Can't wait to watch that video! I love how the uPlexa team constantly delivers and I appreciate the way they communicate.

Though I'd say Blake will have to be up to the challenge of succeeding Kyle's "videogenic" appearance ^^

more seriously: amazing team... wish you all the best

Hi! I've been following Al|ce for some time now on her initial group (which was about new promising projects, rated very subjectively, but also in full transparency), and I've had enough time to appreciate her positive and honest attitude and her good manners as a group leader.

When she launched Lightbit, I thought I would follow this one as well, even though I don't apprehend all that she and her team want to achieve yet.

As always, it's the use cases that will make a difference, so for now, I'm just accumulating while the diff is sooooo low, and we'll see what comes next

Good luck to the Team!

lol guys you're all over the place!

it's almost scary =D

someone's gotta communicate about the vending machines too, they look awesome

Hi there!
As a former discord community manager for this project, I feel obliged to alert everyone concerned.
We have had no contact with Drew (MiniSquirrel), aka the lead Dev of the project, for lots of weeks already, and the chain started to have big issues (impossible to sync fully), issues that were supposed to be fixed by MiniSquirrel...
So I decided to announce about that in the Ittrium discord, to let everyone know of what was going on exactly, mentioning that we were mostly worried about MiniSquirrel's health, because that didn't look like him to disappear that way.
Today morning I realise that I'm banned from the Ittrium discord, which seems to be a definitive proof that MiniSquirrel made some sort of stupid "exit-scam".

Fortunately, the "only" funds he exited with were the funds invested by the only member who participated in the pre-sales (NodeRunner). Unfortunately too, because NodeRunner didn't get the respectful behavior he could expect, after being the first and only one to trust the team. NodeRunner noticed that the BTC wallet where he sent his investment coins got emptied recently, so that's another proof that the guy disappeared with the funds.

It was not a very big amount (0.3 BTC), but it's no less disgusting.

I'm sad and sorry for all those who gave time and energy to support that project (including myself...)

+1 about the community... most people there are very much involved and supportive and lots of work has been put into this.

But taking over is also a lot of work, so... whoever has the guts, feel free to knock at the door!

Hi! no free coins for Android wallet buyers? ^^

Besides that, kudos for one of the most hard-working team ever, the number of use-cases you're adding is incredible, and even though some of them look a bit "rough on the edges", they're actually working and are all getting better! Great support from the community too (the core community can even violently defend the project, to the point of being scary sometimes )

For those who want to join a friendly community-driven TELOS discord (it's unofficial, but it's supported by the Dev himself, so no worries!) feel free : https://discord.gg/sAshmA4

You'll find out that the discussions there are "easier" than on the "official" discord (euphemism ^^)

Anyway, good luck to the team!

As a reply to Jan_dG: try to download the very last wallet release : https://github.com/phoenixkonsole/transcendence/releases
then delete ALL the files in your transcendence folder, EXCEPT your masternodes.conf file and your wallet.dat files
Then restart...you should be synchronizing alright

please keep us posted

Hi!

Thank you for letting us know about your "issues".

I'm gonna try to address them, even though I'm skilled in the "communication field", which seems to imply I can easily "lie" to people (funny how a competency can make you look dirty... Now I feel sorry for having had an education )

"turns out my messages get auto deleted, which i find suspicious."
-> I don't know in what conditions your message were "automatically deleted" exactly, but if the process was "automatic" it means that our bot did that. Which means that you have probably posted some links. We activated an "auto delete" for recent members who are posting links, reason being that...we don't want the Telegram group to become a platform for anyone to advertise their spammy links or their own project that is not related to FRED Energy. A bot cannot be "smart" enough to guess if a posted link is genuine and informative, or if it's just a referrer link or anything like that.

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Doing some research into the team i found it strange to have the same team as matrix and other projects.

now i know its common for blockchain people to advise on several products, but if you hold a high ranked daily job in a company, and also are say the CTO of several blockchain project at the same time is seems suspicious. CTO is a serious role, or no ?
i find it strange that the core team is the same but the CEO(who usually takes the reputation hit from scams) and community manager(who the community relate to and interact with to generate trust) changes for each project, new people being brought in are usually the same people across the projects as well.
"
-> Shehzad is working with different projects as a developer, he's working with us as such. It's his job as a freelancer, so I guess it's normal for him to seek for not only one job at a time. He decided to specialize himself in the blockchain, which explains why he's on different blockchain projects. Again, nothing wrong with that (and this has already been addressed in a very recent post). He also has his "trusted people", that he suggested to us, with proofs that those people helped other projects raise funds. Which is, as a newborn project, what we're trying to do. Again, nothing wrong with that... to develop all we are planning to, we need funds. Until now we have been 100% working on our own funds, so we need the community and investors to kick in.

