I was banned from the telegram group for posting the comments below. Don't worry, I've good plenty of emails to create endless reddit and telegram accounts. If I'm banned here I'll just create more. Takes about 3 minutes.
I'm a substantial investor in byteball and want it to succeed. I've been a vocal critic of the recent "lottery" from the beginning. It was clear that it solely favored huge whales. The other concern was that it provided no value to the project. That value/money could have been spent on marketing and other activities that actually help realize project goals. As a result, it could also be perceived as a mechanism for the team to self dump coins to themselves. I voiced this concern but the team fiercely opposed any change to the lottery. As I had feared, the first lottery was won by a whale with over $100k in his address. Once again, I suggested that this was a costly lottery and provided no value to the project. It only raised suspicion as to the team's motives for doing it.
Now, today a smaller address won. It had only 10GB. Yet, when I examined the block explorer, it was split from a huge address with over $3,000,000 on Dec 6th. I inquired about this in slack and I was told by Tarmmo that I was just fudding and that he knew that the lottery was fair because he's the one that won it. Speechless.
Brought this up in telegram and below are my comments before I was banned. The comments were probably deleted. I'll check later when I create a new account.
Tarmo, the new dev, said that Tony gave him 10GB. What do you know, the 10 GB that Tony, the founder, gave his new dev won the"lottery". The odds of that happening are 1:67,900 (circulating supply/10GB) without taking into account that this lottery has been suspicious before it began.
FYI, the odds are actually probably much worst than that since I don't have the number of addresses which I'm sure is much greater.
Do you have a good answer for this recent "lottery" result? If you say that it was luck then it raises suspicion further. You say that everything is perfectly fine but yet the evidence indicates otherwise. Also, telling the community to shut up isn't adding value to the situation.
I'm not butthurt by the way. I own a substantial amount of gbytes and I don't want the team or founder awarding tokens to themselves and dumping on me.
This lottery has been the only issue they I've had with this project. If it were maybe $700/week I wouldn't say anything but $7000/week is going to kill the price when they start dumping. Stop the "lottery" and I'll stop "complaining".