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Do you think they...

1. ...acted honest?
2. ...did not lie?
3. ...delivered their promises?
4. ...are as transparent as promised?
5. ...are open for discussion?
 

I can't answer 1,2 and 4. Partly because I'd have to do some analysis and partly because I'm not sure I (we?) have enough info to determine the answers. Can you provide an example of something specific to get me thinking?


"We" have much info.

$2.25 million "initial funding".
Even cointelegraph, neucoins best advocate, had to edit their press release, after reading here, probably, ask Torrgeek mod.

NOW the "updated" $2.25 million initial funding, includes $1 million presale?

BTW, while your asking Torrgeek about the initial funding, also ask if he ever got those figures he, and myself, were asking Sandrine Ayral for.
(you know, the figures about founders payment for work after launch)
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Truce is off. you are an idiot.



Nice post Tempus.

Well what d'ya know.
"Someone" from neucoin forum, who just happens to be a bag holder, turns up and dispel's every point Tempus makes.

Funny my figures were almost identical to Tempus figures. neucoin could not deny their validity. Nor produce their own figures.
But this neucoin forum bag holder "knows" better than us AND better than neucoin.

All's good in his neucoin world!

Gonna tell me your neucoin forum name Cryptorials?
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The thing is that it's not even possible to verify what they do with the money!


Why the hell should it be? Why do you think they need to justify every single expense to a random forum troll like you? You really need to learn your place in the world.  
It's not about me. They owe me nothing, I absolutely agree! I did not invest! ;-) But you and some others bought into it because you and some others believed in what they say. Now they have your Bitcoin and you are in loss. Maybe you should have those questions or don't you care about that?





The company proceeds the presale and than they are not authorized to use proceeds of this presale for any other purpose than to buy Neucoin from three Neucoin-foundations on the isle of man - and then they want to distribute it (Neucoin). If there is no way to control that it is as if they say: Give me Bitcoin and I will use that Bitcoin to buy Neucoin from myself which I plan to sell for more Bitcoin. In fact nobody has a clue who is doing what in this game


On the contrary, you know exactly what they are doing because its explained in the t&c you are quoting from. You're supposed to read the t&c before you buy, not buy and then bitch about the fact that your own delusional fantasies of what you thought Neucoin was going to be is different from the actual facts that were explained well in advance if you'd bothered to read them.

Again, I did not buy. I never trusted them. But if you know what they do with the money because you say it's all clear: Please, share your knowledge!



or you just forgot my question who holds the private key?


I think you should really look up what a 'multi-sig address' is before you comment any further on this.

My fault that my english is not very good, but you know what I want to say. You don't know who is accountable, right?




 And does it look like as if the ICO-Bitcoin are used for the Development? I mean it's obvious that they paid for press and for funny "price-analyses"


In the next paragraph you seem to be complaining that they aren't using the money for 'the good of neucoin' or some such ill-defined term, but here you are complaining that they are using it for PR. You can't eat your cake and still have it too.

That's not really PR. That's bullshit. It's obviously important to introduce a new way of calculation for NEU prices which is pathetic. And even if it would be good PR, PR is not enough when the whole project goes to shit and everybody can see that - and not just because of the price!



but it doesn't seem as if they would value the real development side very high or even pay for it. The basic tech is not stable and it's not what they have promised it would be!


It is stable, it is what they said it would be. There was a temporary issue as they made a fork recently. I don't see how its a big deal.

We obviously have different definitions of the word stable. But I'm glad for you if Neucoin is exactly what you believed it should be.




It's all about selling "something" to naive folks and that's why it's all about the price and that's also the reason why they switch to full PoS - what is also not in line with what was said before.


Firstly, they made a change yes. Would you expect them to just launch it then bugger off and not respond to current conditions? You accuse them of never doing anything, and then accuse them of doing something. You can't eat your cake and have it too.

The problem is the greed-design. They can do whatever they want but this project has no chance and they know that. They don't want the sellpressure from mining, so they switch to full PoS and that means that they will stake their 98% premine and they have 100% control but without any chance to distribute what they stake.

If you are different opinion please calculate what they stake every day. And then: Please tell me how they will distribute the millions they produce every day, not to mention the billions they hold. Do you really believe that could go like they said it would? Do you see any chance for that... The sellpressure from mining is too much but the millions they produce like dust don't count?




And again: You don't know who exactly is accountable for what the foundations do or the "company" or the ICO-Bitcoin! All the nice talking of non-profit-foundations and company sounds so reputable right? In combination with all the big names but nobody seems to care about the project or am I wrong? Where are they?


All of the 'big names' probably got very scared for their reputations and tried to dissociate themselves as soon as the troll army swarmed all over this and tried to destroy the name of everyone involved with lies and insults.

Ah, I understand. Those who told and tell the truth are responsible. That's funny. You can't really believe that.



Yes, you're right. My fault. But the problem stays the same: With the money they've got from the community they are free to do whatever they want to and nobody even knows WHO exactly is accountable.


