I have never seen such badly coordinated and unprofessionally rushed crowdfunding here on Bitcointak (even smallest scams do it better, not to mention normal projects).
The project somehow collected about 3-4k USD at the moment (
https://etherscan.io/address/0x1e2869A925e5Fb8380e096DADd6D909A4496Ebc7). I suppose those are insiders or ICO gamblers.
I want to stress one more time, than
there is no escrow on this crowdfund. They mention Dabs as one of the escrows, however Dabs never confirmed that. Moreover, I have contacted Dabs and he told me they are still negotiating, nothing is confirmed, and obviously he is not escrowing the funds currently.
What a mess. Runeuro guys, why is this rush? Why you started this unprepared, without any campaign, without escrow, without community?
I have two versions (except the obvious one):
1. You have run out of pocket money, and need any amount as soon as possible
2. You want the insiders to invest first with the most beneficial terms (btw, that is is a kind of fraud legally, as far as I know)
And now even
igroring legitimate questions here.
What a joke. I'm out.
@drays, I know you were one of their supporters before, even giving them the benefit of the doubt. Your perspectives on their project are different from the others. A lot are pinning them down as scammers but you believed otherwise. Now, you are seeing things differently and so am I.
I am following their updates coz I really wanted to see if this highly advanced project will come into realizations. Considering that they included the scientific academe for that matter. However, how they presented the concept and the overview that they showed are not even professional. Seems that they are just playing around. And so with my disappointments.
And as you stated they are now ignoring legitimate questions but ok let's give them another chance. Let's wait one more time what they will present to the community...
Yes, I gave them the benefit of the doubt... But after they started ICO, I invested some more time to investigate this better, and everything I have found made me much more sceptical. Basicaly, no benefit of the doubt could be applied here, because I don't have doubts regarding them anymore.
The project itself could have been a good one. Neurointerfaces are really promicing field to invest in.
However... those are the wrong people to implement that. The academics are real (one of them is a particularly solid one), however the people responsible for the project itself, are just clowns (Akimov in particular). This project is not serious, and though probably some of them do not have scam intentions (meaning not all of them are profi scammers, but only part), they will eventually take money and disappear, just because they are unable to carry serious business.
One very simple example - they cannot even decide and comminicate the pre-ICO price, even with campaign already started - on the OP (both in English and Russian threads) it is mentioned that the price per token is not fixed, but will be defined during the crowfunding. On the website however, it is stated that the price is fixed and is exacatly 0.003 RUNE per token. This is just utterly unprofessional. Such people cannot produce anything.
And the escrow deal - they apparently
lied regarding escrows. They don't have one.
Those are just a bunch of fortune seekers with no idea on money management, professional comminication and basicly on anything else business-related. See how they disappeared here for many days after ICO start? They were active on Russian thread a bit more, but people bashed them out, and now they keep silence.