This is absolutely true but why do you care ?
Are you doing all of this to warn people like me about the risks in investing in cryptocurrencies (and similar projects) ?
Fair questions, and since you are not acting as a shill nor a cheerleader I am happy to answer.
No, of course I do not want to convince the cheerleaders, sockpuppets, shills and "investors" of IOTA. In fact I couldn't care less what the sockpuppets, shills and "investors" of IOTA say and think. By definition the sockpuppets, shills and "investors" do the moon talk and talk about nonsense such as retirement funds (which started already in your moderated thread) to assist the P&D and pull off that 10x or whatever times ROI.
I am posting to inform the noob, uninformed and naive potential users, which is your target audience. I point out the very obvious fact that following the JINN scam the Scandinavian boy and the Belarus scammer started the another scam of IOTA with their zero ability and consequently zero prospect to deliver any Internet of Things solutions. Therefore it is a scam and a classic P&D operation: present a good looking idea, collect the money and then pump the coin. Having this thread available the uninformed, noob and naive potential users - your target audience once the P&D started - will have other information than the usual shilling of the P&D brigade. In the meantime yourself, an investor who believe in the IOTA project can point out that in your opinion the IOTA project is viable (if the supporters of IOTA feel your moderated thread is not enough platform to spread the bullshit about IOTA). Cool, that's the beauty of an unmoderated thread, both the pro and cons opinions can be posted.
On the other hand, what a few shills and sockpuppets (not yourself but your support brigade) of your project say is not the concern of mine. There are many users understand at Bitcointalk that I am very good at spotting scams. So whether the shills of the IOTA scam like it or not there are many users - your target audience once the P&D started - read my posts when we are talking about scams. It is documented in the Vericoin thread and IRC channel that I took my lawyer to the Moolah HQ in 2014 when the VRC devs were considering a partnership with the Moolah scammer Ryan Kennedy, then I posted about what we found out, and then I contacted law enforcement. Now the Moolah scammer Ryan Kennedy is in jail. The similar happened with Bitbay. My undocumented Bitbay thread stopped the Bitbay scam money party it informed the target audience of the scam. We contacted law enforcement that has jurisdiction over the scammers and the three main figure will be in jail just like Ryan Kenned. Law enforcement has been contacted about Banxshares, it is safe to assume the organizer will face justice sooner than later. I predict, the JINN scammer boy and Belarusian will deliver nothing (except the P&D) and then your IOTA money party will be a law enforcement matter as well.
So tell us, what kind of investment do you recommend apart from cryptocurrencies ?
I think that's the true topic here, if you believe you know better, please tell us !
I am not giving investment advice, but it's not a secret here that very little of my assets are in crypto and the majority of that is of course Bitcoin. I am trading stocks for decades, that is my main investment field, come to the Martin Armstrong thread, ask questions and I am happy to share my experience in stock trading there, but again those are not investment advices.