You seem to think you work in their accounts department and they should submit all their expense receipts to you or something. Its just ridiculous.
Again, it's not about me. I didn't give a single satoshi to them. But you should be interested what they do with your money. But, maybe you are not.



 But about all the technical issues and that they were never able to really distribute how it was planned you just say: "Poor execution is no scam"?


Well that wasn't me that said that actually, but anyway. I don't know of any significant technical issues, but any problems with distribution I would blame on the attack from you and the other trolls scaring people away and destroying any interest in this coin, more than anything else.

No technical issues? Take a look in the official forum and the complaints about issues. One example:
http://forum.neucoin.org/t/3-5-hours-of-transactions-removed-from-the-block-chain/2057


And no, it's not our fault that Neucoin is a failure. It's because of the economic design. No project could distribute new coins for hundreds of Bitcoins everyday. This is what they wanted you to believe:

‘Neucoin Will Have More Consumers Using It Than Bitcoin within One Year’ - Founder
http://cointelegraph.com/news/neucoin-will-have-more-consumers-using-it-than-bitcoin-within-one-year-founder

And maybe you believed that. But it's not possible! For no project, at least not for a bullshit-project like Neucoin without any innovation! It would need thousands new buyers everyday to distribute what they produce every day because of the monster-inflation-staking of the monster-premine!

And you can blame us because we told the truth about it. But maybe you should blame the team that came up with such a greed-plan and yourself that you believed in it.





Those growth foundation should have the ICO-Bitcoin and they should use those Bitcoin for the best of Neucoin if it's not a scam.


I'm sorry, you've already eaten this cake.

I just tell you what I believe what a legit project should do. But, if you like it to give them your money because you don't need it but they do - than it's a win-win. ;-)


Quote from: tempus on February 22, 2016, 12:16:09 PM
That's the promise. And sure I can't know that they use it for other purposes but it's obviously that there are constant transactions from the ICO-address


Why the hell shouldn't there be? You expected them to raise this money and then just throw it in the bin did you?

I expected exactly what happened. That they transact those coins and I never believed it's really from public investors. I believe it's mainly self-buying because they wanted control right from the start. It never was a legit project in my eyes and either way: They don't really care about developing, good tech and innovation.



Quote from: tempus on February 22, 2016, 12:16:09 PM
and it's obvious at the same time that they are not able to handle the tech or the distribution and that nearly nothing is like they've said it would be.

Stating that something is obvious doesn't make it true. The main thing that is different from what they said it would be is that they didn't say there would be an army of whiny liars unleashing a months long campaign of hate to destroy neucoin, and then blaming the neucoin team for the low price of the coins afterwards.
I'm not whiny (why should I?) and I did not lie. My posts were mainly about the economical design and it's not possible that I'm wrong with that. If you disagree with that tell me in which scenarios they could distribute the millions they produce every day!



Quote from: tempus on February 22, 2016, 12:16:09 PM

 Neucoin what you believed it would be when you bought it? Don't you believe it would have been better to read this thread?



It would have been better if nobody had ever read this thread.
Who is whiny? ;-) And no: If this thread wouldn't exist there just would be more unexperienced user who would believe the lies and invest and lose their money, while the team makes money because they planned to sell dust for Bitcoin.



Quote from: tempus on February 22, 2016, 12:16:09 PM

 Because you can say whatever you want, that they acted honest and that we here are Fudders and Trolls - but under the line we were right. What I said in many posts and with a lot of calculations about the economical side of neucoin turned out to be true and my predictions were not like betting. It was obvious. And if that was obvious for a little light like me, it should have been obvious for professionals like those who are behind Neucoin, right? But they planned it like this! Or maybe they are just not professionals? Maybe they just did everything to give the impression of a professional and reputable project? Because if yes, than you obviously did not buy what you believed to buy. And if yes, you did that because you believed them. If that's what you call "honest" and just "poor execution but not a scam"... okay.


Yes, you and your friends predicted it will not do well, then you did a very good job of making sure that it didn't do well, and your self-fulfilling prophecy therefore started to look true. Well done.
Why did nobody come to rebut us? Don't you think a team should do that as well? I'm highly invested in Factom and just by the way: I mentioned that already in this thread as example for a legit project and that's the chart:
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/factom/

And Paul Snow, the "Boss" of Factom is everywhere to rebut FUD. He discussed it on LTB, on reddit, in comments of articles, in this forum, on twitter etc. I did that as well btw. And it's easy: Because you can't win a discussion if you try to FUD a legit project. And nobody won ever a discussion trying to FUD Factom. But Neucoin... they don't come to rebut us because they know they would lose! I would ask them like I ask you: How will it be possible to distribute the Neucoin-Dust? I would ask them to show calculations for scenarios and it would be obvious that the whole plan is bullshit. It was an impossible greed plan and that's why I call it a scam! And that's why they don't want to discuss with us!


