The likelihood that this is a pure scam is about 20%, while the likelihood that the people behind this project whilst working with best intentions do not have the technical and/or business skills to develop the project is much higher, say 60%. What you do not understand is that if just one of the project is successful, the value of DAY will be at least 100 times the current market price. So obviously if I invested 300 USD and I hope that they will become at least 30,000 USD in a couple of year, it means that I am happy to accept a very, or even EXTREMELY high risk. If one is not happy, can spend or invest the 300 USD differently. For what reason someone says that this MUST be a complete failure? If they say that there is a very high risk of failure, we know it already. Developing the software takes a lot of time. MAIDSAFE for instance has been doing it for so many years and they are still there.
I think we all (well hopefully most of us) understand that good projects need and should need time...what is a bit worrying that there is currently no link between community and developers...slack down for 4 weeks, no moderator here, 1 blog entry 15(?) days ago...people just want to hear that working is ongoing- I can understand that too