"another thing i found suspicious is that the same core team is behind icobench, which gave them a high score."

-> What you call the "core team" is a bit misleading. Michael & I are actually the most active and leading members of this project Team, we have been doing lots of things on this project until now, and we are definitely not restricted to our "official roles", aka community manager as far as I'm concerned - as you noted I'm also "officially" a creative director, but I'm also very active in contacting potential partners, inventors and product designers - I recently added a product designer to our Team, not officially yet but he'll be added to the websites soon, we prioritize working on real stuff than updating the communication supports. Michael, as a CEO, is also doing much more than "directing things". That what we need to do when we're not as many as we'd like to be. And yes, that's a weak point of our Team for now, as we are a bit under numbered and we need more active Team members (which we are working on).
As for the assumption that the CTO&advisors are "behind icobench", that's a very bold statement: do you have any links to support that claim? As far as I know they are registered on ICOBENCH as "experts" (anybody can postulate as an "expert" there by the way... I didn't try myself as I'm not pretending to be a "blockchain expert" but I know that there's an application form to fill, and I assume it's checked and validated by the ICOBENCH team). Many "icobench experts" are active on this ico ranking website, and the vast majority of them are involved with different projects, which again...is something normal. By the way, we got a ranking & review by another icobench "expert", that is not part of the team and he freely gave us an interesting review, which highlighted some weak points to be worked on.

"also the people in the core team are mostly people with education in communication, human psychology and marketing which would explain how they are able to give trustworthy answers to questions."
-> yup, that was exactly one of the reported "flaws" of the project, noted in that icobench review. The lack of technical & renewable energy specialists officially involved. Which we have been working on since the beginning, and we're happy to say that "unofficially for now" this issue has been solved. Rome was not built in one day, neither will FRED Energy... we've constantly been open and transparent in our communication with the community, and we'll always be. For now, those new members are anonymous, as they have a right and reason to be, when they decide to go "public" we'll publish their names.
Concerning the "how they are able to give trustworthy answers to question", I dunno about that myself, as I usually speak from my heart, and I can easily become a bit too "passionate" about things, especially when a genuinely nice project and people I personally know and respect are being under attack.

"now i am not here to say that this is, or is not legit, but if they had me considering supporting them then they probably will get others to do so and others might not be as thorough.
i am just sharing the experience i had which i felt was important enough for me to actually create and account over just lurking and soaking information."

-> Thank you for clearing that up, before this phrase what was written looked more like manipulation leading to dicredit (insinuating that being part of multiple projects makes some team members "suspicious", and thus the whole project; claiming that some people are "behind icobench" while - to my knowledge - they are not; insinuating that people having skills in marketing and communication might lead them to be deceptive...)

I'm personally sorry that you got interested by FRED and finally decided not to get involved because of those reasons, but I also understand that one needs to be extremely careful and leery about "new" blockchain projects that are raising funds. If you consider having a second look, I hope you'll find out that there's nothing "suspicious" about the project.

"IF you are looking into investing with FRED i highly advice that you do your homework on them, maintain healthy scepticism towards official channels and make a educated decision.
Now i am sure they will try to discredit my statements because i have fresh account, but you could do your own research or go to the telegram group and try to mention these things and see for your self."
-> You're the first to speak here, so now we have no other choice but to fall in that "rethorical trap" -> when someones says "now I'm sure they will...", that assumes that any reaction or reply will be biased and dishonest.
I already know that our bot doesn't delete messages unless they contain external links.
Besides that, if our moderators are deleting critical opinions, I'm gonna personally ask them not to, as getting criticized and being able to respond is one of the best ways to clear things up, and it always leads to better consideration of the weak points we need to address. And I love "real discussions" in a community, not the usual "praise the Team" comments we can see now and then from bounty hunters

"Side note: While writing this post i noticed they also banned me from the telegram group for asking why they delete questions that address real issues, without being judgemental i might add, all i tried to do was have them ensure me that there were no reason to be sceptic. so for me this is a big red flag and the reason i decided not to fund this project. "

-> You're right about the "red flag" concerning censorship. Our moderators are full of good will but they might have a hard time setting up a line between "constructive criticism" and "slander/FUD". After discussion with them, they did explain it that way, and they were considering your comments as "FUD". Please DM me your telegram ID, I'll get you unbanned and I'll clear this up with the mods. We need the constructive criticism & healthy skepticism.

Thank you for getting our attention already!
Hope to see you back around soon

quote from Michael, FRED Energy CEO:
"They are also advisors to the Dexacoin project. Many advisors and team members work on several projects at the same time. If you are an investor, you spread your investments rather than stake everything into one company. For myself, I only work on this project."

