Told myself I wouldn't continue, because it's honestly pointless this far in.

You just compared yourself favorably to Ripple, the most obvious scam in the market. That's not a great look, but it's the only large cap that's handled their business in a way similar to yours. Secondly, as to your above comment, "making sure the product works right"...

...maybe that's something to do before putting a $4mil+ price tag on it? This is like a company coming out and saying, "We're going to make a great phone. We've never done it before, but give us $1,000 & in three months we'll see what happens! In the meantime, here's a paper phone."

Except those people are now holding useless "phone utility tokens" that they also can't sell until the three months is up. At which point, there is NOTHING preventing the team from selling 50%+ of the supply, and leaving zero liquidity for bagholders to utilize. And, no thanks - I don't want to waste my time on a conference call, and it would be a waste - you're past the point of no return, already. This is a bad economic model, and it is already in motion.

I've advised projects in the past, and while I frequently do conference calls - it is BEFORE they start accepting the first dollar from users, and while there is still time to adjust course. This project is well beyond that point. You can't un-sink the ship.