We usually do not react to such silly provocations, but given the scale of spam messages in all of our channels we decided to clarify things a bit here:
During this project, we received an ENORMOUS number of invitations to establish partnerships, to receive help in our marketing campaign, security audits and interviews. Some of the messages that our team received were not as nice, unfortunately, and we received some straight up threats from several community members. The most distressing one was:
Hi there mr. "SmokeMcPay",
I bring you some unfortunate news today, the game is over.
You have done a great job in producing the narrative for your project, it's a shame that you have been sloppy in quite a few regards. I was waiting for confirmation but I have just received several sets of evidence that will undisputely dispel the honesty within the foundations of your project. It's good to have friends in different sectors
I must say, you have been ambitious in setting this up, at least I will give you props for that.
To my disposal are several crypto related Youtube accounts ranging from 1K to 20K subscribers. Next to this, I am in contact with a 80K subscriber Youtuber. And if this isn't enough, I have an insider group on Bitcointalk that will absolutely stampede your project into the ground. Together we range just over 200 accounts (Full member -> Legendary) and I am certain you do not want to experience what we are capable of. Although just one account should be more than enough to put the definite nail in the coffin.
As of now, you have 3 options:
1. Discard your project, explain how you have ran into a few major bumps along the road and you can not continue the project at this point in time. It is still early days, there is no need to incriminate yourself over a few bad decisions.
2. Continue the project, act as if everything is smooth sailing and come to grips with how your life, offline and online, can change in an instant.
3. Pay the amount of 1.337 BTC to 3NUvk6B82VzDCxwxK57zu3jPiMp5taSmXy and regain a second chance in making this project a success. There will be no further actions, doxing or consequences, all plays set in motion will be scrapped.
Consider this your one and only warning.
Since these options might cost you some time to consider or prepare for, you have until Friday 6:00 AM PST to make your decision. I hope you do not make the wrong one.
Should you choose option 3, the amount is expected to be received no later than Friday 10:00 AM PST. Should you fail to comply, Option 2 will come into effect.
Sincerly,
c0mrade127
It seems like the "gentleman" is so frustrated that we completely ignored his "offer" in addition to what 1.337 BTC cost on November 16th and what they cost now, that he deemed it most urgent to start spreading fud about our project. All of our files are hosted on AWS S3 (Amazon Cloud Storage), we're also using their CDN - CloudFront, and we use an AWS Lambda Function for several other mechanisms in our ICO. In other words, we have a fully functional AWS account that requires confirmation through a phone number, id and a credit card.
Even after this post had been made, the "respectable gentleman" made another "offer":
I am sure you have read my messages. It's a shame you don't listen.
You can pay the 1.337 BTC to 3NUvk6B82VzDCxwxK57zu3jPiMp5taSmXy
We did an extensive work with the Russian ICO advising companies, ICO marketing firms and Eastern Europe hosting solutions. Given how many successful and transparent ICOs come from Russia and Eastern Europe in general and their cheap service costs it seems like a better deal to us than paying for artwork, marketing and server in the United States. I'm not surprised that some of the graphics have Russian symbols in the file descriptors due to the fact that these graphics resources were ordered from a Russian company.
To sum it up:
A regular
FRAUDSTER demanding money decided to start spreading angry fud news about this project after we had IGNORED his threat. I do not see how
any of the information that cryptastic posted shows us in any bad light.
