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It's 90% untrue story when new projects failed to launch their project because of COV19 pandemic because every thing about crypto is digital, you can continue development digitally even if the team are in their separate homes, I can still cut some slacks with projects from Italy and France, they are the hot zones of Cov-19 pandemic but what about others??? We have Zoom app thats very good for team to come together and make a plan because of social distancing,. What am I missing guys ??? Am I right or wrong?

You are right, if we analyse the market almost all the coins and projects are working as normal and no serious project seems to have stopped the operations or development work because all of this can be done remotely and being in office is not required even Europe based projects are going on with their work so if a new project makes covid an excuse it is either because of very small team of the project or simply bad intention from the team.

True, People are just making excuses to postpone the project. Right now, During this pandemic they can use it has an advantage because more people are at their homes looking for a alternative income. So those projects who postponed their IEO or roadmap. Then there's a highly chance it's not gonna go far in it's journey.

I definitely agree!  This failed developer finds an excuse haven on the pandemic.  Just like one project on the telegram, they shut their comment and announced that



Funny how listing on an exchange needs a traveling permit?  I find them incompetent and not be able to fulfill their promised exchange on time.

It is kind of hard to calculate if excuses are justifiable without a bigger picture of their situation. I follow some very good altcoins that have delayed their roadmaps because of the pandemic. Even if they are still working on the altcoins, when conditions change unexpectedly you may have to change and delay things. Even with Zoom, development is harder than having a team in a physical office where they work, discuss etc.

You are right, there's no reason for them to stop their project but it could be possible that their excuse is valid. What if they are not prepared to face this pandemic and doesn't have all the resources to adjust and work online. It's easy to conclude that all of them can adjust and work from home but what if there's a harder situation for each of their team. Some are good excuse but some can't just have that excuse, we don't know what are their struggles since I'm not into project development and management.

How is development harder when all you need to build a project is just your professionalism ( brain ) and your laptop, every thing crypto is Digitally, there is no need for any real world thing ( offline ), OP is 100%+ correct on this mate

Many bullshit projects have postponed their schedule because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was just an excuse for their project to be underdeveloped, in fact I saw them doing nothing before the epidemic struck. Projects like these need to be avoided because they will never go too far in this market

Not the right reason if the project says that the pandemic is causing their project to fail even it is not a reason but their reason for leaving because they cannot develop the project properly.

Projects that don't make sense for that reason, I'm not sure they will be perfect even if they force it.

After reading everything about how blockchain and crypto works I can boldly say that all it requires is just your tools which are all online based and your talent to build a new blockchain project, any project that uses Cov-19 for excuse aren't serious

I don't think what most of these team mean by not launching their project means they can't launch because of COvid but what they meant is that the condition is not right to launch their platform. There were some projects that launched in the 2018 bear market after pressure from the community and the price of the tokens dumped very hard, some of the collected million of USD but their market cap is not close to $300k now. If you trust a project to invest into it, then you should be able to trust their decision making

You didn't see the big picture of the COV19 pandemic. Maybe some team can adapt to the new work culture but you can't expect everyone can do it with 100% effective like the old way. Also, the main concern is because the COV19 pandemic disrupted nearly every business so the market looks grim for any new project launch around this time.

You are absolutely right OP and I guess the remaining 10% is for those new projects team that fears that COV19 can do damage to crypto on the long run but by now every thing is now more clearer, Bitcoin withstand the pandemic and did very well, there is nothing to fear about, projects team should launch and start development straight away, this COV19 of a thing can even stay longer than expected, something that can take more than a year to conquer, will you guys wait till that time too??

You're right. I see that most projects have unreasonable reasons like what you say and only projects that really want to develop continue to work. Covid is not a reason to develop a project because there are still many applications to connect with other than zoom

I remember some projects that were saying if the pandemic became their raeson to delay the launch of their platform and i wanna way if those are garbage platforms, a good one can compete even when the  pandemic is still happening right now.

There is nothing to be scared about, the pandemic crippled Bitcoin I'm March and the price dumped to 3500$ and after some time Bitcoin fights it's way up and so other coins too, that's enough to give new projects courage that this pandemic can't hurt crypto but even help more, it's a foolish excuse

in fact those are just reasons for their fraud. I saw a lot of businesses developing their technology and wallets but stopped because of the influence of covid 19. This is completely unreasonable and you should not trust. Only cooperate and work for projects with real ideas and have multiple partners to ensure the project can develop normally in these bad economic conditions.

Any project that postponed their launch because of this pandemic have nothing good to bring to the table, this year so far few new projects introduce IEO and did get listed on top exchanges with no delay, development is ongoing too, this shows the seriousness in the team

You are not wrong but I could not say you are right. Covid19 is an exceptional reason cause maybe some og them mentioning this really affect their project. Well we all knew how blockchain works right and it could be done at home but there are certain factor that can help if working as a team and personallyy grasp ideas by each. But we can also say that all of that are just plain reason to hide their scam and fraud activity. I dont know but I believe not all are engaged with this.

We should be thankful, pandemic is the reason why these projects shows their true colors, isn't that good? Right now any project that failed to continue development are bad projects with bad teams, it's easy that way, definitely if the pandemic never happened we will never know, not until they exit scam one day

You are right nowadays every failed project blame the COVID-19 as a major issue of failing of the project. As every one daily observes the crypto market is not go red in COVID-19 and many good coins are growing slowly.

How great are those ideas that can't be shared through group video calling? I believe that the CEO himself or herself have to hire the pros to the team simply because of this reason? That's what team is for, different field experts with different ideas, I'm not buying this point of yours friend.

I thought Covid 19 will kill crypto, that's one reason that a new project launch can get postponed, so understandable but what happened after March 2020 was surprising, Bitcoin rose back from the dead, I thought this will make new projects start launching their new projects, PayPal company have more interest in crypto because it withstand the pandemic.  Bad projects, that's what they are if they failed to launch

   If you watch TV and read newspaper you will notice that not just crypto-projects blame COVID-19 for everything. Politicians do that,
comapnies that cut their working power, and many others. Many use COVID-19 as an excuse, crypto-projects are just a copy of that.
   And can we really blame them? I think some of them had a real problems, but many of them just used virus as an excuse. We can't
point finger in all, it's not alright. Some people had real health problems!

Another annoying thing is the lock of the telegram group when people complain on the slow delivery of the project. Some cant even source for fund again and exchange listing looks more difficult but pandemic is not responsible for the exchange list, the project are not just convincing enough to get approval for the listing. Another attractive thing is just a product to prove the seriousness of the team

Sometimes it could also affect because we are all humans, even if we are just working online and we are safe but we can be affected emotionally especially if our family are affected with the virus, the economy is in trouble now, so the future will also be affected. New projects needs more investors to trust their platform to succeed, and when the economy is in trouble, people are not investing as they usually do when we have a good economy.

Maybe project might struggle too, but it should not fail if there is a team working on it.

Sometimes bad time always expose bad projects, when bear market took over many altcoins died off and some never recovers till this day, as for Cov-19 pandemic it's not a much different story, using the pandemic as excuse solves nothing but shows the real potential of the team, meaning the project is in the hands of the weak

indeed if you look directly and you think with logic it will not be possible to restore world economic conditions easily, there will definitely be a very long process, but you must know that cryptocurrency price movements are very fast and no one knows when it happened so at least if you have altcoin then you must have altcoin that really has potential.

Unfortunately, now a lot of companies are trying to excuse themselves that they can’t quickly develop their technologies and capabilities because of the corona virus, but all this is just excuses, because Europe, for example, is almost all open, and indeed they can conduct online conferences and communicate through them, but they just don’t want and therefore all excuses are thrown at the corona virus.

Agree, the project has an active and professional team so they know what to do in a disaster like this Cov-19 pandemic. Moreover, the Crypto project globally 90% is based online, so it is possible to do it at home. I agree those who give reasons because Cov-19 is a weak project.

I just laugh at some projects giving that excuse of Covid-19. The truth is that they were never strong to launch to the market and only found an evenue to use escape from their investors. Its just but a flimsy excuse.

You aren't wrong, I feel like projects that postponed launch because of the pandemic aren't good enough and are unreliable, the pandemic is taking their veils off them, I'm glad this is happening, we will know which team are more serious

There's nothing wrong postponing the launch if there's a valid reason, in order for people to appreciate the launch, it should be at the right timing.
It does not only happen with the new project, even with big projects which are already popular in the market did the same, we can take ETH for that as an example, but then, people are still confident investing with the project.

here; https://www.coindesk.com/vitalik-buterin-says-much-delayed-ethereum-2-0-still-on-track-for-july-launch

It was already delayed and let's see if it will be launch next month.

I am not trying to defend some aspiring projects but some of them have no fund at all just ideas and stuff, and with this crisis, there are only few investors around, some people save their money for their family expenses, Only projects that can launch an IEO on top exchanges like Binance are successful that can raise a decent amount. But you have some point the development should be continued at least but I guess some founder can't pay their developers either.

