I am a software developer and when I had a look at the sourcecode of eBTCE I was sure that the dev can airdrop eBTCE forever.
But since I had no experience with coding Ether contracts I created a token with the sourcecode of eBTCE, just to be sure I didn't miss something and to proof that it's really a scam.
I took the sourcecode of eBTCE from here:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x2fd41f516fac94ed08e156f489f56ca3a80b04d0#codeI changed the total supply to 10000 tokens and implemented a counter (the "distributed" variable, line 44 in the sourcecode) of the total airdropped tokens.
I then compiled and deployed this contract to the "ropsten" testnet and airdropped 5 times 2457 coins to a random address in the testnet.
The total supply sould be: 10000.00000000 coins
I airdropped 5x2457.19916000
distributed variable shows correct value: 5x2457.19916000=12285.99580000
The problem is, 12285.99580000 is bigger than the total supply of 10000.00000000...
You can see the sourcecode of my "scam-proof-testtoken" here:
https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0xf0fc10a498b98f3f0fbb11245c424020e2247d29#codeYou can see the distributed and totalsupply variables here:
https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0xf0fc10a498b98f3f0fbb11245c424020e2247d29#readContractYou can see the receiver of the 5 times airdropped tokens here:
https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0xadaf150b905cf5e6a778e553e15a139b6618bbb7#tokentxnsAs the owner of the "scam-proof-testtoken" I can now further airdrop as many times 2457.19916000 tokens as I want to whatever address I want. Forever.
Because of the missing balance checks in the distributeEBTC function there is NO limit (well, the GAS I have to pay for every 2457 eBTC airdrop)!
This is why it is a scam and it is unbelievable that in 2017 one can achieve a 15 million dollar major scam with only 8 lines of code, a design/website, 1h of work and within only a few days.
(sorry US people for my nickname, that was after I lost money because of USA taking down btc-e)
The problem is , you didnt create 10 million but you create 1,157,920,892,373,160,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stop FUD