Quote from: muenze on January 04, 2018, 12:45:03 PM

I saw a lot of people shill about Xspec, sometimes it seemed even with copy&paste posts. They dont have a sig tho like the DeepOnion guys who now even need to make fake purchases at Exchanges to push the price up artificially.

Is Xspec the same? A bounty/spam campaign but they pay them even without having a sig? Possibly by the same guys as Deeponion?

Why do people do this? There is so many real privacy coins still low like Colx (based on Pivx), Zoin (based on Zerocoin), Linda of which some have very large, real communitys and 100s of devs in Github, coming exchange listings and dev updates-... why would people push scamcoins when they could make way more money in real projects, give back to the crypto communty,. and we all win ? Sharing the value instead of making just the owner of DeepOnion & co rich?

SpectreCoin is a legitimate privacy coin (and a very good one). You can visit the coinwiki (my signature) if you want, or you can visit the project's Slack and GitHub (if you're technically savvy). The lead developer (jbg) is very responsive on the Slack channel, so you could go there and find out more if you wanted.

Slack:
https://spectreproject.slack.com

GitHub:
https://github.com/spectrecoin/spectre

There are some new and exciting things coming out in the future for SpectreCoin, too. An updated website (community volunteers are making it happen) is set to be online on January 8th. That same day the Spectre wallet receives an update (v1.3.4), and slated for end of January is v.1.4 is set to release (you can check the roadmap on the website).

SpectreCoin isn't a scam. The lead developer is active, the community is active and excited about the coin, and we just want to share it with everyone else. We're not being paid. In the history of XSPEC, to my knowledge, no paid advertising has ever been done. The only exception to this was the last week of December when a volunteer with a lot of XSPEC spontaneously offered a handful of XSPEC to people who posted on BCT for that week. The funds were paid out of his own personal wallet (and, to my knowledge, only about five people took him up on the offer). The volunteer community has also funded a commercial for SpectreCoin, which will be the first professional commercial SpectreCoin has ever had (like I said, paid advertising isn't something SpectreCoin does; it's all volunteers).

In fact, the volunteer community has really stepped in to make sure other people know about this coin and help improve the coin's image (like I said before, the entirely volunteer community is working on the website; they're - we're[/b], because I'm one of the volunteers working on the website - not being paid at all, we're doing it because we love this coin and we want).

SpectreCoin is not a scam. It's a solid privacy coin with a lot of very excited, very motivated, volunteers that make up its active community. I'm sorry if it seems like we're shilling and copy/pasting. The more active of us in the community have been reminding everyone since mid to late December to not do that. At the same time, since we're all volunteers, we can't really control what other people do. We just post guidelines, set an example, and encourage people to follow those guidelines and examples.

I really look forward to seeing you in the Slack channel, or one of the coin's (volunteer run!) social media accounts. And I hope you end up loving this fantastic privacy coin, too. :-)

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