Topic: 🔵 [ANN][ICO] 50% SOLD! Aurora 🔥 Decentralized Finance and Banking + Exchange 🔵 (Read 11207 times)

Hello everyone, unfortunately we’re forced to lock this thread due to bambarmia and mosprognoz threatening to extort money from the project.

We have moved to a new moderated thread to protect the project and the community.

These two accounts are the same person, Anton Malikov. It all started when he tried to add his new token (literally named) "scam coin" to our exchange. We replied that we had temporarily paused the addition of new tokens but would get to it soon, which set off a series of escalating threats to DDOS us and attempt to ruin our project: https://imgur.com/a/IAxdy

Here is a link to his twitter profile (https://twitter.com/gemalikov), you'll see he links scam coin in his bio section - https://imgur.com/a/WpqGp

On Twitter they sent us a message from their "Scam coin" account claiming that it was “other users” and that if we just add the token and pay 1 ETH into his ICO he will “get the people to delete the messages” - https://imgur.com/a/jaTYr

We reached out politely on bitcointalk and offered to talk to them over video chat to prove who we are and to hear their concerns. We were met with another threat to give them 1 ETH or it “will be a very bad choice believe me.” http://d.pr/i/LVRP7k . Crypto is not about bullying and extortion, and we will not be swayed. We have reported this to the moderators and will be pursuing legal action.

We also wanted to spend a moment to address their messages directly to alleviate concerns that they have any validity at all.


The markets they accuse us of scamming have no connection to Aurora and all can also be traded on Etherdelta. That's how decentralized exchanges work-- we add projects that ask to be listed through our form and give proper information. We review projects regularly and refuse to add or remove any that appear to be scams.

We're not Chinese (as you can plainly see from our bios and Linkedin pages), not that it should matter anyway as that’s just racist, and we haven't scammed anyone. There's not a single post about anyone being scammed besides these two (or one) users FUDDing. None of our bitcointalk accounts or social media have been purchased or faked, we’re exactly who we say we are and are willing to talk to anyone anytime through whatever ways they wish.

To Anton, thank you very much for bumping our announcement thread, it was getting a little quiet in here and now we’ve got a lot of people joining our telegram interested in learning more. More importantly, thank you to our many faithful supporters, we hope you understand this decision as we cannot let two con artists affect the success of the project. Onwards and upwards!

Warm regards,
The Aurora Team

He's angry that there was a delay in listing his token on our exchange so he has resorted to very childish tactics. Don't worry we aren't going anywhere.

I see that you participated in our bounty, thank you very much for your help! Our bounty manager is tallying all of the information and the DVIP will be distributed at the end of the sale (January 11th). Don't forget you can use the DVIP to get discounted trades on IDEX. Hope to see you there soon, feel free to join our telegram chat if you would like to ask us any questions directly.



Thanks for the kind words, we really do believe we have the best decentralized exchange out there! The token sale will end on January 11th at 4pm UTC.

hello,I had a question.
I am Chinese that if my IP address not in China,
can I join the ICO?

I like this exchange, it works super!.
It is a pity that I did not meet this project earlier.

When will the end of the tokensale?

Hmm i have already a phobia when. I heared AURORA name, it scammed me. I hope this is different.

According to etherscan you raised more than 1.6 million dollars for your scam ICO. And somebody is trying to extort only 1 ETH?   Dude you are lying.  


