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There are various kind of old crypto projects that has no team but still they are among the best projects today, I believe this happened because many old projects followed the footstep of Bitcoin, bitcoin would have been in tougher situations if the team or ceo is public I believe but today it's a complete different story or should I say experience? Since the birth of ICO we've seen tons of scam projects that aren't scared of revealing their faces even when they knew they are going to exit scam on investors fund, so for me hidden team members or not still doesn't make a difference..

It depends from each projects.

You shouldn't only search the team members, you need to search the whitepaper, the coin utility, social media etc. The legit project will have many information about the project and transparent, only few project with hidden team members is legit.

Projects with team or without team as long the project is sketchy from white paper to its software, its the same.

Compared before, projects were focus in building and all open source without asking investments just donations, and community driven since most of them are pow, but soon as ICO was created then it become safe haven of scammers, such kind of asking money in exchange of the coin getting trade with promising value but it didn't even touch a single exchange in the end, even if it did, it only list on scam crappy exchange.

It would be a bit easier for investors to decide if they knew the team members and what their experience is. But nevertheless, there are many other things that could hint about seriousness of the team and legitimacy of the project. Looking at the website and whitepaper, their roadmap and tokenomics and what they have achieved prior to the ICO would help investors to take calculated risks.

No. Hidden team members or not, they are all the same bunch of scams. A very good example is BSV, a scam coin but you can see their team (bunch of scammers).

Just don't invest in ICO. It's a pretty stupid thing to do in 2020 anyway. It's like pre ordering a korean movie ticket with english sub and your an indian but what you got is a movie with chinese sub. Nonetheless it's still a movie, right? but it's useless since you can't understand anything.

The best example of scam coin in the crypto that claimed to be very transparent(BSV). Anything that's generated through forking the real coin can be considered as scam. We have also seen a bunch of shit scam fork coins like BTCD, BTG, and many more.

Non anonymous team members can easily add more credibility to their projects, investors will have more confidence to invest in a such project compare to projects that it's team are anonymous, I don't see the reason why teams are going anonymous if they truly have nothing to hide.

Any fraudulent projects are unlikely to reveal their faces and their names. Go to Scam Accusations, how many projects there are with fake teams. They use fake photos, assign names to them, and even if sometimes there are real people who are famous in the world of cryptocurrencies, these people are not aware of their participation in fraudulent projects.
Therefore, the absence of a team is a red flag. And no excuses that the project wants to remain anonymous, let alone compare itself to Bitcoin, should serve as an explanation for smart investors.
Today projects that want to prove their legitimacy must have specialists with extensive experience in this area.

Just like you said there are old projects that have hidden team but yet those projects are one of the best till date but what about today, can same be said of a good number of new projects? Therefore, as for me, it matters nowadays, those old projects wanted to make an impact and contribution towards the growth of the crypto space, but new projects nowadays even with their identity still exit scam, talk more of when they are hidden, it means they can exit scam at will without anyone saying anything about it, and even come back again under a new project. Also, the reason I have this opinion is that, most of new projects nowadays always banks on hype to growth, that is, first the grew with hype and then when the hype drops they starts struggling and the price suffers a lot. Thus, combining hype with hidden team, you will realise they are pump and dump projects.

at this time, the difference was very far away. Since there were so many scams circulating, nowadays people are always making observations about the team, and that is one way to support whether the project can be trusted or not. for example, currently, there are so many scam projects that do team forgeries such as editing photos, and others. you can see that in the scam thread. So, I think the consideration of investing in a hidden team is very risky for now.

It's not about the team why old projects still surviving, it's all because it was still patronize by investors. Regardless it was abandoned by the team, no team at all, or whatever the essence of it being still use (to trade), is one of the reason why that old project still exists and not because they followed btc steps.


For them, reputation is not significant that's why they aren't scared of showing their faces and do some transparent scam actions. As long as they get what they want (the money) then probably doesn't afraid to show team members.
And i wonder if that BSV team weren't fake teams? They have a guts to show their faces.

There is still a lot happening, even the team that is hidden. Even I am not sure about the project they built, do they lack confidence in the team that is not published?
There are many accusations of scam in this forum, even the whitepaper plagiarized anywhere does not think about how the concept is built on the project they are running, and also I see DeFi projects that keep popping up with anonymous teams and some are even drawn with my cartoon. think it's bad doesn't give confidence to her community.

Look at the board of many scam accusations caught with their falsehoods.

Can you name old crypto projects that has no team behind or at least anonymous and become successful? Also as you have said, perhaps those projects are considered to be prime movers in crypto world that's why it has become successful. But after that, those next set of projects specially in 2017 with no team or completely anonymous turns out to be scam. So for me it still makes a difference, team should be known, and so it the whitepaper, their website, their roadmap and what the project offers, or what makes the project unique.

I believe to you it doesn't make a big difference but to the general public most investors before they invest into certain project or whatever they will want to know the person behind the scene not just for the scams that will probably involve but also the competency of the team members so can have a better Judge of whether is this project worth to throw money into.

True.

Those projects that just simply followed bitcoin's path were on the right time and era. Not much project during those times and they are closer to bitcoin so investors were likely to chase them while getting bitcoin.

But for this time starting the ICO - IEO - DEFI, things have changed and it's not the same as that era anymore. There are various reactions good and bad about hidden and not hidden teams.

These days, the favor is with the not hidden teams because investors will know who are the people working for that project and want to make sure that the project isn't handled by someone who's been part of a scam earlier.

The answer is vice versa, some projects with anonymous teams did well and they never exit scam on their investors while some projects with real team still exit scam, hidden team or not just do your own part, with good research you will easily escape from bad intent projects

I think there are difference if the team members is publicly placed or revealed and they are a legitimate team member of that project and they ended up scamming investors there's a chance that they could be track down unlike the hidden team members where in we can't really do anything once they do their exit scam also for me the one with revealed team members is trusted more rather than those who doesn't have. But still depends on the protect.

Yes, it's very different and you can't compare those projects early who became successful today. They really proved themselves because they started everything, like bitcoin for example, we really don't know who Satoshi is but as the main crypto, those who wanted to follow its footsteps proved themselves without running any scam.


Well the aim of ICO is good, it's that the people behind find a way to scam people with their hard earn money specially in 2017, bunch of ICO's every week, but you can count in your hands the project that didn't exit scam. And it started the trend, crypto for no-coiners become a big ponzi scheme and we had a lot of negative press. And now that we have the Defi and Uniswap hype, it is starting all over again.

If this is related to project fraud then there is no guarantee either that hidden team members or open team members, both have differences but do not guarantee if they are genuine. Every scam has its way and if you want to invest in a legitimate project at least they have transparent members, clear project roadmaps, quality products and the team has a positive reputation managing previous projects.

I've seen projects where team is fully revealed and they are real people, but still scammed people. I've heard only few cased, where scammed people get their funds back. I just cant explain why, but even if knowing who scammed you, people still decide to let go that situation and forget about it.

