I want to warn the community of a recent experience I've had with a user named CasioK.

Our company has been seeking a bounty campaign manager. Casio joined our Slack two weeks ago and reached out to solicit his marketing services and help. We initially agreed to a total of .5 BTC for bounty campaign management and other marketing services. He was very proactive and responsive in selling his services. However, once payment was the experience was the complete opposite. He delivered none of the services he committed to and I had to continually track him down for updates. I demanded a refund and he stated he was repay us. But unfortunately this never occurred.  It’s been two weeks.  He even threatened that if I report this to the community that there is no chance we will get repaid.

This was the last of the funds our business had before our presale and so he put our foundation in a very compromising situation. We are a non-profit foundation whose mission is to help others so every dollar is critical for us. It's especially sad when people take advantage of others that are trying to do good for the world. Now we are out of funds to complete our marketing before our crowdsale.  

I know that I’m at fault for being naive and trusting him.  However, in my research he appeared to be a trust worthy guy. Looking back, I wish I would have initiated an escrow.

I warn everyone to not deal with CasioK and encourage others that has had a negative experience with him to share your experiences. His profile and our chat transcripts are shared below.

FYI, he’s known to use multiple profiles and have a team associates so be careful. Be cautious of the following accounts as well:
- kkjack789
- Lixer
- Rizky Aditya

If anyone has info about CasioK, let's please reveal him to protect the rest of the community.

Scammers Profile Link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=401929

Reference Link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2132508

Amount Scammed: .5 BTC
Payment Method: BTC
Proof of Payment:
https://blockchain.info/tx/caa7dcf1e43de06d8b326d46bc8c74879c151b0813cdc5bc0842069c88922dab

PM/Chat Logs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sq6rwt3krgqw3h9/SCAM%20-%20casiok.pdf?dl=0
Additional Notes: I advise you to not deal with this user until this dispute is resolved.

[Campaign Manager]

Campaign Manager

The Grant Hero Foundation and the GIVE Coin are seeking an experienced member of this forum to manage both a bounty and signature campaign.  Compensation would be in the form of our GIVE coins or BTC / ETH post crowdsale.  The ideal team member will have:

• Experience in managing campaigns for ICO and crowdsales in the past
• Hero or Legendary status
• Strong reputation in the community
• Excellent organizational skills

Translation Services:

We are also seeking translation services from members in this forum to translate our ANN, whitepaper, and website.  Compensation would be in the form of our GIVE coins post crowdsale.
-  Chinese (Cantonese / Mandarin)
-  Russian

No Google translations please. Only native speaking members only please.  


You can find out more details about our foundation on our ANN thread here:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2132508.0 as well as our website at:  http://granthero.ngo

Please reach out to us if you are interested. We are primarily interested in those that believe in our mission.  

[Program Details]

We’re excited to announce that our GIVE Coin and crowdsale contracts are ready for review!

You can find the code in our official GitHub repository:  http://github.com/granthero/givecoin

A professional audit will be performed by the Zeppelin Solutions team, however, we invite all developers to review our code, provide feedback, and report any issues. In return, our bug bounty program will compensate the community for discovering issues that could potentially impact the security and performance of token itself.


Program Details

The scope of our bug bounty program includes all contracts related to the GIVE coin and crowdsale. This includes contracts from our official Grant Hero GIVE GitHub repo and also the Ethereum ERC223 (https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/223) standard that it is built upon.

Check out the following resources for detailed information regarding:

• Give Coin (Purpose, utility, and architecture)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CIwDHv7pg97ZBLzup-Xq84GSAp3Dx4HEVNj0j5CrnXs/edit

• Grant Hero SCITO Crowdsale

https://blog.granthero.ngo/grant-hero-scito-crowdsale-99ee0900e00e

The bug bounty program runs from the publication of this post through October 1st.


Compensation
Our team will assess each submission individually and assign a level of severity according to its likelihood and impact to the security and performance of the token itself. Compensation will depend on the severity of the issue found.

• Low: Up to $1,000 USD
• Medium: Up to $2,500 USD
• High: Up to $5,000 USD
• Critical: Up to $15,000 USD

Note that bounties will be paid in ETH after the crowdsale has concluded pending that our minimum cap of $1M USD is reached. Grant Hero employees and paid auditors are not eligible for bounty compensation.

Please report bug bounty submissions to security@granthero.ngo.

