cryptohunter, with all the due respect (and I indeed value your input on many threads here), your statement above is completely false.

The ICO was not stealth, it was announced properly and was held for about one month if I remember right. There wasn't advertisement campaign with all the bounty whores and meaningless signatures, but it was not such a common practice at the time as it became now. There was an announcement, which was noticed by most of the active members of this forum (who were checking for new coins/opportunities), lots of discussions in the thread, and a lot of time to invest.

I would even tell more: the founders of IOTA, while clearly hating Bitcointalk forum, opened the announcement here, because this place had the biggest crypto community at the time (and maybe still does, I don't know).

I have personally bought few IOTA tokens at the time (really small amount, unfortunately), but I am far from being "IOTA supporter" - though I like the project, I strongly dislike the leadership and communication style of one of IOTA founders, and by that single reason I stopped following that project. However when checking from time to time, I cannot deny the huge work done AFTER ICO by founders and the community. That project differs from everything I have seen here on BCT. It has completely different level of community involvement and real-world out-of-crypto propagation. I could compare it only to Ethereum (disclaimer: I don't follow all crypto projects, so my opinion here could be not that well-grounded).

So I call everybody do what I am trying to do - be objective and unbiased, regardless of our personal likes/dislikes and our financial involvement.

P.S. And thanks for reminding me about IOTA - I actually tired of waiting for exchange, and nearly forgot about this small investment. Was not aware it is already listed...