You are right and wrong as well.
You are right because it is indeed that they can continue their development even if they are far from each other, however, there are some cases that even without a travel history this year still having this covid-19. We don't know their situation right now, so, you just have to understand them since they are human as well. Maybe this is their excuse, but I think it is justifiable because the whole world is really affected.

You are right and wrong.

We don't know the reasons behind why they will stop.
What if, they are going through problems making their employees work from home or whatever that could continue the project?
All are scared now to be infected.
I just hope they could explain it in a right way not a way for escape.

I believe that you are absolutely true, because many
  developers justifies their failure by the coronavirus pandemic. Today, despite quarantine and self-isolation, governments continue to manage their state, and most international organizations conduct video conferences from a distance, even at home, and not just in their workrooms. Thus, almost all developers can continue to work on their project, without any delays or problems.
Nevertheless, it is really necessary to recognize that new projects are faced with a lot of difficulties and problems that the team cannot cope with at the present time and the corona virus in some cases may not be to blame.

The top of unreal excuses I've heard - "today or this is not the best time for cryptocurrency on market" or "the market is going through hard times". So the project need to extent ICO, make new rounds of IEO, extend bounty campaign and etc. Like today is not a good day for crypto, but tomorrow or in a month...
Cant imagine what could be worse than this. Doubt that the whole project team are market analytics, that besides doing an analysis, develops something using blockchain technology.

"This is not the best time to for crypto" - but the hell you are running ICO/IEO or even developing something. :D

What an excuse? They are fake projects and have nothing to think they will succeed but they're destined to die sooner.
I don't how if the people will take a look at their excuses and considered it valid because for me (probably most) never think it becomes a reasonable excuse but a dead lie. How I supposed to think that they will tell the truth maybe people will think differently could give them sympathy unlike hiding their big lies to the community and the investors.

Many fake projects are using this pandemic as their excuse, because of it, they now have an easy way out to leave their project especially those who are in the development stage. You are right, they are just making an excuse as their escape plan.

It's definitely a fake excuse but what will be their gain if they failed to launch project? Maybe they've already raised fund through IEO launchpad? That's the only reason for them to use this pandemic as excuse and maybe never come back

If the project team uses this pandemic reason for not paying, then they already have the intention from the beginning not to pay, and talk maybe, it could happen but it could also not happen so the team chose to remain silent.

In as much I do not believe in investing in many of the new projects, I strongly think your assertion is wrong. Many investors take money from what they earn from paid employment to invest in crypto project and since the pandemic has started alot of people have been receiving pay cut while some labour force are even sacked meaning individual won't be able to earn the way they do before as such affect their involvement in participating in crypto investment project

for this reason many investors have now stopped investing in new projects. maybe only projects that do IEO on the top exchange can still be trusted. Pandemic made scammers out easily

Maybe new project makers think that because of the impact of this pandemic most investors prefer to secure their funds to be backed up, it will automatically become an obstacle in raising funds (ICO / IEO). So they prefer to postpone their project than if it is forced it will result in the sale of tokens will be reduced as a result of the reasons above.

This is such a bad excuse, although there are projects who are already doing that one of them is The Geomadao, although they have a good excuse and already distributed the token, and they are not yet holding an IEO, but they need to strike while the iron is hot, if the project is good people will be interested to invest and push the project.

I'm thinking that projects that used this pandemic to make excuses are already through with their IEO on exchanges, go back and checked if this is true because it seems their aims was the money they raised from the IEO all along

Only projects that have bad intention from the start will use this pandemic as an excuse, it doesn't make any sense, some projects are even so cruel that they don't keep their social media channels opened

You may be right but u can't say you totally wrong, during this pandemic period, I saw many projects on altcoin bounties section requesting for promotion, can that be said they exhibit unreal excuses?  Some might be real and scam but DYOR can save you, at the same time, some intelligent teams need physical meet-up for better clarifications on projects while COVID19 hits them apart.

At this point, how can we verify whether they are saying the truth or not? We can't deny the fact that the businesses are facing a lot of issues as a result of the pandemic. As of now, there is no way to independently verify their claims. The only thing to do right now is to wait patiently, and hope that they will resume the development work once the pandemic gets contained.

The fact is they are holding a crowdfunding in the middle of the pandemic and yet this is their excuse for an escape plan, it's really a bad idea to support projects in this pandemic, because they have an excuse to go vacation because they have investors money already, and we are left hoping that they will continue the project.

To limit the chances of getting the virus they have to distance themselves and to continue working they have to work from home, I'm positive that this is what other active teams are doing presently but saying that they can't continue work because of the pandemic is red flag

Average projects are taking this advantage as excuses in this pandemic. Without top exchange, every project has a fear of gaining success. So some new projects are planning to postpone their IEO until the finish effect of covid-19. Good projects don't care about the situation. For me, I think this is the perfect time to develop the main product.

according to my observations, since the advent of COVID-19 has had both positive and negative impacts on the crypto industry. especially positive is related to the adoption of crypto, people are starting to be interested and participate in taking part in crypto, online work is needed now. the negative thing, maybe it's like it's hard to raise project funds and people are experiencing an economic crisis.

So true...everything is much easier working here in cryptoworld digitally. But still, there's a lot of failed projects that left the workers so disappointed. We cannot really avoid that here, or anywhere. Some excuses were unjustifiable, but we must also try to understand that this Pandemic affects all sectors and industries globally. So, whatever their reason behind their failed campaigns, we just leave it from them with respect. After all, there's still a lot of bounty projects which is more active, promising and great to work with.

Personally whenever i get to hear some lame excuses from a new project team i really get very discouraged and i start taking that project as scam as it is a red flag to me and most such projects do prove it with time but some of them revive and do well too but in my experience we cannot simply ignore these little things as an investor.

most of them will find any type of excuse just to delay and delay the developments of their project...
 and with this covid pandemic, this is a perfect excuse that they are waiting for. but smart people know better. most blockchain projects dont need physical meetups among developers. thats the benefit of having all kinds of social media channels and all the other sophisticated communication apps out there. if they are serious on their project, they will work on it. but if not, you will see it crystal clear. and when you see one, run away as far as possible. dont look back because that one is not worth your time and resources

Everything can be done via online even if social distancing would be strictly implemented for team members not able to meet up personally then with the current technology we do had.

They can still accomplish things up via messaging app or other tools online. Everything is available when it comes to communication aspect thats why theres no reason for a team behind

in a particular project would have that kind of alibi due to covid 19 because they can still possible resume out the development in this kind of situation.

Exactly! covid-19 has become the scapegoat of others here in crypto space. They use it as an excuse exposing themselves as incompetent team and nothing but a confirmed scammers.

Scammers would alwayd find a way to take advantages from the globl crisis. We faced this many times before.

Even though this pandemic does not know when it will end, I think it is just their reason, so that they can take away investors' money, I have seen this reason in several projects, even they also delayed the distribution of bounty's coins.

I think another way. I think this pandemic somehow affects their ability to pay and distribution the bounty coins. I have to admit that there are a lot of shit projects use this pandemic as an excuses. However, can't say that all the projects are the same. I still have faith in projects that I'm following. Part of it because I did my research and I believe in my analysis!

Somehow you're quite right, OP.
But I don't think that people are too busy creating such schemes to scam people although I would also be cautious when I invest into a project now.
Pretty much they don't have the money to plan these.
There are still difficulties that are possibly to be encountered when making projects through digital communications, as not all areas have the same bandwidth anyway.

You don't need anything in the real world to build a blockchain project, with internet connection and computer you will get things up and running, projects that failed to launch might have different reasons but stating that the pandemic is the real reason makes me see how bad the project team are

Very extraordinary, because what we entrust is certainly based on the research we have done in depth on the project that we like today, because if we only talk about the pandemic and the reasons for the team not willing to pay, maybe everyone has also felt it at this time.

Your statement is very true, because the crypto world is not so bad impact from Covid-19 because to design a project we only need the digital world and nowadays even more and more are anchored by digital world because Covid-19, if there is currently a team that says fail a project because Covid-19 then it is very absurd.

You are right, still don't understand why most of the project keeps using covid as an excuse, some serious projects are doing well, developing everyday and showing their community they are here to make impacts, if covid is not stopping projects like Hex, Kai, Oks, covid truly does not disturb cryptocurrency.

We are already in the digital age, and in terms of blockchain projects, one only needs internet to keep going.
If they are worried about communication with other members, all available social media apps are at their fingertips.
So yes, if the team is sincere in developing their platform, they can do that at the comfort of their home.
Unless, they are manufacturing a product that needs physical presence on the site.
Otherwise, they can pretty much develop their app on their own.

If they really want to improve they could do it no matter what there are people who could continue to work even on this pandemic,
It isn't an excuse unless their worker are the one's who are affected with the virus.
There are still a lot of people who are working online so why would they make the pandemic an excuse for their lack of improvement?
But if it is about the funds then I think we could all agree that it is really hard to reach the minimum cap of a new project since investor doesn't trust them so easily nowadays.

good projects continue to evolve during the lockdown, distance is not a career in this digital age. There are a lot of tools that make working remotely possible with accurate measurement of delivery and it impact. It is not an excuse at all

Remember most of the times, launching a new project requires funds, now if a new project is yet to raise funds for development, they will likely extend everything to give enough room for future success. But if a project has already gotten the funds and yet can't launch while using the pandemic as an excuse then it shows something is wrong because every now and then projects are coming up, projects are getting listed while some projects are already expanding their network and ecosystem.

