They are giving excuse of spending taas allocated for bounty in conferences and news promotion.
Wasn't it supposed to be out of the 15% of the ICO investments that are allocated to development, operations , PR (written in their Bitcointalk thread and whitepaper)
15% of the profits the fund makes, not the ICO
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