@AlexWearn Bro.. this is a fake profile with only 11 tweets since registration in 2013 and all that 11 tweets are about another scam called Decentralized Capital https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annico-live-decentralized-capital-fiat-assets-btc-exchange-on-ethereum-1668707   https://decentralizedcapital.com


Dude, etherex is a scam https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-etherex-ethereum-based-smart-contract-coin-2107409 http://www.etherexx.org


Why did you list them? Your exchange is a house for all imaginable and unimaginable scam and shitcoins and I have reasons to believe that you are collaborating with that scammers who created them.   (Check my previous posts)



We know that already.

why someone after bounty is over said aurora scam ? i think you must said that when bounty is running or maybe when this project, so everyone knows that this project is a scam, good luck dev i hope this project will be success

Hi Mosprognoz, this is Alex Wearn here, CEO of Aurora. As farmeroak (Brian) has mentioned, we have an individual who is trying to extort us to list his token, literally called "scam coin", on our exchange. We have reason to believe you are this same individual, as he has offered to "make our problem on bitcointalk go away" if we send him 1 eth. I don't expect my reply will make you stop, but I do want to refute all of your claims for anyone who may come across this thread and question the integrity of our company.

Team Members: As has been said multiple times all of our linkedin profiles are listed on our site. Here is a video of me discussing our project on the CyrptoCoinShow a week ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBiXruVl4QA&feature=youtu.be. Here is my twitter profile, https://twitter.com/followers?lang=en. I'm not very active but you can see a lot of the information is from our pre-pivot company, decentralized capital. Here is a video of me presenting about that company at demo day at DevCon 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Idws7px6NU. My medium account with all of our Aurora related blog posts https://medium.com/@alexwearn.

Our COO, Phil, was a co-founder of the etherex exchange, here is the github https://github.com/etherex/etherex/commits/master. As you can see the commits stopped in around April 2016 as the project disbanded. The link you found does indeed appear to be some scam token that is trying to piggyback off the Etherex brand name.

Here is the link to the AurorDao github page, all of our smart contracts are open source https://github.com/AuroraDAO.

As for the assets on IDEX, we are a decentralized exchange and as such we try not to pass judgement on what assets are made available. We agree that the airdrops have gotten a little out of hand, and have actually stopped adding tokens to the exchange that don't at least have their own email domain (because if you can't make that minimal investment you probably aren't very reputable). The majority of the tokens you've highlighted have literally never traded, so I'm not sure why you believe we are collaborating with the token creators.

If anyone still has any questions please let me know, happy to provide any more info.

Let me introduce you to a scammer FarmerOak hiding under the fake name of Phil Wearn https://auroradao.com/about/
Here is his short CV on Aurora Dao website: Former Co-founder of EtherEx, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-etherex-ethereum-based-smart-contract-coin-2107409 Phil has been building blockchain based companies since the time when Ethereum was little more than a white paper. (Sounds like a bullshit isn't it? ) EtherEx is a scam as you can see from the announcement link.


Another bullshit  


Could you give us a link to your Twitter or a Facebook profile? (There is no Phil Wearn on Twitter nor on Facebook)


Then who the fuck are you? It is written on the website that you are COO of that scammy company.


Decentralized exchange with no open sourse code that means no github.. great  


Yes dude, we know that, because you do not have Twitter profile, you do not have Facebook profile, you do not have Instagram profile. Just a fake linkedin profile with a fake name on it.

I'm the exact same person I was then and am today, this account was not purchased and I have nothing to hide. I mined bitcoin with ASICs in 2013-2014 and then stepped away from crypto for a couple years. I am not the CEO of Aurora. None of the accounts associated with the project have been bought. All social media and linkedin accounts are real, anyone on the project would be happy to hop on a video call with anyone, anytime. I would love to see the con artists FUDDing in this thread do the same, but I know they wouldn't.

Good question on the hack! We have secured our DNS servers with 2 factor auth and renewed passwords and cannot be hacked that way. Additionally, our core code is not open source so even if the site were taken it would be next to impossible to simulate the inner workings by the time we detected the hack and secured the site. Let me know if you have any more questions.

ICO's do that all the time.
Buy higher ranked accounts for them to be able to post images on this forum (back when copper ranked account hasn't been introduced yet)
But yeah, I guess transparency should be the first key to this project. IDEX should come clean and answer these accusations.

Anyways, ED got hacked recently.
Any assurances that this won't happen on IDEX too?

