I was doing a little more research. You can have a working project, in crypto by copying someone else's code. So it can really work, but not be something new. There were allegations most of the white paper was plagiarized. Headlines that say they bought Bit Torrent are interesting. If you can raise money as a scam, and then buy a legitimate business; well that would be an interesting shift. This coin is bigger than many of the other coins I have looked at. The scope of the number of people following it, is substantial. This allows for huge coverage over a wide variety of the web. It does seem to be aimed at the Chinese. I can also say that two hours into my investigation, things were looking good. So I can understand why some people, all over the web, may have researched this offering and think it is good. Also, as all new software projects, is it truly a scam until it fails. It was one year ago I was looking at BitConnect calling it a scam and having people call me a hater. And Although many had called Bitconnect out, projects don't necessarily become scams until they fail.