This statement just confirm that this project is a scam, ICONOMI, Decent even Antshare put their ICO address in the public domain. I said they are going to buy into their own ICO and that is what happened.

because as people have been saying, it was inside buying, and they left the other 10% for real peole to buy and get scammed.
hope not but everything tells me yes

Would the other 49% be in the circulation just after the launch?
But a plus point is that inflation of Qtum is less than Ethereum.

There's not much hype of this project. Still it has managed to collect millions.
I mean, hype like other famous projects.

How can we ensure that all investments are real and not made by the team?

Also, it is strange that some people are investing in Ethereum. If they exchange Ethereum to Bitcoin and then invest they would get greater number of Qtums.

I just read this on Yunbi

When will I receive my Qtum token after the ICO?

The mainnet of Qtum blockchain is still under development. The participants probably needs to wait about 4-5 months until Qtum goes live. The specific time depends on the development of Qtum blockchain.


4-5 months for go-live,its too much time in cryto world

About two months ago it was all the rage that Qtum had a working Testnet, just working the bugs out with promises of an immanent release, but now Qtum promising JUST a snapshot of the code 2 days before the Crowd Sale (one word!; this is like talking to Leroy Fodor), where for those playing at home, it's currently three days till Qtum's crowdsale, ergo the complicated math looks like this -> (X_today + 3_days) - 2_days = t0m0rr0w.

From https://qtum.org/en/crowdsale




Qtum Crowdsale Details

1. What is the Qtum Token (QTUM)?
2. What is the total QTUM supply and initial distribution?
3. When does the Crowdsale take place?
4. What crypto-currencies are accepted in the crowdsale?
5. What is the price of Qtum tokens? What bonuses can I receive?
6. How can I participate?
7. How are the funds secured?


What is Qtum?


1. What is the Qtum Token (QTUM)?

QTUMs are cryptographic software tokens used to engage with distributed applications (“dApps”) and smart contracts on the Qtum platform. QTUMs will serve as the staking currency of the Qtum blockchain and fuel computational operations performed by the Qtum network.


2. What is the total QTUM supply and initial distribution?


With the setting of Qtum’s Genesis Block, one hundred million (100,000,000) QTUMs will be created as Qtum’s total token supply, on top of which ~1% annual Proof of Stake (PoS) inflation will be added.
The QTUM token supply will be allocated as follows:


51% of Qtum tokens (51,000,000) will be distributed through the crowdsale

51 million QTUMs will be available for acquisition during the crowdsale. The funds raised this way will be used to bankroll the operations of the Qtum Foundation for the next four years. This includes development, administration, marketing, financial and legal consultancy, etc. Remaining, unsold tokens from the crowdsale budget will be sold privately to institutional investors.
    

20% of Qtum tokens (20,000,000 QTUM) will be distributed among founders, early backers and the development team

Founders, early backers and the development team are rewarded with Qtum tokens for their efforts, resources, and technologies contributed to the development of the Qtum blockchain.
        

7% - 8% of (Deducted from the 20% above)  Qtum tokens will be allocated to early backers and investors.

Qtum received over 1 million US dollars from 32 early investors, including a host of notable blockchain entrepreneurs (see below). Additional early investors will be disclosed at a later stage.



            Anthony Di Iorio,   Co-founder of Ethereum and CEO at JAXX Wallet
            Roger Ver,   World’s first major investor in bitcoin startups
            Weixing Chen,   Founder of Kuaidi
            Jeremy Gardner,   Co-founder of Augur EIR at Blockchain Capital
            David Lee Kuo Chuen,   Founder of Left Coast, Libai and Dlee Capital Management
            Bo Shen,   Fenbushi Capital managing partner
            Jehan Chu,   Jen Advisors Ethereum Hong Kong Meetup
            Qingzhong Gao,   Director of HuaWei Strategic Cooperation
            Star Xu,   CEO of OKCoin
            Lihua Yi,   Partner at ZhongWo Investment
            Xiaolai Li,   Chinese Angel Investor



12% - 13% of Qtum tokens will be allocated to founders and the development team.

29% of Qtum tokens (29,000,000 QTUM) will be allocated to community initiatives concerning business development, as well as academic research, education, and market expansion

During the next four years, the Qtum foundation will allocate 29% of the initial QTUM supply to third parties promoting the application and growth of the Qtum ecosystem. This budget will be held in publically viewable wallets and subjected to community scrutiny. Potential surpluses arising from this activity will be redistributed among Qtum token and stakeholders.


     

Business development (20%)

In order to incentivize the adoption of Qtum technology and to promote the development of early decentralized applications, 20% of the total initial QTUM supply will be dedicated to selected industries and projects. This includes funding of strategic planning, project support and coin swaps as detailed below.