We do not know what conditions have made them stop developing, but I know that so many activities have stopped because of this pandemic. in addition, this condition also allows them to be limited in their movements, such as wanting to leave the city or country, or other matters. Well, maybe the process will be slow, but it won't stop them if they really intend to perfect their project.

This is a case to case basis because some project markets involves a physical contact like PR. Not all new project are focused on the product development since some of them already finished the product development before they launch IEO/ICO. But I agree that most of the new project are using this pandemic to slack off in the project development.

I think it will be a good idea if OP just list all the new project he know that using this kind of excuse even though they can work from home amidst of pandemic.

I think what makes them stop the project is because the market is not moving well, which makes them delay or cancel the project until the market situations are back normal. Besides that, I think many people of their teams can not work as before because of the Covid-19 pandemic, so that will be another reason they stop developing their project. But the other project that is not getting the effect the virus still runs their project to pass every step of their plan.

A project sometimes has to use real action in the procedure. For example the EndChain project, a project delivering the goods must require real action. But yes, their main payment uses digital coins.

I see some good project still developing their project while this pandemic is on. Maybe the project didnot continue or postponed have an good excuse. But, i think if the project have a good fundamental they can survive this pandemic and launch their project.

The pandemic shouldn't be holding any crypto project from launching, it sounds somehow in the ear unless the project use case is base on people getting together which is rare, every thing about crypto project is doable online without getting together.

Some people actually need to make physical contact like when building data centres. That cannot be done digitally. Some really do need facial contact with their partner to iron one or two things out.

when they still have a strong desire to continue the project I think they will be able to survive and pass this time. but some projects just stopped and disappeared from the community. it is part of a bad new project.

That makes complete sense. I am in a IT company myself and we are having work from home due to which the company is not suffering huge losses as compared to other industries where companies are suffering huge losses. So in my opinion these new projects should have no problems until they are developing the product online. Only those companies which have physical product and needs to be present at the site of work should be impacted.
They are just giving lame excuses to delay the project.

They are all ungenuine excuses, there is a lot of software to work remotely, most projects are launching their mainnet during this pandemic and they even work longer hours during this lockdown.

You have a point here but sometimes physical collaboration is required to attain a goal. We all know most crypto projects have teams in various parts of the world and even before covid19 outbreak some team members hardly get to meet in person whilst fostering project development. The annoying part about new projects giving excuses about covid19 is when they run token sale during this same covid19 era, then when it comes to kickoff development, marketing and listing with part of the raised funds they give excuses. The big question is, why do token sale if they are not ready for the project actualization 🤔.

There are a couple of projects that I participated in are now saying that we have to take a hiatus from the project because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. I have no problem waiting for development but I fear the company might run out funds. If they decide to wait out the situation.

once the team starts reasoning like that, you can already consider they are scam. we have seen them many times before since 2018. i have joined some signature campaigns that just wasted our time. and only to find out these developers are also known to have scammed before. 

i'm just glad that i have not invest to them but only join the campaign. joining their channel will make you think they are legit but once they start avoiding questions, you will already feel like they are like any other scams.

I think it's a silly move, because the crypto-currency project in the midst of this pandemic is an opportunity to attract investors, many good projects come during a pandemic, and the price of crypto currencies is also getting better now. who knows what they think

What you said is actually true. Most of the projects I have encountered (whether if I’m an investor or just an airdrop or bounty participant) have COVID-19 as the main reason to put a “halt” to their campaigns or not paying or compensating us for our efforts.

Why would it be a conflict if everything is digital and can be done online?

It’s not really a good “excuse” for them to make COVID-19 a reason for their so-called “delays” or pausing the campaign “until further notice”. Project developments can be done at the front of the monitor, especially apps. We don’t need to meet face-to-face in order for the project to become successful.

Most of the ICOs, IEOs, etc., have their projects mostly online (unless they do have physical MVPs that required them to move around the city or something like that). It’s not an excuse if they can’t do some sort of a physical collaboration. They should think outside of the box by going digital collaboration, as we are entering into the new normal.

Look at the conferences right now. They’re going digital and it didn’t stop them from making the virtual conference a success. Same thing goes to these new startups, ICOs, IEOs, etc., where making excuses like this only made them weak and not worth investing or promoting.

Yeah I think you are right knowing the fact there are software can be used to communicate with one another and still be able to work on their own the project would still develop day by day as like what you said they would be able to work even longer hours so it means that the projects will be having a little more of progress than its previous time frame of development.

There is different between not launching a project but keeping the community alive and not launching a project and no sign of teams on telegram channel and social media channels, these are two different things completely, still Cov-19 isn't an excuse but if it thus happened they must keep their channel opened and active

In my time in crypto there were moments when I was thinking "I saw it all!", and usually right after that kind of thoughts something new surprises me. It's never boring in crypto, to read about good stuff and unreal excuses, but hey this is the internet after all, we should get used to that by now. But just for the record, you can't generalize this, sometimes some good people have real excuses! Some people you can trust and you need to give them more time if they need it, learn how to make a difference between good and bad!

As you know the pandemic has destroyed everything in the world, it has affected also some new projects. However, there are still some projects which are still developing while the pandemic. There are a lot of programs, which you can use for meeting each other and continuing your project. If you really want to do it, you will find the solution of doing it. We can realize that which one of the projects is valuable for investing in.

This is also good for the community as well, what if they would have listed on the exchange or could have succeeded with their ICO and then they would have taken the investors money with them while fleeing. So this is actually really good as only those projects will now stay that are having real long term goals and not the ones which are in the market for the money of the investors and don't want to do anything innovative for the community. These are purely my ideas, I would like to hear what others have to say about this.

You cannot judge anything here in common. This is definitely a case to case scenario but we need to accept almost everywhere the progress of works is being delayed because of pandemic conditions. We must need to accept the reality even they are providing lame excuses. I agree there are a lot of facilities are available right now to work for a team even with social distancing. Currently I am not working for any bounty, this may be the reason why I could not really get what kind of frustration you are facing on.

But by the times of 2018/2019, when I was working for bounties, I had come across many of such excuses like they are delaying for some reason due to unavailability of something and many more; but I got any other option except bearing them. So, this is just a common scenario every bounty hunter usually face; you just need to bear and then move on because this is how usually system works here.

I think their excuse works if they are working in an office all together but had to go back home and that is why they failed. But I feel like when you are doing an ICO, everything can be done at home as well, which is why I do not think it is as realistically a trouble as they make it out to be. Unreal excuses will be everywhere, there is a saying that goes "excuses are a lot like a--holes, everyone has one" and that is true in this instance as well.

I feel like people are failing to realize that and that causes these people to get away with it. If you are doing ICO, you should take everything into consideration, plus covid-19 has been around for almost 6 months now around the world and at least 4 months since it became big, so whatever you had to do, you should have done it already.

Its been a casual stuff and it wont be surprising if they would make excuses out of this pandemic situation.Come to think that they do even delay in normal days, how much more if we are already experiencing global issues?

For sure they will surely make it as a cover up once again on making things being delayed or shall we say that they didnt even intend to do on what must they have to do in the first place.

This is why i dont really mind much or already in ignore when it comes to bounty hunting.

the reality of these new projects is something scary and it started since 2017.

People decide that they will be entrepreneurs and arrive here at Bitcointalk they create an ANN Thread and they are very attentive, but when they collect money they disappear from Bitcointalk and go to Twitter, then they start traveling everywhere in Europe and America under the argument that they are looking for partnerships. I get really angry about this

look at many projects of 2017 and you will see that the creators haven't done any post on ANN Thread in years

At this moment no one is expected to use COVID-19 as an excuse to launch or get things done on their project. The good and serious project will keep getting things done no matter what.

If they want to continue their project and make it succeed there's always a way to do it as long as the team is determine to push it through despite of the pandemic, as op said zoom app is useful to communicate and make a plan.

Well its not unusual to see a projects failing or turning to scam because even without virus its already happening. This pandemic is just an excuse to people when something bad happen to their project.

There are many ways to get your project completed even when the members are from different countries and even in lockdown as well, you can have zoom meets or can do discussions on slack, telegram or discord channels. The projects are just trying to delay the working product until it is listed on an exchange and then dump the tokens reserved for the development team on the buyers who are thinking that the projects are having some life in it. Although some projects might be having a genuine problem where their development team might have been infected from COVID or any other genuine reason, but the main thing that keeps your customers with you is transparency and care towards them, if you give your 100% then the investors and customers will always support you too.

