They buy this currency for real money, the currency becomes more valuable because people are interested in it, due to blind promoting.
The developer of the currency holds and stacks most of the coins.
Because he made people think the coin has a real value but hasn´t is the definition of scam.
At some point he will dump everything, the currency looses it´s value all all the people who bought it
loose their money.
That's not how markets work.
Dev holds, I don't remember the exact number, about 5% of the total coin supply. Dumping those 5% at once would result in the price going down, but it would have no significant impact on the market itself.
The remaining 95%, as well as the potential buyer of the 5% dev coins, would decide where the market goes for DO.
The hypothetical scenarios presented by the FUD campaign are just simply not rational by any standards. They completely ignore the reality of markets as well as the amount of effort put in vs the amount of potential reward from different routes.
As such, they're just completely meaningless, regardless of whether they're meant well or not.
Either way, it's only about 3-4 more months before we know for sure, and in the meantime there's no real point talking about this since there's no substantial evidence.
Developers just want to make a market for this coin and try to hold majority coin. By their marketing they just make a hype of anonymity and free airdrops.
In my opinion:
0. They harvested many accounts who are getting each airdrop successfully.
1. They eliminate external account by giving silly excuses in attempt to minimize the number of participants in each airdrop and maximize the earning of their own accounts.
2. They give more coins to their own accounts by 2x, 3x and 4x multipliers.
3. In the main ANN thread, everybody suggest not to sell. Even they made a rule of 90%. But they dumped coin of their own accounts.
4. Any negative post or any critical comment is deleted by them in the main ANN thread. My 8 posts were deleted by them.
5. They are doing staking with the community fund. Which is extra income for them.
6. They will never run after dump their all coins. They will get more money in future if the coin survive.
So, it is not a scam but cheating with community. They use community for their success but don't pay them honestly. My estimate is if the coin survive all 40 airdrops, the developers will successfully left with more than 80% coins.
And...and...and...we can not do any harm to them.
PS: Please any DeepOnion supporter do not quote me and reply to this post. I don't want to see your religious sentiments here. Keep them at main DeepOnion ANN thread.