Bitconnect had real faces, realy YouTube interviews with "faces"... but it's hard to make comparisons on office addresses and real projects.  Look, at this point in crypto everything has to be treated like a scam until it 100% is not.  Even Bitmain is widely criticized for scam behavior for the seemingly obvious "secret mining" or "testing"  or whatever it is that they deny "they" have done... sure, maybe "they" didn't... "maybe" it was their subsidiary or some other way of masking whatever the pre-mining before release of the product. 

I have watched the videos.  I agree with most that they all 'seem' very genuine.  They 'seem' like the most awesome people in the world that I would love to hang out and chat with about the awesome things they are doing and even be part of it by purchasing some M.2 boards... maybe even an FPGA once this market turns around and some love starts flowing again to the alts.

BUT... anyone who has been in this sceen since 2013 and even longer has just seen WAY too many scams to trust even the most seemingly benign of projects.  And so, we just have to wait and see.  I think it's more than likely that with this Acorn and Mineority venture that early adopters will be rewarded.  BUT... I could also be very wrong and there could be delays and disgruntled early adopters.  heck.. I might even turn into one... lol

And consider this... Consider the business value aspects for Acorn, Minority, Allmine (scary name by the way... did anyone reconsider the name "allmine" might be intimidating to early adopters?  "Allmine" as in "allyours"? ehh..)  so yeah... business value is huge.  There is an opportunity to make mining more efficient and profitable so of course Acorn should do well here. 

Business value for more profitable mining... Check, got it.  Easy.  Know what else has business value?  Security.

Businesses that assure consumer security also stand to make A LOT OF MONEY.  Of course, Acorn, Mineority, etc could include aspects of secure payment options such as PayPal to capitalize as Dwarf Miner did and then did not as an obvious bait/switch.  But I'm not just talking about secure payment options.

Reden has an anti-scam mindset that could be interesting.  I'm sure there could be some other coin projects on a similar plan.  But there is a lot of business value here.  There are all sorts of ICOs indicating business values that I've seen: Entertainment, Travel, "uberization" of various things... But these are the things that have my attention lately:

1) Mining efficiency improvements  (basically people selling the pick axes as the old adage goes: "it was mostly the pick axe sellers that made money during a gold rush")

2) Automated and Secure shared masternode services where people can quickly begin generating passive income despite only acquiring some percentage of a required collateral... A LOT of people are interested in this

3) Security, anti-scam, escrow-services, improved payment options... Reden coin first comes to mind... I'm sure there are others.

It has been a few days since I poked around for Acorn news... are we getting close to seeing performance results?  I'm about 30 minutes into the GPU hoarder interview with Seth Estrada and I really love it.  Looking forward to the coming days/weeks/months/years.  Wish I could quit my day job and just do crypto stuff... maybe someday hehe