So, hello, I am Sporklin of the Dogecoin Core Developer team. You, are, I have no idea who you are; in fact no one really does. What is known however is that someone in your name of project has taken it upon themselves to speak to the press, cryptocommunities and exchanges in very interesting manners.
I have had to field press inquiries, community questions, and questions from exchange admins in relation to your people speaking in a manner about your project that is far from clear to even flat out incorrect.
I would like this rectified, immediately.
You have nothing to do with the existing Dogecoin-Ethereum bridge project. Which is something heavily implied with a huge majority of your related press. You even use the name of their project as your user name here though you have no association with them. The Dogecoin-Eth bridge project is named Dogether and has had this name; for years. No one in your project has anything to do with it, at all. We have even gone so far to make sure in the overall bounty project that your project was not involved, just to be sure.
There is no hardfork of Dogecoin coming, at all. I say this as one of the people who have a say in the event. So I am curious why your people are portraying your project as a hard fork in the press, and the communities of the coin. This has leaked into our communities and been picked up as press relating to us to the point community members are asking ever more questions about it. Especially as there is no fork at all involved in what you are doing, and you have no involvement with Dogecoin in the manner to which hard forking would be an option to you. This is spread fairly through most articles, and easily found.
The contact to the exchanges themselves on your behalf, have gotten slightly annoying. As a team, we do maintain open contact with many of our larger exchanges which has been very helpful over the years. Someone contacting them in the name of your project has been heavily implying that you are a hard fork of Dogecoin and that there is pending implementation of your protocol on our blockchain. This is not true to any form, degree or even skew of the words in play. Having to answer queries from exchange admins worried that somehow they were forgotten in our notification system, on account of your project; is not something I care to do. Nor have they liked to be informed that them being contacted in the manner they were was entirely flawed information.
What you are doing is cloning Dogecoin's name onto Eth, which congratulations you can make a token.
I understand you have something you wish to do, I get that. What I do not understand is why several weeks later, there are still these comments being made in public to portray your project having anything to do with Dogecoin apart from a basis of a snapshot of the blockchain and taking part of the name. More over why you are not correcting the implication you have anything to do with the Doge-Eth bridge project. Oddly how there could be any confusion between your token and contacting to an exchange to try to have them forked into your asset over our main chain.
As a group we have been fairly careful what we stated in public in relation to your project hoping some middle ground, or corrections from your side would come in relation. However, they have yet to; where as more and more seem to be getting confused by the terms you are using to advertise your project.
This is the final attempt at communication to clear this up, we have already tried all mediums you make public in attempts to contact. So this is where we are now in public, making this sort of post which is a first for our team and myself. A final throw before progressing further in what is becoming ever more clear is something not on the level. Failing this, we will use the fullest extent of media, public, communal and direct exchange contacts to make it very clear that you are misleading not only the general crypto community, but the Dogecoin communities, and the Ethereum ones.
We will start to take the refusal to communicate or correct the misinformation as very intentional misleading money grabbing scam attempt. People who are doing things on the level tend not to want so much incorrect information about their project out there, your project however is nothing but misleading information at this point as nothing is actually honest to date.
I personally hope some middle ground or clearer communication can be had. You have nothing to do with the bridge project, you are most certainly not a hard fork of Dogecoin, you have nothing to do with Dogecoin forking at all. Statements such as this are false, counterproductive to whatever it is you are attempting to do, harmful to our community and harmful to any hope of association you wish to have with any future exchanges.
I truly do hope to hear from you soon, as we already have several people awaiting commentary from us for press release about this matter.
An answer, or resolving this; would be great.
On behalf of the Dogecoin Core Developers,
Sporklin - Dogecoin Core Developer
As an aside, should you perhaps finally want to actually engage in communication of some form. We are not a hard team to contact. Reddit, github, twitter, discord, IRC even.
@Sporklin, Thank you for addressing this, I'm curious myself as to what this hubbub is all about, particularly since I've posted previously what I found to be some code on github relating to this dogethereum but have gotten no further information from this "team" about it. Maybe you can look into it @Sporklin and tell us what you find. >>
https://github.com/dogethereum
