Answers:

1. CashPokerPro still under development, product will be launched soon, maybe very soon.

2. Please don't mention the ICOLAB.ME!

3. We are 100% decentralised and transparent. We will publish source code after ico, otherwise everybody can read it before investing. (see how I cleverly avoided mentioning the smart contracts?)

I quite surprised about Ronnee's public statement. She wrote to me just a few days ago:

I have been very clear with everyone that I have provided consulting services in the form of being a Strategic Marketing Advisor to FireLotto management (not the current CEO as I never met or spoke with him).  I am not an advisor on the project.  Can you please explain how you are an unfortunate early investor?

She literally wrote that's she's not an advisor. Now she did at some stage provide advice. I personally felt that on that basis the FireLotto team could add her to the list of people who gave them advice at any stage of development.

The answers given do still leave a lot of gaps or raise further questions.

Still, the attempt to answer questions was much better than what we were used to.

Now please be transparent and give us the source code.

You're not reading properly. The partners you've chosen aren't exactly without controversy.

None of them list a partnership with firelotto.

Hmm, great partnerships indeed. I'm sure they've done their due diligence alright, but you have to wonder about the quality. With partnerships like these in place it will be even harder to get reliable partnerships in future.

First of all, it's great to see at least some interaction with regard to the open issues. Perhaps a little more detail in the answers would be needed.

That sounds like a pretty good solution. Unfortunately, the people that are most vocal here have already invested in the project.

I'm one of them.

Mosprognoz, I've sent the list of questions to Ronnee and she forwards them to "someone in management at FireLotto", once I get some answers back, I'll post them here. I don't think Ronnee will tweet publicly about it, since she also never posted publicly that she's not a current adviser to FireLotto (as I asked her to do).

I know the admins here have little regard for the truth, but we should stick to the truth (and manage expectations).

We are still willing to believe answers from the FireLotto team, yet the FireLotto team members here seem to have achieved a level of general distrust not seen since the Cold War!

Yes, I second that! Where is the big:

MONDAY STATEMENT THAT WILL RESOLVE EVERYTHING

?

Dear woman, if you want to gain the trust and respect of the bitcointalk community, please spend more time answering questions (the list with our questions is there for you to answer) and less time making strange claims about people who may be scamming you with FUD and looking for money.

All the questions we listed have been asked before and none of them have been answered in any kind of satisfactory way.

That, my dear FL team, is up to you!

A.M.

Now while I have no idea what to do with merits, I do really appreciate you giving me my first merit on bitcointalk. Thanks!

Dear Mosprognoz, kruglikov/Circles, gorbal, atenolol,flaggin/fiaggin/flagpole, kermitas, hemlockboy and whoever else has an interest in this ICO,

I contacted Ronnee Ades on Twitter to get her to post publicly that she gave some strategic marketing advice to management at some stage, but is no longer an adviser to FireLotto (has never even met or spoken to the current CEO). She is very friendly and our conversation took an interesting turn when she said she'd contacted FireLotto and they even told her that "the scammers" our out to get them and would be coming for Ronnee too. She said be happy to assist in getting our questions/worries/issues addressed and we can send them direct to management through her.

So I suggest we collect any and all outstanding issues (from unused token smart contracts to closed source github repos etc.) in one message and we can then get some answers, skipping over the strange admins here, because of them we are only slipping further into "you're a scammer". "no, YOU're the scammer" territory. In order to ensure we some get real answers, the questions have to be as fool proof as can be.

Please avoid any scam accusations as they may still be premature (my faith in that is low) and let's keep the language polite.

I suggest:
- Ronnee Ades is not a current adviser, why is she still listed as being one?
- Robert Matuk is not an adviser, why is he still listed as being one? https://imgur.com/a/LHPQ1
- The return on investment example in the white paper is incorrectly stated as 20%, it should be 8.4% (if someone paid USD 0.38 for their FLOT tokens, less if they paid more)
- After the failed CashPokerPro project where investors lost pretty much their whole investment, you started ICOLAB.ME, which listed 2 advisors (Jake Brukhman and Adam Draper) who were not involved with the project at all. Jake posted on Twitter: ATTENTION! "http://icolab.me/ is listing myself and @AdamDraper as advisors to their ICO. I am NOT in ANY WAY affiliated with this project, this sounds like a phishing scheme or scam. Please be advised." You later closed the website. We're afraid you're going to do the same thing again. What is your version of the Icolab.me story?
- Please prove to us that your application for a gaming license with the Isle of Man Gaming Commission is indeed being processed.
- In a scenario where 50m tickets remain unsold, and therefore frozen for 1 year, the team will hold 20/50 = 40% of the commission collecting tickets in the first year and 70/100 = 70% of commission collecting tickets after one year, meaning the commission for investors will be halved one year from now. Why are the unsold tokens not burned?
- Why does your token contract only have 5 transactions?
- FireLotto claims "full decentralization and transparency", which seems quite an unrealistic claim when token distribution occurs manually, the team can update the software and we're not allowed to see any source codes.
- FireLotto uses three different addresses, first Cyprus, then Singapore and finally in Hong Kong, with the Singapore address apparently being in a beauty mall... What's the explanation for that?
- How are you allowed to sell tokens to US citizens without using KYC?

Anything else to add?

PS With regard to Elena Bogdanova having two different pics, I think the difference could be down to make-up and lighting.

Stay positive! The links you're sending are all originally Russian, are you saying that all "scammers" in this thread have Russian connections?

Good question! More money towards jackpots and development of additional games. More promotion too!

The admins will probably tell you: (Please) read the white paper!

Tommy-boy,

Take a big step in the right direction and start fighting the underlying cause (answer some questions) and stop fighting the symptoms (disgruntled investors).

It should really be easy enough.

A. 'M.

Hey quiet admins, just like everybody else I can also hardly wait for the big announcement that's going to answer any and all questions and take away the doubts. Perhaps even convert the "scammer" Dream Team to FireLotto believers that toe the party line.

Now that said, could you tell me if there's a vesting schedule for team tokens? Releasing all those babies at once might overwhelm your Russian code monkeys! 

Yes, the idea of an internet lottery is quite a good concept, a very popular concept that is being developed left, right and center.

I wouldn't call it brilliant though and this particular implementation reeks rather a lot of TrueFlip (TFL), FireLotto could even be a clone. It might be interesting to compare the underlying source code for both projects, if they'd let us.

Something "cannot" be a scam if there is some kind of working product?? That's very strange reasoning, it would still be very easy for you to abandon the project as soon as the ico has been completed, or change the FireLotto code and stop paying commission, while letting the lottery continue.

It's because you control the lottery, it's called CENTRALIZED control.

The FOMO is strong in this one.

I checked out the site and it looks quite nice, it does however have a bit of a beta testing feel to it.

Making sure you're understood is more important than having perfect English. But sometimes the mistakes/oversights just get in the way of a clear meaning. I'm sure people would just ask for clarification then, no?

Do you still need a translator for Dutch?