Origo Network by Honey Badger

Being an underground cryptocurrency investor is no easy task: you have to stay updated on all the fresh news and trends, keep your security in check so that nobody steals your sweet bitcoin, explain to your parents that you are not in fact a jobless loser who hides in their basement during valuable work hours - all for the dubious reward of gaining as much imaginary virtual currency as possible. Sometimes in order to do that you have to do your own research, which is an arduous and ungrateful task most of the time - you get to sift through worthless ratings and payed-for reviews, blatant shilling campaigns and hundreds of mind-numbingly boring whitepaper pages only to invest into what in retrospect was a clear pyramid scheme that a respectable venture fund would not touch with a ten-foot pole, and which is outperformed by goddamn Cryptokitties anyway.

Well, that’s what we here at Badger Capital do every single day! One day we will find a project that will make us fabulously rich and we will move to Hawaii or something. Alas, today is not the day, for today we are looking at Origo Network

The popular ICO rating website ICODrops gives it a whopping “very high” approval rating, although we humbly suspect the only thing “very high” about it was the reviewing party in question.

Let’s dive right in!

Upon opening the landing page I am immediately tempted to close it forever and ever as I am greeted by the exact same vague blockchain-infrastructure-network-layout picture that I swear at least a 100 of other blockchain projects are using. But my editor threatens to steal my lunch again if I don’t give him a review by Thursday, so backing out is not an option.

Let’s check out their Whitepaper - maybe there is a well-presented and original idea in there somewhere?

Oh. fuck. Me.

Do I really need that lunch?

So yeah, apparently a VERY HIGH rated ICODrops project’s whitepaper is about 70 pages of derivative bullshit that is not even intended to be comprehensive. Did they commission Leo-fucking-Tolstoy to write that thing?

Some of the things to take away from this poorly-written tragedy of a document:

1. Privacy
2. We want to be like Ethereum, but with Privacy
3. We want to be like Monero, but with smart contracts
4. Privacy
5. We never bothered to proof read our main document because honestly we don’t expect people to read it
6. The phrase “zero knowledge proof” is used about 9000 times - I couldn’t count it properly because the document is not an actual downloadable PDF and I can’t be bothered to do more than use a single Ctrl+F

I get the feeling that the people at Origo get very pissed off when their mothers come into their rooms without knocking.

The press also seems lukewarm on the whole project, as the only content their website displays is a pretty questionable  letter from a fan of Origo and a couple of lectures by, admittedly awesome named, Baron Gong.

The heart-warming letter from a totally legit “fan of Origo” and lectures of Mr. Gong may have convinced the ICODrops team to rate this project as the best shit since sliced bread, but we here at Badger Capital have a hard time understanding how a fully chinese bastard child of Ethereum and Monero that is in fact neither of those projects is any different from the thousands upon thousands of other “Decentralised app platforms” that pop up faster than new rap “songs” on Soundcloud.

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Pros / Cons:

+ Baron Gong

+ Origo means “Source” in Latin which is a cool word

+ Origo unlocks endless possibilities

- Half the team has LinkedIn profiles and none of them have pictures to make fun of

- Probably outperformed by Chrome Incognito tab

- Baron Gong is not the CEO

Here is a list of helpful suggestions that can help OrigoNetwork become a project that the Honey Badger would feel comfortable investing in:

1. Promote Baron Gong to the position of CEO and put his beautiful chiseled face on display
2. Make sure that everybody forgets that Monero, Ethereum, NEO, EOS, Cardano already exist
3. Have any actual news media write about them. How hard it is to pay off Coindesk to shill you for at least a tiny bit?
4. Throw in another 70 pages to your whitepaper and sell it as a book on Amazon
5. Perform daily exercise, eat healthy and stay hydrated

URL: https://origo.network/