Topic: WARNING DeepOnion is a SCAM, proof inside! - page 21. (Read 70360 times)

This is not true. You need to own coins to get anything from "a little typing". So it's a ponzi with extra work involved for those who are being ripped off.

As some others have pointed out, a "Ponzi scheme", by definition, requires initial monetary investment, which is then used to pay the first investors, so those entering last are burned.  No initial investment, other than a little typing was required.  If you're going to call DO a scam, at least be more accurate.

There hasn't been a mandatory upgrade of the wallet in quite a long time.  You may still compile the code from GitHub and have a working wallet.  Later, non-mandatory, upgrades to the wallet, after the introduction of DeepVault are closed to review, however if you do not wish to use that proprietary DeepVault, then, yes, the code is open source.  I think I've used DeepVault once, not a feature I really need, so, if I wanted to simply stake or hold Onion, I could use the open source, if I cared to compile it myself, from GitHub.

I dislike misinformation being spread, and I would like to know if anything I've typed is factually inaccurate.  Once I investigate your claim, I'll happily correct myself.  Now, just for arguments sake, making statements like, "I feel DO is a scam...." is not something I'd even entertain, your feelings have nothing to do with it, neither do mine.  What I want to know is, can you compile a functional wallet from open source for DeepOnion?  Yes, you can.  Therefore it is effectively open source.  Was a monetary / fiat investment required to initially join the "modified airdrop"?  No, there was not, I was here at the beginning.  A minimum is required now, with, nine, I think, rounds left to go, so, break out your Funk and Wagnall's but that fails the definition of a "Ponzi scheme".

Closed versus open source and "Ponzi scheme" seem to be the arguments thrown around the most, and they appear invalid.

This is interesting. I will see where this leads. Would b following up the thread. I didnt invest in DpOn but was thinking of doing it today.. Let's see how it goes.

I would be shocked if this turned out not to be a ponzi scheme. There's no indication of it being legitimate.

Looks reasonable. It seems like a Ponzi scam.
Only a few people control most of the coin. And from the "Free" airdrop, they are getting more and more.

Yes, the reason why I tried to unlock is because I wanted to get rid of them ASAP. Self-compiling was the only way to check all possible passwords quick and clean. But well, it's quite a bit of work (I'm not a professional full-time developer - took me 3 hours to get everything working).

hm - not so bad though - let's give it a few weeks and I can start my own coin. Who wants to buy some and promote it for me?

Fair point and should be heeded. It seems like a terrible idea to not self-compile their wallet at this point if you choose to get involved (which nobody should).

Hm, you got a point there.

To be fair though, one can get an open source client if one wants to. They have code on github.com/deeponion and one can compile a working client with it (all external dependencies from independent sources).

Can't agree more! Stupid  greedy paid shills and beggars are hired to make a Chinese scammer and his friends super rich. That kind of people will support any scam that is paying out.

Do you warn people that this cryptocurrency is scam?

The posts on that thread just prove how much of a joke DO and its community is.

I hope you didn't run the wallet on a system that has access to your other coins, since the wallet is closed source and could very easily contain malware.

if scam or not - a weird way to answer to a "bug report":

https://deeponion.org/community/threads/unlocking-a-wallet-really-has-serious-issues.30428/

Looks like half of the posters didn't read anything anyway. It's just impossible that there's a bug in the software. Thread closed.

The dev team is raking up the majority of the rewards, while new people who want to have a chance of getting Onions have to buy them on exchanges to get the "airdrop" (which is a bounty campaign). That's not an airdropped premine, that's a centralized scam and all the new people who are stupid enough to believe the lies and disinformation of hundreds of greedy paid shills are essentially paying those that came in earlier. DO doesn't offer anything of its own and is just a copy/paste coin with an obvious pyramid scheme going on. You just have to check the 10 richest addresses while excluding the premine addresses. It's obvious that the vast majority of coins goes to the dev team and that they're just dumping on those that are stupid enough to shill for them.

a ponzi scheme is a fraud were initial investment is repaid by new money until all went down and who entered last lose all
maybe is me that not understand but... how does this compare to deeponion considering that there was no initial investment for early adopters that partecipated in the airdrop?

well, let say definitions in economics are imprecise (and they are), we can also look at numbers and paths: a ponzi scheme usually see only growth until the burst. even considering this metric this not apply to deeponion because we already saw up and downs

so, what other indicator can you suggest me to prove that deeponion is a scam?
but please not talk about the premine argument because you know, everyone knows that airdrop needs premine

Current price and day-to-day price changes says nothing about a coin and means nothing IMO. BitConnect was pumped really high once too, before a sudden massive fall with the top cashing out their profits.

A lot of the coins I have bought have significantly dipped, but I took the opportunity to enter BECAUSE I know regards of that, those coins have a good long term future, and a potential for sudden growth sometime in the future as their milestone are met (etc. ADA, TRX, etc).

There's a massive difference between a ponzi scheme and a risky venture into a new paradigm.

Some people just don't want to learn. They're too greedy, impulsive and emotional to see reality as is.

Perhaps you should read what is written here and verify that for yourself. Then you can take a calculated risk. I believe you did that or at least should have done.

i do not get it, it is like a new sport to spread fud against a particular community ?

if you do not like the project simply stay away, no need to bash happy users, we are all grown up here and know well what we are going to do, we do not need parents tutoring because you know, writing a couple of sensational sentences or posting a link to cmc is not what i consider a good and informative post .. we are in crypto here, there are a lot of risks around, looking at cmc graphs you can say bitcoin is a safe heaven? or ethereum and neo? only to cite few..

c'mon guys

Deeponion is in free, bottomless fall. Sorry guys, if you're still in, you will likely get burnt as we all said it before.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/deeponion/#charts