My last post at the nokoin's
forum gulag. I freely quoted many of you guys, hope you don't mind
Thank you all for exposing these type of traps that taint the whole crypto space. I'm sure many newbies would have lost money if not for all the facts you posted here!!
http://forum.neucoin.org/t/when-will-you-open-your-eyes/1980You were duped into investing your hard earned money with grand claims of this being the next big thing. Now 1/3 of your investment has evaporated and the price just keeps going down because no one is falling for the hype. Free survey coins should be released in a few days to people who will eagerly dump them regardless the price, not to mention the billions coins that will be slowly offloaded by the team to naive newbies. When will you cut your losses?
You were dazzled with a list of rich and famous who supposedly endorsed this project. None of the big names has publicly vouched for nokoin nor seem to be interested in speaking on its behalf. For them it was just one more cheap opportunity to make a small early investment, you know, just IN CASE it made it. When you buy some S&P 500 stocks doesn't mean you stand behind all 500 companies. When will you stop worshiping cardboard standups?
You were betrayed by the founder Dan Kaufman into believing that he is a respectable and trustworthy entrepreneur despite his past legal troubles of infecting millions of computers with spyware and other less-than-stellar ventures. It is public knowledge that his previous company called their users 'trailer cash'. Now he has your money and is nowhere to be heard or seen, only to hide behind fake accounts shilling at other forums. When will you learn to not trust someone with such a dismal track record?
You were hyped with fancy words like innovation and mass adoption, but all you got was a underwhelming re-packaged Peercoin fork with zero proven innovations that would make it stand out. You also got a purposely confusing qt wallet which indirectly forces you to stake all your coins by locking them online for long periods of time. When will you understand that with nokoin, lies and incompetence go hand in hand?
You were invited to join a forum that pretended to be friendly and open, yet those who dared to ask tough questions or expose facts were banned and their posts censored. You'll find as much respect for truth and free speech here as you will in North Korea. Kim Jong Un would be jealous of all the blind faith and mindless propaganda here. When will you stop drinking that Kool-Aid?
You were promised utility since day one, services that would accept nokoin from the start. One month after launch, there is absolutely nowhere to spend your useless coins except dump it in the only one exchange left that will take it [or risk Cryptsy going Mt. Gox]. When will stop waiting for the moon that never comes and realize that you are sinking?
You were impressed with claims of a professional marketing team that would take nokoin mainstream, despite it relying on someone who has been barely able to hold on to a job for the past decade. Now Mark is silently drowning and the only 'marketing' you see is ads and unconvincing paid articles that are laughed at by readers. Even Kourosh [one of the whitepaper authors] left nokoin months ago. When will you raise your threshold of self-deception?
You were fed tales of snowflakes and unicorns when you worried about all the delays, missed targets, anonymous off-shores and dodgy actions. Now you see the list of lies just keeps getting longer, the communication keeps getting even less substantial. When will you realize you've been ripped off by a serial internet crook?
You were told nokoin would gain wide popularity and this was a fantastic chance to jump in early. Oh my, you were even told it would get one million users in the first year!! Now everyday more and more presale buyers dump their coins and walk away in utter disappointment. Per usual, their posts are deleted here but you can read their thoughts at other forums. When will you also step up and say enough is enough?
The red flags are all in front of you, but when will you open your eyes??
Farewell nokoiners, may you be wiser and luckier in your future investments.
Nice summary... I believe most of all Neu-Investors already opened their eyes but hoping for a price-manipulation or some kind of miracle. Reason could be that they can't believe that the team behind will just let it go down and leave over some time.
The funny and at the same time sad aspect about such hopes is: The team had most probably just one strategy: "It will be big if we let it seem big." - self fulfilling prophecy/manipulation. So they have nothing to give since that did not work. They could buy the chart up, but they fear that too many would use it as opportunity to sell. In the end, the team would lose too much money.
So, the big question is: What will they do. And for now it looks like, that they'll do maybe some little moves to let it seem they're still on track and working with confidence, but in the end I believe, they'll leave in silence - if possible. The biggest mistake they've made is: They made time to an enemy.
Just as comparison: Factom...
"That means the supply of factoids is down by 3440.31567701 factoids. This is because until we get the full protocol up and running, and all the federated servers are in place, there is no inflation, no payments made to the servers. This is because we wish to be fair to the crowd sale, and also to give the protocol a chance to take hold and gain some growth in the use of the protocol before inflation sets in. When inflation does set in, it will be at a fixed rate of ~73000 tokens per month (10 percent of the crowdsale total each year)."https://www.reddit.com/r/factom/comments/3ozje2/eli5_what_are_factom_selling_when_they_sell/10% inflation, but zero inflation for now -->
"to give the protocol a chance to take hold and gain some growth in the use of the protocol" and
"because we wish to be fair to the crowd sale"That's what professional Devs do. And who checks their github:
https://github.com/FactomProject/Last update 51 minutes ago and several updates everyday.
And Neucoin? Updates?
https://github.com/NeuCoin/neucoin - 12 days ago. Irrational high inflation, started one day before launch. Nothing ready, not even a Block Explorer at launch.
And all that leads into the situation that there is no chance, because time is against the project. There is no time to grow, because they never could grow that fast as the inflation increases. 3,172,330,327 total supply. They can't give out the survey Coins but they have to do it, if they don't want to admit that their strategy is in fact no strategy.
I never saw a project like this one. It's paradox in many ways. So much greed and now everybody loses money. They wanted all the control and now they have to face a situation they can't control. They wanted to let it seem big, bigger than Bitcoin (in just one year), and I know several small projects with much more real value and a bigger community. They say it's longterm, but how should it be, if the inflation is that crushing that it's hard to survive the first 3 months. It's week four!
It's really insane. Neucoin was a greedy vision and now it's just a shadow.