Hi everyone i bring news...
From the start of this project I was invited by "ShaftCrypto" after paying close attention to SHF he invited me to create a bounty for SHF and be the community manager, so wanting to know more I joined their slack channel to meet the team and they seemed nice genuine people with lots of great ideas so I took the opportunity to join their team which consisted of 3 devs...
ShaftCrypto AKA "Detective Shaft" @Slack
supernova AKA "sprnv" @Slack
sampletext @Slack
One other guy was also hired as a russian community manager "FrillDX"
I already explained the situation here several times so wont go into to much detail... but about how the devs contact was getting less and less and our payments were been delayed after a little while then they stopped, then we started to notice the premine was been sold by the devs so we kept on asking them why they are selling the premine, we was ignored for days on end even weeks and when we did get replies we were constantly feed a pack of lies like we needed to sell for servers (fair point) but then it was for ddos protection and servers again and so on, then was was told we have investors and thats why a larger chunk of premine was sent to another account... bottom line is it was ALL lies and the devs were just lining their pockets just in time for Christmas I suspect.
I last heard from sprnv on the 10th December when I told them the game is over, his reply was
Game is not over yet man
I last heard from Detective Shaft 3rd November when he replied to FrillDX
Stop behaving so arrogant (edited)
[1:36 PM]
If you want to fill the request and add SHAFT to the major exchange you are welcome to do it yourself
I'm still in contact with one dev Sampletext...more on that later...
so basically through November, December there were 3 guys myself, FrillDX and sampletext...two managers not been payed and one dev working on the GUI when he could and not making as much contact as I would have liked with us but still it was more then we was getting from the other two devs... Late December came and FrillDX decided enough was enough pointed out what we already knew that this coin is a scam and moved onto another project with his friends.
So two remained myself and sampletext... we talked about all the work that had been put in from both myself and him (more him as hes the dev) but how disappointing it would be just to let the project die and let the public down that had put hash power, invested in SHF and most of all put trust in the SHF team. Sampletext expressed his eagerness not to let SHF just die and said he will still support the chain...
DigDeepMining [6:22 PM]
no idea buddy your guess is as good as mine, if its a scam coin I suspect they have done this before and that's the reason they never wanted to give their identity
[6:22 PM]
@Sampletext your online do you have any input?
Sampletext [6:38 PM]
yea, i'm here. I don't know what to say. As I said before, I will support the chain anyway
[6:39 PM]
i feel sad about the price too
The festive period was approaching and things were getting to much for sampletext to deal with so he said he was taking sometime out...this is when everything started to go offline and making contact with him became hard but I could reach out to him just to get pool back online for example, anyway I left it a week or two before contact him and then I asked him what his plans was...
DigDeepMining[3:27 PM]
did you fix it?
[3:28 PM]
oh I see you did
[3:29 PM]
people are still mining, not lots but nice to see anyway
Sampletext [3:30 PM]
the pool was down too for some time, but for lower amount
[3:30 PM]
yeah
[3:30 PM]
nice to see people didnt give up
DigDeepMining [3:30 PM]
yep :slightly_smiling_face:
[3:30 PM]
Have you? what are your plans going forward if any?
Sampletext [3:33 PM]
my plans is too strengthen the network, a lots of things to do, eventually release GUI (there is a request for community to add some features), fix unstable pool and wallet, deal up with infrastructure, come back to explorer and impl real pagination
Then the latest problem started and the server was banned...
DigDeepMining [6:22 PM]
Everything down @Sampletext did you pull the plug?
Sunday, January 14th
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Sampletext [3:28 PM]
nah
[3:28 PM]
just mentioned pool is down
DigDeepMining [4:02 PM]
Great :slightly_smiling_face:
Monday, January 15th
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DigDeepMining [10:40 AM]
Blockchain still as issues??
Saturday, January 20th
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Sampletext [6:14 PM]
The hetzner banned the last server
Sampletext [6:21 PM]
shit, i don't know what to do, suprnv is ignoring me, he have control above the email, where hoster probably sent abuse.
[6:21 PM]
fuck (edited)
Sunday, January 21st
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DigDeepMining [9:47 AM]
You need to contact them and explain the situation then or we loose everything!
Monday, January 22nd
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DigDeepMining [4:52 PM]
@Sampletext any news?
Sampletext [5:22 PM]
sadly, no
DigDeepMining [6:37 PM]
@sprnv needs to pull his finger out as pass on the project...you made your money let someone who actually gives a fuck take over!!!
Fast forward to today sampletext as been working round the clock to rebuild everything on new servers...
https://pool.shaft.sh/#/https://explorer.shaft.sh/homehttps://wallet.shaft.sh/https://shaft.sh/All back online
Further more the other two devs finally sold just about all their premine, 500k was sold on the 22nd January so these guys have actually gone for good now, sampletext as stated if will not allow them to come back and screw things up like they did last time...they have zero access to anything now so we can look at this as a community takeover I was concerned about the slack workspace been deleted and the other two devs still had access to this so I asked sampletext to transfer ownership of that over to me so we could be assured that would remain also
GUI needs a few new features and needs to be recompiled as that too was lost on previous server but should be done soon I said to sampletext if hes serious about SHF just take his time and not get stressed with everything so I wont annoy him about that it will come when it comes for now we have geth and online wallet anyway.
One more thing sampletext said he will register here in the next few days and explain everything which will be a big positive for me
I hope this news is good for all of you that still hold SHF and future miners/investors, if you want to know anything else just ask and I'll do my best to answer.
Miners at the ready...go, go, go
I'm gonna demand payment first next time that's for sure...you learn from your mistakes 