Quote from: tempus on February 22, 2016, 12:16:09 PM

But they have your money and you don't even know who is accountable and what they do with that.

Every time you say the word 'accountable', which you do very often, it really sets my teeth on edge. You are not the big boss of Neucoin, and they are not accountable to you. They are 'accountable' if they breach the T&C, but all your complaints about the t&cs are about the team following them, not breaking them, so no, they are not accountable to you and please stop acting like they have a duty to do everything you want them to do.
I already said: They owe me nothing. But I would have some questions if I would be invested. You don't have those questions and I'm all right with that. But I really believe it's good to tell the truth about this project to avoid that too many others believe their lies.
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Yes, you and your friends predicted it will not do well, then you did a very good job of making sure that it didn't do well, and your self-fulfilling prophecy therefore started to look true. Well done.
 

Oh common, lets keep it real.

If a project can't withstand a little trolling and flaming on a forum then its obviously incredibly weak to begin with, since everything and everyone in the world has critics.
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The thing is that it's not even possible to verify what they do with the money!


Why the hell should it be? Why do you think they need to justify every single expense to a random forum troll like you? You really need to learn your place in the world.


The company proceeds the presale and than they are not authorized to use proceeds of this presale for any other purpose than to buy Neucoin from three Neucoin-foundations on the isle of man - and then they want to distribute it (Neucoin). If there is no way to control that it is as if they say: Give me Bitcoin and I will use that Bitcoin to buy Neucoin from myself which I plan to sell for more Bitcoin. In fact nobody has a clue who is doing what in this game


On the contrary, you know exactly what they are doing because its explained in the t&c you are quoting from. You're supposed to read the t&c before you buy, not buy and then bitch about the fact that your own delusional fantasies of what you thought Neucoin was going to be is different from the actual facts that were explained well in advance if you'd bothered to read them.


or you just forgot my question who holds the private key?


I think you should really look up what a 'multi-sig address' is before you comment any further on this.


 And does it look like as if the ICO-Bitcoin are used for the Development? I mean it's obvious that they paid for press and for funny "price-analyses"


In the next paragraph you seem to be complaining that they aren't using the money for 'the good of neucoin' or some such ill-defined term, but here you are complaining that they are using it for PR. You can't eat your cake and still have it too.



but it doesn't seem as if they would value the real development side very high or even pay for it. The basic tech is not stable and it's not what they have promised it would be!


It is stable, it is what they said it would be. There was a temporary issue as they made a fork recently. I don't see how its a big deal.


It's all about selling "something" to naive folks and that's why it's all about the price and that's also the reason why they switch to full PoS - what is also not in line with what was said before.


Firstly, they made a change yes. Would you expect them to just launch it then bugger off and not respond to current conditions? You accuse them of never doing anything, and then accuse them of doing something. You can't eat your cake and have it too.


And again: You don't know who exactly is accountable for what the foundations do or the "company" or the ICO-Bitcoin! All the nice talking of non-profit-foundations and company sounds so reputable right? In combination with all the big names but nobody seems to care about the project or am I wrong? Where are they?


All of the 'big names' probably got very scared for their reputations and tried to dissociate themselves as soon as the troll army swarmed all over this and tried to destroy the name of everyone involved with lies and insults.


Yes, you're right. My fault. But the problem stays the same: With the money they've got from the community they are free to do whatever they want to and nobody even knows WHO exactly is accountable.


You seem to think you work in their accounts department and they should submit all their expense receipts to you or something. Its just ridiculous.


 But about all the technical issues and that they were never able to really distribute how it was planned you just say: "Poor execution is no scam"?


Well that wasn't me that said that actually, but anyway. I don't know of any significant technical issues, but any problems with distribution I would blame on the attack from you and the other trolls scaring people away and destroying any interest in this coin, more than anything else.


Those growth foundation should have the ICO-Bitcoin and they should use those Bitcoin for the best of Neucoin if it's not a scam.


I'm sorry, you've already eaten this cake.

That's the promise. And sure I can't know that they use it for other purposes but it's obviously that there are constant transactions from the ICO-address


Why the hell shouldn't there be? You expected them to raise this money and then just throw it in the bin did you?


and it's obvious at the same time that they are not able to handle the tech or the distribution and that nearly nothing is like they've said it would be.

Stating that something is obvious doesn't make it true. The main thing that is different from what they said it would be is that they didn't say there would be an army of whiny liars unleashing a months long campaign of hate to destroy neucoin, and then blaming the neucoin team for the low price of the coins afterwards.



 Neucoin what you believed it would be when you bought it? Don't you believe it would have been better to read this thread?



It would have been better if nobody had ever read this thread.



