I saw their ad banner at the bottom of bitcoindifficulty.com
And, actually, from the first sight i wanted to spend some 1 BTC and get 200 shares to invest for future... until I opened this thread...
My conclusion: better to refrain from such "investments".
interesting that they are spending their money promoting the IPO and not on the launch of their service (which was supposed to start yesterday?).
it seems that the priority here is to fleece as many people into buying into the IPO as possible and not to operate an effective business. there is still no functional website and none of the meaningful financial questions from this thread have been answered.
A small amount of funds are being used to promote Mintspare at its launch. In bitcoindifficulty.com's case, we had to close a deal a few days in advance in order to lock a contract in during our launch. In order to not waste advertising space during the time we would rent the advertising spot without Mintspare being launched, we've decided to link it to our IPO. Our intentions are not to use funds to promote the IPO.
We're planning on launching by February 3rd at the latest. All functionalities are in place. The security audit is fully complete. At this point we're just ironing out bugs. Creating a website from the ground up does allow for greater flexibility on one hand, but is prone to more bugs on the other. We're hard at work fixing them.
We will make a launch announcement both on here and as an update via our asset page on Havelock Investments.