It appears covid-19 has now become a perfect excuse for project to bail out on supporters and investors, like the op already pointed out, the team don't need to be under the same roof to get things done, thanks to app like zoom, meeting and conference are carried out with less stress, so what is the excuse!

yes that's right because project work is not bound by time and place, we can do it at home if indeed the project is constrained because of COVID-19, it is just an excuse to postpone the ongoing project.

Your strategy definitely makes sense, but you know, what I would also say - it is not easy to find multiple solutions that meet requirements. What I mean is evaluating the factors. From my point of view, platform must be advanced, innovative, reliable and, of course, bring real and practical value.

Afternoon there. Absolutely so and I fully agree with you that it is not easy to find several solutions that widen the horizons and set new standards on the industry. Talking about you, are there many solutions you can recommend in general?

Nope, I wouldn't say so. I am only having 2 or 3 most attractive ones I am following. And latest discovery I would definitely recommend everyone to have a look at - Centric Foundation. Have you already heard of such a solution? Cause you know, in here guys are setting entirely new standards on the field

Centric Foundation? It seems that I haven't heard of it before, can you please provide more details on what the solution stays for? Can you elaborate?

Yes. Centric is the world's first dual-cryptocurrency payment network. Its innovative and unique concept is engineered to achieve breakthrough as a reliable form of payment. And they are available on 4 exchanges including Bittrex. But better Google them to check more

The truth is most of these devs weren't here to do anything tangible and that's why a lot of them use the perfect excuse of COVID19 as a bail out, this is common to project that raise quite some funds prior to the pandemic. There's actually one that i invested in, they last social media update was in 23rd of april, i hope they come back

Most excuses is that they can’t launching exchanges because there is a lockdown and other excuses lol. But, the same exchanges are still functioning and I wonder why the lockdown is stopping them. Or do they really need to take transport to the exchange head quarters and launch their project there?

As for some of them even taking excuses that they can’t continue work because all their workers are no longer coming to the office lol, when there are lots of companies that are working remotely these days, even before the pandemic started I have worked for a few companies that are not in the same country that I live in. Most of the works that are being done on cryptocurrency is programming and this can be done from anywhere.

To find a new solution needs a lot of R&D and it can't be done instantly. Mostly projects were also copying the idea and they were adding more features or improvements to make it looks different from one to each other. It's only scam project that used covid as major excuse and the trusted project never try to do that.

I have to agree to this opinion lol! The cryptocurrency market is the most digitalized market. We don't necessarily need an office or facility to work. Developing a project on the cryptocurrency market only requires the plan and the combination works of some people (that totally can communicate using the internet). There's no reason to stop developing a project but excuses!

It sounds stupid that team failed to launch projects because teams can't come to the office again because of Coronavirus, honestly why need an office for a blockchain project? Every thing is still possible to achieve because to build the project isn't the work of the office itself, it definitely a lame excuse

I cant agree more with your points. The real deal is every real project out there wouldn't use the pandemic as an excuse except their team member is affected of which there should be a quick but not so immediate replacement. I feel every project that boldly come out to announce delay for reasons like COVID-19, doesn't have a functioning team and not worth my time

Let's all accept the fact that COV19 disturbs many new projects whom are supposed to launch in early March but what about now? The cases have died down a bit, better than in March but what about adaptation? Yes,right now I expect teams to have find a way to continue development or launch their projects right under their roofs, how is this impossible?

The excuses were just too much, and yet there were projects (top projects though) still proceeding with their development timeline while some new projects are busy giving excuses and even till now that the pandemic restrictions has slowed down, they are still not working on achieving their aims and objectives. You know, when people tends to stay away from new projects or rather get involved just for the "quick profit" they will get it looks as if they don't know what they are doing while in fact they are doing the right thing. The fact will still remain that most new projects will continue with this nature while already developed projects will continue developing while attracting more users.

COVID-19 is a common excuse for scam projects - they just play for time saying they stopped the development because of the virus. Contrariwise, good projects continue development using modern communication channels like Zoom and Slack.

I'm seen many new projects get launched this year, enough to make me judge others who failed to launch, I can't help but think that the team aren't capable to begin with, stay away from projects that failed to launch project because of cov19, it's a stupid excuse

Yes, now if there is still a project team that argues that the project failed because of cov19, it is a project team that does not have the ability to run the project, meaning they still need to learn more to succeed the project in its current condition.

Look guys just get practical and get real and accept that these projects are mainly scams and are using the pandemic as an excuse. Since when did blockchain projects do things differently anyway,,, they were always remote and developers always coded from home or from a computer anyway so nothing changes!

All you need to get a blockchain project running is a roof on your head and a computer with internet connection, that's all, any projects claiming that this pandemic is why they failed to launch is a scam project, the pandemic is just exposing them

If the announcement was made on February or March, then at least by July of 2020, much has already been made so that the development of these said projects would have continued and investors be assured that it will not affect anything that they have invested in the project. Now, as many are stating here that most of these projects are digital in nature and therefore are online and should not be affected by a pandemic, I would disagree a bit on that. Because projects are run by people and people need to do their physiological needs and therefore they buy food, go out, and someone along the way might give them sickness and that will definitely affect the project. If the project is done 100% by robots and A.I. then I might agree, but the projects are still administered and managed by fragile humans.

You're right mate, many projects that would have helped move the market forward in terms of bullish momentum are down with covid-19. Personally, I heard about some good projects which were pulsed as a result of this pandemic, many cryptocurrency submit that should have taken place before now are in their hiddens, this has caused may harm than good to this cryptocurrency market. But we should wait for post pandemics: doubles for our troubles

Absolutely right. I know a lot of new projects that are successfully developing their product in spite of the pandemic. I am sure that the biggest part of the projects use coronavirus as a reason to steal investor money

Yes, many successful projects these days have proven those who are pessimistic about new crypto projects in correlation with the present pandemic. Irrespective of what is happening now, cryptocurrency is still one of the safest means of having a profitable investment. In fact, new project developers should know very well that there are now influx of investors than what we had before the pandemic.

For the most part, it's an excuse.
True, covid has closed the possibility to do conventions and public speaking on behalf of the project, but even pre-covid, maybe 5% of the projects actually did this.

Although most of the projects call them the best projects, most of them do not have any real planning and experience in developing a strong cryptocurrency community. In fact, they have no plans for the future and only want to enter the cryptocurrency market on a fictitious basis. As a result, most investors are not interested in investing in these projects. As a result, most of these projects fail and as an excuse, they give various unrealistic reasons. A good quality project is always acceptable to investors and people invest in it. So it is natural that projects made for the purpose of fraud will show different excuses. Coronavirus epidemic has reduced the amount of investment in various projects, but good projects have been relatively successful.

Some projects choose to continue after the spread of this Virus expires. Projects like Insure choose to temporarily not continue the bounty work. Even they will promise to return to continue the Bounty project this month. Unfortunately, this kind of thing made it disappointed with the bounty hunters, many of them leaving the project. Prefer projects that continue to run in the middle of a global pandemic.

This pandemic does make a big impact. However, there are many projects that continue their duties. Moreover, there are now many crypto coins that start going up.

Just forget it if any projects you waiting for claimed they can't launch because of Coronavirus, they will never do better even if they launch later, they are teams with excuses, believe me they will never be serious with anything

If I think about it, then I come with an idea that only cryptocurrency-start-ups are enjoying the "free" time connected to the current COVID-19 situation. As you said, they excuse because COVID-19, but the reality is different. All cryptocurrency projects could completely operate online, they even do not have a physical location. So tell me, why they can´t work on the project development?  ::)

That's what I said that even if the team used to meet on a physical location prior to the lockdown and pandemic now they can do the meetings online and have work done. The only problem is gonna be with those clients or investors who actually want to meet with the team personally, in that case they would have to let go of the investor or at least make him agree to come to some conclusion. The rest projects are just scam who are making an excuse of the lockdown in order to not do the work that they were given.

To get a blockchain project up and running you don't need your team to be on a round table or something, their presence is not important, all it requires is your Laptop and internet connection, if you have to speak with your team you can use any video calling apps, there are few of this apps available

There are projects that have been focused on implementation in the real sector of the economy. for example, the music industry. It suffered very much and also blockchain projects that were created with the aim of introducing into the music industry. not everyone lies. but the biggest part

That's the sign of a bad project—blaming everything else except for their lack of performance.

If you head into any trash project Telegram group, you'll find that they are completely full of excuses—bad market, coronavirus, not enough money, the failures of their partners etc.

You will rarely find a project actually taking responsibility for their failures, admitting that the challenge was harder than they thought of they simply weren't equipped to deal with it.

I'd be more inclined to believe a project that owns up to its failures, than offloads them to others. At least they have learned their limitations.

It seems that your advice is very good to carry out, but real meetings in a team are also needed although not too often, because the meeting can facilitate communication and strengthen the friendship within a team.

Undoubtedly, it is better to communicate and make an appointment in person, especially when it comes to business. but based on the situation in which the whole world is today, an exception can be made and gathered at a videoconference. In any case, I also think that there is a very weak excuse for developers, citing quarantine problems. In addition, today many countries are renewing air travel, as well as other transport connections.

