After being warned by a mod that discussing links between altcoins may be off-topic in an altcoin announcement thread (weird but I don't make the rules) I have decided to start a separate thread with a more appropriate title and dedicated solely to the subject.
Brief history of the origins of ION/ionomy:
The current ionomy "team" is the same "team" that tried to resuscitate XPY for a year, during which time XPY went from ~$0.50 to ~$0.02. After having thoroughly failed with XPY the "team" created their own hyperinflating coin - ION (currently down ~50% since the ICO), rebranded "xpy.io" into "ionomy.com", and exchanged XPY to ION at an 8:1 rate. Here is the ionomy announcement:
http://archive.is/tuWVBIn addition to that, the main "features" of ION have been "borrowed" from XPY:
- 100% premine
- 100% inflation
- massive push to use a web wallet with "PNGs" and "skins"
- no real-life use 6+ months after the ICO
- militant shills
- "walled garden" communication methods
- refusal to provide any kind of transparency regarding ICO
More details can be found in this FAQ that I tried to compose over the last few months:
https://www.iontalk.net/t/bitcointalk-ion-faq/207Announcement thread - abandoned by the "devs":
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1443633.0