The problem is that unless non-investors see a potential for the coin to rise, demand (and thus price) will not increase.

Altcoins are having a tremendous day today but yet QAU is down >4%. It's not on anybody's radar and all the incremental bumps it gets from token buybacks won't put it there. This model the token uses (that keeps getting lauded as special and a fool-proof means of bringing about price increase) just isn't sustaining interest or demand.

Innovation or stagnation is the name of the game (unless you're the first mover BTC) and QAU is playing badly.

There are currently 420 addresses in existence that hold QAU tokens.

Approximately 350 addresses hold QAU with a cumulative dollar value of greater than $10 (at the current price of ~0.12 on November 5th).

The following is the approximate value of 1 QAU in USD at the ICO and on the first of each month:

ICO price - 0.05
July - ~0.29
August - ~0.22
September - ~0.22
October - ~0.16
November - ~0.12

I know this because I'm still one of those few who hold over 100 QAU and occasionally take the time to check.

Call it FUD if you like. Another description you might give this information is 'facts'.

I keep the few QAU tokens I still have as a reminder not to make dumb investments in projects with no substance to them.

They don't even bother proofing the English of the tweets.

New team member joining #QuantumProject soon. New associate will handle legal acpects of the project

Try:

New team member joining #QuantumProject soon. New associate will handle legal aspects of the project

All the financial info potential investors need is on coinmarketcap and it's bad...

The QAU Project appears to be dying, and at an increasingly fast rate. I'm currently very, very glad I cashed out all but 100QAU at $0.26 after the 'new' website was released. The project has very little going for it and it's deflationary angle is proving not such a big draw.

Also, I assume 'rindo' meant to say that the operation has a high risk and it is never guaranteed the possibility of no losses.

Good luck though everyone!

I can only assume that the website goes down in order to be altered. Yesterday I remember reading on the site the rather odd phrase "probably low risk" and I can no longer find that. The reason I am glad if it's gone is because something concerning risk inherently involves probability. It's like reading the phrase "there is probably a danger that getting into a cage filled with hungry lions wearing nothing but a Lady Gaga meat dress will get you killed". All the use of 'probably' does is distract from the next and most pertinent point of the sentence, the danger. Likewise, "probably low risk" does nothing but muddle the meaning of "low risk". Can anyone confirm changes to the site since the new version came up?

Well, the website it now https rather than http at least. 

Why state on Twitter that it was with the help of $BCH? It diminishes your own actions to do so.

As has already been said, September 5th is not what you promised. You've been working on getting a new website since at least around July 10th. Does building a website with millions of dollars in funding really take so long? Let's just hope it is worth the wait (and isn't full of basic errors in English grammar and spelling that immediately give off an amateurish impression).

I've been gradually reducing my stake in Quantum during the last couple of weeks. I'm not optimistic that I'll be contributing to any price rise to the benefit of holders anytime soon.

Translation: No 

Oh and BXD2017, there are no transactions on the blockchain that indicate a 1 bitcoin transaction. Are you sure you have your figures right? If you do and it's on an exchange, consider moving it to a cold wallet for better security.

Thank you for the explanation Quantum Project.

But am I correct in thinking that the fall in the number of wallets with tokens since the ICO would suggest a fall in the number of people holding QAU?

So... I'm a little worried.

For the first time (embarrassing I know) I was just looking at the Etherscan page for the Quantum token at: https://etherscan.io/token/0x671abbe5ce652491985342e85428eb1b07bc6c64#balances and I noticed something slightly alarming.

According to my reading, of the 246,436,893.3789 QUA in existence, 87% are currently located at one address... What's that about?

Sure, the Quantum Project developers said two thirds of all the QAU (66%) created would be kept in order to increase the liquidity pool, but it would seem to me (I am fully prepared to be proved wrong) that with 87% held at one address, they're doing more than just burning around 500,000 QAU a month, they're also buying up a huge amount on top of that. Millions and millions.

Of course, I hope I'm misreading the implications and this is not the case.

On top of that, while ICO participants totaled 486 people, Quantum tokens are currently spread across 376 addresses. What makes this even more alarming (to me at least) is that only 265 addresses now hold more than 1000 tokens.

Am I wrong in finding all this a worry? Are the exchanges (Livecoin and HitBTC in particular) merely granted IOU's for QAU still held by the devs? Somebody please explain this to me in terms I (a not too bright person) can understand.

All the best!

You keep going on about the ICO return.. but you also want more poor people to be buying and trading in QAU, right?

Obsessing so hard about the ICO return alienates new investors and caps the potential price increase (less investors = less demand and trading).

Number of ICO investors: 486

Sooooo, just as long as the circulating supply totaling tens of millions of tokens remains within the hands of 971 people, the majority of investors will obviously remain nothing but happy! Brilliant!

Let's just hope that no more than 971 people get involved in the project so we can keep saying what a resounding success it is!

Sure, they burned thousands of dollars worth of tokens... but when burning tokens is the defining aspect of your model, is that really that admirable?

The devs seem to be all about avoiding raising red flags over as long a period as possible. Burning "$200,000" of tokens prevents them losing more than "$200,000" of value (through investor dissatisfaction and suspicion) on the tokens they still possess. When so much else is lacking, it really isn't anything to applaud.

Being upfront with investors in terms of their identities and meeting promises regarding the greater transparency shown in the 'apparently' upcoming website is the most positive thing the devs could do at this point. Unless they're planning on undertaking a major re-branding, all that waiting to engage in marketing does is imply that the project is at the back of a long list of other priorities (that are of ZERO advantage to QAU holders).

That would require effort. Why would the devs work when they can just sell off their own QAU covertly over the next few months or years at the expense of those holding? If they don't do or say anything then nobody can accuse them of failure in light of the post-ICO profits they advertise so prominently. As soon as they get more proactive it will become clear how little future Quantum has.

They're essentially relying on those who hold whatever happens (just as they have stated they intend to do with BitcoinCash) and 'black holing' a 'token' amount of QAU every month (that I expect will decrease gradually over time) to keep the illusion alive that the model has some promise.

Sure, the model might have promise in another group's hands, but not in this case. Why expect anything of devs who are unable to fund the production of a new website despite receiving millions during the ICO at the helm? I imagine the next few months will consist of the occasional whale dumping their QAU as they come to their senses, followed by the still devoted (but ever decreasing) followers buying up at what they think is a bargain price, only for the cycle repeat until there are a few desperate souls holding onto hundreds of thousands of tokens with a value of $0.00000000005 each.

While I don't know the founder, what I will say is that according to CoinMarketCap data, of the top 100 currencies and assets QAU is one of only four that have bucked the trend and made gains in the last 24hours. I personally find this pretty encouraging as a sign that the Quantum Project's model is able to buck trends.