Taken by me. 95 doge
Edit: thanks for the merit. When you said solver get merit, I didn't thought it was an actual... umm, merit.

Ahh well, I don't really know how you do it. I'm aware that there is a stron possibility that the hint refers to your personal column (the left side), and that's exactly the first area I looked at, your post numbers, etc, any 4 characters, and althouh it crossed my mind that the hint possibly talked about your profile picture, I thouht it was too far fetched as I know it's there the entire time, days ao at least. So I took many other wild shots like LEFT TFEL, and several unicodes before I really ive my shot. My hats off for your brilliance, I really enjoyed this puzzle.

90 taken


Edit: oops, my bad... The multiple puzzles in a day must have tricked my mind, put me in a false familiarity as I check the thread far too frequent in a day.

Argus is a primordial giant known for the all seeing hundred eyes, well, poptok only asks for one, though.

i took it for 90 DOGE

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Wait . . . yobit campaign is still on? Like the one from years ago? That paid directly to your yobit account? I recall some people sporting their signature months ago, but I thought that's just them being too lazy to remove years old abandoned campaign, or a die hard supporter.

Anyway, empty wallet was a common issue during their earlier period, they usually fill it back after some days... before they finally didn't. So maybe this one would too.

I've been long absent from the forum, so I am aware that this might be a little bit outdated, but yes, they actually finally pay the bounty. They abandoned Sylon's spreadsheet as he still refuses to unlock it and made their own way... the submission to claim bounty was ended few months before and I don't think you can claim anymore.

Although you might want to rest assured that even if you get your reward, the amount are somewhat extremely reduced and would be far from your expectation. Team refuse to share their secret "formula" to calculate payment, let alone the fact that there are a lot of messed up payment, like someone on lower rank somehow got much more than they on high rank, someone questionably got a lot more than others who joined from the very first day, etc.

Soundlessly, one white feather fell, twirling like a dance.
As it touched the earth, a faint humming in the air began
Slow at first, but grows louder and louder
Air began to shimmer and vibrate violently
A rip of the nothingness appear on the night sky, with warm and fragrant mist of exotic flowers flowing from within.
Ultimately, a figure appear, leg first, then his entire body, stepping from the Rift into the earth, looking around with fondness in his eyes.
"I'm back", the figure whispers, "I'm back from the timelessness"
He looked at someone stood few good meters from him, a familiar face that appeared with different but as elegant method few good days before him
He looked at the man, grinning and whispered, "shall we begin?"

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Oh, what?! Poptok!! I missed you and your brilliant puzzle so much! I was so busy these past few months with a mini human that my brother asked my help to take care of, but I think you just persuade me to check the forum on daily basis again! I felt so sorry that I wasn't here on the first day you reawaken this fun thread

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Was too excited to see my old online friend return that I was little bit late to realize that the puzzle is not yet claimed. Anyway, I took it. And as always, I'll break it down. Hopefully, it'll encourage new comers that's not familiar yet to the nature of this generous game to think VERY out of the box. Check everything, question everything, as Poptok could put hints at the very least expected place(s).

And for this one,

The first hint would picked old players (like me) curiosity as Poptok always use the word "hint", so "cue(s)" is a little bit out of place. But don't be discouraged, new players, as the words after it should made you curious too. "I mean hints", he said, like correcting himself, like suggesting that there's something wrong. It's very ambiguous, I have to admit that although I am aware of the real hidden hint, I wouldn't know how to use it right away if the second hint didn't stress it out.

Read it out loud: "cues: I mean hint..." Combined with a possibility that the real hint on "hint 1" is the word "cues" itself, and an urge to read it out loud would turn the word "cues" into "qs", three of 'em  --> Q--Q--Q.

100 doge claimed.

I'm sorry, little one, but not this one

Just to update anyone interested, their telegram channel is also well abandoned, with the dev's last online time being more than weeks.

It's actually been informed on their TG group several times, while discussion about it was scattered all over the channel every now and then. But yeah, they're lacking update on this forum. Let me see if I can ask their officials to popping in here.

While about rebrand/partnership, I believe it's a rebrand, as evidenced on their channel name and the soon-to-be-happening swap, LEND is gradually rebranded into Aave. Soon, there will be no more LEND, only aave

Aave is the parent company of LEND, in other words, LEND is one of Aave product. They decide to rebrand to Aave in order to give more features on LEND. A swap is coming soon

I don't think there's even a community on the first place. It came into my awareness that most of the accounts on their telegram channel as well as this thread and bounty thread was made by bumping service, only few real users that's now turned fooled by the team. If you check on this forum about their project, you'll find couples of scam accusations for them.

Hmm... The numbers of his project that turns unpaid were handful. I'm contacting him since 04.08 to ask about his payment details and again today to ask him to directly give his version to this thread, I am yet to hear from him for both. Let's hope he can give his time soonest possible.

