WARNING - TRIBETOKEN IS A SCAM - READ TO FIND OUT WHYI had a look on your website, and it reminded me of another website I was looking at some time ago, namely SkinCoin.
Your website is an
EXACT replica,
WORD FOR WORD with SkinCoin. What's even funny is that your
GITHUB contract is
EXACTLY the same as SkinCoin with a few variables/things changed to mention TRIBE instead.
Without further ado, here's the proof I gathered:
http://i.imgur.com/g26fWK0.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/ynX5fSv.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/QxDjz8K.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/OGyGYRU.pngWatch how everything is almost the same as SkinCoin, even their diagram follows the same design patternSkinCoin's Crowdsale codehttps://github.com/Steamtradenet/smart-contract/blob/master/contracts/Crowdsale.solTribeToken's Crowdsale codehttps://github.com/TribeToken/Tribe-Token-Contracts/blob/master/Contract/Crowdsale.solPretty much the same, don't you think?
SkinCoin's contribution page (read their Contribution Rules and FAQ)https://skincoin.org/ico/#contributeTribeToken's contribution rules and FAQhttps://tribetoken.org/ico/Pretty much an exact replica...
You guys should be ashamed, stealing in the name of charity? What an immoral thing to do. I'm always skeptical of ICO's and do my due dilligence, but this one takes the cake...
I'll be reporting this to as many channels as I can find, this ought to be closed down immediately. I hope you have a pretty good answer why you copied over SkinCoin, to me this smells like a quick scam to get the money, no wonder you don't want any escrow for the funds sent and frankly I'm worried that
NO ONE ELSE caught this.
Your current proof on we are a scam is based on the fact that you found a website layout looking the same with a few lines of text the same that we are a scam?
And while yes our contract may have parts inspired and in some cases forked from the code from skincoin GitHub we do not or will not deny it, which I should add there is no copyright presented on the GitHub, however by your own logic anyone who uses code parts such as the ERC20 is scamming.
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.- Douglas Crockford
PS. Why reinvent the wheel when there already is one and is already working the way is needed?
GitHub TOS :
https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#5-license-grant-to-other-usersFirst of all, I'm not disputing the fact that you're re-using code, it's a good thing to do. There's a clear difference between re-using libraries (such as the well-defined OpenZeppelin Solidity contract foundation) and blatantly just copying and pasting and changing a few variables. But fine, let's assume this is not an issue.
The next problem is that your 'contribution page' is a blatant rip from SkinCoin's page, now I'm not sure what excuse you want to pull there but as presented by the screenshots above your text is pretty much bang on the same. Can't be a coincidence, you would've thought any ICO worth their salt and serious about it isn't going to start by copying and pasting other people's websites. I can understand the coding, Solidity might be a new language to most (even though it's not and it's just Javascript for the most part), so it's always helpful to see reference code and understand what's going on.
The both added above seems like you've noticed that SkinCoin made some decent money and you literally copied them, which is the
only conclusion that makes sense to me as a potential investor (and for the record I have saved all the pages in a quick video in case they're magically changed tomorrow).
The best of all of this is that you want
NO escrow and have the public trust you and on top of that you JUST changed your 'minimum ETH goal' to be ZERO. This just screams SCAM to me.
I'd love to hear other people's opinion on this.Oh and what about LinkedIn (or similar) pages? I'm not seeing any credibility here either, this is just a SCAM to lure people to giving you money and making it off.All I can say to everyone is beware.
