- The entity drives/sponsors the development of a new altcoin/blockchain, gathers some open source community support. Ultimately, the majority development is fully driven by those employed by the entity. Many 'community' members are actually employees.
Just by this alone you can say that they are already faking some attention and demand. Through this they would be able to create more hype around them and make everyone else feel as if they should be participating in the project. Which isn’t exactly a scam I think but definitely a ploy and a scheme.
- At the same time, the entity is already announcing their next more powerful ASIC, well before anyone received the one they just pre-ordered.
It is definitely sketchy and we should be rightly skeptical however without hard evidence this might fall to deaf ears. You should have this theory backed up by data or documents in order to actually be considered valid. There’s something going on but it wouldn’t be proven without proof.