To catch some up in the shortest way possible.. I am Sporklin, from Dogecoin Core Developers something easily verified, generally known in the space. My involvement in relation to Mooncoin predates many of the other names in this entire thread, as does my association in relation to the communities and developmental levels. Moon came from Doge, we were active in the original announcement even from a developmental standpoint; seen here. Was in the Mooncoin IRC channel as it was launched even. Ties over the years got slightly deeper as Michi, the lead developer for Mooncoin is also a member of Dogecoin Core Developers under The Dogecoin Project.

We have been reached out to along with many other teams in the space for advising and assistance by the Mooncoin users. For as weirdly it seems that people want to claim that Mooncoin is just one platform for community... There are several that exist. Having one championed above others in a decentralized project is rather odd from the outside in given communities have always existed on assorted platforms. None the less many got to see as people migrated into the Telegram group, checking Reddit, the Discord community even some trying to kick around in the old Mooncoin IRC. There has been extensive conversation over the past few days with most involved in this entire mess attempting to fathom on a level how this happened.

Very curious to know who contacted the mining pools using the phrase "mandatory emergency fork" on behalf of Mooncoin? In speaking with pool operators they were not pleased to find that things had been misrepresented to them, they thought they were doing the right thing in being timely, to correct an on chain flaw during a dire situation. The only flaw found here is that no one actually verified things, slightly disturbing boarding to negligent. Expanding upon this a little, who contacted the exchanges involved in this? Their people sat in the Mooncoin communities stating that they were in contact with project developers; only to be informed by community members and developers that was not the case. It caught them a bit off guard as they have tried to answer to the communities, the users and developers with answers they seem only to have on the basis of misrepresentation.

Mooncoin Foundation which is not an actual entity was wielded as if it was something that was directive, involved, or played some other part in things apart from being a name used here. A singular person, not a community, not a development team, not a fraction of the userbase. I understand it is a name here but in speaking with things in the space there was no awareness of this name in relation to Mooncoin in any functional manner until this event; where things were used to mislead platforms, mining pools in relation to the project itself. A bit shocking on their end to find out that Mooncoin Foundation is not something more than a name used here. They were led to believe that it was a functional entity that no amount of conversation, research, checking registration spanning multiple countries could find. Why was this wielded in this manner?

Other reputations are on the line in this that go beyond Mooncoin. Peter who wrote things, is the Feathercoin lead developer. ChekaZ is the founder of TrezerCoin and CoinKit (a tipbot that handles funds for assorted projects in the space based on good faith handling) is who retained Peter. Neither of these parties had awareness that there was ongoing development, that the communities were active in coming to some form of communal consensus about how to handle many of the ongoing issues in relation to Mooncoin with the team that has been there for years. Neither thought that they were being engaged to perform an attack on one of the oldest assets in the entire space still functional in a way that violated the principles of decentralization, of consensus that both of them have sought to uphold and maintain over the years. Dogecoin has had users who are aware of this situation reaching out, asking us to make very public commentary in relation due to the involvement of ChekaZ, there are concerns now tied to intentions. Mooncoin users are asking why Feathercoin developers hate them, why they did this to them. Why were they not informed honestly about what exactly they would be doing?

That there have been "investors" running around stating that more attacks will come against the chain in this manner until the functions that singular entities want, is vile. Mooncoin has no investors, much like 99% of the other assets that exist. The reality of it is that from a legal standpoint people who buy hoping for profits, are speculators. This offers no legal protections what so ever in manner to even pretend to be investors. No promissory engagement, no share issuance, assets bought are bought from other users, across third party platforms that are not engaged with the Mooncoin Project directly in form or association to imply protections, securities or entitlements on behalf. Owning Mooncoin does not mean you own a "share", it simply means you own a Mooncoin. The threats being made on behalf of "I hold more than you, I will pay to have my way" is not how decentralization works. The threats being made in front of users who have supported Mooncoin through everything, platforms that have stepped in to express curiosity in relation to Mooncoin.. This does not give the best impression by far, fear mongering through bullying and threats only makes things seem childish. That the chain will be broken on the whim of people LARPing as "investors" makes Mooncoin a liability to platforms engaged with it as they are the ones who have to answer to their users in this all. Which of you thought this was the best way to go about things?