Large investors sues scam projects, but do they win cases ? Even if they win, do they have their money back? I did not heard that they receive anything back. Yes they punish scammer with 3-5 year sentence. But does it really help? There is really no difference between hidden or not team, they still don't receive a hard punishment in case of scam.

If the purpose of the created project is to deceive investors in order to get a profit, then you will never see the real project team. In cases when we see that a project with a real team becomes scams, then this is obviously due to insufficient work to promote the project and the lack of investors who would believe in the project.

Indeed. Most likely a project with hidden team are scam, they will not reveal their own identity and so they cant track down.

On the other side a transparent team has an advantage for investors to determine if this project is legit and wont go away with investor's money.

Nevertheless it depends on the project, because with transparent team or not as long as the project has potential and not a shit project then it will likely to succeed specially if there's a support from the investors.

satoshi has disappeared. but that does not mean that it is normal to launch a project anonymously. if a project is strong enough, why would the team hide them selves? What is the reason to do this? to rug pull?

What's the reason behind why they hide their team members? From that thing, it's kinda doubtful already. In taking a good project knowing the team member is a must. In such a way you can determine whether the project is legit or not. Though there are projects that hide their team members and it's still legit and successful.

The whitepaper, the roadmap must be clear at least to consider a project hiding their team members.

This is no difference in having anonymous team members, the thing is what is the main agenda why they need to hide their team members when running a project. It is very important for a project to show their members in order to know if they are trustworthy ones. Otherwise, 97% of the project is a scam or they have the plan to run away after.

There are various factors that we should consider when finding a good project. A project has a good team that doesn't mean it will be very good but the existence of strong team members is essential for project success. The concepts behind the project, Their future plan, Funds source for project developments, activity in social media, Marketing strategy should be good as well.

Hidden team that ask money for their platform is a big no no now, we have seen in the past how these developers run away with investors money, they promote themselves like Satoshi Nakamoto but in reality they are scammers who's only plan is to scam people by creating fake projects, they cannot make alibi that they want to be Nakamoto anymore, because in the first place Nakamoto did not ask for money.

This is exactly the right reason and right logic as well. I do not like it when teams have too much coins and I do not like it if they promise something in the future, but if that is not the case it is fine. What happened with bitcoin and early crypto was the fact that people developed it and they published it and that was it, after that creators had no power at all, look at satoshi for example.

However after a while that changed, and project owners started to say "buy my token from me and I will use that money to make the coin better in the future" and that is just a business, not a crypto currency, after the public release there should be nothing the team should be responsible for. These days the high level of tech involved in defi allowed project owners to just let people use it, they publish it and they do not have to add anything else, that is like the old days.

It used to be when Ethereum smart contract is not yet existing, there was no crowdfunding back then, and distribution are done on true airdrop and you can buy it only when it hit the market, the chances to lose is very low, but now we have so many unknown people asking for money to run their business if they disappear you have no one to run after because you did not even know their location.

Really ? Satoshi Nakamoto is still one of the most anonymous persons in the world. His product, Bitcoin is used in all the world. Is Bitcoin "a trap for investors" ? Even if the team is seen, in case of being scammer, few will really try to sue or do anything with the team.

I've bought altcoins from both, hidden team or had them revealed projects. In my experience, it does not matter. I've failed and succeeded with both cases.

Hidden teams or not many of them new projects are scam, crypto space have turn into scammers den since 2017 and only very limited project teams are caught by the law, majority of these scammers are still here today hiding in dark shadows and still continues to prey on crypto investors, teams going public doesn't mean they have good intent, we need to be very vigilante

Of course it's different because seeing a project that has a team that is displayed will attract more investors, those who are anonymous will be very difficult to convince investors, it's all because the ICO ended up being a scam (which didn't feature the team)

Hidden team members are always dubious or they had a project they used in scamming investors before coming out with a new strategy and they could be apprehended easily by the government so, they mostly hide behind the anonymity, I have never seen any rational reason why a team who plans to implement a good project would resort to seeking funds and hiding it's identity.

How can a project exist without a team? The team consists of the guys, who work out the project. Otherwise, it will never work. One person cannot have knowledge about everything that is needed here for a successful work. It is possible only, when guys take effort together.

To be honest, team photos aren't important for a truly decentralized platform. Decentralized means there is no third party control. But due to many scam projects, investors are looking for a potential team. We can't compare all coins with the bitcoin, so if there is a good team behind any project either they use a photo or not, then it's good for investors. But using a fake team means they are a scammer, and there is something bad on their mind who is behind the story. So eventually, I want to say, no matter if there so no photos is the project is doing well. But for the new project, definitely, it's a hard task to say who is good.

It all depends on the project and how the team manage it,
And for me what would be the difference if there are some members that could be shown on their website when they are promoting or in initial offering stage?
We all know that they could easily fake it or give us false information so what would be the difference with hidden team member with those kind of team?

Transparency of the team or developer in a project is very important, so I think that transparent team members have positive values or at least can convince investors. If the team is hidden, not transparent, let alone no experience in managing previous projects, then I personally am very hesitant to invest in it.

When considering a new project i do check team members as a priority because i have the right to know that how competent or experienced a team is who will use investor funds.
So personally i will never invest in a project with hidden team members.

did you just promote projects that have anonymous devs? Wouldn't it be more reassuring to invest your money if you know the team behind the project? IMO, it's an important factor for a project. It would also be more convincing if the team aren't afraid to show themselves.

I have seen that for many people it does not make any difference even if the team detail is shown or hidden especially many defi projects came up and raised funds without any revealed team.
But personally i do not like such projects and for my personal satisfaction and confidence i only go with projects with teams.

Project team doesn't really matter if they are willing to give a complete product but when we call ICO they are raising money but bitcoin or ither anonymous coins are not premined they were mined using the miners which is not the case with tokens that is why they are scammers.

I do not think that there are many projects that are successful with hidden or anonymous teams, a few projects can be there but you see from top 100 there will be only 2 or 3 such projects while all others have active and open teams which makes it easy to decide that projects with open and active teams have more chances of success nowadays.

Yes the are more convincing specially if the team members has the repurtaion connected t other projects too.

But I wouldn't mind as long as I can see a product that is very much developed. There are several projects with anonymous team. We've seen many projects where team members had showed thier faces including youtube videos but they still scam their investors.  

Those developers choose to make it easier, offer ICO / IEO then after collecting the funds they just runaway with the money, complete different from how bitcoin and anonymous coin as they provide usages first and allow people to share everything by means of mining. Even they've hide behind the project it's still exist and continuously being used.

Project without has a higher probability of turning to scam or worst development. If you're comparing those with BTC, then it's wrong. And that's why we see alot of deflationary and defi tokens without team pictures.
As funny as it may also sound, projects with team could also be fake and one could get scammed it proper research is not conducted before investing in such project.

