Blockchain technology is getting more and more misused by scammers.

[Caberawit]

Finally, most projects present blockchain as a pill for every malady. But does it really make sense for that particular industry? Is it possible to implement the same project without a native token? Is blockchain tech a decisive factor in the final product’s infrastructure, or it could work pretty much the same without all those distributed ledgers and smart contracts? Does it really disrupt anything but your patience for the word ‘disruption?’   

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[crazy-pilot]

I often come across projects where the blockchain is used only to attract attention and money. Now many scam projects exploit people's interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies to collect money and disappear.

[Herbert2020]

what did you expect?
when all these smart contract platforms made the process of "creating a useless coin and getting paid for it" super easy it was foreseen that the number of scams would grow by a lot. and that is exactly what happened during 2017 when almost every day a new scam came out asking to raise money to release a shittoken.
the good news is that these methods of scamming become obsolete just as fast as they become hyped up. and as we can see over the course of past two years token creation has been dying slowly.

[stoat]

don't care who uses it. just that its being used.

[Kezacky]

I often come across projects where the blockchain is used only to attract attention and money. Now many scam projects exploit people's interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies to collect money and disappear.

yes, it is true that in the last year many developers have abandoned their projects for a number of reasons, but which we did not like when they left and took investor funds. my advice don't focus too much on the product because the product is not a guarantee that the project will succeed the most important is the performance of the team and also the project developer.

[Ucy]

Finally, most projects present blockchain as a pill for every malady. But does it really make sense for that particular industry? Is it possible to implement the same project without a native token? Is blockchain tech a decisive factor in the final product’s infrastructure, or it could work pretty much the same without all those distributed ledgers and smart contracts? Does it really disrupt anything but your patience for the word ‘disruption?’   

I think it is possible to have a distributed ledger without a native token. There are couple of decentralized projects without native coins but I wonder if it's possible to function properly without any kind of currency. Currency will definitely be needed within a distributed system. What kind of currency should be used then? Fiat or Crypto? A decentralized system is not a proper place to use fiat So you either use existing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or implement your own coin

[Ayiranorea]

Scammers keep an eye over money earning. Here bitcoin is growing with high potential than any other investment. Also it is one among the high valued asset than other stock market and shares. This is why scammers focus much into technology related growth, particularly blockchain technology is the key term that moves the cryptocurrency network. With this name being used in majority of the projects the scam keeps increasing. It is our responsibility to keep ourselves secure and safe from the hands and tricks of scammers.

[tsaroz]

Finally, most projects present blockchain as a pill for every malady. But does it really make sense for that particular industry? Is it possible to implement the same project without a native token? Is blockchain tech a decisive factor in the final product’s infrastructure, or it could work pretty much the same without all those distributed ledgers and smart contracts? Does it really disrupt anything but your patience for the word ‘disruption?’   

Blockchain is a huge field and collecting funds for a project using tokens in blockchain is just a small part of it.
There are indeed other ways of collecting funds and making projects happen but blockchain provides an easier and transparent way of collecting and using funds. Though there are numbers of scam, we cannot call the practice bad when multiple of projects have benefited from it. Again there are still many other ways of building a project or collecting funds and they'd always remain. The investors too would always have a choice.

[Byakuga]

Finally, most projects present blockchain as a pill for every malady. But does it really make sense for that particular industry? Is it possible to implement the same project without a native token? Is blockchain tech a decisive factor in the final product’s infrastructure, or it could work pretty much the same without all those distributed ledgers and smart contracts? Does it really disrupt anything but your patience for the word ‘disruption?’   

Every single good technologies are been misused by criminals,scammers and hackers,there is no real way to stop this and preventing this is impossible,this tech is been build for easy money saving and means of payment for humans but bad people will always use it as weapon of destruction on innocent people,this is not blockchain fault

[Yudhisthir]

Finally, most projects present blockchain as a pill for every malady. But does it really make sense for that particular industry? Is it possible to implement the same project without a native token? Is blockchain tech a decisive factor in the final product’s infrastructure, or it could work pretty much the same without all those distributed ledgers and smart contracts? Does it really disrupt anything but your patience for the word ‘disruption?’   

