Quote from: James A. Donald the first person to interact with Satoshi Nakamoto on the mailing list

Every website reporting on the altcoin boom and the initial coin offering boom has an incentive to not look too closely at the claimed numbers. Looks to me that only Bitcoin and Steemit.com have substantial numbers of real users making real arms length transactions [] The crypto coin business is full of scammers, and there is no social pressure against scammers, no one wants to look too closely, because a close look would depress the market. There is no real business plan, no very specific or detailed idea of how the coin offering service is going to be of value, how it is going to get from where it is now, to where it is going to usefully be [] Nearly all of them are furtively centralized, as Bitcoin never was. They all claim to be decentralized, but when you read the white paper, as with Waves, or observe actual practice, as with Steemit, they are usually completely centralized, and thus completely vulnerable to state pressure, and quite likely state seizure as an unregulated financial product, thus offer no real advantage over conventional financial products. When you buy an initial coin offering, you are usually buying shares, usually non voting shares, in a business with no assets and no income and no clear plan to get where they will have assets and income, as in the dot com boom.

Quote from: Nexchange.co.uk on September 26, 2017, 09:14:37 AM

Quote from: Hyperme.sh on September 26, 2017, 09:05:14 AM

Future ICO Woes & Alternatives to ICOs for Fundraising

This thread is a duplicate.

Absolutely false accusation. The quoted linked blog contains the accumulation of years of my research on this issue which has canonical threads that predate yours by years. Theres a depth of analysis in the linked blog which far outstrips your recent thread discussion.

Additionally this thread contains a poll and yours doesnt.