That makes enormous difference to be honest.
I have seen sophisticated investors pouring in big amounts of money in a new project just because they know the team or they fully trust someone in the team just because of his previous works, qualification and experience so how can you even say that hidden teams do not matter? Good teams really add credibility and confidence in a project that are highly required by all new projects.

It does make a difference in my opinion,  why keep team hidden if they have nothing to hide!  Anytime i come across a project with hidden team even though they have no reason to do so, I just see them as shady, a possible red flag that people should be weary of, I don't see the point why team members should be hidden, they should be proud of their project and reveal their identity so that everyone can see the brains behind the project and not hidden away like some criminals.

How you can say that there is no difference? To let you understand i will post a scenario here where you can see why it matters.
For hidden or anonymous teams that are run on proxies and vpns if the projects fail or are unable to achieve the expected results then they can easily exit scam and we have seen dozens of such cases. While with clear, transparent and real teams owned projects even if a project reaches to such a point where there is no way forward the team before closing distributes all its holdings with the investors and token holders or we have seen liquidations where investors have received full or partial refunds. So teams really matter alot.

There are few reasons:
-The project is scam from the very beginning.
-They dont want to expose themselves and wants to maintain anonymity.
-They are afraid to be blame once the project fail so opt to be hidden.

Transparent team is indication of real and not scam project.

I think everything is much simpler
previously, projects were created with some practical purpose
in order to solve some problem and help people
no one set the main goal first of all to make money
 which is why the projects turned out to be so strong
now, each project is created only for the purpose of earning money and does not have any practical goals

a few years ago, old coins need to mine to get it. we don't really concern about the team member. so yes, they follow the bitcoin footstep. you just simply invest your money on mining hardware, then you can mine various coins with that to get ROI and profits. but these days there are so many ICO, you risk all of your money on that. so you need to know that the team is not fake and the companies location is real so that you won't get scam.

and if the product is not really good and promising, let alone insufficient funding, then investors will hesitate and the community will find it difficult to develop.

In fact, it doesn't matter if the identity of the development team is kept secret, to maximize decentralization. As long as it can really provide evidence that the project is legitimate and profitable. I am sure, if the product is good then the market will be interested. Especially if you are successful in working with other large projects that already have market power. Convincing investors is the key.

The fundraising industry is full of fraudulent schemes nowadays, so team transparency matters. Investors should know who they give money (or coins) to. If the team commits an exit scam, investors can apply to the police and possibly find these thieves.

But sometimes, team members post fake photos or credentials and claim they are legal in the local jurisdiction but their company does not really exist. Hence, it is necessary to make research on the project and check the social media profiles before investing money or participating in any campaign.

Project team matters a lot. Even when you were saying that if they can give complete product and that doesn't mean the project will be last forever. i should remind you about what happened with sushi coin. The developer who has been creating it wanna try to leave from the project and take a lot of money with him.
It's very sad to see that even the product can be used by the scammers as a way to lure the investors. That means the identity must be revealed to make sure we will get information about the team to take a legal action when it has become a scam project.

The anonymity of the team doesn't have anything to do with the whole project. As you have mentioned, there are a lot of successful projects that have an anonymous team. It all depends on the utility of the project, marketing, and how committed the team is to bring the project's full potential.

Indeed. It's about how the project can serve the investor and people and work hard to reach their goals. Without having a solid team, whether the project has an anonymous team or not, they can not reach what they want, and their project will not grow.

We don't know if the team that shows their members to the public is real or not because not many people can check where they lived and their office. We only know that they have a bunch of images of their members, the profile on social media, but we never know which one is real and which one is fake.

There are so many ways to identify scammers, I will not list them here, there are many topics on this topic on the forum. There will always be Scam projects, unfortunately, you can't do anything about it.

By hidden I guess you mean anonymous team? Well, it does make a huge difference. People would hesitate a lot when trying to invest in projects when they know nothing about team behind it. At least when knowing who are working on the project, they will be able to decide if they are going to scam or not. Its like if libra (dead) was being developed anonymously, people would highly likely call them a scam. But, knowing that facebook is developing it, people will want to invest in it (not even sure if libra is still alive).
That being said, those project with team members known publicly doesn't mean that they won't scam.

Some anonymous projects does well but with the market that's this fear that hidden team members can easily be scam project and some exchanges do not lost projects without team members for security purposes but this Defi projects are being listed inany Exchanges these days without team members. Team or no team any project that wants to do well will but team shows more transparency. Though lots use to use fake members.

Sometimes we can find the team member and marketing of the project.You should read the whitepaper of the project. So that you can get a true knowledge about project. It will called as background verification. It's must and important one before investment. Some project are fabricated one to steal the people money. You should inverse on best coin to get good profit from it.

Because of the trends and investors who doesn't care about who's behind the project are risking their money, they are all blindly trying
to move fast and don't want to be left behind. The risk is really big but to those who are ready to spare thier investment no one to be blame
but this investors itself, scam are everywhere it's just a matter of your own decision making.

It is a big factor, especially to investors.  And there are a lot more scam projects that have an anonymous team.  So it does make a difference in terms of investor's security and credibility of the project. So developers showing their identity will possibly work more diligently and harder to deliver their promise since their identity is at stake.

Just like bitcoin, the concern should be the project and not only looking the team. Bitcoin has achieved a lot without satoshi around because of the uses. Also other project can be that if they have use to achieve. I choose project first before the team.

When everything is open-source, I think they will just take the code and start working. There are many theories to this:

When they know their work will speak for itself, faces doesn't matter. Hidden or not, they are working behind the project and then, the project becomes their face.

If they are hiding their faces, there must be something shady. They may exit scam later because they are not trying to show their faces. How will we catch them?

Some project owners add other people's faces (fake faces) to their projects claiming they are them. It is better to hide faces instead of using other person's face as that person may face problems without being involved or known about any scams that is done by the project builders.

It would be somewhat simpler for investors to choose, if they knew the team members and what their experience is. However, by and by, there are numerous different things that could imply about reality of the team and authenticity of the project. Taking a gander at the website and whitepaper, their guide and tokenomics and what they have accomplished before the ICO would assist investors with facing determined challenges

t is clear that the old projects have no team.

Even BTC with satoshi!

At first it is out of fear of being arresteds for something illegal...

But now it isn't ...

I add that the members who come out in new projects some are not them, they are others ...

But we all know that the era of anonymous developers had already passed.  People especially investors demand to know the people behind the project so that they can verify the capability of each person.  Though I agree that it is better to just hide the identity than using other people's face. As an investor, and them asking for funding, it is a must for them to show their credibility, capability, and skill so that we can at least assess the possible perofrmance of the project more accurately than just betting on the blindside.

investors now very care with team identity, they didnt want give their money to unknown person eventhough project run well. some investors have been trauma from previous scamm that maybe take their money alot.

yep ,its rigth. after fake developers now how big money ciriculation in crypto market they attracted to create fake project to take investors money. this condition that happen now.