Even after the lockdown the new projects registered to have delays. Let's say it was a practice even before the emergency of having these delays, it is not a new thing. Even the best designs always run smoothly

real projects will continue to grow even though we are in a pandemic, for the scammers project will have an illogical reason and make covid as an excuse, it is done to escape and bring in investor money

This is not a generalized issue since some new projects are still kicking off with development. However any project giving excuses with regards the pandemic should not be entirely blamed, it truly affected many spheres of life. What if a project wants to develop a hardware device, obviously this lockdown will affect it. But this doesn't stop the software aspect of development and/or team meetings. Zoom is there for team discussions.

Many projects scammed with this excuse but never cared to refund investors. I would say it was purpose and it's from scammers. I don't think how listing on exchange shouldn't be executed by someone that's living. There's different between business and outbreak of course I understand once someone's person is affected the person would be troumaticed but we all have CMO , advisors to carry on etc. Any project that used it as excuse is probably a scam.

Although the global pandemic caused by covid -19 affected the world's economy and perhaps in-turn affects investors who would have loved to invest in some projects but that is not enough excuse for projects who claimed to have  a strong  team on ground to fail. So many excuses and some developers hide under the excuse of the pandemic to abandon their projects to the detriment of investors.

For me as a bounty hunter i can handle my emotion even if i participated in some new project without knowing that it is scam and i earn nothing and sometimes bounty works is really wasted because of scam projects, but in my part i see that the most affected is the number of investors that already invested into scam project because they loss thier funds and that was really devastating. So i think we need to search the project and its legitimacy before doing an investment for good.

Initially when setting up the team or some huddles and challenges which may be frequent during the starting days, I would prefer team in place with me and so that quickly it can be brainstorm and close it. Yes, once the team is old and have spent time together for a while later on like in this lockdown, we can manage to do the thing via the skype or video calls, or have the zoom meeting for the updates etc.

You should look at real life, even after cov19 lockdown, many places simply can't go back to back to business like the used to. Cryptocurrency or digital business is the same, some might did better than before but not are all of them.

If they are giving proper updates and keeping the investor money safe, then I won't complain much. A lot of the work can be done online, but we can't ignore the fact that everyone is going through hard times. Even while working online, the work can get affected by the pandemic. The developers may not be able to work, either due to infection or due to containment measures. Then they may face difficulties in getting the necessary licenses and permits.

I have seen this excuse over and over again by bands of unserious people who call themselves project team. Covid 19 has in no way affects cryptocurrency both positively and negatively.

I don't see any reason why. First the concept of cryptocurrency is to go digital which means virtual transactions so cryptocurrency has been prepared for Covid 19 since 2009.

Projects with physical products also don't have excuse not to launch because there are means to transact virtually. Any project using Covid 19 would still fail with or without the pandemic. They are mostly scam projects who have seen open opportunity to justify their scam.

There are so many project today that is new and in the long run they become a scam projects, that is why we need to make a research first with regards to the team for us to avoid the problem, some of the scam project are always making an excuses until they all gone and get the investors money.

I'm still surprised at the way some projects will just come up with a make up story about themselves, given people false hope and believe that they are good project with lot of prospects. At the same time, one shouldn't be that surprise because most of the so called new projects are run by scammers with want to scam bounty hunters of their hard earned coin. I have decided to pay less attention to any untrue story about any coin. I do my research very well about any coin. And have been doing a great job in that area.

Projects that make it as an excuse to stop the development of the project, postpone the listing, and so on under the pretext of a pandemic, I think is a project that is not confidential and does not have a strong strategy. Really serious projects should not choose to give up and leave, but look for the right solutions and strategies to attract stronger market interest. Even if they choose to stop, at least there is an option to return investors' funds, in fact it is very rare. Most run away and disappear, irresponsible.

Not because the pandemic causes a lot of new projects to be failed but it doesn't mean that COVID-19 has no market effects in their developmental phase because it could still affect ( for those legit only).

I'm not saying you were wrong but I don't agree that 90% ( it could be 95%) is an untrue story about pandemic issues. Most of them face such failure because they are shit and scamming projects, even before and even without COVID-19, it still looks like this. They made just their excuses to fool people and put all the blame because of the pandemic but in reality,

I think the pandemic can be one of the factors also because from the beginning there have been many projects that have failed and after that it was added to the pandemic spreading of the corona virus which ultimately made the economy more devastated and difficult to survive many people who died from various countries.

It is also hard to get daily necessary since in someplace lockdown also has limited time to get food or order it. Most people like OP didn't like under lockdown when the pandemic going rampant and lack of understanding for other people's hardship.

Especially after the ICO madness, we have seen that many projects have failed and some of them have made excuses by making excuses. Today, it is a bit of a crime for us investors that all events can continue in this way, because it is clear that new projects will enter our lives as long as these projects are financed. While the reason for many projects not being implemented before was bad market conditions, the fact that the pandemic process we are in today is being used as an excuse is not really valid reasons. It is certain that projects that usually hide behind such excuses will not be successful anyway, but these project teams still want to try their luck during the fundraising process. We should not forget that it does not matter consciously or unconsciously, as long as many investors provide financing for new projects, the projects that will end with such results will not end.

With the second wave looming as people don't take social distancing and lockdown seriously, do you think the same excuse will resurface? No, these unreal excuses as you said are very much real and if it was hard for them to keep in contact or meeting to work on projects, they have every right to said so.

That is true. Just look what these developers have to lose... Nothing! They don't put any money from their pockets on these projects to pay promoters. They are just paying worthless tokens created from thin air.
Meanwhile bounty hunters are losing time promoting projects that can be aborted at any time justified by any shameless excuse. But I can't blame solely developers. If these scams are still running it's because there are still bounty hunter applying to join them... If there weren't anyone, projects would have to raise their standards and pay at least minimum decent rates to their promoters. And having to pay something worthful, scammers would think twice before launching their coins.

If they excuse about covide-19 situtation, be careful probably they are getting time to exit scam. I saw it many times, team starts make excuses for the crisis, but I didn´t see any ICO that has real physical entrepreneurship.  :D

I wouldn't say that we can be talking about all altcoins at once. From my point of view, much depends on the concrete platform/token and its particular prospects. And it is important to differentiate. Because again, only own and concrete analysis allows to get an objective overview

I have similar views here. And talking about you, are there many promising tokens and platforms you are now following and can recommend? I only have 2 or 3 most advanced ones I am aware of, so always interesting to get a real recommendation

The one I can definitely recommend you to have a look at is Clintex io. This is entirely new standards on the field with really saturated roadmap

Exciting, but can you please share more details on the solution, please?

ClinTex are a solution provider to the pharmaceutical industry, and the team behind CTi – Clinical Trials Intelligence: a new type of software platform aimed at transforming the medicine development industry through the application of predictive analytics, machine learning, and the novel use of blockchain technology and smart contracts in clinical trials. And you should have a look at their website - clintex. io, Google

Who cares about giving out worthless tokens, what scammers are doing is to promote the project and you get plenty of people doing that and they are only looking to raise more money and then start again with a new name, this is the kind of scam we used to see from the start and people who join the projects without any background verification will suffer. To start a project the amount of money anyone need to spend is minimal and all you need is an attractive website, so expect scammers to come up with innovative ways.

Exactly, it's too easy for scammers. Their only *loss* are these worthless tokens.
But I mean if bounty hunters claimed to be paid in decent crypto currencies, developers would have to make a larger initial investment to run their projects, what would make many scammers give up using icos to earn money and deceive people, as they would have to really invest resources from their pockets into the project. However, as you said and I agree, scammers always come up with innovative ways... But it can't be an excuse for people on the other side stop fighting them back!

It's true that we should continue fighting scammers despite how clever and sophisticate their tricks are. However, I don't agree if anyone blame on bounty hunters for the exist of scammers. As a bounty hunter, I feel so sad when I hear that. Bounty hunters always do their best when doing research to choose which projects they will join. When the project turn to be a scam one, bounty hunters got scam also. They pay their work, their time and their money into a scam project just like you! Do not blame anyone but yourself when you got into a scam!

In the first place, covid has nothing to do with the New projects in cryptocurrency space. Yes, you were right we are in digital industry and all are applicable in digital way also. So if there are some projects like what you stated in the above, that means they are only showing unrealistic reason for this matter.

So far we have some many active projects now and that's because the market is moving up although some of the projects I've promoted are not yet launching their platform or doing enough marketing or update on their channels I consider these projects as dead projects already.

Many failed projects will surely use the current pandemic as an excuse for their lack of progress, but serious projects will likely do even more work in these troubled times than during usual circumstances. I noticed that some of the projects temporarily closed off their Telegram account because of the COVID-19, giving their community even more reasons for doubting the intentions of the team.

This is absolutely correct but we can also not forget the fact that some project need to put some hardwares in place to power their projects. Now with COVID-19 that the borders are close, get such hardwares is impossible. I know of a project who claims every about their project is set except their data centre which requires some hardware which they cannot transport at the moment.

well, actually it is from the policy of each project that it is true that there should be no problem because projects in crypto are digital-based but for some projects there may have to be real development, so some projects postponed or delayed their schedule because of this pandemic.

