Is Ionomy masternode hosting under maintenance? I do get that message so I d like to know is it just me?

Could you please explain how the Ionomy slack is helping, lets say, Bitcoin? How is the Ionomy slack beneficial to any other coin? Just trying to sort out that logic. Seems in the past when a different coin was brought up on Slack that person would be told to go to that coins slack channel. So now I'm really confused. All these coins have their own slack channel, yet you state that ION is one of the few coins that has a slack channel. Are all those other coins Slack fake? Are those other coins lying about having their own slack channel?

Slack seems to be the choice of these new found ICOs. No record kept, don't have to be accountable. What happened to a good old forum where information goes to live? Not get destroyed in 2 days cause the free Slack memory is used up. I know what happened...Garza tried to scrub all his lies, but the internet is forever. So all these coins are avoiding the permenance and going to Slack, where they can make shit up as they go and there is no visual record of it. The future of crypto is Slack ladies and gentleman. Much innovation, many awesome.

The question was about the price spike and your shillbuddy tried to pivot to slack and other usual bullshittery. It's fairly obvious to anyone who cares to visit ionomy slack that it's devoid of any useful substance on that topic, spammed by "whales" like MrSECApproval and their pompous nonsense.

Funny you should mention the FAQ. A lot of the information provided on slack turned out to be false, e.g.:

If you think that basic transparency - e.g. what ionomists were doing for 18 months if they have fuck all to show for it and need another ICO to keep going - is "private", then please send me all your money. I really want it and I don't feel like telling you why. Because private.

Yeah right... What does Apple (a publicly-traded company BTW, financial reports available) have to do with this

It's the ionomy thread, you pillock. And you have stated numerous times that you don't care about questions or answers, so why do you get so jumpy when others do? To use your absurd analogy - I don't give a shit if someone asks questions about Apple.

Please show where suchmoon said he would be selling the meth.

One can participate in all sorts of illegal activity, some even quite profitable. For ionomy however this might cause some friction when they need to deal with vendors IRL (Google, Apple, et al). Otherwise they could just sell meth on their site and not bother with those pesky games

Of course not, why would "the tax man" do such a thing? However "the tax man" (or woman) can make you pay capital gains tax, which you seem to imply hasn't started yet.

Unless you didn't have any gains. Maybe your paycoining lets you carry forward the $3k loss allowance for the next 100 years while at the same time bragging about your "profits".

The Josh adventure is a better right off because it was a SCAM for the investors.. better than just a investment loss for this year...

No, my next prediction is that your charming ignorance won't work on the IRS agent. "This is from Seychelles" won't work either.

My guess is that most developed countries will try to impose some sort of control over this nonsense. One of the easiest ways to do this is by going after the exchanges. Places like Bittrex may be forced to drop ICO tokens if trading those tokens would require them to become a regulated securities exchange.

They'll only tell you about the cake and ice cream, not the nuts and bolts.

pretty much. the fact you'd have to do some work means you have to investigate to find some transparency i.e its not clearly evident.

you pulled the im being a bad man thing to avoid answering the question you said you would. look into your past history korvas, you havent been nice yourself to a lot of people. you can sit back all day and justify why you think they deserve it or they started first but you should lead by example. should someone new and nice here answer any of your questions based on how they see you treat others?

i personally wont be answering any more of your questions until you address the one i asked on transparency like you said you would so you basically cant ask me to validate anything anymore. im pretty sure most others will do the same as well its a two way street and you've commited to only things in your lane.

they are going to be fooked if sec retrospectively applies unregistered securities laws on icos in the past too. they'll prolly just try to scrub the net of statements about it and say it never happened and it was a donation, swap or crowdfund

They never started delivering. It's been a year since they announced a "one game a month" roadmap and haven't delivered even a single complete game.

Instead they're now announcing a bunch of new and regurgitated bullshit and are asking for more money.

ION FAQ
Last Update: October 21, 2016

Q: What is ION?
A: A hybrid clone of Blackcoin and Dash.

Q: What is ionomy?
A: Mainly an online wallet for ION and an ION/BTC exchange, with some non-blockchain features such as atoms, electrons, and stakers.

Q: What are stakers?
A: Stakers are ionomy.com online wallets paying interest rates of 15%-50% on term deposits.

Q: Where is the staker revenue coming from?
A: Supposedly from masternodes owned by ionomy.com, however the interest rates don't match masternode staking rewards and it is unclear how ionomy.com would use excess coins (if any) or cover shortages (if any).

Q: Is there a standalone wallet for ION?
A: Yes, source and builds available on Github.

Q: What's the connection with Paycoin and GAW?
A: ION was created by a team that tried to prop Paycoin (XPY) up for a year after GAW's demise, XPY being the extension of the hashlet ponzi scheme perpetrated by GAW owner/CEO Homero Joshua Garza. In April 2016 the team declared XPY dead, created their own new coin ION, rebranded xpy.io online wallet to ionomy.com, and converted xpy.io XPY balances to ION.

