my spider sense which usually protects me from weird situations certantly goes off around that stuff. Then again, I may just be miscalibrated relative to the baseline level of scum and villainy expected in the altcoin space. 
My spidey sense is pretty calibrated to the altcoin space (though not so much that I don't still feel dirty around it) and it still goes off, but in the end I don't care because we have the code and we are running with it. Your interesting project sounds great, too. Looking forward to hearing more about it.