Burning the coins was the dumbest thing ever.
Now the owner can never claim them.
Yeah, Burning coins was just moronic.
It's not really D9's fault. He isn't a technical genius. He did the coin swap a long time ago before coin swaps were being used as scams. There wasn't any set guidelines on how to transparently coin swap. He was one of the first to do this kind of thing.
Now there are good rules for coin swaps:
#1 All wallets are forward compatible. Original wallets must work with new blockchains.
#2 Automatic payouts. Find all the addresses + balances. Send out all the coins in the first block of the new blockchain.
#3 Maintain a copy of the older blockchains. Advanced work can be done to create a custom block explorer that combines both blockchains allowing users to search through both seamlessly as 1 chain.
He rushed into it and made a mistake. It happens. I'm surprised he burnt the coins. Why wouldn't he keep them until someone provides the original wallet that they belong in?