Yes, because even if they show their faces, the outcome would still the same. A scam is a scam, showing their identity or not if it is their real intention, there is no difference at all. And if they don't show their identity, there should be no one to believe on it, scammers are already taking advantage of it, they hide their identity to eaily run from the project once they got the money they desire.

You can't even compare the bitcoin that's created by satoshi which was using very fair distribution to the scam ico that's created by the hidden developers or anonymous developers.
Satoshi was giving its original idea to create the blockchain and it's different with the majority of scam altcoins that's being created to be money grabber only.
More probability to be a scam project.
People should not bet into these scam projects that's run by the anon team.

Of course, projects that are open about the identity of their members are very different from projects with hidden team members.
For me, projects with hidden team members are likely to be scams higher than projects that the projects team members know about.
So it depends on how much we do research on the projects that we will follow. Projects with team members that are open to the public
should be easier to attract investors trust.

If the ICO team does not want to disclose their names, then how to check this project and make sure that it is not fraudulent?  For investors, this will be of paramount importance as fraud is a major problem in this type of activity.  In spite of everything, I would not risk investing in a project with an anonymous team.

I don't like hidden team members but very few projects with hidden team members do very well in the past so sometimes they are worth checking out, if the content is very good enough why won't one go for it? I remember SERO protocol, they had anonymous teams and the project beats many privacy coins in crypto space till date.

Dont compare it with Bitcoin because during Bitcoin was created there was no ICO and fundraising event.
Thats why it matters now because any projects that need to raise funds via public offerings must be transparent and this will include their "true Identity because they are intended to raise some funds from the public, if the project is not initiating any public offering like ICO IEO, etc, or not intended to raise funds from the public, will thats okay if they remained anonymous. Defi is the perfect example because most of the Defi project team is hiding in the dark thats why they easily have gone with the funds they raise.

Investors have already learned the lesson of losing money because of projects that had an anonymous team. Now they have become more cautious and want to invest only in those projects that have specialists in their team who have already proven themselves on the positive side in the cryptocurrency market. In addition, if the team has KYC, they have a higher chance of collecting the necessary amount of investment for the project.

Older projects some of that have great success today don't depend on funding like ICO and IEO therefore identities is not needed as long as the code published and the product is working well and ready for publice consume. But nowadays most of the projects depends on the funding and they have investor which expects the money to come back with profits otherwise it's an exit scam.

You are right, some old projects with anonymous teams did well and they never raised any funds through crowdfunding but are you saying that all projects with anonymous team are scam? I don't believe that, well it depends on your choice, as for me I'd rather investigate the project first before judging

Indeed, showing fake profile is easy for them, they can easily generate identity that will be used in their website, not I learned this year, there will some projects that team are anonymous but still going stronger each day, and there will some that is opposite to the one that I have said, so I think there will be slightly difference but not at all, we people should learn how to choose the best coin to invest with.

In fact, many projects with a complete team, with a clear marketing strategy but still failed. And what it makes sense with these things if all of these people are fake and it is just made to look promising and legit.
It could be a factor to have a good and complete team but what most important is that the project itself with a good vision and it has a working product. I could be preferred to invest with them than those projects that don't have anything to show but just their fake team members and are willing to scam you.

I think it depends on the perspective on different projects, there are cases where we can see anonymous teams like Grin and they are still doing very well on that project even though we are very difficult. to learn about them. I also see very obvious team projects but not being successful, so interested in tema it is only a small part of learning a project.

Unfortunately there is an assimilation between the project and the team, the success of the project affects the strength of the team. I'm only mentioning the result and we must not emphasize the quality of the team. However, it's very relative to say that a team guarantees the result of a project or that it affects development. There are several projects where only Dev works and has great results.

Visible team members add more credibility to a new project than going anonymous, anonymous teams only brings doubts I advice every developers to stop such act, if you are really prepared for your project and you want the best for the project j don't see any reason to hide your faces.

First, what are the projects they offer? what is their technology and where do they get the credibility of the project? There are some great projects whose teams are anonymous, but they clearly offer innovative technology and solutions. and some reputable people recognize the technology. However, the story is different if it is just a project with an anonymous team without credibility, without transparency and without clear technology, it is definitely a big NO.

hidden or not hidden they are just the same. most of them will run away with the investors money some will just leave and stop the project in the middle most of them just wanted an easy profit but not all of them are scammers some rare projects are really doing good.

More than the team members the core of the project is much important. When the project has good thing, automatically there'll be growth. The team member's role is to gain more trust to the project. In order to gain trust it is a must to have some reputed members on the team. This is where the team gets importance, apart from this the project is valued on various other aspects.

I'd give face to visible team members than projects with invincible team members, if the project with invincible team members decide to run the project with ICO or any crowdfunding then I will gladly give a try, if not I will pass by immediately, it makes no sense when teams hide in the dark

Aren't they all birds of the same feathers? This days scammers will gladly come out in the open with their scam projects and still end up deceiving investors, you are the only one that can fight for yourself, with good researching skill you can avoid scam projects easily

Don't understands projects with anonymous teams, not all of them are crap projects, some have very good use case and they are among the top best altcoins on coinmarketcap, all you should do is do your own research first before judging, you might miss out on a wonderful project

there is a big difference between hidden team members and no team members . I think it's not possible to create a projects without a team members . Who did create the project if there's no team behind it but you mean to say that they don't show thier face but what are shown are some Random images with thier names or sometimes it can't be thier real names but this looks annoying  . They don't need to hide if they are serious and trust worthy ,this kills the projects potential .

Bitcoin is created anonymously but founder is actively comunicating on this forum and earned the trust of the people on here. If only no scams were reported having an anonymous team can still be allowed

if there is a hidden team or a team that is certain, if at first you want to commit fraud, it will definitely cheat and only steal investors' money, but if on the other hand there is a team or there is no team if you intend to make changes for the progress of the project it will definitely move forward to success and mutual benefits for investors, owners and bounty hunters.

I only think that for the ICO project, no team/hidden team means scam.
Scammers who didn't hide their identity? really? As far as I know, they steal other people's identities and make those people as the team, bt that was fake. And this is really often happening in ICO projects. Although it depends on each project, for me, a real team, trusted team, reputable le and also professional team will be better.

IT really depends tbh
Of course team that is revealed had more credibility

But Look at Bitcoin, it proofs that Hidden Team Member can create something too
Anyhow another thing to note is, Even a revealed Team can exit scam by declaring their project fail and goes missing

Only a few ICOs have I seen that are scammers and showing their face, and at the end of it all they still got caught. And some of them were not really caught , but due to some kind of financial issues and they happened to fall. Most scam projects prefers to hide their identity, and if they can’t be anonymous with the project they are launching, they will try to do what’s called impersonation, pretending to be who they are not.

I have seen so many scam projects that people later trace their team members only to find out that they are not the real people, but just scammers pretending to be people who have no single idea about the project.

