What would be really great (and I think would help connect investors to this project) would be if they could post photos or video of the site(s). Rather like a real estate tour - "this is where we plan to buy and build the waste to energy facility".

I've already put my ETH toward this project, but I think I'd be more invested and likely to convince friends to go in on it as well if I had something like that. Just my two cents (or I guess I should say, my ETH).

Charles

I bought in at 1 ETH, but sold off enough to recoup my investment when it hit ED - it was 4X. But I bought most of it back for less than that and will be HODLing like crazy now.

Great to see this project getting traction, at least in terms of people finding enough value in it to invest even before it really hits any big exchanges. Good for my pockets, too.

Loved the ICO process, it was free of the typical over-hyped projects that result in token dumps from overpaid bounty hunters and whales who got massive bonuses.

I may have mentioned this in an earlier post, but I had a friend who worked on this project several years ago when it was @ Disney in Seattle, and his general sense was that the project was ahead of its time.  Plus since I'm from the Northwest, great to see another local tech project do well

Agree, the INS the website does seem a little cheesy and overly complex. I have to say, though, I probably would have invested if they took US citizens...

Thanks for the tips, everyone. What I find fun is when you have your avatar set to promote one ICO, and then go on to talk about another in this thread! For those of you who are doing that: is this because the bounty was better one ICO but you have invested in another? Fear of being seen as a shill? I'm honestly quite curious... I'm still a considered a newbie on this forum so I don't get incentives to change my Avatar yet and wondering how to decide which one to promote?

Personally, I'm really excited about two ICOs in particular - CanYa Coin and Bloom Token. I'm invested in both. I actually had to beg to invest in CanYa coin, because I'm a US citizen but not a qualified investor, so they had me sign a waiver. Everything they do seems like what I would do if I was running an ICO - even down the bounty program, which doesn't promote quantity at the expense of quality. And Bloom is looking to credit a global credit system, and they have been partnering with everyone who is anyone to get this thing off the ground - I think they even got the former Experian CTO onboard.

I got so pumped about both of these that I actually wrote blogs about them. Not sure the BitCoinTalk rules are yet - can I post links to blogs if those blogs include referral links (which they do)? I don't want to just copy/paste everything in here and annoy people, but upvote this or comment if you want me to post links to either or both and I will...

I have been using MyEtherWallet ever since I started investing in ICOs, so the idea that there is a token on a new blockchain that has a faster speed than Ethereum is a big deal to me with all these Crypto Kitties gumming up the Ethereum blockchain over the last few days!!!

What's amazing to me is that the 25 days of Christmas thread has MORE comments and discussion than the main thread. Well, it's Christmas and everyone is feeling generous, even the ICOs. Perhaps this Christmas airdrop will be the gift that keeps on giving. I'm not feeling super creative this evening, but perhaps I'll try a quick poem:

Trident, Trident, Trident... will it be remembered by us humans?
Trident, Trident, Trident... it's the spear of underwater mermans
Trident, Trident, Trident... I write it three times thrice

But what have you to do with Christmas? Not much, I'm afraid!

But when we choose to support Trident, soon, soon, soon...
We'll be singing Titans praises, as we cheer "To the moon!"

It will be a Merry Christmas, all thanks to Trident!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...

I always liked the idea of corporate Christmas giving, and now there are ICO and crpytos that are in the giving spirit. Airdrops rule... once I get my tokens, I might be inclined to give right back! Thanks, Trident. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Haha. So true. I'm at a point that even if Bitcoin was accepted everywhere that Visa was, there is no way I would spend Bitcoin on anything. HODL! (If my employer wanted to PAY me in BTC though... that would be an interesting decision...)

I've been on the Soferox Telegram channel since they had their ICO, and that's where I saw this announcement posted. This will be their first ICO on their new blockchain.

Thanks everyone for all of this good information. I went to a meetup about Bitcoin this afternoon and it turned into a BitClub Network pitch.

Most everything sounded very plausible (except the slide which claimed that the power cooling costs would be $0 because "hydro and geothermal" and "It's in Iceland", which I made a point of to the meeting organizer). In fact, the organizer was very low key overall and didn't even hard sell the MLM side of things - we actually had to ask her to explain it to us.

