Here's a bit of a summary for what's being discussed in the Telegram chatroom (check it out: https://t.me/hackenio) the last couple of days. A lot of good questions are coming up on Telegram, so for those of you not joined up (I recommend it), here's a little bit you may have missed.
Some easy ones:-
How much has already been raised?
> 820k HKNs were sold in the pre-sale (900k USD at today's rate)
Is there a soft cap for the ICO?
> Yes, 1.5mln USD with 85% going to the HackenProof platform and 15% to the HackIT conference. The more that's raised, the more development that can be resourced. Maximum cap of 20 mln USD. Check out what hitting each of the milestones enable: https://hacken.io/#milestones
A couple of harder ones:-
Why do we need HKN token? People can already pay via Bitcoin to hackers for the same purpose.
> Hacken's burning model allows White hat hackers to have their own community token which increases in value with the platform developemnt. It will provide financial incentive to all memebers and help to build a strong community whilst improving the popularity of the profession and helping the blockchain and cryptocurrency community to develop with protected cybersecurity.
Why use a token at all?
>The future of cybersecurity is within decentrilized platforms. There is huge amount of work that needs to be done in blockchain cybersecurity and Hacken's mission is to attract more and more people into the cybersecurity field through the use of the HackenProof platform, regardless of borders.
-That's it for now, I'll update regularly as there's more to ask and answer.
In the mean time, check out the whitepaper here: https://hacken.io/common/files/HackenWP.pdf
Want to get involved and help spread the words? Might as well get some rewards too, check out the current bounties here: https://medium.com/hacken-ecosystem/hacken-bounty-campaign-6eaf46f956db
It was nice of you to summarize some discussion on the telegram channel.
I was on the group too and I read that someone comparing the Hacken to Zerodium but Dmitriy said that there is no competition with Zerodium, he just add that it would be better to say that they will be partners and compete in the black market.