This quote alone should be sufficient proof that this user has a personal agenda and only spreads FUD, because this is obviously not true.

If anyone wants to have a meaningful discussion about IDEX and related projects, come to the telegram group where the team is very active.

Bitcointalk once again shows that's it's not a viable platform for constructive discussions and lacks moderation in extreme cases like this.

Just check his post history: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/mosprognoz-1094569

One of his quality posts for example:


I'll let the rest of his posts speak for itself.

Scammers will never give you their twitter or facebook profile links, because they are using fake names and stolen identities. Usually there are only fake linkedin profiles boosted via paid services https://www.linkedjetpack.com/buy-linkedin-endorsement/.  IDEX dudes are also using hacked or bought profiles here on bitcointalk. User FarmerOak who is posing here as a Aurora dao aka IDEX representative is using woke up profile and that is the clear sign that his profile was hacked, or bought from somebody else. Last post in January 2014 and then suddenly the new post in May 2017.... Here is the screenshot and here is his profile https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/farmeroak-206647 (Check yourself) Also check the topics started by this person https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;threads;u=206647;sa=showPosts in 2014 that dude was selling cheap computer parts on ebay and here on bitcointalk and suddenly he became a CEO of multi million dollar project ICO.    As you can see that scammers are well prepared.

Hello. I'm not sure who messaged you on Twitter but all of our information, including linkedin profiles are listed on our about page here: https://auroradao.com/about/ . It's fine to hate our project but making up misinformation is not the way to go. People can visit our telegram or message us anytime through our contact form or on Linkedin and we'll be happy to respond. I'm also personally happy to talk to anyone on video chat to prove who I am and to talk about the project.

What proofs are you talking about? That scammy exchange is full of scam coins. Never heard about Bitcoin Red? or Bitcoin revolution? or Ethereum diamond?  Than check the list of IDEX. you will find them, and many more interesting scam tokens.    I have the reasons to believe, that IDEX is created by Chinese scammers and this project must be reported to authorities, so they can shut it down. I hope that very soon we will see this on IDEX website:   

Dude, in my posts history, I'm calling scam things, that are obvious scams.
1. Deeponion - Obvious MLM scam using blockchain to scam investors. (Everybody on this forum knows that it is a scam)
2. Bitconnect - Obvious Ponzi scam using classic HYIP scheme to scam people
3. Etcconnect - Obvious Scam (Just running away with investors money)
4. Worldcore - Obvious Scam organized and orchestrated by well known Russian criminals
5. Monetha - Obvious Scam (CEO is a former stripper and porn star and main developer a student from Belarus)
6. Any token with name of Bitcoin or Ethereum attached (Bitcoin red, Bitcoin Quick, Bitcoin Revolution, Bitcoin Prime, Ethereum Balck, Etehreum platinum, Etehreum Diamond, Ethereum Bitcoin, Etehreum Prime and many more) All of them are listed on IDEX
7. IDEX - Obvious Scam (Low volume Exchange mainly used by scammers for dumping shitcoins ) https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.26797608   https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.26754927

There are hundreds of other crypto scams on the market, but unfortunately  it is impossible to monitor all of them.  

Its strange this guys entire post history is just calling scam on everything he sees. What gives? Do you have any proof, evidence or anything to validate any of this.??

Ignore these user's posts. They are the same person and they have been reported to the mods.  They have attempted to extort money from us to stop posting lies.

Yes dude, we all know that you are a Chinese scammer who scammed a lot of people by listing all  scam coins created by your colleagues scammers. Just dial Bitcoin or Ethereum in search box on scammy IDEX website and you will see the names that nobody even heard before.. Bitcoin Red, Bitcoin, Quick, Bitcoin revolution, Ethereum Lite, Ethereum Platinum, Ethereum Movie... and only god knows what else......   

We haven't scammed anyone, everything mosprognoz and bambarmia is made up.

These users have attempted to extort money from Aurora to stop posting lies.