Quote from: MalReynolds on November 10, 2016, 11:18:38 AM

Quote from: Daparski on November 10, 2016, 07:17:43 AM

Still, meeting someone in person is not the same as reading about what he achieved.

True. I have been burned in the past for large sums by going with only what I read about a crypto person, and I have taken a risk in doing so again here. But I believe in Jani and his team, their record is impressive.

Would I be happier if ICN had a little pop at launch and permanently stayed above ICO price? Of course. And I am disappointed that has not happened. But everybody's sense of time is so skewed in the crypto world. We are less than three weeks from ICN distribution and it is not reasonable to expect huge progress on the actual platform yet. I am patient.

I have broken the number one rule of investing by putting all my available crypto resources on one trade here. Why? I am too much of a poker player, I like that thrill of being "all-in". Plus, I am not a rich man in real life. I have a job and not enough saved for retirement. My investment in ICN is a huge amount of money, but it is the culmination of two years of crypto trading starting from a much smaller sum that I could afford to lose. My finances in real life are completely seperate (and much less dramatic) that my crypto investments. My goal is to get in on a BTC / ETH level of pop and then pull it all out and retire. (Or maybe leave it in and live off ICONOMI dividends? We'll see...) I believe ICONOMI can get me where I want to go, but it will take time. More time than 16 days. And with a few dips between here and there.

Quote from: bitarri on November 10, 2016, 08:22:22 AM

I hope this infographics helps people who don't bother reading the whitepaper or FAQs

I love infographics and I love yours. But just so you know, I will be wearing shorts and a Hawaiian shirt when this time comes...

I too had invested in some spams ( smaller amounts than you). But my case was different. I had earned about X2 of my investment in less than 4 months before the website hot down.

For me too, the crypto world and real world are very different. I have not invested a single penny of from my Fiat.
All I invest is I earned online through freelancing jobs, and from ROI from scams like Hashocean before they ran away.

If I had taken out that crypto to Fiat, I would have been left with nothing now. I live in India. In India, recently, to remove black money, the use of ₹500, 1000 notes ( equivalent to approx $8 and $16) has been banned. India would offer new notes in the coming days in exchange of that old notes.
If I had converted crypto to Fiat, maybe it would be detected as black money, for such big amounts of money compared to my monthly income in real world.