This is going to sound crazy, but what if it was another exchange wanting to create enough "bad press" for Bittrex that people would not want to use it anymore. Maybe it wasn't about CLSTR, but about using CLSTR to hurt Bittrex.
Actually that was the conclusion our trade group came up with as well,
nothing else made sense about WTF happened to CLSTR ICO
which is why we are all carrying pitchforks at the moment ,
their is indeed another exchange about to wage FUD wars with bittrex.
The best way to deconstruct a scam is to to determine who will benefit from the scam. Who would gain from instadumping ClusterCoins?
1. Let's go with the narrative the dev had a hidden premine, how did the dev get it to the exchange so quickly? I am not sure at the time it was even possible to transfer coins into Bittrex. Even if it was, the dev didn't have enough time to transfer the coins and start dumping.
2. The other narrative is Bittrex dumped the coins. Do you guys really think the guys at Bittrex are so stupid they would start dumping the coins immediately after trading started? If they were going to do something fishy, they are smart enough to let the price increase first before dumping.
3. The mysterious whale. Anyone that has traded for a few months know massive dumping an ICO at the start of trading is not a known tactic to shakeout cheap coins. Whales do not shakeout coins like this, this was a massive dump not a shakeout.
As you can see 1 - 3 doesn't make sense.
Here are my theories:
4. Some competing exchange views Bittrex as a threat and orchestrated the dump to cause people to boycott the exchange. If that was the motive it is working like a charm.
5. My final theory is so ludicrous but also very plausible. What if some whale setup his bot incorrectly, and it went haywire and started dumping as soon as trading began. Of course no one will ever come forward and admit they were the "idiot" that setup their bot incorrectly and instadumped their coins at a loss.
Just theories....
Actually all the same theories I came up with at the start,
#1 was the first that came to my mind and i contacted bittrex , they said impossible only their wallet was online no coins moving in or out
#2 Na never going to happen
#3 that's why I had initial buys set up @ 6k~2k I was expecting an quick dump within the first few hrs
#4 very plausable
#5 what I started to think until I saw all the FUD ( the fact FUD happened when market whent live had me thinking #3 )
I was also thinking Bot gone wrong, espeacaily as it also triggered my bots stop loss
but later on I discovered the first sale was just someone moving into another coin, maybe this one events what triggered the first bots stop loss ?
but with all the sell presure its hard to tell when humans started dumping to get the hell out
but for now I still have the " an exchange trying to hurt bittrex badly " on the plate , epecailly with all the BS rumours about them being hacked ect
Btc also climbed about $40 from the start of the ico. Could have been a quick dump to move coins to capitalize on margins.