There are so many progressed project in this pandemic that waits for no excuses, the manin fctir to be considered us consistency, practicing thstvwiuld actually brings project to a higher peak, projects keeps delaying and postpone their schedules of things is basically suspicious to be a scamming one. There are lots of project out there that that have no intention of keeping their promised thereby using bounty hunters a means of promoting their scammy ideas.

if I see now the pandemic does not prevent new projects from being launched, many new projects are coming during this pandemic,
and therefore IEO or Defi is now Hype, don't blame it because the Pandemic

Crypto communities are now doing a lot of drama for profit in a way that can easily escape the problem.  It has been a long time since the crowdfunding system for developing start-ups has a high failure rate.  All developers are good at marketing with the aim of deceiving everyone under the guise of investing.  The white paper looks interesting, when the crowdfund event is very safe, and when the money is collected, they disappear

Right, someone forgets that human or manpower ain't he only thing need to make a project running smoothly. There is hardware or some specific hardware that needs for new crypto projects to work especially if they're involved in utilize the hardware for blockchain. Covid force countries close their border, transport goods took a longer time or even halt. Everyone needs to put some thought before callout that is just excuse.

That is what is happening in their new project, they only launch their actions just to get profits from investors who have invested and what the crowdfunding team is doing is just a constant and after a large value of course they will just disappear.

I am not immediately attracted to a new project with an ordinary background.

you are right, the covid-19 situation can be used as an excuse by the project developer itself, this sounds funny because most of the projects that may already have sufficient funds for further development but they delay and use covid-19 as the main reason.

You're not wrong, they're just faking excuses they can still continue developing their project while social distancing they can still use those apps to communicate and discuss about their project.

Some of it are true and mostly are doing it just to hide the fact that their project is complete failure. I joined this campaign xcard and now they are even gone and no udpate at all. They keep saying before that they will be listed on top exchange but ever since they keep on reasoning that due to covid but even before it happened their project does not have any progress at all. Im not expecting a good outcome anymore from them and decided to forget my promotions for few weeks.

If a project is bound to fail even from the start because of its poor team development then we should not expect anything from it anymore even if they are making another excuses. Covid 19 pandemic has made a lot of troubles but when it comes to online discussions for the project development, it won't be affected anymore by this pandemic. Maybe the project has really no enough funds to sustain for the success of the project so it will surely end up as a failure.

I'm sick and tired of developers putting blame on cov19 for no development and launch of projects while many new projects get into the game after the pandemic starts, this is a stupid excuse and only stupid people will believe such team and developers too

if you come across a new project and the Content doesn't make sense never invest in it there will likely be a scam Or the team promises too much on everything but, when it comes to the development stage nothing was done at all

investors also experience the impact due to covid -19, not all people who have a lot of money become investors, but there are also some ordinary people, if they are more concerned with the need to continue their life than investing in a project that cannot necessarily produce something tangible This choice is right in my opinion. As for any project that was successful during a pandemic, it was clear that the project was supported by a strong team with solid planning.

My thought is the same as well! There are a lot of people who don't even have a choice! They have to find something to invest in order to earn some money. That's why a lot of projects still runs in the pandemic. In my opinion, those people are brave and smart also. Not only projects in the pandemic but also all other projects, those which are successful have to have a strong team with solid plan! Withouth having a strong team and solid plan, a project will not have the initial power to develop!

That looks like just a lame excuse for me. Look other projects, it surely can develop even in this pandemic time.
Big projects like Ethereum won't stop progressing just because Covid-19, so it is depends on the project after all.

Do projects still use "due to covid-19 pandemic situation" excuses? That doesnt look up to date anymore. They need to think of something new.
The summer has already ended, so "trade/investment/development" is weak because everyone are on vacation does not do also.

If it is only related to the development of the project then it is so true but it is about launching then covid 19 has affect on it because the whole world is in economic crisis so people will be less interested to invest on new things that is why legitimate projects are also postponing their launch date due to this and it could bring positive result is the project is really worthy.

To tell you, yes. This excuse is still common for some other projects. It is either they are affected in terms of a lockdown or they end up being infected. This is the excuse that we cannot easily determine if it is true or just an excuse.

As you say, many bullshit projects have left this market and are under the pretext of the covid epidemic. It's funny to hear that, why can't they develop projects when most of their work is through the internet, and there are so many new projects created and successful at the present

The crypto world fully uses online networks that don't meet in person when doing work or exchanges, but why when covid19 seems to be an excuse to stop projects from being listed on exchanges, and some even leave exchanges like BCNEX lost somewhere, this is their bullshit, should the crypto world be used as an alternative to create a real-world replacement project that is temporarily suspended,

I have seen a few projects that say that due to the epidemic, their employees cannot come to the office and the project cannot grow. That would be a very good reason if the epidemic was serious in their country. But many projects have halted bounty because of the epidemic, I don't understand what they think

looks like we have to create a project verification organization that can make sure the project is running, not scam and not real
maybe this will be very interesting because a project that has verified the organization will be very easy to enter the exchanger and its security will be guaranteed

Most projects using covid19 to give excuses either have nothing to offer or lack vision. Development of products most times is done online, except for physical products like machines.

some projects have become a scam projects and make covid19 as excuses. they abandoned their projects. also their token price in matket was dumped, once again they use covid19 as excuse. i agree with you, they can complete the project via online, they will create the digital products in the end anyway.

What about those that have already collect fund from investors and stop development with the excuse of pandemic and that there is no way they could reach to their technical team. Some of them.in the process squander the money of investors and do nothing at the end.

how could xcard be good campaign meanwill till now on there is no activity in their telegram group, evenmore there is no developtment progress at all. better than DIA that still survive in market with good price , the team do important progress to make investors kept their trust and hold token for long term.

yes indeed, when conditions are like this, many project founders try to scam and get a lot of money from the ICO so I think to be able to participate in fundraising you must be careful and as much as possible not to be affected by the bonuses that are given because usually it is is their strategy to get money from investors.

It is just the same, they make lots of excuses just to enjoy the collected money for themselves. They don't even bother to continue their project or make any developments by using the pandemic as their excuse. This is the common scenario we have right now, investors have nothing to do for it since they already have all the money in their hands.

Thye just want to make excuses even to the point those excuses are irrelevant to the situation just to have a reason to get away some common reason reasons are market condition, soft cap did not reach but COVID reasoning when so many projects are still moving are unreasonable, maybe the owner is positive on COVID.

Thats pathetic.
You should have linbked the particular '' project'' to let us see these funny people. It seems that they just found an excuse for silently going away and pulling an sorts of exit scam. Dont get hung up on them , they ar not worth your time, they got your money and now are sitting on it.

Social distancing is not the only thing that harm the development of crypto projects. You should read on reports of various sectors being hit by this pandemic even if they don't require face to face meetings or if they easily allocate workload at home.

Unreal excuses is just a way and/or strategy the team is using to buy time, in some cases the wait may worth it and some cases as well the wait will be a waste of time. While many are giving excuses and blaming covid-19 others are sticking to their platforms plans and today they are further ahead of many. Lastly, this excuse of a thing has just helped the entrie crypto space to know the good and hardworking team.

it was just their trick to delay, the project team tried to find another way by not launching the project during the Covid 19 pandemic because they were worried their project would fail due to a lack of support from investors. but not all of the plans will be real, sometimes whale investors like investing timelessly even during the Covid 19 pandemic, as long as the project runs well, the concept is good and it can also be a project that has a future

That is clearly just an excuse to postpone their project development.
No matter what happens, a good project will always developing, unless their team vanished.
Even in this pandemic era, works can be done from home, so it is weird to say they pause or stop the project because covid19

Well what do you expect from the ICO projects organizer or team? All you can get at first is that the project goes well especially in marketing and even made a fake news just to convince the community that they are doing well in the ICO and everyone who invested will get money fast and easy in investing with them. But of course all of it is not true and it is just a trap for others to fall for it.

However, there are good ICO projects still working well with honest teams. It is just that there are ao many ICO projects and it is so hard to find them.

Obviously covid-19 is not a reason to stop their project, in my opinion the existence of covid-19 is useful for cryptocurrency, they can work at home and find out what cryptocurrency is, if a new project cannot proceed because there is covid-19 , I'm sure they only want investor funds without any plan to have development of their projects

It's not a good excuse, especially when you see many projects have the same excuse for everything wrong in their project. I had a few mistake bounties in the last 6 months, still waiting to be paid, and when that happens I don't think it will worth much, they still complain about Covid and how team members are sick, for all the inactivity from them.

The Covid-19 pandemic is another reason for unscrupulous developers to extend their scam as long as possible. This, of course, does not concern everyone, there are also objective moments in this situation that can get in the way of conscientious developers, but they should be really justified, and not far-fetched.

The presence of covid-19 did not have a big impact on the launch of bounty projects, so I think 90% of projects that fail are not just for this reason. If it is related to funds for project development, it depends on how the team performs in attracting market investment, especially in recruiting investors to join.

