In my dashboard it still says Amount of Arks you will receive 0 ARKS so maybe I should wait a day or two to see the balance when the OP updates the spreadsheet.

What was the last price of ARK so we can estimate how much 1 ARK worth, or we don't know it yet?

1 ARK = 3299 satoshi

There are some crazy theories and assumptions based on faulty or just too little information about not only ARK but the Lisk communities inner workings, so I decided to give a quick overview of how the ARK team has formed and why. I tried to make it as factual as possible, correct me if you see a factual mistake.

At the very beginning of Lisk when the ICO just begun and people   started to gather in Lisk Chat, malreynolds organized a group of people called Trusted Delegates. The TDs original goal was to find trustworthy Lisk supporters to run the Lisk delegate nodes. The initial the main effort was to exlude sockpuppets, people trying to run multiple delegates. For this reason the initial TD members were those with history on BCT and/or meaningful continuous involvement in Lisk chat. The group formed and as these things go, it got more organized, rules and guildelines were made, members supported each other, some members become inactive while others joined, a community was forged (pun intended).

And what an active community it was and still is. The private channel had many times the activity of all of the public channels combined, because it was such a good group of people that we all fealt comfortable talking in there even on subject that belonged to the public channels. Max, Oliver, Joel, isabella and fixcrypt were also in the channel for many months. They only decided to exclude themselves later on when we started concentrating on voting power because they felt -and rightly so- that discussion about our voting strategies should not include them.

This group stayed strong long after forging delays were announced throught the closing of the private channels in Lisk chat (our fault, sorry, we should have been more active in public channels), and remained very active, rebranded to GDT (Global Delegate Team).

The beginning of ARK were just some off and on brainstorming session on a remote slack channel (#sharktank, I think), that slowly grown by then (again) including fixcrypt who just parted ways from Lisk. Anyone from GDT was welcome to participate and many did. A new Slack was created with open invitations to all GDT members and those who joined now known as the ARK Crew, I think it was almost 50 members. Discussion continued and the most active from these group, those who at the time had the interest and the time to actively work on a new project became the Ark Founding Team that has 25 members.

So we didn't built such a big team from nothing, but formed from an already select and battle tested larger group. We didn't even assign former roles to each other we just contributed wherever we felt we could make the most of our abilities. We weren't all large holders who wanted to take over, or replace Lisk. We just had an idea in our daily interactions and we had the will, the time and energy to make it into a reality.

Today GDT is still by far the largest and best organized group in the Lisk community and still supports Lisk and includes most of the people who long time supporters, made tools for Lisk, run it's testnet and mainnet delegates.
ARK members are still GDT members (amongst the most active members in fact), we are just sub group with a side project. Others has other involvement outside of Lisk, ours just more noticable being a Lisk fork and because of fixcrypt as a developer.

So any claims that ARK tries to overtake, replace, etc Lisk is just silly. Harming Lisk would be harming ourselves. Of course if you ask various members the exact interpretation of this statement may vary because we have different views on Lisk after 8 months of involvement, but that's just shows that ARK as a group has no agenda for or against Lisk. Individual members...you will have to ask them personally.

Hello, the refund will only be available for about 6 days.  If the deadline happens and no choice is made then it will default to no refund which means you will get ARK at mainnet launch.

Yes you will still get the bonus if you stay in.

If you need more personal help please come join our slack https://ark.io/join-ark-slack

and someone can help more.

send an email to winners@ark.io with the email address of the winning sweepstakes participant and let us know your TEC account email address.

We'll add sweepstakes bounties to the TEC account before mainnet launch.

Refunds go to the fund for 2nd round of funding and won't be offered for exchange at amount lower than the highest from anyone in current TEC to protect current participants and provide long-term value (meaning refund coins won't hit the markets at the beginning,  thus preventing a potential dump from it).

If you are experienced with ICOs you should know that your bonus adjusted amount can change in either directions, because it's not only based on your bonus but according to everyones. It's possible for your amount to decrease because the 120% bonus investments were many.

However I'd like to point out that while your ARK amount may have changed, the total value of it didn't, they are what they always were, only the numbers are corrected.

This is the reason that I'm always against showing approximate coin distibution during ongoing fundraising, it provides no useful information for participants, yet when it's adjusted people always feel that they are losing money, when it's not the case.

i can see the option on the site, thats a quick job, nice

I have a question regarding coin distribution. Yesterday I checked my dashboard and had approximately 6000 coins excluding the bonus. Now I only have 2359 coins including bonus. Why the drastic change?

really its all [WTF] i purchased using lisk and now i checked nothing in hand. the offer of 120% really worth nothing