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Re: If an ICO team is anonymous, is it a scam?
by
sleepless
on 26/11/2018, 09:38:02 UTC
When deciphering between legit and scam ICO's, one of the main things everyone says is "you have a look at the team and see if they're transparent."

The thing is, the whole ideology behind decentralization is that it gives the public control over the economy's trajectory, rather than centralized and specific entities.

I see the Virternity Project, for example (https://virternity.com/), which prefers anonymity, but I'm not sure it means it's a scam ICO.

from their FAQ:

"Why aren't you revealing who is in your team?"

"The members of our team are enthusiastic about the idea of creating the Virternity space for the whole world. We want to avoid “buy-outs” of our specialists and co-workers, and also avoid pressure on them.

Also, given the limited financing at the initial stage, we are using anonymity as a shield for our technological secrets—the specifics of our current and future developments.

Many members of our team have serious jobs in major firms and do not want to advertise their participation in a non-commercial project, in order to avoid conflicts of interest.

In the future, once these factors are less of an issue, we plan to publicly name the founders and key personnel."


Satoshi remains anonymous..

Thoughts?

As far as I know, white paper and other documents speak best about the project, not the team. So if the team is anonymous, and the documents are excellent, then I will be happy to do this ICO
But what is the meaning of anonymity? In the future, the team will still have to hold meetings with investors. And of course the most important thing is the documents and how the team performs its tasks.