I am sorry but something does not add up.
I have been looking at Mandica's previous posts and all the posts until august 2016 have a different style of writing with mostly broken english. His/her english only got better in Sept 2016 when he/she started posting about developing an anonymous cryptocurrency. This is very fishy. Also, I know that this ICO is using an escrow but if you look at the goals required to release this escrow, it should not be very hard to reach. This is a clone of Shadow cash as of now and they have all the features in the list working already. I do not have any issue with copy pasting code from ShadowCash because that is what open source is all about. But, I would still like the android alpha release to be included in the escrow requirements.
Mandica, you mentioned that you will announcing the team. Did you do it somewhere? I see a couple of pictures on your website but how can we be sure that it is you? Do you have a linkedin/some other proof?
If hope you give an honest answer and not delete this message. If you do delete, I will open up a thread in the altcoin discussion forum with the same questions.
I am used to the newbie FUD accounts by now so I can give you an honest answer. I understand that the Shadowcash contingency may feel somewhat uneasy about this as we will surpass what they have done. Arrogant? Maybe. However, the premise of the ICO is really quite simple. We are selling coins for a price to be settled at the end of the ICO on 08/01/2017. You can choose to invest and buy some coins or not. The escrow is simply in place to ensure that you get the coins you pay for. The development of the Android features will take a bit longer and we need to regain some of the expenses of getting it to this stage. The team is me and @lulworm (here and on Slack), @jbg at Slack and one other.
There is nothing fishy about it. It's very simple. We create a coin, we sell it, we develop it and add features and if you bought in you can sell with a profit. We are working on the Android side of things but as the ICO faced so much animosity it seems unlikely that we will reach what we hoped. What that means is that we will work slower. We all have to eat and take other jobs in between to get it done. If the ICO had raised (...it's not over yet) a lot more we could easily work full time on this, but as things are it will progress slower.
As far as identities are concerned, we are not willing to post our full name etc. online. You will have to judge by the code and what we release. Take part or not. This is an honest answer.
It does not really matter if the post comes from a newbie account as I have valid questions based on past trends. I am sick of ICO scams and have no idea why dev's who want to raise a lot of money do not reveal themselves online. Also, I am baffled by people giving away money to anonymous people online. One thing that is certain is overwhelming majority of ICO scams have anonymous devs. Good thing is, people seem to be catching on to this trend and hopefully ICO's with anonymous devs never reach their goals. As I said earlier, your post history does not add up. Your english got better as soon as you started talking about ICO's(sept 2016). The previous posts have broken english pretty much. It is very likely that you bought this account from the earlier owner.
May be if you revealed your identities you could have gained more trust and raised more BTC. As of now, you have copy pasted SDC's code and will distribute coins. Very very easy to do. I understand that you will only get money from the escrow after you reach certain milestone. But, these milestones are not a big deal to reach because SDC's code already has everything included in it. Again, I am not against reusing open source code. But your combination of anonymity, discrepancy in post history and literally no work done other than porting SDC's code is what makes this fishy.
Anyway, best of luck with your project. I hope you prove me wrong and actually deliver something worthwhile to the investors and not run away with the ICO money but I just don't trust you and my bullshit radar is on high alert.
