my issues with this ico /
coin is over valued, 0.01 usd per coin with a 6.3 bln coin available and a total 21 bln total circulating supply which makes a market cap of 63 mln which is not realistic for an ico.
they didnt even raise 1mln the first day.
we dont know how much their team hold of those coins, are they allowed to dump them on release ? or hold for how many years min ?
mining with a phone sounds great as an idea but in practice : battery usage ? how much coins can be mined per day through phones ? on what phones it has been tested ? do you have any live results to provide ?
but what is the idea behind this product ? because if it's only another coin with mobile mining ......
all in all this team sounds like another good marketing team (which they are) with an unpolished idea to me.
Thanks for the comment
All of your issues have been addressed recently upthread, and some on this page, however it is good that you took the time to let us know whats on your mind in relation to Electroneum.
Overvalued would mean you believe that it wont be worth more on exchanges than $.01 after launch Nov 1st. Considering some of the misinformation out there I can see why.
The team doesnt keep any for themselves. They have to buy into this themselves. Zero premine for the devs. Unsold coins are added back in to be mined. None stays out and that is in the whitepaper.
But that is not what people who are purposefully fudding Electroneum have to say. Rarely will someone actually research and come back and make an accusation that any coins are being held by devs, or whatever else they dream up, unless they are part of a competing coin. If you check their recent post history, youll see they are part of another ICO. Many times you dont even have to check, as they have the coin in their signature lol.
There are 20 million put aside for bounties, and that happens either way no matter how many coins are sold. This represents .0095 % of total coins.
Its funny that there is still a notion that the Electroneum mobile mining app will drain the battery.
That is simply not true. The innovation here is the fact that Electroneum doesnt overly drain the battery or damage the phone.
Why Electroneum? What makes you different? Why buy?
This is the reason. You have a phone that mines and it doesnt put stress on your phone like the miners out now.
The innovation gives us first mover advantage. We are the first and the only coin that can be sucessfully mined on a mobile phone.
Notice I said "successfully mined".
Plenty of apps have tried it. The most popular one is minergate.com. They try to have the users of their app mine regular coins. The problem is the people trying to mine are trying to power the blockchain. That takes a TON of power to do. Doing this would destroy a phone no problem. You cant mine any crypto right this minute successfully without putting your phone in serious risk or frying it. You definately cant make money at it.
Electroneum took the cryptonote algo and modified it into a twin algo with a special processor that allows those who are mining the chain on their home computers to power the blockchain.
The cryptonote basis used for this coin was already designed with the intention of stopping people from using specialized mining computers called ASICs. Cryptonote doesnt use miners like Bitcoin and is specifically made to have a regular computers mining it. Electroneum will have those people powering the blockchain with their home computers just like all cryptonote based coins, but only Electroneum can be successfully mined on a cell phone, in the background, or you can play the game to mine slightly more.
Those mining with a cellphone will not have the load of keeping the blockchain alive and can mine coins without the stress.
Yes, the team is made up of good marketers. That one even the trolls have a hard time trying to gloss over. Its smart you checked and didnt take their word for it.
Is the idea unpolished? Doesnt sound like it does it?
Thanks again for coming and voicing your concerns, as this thread is the place to do so. I hope you go give the whitepapers a read. There are two. One overview and the other a technical whitepaper.