Onions are a good project, but the distribution mechanism is too strict, leading to a lot of people can not participate
its not that its strict. the goal of deeponion is to distribute onion to a more number of people (Decentralize) but there are a lot of people who are having multiple accounts that's why deeponion has improve its security protocol to detect those users with multiple accounts. that should be the goal of other cryptos, but deeponion has achieve it far better than those alt coins.
It also shows how much they care about the coin. The concept in my head is very hard to explain. But take a coin like eBtc. That airdrop was open for around a week, the only requirement was an email, and it had a supposed 8,000 members registered. Yet that didn't add up, because the thread was very inactive by the time the air drop ended. DeepOnion took around what? Two months to get 2,000 registered users. Yet a shit coin eBtc gets 8,200 supposed people in it?
What I'm trying to say is look at the fraud when you don't have requirements. eBtc went from .74 to .02, with even the deb dumping all of his coins and a lot of noobs lost a lot of money.
So I understand the frustration in those who are legit and haven't gotten in, but that other alternative is much worse.
ebtc is a total scam for the first place. it uses the name BTC to use investors into buying ebtc for their bitcoins. that's why it lured 8,000 users in a faster rate. on the other hand, deeponion is a different kind of coin that is serious with its functionalities and innovations. not like other coin that only gets your bitcoins and die.