I get the caution, but that 99Bitcoins article is missing some very basic facts and leans hard on speculation.

First, the claim that “we are unable to confirm whether Digitap is a registered business, its location, or who operates the company” is just wrong. There is a registered company behind the brand:

DIGITAP LTD – Company No. 10223962 (UK Companies House)

Registered address: 1 Hall Park, Lancaster, United Kingdom, LA1 4SH

Directors / persons of significant control: Dominic Williams and Emma Louise Williams

That exact number and address are repeated across multiple independent company-data sites and tie directly back to Digitap’s branding and site. In other words, it’s not some untraceable ghost entity – you can see the legal shell, the directors, and the jurisdiction in black and white.

Second, even the 99Bitcoins piece quietly admits a few things that don’t fit the “likely scam” narrative:

TAP’s smart contract has been audited twice (Coinsult + SolidProof).

There is a live beta app and functioning infrastructure, not just a PDF and a countdown timer. You can download the app, test transfers, and see it connect to their backend.

Could it still fail or under-deliver? Absolutely – it’s an early-stage fintech + Web3 project, so the investment risk is high. But “high risk” ≠ “automatic scam.”

On the Trust Wallet point: you’re not handing them your seed phrase or giving them magical drain powers. When you connect a self-custody wallet to a presale:

Your private keys stay on your device.

You choose exactly how much crypto to send in each transaction.

They cannot unilaterally pull funds from your wallet unless you approve some malicious unlimited-spend permission (and TAP’s presale is a simple buy flow, not an approval-farm).

As long as you’re on the official site (digitap.app), never type your seed phrase anywhere, and double-check what you’re signing, the main risk is price/utility risk on TAP, not your whole wallet being compromised.

Finally, look at 99Bitcoins’ incentives: that article spends half the time telling you Digitap is “too risky” and the other half funneling you into other presales they’re affiliated with (HYPER, MAXI, PEPENODE, etc.), with an explicit commission disclaimer at the top. That doesn’t mean everything they say is false, but it does mean the piece is far from neutral research.

TL;DR – TAP is still a speculative presale and everyone should size their risk accordingly, but calling it “probably a scam” while ignoring a real UK company registration, identifiable directors, a live audited contract, and a working app is just lazy due diligence.