 Because you can say whatever you want, that they acted honest and that we here are Fudders and Trolls - but under the line we were right. What I said in many posts and with a lot of calculations about the economical side of neucoin turned out to be true and my predictions were not like betting. It was obvious. And if that was obvious for a little light like me, it should have been obvious for professionals like those who are behind Neucoin, right? But they planned it like this! Or maybe they are just not professionals? Maybe they just did everything to give the impression of a professional and reputable project? Because if yes, than you obviously did not buy what you believed to buy. And if yes, you did that because you believed them. If that's what you call "honest" and just "poor execution but not a scam"... okay.


Yes, you and your friends predicted it will not do well, then you did a very good job of making sure that it didn't do well, and your self-fulfilling prophecy therefore started to look true. Well done.


But they have your money and you don't even know who is accountable and what they do with that.

Every time you say the word 'accountable', which you do very often, it really sets my teeth on edge. You are not the big boss of Neucoin, and they are not accountable to you. They are 'accountable' if they breach the T&C, but all your complaints about the t&cs are about the team following them, not breaking them, so no, they are not accountable to you and please stop acting like they have a duty to do everything you want them to do.
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Some examples:

They say in Terms and Conditions:

The Company, which is solely responsible for conducting the Presale, will use the proceeds of the Presale to acquire NeuCoin Tokens from the NeuCoin Foundations immediately after the the NeuCoin Tokens are initially created and the NeuCoin System is made publicly available (the “Public Release”), expected to occur in the summer of 2015. The Company is not authorized to use the proceeds of the Presale for any other purpose. All the BTC raised in the presale will be kept in a publicly visible multisig Bitcoin address which will be published on www.neucoin.org. Private keys will be held by several members of the NeuCoin Project Team along with a representative of the Company so that the Company will not be able to transfer funds from the multisig address without the consent of the NeuCoin Project Team members. Immediately after acquiring NeuCoin Tokens from the NeuCoin Foundations, Company will distribute them to the Purchasers. If the Public Release of the NeuCoin System has not occurred by September 30, 2015 (the “Release Deadline”), the Company will refund all Purchasers their entire purchase amounts as described below. The Company will be liquidated shortly after either distributing NeuCoin Tokens or refunds to all Purchasers.

http://www.neucoin.org/en/terms_and_conditions

Did that happen? This is the address: https://blockchain.info/address/3MrNuksZ1VePU3dGiSQFiouWerJUJgDkfH


WTF? Yes it happened. This is not a promise to tell you exactly what they will do with every satoshi in their possession for ever more, it is an explanation of how the presale worked.   

The thing is that it's not even possible to verify what they do with the money! The company proceeds the presale and than they are not authorized to use proceeds of this presale for any other purpose than to buy Neucoin from three Neucoin-foundations on the isle of man - and then they want to distribute it (Neucoin). If there is no way to control that it is as if they say: Give me Bitcoin and I will use that Bitcoin to buy Neucoin from myself which I plan to sell for more Bitcoin. In fact nobody has a clue who is doing what in this game or you just forgot my question who holds the private key? And does it look like as if the ICO-Bitcoin are used for the Development? I mean it's obvious that they paid for press and for funny "price-analyses" https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13350236 , but it doesn't seem as if they would value the real development side very high or even pay for it. The basic tech is not stable and it's not what they have promised it would be! It's all about selling "something" to naive folks and that's why it's all about the price and that's also the reason why they switch to full PoS - what is also not in line with what was said before. And again: You don't know who exactly is accountable for what the foundations do or the "company" or the ICO-Bitcoin! All the nice talking of non-profit-foundations and company sounds so reputable right? In combination with all the big names but nobody seems to care about the project or am I wrong? Where are they?







Transparency and Governance

NeuCoin will be open, accountable and ultimately controlled by coin holders. NeuCoin’s core code development, user growth programs, and projects to increase utility will be supported by three non-profit foundations based in Isle of Man: the Code, Growth and Utility foundations. All foundations are ultimately controlled by NeuCoin holders (1 NeuCoin = 1 vote), who have the power to hire, fire and set compensation for the foundations’ Council Members, and have a right of approval on annual budgets, spending priorities and other matters. This structure makes NeuCoin more decentralized and accountable than Bitcoin, Ripple or Stellar, let alone most of the anonymous alt coins out there.
http://www.neucoin.org/en/terms_and_conditions

Did that happen? Would you say the foundations are controlled by the Neucoin-Holders? Was there a voting? Coin-Holders "have a right of approval on annual budgets, spending priorities and other matters". Would you say that's true?


This is from the strategic plan, I presume? This was clearly explained to be something that would happen after a sufficient number of coins had been distributed. There was never any intention that this should have happened by now, you've just made that up.

Yes, you're right. My fault. But the problem stays the same: With the money they've got from the community they are free to do whatever they want to and nobody even knows WHO exactly is accountable. But about all the technical issues and that they were never able to really distribute how it was planned you just say: "Poor execution is no scam"? Those growth foundation should have the ICO-Bitcoin and they should use those Bitcoin for the best of Neucoin if it's not a scam. That's the promise. And sure I can't know that they use it for other purposes but it's obviously that there are constant transactions from the ICO-address and it's obvious at the same time that they are not able to handle the tech or the distribution and that nearly nothing is like they've said it would be.



