Absolutely every coin has its own "haters" which used big capital red letters and said "it's a scam, don't trust ... ugly, another fork", just look in KMD (Komodo) thread at early messages to get proof
What about Verus (VRSC), i can write here with a green bold letters something like
it's a trustable project, but don't need to do this. Because everybody, who involved in from begin or few days later, no matter, and just read this thread and understood the idea - understand what it is very interesting project with few original ideas and good background:
1. It used stable and well-know Komodo codebase.
2. It's open for everyone, have fair launch and no secrets under the hood.
3. It has original VerusHash algo based on haraka512 hash-function, which makes it very good for CPU mining, and lower profit for GPU. Seems it will stay "as is" for a long time.
4. It has original POS algo, also based on VerusHash. When i deep in first time, i was really impressed with VRSC devs idea.
5. Idea with timelocked coins before 96480 block (timelocked any coinbase reward bigger than 192 VRSC), as for me, is brilliant. I haven't see any coins which implement this idea, except VRSC.
6. Everybody was able to mine matured coins on startup. Where is no premine. Everybody can analyse current blockchain to make sure in this. Everybody who screams for the opposite - didn't ever do this, or didn't understand things at all.
7. Personally me trust in good future of this project.
So, small advice ... Don't ever trust
red or
green messages in this thread, this is only 3rd party opinions, nothing more. Think with your head and analyze things as they are!