Q: What's the purpose of ION and ionomy.com?
A: Mobile game development with a focus on in-game use of ION. Announcement here, more info here.

Q: How was ION created and distributed?
A: xpy.io users had their XPY converted to ION at a 8:1 rate. Others had a chance to purchase ION via an ICO at $0.20-0.25. ION is 100% pre-mined with ~75% of the initial coin supply controlled by its creators.

Q: What happened to the exchanged XPY?
A: Some of it has been burned however it is unclear how much has been exchanged and what happened to the rest.

Q: What happened to the BTC collected during the ICO?
A: According to unconfirmed third party claims most of the BTC has been converted to USD. There is an ICO address provided that shows 335 BTC received and 0 BTC balance as of June 16, 2016.

Q: Did they use escrow?
A: No.

Q: What will happen to the rest of the premine that the team still controls?
A: It is supposed to be used for bounties, promotions, etc.

Q: What are the addresses for bounties and other team-controlled wallets?
A: As of October 2016 the top two largest balances on the ION network seem to correspond to the 3.4 million ION gamer incentive fund and the 2.5 million ION dev bounty fund as outlined in the whitepaper. The team did not provide details about unsold coins or other parts of the ICO.

Q: How is the team using staking proceeds from the bounty/incentive and other team-controlled wallets?
A: The team did not provide any details. For example the dev bounty fund previously consisted of multiple addresses totaling 2.5 million ION, which have generated 400k+ coins via staking between May-October 2016, however these extra coins are not included in the currently known dev bounty wallet.

Q: What are masternodes?
A: Masternodes are blockchain wallets with a 20k ION minimum balance. Masternodes share 50% of all block rewards (potentially ~50% APY in the first year).

Q: How many masternodes does the team own?
A: The team did not provide any details.

Q: What are community masternodes?
A: Off-chain project that allows users who own less than 20k IONs to pool their funds and create masternodes.

Q: Are community masternodes, atoms, or any other ionomy tokens considered securities in the US or Singapore?
A: The team did not provide any details.

Q: Why Singapore?
A: Ionomy PTE (a Singapore company) is the counterparty in ionomy.com TOS however such company does not show up in BizFile search. Bureaucratic reasons are blamed for the issue.

Q: What can ION be used for?
A: In addition to the community masternode project ION may be accepted in trades on marketplace channel (login required) and BilingServ offers a service to merchants willing to accept ION, however no such merchants are known.

Q: Is ION exchangeable to other currencies?
A: Yes, ionomy.com offers an ION/BTC exchange and Yobit has listed ION as well.

Q: How many games does ionomy.com plan to produce?
A: One every month.

Q: How many games has ionomy.com produced?
A: As of five months after the ICO one game (Gravity) is in closed alpha testing phase.

Q: How are ionomy.com games going to generate revenue?
A: Via in-game sales of items such as electrons.

Q: Where is the in-game revenue going to be used?
A: For games produced by ionomy.com it will be split into three equal parts: ionomy.com (developer), rewards program (points), and ION buyback. For third-party games the split will be determined by the developer.

Q: What is the ION buyback process and how does it ensure fairness and transparency?
A: Bittrex has been mentioned, however ION is not listed there as of October 2016. No further details have been provided.

Q: How big is the ionomy team?
A: 5 full time employees and 5-10 part-time/contractors.

Q: Does the team plan to maintain and update the games or do they have a built in shelf life? (i.e. quality vs quantity)
A: Some games are planned to be updated for a few years.

Q: How will the team work around Google Play and Apple rules prohibiting the use of third-party payment methods (such as ION) in mobile games?
A: The team claims to have no issues with Google, and Apple will evaluate compliance once the games are submitted to the store. The solution appears to be based on using non-blockchain non-monetary tokens (electrons) in games, instead of using ION directly.

Q: How many ION team members does it take to fix the "edgey" typo in the Urban Words description?
A: The team did not provide any details.

Q: Does the team provide any status updates or other information?
A: Some limited information may surface on ionomy slack however due to lack of structure, required login, and limited retention it is difficult to locate and impossible to link to slack postings. Status updates are sometimes emailed to ionomy.com users and there is a rarely updated news page.  Some investors have claimed to have access to privileged information, including financial details and business plans by virtue of being "whales" (large investors).

You tell us to read the roadmap, yet the roadmap is not accurate. It STILL states one game per month. Where are the other 15 games? Seems they're too worried about raising more funds to change a few simple sentences on the website. A few simple sentences elude them.

They're nice guys.

It is blatantly obvious you have no clue what the Ionomy Vision is.

I asked what the Ionomy Vision was and the response by a senior whale was "Awesome". Goes right along with the fact we should trust the team cause they're "nice".

I dare anyone to state what the Ionomy Vision is.

lol because there is no expectation of profit even if wildshark and korvas make posts about it being so