Or the funny fact that they did not, like promised, release a Block-Explorer right from the start! Without the unofficial one nobody would have known about the fact that >99% of all coins were in the Top 100! And that's weird because they said that there were >1000 pre-sale-Investors. But more than just 3 billion Coins in the top 100?? 


This is such a minor issue that is being blown up beyond all proportion. Sometimes there are delays with some things in a software project. Its not a big deal because a) there was a block explorer at launch (the unofficial one) b) there was an official block explorer soon after launch and c) you're assertion that without it nobody would know what the initial distribution was is absurd, because even a cursory look at the most basic explanation would have told you what the distribution was going to be, and it exactly followed that plan.
Oh sure, the unofficial was there a few days after launch so they held their promise? That's kind of funny. But there is still no explanation why >99% of all coins were in the top100 and that for a long time!. How is that possible with >1000 people who bought into the presale?


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Yes they acted honestly, no they did not lie.
Sure. ;-)


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They certainly have not been open to discussion, but that is because it would have taken several people working full-time just to answer all the FUD from trolls who don't listen when things are explained to them anyway, making any discussion an exercise in futility.
One question: Is Neucoin what you believed it would be when you bought it? Don't you believe it would have been better to read this thread? Because you can say whatever you want, that they acted honest and that we here are Fudders and Trolls - but under the line we were right. What I said in many posts and with a lot of calculations about the economical side of neucoin turned out to be true and my predictions were not like betting. It was obvious. And if that was obvious for a little light like me, it should have been obvious for professionals like those who are behind Neucoin, right? But they planned it like this! Or maybe they are just not professionals? Maybe they just did everything to give the impression of a professional and reputable project? Because if yes, than you obviously did not buy what you believed to buy. And if yes, you did that because you believed them. If that's what you call "honest" and just "poor execution but not a scam"... okay. But they have your money and you don't even know who is accountable and what they do with that.
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Some examples:

They say in Terms and Conditions:

The Company, which is solely responsible for conducting the Presale, will use the proceeds of the Presale to acquire NeuCoin Tokens from the NeuCoin Foundations immediately after the the NeuCoin Tokens are initially created and the NeuCoin System is made publicly available (the “Public Release”), expected to occur in the summer of 2015. The Company is not authorized to use the proceeds of the Presale for any other purpose. All the BTC raised in the presale will be kept in a publicly visible multisig Bitcoin address which will be published on www.neucoin.org. Private keys will be held by several members of the NeuCoin Project Team along with a representative of the Company so that the Company will not be able to transfer funds from the multisig address without the consent of the NeuCoin Project Team members. Immediately after acquiring NeuCoin Tokens from the NeuCoin Foundations, Company will distribute them to the Purchasers. If the Public Release of the NeuCoin System has not occurred by September 30, 2015 (the “Release Deadline”), the Company will refund all Purchasers their entire purchase amounts as described below. The Company will be liquidated shortly after either distributing NeuCoin Tokens or refunds to all Purchasers.

http://www.neucoin.org/en/terms_and_conditions

Did that happen? This is the address: https://blockchain.info/address/3MrNuksZ1VePU3dGiSQFiouWerJUJgDkfH


WTF? Yes it happened. This is not a promise to tell you exactly what they will do with every satoshi in their possession for ever more, it is an explanation of how the presale worked.


Transparency and Governance

NeuCoin will be open, accountable and ultimately controlled by coin holders. NeuCoin’s core code development, user growth programs, and projects to increase utility will be supported by three non-profit foundations based in Isle of Man: the Code, Growth and Utility foundations. All foundations are ultimately controlled by NeuCoin holders (1 NeuCoin = 1 vote), who have the power to hire, fire and set compensation for the foundations’ Council Members, and have a right of approval on annual budgets, spending priorities and other matters. This structure makes NeuCoin more decentralized and accountable than Bitcoin, Ripple or Stellar, let alone most of the anonymous alt coins out there.
http://www.neucoin.org/en/terms_and_conditions

Did that happen? Would you say the foundations are controlled by the Neucoin-Holders? Was there a voting? Coin-Holders "have a right of approval on annual budgets, spending priorities and other matters". Would you say that's true?


This is from the strategic plan, I presume? This was clearly explained to be something that would happen after a sufficient number of coins had been distributed. There was never any intention that this should have happened by now, you've just made that up.


Or the funny fact that they did not, like promised, release a Block-Explorer right from the start! Without the unofficial one nobody would have known about the fact that >99% of all coins were in the Top 100! And that's weird because they said that there were >1000 pre-sale-Investors. But more than just 3 billion Coins in the top 100?? 


This is such a minor issue that is being blown up beyond all proportion. Sometimes there are delays with some things in a software project. Its not a big deal because a) there was a block explorer at launch (the unofficial one) b) there was an official block explorer soon after launch and c) you're assertion that without it nobody would know what the initial distribution was is absurd, because even a cursory look at the most basic explanation would have told you what the distribution was going to be, and it exactly followed that plan.