Every single good technologies are been misused by criminals,scammers and hackers,there is no real way to stop this and preventing this is impossible,this tech is been build for easy money saving and means of payment for humans but bad people will always use it as weapon of destruction on innocent people,this is not blockchain fault

Where there is attention and money, scammers would fled into it. It's not just the blockchain or the internet.
But the difference between real world and virtual one is that, unlike real world scammers most of the virtual world scammers are not brought into justice.
So, it's basically the investors who should decide what risks he/she wants to take.

[Ss4sukE]

misuse of blokchain technology is based on the misuse of the person's expertise. people who have expertise in this field will surely use it in any way for personal gain. for example someone can easily create tokens using the erc20 platform but they are misusing them to make new tokens which then become junk.

[poketis22]

It seems to me that over time there are fewer and fewer scammers, since before there were much more. But as to whether a project can be without its token ... the answer is yes, because some projects in the process of entering the market understand that they don’t need a token, and simply give out money to investors and for the most part these are projects that really created something worthwhile !

[dcomomal]

We need to find a way of how to protect out community from scammers, because it is getting really bad if you look at the statics. Every second project that is published here is a scam in a different way and there is no way out.

[Mrcharles]

It's rather unfortunate that the cryptocurrency space has been converted into a dumping group for everything. Most projects don't even have the slimmest idea on how to go about the project and are raising funds from the investing public. One of the reasons why issues like this are prevalent is because of the ease of creating tokens and smart contracts which has given everybody a chance to test run their skills in fooling the public.

[South Park]

Finally, most projects present blockchain as a pill for every malady. But does it really make sense for that particular industry? Is it possible to implement the same project without a native token? Is blockchain tech a decisive factor in the final product’s infrastructure, or it could work pretty much the same without all those distributed ledgers and smart contracts? Does it really disrupt anything but your patience for the word ‘disruption?’  

This always happens when there is a technological breakthrough, do you remember the dot com bubble? There were many scammers getting millions from investors just because they used fancy words that no one really understood at the time and the same is happening to bitcoin and the blockchain, however while this may seem bad from the dot com bubble emerged giants like Google and Amazon, so there is no doubt that a similar process is taking place in this market right now, we just have to wait a little bit more to know which coins will be the winners.

[DarkDays]

Finally, most projects present blockchain as a pill for every malady. But does it really make sense for that particular industry? Is it possible to implement the same project without a native token? Is blockchain tech a decisive factor in the final product’s infrastructure, or it could work pretty much the same without all those distributed ledgers and smart contracts? Does it really disrupt anything but your patience for the word ‘disruption?’   

The answer to all of this is 'No' for 90% of projects.

Most of the time, they simply tokenize their product as a way to draw money from the trigger happy ICO investors. However, this isn't 2017 anymore, and most of these projects find themselves struggling.

If blockchain is an afterthought, the project will likely fail. We need dedicated use cases that actually improve adoption and innovate on what is possible in the space.

However, people keep buying into projects simply because they know it will pump and dump, which is harmful in the long run since it sucks money from the promising projects.

At least it's not as bad as 2017!

[leowonderful]

It's rather unfortunate that the cryptocurrency space has been converted into a dumping group for everything. Most projects don't even have the slimmest idea on how to go about the project and are raising funds from the investing public. One of the reasons why issues like this are prevalent is because of the ease of creating tokens and smart contracts which has given everybody a chance to test run their skills in fooling the public.

The good news is that a ton of the people that were around from 2017 when alts exploded upwards and then crashed right back down have learned their lessons, but there's indeed still a large number of newbies to crypto that are investing in dubious projects simply because they believe anything related to blockchains and cryptocurrency means a quick buck and profits. Hopefully people won't get burned as badly this time around if alts shoot up again and people starting fomoing at high prices, but it's definitely possible.

[Upgate]

Block chain is the  brain Box of cryptocurrency take it away and I don't think any project without can stand in as a cryptocurrency, block chain is not the problem the problem is the scammers and bad project that are in cryptocurrency

[fudster]

Scam projects are created by scammers, blockchain is not to blame here. But if you are going to create a project without blockchain nor smart contract that is certainly bound to be doomed for what can be checked for the transparency without blockchain? The more you plunge into the mud without blockchain. The scam projects are scam, don't mind them, no one will be scammed if there will be people risking into an unknown project.

[Ezravdb]

Scam companies will continue to overshadow investors, you can see the evidence in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5181153.new#new.
In September alone nearly dozens of scam companies have sprung up so that blockchain technology is a source of scamers deceiving investors.There must be an action and research before investing in ctypto companies.