I'm an investor and I study crypto markets but one of the things that pisses me off about cryptocurrency is their tendency to announce that they're going to make announcements.

This is a step even further.

Begging for money in exchange for releasing the name of a company they might partner with; a partnership that, if they give a toss about their technology then they will move ahead with the deal anyway, is just further fuel for those that see cryptos as money sucking scams.