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So, when is Gravity gonna be released?

I don't care how loyal of a supporter of team ION you are, some chaps have to be getting frustrated.

We are talking about a group of people who stuck with XPY for more than a year after it was obvious to everyone else that it's dead.

They'll stick with ION until the "team" runs out of cash and invents some new trinkets.

You know how over time we watched GAW claim members? There were less... a lot less.
Another project like StakeMiners claimed the same. After I dug into them through Nigel. We all learned not even the "team" they claimed in charge was found hollow full of ghosts.
I feel the same could be imagined for this shit-show. Less developers or personal and members than claimed.

I also can imagine ION dying the same way XPY did through inflation.

In terms of 'membership', I think it's already pretty clear that they don't really have much of an active community. If slack and/or iontalk (the unofficial forum) is a measure of pure membership, there's only at most I'd say 25-30 active contributors to discussion. That's at absolute most. Mostly it's 10-20 regular users on the slack. Granted they have more registered users on the slack channel, but even that's only around the 200 ish mark I think, and I'd be willing to wager a large proportion of those were one time sign ups out of curiosity when the coin/project launched who haven't dipped back in again. As another measure of community activity and engagement, Krumz just this week had to cancel a 'lottery' site he had started just after its launch due to lack of interest.

I've heard various numbers for the amount of staking accounts on the 'ionomy platform' that have been bandied about. I think the last I heard was in the thousands, but it's unclear if that represents individual accounts or number of stakers or what. Again, since at the moment nothing can be done with 'ions' anyway, I'd be willing to bet that at least a chunk of those staking accounts have been forgotten about by their owners due to the projects perceived inactivity.

We don't really know much about the 'team' side of things as they appear to like keeping details very closely guarded, but it was mentioned that they've had to hire additional dev(s) to help build out various features relating to the API for the ionomy platform.

What's really clear though is that this is very much a project with really limited reach at this stage. It has a tiny community, and no one outside of prior GAW investors who transferred over XPY is even aware of its existence; it's telling that even in the pre-ICO launch no major crypto journalism sites (and I use the term journalism very loosely here as they're mostly just glorified blogs/paid article sites) picked up and reported on the launch. When even crypto news sites don't write about you in this field, I think it's fair to say you might need to rethink your approach to PR.

I cancelled the ION lottery first draw as did not want ppl to lose too many ION on entry, over a quarter of the 1000 tickets sold tho (in two days since site launch) so that is good and showed interest, there were some late entries I did not add too (All on public spreadsheet). I have refunded everyone with a 100% bonus is coins for ticket purchases so they are all winners. The ION lottery is being redesigned with a smaller pot so better chance to win and also an improved ticket choosing system. Thanks for noticing and stay posted for updates Grin

http://ionlottery.net