The presumed fact that the Dev throw us a curve ball does not help. Like the rest of you guys, I hope the Dev comes clean. That would be the appropriate thing to do. In other words the Dev needs to man up.
Actually dev hasn't done anything wrong, whole discussion is pure speculation that who owns most of the gens. I have seen this kind of shit-talking too many times but this goes quite much beyond everything what I have seen so far.
That's absolutely right, a few people on a thread get upset at the dev with no proof and all of the sudden it's labeled a scam project. There's no proof of anything other than one person has a lot of MNE genesis addresses, how in the fuck does that make this a scam???
There is proof though, one person is in control of well over 800 gen address' and has been dumping on to exchanges a long with participating in the ICO that will continue to mine profit for this person. The only person who could possibly have that many genesis address' is the dev. That is the issue here. On top of this the dev will continue to produce it's coin through Artemine because they've used their genesis address' to participate in the ICO creating more genesis address that shouldn't even be there devaluating your Artemine.
This is a pretty serious accusation that I don't believe the dev addressed in any way possible. I am a long time supporter of MNE and ART and I am one of the most active people in the telegram group. This is nothing but bad.
On a side note, the address that sent most of the ETH to these gen address' also contains a huge amount of Polybius, if you guys remember Polybius it was a scam created by the makers of Hashcoins which was a scam for distributing mining hardware.
This is not a good sign, and on top of that the dev did not address the issue at all.
While I agree it would be stupid to blackmail them to cover up this information, it is equally stupid if not more to not address this issue at all.