Hi Steemnation!
I was wondering what people thoughts are on Ziber and how legit they are?
Let's start at the basics... The company seems to have a really interesting concept to which is basically a blockchain based communications/telephony network that hugely undercuts service like Skype and Viber. What makes it interesting is that the company already have mobile clients for both Android and iOS (but not downloadable from the respective app stores but via a 3rd party site) and plans for the next phase of development to migrate clients to the blockchain.
It is usually quite rare to see this for a company before they launch their ICOs, most companies just have a whitepaper or maybe an alpha release. This all seems very promising. However, having a look at the team, they don't have anyone from the telco industry on their team... Now that is not always necessary but when I new companies doing ICOs I always look at the team and whether they have someone on the team that has knowledge of the industry they are trying to disrupt.
The other thing I also look at is the geographic spread of the team, this one seems to be spread across at least 4 different countries. In fact, there is very little info that I could find online about anyone on the core team apart from Mark Braun, none of the other 3 seem to exist on LinkedIn or other social sites! I just find that a bit weird.
Looking at their communities, (Slack, twitter, medium, bitcointalk etc.) Nothing!
Github... It's a mess frankly.
Scam? Seems like that to me.
Anyway, I wanted to get peoples thought on this.