Will drop my two cents.
I meet Tonych personally with another team member at Bitkom in germany.
Byteball is clearly his project and as a main dev he does makes decisions which we all can accepted or not. The only thing which tonych cannot controll is PRICE
Tonych is great dev and delivers huge amount of work on regualr basis.
Maybe marketing is not the strongest part, maybe decision about airdrop was bad decision but please consider he build this from scratch.
Wallet is working without issue, smart contracts works without issue, there is huge market for altcoins and i do believe byteball will shine.
We goign through cycle which kills many alts. Kills even btc for 100th time. But so what? If product is good, and dev is still here than i dont see this to be a scam.
Just go to Masternode scene and check in there. 99.9% its pure scam.
Byteball is definatelly not a scam. Witnesses should be spreaded. Regardless of some opinions i do believe byteball will be back on track. And tech will win on long run.