I don't think the whole point is about the dollar value of the NEO sent, or the lost GAS it got generated.
That's the less of anybody's concern at this stage.
The real issue is it stinks, and it smells fraudulous at the least.
People on Slack at that time were given some insights. The subreddit is full of anger.
Can you explain why? it seems to be some guy posted "2nd window opens in few minutes" or some thing similar to this..
But was there any build up to this i.e "GUYS WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS LATE TO CONFUSE THE NEEWBIES WITH OUR CUNNING PLAN OF NO LETTING THOSE IN THE FIRST FEW SECONDS GET THEIR TOKENS?? WAIT FOR MY SPECIAL BUT VERY VAGUE SIGNAL"
Serious question? ^^ did that occur?
It seems to me that there is a suggestion that Red Pulse wanted a few select few to have more tokens.. ermm really?
because if that IS the case Red Pulse could have literally offered those tokens to them at anytime in any fashion! they could have created a different structure entirely to their offering or even done it outside of their ICO offering... that would be a far more simple measure to ensure that their "special chosen ones" got their coins!!
Don't ya think -using logic and deploying Occam's razor here that is a bit....unrealistic
Frankly if they wanted to allocate coins to a certain group they could have done so in many ways without playing this rube goldberg style cunning plan -which actually offered no real GUARANTEED advantage to any one specifically in my opinion.
Also worth remembering... how much was actually left in the 2nd hour? not a whole lot.
You win some and you lose some
Refunds- and lets move on.
I hear what you're saying, but answer is not simple. We don't know, and doing it outside the crowdsale, to select people, would mean being more fraudulent, and they will have bigger troubles.
What happens in Slack is that one of the RP members, Sombat, said, 3 minuts before the end of hour one, ie. 21.57 Hong Kong time, teh second round start in 5 minutes, which hints towards insider trading.
Bottom line is, time was meant to be time, i.e. a normal clock, watch, webiste cmock, whatever it is, and not being aligned to the Blockchain Block time, which went in 1:45 seconds after the second hour started.