Is this accurate? Every time the website refreshes, the countdown starts from the exact same numbers, which means it's either a complete fabrication, or its simply outdated?
The counter updates from time to time. What you see live, changes when the page reloads. Probably the live counter will update every few to several minutes. The live counter was made not to cheat us, but to show how quickly the project is developing. It just looks nicer and is more eye catching this way
The stats page is cached on Cloudflare and it updates hourly. The counter just runs at the current rate of increase so when you refresh the page you go back to when the page was last updated.