Investors should not be punished here either. The right solution would be for Dooglas to debit the ill gotten gains from those investors who received them and credit it back to himself - not make it optional where the honest people are now double punished.
Can we just do that? It makes the most sense
I don't really understand why the bets which shouldnt have been made weren't just reversed? if there was no extra withdrawal, why was there a shortfall?
I agree Coinbomb, the solution is not for good samaritans to return funds and disadvantage themselves to those who keep them. Just roll it back, they coins were never going to be able to be withdrawn anyway. Anyway, it up to Doog at the end of the day. Lots of respect for him, very few others would be as honorable. One could say Dooglas is provably fair.
I think he should roll it back. Provided he actually can. And that he can demonstrate that those bets were stolen and not actual bets.
1300 BTC were not stolen. Bets were stolen and those bets put 1300 BTC into the bankroll. Without Doog's mistake the investors would be down another 1300 BTC. I think that is fair because that is what should have happened.
I'm ok with an across the board roll back of those bets as well.
I would agree to give all the donations back, including Celeste's. I would also welcome her back. She will help fill the debt with her amazing system. In practice you can't ban Celeste because She can easily create a new ID.
First of all I'm really sorry for what happened Dooglus.
I understand you feel bad that you made a mistake
However the way you solved this is not fair towards you.
If a manager of a company makes a mistake, then that mistake is payed by the company, not with the private capital of the manager.
If investors don't like it, they can leave, ofcourse after the mistake is charged to the company/all investors.
In this case the investors don't even lose as the costly mistake went straight into their pocket.
Please treat yourself better.
Losing 1300 btc private capital unjustly can push one into depression, and understandably so!
Nobody gains here with you being treated unjustly and getting depressed.
You deserve to be treated fairly, by others, and by yourself!
Warm hugs
If the illegitimate bets had been winning bets, would the bettor have been paid? (allowed to withdraw) I hope not. Likewise, because the illegitimate bets were losing bets, the investors should not profit from them. I say reverse the illegitimate bets, if at all possible.
Just let us know when a final decision has been made on what, if anything, is going to be done to resolve it so we can determine what to do. How does an investor calculate how much he profited from these illegitimate bets?
Thanks everyone for this. I really wasn't thinking straight this morning. I'm sure some will say I've done the wrong thing by rolling the bets back, but I do think it's the right way to handle this.
I will of course pay back the donations I received. Please PM me with the txid of your donation, and whether it's OK to return the donation to one of the 'sending' addresses of the tx, or whether you want it sent elsewhere. I guess if "elsewhere" then I should ask for a message signed with one of the sending addresses. But if you can do that, you could receive at one of those addresses. Hopefully none of you used a shared wallet...