Something is definitely not right with this ICO.
They released what they are calling an "audit" (
https://medium.com/spotcoin/spotcoin-post-ico-update-c25c38d014ab) but it raises more questions than it answers and the numbers do not make sense.
**Spotcoin stated terms of sale**
* Hard cap: $30M
* Soft cap: $5M
* Tokens max: 99,000,000
* Team/Public ratio: 1/2
* Max to sell: 66,000,000
* ICO Price: $0.50
* Pre-ICO Price: $0.31-$0.40*
* Private Placement Price: Unknown
* Per investor token buy limit: 1,000,000 SPOT
* Private Placement Allocation/Limit: 16,000,000 SPOT
* Pre-ICO Allocation/Limit: 2,500,000 SPOT
**Aduit Figures**
* Total fund raise: $14,631,594.94
* Public/sold: 65,204,670 (65.86%)
* Treasury: 18,810,000 (19.00%)
* Team: 11,770,000 (11.89%)
* Marketing: 2,022,335 (2.04%)
* Total mint: 97,807,005 (98.79%)
* Burned: 1,192,995 (1.21%)
* Total: 99,000,000 (100.00%)
This gives an average sale price of just 22.44 cents per token, much lower than any published sale price to date.
If all 16,000,000 private placement tokens were sold for *just 1 cent each*, and all 2,500,000 Pre-ICO tokens were sold at the minimum of 0.31 cents, this would mean the public sale would have an average sale price of just 29.33 cents per token which is below the minimum Pre-ICO price.
Hypothetical sale numbers based on audit:
Total 65,204,670 $14,631,594.94 $0.2244
Public 46,704,670 $13,696,594.94 $0.2933
Pre-ICO 2,500,000 $775,000.00 $0.3100
Private 16,000,000 $160,000.00 $0.0100
Something does not seem right...
**Sources**
* Spotcoin FAQ -
https://spotcoin.com/faq https://archive.fo/UGbk4* Spotcoin Whitepaper v1.6 October 15 2018 -
https://spotcoin.com/whitepaper.pdf https://archive.fo/xJhxX* Spotcoin Steemit -
https://steemit.com/neo/@spotcoin/time-to-take-action-exclusive-spot-pre-ico-sale-opens-tuesday https://archive.fo/HRaAx* Spotcoin Medium -
https://medium.com/spotcoin/spotcoin-post-ico-update-c25c38d014ab https://archive.fo/4uZLr *Remember reading somewhere that the Pre-ICO was actually 0.31-0.40 rather than just 0.40 but I cannot find the source, maybe it has been scrubbed?
This is also being discussed on reddit now:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/a62y4c/spotcoin_preparing_for_exit_scam/https://www.reddit.com/r/NEO/comments/a6312m/spotcoin_preparing_to_exit_scam/