Anything that asks for thousands of dollars to the early adopters, for nothing in return, is a scam imho. Now the founders could of course have idealistic goal

Anything that asks for thousands of dollars to the early adopters, for nothing in return, is a scam imho. Now the founders could of course have idealistic goals in mind but we might never know that. Realistically there is no market giving that currency a value and they're asking for literally thousands of dollars just to support the onion routed network.