    RegulatorTier 1Bank of Russia · 2026archived copy

    Confirms the general methodology and legal basis of the warning list the GoMining entry appears on (a monitoring system plus complaints, covering financial pyramids and illegal market participants; does not cover individuals).

    Not established by this document: A general index page, not the GoMining-specific entry.

  13. MINERS-SIGNALS, Finvage, Len-trade | Bank of Russia
    RegulatorTier 1Bank of Russia · 2025-03-05archived copy

    A directly-read, comparable warning-list entry used to establish the standard page format applied by analogy to the GoMining entry.

    Not established by this document: Not itself about GoMining; used only for format corroboration.

  14. SEC EDGAR full-text search for "GoMining"
    SEC filingTier 1U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · 2026-09archived copy

    A confirmed working full-text search returning exactly one hit (the GM Alpha Blocks Form D) and no enforcement or litigation documents naming GoMining anywhere on EDGAR.

    Not established by this document: Full-text search covers only EDGAR-filed documents; it does not cover investor alerts or non-filed SEC web pages.

  15. GM Alpha Blocks US Fund LP - Form D (primary_doc.xml)
    SEC filingTier 1U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · 2025-07-29archived copy

    The primary Reg D filing: names GoMining IM (BVI) Ltd. as Investment Manager, GM Alpha Blocks Feeder GP Ltd. (Cayman) as General Partner, and principals Fakhul Miah, Jeremy Dreier and John D’Agostino; confirms the 3(c)(1)/3(c)(7) pooled-fund exemption and a management/performance fee structure.

    Not established by this document: Does not disclose the amount raised to date (marked "Decline to Disclose").

  16. EDGAR Company Search Results - CIK 0002078243
    SEC filingTier 1SEC EDGAR · 2026-09archived copy

    Confirms GM Alpha Blocks US Fund LP’s single Form D filing, Delaware incorporation, and Nashville, TN business address.

    Not established by this document: None material.

  17. GOMINING IM (BVI) LTD. - Investment Adviser Firm (IAPD)
    SEC filingTier 1SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) · 2026archived copy

    Confirms GoMining IM (BVI) Ltd. has an SEC IAPD firm profile (firm #337618) as an investment adviser.

    Not established by this document: The page is JavaScript-rendered; this research could not extract the full underlying registration detail (AUM, registration date, disciplinary history) from a raw fetch - confirmed only that the profile exists at this ID via a search-index title match and a direct fetch that returned the page shell.

  18. EDGAR Company Search Results - "gomining"
    SEC filingTier 1SEC EDGAR · 2026-09archived copy

    Confirms "No matching companies" for an issuer-name search on "gomining" - no GoMining entity is itself an EDGAR-registered issuer/filer in its own name.

    Not established by this document: None material.

  19. GoMining (GOMINING) Security Score & Audit - CertiK Skynet
    Company documentTier 2CertiK · 2026-09archived copy

    Confirms CertiK’s last audit was delivered 12 August 2021 and confirms extreme token-holder concentration (77.77% Major Holding Ratio across 3 wallets, an "Extreme" concentration indicator, 0% owner-held).

    Not established by this document: A third-party analytics aggregator, not a regulator; figures are algorithmically derived from on-chain data.

  20. Gomining token Smart Contract Audit - Cyberscope
    Company documentTier 2Cyberscope · 2024-10-15archived copy

    The most recent independent audit iteration found: 0 Critical, 2 Medium (unresolved), 5 Minor (unresolved); confirms the contract is not ownership-renounced and retains mint, burn, fee-setting, and blacklist functions.

    Not established by this document: The audit firm was compensated by the project (standard industry practice, not unique to GoMining); it does not independently verify off-chain mining operations.

  21. GoMining smart contracts preliminary audit report (PDF)
    Company documentTier 2HashEx (commissioned by GoMining) · 2023-08archived copy

    The primary audit PDF: 13 total issues (1 High, 2 Medium, 5 Low, 5 Informational); the High and Medium findings are marked "Open," and the report states "No issues were resolved in the update."

    Not established by this document: Titled "preliminary" and marked "for internal use only" by HashEx’s own disclaimer; no confirmed later or final HashEx report was located.

  22. GoMining Token Price (GOMINING/USD) - CoinGecko
    Open-market comparisonTier 4CoinGecko · 2026-09archived copy

    Current price (~$0.34), market cap (~$138.8M), and 24-hour volume; confirms circulating supply is close to total supply at this snapshot.

    Not established by this document: A market-data aggregator, not an audited company figure.

  23. Gomining Token Price Today - CryptoRank.io
    Open-market comparisonTier 4CryptoRank · 2026-09archived copy

    All-time-high ($0.565, 16 December 2024) and all-time-low (~$0.0695) figures, with percentage-off-ATH/ATL calculations and a 30-day green/red day count.

    Not established by this document: An aggregator site; the exact ATH date was not cross-verified against a second independent price tracker in this research.

  24. What Is GoMining (GOMINING) And How Does It Work? (CMC AI)
    Open-market comparisonTier 3CoinMarketCap · 2026-08-11archived copy

    Confirms the "Liquid Bitcoin Hashrate" protocol name, the weekly Burn & Mint mechanic, and a roughly 437M "original supply" with roughly 29.9M (6.84%) permanently burned.

    Not established by this document: An AI-generated summary product; the supply figures here do not fully reconcile with the 10-billion max-supply figure reported elsewhere.

  25. Gomining Token price now - CoinCarp
    Open-market comparisonTier 4CoinCarp · 2026-09archived copy

    The source for the roughly 414.72M circulating / 10 billion max supply figures used in this report’s token section.