"Hidden" and "not part of it" are very important differences. If there is hidden team members and they are actively doing something to the project non-stop and they try to meddle with the code of it, that means I will never be part of it, why would I be part of something that some stranger unknown person can change whatever they want with it?

However there are projects where teams build it, but make it in a way that it actually changes according to users, so after the public release aside from the fact that they own a lot of it, there are teams who never do anything to the project, we as the people are in charge of that project, teams job is done and they will no longer code it or try to make any changes, at that point they could be hidden and since they are not meddling with it, I don't care.

In fact, Bitcoin and Ethereum represent the differences we are discussing. We all know the existence of Vitalik Buterin, starting from his citizenship, school history, education and other published personal data. But we really lack knowledge about Satoshi Nakamoto and the people within his circle. The creator only appeared on the internet when Bitcoin was released until 1 year later. And we see now, BTC is King and ETH is Queen. We all agree that the profile of the team driving the project, doesn't matter anymore. However, this only applies to Kings and Queens.

For a new project who are still babies, the availability of a public team profile certainly greatly boosts public confidence in the project being raised to the surface.

This is absolutely correct, I wonder why team members of projects doing token sales will decide to be anonymous and people will still invest, it really baffles me. If they just decide to do an airdrop without token sale, then its ok or if they decide to do a product without launching native tokens. Most scams recently (especially DEFI scams) are related to projects with anonymous team members. I do invest only in projects with known team members and not only that, there must also be very good projects backings showing project is legit.

Numerous tasks there are with counterfeit groups. They utilize counterfeit photographs, appoint names to them, and regardless of whether once in a while there are genuine individuals who are well known in the realm of digital currencies, these individuals don't know about their support in fake activities. While with clear, straightforward and genuine groups possessed undertakings regardless of whether a venture ranges to such a point where it is extremely unlikely forward the group prior to shutting appropriates every one of its property with the financial specialists and token holders or we have seen liquidations where speculators have gotten full or incomplete discounts.

It doesn't add to a the reputation of a project when team decide to stay hidden, it makes no sense to me, if the team are full of confidence about what they plan to introduce to crypto users they don't need to go anonymous, it makes no sense

Now that many new projects are complete scam projects using anonymous team will scare many investors away thinking that the project is from scammers, even if a project is a privacy coin now days it's just better to let your investor know more about you

I won't avoid a project because it's team members are anonymous, why don't you check it's use case or utility out first? Some projects with anonymous teams have shown better results than many projects with teams that show their faces to the worldthe concepts of projects is more important than anonymous or not

I don't care about team going invisible, I care more about what the project is trying to solve in crypto space, I won't judge until I check the utility first, in the past I used to avoid this type of projects but I've learnt that some projects with hidden team do better than most projects with visible team members.

if we compare the current situations with the past wich mean when bitcoin released is not a fair
for sure they show up their face and name, but in the past cryptocurrency is not popular like now

Bitcoin is an outlier when it comes to anonymous team, comparing every project to Bitcoin is very wrong and the success of Bitcoin comes from the selflessness of Satoshi, leaving the project for others to continue the development help Bitcoin to discover itself and weather the early storm and come out great

If the team members are shown on the website of a project and if most of them have linkedin profiles that you can check to see their former employers and to see how experienced they are in their field of work than that's definitely more convincing than a completely anonymous team.
But on the other hand bitcoin and cryptos where once meant to be anonymous and decentralized ways to pay and to make transfers.

It really depends on how the team execute their goals and objectives, whether anonymous or not. If you can see progress of their developments and they are sticking to their roadmap, then, the chance of this project to achieve success is high. You can also see their sincerity towards the project if they respect their timelines. I know it is hard for the team to complete their tasks according to their timelines but if they are providing timelines, that means that's their target schedule to accomplish the task. If they can't fulfil their schedules, then there's should be valid reason from their end.

I have been in crypto space since 2016-17 so i have seen different types of markets and especially ico boom as well but my personal experience is not good when it comes to projects with hidden teams as most end up as scams and i feel safe with fully transparent projects that is why i do not recommend investing in hidden team projects.

Why would anyone want to invest in a project with hidden teams?
It just does not make you a wise or vigilant investor if you do so.
I see this startegy as high risk and it is just like throwing away your money or you just do not care about it.

the faces of the team members listed do not guarantee the project is legitimate...
Don't be easy to say that a project that includes the face of the team behind is a 100% legit project, so many cases where they take it easy to run away investors' money without fear of being caught by the police. get rid of the perception that 'a legit project is a project that includes a team face on website or whitepaper'.

I am out-rightly against this, it is a very bad advise and should not be taken. Bitcoin cant be compare to any of the new coins, the story is different, there was no crowdfund, even the coin were distributed for free to interested individual, so how will u compare that to a team asking for $30 million without a face to their name, maybe no other identity. Even those with faces scam us, not in this face any more, he should give other successful projects that lasted the 5 past years in the space without identity

Situation is difficult now from the matter of bitcoin. I agree that many project already succesuful without presence of their Team memebers but no doubt, they play vital role for draw investors attention for their tokensale. any known member from team, can ensure the believability of any project and contribute for positive impact which is not possible in their absence.

It still depends, i guess. We still need to determine the goal/plan or if the project is promising or not and not only the team.

And if they provide their identity, you just need to confirm if this is legitimate or not. There is a lot of ways to confirm that and of course we follow only those projects who reveals their identity than those project who always try to hide it.

I've seen a lot of scam projects where developers hide their identities in an intercepted way
they took photographs and names of other real people
at the same time
 people did not even know anything that they were listed as developers in fraudulent projects

I think the most important thing to make a project successful is the product idea of ​​the project and the progress of the project at any time, because if the project is good and useful for the future then the project will definitely be successful, even if the identity of the team is published or hidden, therefore the most important thing is the product and the progress of the project and not the identity of the team (published or hidden).

Product is not a thing that will be determining the success of the project. I just found an interesting thing about this and when you have been watching the BSC and then you will see some projects that have developed the product have become exit scam project. it's funny there are people who use the product as a thing to determine how successful the project.
Those scam projects on BSC have been running by the anon developers too.

For me there is no difference in the case, whether the team member is known or not. I am not saying that we should not focus on the team of the group but rather focus on our interest in the product and progress of their project because it is more important to know if it is a scam or will eventually benefit you. So let us not rely on whomever inside the team running it instead focus on the projects capability.

It's important but not the most important,

I always consider transparency whenever I want to invest or involve in a project, and team member is part of that. Even when a project reveals their team, that could be just a fake person or a real person but the person doesn't even know about the project, hiding the team member is, of course, worse than that. But there are other factors too, such as the fundamental, whitepaper, coin utility, etc.

What I am trying to say is that revealing the team member would be a plus, but without a good whitepaper and other stuff, it will still not convincing. Otherwise, a project with a hidden team, but has convincing whitepaper, fundamental, and great detail on their project will be better.