Our blog post related to this can be found at:
https://blog.granthero.ngo/grant-hero-token-audit-and-bug-bounty-15417218f93a

Our ANN be found at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2132508

GRANT HERO GIVE COIN CROWDSALE STARTS ON OCTOBER 2ND

WEBSITE ● WHITEPAPER ● PROTOTYPE ●

BLOG ● TWITTER ● FACEBOOK ● YOUTUBE

I thought that this would be a fun and interesting thread for both investors and entrepreneurs.

As the title states, I am seeking a developer to create a HTML post and signatures that we can use for our ICO on Bitcointalk.

If you have done this, please PM me.  I'd require to see examples of posts and signatures that you have completed in the past.  Compensation will be cash using PayPal, Cryptocurrency, or tokens from our platform upon release.

(Please note that we have developers on our team that could do this, but I'd rather not pull them away from the focus of completing our platform.  Instead, I'd rather pay another developer that has quickly done this in the past to help.)

Thanks in advance.

As the title states, I am seeking a developer to create a HTML post and signatures that we can use for our ICO on Bitcointalk.

If you have done this, please PM me.  I'd require to see examples of posts and signatures that you have completed in the past.  Compensation will be cash using PayPal or tokens from our platform upon release.

(Please note that we have developers on our team that could do this, but I'd rather not pull them away from the focus of completing our platform.  Instead, I'd rather pay another developer that has quickly done this in the past to help.)

Thanks in advance.

Given the recent hacks with Parity (multi-sig wallet) and the impact to ICO's such as Dao.Casino, etc... I thought to start this topic.

To protect business and investor interests, shouldn't ICO's accept and store investor funds on a paper wallet?  In that way, it's the most secure.

Additionally, it's the least liquid wallet which is what we would want as an investor right?  It forces the startup to secure the funds and slowly leverage the funds necessary to build and grow the business (rather than quickly cash out the funds and potential impact cryptocurrency prices or scam us)?  Thoughts?

If you are looking to create your own AltCoin and ICO, what smart contract platform are you using and why?  For example, Ethereum ERC20, Waves, Omni, etc.

I'd love to hear people's thoughts and opinions on this including why you think it's a better platform.

<Posting in this board as I didn't see a project development specific board in the Altcoin board. I apologize in advance.>

We are planning to develop and launch a new Ethereum based token and we need an experienced developer who can create advanced smart contracts for Ethereum using Solidity.

The right candidate needs to have extensive experience in Javascript and Solidity as well as having successfully launched smart contracts on EVM.

We are looking for someone with previous experience in this space; therefore, please provide information about your previous projects.  This would be for part-time paid contract development that could result in a future technical advisor role with tokens as compensation.

Ideal candidates will have:
• > 3 years professional experience as a software engineer
• Cryptography, Security, Bitcoin, MongoDB, Javascript
• Hands-on experience with implementing Digital Signature Algorithms
• Experience with smart contracts preferred
• Willingness to work on multiple crypto assets
• Apply blockchain security technologies (beyond the world of fin-tech and crypto-currency)
• Evaluate, analyze, and target weaknesses in cryptographic security systems and algorithms
• Design robust security systems to prevent vulnerabilities
• Previous smart contract architecture and development experience with other companies that have ICO'ed

Our team is comprised of ex-Microsoft professionals with over 10+ years of experience and are located in the United States.  Our advisors are also reputable individuals in their respective industries.  Our platform is near completion; however, the crypto space is one of the areas we lack experience and need assistance in.

We look forward to hearing from you!  

While I know that there is no official playbook and tons of information about token sales / ICO's on the Internet... I thought it would be helpful to identify the advisory / consulting firms in this space for those who do need it.  The ones I am aware of are the following:

• Argon Group
• Cryptoassets
• Tokenmarket
• Tokenhub
• New Alchemy
• Cofound.It

Any others out there?  For anyone that has leveraged these firms, we'd love to hear your experience including payment methods (cash, tokens, etc.)

For those that have or are considering launching an ICO, did you use or are you considering using an ICO hosting (or consulting) company such as the Argon Group, Tokenmarket, Cryptoassets, Tokenhub, etc.?

Are there ones that people recommend in this space?  Or do you generally think that they are not useful or needed when offering a token sale?  Thoughts and feedback are greatly appreciated.

Out of curiosity, what is the single most important factor you choose when investing in an ICO?

I'd love to hear what influences you the most.  Comment if you want to rank the list or note the least most important factor.