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As one of the core engineers of the Waves Platform project, I can no longer bear withholding this vital information. 
 
First of all, let me be clear that I do not stand to gain any monetary benefit by sharing these important developments.  Secondly, I have not even received any position on the Waves Platform website, nor do I expect or ask for any public recognition.  When I began working on the project, I agreed with "Sasha" to receive a portion of the investor funds in return for my efforts.  The reason I am speaking up is because it appears that "Sasha" is acting solely in his own benefit without communicating with the rest of us on the Waves Platform team.  Recently, he withdrew over 8,000 bitcoins from the investor funding without discussing the usage of these funds with anyone on our immediate team. 
 
Here is proof of the withdrawal:
https://blockexplorer.com/address/3DWBSSAue32YS8PcW2gLs6m52BCCv3UgDA
 
Let's just say, we are all very concerned that "Sasha" is not acting in our collective interest, nor do we trust him any longer.  Although this withdrawal has been deeply unsettling, we have discovered that "Sasha Ivanov" is not his real name.  Perhaps in a stupor, he mistakenly sent me an email correspondence intended for Alexei Ulyukayev, which I have determined to be an individual working at the Ministry of Economic Development.  In the message "Sasha" referred to himself as "Dmitry Olav" and spoke of an intentional security flaw in the Waves Platform code. 
 
Aside from Yuri Gagarin, the dead astronaut (whom we had sarcastically claimed as our backend developer), I have been significantly involved in the development efforts.  I am shocked that I had not been aware of a second version of the Waves Platform code, which it appears "Dimitry Olav" has been pitching to various exchanges, with the sinister intention of "Gox'ing" or sabotaging the cryptocurrency community.  More specifically, having reviewed the code, I believe he has placed a recursive line within the routes API, which allows for a backdoor entry into the wallet accounts at an exchanges.
 
I believe that the reason Poloniex has delayed the adding of Waves and others such as Kraken have refused is because they have discovered this security flaw.  Although Bittrex does not appear to be aware of the flaw, I believe the drop in the price of Waves correlates with the dumped Waves from the Bittrex central wallet, which "Sasha" or "Dimitry" generously and freely gave them, to encourage the quick adoption. 
 
Please note, this message has been written purely for entertainment purposes and should not to be taken seriously.
 
Yours truly,
Nick
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Please note, this message has been written purely for entertainment purposes and should not to be taken seriously.

Please note, this message has been written purely for entertainment purposes and should not to be taken seriously.

 ;D lol

Strangely enough right after this was posted price has fallen fast... hope this was a joke, but seems too much of a coincidence to ignore.

waves needs an official post that say that this is fake

Yes but what good will that do lol.

I dont believe this fud to be true.

Anybody can cook up such a message.

Shillers  gonna shill.

It literally says it's a joke at the end..

Right... but why did the price drop so much if it's really a joke?  And why doesn't anyone from the actual Waves team say it's fake?

But what is with the 8000 BTC? The transaction is real.  ???

the only thing real is the idiots who are not getting the joke.

Ok Ok I get it it may bea joke  , BUT how do you explain no other exchange is trading wave , Why is poloniex not trading waves ??

And on Sasha's LinkedIn page that's linked to the Waves website, his name is "Alexander" or something like that, it's not even Sasha. 

So actually where does the name "Sasha" come from??  Is that his nickname?  Why is he called Alexander on LinkedIn?  And there's barely any info on him on his social media. 

Another thing, isn't he supposedly Russian?  Why is it he doesn't list that language on his LinkedIn but lists English, German and Italian?  It's just weird, too sketchy for me.

I think what bothers me the most is that they've withdrawn over 30% of the investor funds, but haven't really explained what they used it for.  I mean, when Lisk was launching, they were giving updates constantly.  Max was on the forums alleviating concerns, despite the whole ddos attack, which was really nothing compared to Sasha manually giving access to Waves accounts.  I think that's ridiculous in 2016, to be doing that manually with 30,000 BTC invested.  I mean come on, at least hire extra people... it's really stupid that many people still can't access their Waves.  The only reason the price hasn't dumped lower is because so few people actually have been able to sell. 

Also with 9000 BTC taken from the funding, I would have thought they would do better marketing.  The last thing on their blog is about how to remove/add the "1W" for Bittrex.  It's pretty crazy how little communication they provide.  You have to constantly be investigating slack, bitcointalk, reddit, twitter, etc. to get a clear picture of what's going on with their project.  They also don't have any actual technical paper out.  There's very little info on what Waves really does.  And on Sasha's LinkedIn page that's linked to the Waves website, his name is "Alexander" or something like that, it's not even Sasha. 

So actually where does the name "Sasha" come from??  Is that his nickname?  Why is he called Alexander on LinkedIn?  And there's barely any info on him on his social media. 

On the website "Sasha Ivanov" (same as Facebook / Twitter)
https://s31.postimg.org/kluumpol7/Screen_Shot_2016_06_22_at_11_17_21_PM.png

On his LinkedIn profile "alexander ivanov"
https://s31.postimg.org/9pxyawyej/Screen_Shot_2016_06_22_at_11_16_49_PM.png

Another thing, isn't he supposedly Russian?  Why is it he doesn't list that language on his LinkedIn but lists English, German and Italian?  It's just weird, too sketchy for me.

hello

To make something a nickname in Russian, you add "-sha" to it. Russian for Alexander = Aleksander. They drop the Alek and change "Sander" to "Sasha" to make it a nickname. It's common in the Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_%28name%29

When is polo going to added and why is wallet always in maintenance  mode on trex

What do you mean by maintenance mode? Can you withdraw?

I know for a fact he speaks Russian fluently, I've seen it.