I still think Pandemic has its way of containing the development across most sectors. The success seen in online service businesses were developed before such a time for such circumstances and thrived so well. Very few coin were able to get like crytpocurrency did, it was just panic and the market got back so well start the mild bull. The sentiment had change and it is improving with the all the panic sell off in march, we can see how new coins are getting into the market again

Now it seems that covid is the reason for many projects to delay their development and even the old bounty projects have made covid as an excuse for them to postpone payments for the current bounty hunters and in my opinion their reason is completely absurd, because if the team Professionals of course they can develop projects remotely while working in their offices or homes, and it looks like a lot of investors will lose money at this point because the project is not developing at all.

COVID-19 is not the reason for failed projects, it just a bad excuse for bad project.
Just look at the current situation of most crypto projects, we know many good defi projects keep pop out and doesn't affected by covid19.
I hope developers of crypto project won't make their investors disappointed, otherwise people will avoid to invest in crypto again.

So many new projects with use cases that are useless and not real. They just spring out to scam or later exit scam when there use case yield nothing. It's good to understand what you are trying to implement and send out your use case for proper use. Not just a use case for the internet or Whitepaper. So many shitty projects now.

Well, that's just the bullshit of scam projects in this market. Even this market has grown dramatically since the introduction of Covid. And there are a lot of successful new projects this year because they have a good team and lots of investors in it

The pandemic for sure has some level of limitations to project's success, but this doesn't entirely stop a good team from fostering development, unless they are producing a hardware product. Zoom has made it easy for live meetings, hence there is no need for physical team meetings to decide or share ideas on project growth. Most projects build dapps or other software products, which are not affected by the pandemic.

Those projects could be our scam projects list. People's are interested in investing in cryptocurrency in this pandemic when scam projects disagree with running projects. Still some projects are afraid of ICO when Coinmarketcap already hit 360 billion, only half of 2018 pump.

Some of these projects are becoming too obvious. A lot of projects are popping up during the pandemic but some are making the pandemic as an excuse to not deliver. Unreal.

There are many such projects in the market. In the beginning, they do the right thing As its IEO starts and runs ICO, etc. When they collect a lot of money Then they lie He is shutting down his project because of the  COV19 And with all the funds, they disappear I estimate 95% of such projects, In this case, you have to be very careful.

yes, usually just following the current trend without thinking about the real use case and ultimately causing the token to be worthless. let's say as you said about covid and finally there was a team that developed the covid 19 token. I think that's an unnecessary thing to do because it will only cause hype and it will end up being wasted. If you want to participate in a trend that is happening for example in Covid, use existing coins like Bitcoin or Etherum if you really want to make a donation. yes, because creating a new project in the middle of a trend without a real use case will make it difficult for the project to develop.

if you come across a project for reasons that don't make sense or white paper makes no sense then the project is most likely a scamer and you have to stay away don't invest in it, i am sure of it

Distance should not be used as an excuse for something, now it is in its sophisticated  era that far away can be close to face to face by making video calls, Many applications that provide that are the reason because the distance for me is not quite right 

If the team are serious about their projects they will not stopped the projects progress and giving a lot of excuses. Its only show the team strength not to give up on the projects to make sure the projects succeed. Investors like projects that has a strong team behind their projects.

Scammers was always giving excuse after fail their project. It's not a new thing and At this moment, they add Covid-19 in their list which is greater excuse for this year. I've experienced lots of project, some of them postponed their token sell, some of them lazying for development to their project even some of them cancle the whole project by showing lame excuse of corona virus when others are going ahead with their projects without any trouble

You cannot say for a fact that all of these failed projects are using the Covid-19 pandemic as a scam, because you do not know what the reasons behind each failure are. Yes, some of them might use it as an excuse, but I know of several projects where the disruption was so huge that it halted progress.

Remember, when a relative die as a result of this virus, people that are left behind, goes through a mourning period and several are just too depressed to concentrate on projects to continue. They also have to concentrate on arrangements for the funeral and also to support their own family members.

This is why the employer grant these employees some Family responsibility leave to deal with that loss and also with everything that are linked to that.  :(

Delaying project development for reasons of Covid-19 is an excuse that doesn't make sense or is ridiculous, because a smart team will always find a way out for project development in any situation and condition, because they must have new ways to be able to realize the success of their existing project. wake up, instead of looking for an excuse to scam everyone in crypto.

During the past 2-3 years, I have seen all sort of excuses in the ICO market. And the ongoing COVID 19 is a perfect excuse to some of the shady projects to delay their development work and to cling on to the funds. But it is up to the investors to decide whether they want to allow the team to pause their work. If they are not satisfied with the excuses, then they always have the right to ask for a reimbursement.

I also dont understand how can covid-19 impact on development for such a long time.
At my current work ( working with PC and data), when the lock-down started, company managed to organize everyone's work to be done remotely from home in 1 week. In 2 weeks normal work routine was fully reestablished. It took 2 weeks to buy, set and distribute laptops to every worker, and teach them how to connect and where should they click to work from home.

Cryptocurrency projects, where big part of job is connected with computers, working from home during lock-down must be as easy as 2+2. They can do most of the coding testing milestones from roadmap during these lock-down. But they prefer to put everything on pause.

P.S. why dont they put bounty campaigns on pause then? :)

some new projects are simply just terrible. They will create a sub oar project, with little to no possible application or use case, then they will hype it all up create FOMO by making unrealistic promises
After which they will now dump their coins on investors and traders
Dont fall for projects that act shady from the start or projects that use big words to confused users into thinking they are doing something unique, even when they are not.

I think their reason works on the off chance that they are working in an office all together however needed to return home and that is the reason they fizzled. In any case, I feel like when you are doing an ICO, everything should be possible at home too, which is the reason I don't think it is as realistically a difficulty as they portray it. Incredible reasons will be all over the place, there is a colloquialism that goes "pardons are a ton like a- - openings, everybody has one" and that is valid in this occurrence too.

This is really happen to those project that is not ready to start in this industry. This is why it is important to do thorough research if their team is capable to handle a project. Reminders to everyone that do not fall easy to such that offer huge return of profit. And also their is instances they postpone their project to prepare for a big plan. So we should assess prior investing.

i'm also do not believe that good project in crypto could stop totally its activity due to the panemic. blockchain created especially to remote everything and arrange work globally. so i choose credible defi project who don't tell such exuses to people

That is important before investing, we must first research the project we are going to invest in. Before investing, you should ask for the opinion of a trusted person who understands it first, I usually discuss it with my friends or relatives.

We see lot of new projects everyday but we hardly find  good project. Most of the projects are useless, or dont solve any potential problem or just another copy paste project. Thats why although we see thousands, very few will have good future.
Regarding covid, what if the whole team get infected? In pandemic, the developmental delay should be considered. And even a good project may fail to gain attention in critixal situation. Sometimes we see unusual delay in development and sometimes the time and other factors are not just right. Obviously the project leaders lie to us, make false excuses, just not always

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It's a bad excuse but they still use it, they can only use CoVid as their excuse if their developers caught a CoVid and critically ill, and no way to continue the project, but using CoVid as an excuse when things are done online and at the comfort of one's home or office is nonsense and they just want to delay the project, since they already have the money.

There shouldn't be anything problem stopping a new crypto project from launching if truly they have a good plan, even in the pandemic period many new projects did well at fundraising and they launched their projects, most projects that failed to launch because of pandemic that I knew of are not updating their social media accounts anymore, it shows that they never had any good plan from the start.

This just makes our work more easier, it shows that such projects are never going to be serious, if you know what's good for you better look for another project, when pandemic was still very hot many new projects still get released and they are doing fine, the pandemic isn't an excuse not to release your project

Developers don't need to come around inside a room to build a project, I've seen project teams that are scattered around the world, even an everyone of the teams only have to do their part and contribute to the development of the project, they don't have to meet each other at all, that is a stupid and lame excuse

The epidemic is not a good excuse, it is probably an excuse for the incompetence of the project team. Nowadays, many block conferences will be held online. Project teams can participate in this kind of publicity. Online conferences are a good solution. Although the epidemic has an impact on our lives, it cannot stop us from developing the blockchain.

Everything is correct. The epidemic allows projects that have internal problems or are simply not going to develop, justify their inaction as an epidemic.
However, we all know that all payments are made online and funds are collected online. Conferences have also moved online, which means that nothing prevents projects from continuing to work as usual.

This is totally right however we can likewise not fail to remember the way that some project need to set up certain fittings to control their projects. Presently with COVID-19 that the lines are close, get such equipment types is unthinkable. I am aware of a project who asserts each about their project is set aside from their server farm which requires some equipment which they can't ship right now.

This is actually true because if they really had a working product they wont be using Covid-19 as an excuse not to release product because as you said most of this people dont actually need to be together and can work remotely... we did bounty for this project 2018 and they were still using COVID-19 has an excuse in 2021 for not having a working product which we all know is a lie

Why can't they just say that they are ready?

