Now it is obvious that it was scam from the beginning,where Boris is just frontman.I strongly believe that multiple persons are involved in this so call "rogue alliance of small construction businessmen-RASCB"

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They saw opportunity in cryptoworld and ICOs as one unregulated bussiness to take a lot of money for themselves without any consequences.Whitelist was just a bait for investors.Almost immediately after ICO phase ,money was diverted partly in theirs pockets and partly in theirs own private projects.We know for gaming project,but we cant be sure that it was only one.
While other members involved in scam were just greedy and only want to siphon-off as much as possible money,Boris saw it as opportunity to prove others and to himself as a great businessman,so he invested part of money in gaming project with only goal to make him multi-millionaire or even billionaire.He multiple times repeated how he firmly believe in obvious nonsense that MNX will reach +$50000 value and that MNX will become global payment option No1. He deeply believed in it blinded by his super ego.
Younger members of Minexsystems scam wanted to make theirs own scam and founded Republia which failed miserably because people lost any trust to people heavily involved in Minexsystems scam.
I think some of those "special" people from the early pre-launch days of Minexcoin must have made millions of US$ by dumping thousands of MNX when the price was at $20, $30, $40 and even $56 each.
That belief you mentioned that Boris had in his vision, in my opinion it was not belief it was pure greed. He knew he was selling a dream to newbies and gullible fools who would invest blindly but he needed help from other users to post as much propaganda as possible to suck people in. It was the inner circle scammer alliance consisting of Temhuk and pool operator Racquemis1 along with paid trolls such as Jedgar, Yurii Pohrebniak / yurez83, akira128 and several others allow him to promote the lies which then fool gullible users and newbies in to investing. The inner circle scammer alliance are just as much criminals as Boris is. I hope they all lost money in this scam.
They posted this in their censored thread a short while ago:
Dear Community! We are glad to notify you that Chain2pay, the operator of MinexPay payment service and Minex Web Wallet, has signed the contract with StyloPay - payment service provider. Due to the cooperation with StyloPay we will be able to resume MinexPay card program and also to attract more users. We hope that the card program will be resumed not later than in 2 months.