To the users of CoinMarket.
I got in touch with the owner of CM through IRC last year on a completely different subject than CM.
The owner (a developer from Estonia) contacted me and he had this idea to develop a new altcoin exchange service. And on this subject I was asked if I wanted to help provide a server and networking platform for him to develop on. I agreed to this, as the
project sounded exciting and challenging, and I had the capacity to deliver this platform. This included registration of the domain name and setup of DDOS protection (Cloudflare).
My background is pure technical server, networking and infrastructure, no coding knowledge or experience what so ever, so it would be impossible for me to develop something like CM. This also means that I have no knowledge of the site, and I cannot in any capacity be helpfull with anything related to the content of CM.
The CM website is still running on my servers, and they will be until March 31, 2014, 23:59 GMT+1. The owner is well aware of this, and I have given him plenty of time to resolve the issues his users are experiencing. The above mentioned date is final. The owner will still have access to the server data after this date.
The owner is a developer from Estonia. I dont want to publish his name to the public, but if the CM users would elect one person to communicate with me, I will be open to talk about the actual owner with this person.
I want the person representing the users to PM me, and a couple of other persons PM me the username of that representative to vouch for him/her. Please dont spam me with other PMs. I will be checking these messages about once per day, so please be aware that it might be some time before I answer. I'm also going away for the weekend, so dont expect any replies until sunday.
I must admit that getting involved with this project might be one of the worst decissions in my life. My biggest mistake in all this was of course registering the domain name for this person. Again, I entered this project in a purely technical capacity. All accounts related to CM is transferred to the actual owner, and I will not have any further contact with this person.
This has been extremely though on myself and my family. We dont feel safe, we are getting threats and accusations against us that is false. This is extremely stressfull, and has affected our possibilty to function in our daily lives. The last days I spent talking with lawyer and the police about my situation, and getting some advice on how to get out of this. My only priority now is to get my life back to normal, and to make sure myself and my family again feels safe.
Im asking and begging that the CM users be understanding of my situation, please dont call or msg me outside this forum. Also, I'm not following the thread and PM will be my only point of contact. Again, please dont spam me with messages. I primarily want to get in touch with a representative for the CM users.
My hope is that this statement will clear up some unanswered questions, and give the users a possibilty to take any outstanding issues with the owner themselves.
I will be away this weekend, so dont expect any replies from me until sunday.
I thank you for understanding,
Best regards,
Kenneth
Just post the details of the person who has developed and is running the site and all your problems go away. It is that simple.
The person running the site will have no time to be angry with you as they will be busy running from the hundreds of people they owe money to here.
I cannot understand why you would even consider keeping this persons details private for one second if you are suffering all this stress.
You are hosting a site that is helping somebody steal money. Jut publish their details and all your worries are gone. You will probably even get gifted some coins for helping out. I'll give you 20% of what I'm owed if I get it back. I'm sure people would do the same. There is already a 5btc reward for this person from this community. That's over $3,000 already. Jutpst for giving the guys details up.
If I feared for the safety of my family, I would give up the details of this person in about 1 second.