Can someone please advise me as to where is the first place that official FACTOM news is announced? Is it here? Twitter? Reddit?
The problem is unlike other projects that we are used to, Factom is not involved in the Bitcointalk community. They honestly do not care about the 0.5 BTC some people invest, because they don't need our money and they are too mainstream and professional to entertain non English speaking plebs like the majority of the people here; in return it is very easy to spread FUD and create rumors here because no one officially intervenes. With that being said, take no advice from this thread, do your own independent research on Factom outside of Bitcointalk and it's users opinions, and make your own decision if want to sell, buy or trade this coin.
Once more, I do not think they do not care and it would not be prudent to think that way. Cause unhappy investors can do A LOT OF DAMAGE to the final project. There re at least 2-3k of us here. That s the price you pay for raising money the way they did.
I can understand we re not their target group but intentionally not caring for us would be a very stupid move.
They do care. Otherwise they wouldn't ever speak with Crypto-folks. And obviously they are not that much small-talk-guys here on BCT and there are some more or less subtle signs that they don't like all the price-talking ;-) , but one has just to look at Brian Deerys post-history here and Paul Snow is more active on reddit etc.
I believe that they are coding-workaholics. And if they do it right, your concern that guys like we are could damage this project will be baseless. I believe Factom is already too big for that. We could spread rumors and lies however we would want, it wouldn't change the opinion of potential customers. I would be surprised if companies would give much on BCT-talking.