{"id":3549,"date":"2021-12-23T06:09:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/in\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=3549"},"modified":"2021-12-23T06:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:09:30","slug":"vaporware","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/in\/glossary\/vaporware","title":{"rendered":"Vaporware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vaporware is a term for a cryptocurrency project that is announced but never becomes a reality. Maybe the project was built on hype, without a proper plan and white paper. Or the project didn\u2019t get enough funding. Or it just wasn&#8217;t very good and people lost interest. Some crypto projects have been simply pointless! Vaporware is common in any volatile and evolving industry, like software in the 90s or dot-coms in 2000. How do you spot vaporware? &#8211;> If an ICO (initial coin offering) sounds too good to be true, listen to your gut. Some actual tokens have claimed to \u201cenable everybody to live healthy\u201d or be backed by &#8220;prayers for your soul&#8221;. Others make less crazy promises but don&#8217;t say how or when they will achieve anything (except buy the issuer a Lambo) &#8211;> #Vapor Alert! Before you buy any crypto token: 1) read the white paper. If there isn\u2019t one or if it&#8217;s just 2 pages of vapory language, run away. 2) investigate the team behind the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaporware is a term for a cryptocurrency project that is announced but never becomes a reality. Maybe the project was built on hype, without a proper plan and white paper. Or the project didn\u2019t get enough funding. Or it just wasn&#8217;t very good and people lost interest. Some crypto projects have been simply pointless! Vaporware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}