There are 3 main reasons this project is called a scam, the first 2 came out from 1 video.
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MD5 Encryption
TXs delaying to reach the monitor
ICO rules changes on demand
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Before going forward, I would like everyone to understand what an Alpha version is, and I will use Wikipedia: . "The alpha phase of the release life cycle is the first phase to begin software testing, In this phase, developers generally test the software using white-box techniques. Additional validation is then performed using black-box or gray-box techniques, by another testing team. Moving to black-box testing inside the organization is known as alpha release."
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The "fault" of the team is that when you do an Alpha, you don't go public, this is not how Alphas work, even after Alpha, there is a closed-Beta before public-Beta. But they decided to go for it and even rush it to meet the schedule, and how I see it is because nowadays almost all ICOs are on paper they wanted added value for their ICO. Not going to judge if it was good or bad as a public opinion, but for me it was good because I can understand a few technical stuff.
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I don’t know if these 2 bugs were in place before the video or after, but even if they got in there after the video is fine because it’s an ALPHA and devs will use our tests to find bugs so the team can fix them. Other bugs include some negative balances appearing only on online wallet (at least I wasn’t able to reproduce it on desktop wallet).
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I’m a result oriented person and the result of this ICO was that for 10+ hours, small guys had the time to invest, which is rarely the case (you could see 0.1-0.4 eth transactions going in, which means they didn’t even afford the max of 0.5) and after that, an almost 10 eth cap put in place for the bigger guys, which they had like 5 hours to get as much as they wanted. Total 15 hours of an ICO, that didn’t have gas wars and just worked. Yes, some people might lost the opportunity because they thought they had 2 days for their 0.5 whitelisted contribution, but sadly this was the group of people that are not happy by this ICO, as said before, you can’t have everyone happy. So I find the rule changes made after the difficulties, on point after seeing the result of the ICO.
That said, I was one of the people used 15+ wallets to get through their desired amount, and after raising the cap to 10 eth I felt dumb for all the effort I put, but I didn’t mind.