I agree that there are a lot of projects lately that are being canceled or being dropped not just in cryptocurrency. People find ways to get over it and if they will not be making any developments, that is just proof that they are not serious with the project at all. There are a lot of ways to communicate, they don't need to be together.

I'm very angry right now with the silly excuses so projects are taking these days. Some of them will refused to pay the bounty hunters. And will not even give a tangible reasons why they won't do so. After weeks of hard work and sleepless night working for their projects and at the end of the day. They will come up with one story or the other. BNXFINEX did something stupid last week. They end the project without getting to the day they promised the project will end, that's still acceptable. They now ask for kyc on the Bnxfinex site. They said you wouldn't get anything without the kyc. And I tried with 3 different IDs, thr response I was getting was, my IDs already existed. Till now our accounts has not been verified. And they plan to continue with distribution. Can you imagy this kind of evil act.

Covid is only used as an excuse by projects that intend to commit fraud, as you said if they really want to create a successful project they can hold meetings using many applications such as zoom or discord

 currently now there is still covid and project are performing their needed development. the market is booming and even dead projects are coming back to life. there is no excuse for any project. the serious ones are building their platform irrespective of any circumstance.

I'm guessing the projects you are talking about have not launched till now? It means such projects have nothing to offer in the first place, they just want to give a try and probably see how things will run out, some quit to avoid trouble and some just decide to stop for unknown reasons, it's better to stop hoping such project will come back to life, look for other new projects

I just couldn't agree more! Just think about it, with the internet's speed and availability plus all those useful softwares/applications that have already been invented long time ago together with the more convenient new ones, I  just couldn't believe that projects in this industry would be too hard to work on unless it's developers are wither lazy or scammers. sorry, that's just what I think.

The thing is, they will use every possible excuse just to hide their scams.

In the first place, they know already their plan, they will run a project to scam people, its just a matter of when are they going to formally go scam.

Covid-19 should not be an excuse because some projects are also successful and we should also consider that we have a bull run during the pandemic, so covid-19 was not really the problem as investors are coming here.

True, but building a dead project will be very difficult at this time too, because investors will only see projects that have lived and never died before, because those that have died will be hard for investors to believe again.

I understand if the current situation in there country is worst and lockdowns are been implement to there respective areas but they should advise their investors and participants what are there situation and they to reschedule the launching if necessary. Developing the project is a good way to do while they not allow to get back to work. A lot of countries are back to normal and I think they continue what they started. If they cancel the project unreasonable I think you should find different project that you might invest. Active members and right track of their roadmap.

it all depends on how the strategy of developing the project that has just returned. such as examples of cooperation with large projects and listings of large exchanges. it will add to the confidence of an already declining market. when they come back with just plain news then obviously they won't be attracted from investors except for the support community only. that's all I'm sure there won't be full support.

It seems that EthereumX is not fun, because the token takes the name Ethereum so that it can be trusted by many people and will be interested in buying it, unfortunately this method is no longer in demand by many people, because in the past there were many scam junk tokens taking the name of the token others who are already popular.

Also, some projects popup just to provide solution for curing covid-19 by using blockchain technology and at the end, only shit is done by those. Some use covid as an excuse and other use as a way to steal money from those users who get themselves into fomo to think like that those projects will really provide solution. These were really ridiculous and many lost their funds back in 2020. IMHO, we need to be careful from both of those projects.

yes developer might finds excuse and difficulties as working with the terms of corona pendemi as might with the returns to request of more with the extended session as expecting to finish with project on objective dedication with the manage of development, as might with the returns to guess investors with product and service on return with development.

what do you think about the delay or failure of a project just because of Covid-19 so I strongly agree with your opinion that cryptocurency is digital so everything can be done digitally. however, you must know the limitations through digital because there are things that cannot be resolved digitally. then they must meet in person in a special room to develop a project they are running so as to get the best results.

I don't think what the majority of these team mean by not launching their project implies they can't launch on account of covid19 but what they implied is that the condition isn't all in all correct to launch their platform. There were a few projects that launched in the 2018 bear market after pressing factor from the local area and the price of the tokens dumped extremely hard, some of them gathered million of dollars but their market cap isn't near 50 thousand dollars now. If you confide in a project to invest into it, at that point you ought to have no option but to believe their ability to succeed

Unfortunately, some projects are not as good or as easy as you think or they do not have real goals from the beginning of the project and only take advantage of the existing Fomo market.
some projects will easily attend and disappear and then create new projects with the same scenario.

That's not a good excuse to abandon a project or refuse to launch a project for a very long time, even when the pandemic was very high and there is lockdown every where many serious projects still launched their projects, this is a complete sign of non serious team

I think that when it comes to big money it is better not to risk. At least silly to place bets on new projects counting on their success in the distant future in 5 years. There are reliable coins that have managed to stay on the market, so you need to focus on these coins. And if the project is really profitable and promising, it will overcome all difficulties and break through.

Exactly agreed with you, I think having no way to halt their project but it may be conceivable that their pardon is substantial. What in case they are not arranged to confront this widespread and doesn't have all the assets to alter and work online. It's simple to conclude that all of them can alter and work from domestic but what on the off chance that there's a harder circumstance for each of their group. A few are great pardon but a few can't fair have that pardon, we do not know what their battles are since I'm not into venture advancement and administration.

This might really be ending up on for you to make some gamble if you do really plan or choose to fund or invest on a new project just because you have seen into its potential into that distant future.
Nothing is assured of and that what makes this situation even more harder but there are people who dont really care and still continue inspite of the risk that they do already know.
Choosing new projects nowadays is really pain in the ass because we know on how big is the odds on getting a good one rather than on getting a shitty one most of the time.
So this one really requires in depth research towards the project and you would decide for yourself if it would be worth or not.

What about that Project that you are wearing ? are you sure that it won't be a fraud ? lol You Bounty Hunters are one of the reason why scammers like them are still here and victimizing because we let them and we are helping them by wearing their signature and advertising their scam projects.
never in my Mind now that i will invest in any ICO or IEO , instead i will choose investing in Bitcoin or other altcoins that will make me feel the security .

That is right.

I just hope that the investors would be careful with these projects. There are a lot of projects in the market that don't actually have other objectives or goals but just take the money of the investors. The reason that they are doing these delaying tactics is for them to have more time to run their investors' money, investors should really check these projects. .

I have personally joined several signature campaigns which are just a waste of our time. and only to find out that this developer is also known to have done a scam before. But I am happy because I did not invest in them but only joined the campaign. joining their channel will make you think they are legit, but once they start dodging questions, you'll feel like they are like any other scam. So, I am not surprised if a new project has many reasons whether it is in project development, delayed distribution,market situation, changed prize allocations, problems regarding funds, market problems, and so on.

I wouldn't say as far to go that the digital platforms wouldn't be unaffected by Covid but it wouldn't affect in a way where the projects have to completely stop the project. That would mean they are just trying to find a excuse for a soft exit.

I am sure for reasons like that they actually tried to get out of the project. many excuses are being made even though they want to run away from the project without returning the funds they have received. We've seen many reasons for developing a similar project. they are the people who are not responsible for what they make.

when they were reasoned and answered questions from members of their community I guess they still wanted to go out subtly. but many projects go away and just disappear without clarity. The admin suddenly disappears and that makes the community members feel cheated. nowadays many people are not responsible. they are only looking for profit and selfishness. I am sure that such a person will always exist and be eternal in the world.

You are right, I also agree with you, they are just looking for excuses and making Covid19 an obstacle to their project, even though technology is now sophisticated, online meetings are everywhere, and they should take advantage of it

The question is not who is a scammer and who is not a scammer... The point of all altcoins is to take your bitcoins or stablecoins, if you invest in long-term... I know very few successful projects, do you? Amazon forests, lol! ;D

For obvious reasons, you shouldn't expect too much of those who are incompetent and not take their project progress seriously. You are just wasting your time hoping what is said on the white paper will come true. If indeed the team wants to take their project seriously, then you will know what they are doing. There are many roads leading to Rome, but only if they will.

Though you are right, i participated in a project as of late last year the excuse given is that the pandemic is not allowing them to carry out necessary things after their ICO, till now we have not hear about them. i will just say that any project uses that excuse they don't really understand their own project.

I'm sure you also feel the same feeling as in 2017. Projects in 2017 are also infamous as they are now with the DEFI sector. Now, absolutely the same thing is happening and everyone can deploy a contract and create a token.

Yes you are right with that mate. Pandemic is not a reason why they launched unsuccesfull or failed. If there is lockdown then no need to travel, all they need is a laptop or desktop and an internet connection where they can work and develop well. It is really obvious that they only used this "pandemic" to cover up their mistakes.

The scam projects will use any excuses which could delay the project or development. While the good projects can't be stopped by pandemic as the team can always work online. If the project is apply delaying tactics then beware it can scam you so do not invest in such projects.

These reasons are not new. Covid19 just gave them another excuse, if there wasn't covid then they have some other excuse. Crypto projects are online projects and have nothing to do with physical gathering or interactions. These scammers have greatly destroyed the interest of people and thats why not many invest in new projects.