Hi everybody, apologies for this thread not being updated timeously,
@paulmaritz - Atriz was the best manager at the time we appointed him in December 2017. We paid his fees upfront in BTC for the management of the bounty and sig camps. everything ran smoothly (in our view) until the end of the ICO in march 2018. 2 days after the ICO, we transferred all 1,000,000MNL tokens to his "management wallet" still believing everything was according to plan. (this was on about 25 march or earlier) >>> fast forward like 4 weeks, still no distribution >>>> ffwd another 4 weeks, project is being planned, ground work being done, contracts being finalized, equipment being purchased, our team was in Hong Kong (late may), when we found out that the spreadsheets were not completed, nobody knew what was happening, atriz unavailable... no tokens distributed
from that point, we managed to contact him through another contact (he ignored our comms) ((after finding a lot of projects he handled on a "scam thread")) and demanded our tokens back. they were returned by the end of may approximately. so, here we stand, with 700,000 of the 1m tokens back in hand, miraculously, after much negative speak.
***how can you say the project let atriz down ? he has been scamming many projects of BTC and tokens? we only trusted him fully and complied with everything we could do ahead of time, even before it was needed???***
so here we sit, most of the tokens back in hand, no idea how a bounty works, or how ours worked, 2 incomplete spreadsheets, and a $21M project just kicking off.... what do we do?
1. create a dedicated telegram group for better communication with bounters.
2. announce the issue we are having (as embarrassing as it was) and took over this whole thing, not knowing what is happening, but with the intention of trying to get it sorted, and get the bounty tokens sent out ASAP.
3. This issue arose as we were preparing for the build of our first DC. We had to scramble to try and make a plan for the distribution, even though not a single person on our team even knew how the bounty worked. spreadsheets were incomplete, we never knew if items on the sheet were real of fake, we had no way of working though this. Bounty is not our speciality, and we had to try (with the help of the community and some bonters/sig members) work out how to finish this. we eventually completed this, and published the new spreadsheets --- we allocated everybody the stake They applied for, because we could not check up on 21,000 transactions --- we know there were some liars and cheats, but we paid them anyway (sound much like a scam or unwilling to pay?)
4. when we appointed a dev (and paid 20ETH) for the contract and distribution ((this was majorly overpriced, but we did it anyway, just to try and help the bounters get their tokens faster-- do we sound much like a scam/cheats??)) after which, we found that there was a technical issue with the airdrop syncing up. this is the issue we are trying to fix, and this is the sole hold-up on the distribution. this involved the re-creating of an entire smart contract and migrating our whole token system (41m tokens for the benifit of 730,000
)
5. the team, and our CEO has promised the bounters their tokens. the tokens are locked in a dedicated wallet, ready to be airdropped as soon as practically possible. we are not trying to hold back tokens, or rob anybody of their rightful earnings. we believe in our project and the value of the tokens, and therefore want them to be sent out to everybody who worked for them. we are facing very big challenges and massive decisions to make, in order to get this issue resolved. we are working as fast as what we can.
I elaborate on this series of events as it shows what we have faced, quietly, while just trying to get this issue resolved.
what we cannot accept is being accused of "the project letting atriz down" - he scammed us (actually you, the bounters) - MNL has kept its promises to atriz always, and has now had to go over an above the scope of what we agreed to, to get your tokens to you. do we whine and whinge about it? NO! we go ahead and deal with it, quietly, as best as we can.
lastly, our token price is not "not worth anything" - in fact our token price has held up fine with reduced liquidity (until September when project starts working) ; there is an increasing demand for MNL in our community as we are ramping things up.
here is the link To the bounty group on telegram -
https://t.me/moonlitebounty ; please follow the announcements to keep better up to date.
PLEASE KNOW THAT WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SORT THIS OUT. WE PROMISE THAT THE BOUNTY TOKENS WILL BE SENT OUT ASAP. MNL Team