If this is to be what Mooncoin is to be now, perhaps pay attention to the sentiment attached to the actions taken here. I do hope that someone has the answers to these questions, they are the few outstanding ones. Nearly everyone has been upfront in relation thus far but apparently there are answers here, with the one who funded the attack that terrorized the userbase for personal gain. Other projects are now watching this having heard about the situation, in a decentralized environment this should not happen. That an entire project can be hijacked, having a massive dedicated community of users violated for money. To be told that it is in their best interest to not say anything against it with baseless promises, threats against users, developers, even other projects.

The Mooncoin communities have been wonderful to spend time among these past few days, thank you to those that reached out for help even if the circumstances were awful. To the people who have spoken honestly to discuss what happened and why, know that I understand this was not the best for you. To developers from other projects, who caught side comments and stepped in to offer assistance. This entire mess was not just a blow to Mooncoin but the manner in which it was done is a waking nightmare to many who have dedicated their time towards decentralization.

So, hello, I am Sporklin of the Dogecoin Core Developer team. You, are, I have no idea who you are; in fact no one really does. What is known however is that someone in your name of project has taken it upon themselves to speak to the press, cryptocommunities and exchanges in very interesting manners.

I have had to field press inquiries, community questions, and questions from exchange admins in relation to your people speaking in a manner about your project that is far from clear to even flat out incorrect.

I would like this rectified, immediately.

You have nothing to do with the existing Dogecoin-Ethereum bridge project. Which is something heavily implied with a huge majority of your related press. You even use the name of their project as your user name here though you have no association with them. The Dogecoin-Eth bridge project is named Dogether and has had this name; for years. No one in your project has anything to do with it, at all. We have even gone so far to make sure in the overall bounty project that your project was not involved, just to be sure.

There is no hardfork of Dogecoin coming, at all. I say this as one of the people who have a say in the event. So I am curious why your people are portraying your project as a hard fork in the press, and the communities of the coin. This has leaked into our communities and been picked up as press relating to us to the point community members are asking ever more questions about it. Especially as there is no fork at all involved in what you are doing, and you have no involvement with Dogecoin in the manner to which hard forking would be an option to you. This is spread fairly through most articles, and easily found.

The contact to the exchanges themselves on your behalf, have gotten slightly annoying. As a team, we do maintain open contact with many of our larger exchanges which has been very helpful over the years. Someone contacting them in the name of your project has been heavily implying that you are a hard fork of Dogecoin and that there is pending implementation of your protocol on our blockchain. This is not true to any form, degree or even skew of the words in play. Having to answer queries from exchange admins worried that somehow they were forgotten in our notification system, on account of your project; is not something I care to do. Nor have they liked to be informed that them being contacted in the manner they were was entirely flawed information.

What you are doing is cloning Dogecoin's name onto Eth, which congratulations you can make a token.

I understand you have something you wish to do, I get that. What I do not understand is why several weeks later, there are still these comments being made in public to portray your project having anything to do with Dogecoin apart from a basis of a snapshot of the blockchain and taking part of the name. More over why you are not correcting the implication you have anything to do with the Doge-Eth bridge project. Oddly how there could be any confusion between your token and contacting to an exchange to try to have them forked into your asset over our main chain.

As a group we have been fairly careful what we stated in public in relation to your project hoping some middle ground, or corrections from your side would come in relation. However, they have yet to; where as more and more seem to be getting confused by the terms you are using to advertise your project.

This is the final attempt at communication to clear this up, we have already tried all mediums you make public in attempts to contact. So this is where we are now in public, making this sort of post which is a first for our team and myself. A final throw before progressing further in what is becoming ever more clear is something not on the level. Failing this, we will use the fullest extent of media, public, communal and direct exchange contacts to make it very clear that you are misleading not only the general crypto community, but the Dogecoin communities, and the Ethereum ones.

We will start to take the refusal to communicate or correct the misinformation as very intentional misleading money grabbing scam attempt. People who are doing things on the level tend not to want so much incorrect information about their project out there, your project however is nothing but misleading information at this point as nothing is actually honest to date.

I personally hope some middle ground or clearer communication can be had. You have nothing to do with the bridge project, you are most certainly not a hard fork of Dogecoin, you have nothing to do with Dogecoin forking at all. Statements such as this are false, counterproductive to whatever it is you are attempting to do, harmful to our community and harmful to any hope of association you wish to have with any future exchanges.

I truly do hope to hear from you soon, as we already have several people awaiting commentary from us for press release about this matter.

An answer, or resolving this; would be great.

On behalf of the Dogecoin Core Developers,

Sporklin - Dogecoin Core Developer

As an aside, should you perhaps finally want to actually engage in communication of some form. We are not a hard team to contact. Reddit, github, twitter, discord, IRC even.