1) They pay the community members to shill out the project and administrate this scam to make it go a few more months on.
2) Oh my fucking good. Did they post that they bought a 1.1 million usd estate with the ICO money ?? I am an ICO investor and I need clarifications!!!
1) This honestly makes no sense at all. Why would they still pay and hire new externals if they plan to do a scam, that would just be reducing their own earnings. Also please consider that at this point they actually provided the product they proposed in their whitepaper and ICO terms, which for sure costed them a lot of work. They would definitely the most ineffective and most stupid scam ever - or depending on the definition, not a scam at all if they provided what they proposed to provide...
2) Sorry, but this makes you sound like the most stupid ICO investor ever. Nimiq is one of the few projects to publish details about their financial situation in a transparency report (
https://medium.com/nimiq-network/transparency-report-74d4d89933fe) and you apparently just didn't read it. That's like investing into stocks without looking at the fundamentals of the company behind. Seriously?