while running away with the money seems unlikely
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I disagree. Take a look at their strategic plan and white paper. These documents look pretty well done to me, look like they took a lot of effort, and have a lot of insights. Why would such seemingly intelligent and professional people be involved in some type of scam? Why after doing so much work on these initial documents would they release a shitty end product? Especially for such a small reward... just a $1 million USD presale.
From what I can gather from their website, that's $1 million to split between 10 team members, 3 advisors, and 35 angel investors, 48 people, some of them well known and respected? How could it possibly make sense that they would all agree to perpetuate a scam for such a small final sum. It's ridiculous!
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If you think $1 million is what they are going to split, you must be pretty new in these crypto parts.
Mr "I distribute vicious Malware wrapped in kiddie porn" (thanks Kim!) Dan Kaufman has control of $1 million worth of bitcoins in an anonymous Seychelles entity, and as that graph shows, he also has control of $30 million of pre-mined coins also held in offshore corporations.
Ya see LOrrav, ya float the coins on cryptsy.
Then ya use those bitcoins, to buy the One cent coins from yourself for 2 cents, 5 cents (oh, everyone is getting excited now, here comes the dumb punters from the troll box and /r/doge coin! Yippie!) 6 cents...
Then you start selling that $30 million of coins from the Foundations and the Angels into all those buy orders from the dumb money at 7 cents and 8 cents and now 7 again and 6,5,4,3,2,1.. .75, .65. .45 and down to 1 fucking Satochi because it is all profit, every last Satochi.
"Oh, but there are restrictions on the Foundation and Angel and employee money" you might say.
"Shut up, fuck you, we are operating anonymously completely outside of the law, this is not a real registered investment, there is no regulations to protect you and nobody has actually seen any contracts signed in legal jurisdictions by anyone so shut your dumb money mouth" says Dank, the slumlord.
There is no law that says Dan Kauffman has to keep any of his promises. He set it up that way. Hence, offshore, anonymous.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are now sitting in the Seychelles. Dan Takes care of his friends and employees and laughs at the "investors".
You are obviously a shill. But that's ok, I will be laughing at you too.
I tried to warn "baby Mod", M3ndi3, James and the rest not to give their money to a crooked piece of human garbage like Dan Kauffman. But the Hamster that runs on a wheel in the place their brains should be just keep ignoring all the red flags and hoping for the best. They think I am the enemy, and really, I was trying to be their best friend.
Your happiness is not in Dan's plan.