love the idea
i will invest some
even if it won't succeed in delivering the promise, it would be fun to watch market cap of this coin going up as a symbol of people freedom
heck, even if it fails and token price drops to 0, i will keep the tokens as a souvenir for their ideology.

and don't tell me that all investments in the world are based solely on calculation of future profits. sometimes people do/spend just for hope of better world, without expectations of immediate profit for themselves

and by the way, despite the team stated there is no technology involved in their solution, there COULD be some technology and automation especially on later stages after community growing up. i see here a potential for 2 types of use cases in community, forming kind of marketplace for mutual profit and making it truly decentralized (reducing the need to trust in centralized third party which is more vulnerable to govt than anonymous marketplace blockchain)

Chinese guys from binance must be kidding..
20 wtc (~40$ as for now, don't know about future price) for providing your full kyc including selfie!
While that's nice marketing trick to enlist more kyc'ed users in, i consider it bad deal.
On the top of it, 2 btc daily withdraw limit for anon user vs bittrex's 4 (with burner phone registration). And Chinese exchanges track record for full-exchange-scale freezing crypto withdrawals for months...

If anyone is too much eager to sell their kyc for money, go for kyber ico. ~3 ether capped investment will get you near sure *3 ROI in some week (in exchange for kyc+selfie). or kik ico..
Today's crypto users just don't care about privacy

I predict that in 1 year from now we will see marketplaces on blockchain for lending this kind of info for ico participation (maybe also exchange register). lending means the lender fills in the info directly to legit ico site and gets tokens compensation for it upon success (or penalty to reputation if fail). Ico anyone?  The demand is clear with some users don't care about privacy and want to earn passive income, while others care and ready to pay..

i considering to invest but have some questions

1) as a user, why would i switch to obsidian messenger from my current ones (telegram, signal, ethereum status etc..)
can you state concrete advantages of obsidian vs signal? vs new ethereum status messenger?
why would i pay even miniscule fee for sending message/file when i have free open source alternatives with end to end encryption like signal?

2) why stratis was choosen to fork? and not for example iota which is quantum resistant and have no fees (which seems descent features for messenger)

3) if actual messaging happens off chain, why the blockchain is needed (except for paying fees)

ButchPooch THANKS MAN!!!
i spammed some 50 in mew and eventually got in!
lol i realized i'm in only when account got broke and i got a message "Account you are sending from does not have enough funds. If sending tokens, you must have 0.01 ETH in your account to cover the cost of gas"
tokens (Status Network Token) shown at etherscan.io under token transfer tab

thanks again! 

someone, please implement transaction accelerator for eth.
like viabtc for bitcoin
https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator

theres a conspiracy!
ethereum foundation and etherscan.io secretly plotted to drop the network during each high profile ico
ico is let in only if it pays them some 
 

i have never understood ppl asking high price for teaching you unique and easy money earning strategy
assuming i have such strategy, why wouldn't i just invest my way to billions enjoying compound interest?
and being a billionaire, why would i need taking from ppl these small dimes
i can see some value in exposing to community great trading skills for building solid reputation.
having such a reputation (say 80%+ predictions right) and host of followers, it becomes possible to manipulate market (buy cheap, pump using rep, sell high) (hehe setting ethics aside)