This is an email that @oldtimer received regarding the Vice ICO.
Here is the important part for Steemians.
Throughout the crowdsale, people have asked why we continue to support Steem when we no longer planned to become a Steem Smart Media Token. We were planning to airdrop VIT to Steem holders. Today we announce that we will no longer be supporting any airdrop to Steem holders. After careful consideration, the Vice Industry Token management team and advisors decided unanimously through consensus that VIT will instead reward only direct participants of the VIT crowdsale.
The post by @oldtimer....
https://steemit.com/steem/@oldtimer/vice-industry-token-to-steemians-fuck-off
This is disappointing news but not totally out of character. The Vice team initially was going to use the SMT protocol before deciding to fork the blockchain. Then they decided they were going to Airdrop Steemians tokens, now to pull that off the table.
We are seeing life in an open world where the code is out there for anyone to use.
Hopefully we see the SMT protocol come out soon.
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I was excited when I first heard about this airdrop. It's a bit disappointing for sure... I'm kind of wondering if they created the fake news as advertisement.
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The Vice team seem like a complete joke and their project has changed course multiple times. I'd be very surprised to see it succeed as they really don't seem to know what they're doing. My thoughts are that they are probably just looking to cash in on all the crypto hype, glad I'm not invested.
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That could be @captaincanary.
We do see a lot of moving the goal posts as they say.
When they decided to fork, I said to myself "I hope they have the people in place who know what they are doing". From my experience watching Manna, there are a number of challenges that come with trying to pull this stuff off. The code is easy to copy...what happens when challenges are encountered after forking the blockchain...are the people in place to handle it?
That is something we will have to watch going forward.
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Or..... we won't because we no longer have a vested interest in it...
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I just signed up for Manna through your referral link, whats the usual amount of basic income received per week?
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I am not sure @captaincanary since I am also in the referral pool, thank you by the way, which gives me extra tokens. You also get a 50% increase in payout by using my referral code.
I would suggest you pass around your referral code and get friends and family to sign up. You will get a bonus of each person you directly refer for a period of one year.
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I have three approved, and currently about 143 Manna on my account. I did some calculations earlier with an error but ended up to about 22 per face on the first distribution. Distribution before latest one was approximately worth 13 000$ according to their twitter. With current price I have so far earned 3$ worth of Manna.
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Man... I hate that when people don't follow the plan and just improvise. You know... If they are just deliberating about reward steem users, so say it, not say that in guarantee that you will receive and them pull back. Well, the project is not mine, but I don't see any word as trustful anymore.
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Recently just heard about vice from the partnership with playboy. That’s disappointing we wont get the airdrop, i always like free crypto.
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This is sad and a very bad news. What kinda Hide and seek game are they playing?
How can they just wake up one morning and say they wouldn't be airdroping their tokens to steem holders anymore. What exactly is their real reason? That's so lame.
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Lame on so many levels, but not surprising in the least - their name is "vice" not "virtue" ;)
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Ever since I first heard about the Vice airdrop I've been really excited to receive my tokens. Last time I calculated they would be worth at least several hundred dollars.
Now that they've already explicitly stated that they're going to airdrop them they are now going to reverse that decision and essentially take money away but they've already told me that they were going to give me?
I'm not even sure how anybody would ever want to trust him again after that. Talk about frustrating.
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I agree with you @jeezzle doesn't make much since that they changed their mine. Good luck to them now, trying to find someone trusting them. 😎
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Ah, ah... so much ado for nothing.
Here I was, waiting for the airdrop, thinking how the tokens would be distributed... and the airdrop was dropped. I occupied my mind for no reason. :-P
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It's not the code. Problem is their whitepaper and rules. You can't change the rules every week or month during the game. Thanks for mention and link to my post.
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All am interested in hearing is steemit and other crypto doing fine in the market, because there re the only hope for us to fight and end poverty worldwide. Am so much proud of steemit for their great initiative in changing people's lives for the better and even best. Bravo
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It only confirms that we are facing great changes. The battle of the 3rd blockchain generation has arrived. And for me EOS is the Neo of this Matrix!
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That's a massive bummer, oh well...
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I’m no lawyer but might not their earlier public statements that Steem holders were going to be given tokens be seen as an implicit contract?
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I do free the delay in getting the SMTs up and running is defiantly working against us. Let's hope it gets sorted out soon.
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I'm actually starting to question their project a little bit now. Earning by just staring at porn does not realy make that much sense to me, since there is nothing even slightly productive. I wonder how are they going to control the supply. If it is in a same way as steem, then there is potential because of it's speed. Are they going to sell something for those tokens? Are they going to pay with those tokens to those porn-stars is imo one question that could potentially dictate the success of this project.
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It'll be interesting to see how this decision influences other businesses who were interested in SMTs.
If you create an SMT... can you sell that token through an Exchange, or would it only be available through Steem? VICE clearly want their own currency, so maybe SMTs don't really fulfill everything they need.... even with the automatic audience and infrastructure that would come along with the SMT technology.
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Vice became STEEM...they forked the blockchain so whatever is designed in the STEEM blockchain is also in Vice.
SMT created tokens can either go through the exchange on here and they can be traded on open exchanges. Obviously to be on an open exchange requires doing an ICO.
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I'm wondering if they didn't decide to change their mind re-airdrop how would this work for steem account holders? Would these tokens have been supported by steemit wallet? Are there any other wallet that should have been used to see airdroped tokens?
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it's there business, they have the right to decide but failing to do a public communication regarding the withdrawal of a previously public promise doesn't do them any good
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It's so bad news.But,we are every one know this it's great industry.
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Thanks for the information sir.
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Thanks, taskmaster! I hadn’t heard of this!
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great thinking..
awesome creativity...
keep it up
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Hey! Thanks for sharing! Always quality from you, sir!
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Any reason why they changed their minds? Because I know EOS is lot yet ready. So?
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I like post you
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I love comment you
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I admire drawings you
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😂 you think they get it?
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sarcasm will fly right over the heads of these "genius" spammers :D
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Whether Vice Tokens is devoted to Steemian?
I will be using your referral to sign up at mannabase.
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Not a pleasure to read this, but I guess that is what people will do to maximize their profit. With my trust heavily eroded with the team, lets hope they can at least provide soke good porns in the future.
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Asshats! 👎👎
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this doesnt bother me at all i thought it was weird that they wanted to do an airdrop. i hope they do have success. its good to have a project like this separated from steem and if they do well it gives our blockchain even more validity.
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