Hey there,
I am a blockchain developer and most of my work consists in auditing Blockchain projects, criticising their use-case and proposing solutions and guidances.
What really kills me is the amount of scams and useless projects based on economic scarcity, fomo and proof of stupidity (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1ZYGuJXBQE)
The reasons why we have to fight scams are fairly simple:
- Scams attract regulators
- More scams attract more scammers
- People invest blindly but if given the change to understand a project based on a professional analysis I'm sure many will think twice between sending those guys money.
- You know what is worse than exit scams? Shell projects that never get finished or have no traffic because their use case is pure BS.
I propose listing all the ICO scams here that can't correctly justify their use case, presumably scams:
* EQUI
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2888110.0The guys weren't able to justify the use of their token and don't answer to critics and questions. More importantly they provide a passive return on investment which fails the Howey test (
http://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howey-test.html). They use their public image in order to attract suckers. Based on their use of proceeds they reserve 30% in order to develop the platform. 30% of 72 million to develop a react website with a postgres database and link it to infura (i assume they didn't even think about that). Laughable at best.
thank you ,that was a good move. it is very well appreciated.I think it should be the time to elimimate scammers and teach them their lesson. Many people are being victimized by scam and you should not wait for it to happen to you because it costs you a lot. We should have a report system where scammers can be punished and penalized,I just do not know how without a law being implemented.Even if we can not eliminate them, we can just minimize their number by reporting them to authorities and be subjected to a corresponding case.