Yes they acted honestly, no they did not lie.

They certainly have not been open to discussion, but that is because it would have taken several people working full-time just to answer all the FUD from trolls who don't listen when things are explained to them anyway, making any discussion an exercise in futility.
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Or m3ndi3a, former supporter and moderator:

(...)

I joined the community and was very much active and enthusiastic. I bought in the presale and even came up with the Squirrel name- Tippy. They made me moderator and all was good and exciting. Then they started pushing back the release and then investors in the community started asking questions. Priemievalsoup was a big investor and he started asking some serious questions. Being a game developer and having some experience with releasing products, his question on why there was no testnet really struck a chord for me. I asked Sandrine and the other moderators about this, and Sandrine told me the team was doing extensive testing already, and a testnet was not needed.

Fast forward a month later to the supposed launch- they come and say they are pushing back the launch because they need more testing and are releasing a testnet to the presale investors by the end of the month. I was really set off and finally had to leave when the end of the month came, the testnet was not released to us, but they claimed they held their promise because they released to "angel investors."

(...)


https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12574513


She was banned on the official forum by the way.

strange becuz there is a testnet configured in the source code see here: https://github.com/NeuCoin/neucoin/blob/master/src/testnet.cpp


Or the funny fact that they did not, like promised, release a Block-Explorer right from the start! Without the unofficial one nobody would have known about the fact that >99% of all coins were in the Top 100! And that's weird because they said that there were >1000 pre-sale-Investors. But more than just 3 billion Coins in the top 100??  

This is a screenshot from september 29:
http://img5.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/neudistribuy6cnudsi5g.png

if u analyze a bit how new transactions came after everythin is coming from fundation to new address so that screenshot is notacurate also have anybody looked at how mynokoin work ? it use nokoin blockexplore weird as to what they used before if it was not released !!
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Do you think they...

1. ...acted honest?
2. ...did not lie?
3. ...delivered their promises?
4. ...are as transparent as promised?
5. ...are open for discussion?
 

I can't answer 1,2 and 4. Partly because I'd have to do some analysis and partly because I'm not sure I (we?) have enough info to determine the answers. Can you provide an example of something specific to get me thinking?

I may not be interpreting your question correctly, but no, not 100%.  For one, PoW ended much sooner. Some deliverables have been shaky but there is no way that I can jump to the conclusion that they intentionally misled anyone. Problems with rollout can easily be blamed on shit going wrong and people leaving. Executing big projects is hard even if you have a perfect strategy.

Are they open to discussion? Yes, I think they are to an extent or at least were at one time. If you are being fair, you have to admit that not all of the contents of this thread qualify as "discussion." I think people have their limits but at the same time I'm not delusional enough to think they executed communication perfectly.



Some examples:

They say in Terms and Conditions:

The Company, which is solely responsible for conducting the Presale, will use the proceeds of the Presale to acquire NeuCoin Tokens from the NeuCoin Foundations immediately after the the NeuCoin Tokens are initially created and the NeuCoin System is made publicly available (the “Public Release”), expected to occur in the summer of 2015. The Company is not authorized to use the proceeds of the Presale for any other purpose. All the BTC raised in the presale will be kept in a publicly visible multisig Bitcoin address which will be published on www.neucoin.org. Private keys will be held by several members of the NeuCoin Project Team along with a representative of the Company so that the Company will not be able to transfer funds from the multisig address without the consent of the NeuCoin Project Team members. Immediately after acquiring NeuCoin Tokens from the NeuCoin Foundations, Company will distribute them to the Purchasers. If the Public Release of the NeuCoin System has not occurred by September 30, 2015 (the “Release Deadline”), the Company will refund all Purchasers their entire purchase amounts as described below. The Company will be liquidated shortly after either distributing NeuCoin Tokens or refunds to all Purchasers.

http://www.neucoin.org/en/terms_and_conditions

Did that happen? This is the address: https://blockchain.info/address/3MrNuksZ1VePU3dGiSQFiouWerJUJgDkfH


The latest transaction went to this address for example: https://blockchain.info/de/address/17khSsecZGcmCN2RWCcs3aDSUiwFqWYHBd

50% of the transaction the day before to this one: https://blockchain.info/de/address/17yHQAAVe7egQfh9TrGfWMvjamJE1vRADf

The same day a transaction to this address: https://blockchain.info/de/address/1GMCmeqFmqrbStjJJBS6VLhdcvXhHonYjv

Another one: https://blockchain.info/de/address/17u2rsETGjwhHk1iLpRKhLyxnvpnw1kXPS


(......and so on....... a lot of transactions are not easy to track, spreading into nothing over multiple addresses)


Who holds the priv-key and who is the representative by the way?