Alex is (was) one of Aitheon staff team who at one point few months ago assigned to contact sylon and handle bounty details

Sylon? Yes, I've been in contact with him. Around two months ago one of the team (now seemingly taking a sabbatical) asked in the main channel if anyone can help reaching Sylon (image 1) as he seemingly ignore the admin. Upon going back and forth for quite some time, I managed to get them in touch, but then... it just went back to the beginning. I know personally from asking Alex as a follow up for the issue that he was assigned for other task, just as he managed to be in touch with admin after days of effort. Personally, it was a weird decision, as it seems like waste of effort because after trying so hard to solve the issue and get in touch, he was assigned just at the brink of solving.

edit: *removing insigificant pic*

The problem with Sylon as their BM, the way I understand it, was they also refuse to pay as agreed. It seems there are several admin before Alex that tried to reach Sylon, only to have several weird issue just like the one with Alex. At this point, it would be rather understandable that Sylon initially reluctant to get in touch with Alex as he most likely already know that the end result would be the same. Also, you seems to be wrong about him getting payment, he is also yet to get his payment.

edit: *removing insignificant pic*

What happened: Aitheon held a bounty since January-June 2018, payment is yet to be sent to every participants 

Scammers Profile Link: They don't seems to have an account here, but here are their other medias:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aitheon/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aitheonofficial?lang=en
Telegram: https://t.me/aitheon


Reference Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2836062.0
PM/Chat Logs: literally scattered on their telegram channel
Additional Notes:

Initially, the payment would be around June 2018, but it was not paid up to today. Not only they keep avoiding payment for more than one year, the amount was very greatly reduced. Stated on the OP when the bounty started (January 2018) that it will be 1% from total supply (35,000,000), later on early June 2019, they revise it to be merely 5,000,000, arguing that as it was the total supply that's reduced, the reduction will not really affect payment as price will goes up due to the low supply. Worse, not only the total amount was reduced, the allocation was also altered, that the total amount will be divided into past campaign, bug bounty, and future bounty (which both was not stated on the beginning of the campaign). Factually, as per this message being posted (02.08.19) their price was 0.006 USD, very far from their initial ICO price of 0.35 USD, which most likely happen due to the extreme lack of updates. They keep reasoning that they're under NDA, and that they will reveal once allowed by their partners.

Now, this part probably true, probably not. They have some evidences that they're doing something, but what I seek here was their responsibility by paying us the bounty hunters. They keep saying that they will distribute soon and that team is working on it... for more than one year??? Their spreadsheet was locked since the end of campaign up to today, effectively preventing anyone to learn how much token they earned. Not only that, team also refuse to share their new allocation (the allocation for past campaign, bug bounty, and future campaign), effectively preventing anyone who happen to keep record of their past token payment to guess how much they earned with the new allocation.

They also revise their rule on KYC, which was not stated on the initial rule. What's worse is, so many participants already submitted their KYC, and their payment are still unclear.

We haven't. Initially they will have a bounty up to 29th of May to June 4th, as stated several times on several places. By the end of the week, they informed us that the duration was extended to September (three times from the initial one, to be exact) and that participants misunderstood their meaning, that the duration listed was for first round, and there will be second and third back-to-back (which was not only it is not informed anywhere prior, but also it contradict several statement by the BM that bounty will last for two months). This extension didn't followed by extra or separate bounty allocation, which means they lied about bounty allocation and anyone following the bounty up to the end would have to work three times extra for the same payment (assume someone should get 1,000 USD for his work for the initial period, now they will have to work three times longer for the more or less same allocation).

When I tried to point out this issue, the BM said that it was on his authority to change rules whenever he wanted, which I counter by pointing out that the rules and duration are two separate things. Pretty shady and an abuse of a position of a bounty manager if I may give my opinion.

Why creating other thread? It'll confuse your readers on which thread they should look for info and updates. Anyway, still waiting for your update on license and team profile. I see that even on the other thread, these information are not served

Hmm... Interesting that you state you wouldn't focus on low tiered coin, given that my statement was directly based on your earliest statement:


Also, does anybody notice you somehow missed the query about your company license and organization structure?

Still not explaining how a successor who never touched or familiar with blockchain could understand how to utilize things needed to access his inheritance.

I'd also like to see how you'll compete with that pioneer competitor of yours who has an extremely cheaper rate than yours.

Before this, he didn't list this project on his employment history, thus leading to a possibility that team just irresponsibly put the name as their team to gain credit without the real owner knowledge. But I see that it was corrected and the CEO now had this project under his record, proving the credential.

Now, how about other team member? This is not an one-man team, I take?

You can always buy them from the site if you're interested to get more MBL

Shady graphic? Token has been around for 2 years but never heard of (which lead to an idea of trash project)? The said founder doesn't seems to list this project on his linkedin?

Well, the last point is usually a major point, lots of people stole someone's profile by pretending he's on the team without him even knowing. And "team" have not even answered about that inquiry to confirm his credential

You can start from company license and organization structure.

Meanwhile, I am interested on one of the point you said, first let me clarify, your project is aimed to list and facilitate "low tiered" coins as in low volume and reputation?