This depends on different projects, projects will have their own development strategy and how they want to make the team public or whether they want to remain anonymous will also depend on the development strategy of each project, but in In the current crypto space, there are not many such projects, but most new projects appear without clear information, most of them are projects that copy and scam.

There are a small number of good and successful projects with an anonymous team, but this is rather an exception to the rule. In most projects, there is no need to hide the team, and most likely, it is done by scammers to avoid any responsibility. If the project is good, then to show the team is an extra advertisement, a way to prove their experience.

I know right? being anonymous has its own disadvantages which is making people less interested into their project and any sane people would think twice before doing any investment if they don't even know who's behind that project.

Tbh, if many people still invest to an anonymous project which would easily become exit scam then I guess there's nothing could save them.

When I'm doing research on new projects, concepts and innovative ideas are always my first aim, followed by what pro level the teams are on, anonymous team makes things more harder to be honest but some times the project utility says it all, worry less about teams going invisible and focus on the project use case instead

I don't trust new projects with anonymous team members but that doesn't stop me from checking the project use case out, if the use case is neat and very attractive I would definitely give a try, we can never tell, anonymous teams doesn't always mean scam.

I also dislike anonymous projects but still invest when I feel they are very potential projects. Many non-anonymous teams are still professional scams, but projects with team information transparency are still better.

The projects with hidden team members always look suspicious to me so without knowing the identity of team we must not involve in any project although it doesn't matter that the team is hidden or visible if their intention to do scam so they will do in any way unfortunately we can't do anything except take risk with deep research or it's better to avoid investing in the project.

It makes sense that majority if the project successful now has an anon team, that is the point of crypto currency right? Anonymity is the core of crypto currency, it doesnt make a difference with a known team but the progress is slow and complicated its near to being useless just being frank.

what about those who are only succesful in scamming that is true that the point of crypto is for anonymous transaction but that anonimity feature was only created for the users of the coins and not for the creators .

its not bad for the creators to expose thier selves because they can get recognitions after that or when the time that their piece became mainstream but hidden teams or not , the success depends on the willingness and not for thier appearances .

True, but most of what happens to the anonymous team is that it ends up in a scam, although not all of them are scams, but everyone should always be vigilant in trusting an anonymous team, because when you are cheated it is clear that you will regret it later and it will be useless.

To me, the projects that are currently raising funds through ICOs, IEOs or DEFI are being held as startups and they need capital. There is no guarantee that they will succeed or persevere to develop their projects to the end.
Projects with successful anonymous teams carry great risks even though they create products. The most important thing for a cryptocurrency project is the source code. If the source code does not have the creativity or solves new problems, it does nothing.

Taking a gander at the site and whitepaper, their guide and token economics and what they have accomplished preceding the ICO would assist financial specialists with facing determined challenges. Since there were countless tricks coursing, these days individuals are continually mentioning objective facts about the group, and that is one approach to help whether the task can be trusted.

Nope I don't like the idea that the team are going anonymous, it doesn't had any reputation to the project, I will only let it pass if the project is a privacy coin only, too many scammers are taking advantage of investors today I definitely will prefer visible team members

It's crypto space for crying out loud, a place where anything is possible, projects with anonymous teams can do better than projects with teams that show faces to the public, scammers can show the world what they look like and still scam you in the process

Right now there are many DeFi projects that have hidden teams and are not very transparent. They don't even have a whitepaper and website. To me, a project like this is a sign of a scam. But sometimes some are good because they have a large community, so they decide not to scam.

But still prioritize projects that provide transparent project information and clearly have a purpose even though they hide the team. I don't think that's a problem and become a more viable project than projects that don't have anything.

Hidden team members in any project, this is the question mark on project ? is this project really legit?
Well real projects never hide anything related project like team members background, their experience these things can attract investor to project.
If team already hide from project then this kind of projects never last long in crypto field and fall becomes project destiny.   

Having hidden team members would result in doubt of the one who sees the project that can result in the distrust of the whole community. We do know that good projects didn't hide their team identity at the start of their projects that made the idealism of having a project that hides the team member's identity will have a high chance of making unethical business scenarios such as scamming and also make the community suspicious of the project. Revealing the projects team identity isn't a requirement but it is the standard to make the project successful.

for me hidden team members or not will make a lot of difference mate
because personally i will learn about the team members and read the whitepaper first before investing in any crypto
and for me man behind the project is the most important things in any crypto project buddy
regards

Not should easy thinking because hide team members means those projects make scam at anytime so nobody can't trust easy. This time we received lot of scam project so must be needed more analysis about a project when you gonna Investment. Although in my opinion for analysis a project one strong step clear team members profile.

Depending on the project and the minimum threshold set by the team. If the team asks for a high investment amount for an anonymous altcoin project, it can worth to invest but for similar projects that exist in the crypto industry, it doesn't worth spending money on. Obviously, common sense is enough to eliminate the bad projects hiding behind the anonymous team. If the hidden team doesn't disclose the identity of the members, in the worst case all investors will be scammed and the anonymous team will be part of another scam project.

It's also good to see the team by themselves explaining their very own projects to see how well they understand their own projects, how they wanted to see it in the long run. I really enjoy watching videos of teams from defi projects in YouTube during quarantine as they explain their products uses, importance and goals. It's not enough that they know their name, much better if they really show their identity by that we will know how serious they are in what their doing.

I worked for those projects who provided team members identity but in the end they deceived, I don't know how they handle all this ?
check out bcnex.net (maybe you know about it already) this project as they were announced that they collected $28 million (huge amount) many investors deposited funds on their exchange.
they closed withdrawal and in few weeks they disappeared.
I want to say that they were real, they provided identity but what happened we lost funds and they are enjoying with our money.

I think that you are forget to mention that if the percentage successful coins that have published the identity of developers were far greater compared with the project that didn't publish the identity of developers.
The investors will always try to invest in a project that was putting the transparency at the top of everything. People have needed to know which people who developed the project and the track record of the team.

For projects that do token sales, I think we really need to know the developer team so that we can be vigilant when making investments. The team that appears to show investors that they have experience in the field of projects being carried out so that investor confidence increases.

Transparency is very important and to make a legit check those people behind but this is not a ticket for us to say that they are worthy of investment. And this is a big difference to those who keep their team members anonymously as it builds doubts and worries. Because to ask what is the purpose of hiding the developers if there is nothing illegal inside?

If I'm going to choose then, nothing to spend time digging whose behind that wall but to focus on the legitimacy of the project. And I should have to pick projects that have been transparent to the community.

When you do talk about those scammy projects that have run some ICO's then i dont really believe that their own faces would really be put up into their site or ann thread or what
because as name suggest where its a scammy one where they do particularly make use of others identity or stock photos. Real team or developers wont really hide their faces
but we cant say that they are already legit or would able to succeed because it all matters with the projects relevance and actually utility and that what matter most for projects success.
It doesnt make a difference ? We know that having some transparency could create some sort of that confidence into its investors just like on what happened on ETH.
Well, bitcoin is just an exception.

