Mandatory live video for project developers or team

[thesmallgod]

A good idea, too, but they can't do that because it's just a waste of time, if you want to know their faces as developers, you can see from the results of the meeting they were photographed and published here.

Of course, they can do it. Making videos of their meeting and partnership agreement and posting it on social media should not be a problem. I have seen ICOs that have done this in the past. It is never a waste of time. This brings credibility to the project and makes it be more generally acceptable. Some bad ICO does make a video using Illustrations of cartoons. This is very bad and should be a sign of a probable scam. photographed image of meetings can be photoshopped and copied from internets. Thousands of academic conferences are held monthly throughout the world. A properly arranged scam project will go an extra length to steal conference video and turn it around for their own project

[BitFinnese]

This issue should not be argued upon.  This can be set as personal guideline in investing in an ICO but it would be great if they present their photographs, live interviews and activities.  We all know that project with known team can fail or scam their investors if they wanted to, but at least in my opinion doing this kind of stuff showing the actual image or activity of the ICO project developer will limit them into scamming only once since they will be known in the industry as scammer.  The point here I think is to avoid letting them scam people several times.

[wenwen]

I think this problem can not be solved in this way. I do not understand what will prevent developers after they publish their faces to hide from the eyes of investors? I think that developers can hire actors and pay them some part of the collected money. And then safely hide.

[raven7886]

A good idea, too, but they can't do that because it's just a waste of time, if you want to know their faces as developers, you can see from the results of the meeting they were photographed and published here.

You are right, photograph will also be good but I think identity is easier changed in a photograph than video, I think this will be a very great idea, and if their identity is known, what is stopping them from being apprehended.

I am sure they all live in a country and with their identity; we should be able to track them down if I am right. If we can trace them to their country, they can be reported to the law even if cryptocurrency is yet to be captured under legal document but at least, scam is scam and should not be entertained by any authority no matter the mean at which they are being done.

[justspare]

I think this problem can not be solved in this way. I do not understand what will prevent developers after they publish their faces to hide from the eyes of investors? I think that developers can hire actors and pay them some part of the collected money. And then safely hide.

At least, someone will be held accountable when the project goes run, I am sure whoever shows his or her face in the video will be much careful not to tarnish his or her image, even if they hired a machinery to do so, there will always be something linking the machinery to the real project owner that will assist the authority in going after the scammer.

This is a good idea, and I think we should not throw it away, it might still go a very long way in boosting other ideas that may be available to help this situation, the idea OP gave might not solve the problem completely, but it will form a part of things needed to really make the market clean.

[btccrusher]

You can't stop scamming by doing live video. Why? One or two hired team member will do the live stream and the rest people still remain unknown. Do you think you can find them after a scam? never, even not these 2 people, becasue they will change identity. It's not hard to change a face, shape, and gate up to make a diffrent overall look. What if they stream by changing the whole look? The only way to protect is "top team members must get certificates for hosting ICO, presenting their house documents including parents/children/spouse data etc. The application must approve by physical validation. Well now that's a dream, that never gonna happen, so ICO scam won't stop.

[ivaf]

No, it does not help. Those projects that do not hide their members, quite actively participate in the discussions, produce videos with developers and team members.
And fraudulent projects can simply hire people (actors) who will act for them.

[baghdatis1990]

        I do not think the implementation of your idea will solve the problem of SCAM projects. In the past, members of certain SCAM projects posted video on their social media accounts (twitter, facebook) and where their faces appeared. An example of unmitigation is the Kepler Tek project.
I think it's a more efficient KYC for team members, just as they want for some airdrops or bounty campaigns. Specifically, you can not post any project announcements without KYC for project members. Maybe this initiative would reduce the number of SCAM projects.

[D ltr]

I was wondering if it will help solve the issue of ICO scam, if we make it mandatory for all ICO Project developers to compulsorily do skype call with potential investors before promoting any project, or do a presentation of their project and post it online showing their faces, so that we can see their faces directly and probably be able to apprehend them in a case of fraudulent activities. We have to save ICOs.

but it cannot be a guarantee if an ICO makes authentic videos like that will succeed in the project, many ICOs have done doing like that but still the project failed. The success of an ICO depends on the experience of the team in the business and crypto world, their abilities that have been tested before, their vision and mission in building a project.

[hongus]

I was wondering if it will help solve the issue of ICO scam, if we make it mandatory for all ICO Project developers to compulsorily do skype call with potential investors before promoting any project, or do a presentation of their project and post it online showing their faces, so that we can see their faces directly and probably be able to apprehend them in a case of fraudulent activities. We have to save ICOs.

This will help to significantly reduce the level of fraud. But this cannot give us a full guarantee that the projects will fulfill all the conditions. We must look for another more serious way.

[thaliaand]

I think it is a good idea though I don't the team or.devs.will do this. If the project is legit, you can notice by their activities such as attending some events, record or live video during the events and other events that showing the team and developers are real. I think we can ask them to post these on their social medias so people will see the project is serious and legit..

[joseyphil82]

Brilliant idea, YouTube also is always available, these days any project that claims they have working product and aren't bold enough to at least show there faces on videos is not for me, I would like to see the faces of the teams or even the CEO only talking about the idea behind the project

[BlackFor3st]

Many projects are already doing a live video but in the end they still end up scamming all the investors that trust their project so we cannot say that mandatory live video will really solve the problem in order to eliminate those scam ICO's.

Though we can lessen the scammers out there if this kind of tactics will be implemented as there are plenty of scammers out there that don't want to reveal their true identities. ICO is not yet dead, though there are plenty of dead ICO's out there but if you are a professional investors, you can surely differentiate the scam ICO's from the genuine one.

[andor.gellenhidi]

I think that this is probably the best that could be thought of, because today developers do not pay anything and are not going to be verified, and those people who are deceiving people should be responsible for their actions.

[blueteam09]

This is necessary to verify the identity of the development team before learning and investing in the project. The development team or CEO needs to pass KYC verification on the credit rating websites before promoting the project. They need to pass some verification before releasing the project and distribute it to investors.