YES. Very big scam. Many victims. Sure.
IOTA is a complete scam, your inadequate knowledge for assessing this does not excuse its practices.
To this scam to analyze we not need to much knowledge. It enough a question -
What is on the DISTRIBUTED ledger market traded?On the DISTRIBUTED ledger market is traded SINCE YEARS a centralized SERVER-CLIENT solution.
A very expensive kind of centralized SERVER-CLIENT solution on the i.e. coinmarket.com.
The team donated through i.e. the EU (!!!!!).Some people owning more TERA tokens since the start of the IOTA mainnet (Is this a mainnet??? With testtokens???) known from the beginning, the token will be distributed through on one of the biggest DLT exchange - on bitfinex. Bitfinex has connections with Tether USD. (
insider trading - with victims...)
Tether USD has since a year the biggest daily traded volume on the coinmarket.com.
As Tether USD lost the peg a year ago - I thought - IOTA and Tether will be lost, but
a big bank rescued both Tether and IOTA with a big big investment - approximately 1 000 000 000 USD.
This amount was at that time equal (
a coincidence?) of IOTA market capitalization. (the traders behind IOTA used this fond to save IOTA's "value" artifically, I think)
As the IOTA development costs consumed this fund, the IOTA market capitalization
lost ~60% of its value - beautiful linear
as the growth was after the start also......At this time remained only ~40% (with some support of a centralized
insider trade behind!!! - and through many victims investing in IOTA up to today......) of its "start" value.
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FXcw2SML.png&t=651&c=jEdhjWahopRdoA)
I think, no man will be support IOTA more, if this fund not more able to back the big big and expensive (
~ 50M dollars pro month?) team - and the development not producing a REAL DLT product.
After a such event - I think - it will be a need
to replace IOTA in big projects at big firms... They won't wants drop the projects, sure. They take an another WORKING and WELL TESTED DLT projekt, and they will replace IOTA!
We will see - sure - what will happens.
I think it will come earlier a such event as this year ends.