I haven't been on Bitcointalk in a while, but I feel the need to clarify the "fud" that Roidz92 is spreading to interested investors of the Enigma Project. I'm just your average investor, and hold a decent amount of Enigma. The admins in the Telegram (
https://t.me/enigmacatalyst) and Discord (
https://discordapp.com/invite/SJK32GY) channels are far more knowledgeable than me about the project so if you'd like more in-depth information on the project please follow those links. This project is definitely not easy to understand the first time reading through, but after a couple read throughs the whitepaper and visiting the Telegram channel you'll come to understand Enigma more and more each time you read about it. The more you understand about the project the more use cases you'll see Enigma having.
I should start by saying Enigma and their team are not scammers. The CEO, along with some other team members, are MIT graduates and are backed by a well known professor Alex Pentland as well as other respected members in the cryptosphere and finance industry. The project was based on Guy Zyskind thesis statement and you can find his MIT media lab profile here (
http://web.media.mit.edu/~guyzys/ ).
The goal of the Enigma Project is to store data across nodes (yes Enigma will have masternodes in 2018) and allow users to purchase and run computations on the encrypted data without ever actually seeing it. As you can imagine, data is very valuable and every industry uses it so in essence the opportunities for Enigma's protocol are endless. The beauty of Enigma is that is blockchain agnostic and can be used for to increase scalability of the blockchain.
One last thing I wanted to touch on is the confusion with Catalyst. Catalyst is a dApp created on the Enigma protocol and is not the project itself. It's a tool for Enigma investors to use to get their feet wet in the Enigma EcoSystem to understand the project better and it is not the end goal.
Again, I encourage all interested investors to join the social channels and read the whitepaper over again to further grasp the applications of this project.
