to be honest: without a real (and well known) escrow I am not capable to invest a lot. I think there are a lot of people thinking the same. I also know that its not difficult for such a project to get a honest and well known escrow. there are even some for free at this forum. I think this is a big mistake and will have a big effect on the funding results. after many scams even with escrows I have learned to invest large amounts only with well known escrows.
I think this project has a lot of potential and I really want to invest more.
Thing is that a crowdsale is guided by an automatic Ethereum Smart Contract which enables conditions where it works as an escrow too. That's one of the reasons why ethereum is so popular.
Ethereum Smart Contract automatically distributes tokens, lock tokens, do all investment protection and more - also people (including dev. team) CANT influence a smart contract because it's on a blockchain. Principle is the same as a bitcoin transaction - if it get's approval - transaction is successful and you cannot change it.
Exactly same method was used by other famous ETH projects such as Golem and Melonport. All investment process was super smooth and successful. Also both projects got funded in first 15 mins. And it's because people trust ethereum smart contracts a lot.
Since our all casino/ casino financial operations are purely based on Ethereum Smart Contract, it would be hypocritical/ controversial for us to run an ICO without smart contracts.
Also we hired a 3rd party auditor (Mikko Ohtamaa - First's Bloods IT advisor) to do intense security check on a contract, we have a contract kill-switch with a multi-sig wallet and many more security measures. Also today our auditor will post an official blog and confirm that everything what we mentioned in a whitepaper actually is in a smart contract.
Another strong point: our team has known, credible and old blockchain community members - Paolo Rebuffo and Ransu Salovaara. Probably they would not want to risk own reputation, if we were no credible.
main features of contracts:
- it has own escrow, during an ICO no-one can't touch ETH
- contract on real time sends EDG tokens for your ETH
- unsold EDG tokens are automatically burned
- if minimum goal is not reached, all ETH is returned to investors
- EDG tokens become immediately tradable after an ICO
Contacts can be found here:
https://github.com/EdgelessCasino/Smart-Contracts