Transparency and Governance

NeuCoin will be open, accountable and ultimately controlled by coin holders. NeuCoin’s core code development, user growth programs, and projects to increase utility will be supported by three non-profit foundations based in Isle of Man: the Code, Growth and Utility foundations. All foundations are ultimately controlled by NeuCoin holders (1 NeuCoin = 1 vote), who have the power to hire, fire and set compensation for the foundations’ Council Members, and have a right of approval on annual budgets, spending priorities and other matters. This structure makes NeuCoin more decentralized and accountable than Bitcoin, Ripple or Stellar, let alone most of the anonymous alt coins out there.
http://www.neucoin.org/en/terms_and_conditions

Did that happen? Would you say the foundations are controlled by the Neucoin-Holders? Was there a voting? Coin-Holders "have a right of approval on annual budgets, spending priorities and other matters". Would you say that's true?




Or m3ndi3a, former supporter and moderator:

(...)

I joined the community and was very much active and enthusiastic. I bought in the presale and even came up with the Squirrel name- Tippy. They made me moderator and all was good and exciting. Then they started pushing back the release and then investors in the community started asking questions. Priemievalsoup was a big investor and he started asking some serious questions. Being a game developer and having some experience with releasing products, his question on why there was no testnet really struck a chord for me. I asked Sandrine and the other moderators about this, and Sandrine told me the team was doing extensive testing already, and a testnet was not needed.

Fast forward a month later to the supposed launch- they come and say they are pushing back the launch because they need more testing and are releasing a testnet to the presale investors by the end of the month. I was really set off and finally had to leave when the end of the month came, the testnet was not released to us, but they claimed they held their promise because they released to "angel investors."

(...)


https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12574513


She was banned on the official forum by the way.



Or the funny fact that they did not, like promised, release a Block-Explorer right from the start! Without the unofficial one nobody would have known about the fact that >99% of all coins were in the Top 100! And that's weird because they said that there were >1000 pre-sale-Investors. But more than just 3 billion Coins in the top 100?? 

This is a screenshot from september 29:




And regarding open for discussions: This thread is full of examples for deleted posts and banned users on the official forum.
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Do you think they...

1. ...acted honest?
2. ...did not lie?
3. ...delivered their promises?
4. ...are as transparent as promised?
5. ...are open for discussion?
 

I can't answer 1,2 and 4. Partly because I'd have to do some analysis and partly because I'm not sure I (we?) have enough info to determine the answers. Can you provide an example of something specific to get me thinking?

I may not be interpreting your question correctly, but no, not 100%.  For one, PoW ended much sooner. Some deliverables have been shaky but there is no way that I can jump to the conclusion that they intentionally misled anyone. Problems with rollout can easily be blamed on shit going wrong and people leaving. Executing big projects is hard even if you have a perfect strategy.

Are they open to discussion? Yes, I think they are to an extent or at least were at one time. If you are being fair, you have to admit that not all of the contents of this thread qualify as "discussion." I think people have their limits but at the same time I'm not delusional enough to think they executed communication perfectly.
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I think its unfair to throw around the word scam here unless you really have some evidence or just don't know what that word means.  Its not productive and you should learn to articulate your thoughts better.  By all accounts, the creators and investors are underwater.  What kind of scam is that?  Its an insult to proper scams.

Poor execution and zealous marketing speak is not a scam.  Doing things in a way you don't agree with is not a scam.

I mean, unless you are a tinfoil-hat-wearing-moon-is-a-hologram-so-how-could-we-land-there? type.   Grin Grin Grin

I agree that "poor execution and zealous marketing speak" is not necessarily an intended scam. But I think we disagree in one question, but I'm open to hear/read your view on it:

Do you think they...

1. ...acted honest?
2. ...did not lie?
3. ...delivered their promises?
4. ...are as transparent as promised?
5. ...are open for discussion?




 
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I think its unfair to throw around the word scam here unless you really have some evidence or just don't know what that word means.  Its not productive and you should learn to articulate your thoughts better.  By all accounts, the creators and investors are underwater.  What kind of scam is that?  Its an insult to proper scams.

Poor execution and zealous marketing speak is not a scam.  Doing things in a way you don't agree with is not a scam.

I mean, unless you are a tinfoil-hat-wearing-moon-is-a-hologram-so-how-could-we-land-there? type.   Grin Grin Grin
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Core dev leaves me neg feedback #abuse #political
They did in fact sell this with lies, claiming innovation when none existed.  This is all documented in this thread.
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(...) the same as the way you and others here present any of the so-called 'facts' you share - a small kernel of truth taken out of context and misrepresented as meaning something it doesn't.    

Any examples?

 

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Neucoin have made some mistakes and done some things I haven't liked, but it isn't the scam or hopeless case I see it presented as here.
Depends on the definition of the word "Scam". I'm somebody who is very cautious with that word and for a long time I did not use it regarding Neucoin. And my reason was that there was the possibility that the team did not want to scam and recognize their big mistakes and that they maybe would pay back their Investors. One of my suggestions was a buywall at ICO-price with BTC they made in the ICO. Now I call it a scam because they did not stop with hyping and lying and trying to lead more people into buying.

