Everything they are doing, how they communicate, how the portal is built is directed to real live functionality. I say this as IT professional related to hosting and web dev. If they would scam, they wouldn't invest that much time to build everything. This was the reason I've invested into 10 shares and affiliate them. I never would affiliate something what is looking suspicous.
I'm really sure if they would get the needed hardware, they have personal possibilities (hardware is from scandinavia and they are also) to get their money back and refund their customers. It's also covered in their FAQ that they will get the harware at latest at the middle of february.
As it seems, somehow, to not come up, it bears pointing out that an argument as to why someone wouldn't want to scam is not at all an argument that they won't. Not in the slightest.
Akin to how looking at a picture of an unrelated ID is not at all a solid means of identifying who you're talking to.
Standards, such as establishing competence, such as having a valuable product or service to offer, such as using the WoT, such as everything listed
here, exist to divide the worthy from the wannabes. What you're doing is pretending such standards do not exist, and that variously weak attempts to cover up an inability or unwillingness to meet such standards is somehow acceptable.
It's not.