Why EOS ICO is worst trade in the history of cryptocurrency

in #cryptocurrency8 years ago

I've been following here and there, EOS, which has been referred to as "the Ethereum Killer". I know there is tons of promise around the project and it has a strong team, but I can't help but question their decision to structure their ICO the way that they did.

The EOS Token sale will be conducted on a continuous distribution model for 1 year. 1,000,000,000 (one billion) EOS tokens will be minted at the start of the sale. These tokens will be split into different rolling windows of availability. The tokens for a window will be split proportional to all contributions made during the window period.

For example

20 EOS are available during the window Bob contributes 4 ETH Alice contributes 1 ETH Bob contributed 80% of the total contributions and gets 16 EOS Alice contributed 20% of the total contributions and gets 4 EOS At the start of the sale, 20% of the total minted tokens (200,000,000 EOS) will become available during a 5 day window.

The remaining 800,000,000 EOS will then be split evenly into 360 one-day windows of 2,222,222.222222 EOS tokens each.
369 days after the creation of this contract the EOS ERC-20 token WILL BE FROZEN AND NON TRANSFERABLE.

This whole structure feels incredibly shady and manipulative to me. Essentially they will be selling an unproven token to the public priced entirely on future promises, and pitting prospective investors against one another to drive the cost of tokens up. The fact that tokens will be traded on exchanges immediately also offers market liquidity, essentially creating a never-ending demand for the tokens once the initial price is set by the initial 5 day window, or the "floor". As long as EOS continues to feed positive news and hype to the public, there will be no reason for people to sell at below the floor price. Early investors will feel pressured to keep the price above what they paid, and every day will basically be an arbitrage opportunity for people to buy EOS tokens from the contract at a price cheaper than what's being bid on the exchange to make a profit, which will most likely cause more competition in the smart contract and drive the price up even further.

If the total amount raised for the first window at over $200m. This would set the price of each EOS token at a "floor" of a little over $1 each. Assuming there is continued interest in the token, and people continue to buy into the promise and potential of "the Ethereum killer" (I suspect people will continue diving headfirst into this due to the promises made by their vague and ambitious whitepaper with its many bold claims), they would very likely go on to raise over $1 billion in ETH over the course of the year, putting them at roughly 5x the net worth of the Ethereum Foundation right out of the gate.

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I think because Dan is behind it, and he's at the very forfront of what is happening with CC, it stands to reason he has a great chance of writing the new rules..

Competition from exchanges and the continuous ico model can create greater supply than demand. Free market and competition keeps prices lower not higher.

Also the model keeps people from FOMO. If you don't like the structure you are free to buy on the exchanges

prices lower really , there is huge hype for eos , whole point of this ico format is to sell eos token at higher price

I agree, this is possibly the worst trade in history! Btw, the rest of the 1 day ICOs will be 2 million each day (not 2.2222). It's 200 million on first 5 days, 700 million on next 350 days, and 100 million set aside for developers.

I don't like how they distribute EOS Tokens.
Distribution Schedule:

200,000,000 two hundred million
(distributed during a 5 day period

700,000,000 seven hundred million
(split evenly into 350 consecutive 23 hour periods of 2,000,000 EOS tokens)

100,000,000 one hundred million
(will be reserved for block.one)

I don't see the point, how this kind of an auction will create value for investors. I also don't like the purchase agreement (but this is another story). This is the reason why I will not invest into EOS. I wish you all good luck who have a different opinion and that invest in it.

which window is right now?

I am not familiar wit these ICOs, sometimes they are sold under 10 minutes as I have leaned plus some are really a gamble too like a high risk of failure or scam.

Thats why they did that format to have as much money they can

It,s just easy for them to just say, "OK we have changed our mind, will quit, bye" and poof, money gone.

Upvoted. Great post!

It seems like the formula for success is have a vague white paper, ENORMOUS promotion and have 1 semi-legimitate team member. then you can price your ICO thru the roof.
thanks for the article upvoted and following

in few years ico there will be 1000s of ico daily

good continuation

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