Reveal the face of team or not, this no matter if the project didn't work well. I mean, the team is always on time with their work in roadmap. Always fast response to their member in Social Media.
This is the reason why investors can be interested with the project.

Hidden team should not the only one to look about the project. There are many project these days but you also have to search their white paper, their social media as what others said. There's no guarantee that the project will truly be sucessful in the end even they are hiding themselves. Actually, I don't trust such kind project that we don't know who runs it.

Team members identification isn't everything to make a project success. Before starting any types of selling coins, how much a project development is completed. I am not interested in someone's identification. The development team must be active in solving every problem. A big partnership can make a new project 100% success.

The only difference that I see between the 2 is that:
If you will not hide the team members, it will add some credibility to the project because investors can see the owners of the project. It adds trust to the project compare to those projects who are hiding their team members. Hiding it is already a red flag for me.

Overall, it doesn't change the fact that either you hide the team or not there is a chance that the project will end up being a dead coin or a scam coin.

It's not a must for teams to come out in the open but been visible can add more to the project reputation as there are still investors who still hesitate when they come across projects that have anonymous team till date but for me I have no problem with anonymous teams

logically, there is still a risk that the created coin will remain priceless, or that it becomes a coin scam. but I believe that for the current crypto project, the background of the team is a priority because currently there are quite a lot of scammers who try to take advantage of this condition to hide. in fact, most of the scam projects manipulate someone's photo to save in their whitepaper.

Does your theory of "already a red flag for hidden team" works with every cryptocurrency related project? For example I havent found any information of yolodice that is in your signature :) And according to reviewscenter.net they have got no license (https://reviewscenter.net/yolodice-com-review/).

For me hidden or not team makes no big difference. If it is not hidden, I would at least observe persons experience (in crypto). If he is new and unexperienced (in crypto), but highly motivated and talented (maybe he is good at coding or at trading or attracting investors), then it is ok with me also. If there is no team at all, I'll try to evaluate projects chances of success by looking on the idea behind the project.

I believe doing the right research can make you like a project with anonymous teams, use cases and utilities speaks louder for a project than anonymous team or not, what the project wants to introduce and solves is all that matters

Doubt and uncertainty are the mental state that the investors will feel because they do not have any idea on who are the people that are running the project. If I'm an investor I will probably ignore those projects who doesn't naming those people who are behind those projects. For me, the scam probability will easily increase because the name of those behind the project are unknown and you cannot sue them if it is really a scam. Trust is important in a project and team members should give a short background and information about all of them even though it is just a piece of sentence as long as it is well detailed. I really do not suggest to make investment with hidden team members because the risks are too high where the possibility of you losing the money is also very high. Avoid project that have hidden member and just focus on projects that have information about the team behind it. 

Hidden team or visible team, what difference does this makes? Scammers are on both sides any ways, just spend time finding clues if the project is from pro blockchain experts and not some random people faking their experience, pretending to have a solution in mind just to scam their believers

And what will we get by these people scamming using ICO projects? I do believe that there will be a time for them to be jailed or something like getting sanctions to what they did if it proven that they are really involve in the scam issue. However, scammers are too smart nowadays stealing others identity to prove the project's legit but there are other actualy doing it and making false update for projects partnerships that could get investors attracted to invest with.

Of course, there are different situations, very often various anonymous cryptocurrency projects achieve incredible heights in the cryptocurrency field, but it is difficult to guess which anonymous project can reach incredible heights, so I rarely make investments in cryptocurrency projects where the team is anonymous, but I know many people who are on an ongoing basis investing in defi projects where are anonymous developers.

It's one out of fifty projects with anonymous teams that have good intent, let's not compare today with 2014 when many old coins have anonymous team and their utilities are so damn good, today things are marginally different, scammers can easily hide using non visible team members

I never feel comfortable with projects that have anonymous team because it makes things easier for scammers, they don't have to show their faces and they can do as they see fit too, even projects with real team can still scam too but they can still be hunt down if they scam the wrong people

I think most investors before investing in a project will definitely see how the project team is performing, the background of the project developer, what products they develop and many other things. therefore, transparency of the project team is important. if the project is not transparent it will be difficult to attract market investment.

Partnership and CEO experience more important for a new project because a professional CEO can manage many products train easly. A good partnership can help us some more fund and many investors impressed for it. Just be one think if there has no team members then new investors never believe their promise.

indeed there are many aspects that we must analyze before joining a project. A hidden team does not mean a scam, nor does it have a guarantee that it is legitimate. As you said, there is still a lot to be analyzed in more depth, for example, product usability, tokenomics, roadmaps, etc.
The increasing number of scammers, and the ecosystem full of risks, make investors more cautious and less trust in anonymous projects. Unless they can really provide evidence through a strong product and support from a trusted company.

Yes, nowadays a lot of projects just copy-paste and follow trends without providing products that actually offer solutions. Maybe in the future, if someone want to release a project, they have to test the qualifications about the usefulness of the project or product, so that quality can be guaranteed

Why take the risk of investing in a project with anonymous team. I am sure there are still many projects with high credibility that provide products and solutions to current problems, will not take risks by investing in projects with the Anonymous team

Its not good hidding some members of the project its like they saying that the project will do unnecessary things thats why they need to hide of their upper members of the team.

Having a team who are visible in the project adds more legitimacy and it ensures investors that their money are safe and sound. With so many scam projects the first thing to look at are the team behind it. Secondly, the success also comes from the project itself on how good and strong it can be that will be able to succeed in the market. Though there are projects that the team are hidden and still succeed but its still feel uneasy feeling and always have a second thought on trust issues. Even on bounties, the first thing i looked into are the visibilty of the team. So, for me the team visibility is really important.

Anonymous team members will make projects far from the word trust,
I really hate that, even though the project looks promising but their team members are not visible on the web, I stay away.

I never liked all these "hidden" members who come out of nowhere. Crypto projects are all about transparency and if I ever find out that some of the team members of a project I invested in are not the real team members or there are additional team members which were never mentioned then I'd immediately withdraw and sell everything. No transparency is like saying fugg you to all investors.

Absolutely, it is hard to trust those projects that are hiding their team, because if they are really into a serious project and they want to gain more investors they would try that and securing that the money of their investors are in a good project not making them wonder if that project is really true and can help them to gain profit. When I am joining particular projects to support a few years ago, I am also considering that part aside from considering their whitepaper and website.

Since there were endless tricks coursing, these days individuals are continually mentioning objective facts about the group, and that is one approach to help whether the task can be trusted. Each trick has its direction and in the event that you need to put resources into a real venture at any rate they have straightforward individuals, clear task guides, quality items and the group has a positive standing overseeing past activities.

