Quote from: ATaylor on April 25, 2018, 07:41:36 AM

Quote from: holyforkingshirtballs on April 25, 2018, 07:12:08 AM

Judge the code when it appears, instead of claiming scam without any evidence. The FAQ clearly says how to retrieve funds safely with 2 paper wallets. Entry level users will probably be using the web wallet, and web wallet users probably won't be able to claim the coin, unless the ETN team provides the private keys to users which I doubt will happen. Risk of a scam is 0 if you follow the instructions to claim the coin on the website. This isn't the first fork to ever appear. If you don't like it don't claim it, lower supply, better for us who have interest in the coin.

Yes, except we all know a huge percentage wont follow the instructions. They wont even realise that their coins have been diluted 10x due to the increase in supply. Hes fudding the real projects to try and get noobs involved.

At best, this is one guy lying to people to make out like he has an actual project here rather than what it really is; complete vapourware mini pump and dump. At worst, its a scam mixed with an attempt to damage real projects like Monero or Electroneum. Hes probably just a XMR/ETN user who got angry at the developers for whatever reason and is now pretending to know wtf he is doing. This looks like a badly done school project.

If the users know how to have their own paper/desktop wallet then they're already more advanced than your average user, and the vast majority won't even move away from the web wallet or their favorite exchange, so it's really not a big risk for a scam. Users should be safe with their wallets, and if they're careless with them, that's their loss.
Airdrops like this are not going to stop in cryptocurrency, and the only way to claim the coins is with the private keys, but we shouldn't be against these kinds of forks and immediately say it's a scam, we should be wary of scams and be safe, but forks like this give an opportunity for the developers to separate from a project and pursue the direction that they want to go with a coin.