Guys we are shocked as you are by Philip's statement. Recent events are overwhelming for us too. Allow me to give you some of the
details before a conclusive announcement is published by us.
Two days ago we announced our Matchpool Optimization strategy (see here : https://medium.com/matchpool/matchpool-optimisation-strategy-b9373ae67871) As part of our hedging strategy we decided to convert some of the contributed ETH into BTC, We first converted 10% of the total ETH which is approximately 12,500 ETH and in the second trance we converted 25,000 ETH into BTC. the total BTC converted to sums up to 1450.667. Here are the accounts holding those BTC:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FKR93CmAOgwa1R8aU6unoXy-xV0suV_r11xj7EmgGJw/edit?usp=sharing
The total amount is separated to many accounts as we save the BTC on cold wallet protected with TREZOR that creates new address every deposit.
Philip statement is currently studied. I'm afraid it is a case of one disappointed man that is trying to hurt all involved.
This is a perfectly adequate initial response...
So they moved some funds out of the most volatile alt on earth... what a shocker.
Give them at least 2 days to push back against this out-of-the-blue PR hit...
The big money is always in an exchange listing and pump (Augur is basically a joke and worth $100 million)...
Also, if this was a straight up scam they could have EASILY raised $10-$15 million or more.
And the kids worried about their $10 bounty... please go back to your sandbox
Better they inform us first.