    Not established by this document: Not cross-verified against a second tracker for the specific max-supply figure.

  26. GoMining Reviews - Trustpilot
    Self-regulatoryTier 2Trustpilot · 2026-02-26archived copy

    754 reviews at a 3.6-of-5 average rating; a sample of both strongly positive and hostile reviews, some with a company reply.

    Not established by this document: Trustpilot explicitly disclaims fact-checking of review content; a private ratings aggregator, not a government body.

  27. GoMining Institutional - Institutional-Grade Bitcoin Mining & Yield Strategies
    Company documentTier 3GoMining · 2026-02-26archived copy

    Confirms the "GoMining Alpha Blocks Fund" institutional product, its positioning versus self-mining and spot Bitcoin, and references to institutional infrastructure partnerships and restricted access to "qualified participants."

    Not established by this document: A marketing page; it does not itself disclose the fund size raised to date or performance.

  28. GoMining launches $100M Bitcoin mining fund for institutional investors
    ReportingTier 3Cointelegraph (via TradingView syndication) · 2026archived copy

    Confirms the $100M target size, a named custody arrangement, and a Core/Advanced strategy split for the institutional fund.

    Not established by this document: Syndicated press coverage, not a primary fund document (e.g., a private placement memorandum); fund economics were not independently confirmed beyond the Form D’s generic fee-disclosure language.

  29. How to Sell a Digital Miner on GoMining Marketplace / Buying and selling FAQ
    Company documentTier 3GoMining Help Center · 2026archived copy

    The source for the no-refund policy and the 90-day Ecommpay transfer-restriction detail.

    Not established by this document: This research reached this fact via a search-engine summary of the page rather than a direct full-page fetch; the exact clause wording was not independently re-read verbatim.

Unable to verify

What we could not get

  • The "44.7k searches" premise figure for the watchlist ranking - no working keyword-volume tool access existed in this research, and no substitute primary source for search volume on "gomining" was found; not confirmed or refuted.
  • The exact text and detection date of the Bank of Russia (cbr.ru) warning-list entry for gomining.com - the entry’s existence is confirmed via a search-indexed title match on the live cbr.ru domain, but the full page content could not be fetched after four separate attempts across different tools, all blocked by network restrictions.
  • The identity and license status of GoMining’s "Licensed Partner" - the crypto-asset-service-provider GoMining’s own Terms describe as handling regulated EEA services on its behalf - not named anywhere in GoMining’s public materials this research could reach.
  • Whether GoMining’s payouts to users are funded from actual mining revenue or, in whole or part, from new-participant purchase capital - the single largest open question in this research; no evidence was found either way, and no audited financial statement exists to check against.
  • Independent physical verification of any named GoMining mining facility, including the claimed 16.9-17 million TH/s of hosted capacity - no property record, utility-interconnection filing, satellite-imagery review, or site-visit report was attempted or located.
  • Whether the HashEx (August 2023) High/Medium findings, or the Cyberscope (October 2024) Medium findings, have since been remediated in any later, unpublished, or not-yet-indexed audit report.
  • The identity of GoMining’s 2021 founder, if distinct from CEO Mark Zalan - Zalan’s own biography has him joining "since February 2022," and no 2021 founder was identified anywhere in GoMining’s materials to close that gap.
  • Reconciliation of the two differing GOMINING token supply figures - roughly 437 million "original supply" per one market-data source against a 10-billion-token max-supply figure per another - not resolved against a primary tokenomics document; may reflect different definitions rather than a genuine conflict.

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GoMining - frequently asked

QDo I own the physical mining hardware?
No. The Digital Miner NFT is an economic claim on hosted hashrate issued by BMINE (BVI) Limited; the buyer never takes custody of, or gains inspection rights over, the physical mining hardware.
QCan I get my money back from GoMining?
No refunds are given under any circumstance. The only way to recover capital is to resell the Digital Miner on GoMining’s own Secondary Marketplace, subject to at least a 90-day hold on some payment channels and reviewer-reported thin resale demand.
QIs the marketed roughly 40%-a-year return guaranteed?
No. That figure appears consistently in marketing and reviewer commentary, but GoMining’s own Terms of Use define "APR" only as a non-binding, purely indicative, forward-looking estimate.
QHas GoMining been audited?
Yes, by three named firms - CertiK (2021), HashEx (2023), and Cyberscope (2024) - but the two more recent reports each show specific unresolved findings, and the CertiK report GoMining’s marketing still cites is over five years old.
QIs GoMining regulated?
Its institutional Bitcoin-mining fund is a properly SEC-Form-D-filed private securities offering with a registered investment adviser. The retail product operates through Cyprus/BVI entities with no independently confirmed crypto-asset license, and gomining.com appears on a Bank of Russia warning list whose exact text could not be confirmed.
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Written by Claude AI
Reviewed by Rob Fore · Published by Listech Inc · September 11, 2026

This report was researched and written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, working from primary documents - GoMining’s own compensation plan, its policies and procedures, its terms of service, its income disclosure statement where one exists, and its regulatory and self-regulatory file. It was scored against nine weighted dimensions that are published in full, with their weights, on the methodology page.

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Rob Fore has marketed online since 1996, wrote Online MLM Marketing (2014), and is CEO of Listech Inc, the Nevada corporation that publishes this site. He holds affiliate positions in companies graded here - including LiveGood, which this site grades D, SendOutCards, which it grades C−, and the Home Business Academy, which it grades B−. Those positions are disclosed on the reports they touch, and changed nothing on this page.

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