I was always annoyed by this fact, I always did not trust anonymous teams.
I prefer public teams, I want to know those who deceive me. )

In fact, I think it's true, "Hidden team members or not" it doesn't matter. So you should not focus on the team. You should search for everything like their social media, their community, their website, etc. If you think all are transparent and trustworthy, then it's your decision to join or not. Because not all hidden teams will fail, and not all transparent teams will success

Everything should be checked.Im not into that ignoring kind of behavior when it comes to team identity but we had really learned our lesson that not all transparent team
will succeed because it all matters with the projects potential and functionality because even if they do look legit but if the demand isnt there then you can expect that it will surely
fail.Always stick on initially checking out if the project is worth or not or their aims or roadmap is attainable or nearly on dream like level because this is one of the
criteria ive been checking on once i do decide to invest in a project.

You cannot follow the footsteps of Satoshi Nakamoto of going anonymous and asking people for money to support your project, Nakamoto did not ask for money, many projects tried to imitate Satoshi Nakamoto and tried to ask money to launch their coin, some of them succeed, but many of them failed to get money because, people have had enough of people running away after investors sending them money.

it looks like anonymous teams are becoming a trend in current projects, very much found in the Defi project,
for me the team that was not introduced to the public is a project that we should be aware,
80% of projects with anonymous teams succeeded in deceiving people at the ICO.

Being anonymous is one of cryptocurrency features. So it is not a trend.

Weird thing is, even if people see that the projects team is revealed, only few bother doing a real investigation who they really are. For the most - when they see "team" section on projects webpage, they just put a tick next to "team" in their imaginary list of scam check. They dont bother if team members profiles are empty, or freshly created, or are filled only with project related posts. It is unreal that a person lived for 20-30 years, but decided to create social media profile only when he decided to be a part of team.

This relevance all depends on the individual, the facet to which an individual judges the situation, why so? In this space we have seen an anonymous team with project that is trading well, with proper volume and development, example is dego finance.

Also, we have seen projects with their team and all in public struggle massively, in tokoin. Core factor to consider as an investor is when and how to take profit. Either faceless or public team, you must take profits.

the difference is made from their own team, even though they are anonymous if the progress of the development always goes well then that is not a problem, because there are also many scams project who are not anonymous,
and ironic I hear many cases about the CEO of a project just running away when the ICO is over.

Anonymous team or not transparent team I think this is a red flag for you, as we know that investors will be very hesitant when trying to invest in a project when they do not know anything about the team behind it. At least when they find out who is working on the project, they will be able to decide if they will scam or not.

Team identity is actually an important consideration in investing, it is true that there are several successful anonymous projects and also projects with non-anonymous teams that become scams. but we also have to know that the weight of the team in it is very important, because without us knowing the weight of the team, it is like making a stupid bet

In the world we are in today many find it very hard to trust new crypto projects and team going anonymous is even more worse, people will have less trust on such project, even if the project use case is very good it's a wise decision for the team to come out in the open

If you trust the technology that they bring up could be success in the future I think it does not matter to involved/jump in anonymous team project. But the thing is we couldn't find such kind of project these days and beside most of them are anonymous, the project itself does not has any real usecases or new solutions to the current market.

That's not easy to trust even if their technology is trusted. There is no guaranteed that it will succeed, and if the team is completely anonymous, I don't think that it is good to join with that kind of project. But yes, we couldn't find any project such that and most of the anonymous team or even if the identity of the team is in public, the project being legit still depends in their intention.

yes it really depends on the development of the project not on who the team is and also on how serious the developers are in developing the project
at this time there are also many projects that do not display the profiles of their developers but have projects that have very many fans

I think, Old Projects some of which are very successful nowadays do not depend on funding like ICO and IEO, therefore identity is not required as long as the code is published and the product is functioning properly and ready for public consumption. So I think there will be a slight difference but not at all, we people should learn how to choose the best coins to invest in.

Today some projects have anonymous team and they still want to raise funds, sero protocol did same thing and I surprised that the project did very well, it later get listed on gate.io exchange, let's not be sacred of such projects, you can only know what a project have in stock if you do research on them

Non hidden team members will add more trust to the project, it's getting more harder to trust new projects this time around and investors are more hesitant than before, it's a bad move hiding information about the project team even if the project utility is that promising

I knew Tecra coin, they introduced bounty campaign in 2019 and the team are visible, they aren't anonymous, why are you using Tecra coin as an example? I've watched the CEO in video talking about the project, maybe you don't do good research enough, the team aren't anonymous

Now difficult to trust on any project without knowing details about their team member.project remains incompelete without its team members. Sometime some project launch who has perfect roadmap and its whitepaper but because of theirs fake team members photo, they got catched several time by our intelligence forum members.that's why, necessary yo always check team member and try to make an safe invest

I have also seen different crypto projects in four years, both with closed teams and open ones. To some extent, you are right that there is no difference in this, the main thing is that there is a result, but on the other hand, when you know the team, then you can understand what kind of people they are and what they are capable of. This makes it possible to learn more about the project and make the right choice. Again, if the project turns out to be fraudulent and the team was open there, that is, to whom to present claims and try to compensate for the losses, and if the team is hidden, then you have lost everything forever.

It would be somewhat simpler for investors to choose if they knew the team members and what their experience is. In any case, there are numerous different things that could indicate about seriousness of the team and authenticity of the project. Taking a gander at the site and whitepaper, their guide and tokenomics and what they have accomplished before the ICO would assist investors with facing determined challenges

I will not invest in any anonymous project, the stage of the space now and attracted a lot of scammers, if you need my money then come out, if not release your code and let people sue it without raising any money the way Satoshi did,  if we have known identity scamming people, what prevent someone that is anonymous from doing so

Hidden from the public members of the development team will only alert people. After all, before you invest in a project, you need to understand who you trust with your money. If the developer has a lot of experience and several successful projects, this is one thing, but if they have just started their journey, the risks are much higher.

Hidden team members adds no credibility to a new project, it makes investors to be suspicious of the project and newbies that easily call such project a scam, no matter what the utility of the project is team members must come out in the open, through AMA investors can see the CEO explaining more about the project himself, this helps alot

we need to invest only in those projects that are made by a real team with links to their accounts on Facebook or other popular social networks
this way you can track their previous projects or their places of work
honest people don't need to hide their real names
if the team is unknown or is hiding behind false names
 then these are most likely scammers

that was happened cause btc was the first decentralize crypto.that's why people started using it, without any hegitation.following btc, so many currency like ether, ripple, litecoin come in market and people also start using those without any argument.afterward seeing the acceptance & public demand of altcoins, scammers decided to scam us.so they start up their process and people getting victim.it's not about project's memebers are hidden or visible.scamners are increasing and scamming people. That's why can't imagine any single project will be legit without team members

i will never invest in a project that has hidden team members
it is really shady and most times it will turn out to be scams
even if a project is decentralized or private, the team members should be real people that are known and who's certifications and qualifications can be publicly verified.
This is because even some project that have known team members have turned out to be scam projects i the past, so why take an unnecessary risk that is most likely a scam.