Not trying to start anything, just inform. For starters, anyone that cares, I am a current and since drop one member of DeepOnion. Feel free to scream "shill" at any point, lol. Personally, I like projects, any projects, that do a little something besides mine for the sake of mining, that is what drew me to the project.
I have had issues with the project at times, been quite public about that, when I've been wrong, I have tried to own up to those mistakes, feel free to dispute that, I may have missed something.
Someone in this thread, recently, stated that only 60,000 of the bounty pre-mine had been distributed, that number is incorrect, it is actually 600,000. Perhaps someone missed a zero, only the original poster knows. There was another that claimed a "trigger" was put in to dump pre-mine coins on the market at a certain monetary value, and that if they were doing it, they would have set it closer to five dollars. To respond to that, I would have to say that Onion has actually gone higher than five USD in the past, so I'm not really sure what they are driving at there.
As for the Domination tasks, I did a few early on myself, then they got, in my opinion, a bit spammy, and I didn't like it, so guess what, I chose to stop doing them until things got a little more under control. A simple enough solution, yes? I have also complained about the domination tasks, publicly, here on this forum and on the DO community forums, and I must be doing something different than the people who claim doing so got them banned, since I did it and haven't been banned.
There are a lot of half accurate statements, that taken out of context remind me of CNBC talking about BTC. If I had to rely on those staunch journalists for my crypto information, I'd never touch any of it, obviously I do not. Any crypto is what you make of it and at the very least, being this closely involved with this project has certainly educated me and opened my eyes to a lot of potential in crypto in general.
Oh, there was also some mention of the initial pre-mine information not being public. I kind of take personal issue with that, and if you check back some of my earliest posts at the beginning, you'd see that not only was it publicly acknowledged by the devs, but that I also referenced it when discussing the project, and I got the information from somewhere, I didn't just pull it out of a hat.
Anyway, if you take the time to read this, and are honestly interested in giving the project a more serious look, then do that, on your own, examine the code yourself and maybe talk to someone who is currently involved. If you wish to accept what people claim as it being a scam, then, hey, that's all you too, not gonna decide that for you obviously. Yup, I'm biased, but I think I've been open and discussed what has made me unhappy about the project and what has made me happy, and my happy outweighs the negatives.
What you are saying above is something I agree with. I see a lot of namecalling and back and forth: "Scam"/"No it isn't" without any real substance. You make an arguable point to
why you don't think Deeponion is a scam. But you also mention very clearly to anyone "
interested in giving the project a more serious look, then do that, on your own" which is advice I would give everyone.
Don't listen to the one-liners or people shouting this and that. If you are interested,
do some reasearch on your own, feel free to post the result of your research here and why you came to the conclusion you have.
Pretty much no one will be able to give you a garantie of if this/that coin is a scam or not. There are still some that say BTC is a scam and is not really worth anything. I am biased in saying I don't think Deeponion is a scam since I have been a member for over three weeks. But I joined after doing research on it first and determined that they might have a idea that could be worth somethinig in the future.
Is it a sure thing?! Of course not, nothing is...I don't have the technical expertise to look into the code to determine if it has a solid base and good future prospects and hopefully someone here will take the time and share their results so that even a layman can understand them.
So far the positive on the coin outweighs the negative I have heard about it and that is why, I at least, will continue to invest.
What you do is entirely up for you to decide.