Bottom line.. I was really sold and had her create an account for me, with a plan to go home and do some research on this before I invested. However, she then told everyone we had to download the Opera browser for it to work. That seemed very odd. I've never used Opera on a PC before. But, okay. When I asked why, she told us it that Bitcoin Club was being "smart" - since "everything you do is watched by the US government, even your internet activity", Bitcoin Club is blocking IP addresses in the US and Opera has a built-in VPN. Ah, sure, whatever... but then were told not only did we have to use a VPN, but we also had to set it to Canada or Europe, that way we could join, otherwise, we'd get a "warning" about no longer accepting U.S. investors because of SEC regulations, etc. HUGE RED FLAG!

However, I actually went through all of these "warnings" on the website (one "warning" was that they would refund ALL of my money if they found out I was in the US - not really that scary) and was still able to log in to the site. But doing a quick Google search lead me to this forum and several other websites which have confirmed my suspicions that the reason they stopped wanting U.S. investors is because they are selling unregistered securities, and, more importantly, they aren't able to sustain payouts to investors without money from new investors, which makes it a classic MLM pyramid scheme.

So, thanks for the all of the warnings about giving away my precious Bitcoin to something like this, and even more importantly, keeping me from roping my friends and coworkers into something that won't last. Unless I get some additional information and clarification on the math that show it's more than a total scam  - I'll update everyone here if it does and ask for feedback - I will be sitting this one out!

So it looks like I don't qualify for the YouTube and signature bounties because I am not yet a junior member. What I wasn't clear on is if the other bounties are available to newbie bitcointalk participants...

Well said. I also finally caved in and joined the forums for the bounties and learning more about ICOs... especially Blocklancer. This is one of the first ICOs I invested in several months ago.

I don't see any information about a bounty campaign, aside from translations. Is the intention to use the airdrop-inspired bitcointalk comments and questions (which are required for the airdrop) as the only crowdsourced promotion mechanism and forego the typical Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Bitcointalk profile bounty campaigns?

Wow. I don't think I have a single negative thing to say about this project - which is a huge compliment, since I have looked a well over 100 ICOs this summer and fall! First and foremost, following the very concept of crypto, it does NOT rely on altruism in any way. Those who have expertise are paid for their time and wisdom, and again, because it uses smart contracts, no one has to trust anyone else's ability to pay. And sounds like you will have a minimally functional product available by the end of the fall. Seems like you have set up some great partnerships as well. You guys have even bothered to sync up with Quantstamp, another ICO that I am pretty sold on, to do testing and validation. It's all there - this is what ICOs should be for! Needless to say, I am sold...

I will be following on Twitter joining the Telegram group to ask and read answers to questions, and ultimately, I plan on investing in this ICO myself. I think there is an airdrop as part of bitcointalk, which I definitely want to be a part of, and if there is a bounty campaign (I haven't gotten that far into the bitcointalk posts yet) I will be participating in those as well. I think this ICO just vaulted into my Top 5 ICOs of the fall!

And, as I was writing this, I just realized I might have some expertise to offer, and I am sure there are a lot of other average joes out there who do as well. And in fact, I will probably also be willing to pay for advice, so my investment in tokens (and any payments I might get) could even be used to pay for service, so this really is a utility token and not just a security which is just pretending to be a token! Looking forward to the progress of this project.

I'm in also. Thanks for using an ICO model that mitigates again pump and dump whales.

I might be new to bitcointalk, but I'm all in on BlockLancer and the Bounty campaign. I was lucky enough to be one of those who bought tokens in the presale... to the Moon!

I'm also very interested in any Facebook or Twitter campaigns...

I started hearing about Bitcoin in the summer of 2016, but I waited until this year to start investing, and thought I was too late to the game. But since I bought my first Bitcoin (portion of a Bitcoin really) the price keeps steadily going up month over month, and if you are paying attention to the swings, you can buy at more favorable times (like right after governments and CEOs say and do things that introduce FUD). Not suggesting day trading crypto - you might as well learn how to count cards or go play Poker at a casino - but if you're in it for the long game, realize the price has been rising at levels which far outpace the stock market and other investments available to those of us who don't invest full-time or have millions to invest. So, no, I don't think you are too late.

This is probably a stupid question that is answered elsewhere, but since this is the beginner forum, I'll ask 

Why would I need to download bitcoin core? I have been trading BTC and other crypo and moving my tokens to wallets but never had a need to download something called Bitcoin core. Again, probably a really obvious answer, but I'm new...