And if you say it's not a scam, you should be able to give arguments. In this thread you can find a lot of arguments why it's a scam. You could rebut it if you are right.


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Unfortunately all the normal people who may want to discuss these things rather than just aggressively push an agenda, who don't have the time or interest in never-ending arguments with people who post here all day with half-truths and deliberate negative propaganda just get drowned out and disappear. And the 'ignorant necoin mods' you mention haven't been here for a long long time I don't think, probably because they couldn't take all the venomous personal attacks they were subjected to.  
I can't speak for anybody else then myself, but I was always open for discussion and in general I'm not aggressively pushing anything and not personal in discussions. The funny thing is: There never was a discussion. Sometimes Neu-Supporters came here and said something like you - without any arguments, without more informations, without facts. And my own conclusion is: It's just not possible. It's not possible to support Neucoin in a deeper discussion because it's not a legit project.

Just to be clear: They sold Neu with lies. And just by the way: There is also evidence that there was a lot of selfbuying, so the ICO-terms never were reached. If you want to know more about it - just ask. And remember: Didn't they say there would be a Blockexplorer right from the start? And do you remember there wasn't a official Block Explorer but an un-official one?

And I made the prediction that they need some time to distribute all the billions to more addresses, because it all was in the top100. Most interesting for me was and still is: They are even unable to cheat. They make too much mistakes. The only good thing (for them of course) in Neu is: Nobody cares. If it would have more attention, like Paycoin had, they would be in big trouble.
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oh bo hoo poor you.
and poor misrepresented neucoin.

Truce is off. you are an idiot.


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Cryptorials.io

I'm happy for you to buy neucoin. some will.
Not really attacking you, but you will get a counter argument!
Ok, I may have been a bit tetchy.

I showed your addy. 1.7million neucoin has passed through. Worth 70 btc presale.
I'm not saying you have got 1.7million neucoin, but...

Hey, your first post was pretty much your opinion stating we here are wrong, you and neucoin are right?
As Tempus said, we show far more proof/evidence/discussion than ignorant neucoin mods.

Truce?


The fact that you've analyzed my address' activity more than I have myself is kind of creepy. But the way you present it is the same as the way you and others here present any of the so-called 'facts' you share - a small kernel of truth taken out of context and misrepresented as meaning something it doesn't. I bought less than 1 btc in the presale, and the most I've owned was around 450k of which probably 60k was from staking and some from freebies for taking and promoting the surveys and so on - not that my personal circumstances are at all relevant.

Neucoin have made some mistakes and done some things I haven't liked, but it isn't the scam or hopeless case I see it presented as here. Unfortunately all the normal people who may want to discuss these things rather than just aggressively push an agenda, who don't have the time or interest in never-ending arguments with people who post here all day with half-truths and deliberate negative propaganda just get drowned out and disappear. And the 'ignorant necoin mods' you mention haven't been here for a long long time I don't think, probably because they couldn't take all the venomous personal attacks they were subjected to. 
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I'm happy for you to buy neucoin. some will.
Not really attacking you, but you will get a counter argument!
Ok, I may have been a bit tetchy.

I showed your addy. 1.7million neucoin has passed through. Worth 70 btc presale.
I'm not saying you have got 1.7million neucoin, but...

Hey, your first post was pretty much your opinion stating we here are wrong, you and neucoin are right?
As Tempus said, we show far more proof/evidence/discussion than ignorant neucoin mods.

Truce?
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Whatever you may think about this thread or the people involved: It's a fact that you'll find more helpful infos here than anywhere else. And that's easy to prove because if you would read this thread and just focus on the informations you'll see that the Neucoin-desaster was predicted, underlined with arguments. And sure, not all posts are informative but under the line this thread has more value than Neucoin and I'm serious about that. Reason: It helped to safe money while Neucoin ripped those who believed in it.

And if you say now:

"I'm not the shill you take me for and recognize that there are clearly problems, even if I still think there is a possibility that they could reach new people who aren't into crypto so hold onto a few coins because of that."

I don't understand that logic, because I can't see anything good in it if there should be more unexperienced ppl who invest in this.

Can you understand the logic of your own statement - you are saying here that as long as there is any possibility that anybody might take an interest in Neucoin you will keep up your campaign to convince them otherwise. You are not here to be unbiased or present facts, you are clearly on a personal attack mission.

I'm not sure what's your definition of "facts" but I would say: Something is a fact if it turns out to be true. And I don't say I'm unbiased and I don't say all of my posts are full of facts. But you won't find many posts without facts or at least informations or argumentation. And it turned out to be true.

Two questions:

1. Why not attack a project that is not legit? Or do you believe it's legit and if yes, why?
2. Do you believe that there is anybody who bought into the ICO and would not wish he would have read this thread instead of investing in NEU?

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