I think this is the best observation, this is also what I am thinking, but you know what people thinks, if its an airdrop, then they have nothing to lose. which isn't good at all.
Starting to sound like TorCoin. Anonymity and scams seem to go hand in hand. Which sucks, because I am a huge privacy advocate. I think people lure groups into coins under the guise of anonymity and ultimately it ends up being a scam. Not saying this is the case with DeepOnion, but I am cautious at this point.
I don't usually advertise projects I'm involved with in other threads like this one, but since this is directly related to your question ... the Spectrecoin project linked in my first post above is a good one, and the coins are already fully distributed. I'm having close relationships with the main dev and other active community members. It's having the same Tor integration that DeepOnion has, and devs are currently re-organizing to make the project progress at a faster pace and be more open and transparent. Spectre is probably the best alternative to this one so far, in terms of technology.
Tbh. I only found DeepOnion by looking for competitors to Spectre in the anon space
But as it seems this one is not a serious competitor...
What's leaving me - at least - astonished is the roadmap of DeepOnion.
Q3 2017: Pre-announcement and launch till paperwallet
Only 12 month later, Q2 2018:
- More Exchanges trade-able for ONIONs
- More Shopping Sites accepting ONIONs
- ONION accepted Games
Very ambitious. Especially, because it is quite hard to predict - with an exact date - what other people will do: Implement this coin to their shopping sites, their exchanges, their games...
But this is only a (my personally felt) peak of iceberg in this roadmap.
I don't think that is too ambitious. "More" doesn't have to mean anything significant. You can make some small shop site selling your own product and make it accept your coin ... no magic needed.
More exchanges is also very vague ... more than what? Than now? Not difficult as there are no exchanges yet.
I wish the devs luck and would be pleased, if some of them would enter here to answer the serious questions, starting with Gandalf86 first post. A good and serious project would do that.
A good and serious project would not abuse his moderation abilities and delete reasonable questions like the ones above. That's a much bigger problem than having an "a bit too ambitious" roadmap IMO. I linked this thread in the main thread after creating it, but it got deleted within 1 minute.