odd thing about the ex-paypal guy is he isnt promoting it, but neither is he denouncing it. he had some payment company that got brought by paypal then he left to start a string of companies.
ive seen the drop from 140k to 30k in the time since this thread popped up. didnt realise the swindle had a fixed run, assumed it ends once the counter gets to 1.
question remains, what happens next?
so as we near the end what do we think the real motivation of this will be? some are expecting a special offer at cost of only a couple of $. i reckon a huge gotcha, a security warning not to give out details so easily.
if anyone bothered to read the blurb past the "free stuff" they'd realise it was a fairy tale - the problem for a new payment system isn't public adoption its shop and retailer adoption. Q will create a closed system, no exchange mechanism in and out of real money, you buy something with Q from...
its fine if you used a spare/spam email and unique password. many dont and the network effect of the distribution encourages people to sign up possibly with their non-spamcatching email. at the very least the originators will have collected a valid email, password and an association to another...
looks like a massive email/password havesting scheme, with added social links.
you know all those things Facebook and Cambridge Analytics were upto, you just done it for another group.