ICO Review : Viewly Vs Viuly?
TL;DR;
viuly
- Claims is the first video sharing platform using blockchain.
- Unrealistic claims of growth with no basis.
- No technical working of system are provided in whitepaper.
- 6 pages of whitepaper dedicated to marketing of ICO sale(since removed to 3 pages).
- Claims of staff who have no involvement(since changed on site).
- States a company invested $150K which doesn't exist.
- All posts announcing or related to are after viewlys posts.
- Claims ownership of servers since 2014 with no change, has had 5 changes in 2017.
I am posting evidence here as there is massive marketing campaign for the scam ICO and needs to be stopped before any more lose funds and im sure there will be backlash from those promoting the scam when i comment on the posts.
I was recently contacted by a user who i had banned from my Discord Server due to suspecting the group he was helping to run of being disingenuous setting up users to auto-vote on false promises also taking votes to promote ICO referral promotions and illegitimate ICO's he was asking to be allowed back in and that they had secured 665 ETH investment for some "great investment" they have planned linking me their recent youtube video detailing
This brought to my attention this article promoting an ICO called Viuly I thought immediately oh I've heard of this and think its a great idea and that @furion was one of the devs working on but when i went to the site alarm bells started ringing.
I proceeded to check out the whitepaper which was nothing more than an advertising pamphlet most of which talked about the marketing of the ICO sale and bounty program with no mention of technical aspects or any sort of future except for a joke of a road map.
Source :viuly.com/Viuly_Whitepaper
Viuly also claims to have $150k funding from Blockchain investment group Krypton Capital which doesn't exist bar the website krypton.capital and the addressgiven are for business centers with no listings for the company.
Leonardo Business Center
19-21, Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Str.
IQ Business Center, Bolsunovska St. 13-15
I think this was given so investors would stumble upon UK based investment firm of the same name
kryptoncapital.co.uk
I checked out some of the team they had listed and was suspicious of one in particular who was a real person working in blockchain space Karthik Iyer founder and CEO of BlockchainMonk so i contacted on twitter.
Twitter users
they have since changed their site and removed listing of Karthik Iyer
Previous version saved on waybackmachine via web.archive.org
Updated site
Here are the dates of first posts to different social media/forums sites.
First Medium post
| ICO | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Viewly | Introducing Viewly | 27/08/2017 |
| Viuly | Introducing Viuly | 19/08/2017 |
Medium Users
First = Viewly Introducing Viewly
First Twitter post
| ICO | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Viewly | Via @Stakepool | 27/08/2017 |
| Viuly | Via ViulyOfficial | 19/09/2017 |
Twitter Accounts
First = Viewly Via @Stakepool
First Bitcointalk posts
| ICO | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Viewly | Viewly - Viewly is a decentralized YouTube powered by STEEM+IPFS | 30/07/2017 |
| Viuly | [ [PRE-ICO] VIULY: 🔷 Decentralized Video Sharing Platform 🔷 (OCT. 10th) | 19/09/2017 |
Bitcointalk users
First Viewly via ViewlyApp
First steemit posts
| ICO | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Viewly | Introducing Viewly | 15/07/2017 |
| Viuly | Viuly’s Blockchain Based Video Sharing Platform Announces Pre-ICO) | 30/09/2017 |
steemit users
Viewly @furion
Viuly @coinidol
First Viewly via @furion Introducing Viewly
whois data
view.ly fully transparent with info on registrant shown.
Viuly.com data hidden
Real site = View.ly
Its evident from the information provided that Viuly is the scam ICO and have spent a lot of money trying to push promotions to get some investors who might think they are investing in Viewly which im sure will do well regardless of this scam.
Using the information gathered i will do my best to spread the word so that no more duped into investing they already have received 77 ETH if their site is too be believed this is crazy and should be put an end to.
A post from @furion warning of copycat ICO Beware of impostors and scams trying to mimic Viewly
The recent announcement for Viewly Pre-ICO is starting soon, please follow the security precautions
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I hope this information helps some people and you will consider looking at Viewly in preparation for the ICO token sale on the ethereum platform
For information regarding Viewly
Webpage: https://view.ly
Telegram: https://t.me/Viewly
Alpha : https://alpha.view.ly
Whitepaper: http://view.ly/Whitepaper.pdf
Blog: https://blog.view.ly
Email: [email protected]
Contact Email Address
Image source : 3dman_eu via pixabay.com
Great Job on the writeup!
I noticed that the scammers actually didn't even post to Medium until September. This was a great writeup though. Let's hope these people go away.
the proof is in that they listed Karthik Iyer as a founder who i contacted on twitter and he denied then they edited site removing his listing
another main point is that site they list https://krypton.capital/ doesnt exist in real life
Edit: Here it is for others who want to verify (also included in post) https://twitter.com/theisacoin/status/918456082917412864
http://web.archive.org/web/20171010222205/https://viuly.com/
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We aren't going anywhere.
I will answer the parts of your post that attempt to be fact and are not just speculation (which actually turns out to be very little of your post).
Krypton Capital is a real company, and they made a real investment in Viuly which you are jeopardizing and may have to one day answer in court for.
Dear reader, if you have read this far I salute you! No I am not going to say viewly is the scam and we are the real project, that would just be immature now wouldn’t it?
Please provide your evidence below or you'll probably gonna have to live with the bad publicity until release. This is nothing personal and not meant to aggrevate you, it's just how things work on this platform.
Another great post thanks for the warning
Hi, I'm seeing your publications are very good. I promise to give it to all of them. as long as you give me a please
I don't particularly support view.ly either b/c it's by the guy who got all those upvotes for steemq to bring video to steem. I waited for steemq for more than 6 months and he delivered nothing and now wants to do ICO and it says they might use non-steem blockchain.
dtube.video has my vote. no ICO. delivered product first. and works on steem helping the network.
DTube is the leader so far, that much should be clear.
if you look at the viuly whitepaper says nothing about actual function and has 6 pages dedicated to marketing and the ICO with no technical
https://viuly.com/Viuly_Whitepaper.pdf
IPFS is an established technology. No need to waste pages on a tech that most savvy crypto people already understand Ruslan (CEO) wanted to keep the whitepaper simple and readable for content creators such as yourself to understand and get excited about the platform. Clearly, it was a sound decision. Thank you very much @isacoin for sharing our whitepaper. Apparently it was simple enough for even you to understand.
And for those of you who really hate to read, our platform is 95% complete, so you can just checkout our ALPHA
Competition is healthy for free markets fellas. Don't call us a scam. We don't even call you competition.
If the project really is not a scam, you'll do well to announce a rebranding and make some code public. @furion is an established account in this ecosystem, while you - currently - seem to be at best a copycat.
from an investment point of view not adding full details lacks transparency what legitimate business seeking millions in funding would not disclose full working of
great work! keep it up!
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nice job! Good to know. I was actually looking for view.ly and finished by signing up for Viuly. Very very hepful, @isacoin!