Nothing "weird" there, I myself work with different projects, to different levels (sometimes I'm just the community buffoon ^^)

And as I mentioned on the Telegram (where you already asked the same question), why use different photos when you have one you feel good about (and you're not trying to "hide"?). It's actually a good sign of transparency

On more serious matters: I just had a very long and interesting phone call with a product designer who's happy to work with us on our first "real world" product. Also in discussions with a renewable energies engineer to find the best options.

Key words for this one would be: Solar, lamp, phone charging, 3d printed, trekkers/campers.

Will keep you guys posted about the progress!

ICOBENCH, updated ranking:
https://icobench.com/ico-analyzer?ico=fred-energy

Looks like a good recipe for success! Now the most important is to be done: work-work-work




more than 7k Telegram members now, + our Indonesian Telegram community is growing as well, the vK community is going well too.

Thank you guys!

great job! The new website has a fresher and cleaner look, properly highlighting the strong points of the project.

The telegram community is climbing to the sky!

More than 5000 new members within a few weeks, it seems like the FRED word is spreading

our vK community is nicely growing too, already more than 400 members so far

Thank you guys!

https://discord.gg/r8sVYMs
https://t.me/FREDEnergycommunity
https://vk.com/id553294884
https://twitter.com/energy_fred

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#offtopic

yup, devs can take a break sometimes, and we should be glad that they're able to do this, as we see so many burnouts in the crypto sphere...

"mainnet" has been for a while already, have you just given the quickest look at the project / community?

check the network hashrate too, that's usually one of the signs of the status of the project.... people don't mine dead coins

Hi! I just wanted to clarify that ALL the bounty participations will be THOROUGHLY reviewed (manually...yes it's a tremendous work)

all the participants who are using irregular ways (such as multiple accounts, BS posting, spin-off articles, google trad translations...) will be eliminated and will not receive any reward.

Please stay clear from having suspicious behaviours... Thank you!

Good point there, but I would more precisely say that for now it's about hype, as no "real" product is out yet, but it's also a lot about a hard working Team, regular github updates, a nice helpful and growing community, and more and more holders who are usually very picky about the coins they're supporting. All pretty good signs for the future, but of course what will make the difference is the product (and the clients!!)

You have a very strong point when you say that physical presence and interaction is needed, and I know that it's in the plans, but only once a product is available and working.

In the meantime...believe and HOLD

SOURCE: ICOBENCH









IEO phase 1 started on FinexBox:

https://www.finexbox.com/market/pair/FRED-BTC.html

The more you survive in this crypto world, the more you start considering it a "big charade"... The thriving projects are those who have nothing to offer and they are 100% rolling on pure "hype", no real development, no real product or use case (not even a plan to put up one)...

Those coins with crazy volumes are most probably some wash trading bots and/or the project owner injecting money, buying his own coin to make some volume and gain visibility.

Just one of the numerous shady things that are done... The bear markets are only hurting valuable projects, actually, as people take their money off those projects to throw it into those overhyped things.

But in the end we know who really wins... it's a matter of keeping your head up and your goals in mind.

Hi and thank you for this spot-on comment!

So, you mean that our hard cap doesn't seem realistic compared to the goals of the project?

To this I could reply that our goal is multiple, and it has to be achieved by going through different steps.

The IEOs and funds raising in general are not supposed to make everything possible at once, but to help us reach our first (more accessible and less ambitious) goals.

Once those are reached, we can step up and reach another.

As you can see, no lies about the amount of raised funds so far, 8 ETH is not a lot but it's a very first step that will open new possibilities.

We're in for a marathon!

Binance is DEFINITELY losing credibility... I know it's not relevant here, but there's an "UDAP" project recently listed on Binance with the "UPX" ticker, while another project called uPlexa had been existing already with the same -logical- ticker UPX. uPlexa Team reporting about the issue, lots of community members complaining about that, Binance officially doesn't give a damn.

That's how "serious" we are getting now with the big/reputable exchanges...

Thank you! we're constantly alert to detect the opportunities to make a difference.

Lots of other smart moves are coming, stay tuned!

- Giant Bounty incoming to grow the community & get as much visibility as possible

- "GET REAL" actions in the making (a huge mistake with many blockchain projects is that they almost never put any "real product" on the market. I'm not talking about advertising T-Shirts or Mugs, I'm talking useful products that would appeal to lots of different people. Small, affordable, practical, good-looking, and 100% in touch with FRED purpose. That's what we are actively working on now.

In the meantime, those are the very last days before the end of the pre-sales. It's easy to say, but... that $0.005 (0.01 + 100% BONUS) won't happen anytime soon (first IEO round will be priced at $0.03 + BONUS)

join the discord or Telegram everyone! a big Airdrop is happening!

Free FRED + XLM combined!

https://t.me/FREDEnergycommunity
https://discord.gg/r8sVYMs