Quote from: Münzpräger on July 11, 2018, 09:53:00 AM

Quote from: articrypto on July 11, 2018, 01:59:29 AM

Hi here,

To be fully transparent, we have uncertainty related to operate a swap with Howl tokens.

Currently, we are analyzing a project and building a team. I'm proud of what we achieved.
Relating to Howl, we have identified issues. These aspects have been discussed by all the team (howl holders and news members).

1/ Howl project: After weeks of work, our vision of the project we are working on is no longer focus on a chat app. As all projects, the initial idea is different from the final product.
We have great other ideas to develop and the chat feature is no longer considered as a priority. Since the project is different, we don't think we would use Howl brand. Howl is focus on chat app.

2/ Some new devs we contacted are not comfortable to work on the project because the story behind howl is complex, as you know. Even if we are not related to old dev who disappears, use the Howl name = be part of the history.

3/ Old dev tokens: For a proper token swap, we need to exclude old dev tokens. We have identified some addresses but we can't be sure he owns others and he could find a way to take part of the swap. It's a risk to take.

4/ Legal aspects: The old devs has intellectual property for howl project : logo, design, idea,.... If our project succeeds, there is a possibility he claims something. It's a second risk to take.

5/ The project is at early stage, no one has traded current HOWL since we said we are working on a project, as we adviced. So we are peaceful for this.

We added risks and profits and we think for the new project we think about it will be better to not use HOWL brand and not operate a swap in order to start on good bases. We want to warn you about this, even if we are not ready to communicate about our new project.

Thank you.

1,2,4 and 5 are no real problems. Just give the new token a new name and don't use any of the old logos etc. Everybody will understand that.
As for 3, do you really think the old dev is lurking and waiting to take part in a swap?
Instead of a swap you could do a snapshot based distribution. Nobody will have to send you Howl but addresses containing Howl at a certain date will receive the new token. Exclude and monitor the known dev addresses and ForkDelta. If you do a new airdrop, there will be new cheaters. As you can see, most threads are infected by bots and any airdrops these days are as well.

A new airdrop is actually a quite bad idea most of the times. The amount of cheater and people that aren't caring about the project is higher than ever and you will only end up with complaining people though it was literally free money you gave to them. Snapshot might be a good idea but even a swap address shouldn't be much of an problem since you can monitor the amount and origin