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Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO

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Re: Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO

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Why do so many cryptocurrency projects seem so meta? Platforms for creating platforms, coins for creating coins.

I just googled it and the description says

The Bancor protocol enables built-in price discovery and a liquidity mechanism for tokens on smart contract blockchains

Talk about buzzwords and mumbo jumbo.

Re: Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO

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I'm sure Bancor couldn't care less about their token price collapsing. They've already got all of the "investors'" money. In fact, they could just walk away right now instead of carrying on developing the system. The brave new world of ICOs offers no protection against companies failing to follow through on their ICO roadmap. Maybe Bancor could use the token collapse as an excuse to quit now?

The SEC might say otherwise. There are plenty of civil and criminal options for recourse if they simply "walk away".

They're based in Israel, though. What does the Israeli SEC say about that?

Re: Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO

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What? This is like every shit coin. Tons of them tank to near zero and deflate. Anyone who thinks these coins are legitimate are fooling themselves. They are built with one core requirement, do just enough to differentiate from other coins, pump it, get out. The average person can't understand 99% of the specs of these coins, it's all speculation. The whole thing is a ponzi scheme.

Just because some ICOs can be scams is no reason to write off the entire concept as a scam.

How many of them have to be scams before we can? Cause it seems to be more than "some".

Re: Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO

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Would love to hear more on legitimate use cases for blockchain (not being sarcastic) that cannot already be solved by centralized database, merkle trees and/or public key encryption.

I think they meant that concept behind an ICO are a scam not that blockchain is.

That's the problem. The investors for ICOs are backing on blockchain as if it's some amazing new innovation that's "going to change the world".

Re: Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO

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The entire concept is a multi level marketing scheme.

No, not all of it. It only appears that way before looking into it more.

Now I get it! If you bend over backwards you'll see that it's really an upside down triangle scheme. /s

Re: Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would love to hear more on legitimate use cases for blockchain (not being sarcastic) that cannot already be solved by centralized database, merkle trees and/or public key encryption.

I think they meant that concept behind an ICO are a scam not that blockchain is.

Blockchain is just a distributed public ledger. That's it. There are very few applications that have properties that can be mapped into a distributed public ledger.

Re: Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO

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The SEC might say otherwise. There are plenty of civil and criminal options for recourse if they simply "walk away".

They're based in Israel, though. What does the Israeli SEC say about that?

Israel recently banned offering binary options to foreigners because a lot of such companies were based in Israel and I guess a lot of people complained to Israeli authorities about being scammed, and impacted the country reputation.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wolves-of-tel-aviv-israels...

Re: Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO

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No, not all of it. It only appears that way before looking into it more.

Would love to hear more on legitimate use cases for blockchain (not being sarcastic) that cannot already be solved by centralized database, merkle trees and/or public key encryption.

the online gambling market is adopting bitcoin, or do you prefer cashing checks from Taiwan?

Re: Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO

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No, not all of it. It only appears that way before looking into it more.

That's exactly the level of plausible deniability they need, so people like you come to the comments defending them. I promise you 0% of these coins will be a thing 10 years out. I'll put money on that.

Respectfully I think you are wrong, but not by much. I think there will be some unicorns and mostly failures. Maybe a lower percentage than investing in seed round startups(huge failure rate).
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