• 10% - half of the business development fund (10,000,000 Qtum tokens) will be used to facilitate the adoption of the Qtum blockchain in ten selected industries such as financial services, supply chain management, social media, online gaming, Internet of Things (IoT) and so forth. Qtum will reward selected DApps developed on the Qtum blockchain in proportion to their actual user base.
  
• 10% - (10,000,000 Qtum tokens) will be used for the coin swaps. The Foundation will exchange Qtum tokens with crypto-tokens of other blockchain open source ecosystems, as well as app coins from dApps developed on the Qtum blockchain. The crypto-tokens and app coins acquired this way will be distributed among Qtum token and stakeholders.

Academic research, education, and market expansion (9%)

        
9% of Qtum’s initial token supply will be used to sponsor academic research, educational materials for developers, as well as promotion of Qtum technologies and contributions to open source communities. Some of the planned activities include:

• Establishing research labs in cooperation with high profile universities
• Creating tutorials and educational materials for Qtum developers
• Cooperation with other open source communities such as Linux, JavaScript, Docker, Php
• Events and conferences to raise the awareness of the Qtum technology and facilitate market adoption

3. When does the Crowdsale take place?

The Qtum Crowdsale will start at 12PM GMT (8pm Beijing), March 16th, 2017 and end at 12PM GMT, April 15th, 2017 (after 30 days) or when all 51 million Qtum tokens are sold.


4. What crypto-currencies are accepted in the crowdsale?

During the crowdsale QTUMs are sold against Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH).
            
            
5. What is the price of Qtum tokens? What bonuses can I receive?

The Qtum crowdsale includes four price tiers, lasting one week each, as well as an early bird bonus phase as detailed below (all times in GMT). QTUM price against ETH will be determined at sale start according to ETH/BTC market price.  





6. How can I participate?

The Qtum Crowdsale will be facilitated on selected online crypto-currency exchanges and crowdfunding portals. You can participate via any of the following venues:

• Bizhongchou (bizhongchou.com)
• Yunbi (yunbi.com)
• ICOAGE (icoage.com)
• Allcoin (allcoin.com)
• ICO365 (ico365.com)
• BTC9 (btc9.com)

7. How are the funds secured?

All funds collected during this sale will be deposited in secured multi-sig wallets. Keys to said wallets will be held by several officers and executives of the Qtum Foundation, making it so that all outgoing transaction have to be verified by multiple parties.






For more information, please see these resources:

Qtum Whitepaper and Economy Paper:

https://qtum.org/en/white-papers

Qtum Videos:

Technical Overview Video: https://qtum.org/en/videos/qtum-technical-introduction-and-demonstration

Qtum GoMobile Video: https://qtum.org/en/videos/qtum-go-mobile-demo

Qtum "Defining The Blockchain Economy" video: https://qtum.org/en/videos/defining-the-blockchain-economy

Qtum @ Ethereum Development Conference, Paris:  https://qtum.org/en/videos/qtum-presentation-at-edcon


Qtum More Information:

https://qtum.org/en/learn-more-about-qtum

Was eager to participate in qtum ICO but have now changed my mind because of all the accussations put against Qtum devs and their failure to satisfactorily counter them.

A Message From The Team:

As we near the March 16th opening of the Qtum Crowdsale, we’d like to take a moment and discuss what to expect over the coming period. First and foremost, this is a global initiative, but we anticipate most of the token sales to come from the Eastern market. On ground of regulatory requirements, our legal terms excludes US citizen from participating.

The nature of this industry is risky, it’s unregulated, and requires an enormous amount of knowledge in order to make meaningful purchasing decisions. The Qtum platform was never presented as a “get rich quick” scheme. Qtum's development plan spans over multiple years and adheres to a detailed roadmap and budget. If you have not read the whitepapers, or don’t understand the risks involved in this industry - do not participate. There are, as with every project of this kind, factors beyond our control at play; from government regulations, to Bitcoin price volatility, or other unknowns.

As many of you may have noticed, we have been managing expectations since we announced Qtum to the Western market in December. We have not made any attempt to sell hype, we didn’t even release details until right before the Crowdsale, simply because we didn’t want to undermine our core technological product with hysteria. We are positive that the technology Qtum presents asserts itself in the eyes of whom has the technological background to understand its novelty, if you don't feel this to be the case, we would advise to abstain from participating in the sale.

We’re confident about the Crowdsale. We have an amazing team of Angel Backers, some of whom will be helping a lot over the next few months. We will be working with multiple industry experts, partners, and PwC to shape the direction of the project right away. If there are unsold Qtum tokens after 30 days, they will be sold to institutions. Our team wants smart money, and we will not allow the project to be fueled by cheap attempts to increase the price of our tokens.

With this said, we look forward to the 16th and the following years.
The Qtum Team