ARK does not spend money foolishly. We don't have a brick and mortar location, the entire team works remotely. We are very frugal when it comes to funds. ARK is also regulated by French laws for those funds, which are very similar to the SEC standards.
Your ideas included much more than what you write here, and yes, buybacks/burns/airdrops/promises of token price increase in general would make regulators look at us as a security and the fines, regulation, lawyer fees and court costs for that would be detrimental to this project, not only in terms of funding lost but also in time spent in said processes. The fact that you just called them "pump ideas" should say it all. The ARK we hold is used for community development projects and bounties, that is how it is being distributed.
Your banning on slack was due to your personal attacks on community and team members and constant trolling to push the limits of banning. As I said before, I stand by the mods decision for the justified ban of not following rules.

To my recollection, you have never suggested anything for tier0. Nor have you ever provided anything more than trolling. As far as i can recall, you have only suggested pumping ideas that are insanely illegal in the eyes of regulators like the SEC. Calling anyone idiots further proves that you were banned from other chats with justification.

my wording of a pump team might not correct but it's along that line. ark is pretty much dead right now in term for investors. it's that the ark communications and front desk can't find their magic bean, it's time to replace them. it seem the coindesk, ccn, or any big crypto news outlets have banned them or the ark communicators not even try to communicate with them to get the words out.

lol ARK, yet another one that has shit the bed.
the desperate attempts to keep this thing afloat are prob all for not.
sad really.

You have a good point, but I believe stocks might be a different case and they can't be compared to altcoins.

For example if a US company doesn't keep their investors happy and they sell its stocks, their stock price will fall and so will their buying power since the company could sell some stocks in order to invest in development or make a deal.

But when an altcoin company holds part of their budget in other currencies other than their own, then they don't have to immediately worry about their own token's price.

For example if a company holds enough money in BTC and USD to last 3 years without extra financing, then they can focus on development and not bother with their token's price for 3 whole years.
Heck, it might be even better for them to allow the price to fall, it'll become easier for them to do a 1000% like pump when they decide "now we're ready to focus on investors, let's buy our cheap tokens"!

ark bagholders(unicorn farts) now and soon will be whales.
i already started buying ark now.
i found out ark people have about 3.3k bitcoin right now worth almost $40,000,000
i see they chose not to manipulating the ark price.

ark people have lot and lot of ark tokens, if they chose to do the stellar style airdrop that would creating ton of hypes or if they burn it, it's also creating lot of hypes. i just hope they would do something instead of pretty much stand still in term for investors. they are just have too much money and ark tokens, they really need to do something for the investors so everyone can be happy.
eth is eth today because it was manipulated so hard on poloniex when it started.

Who said that small cm turns a coin to a shitcoin? Hype comes and goes, today we have these crypto in top, tomorrow the other. That doesn't mean anything in the long term. Those who read the white paper will take it seriously, but I bet you didn't.

All those things are called "decentralization" from people like him!
Being able to troll and make fun of other people's rights is considered their "right"!

Personally, I'd call it anarchy and not decentralization.

What you were "privy" to had nothing to do with current public chats for the ARK Ecosystem or our current team. You were in private chats with old/former and some current team members back before ARK was a business years ago. None of what is said in private channels has anything to do with modding a public chat of a professional business and maintaining a welcoming and professional environment. You may have seen normal human venting between friends back then, but it was no more than that.  I have never publicly blamed any delegate for trying to sabotage a chain. What happened with a rage quitting delegate was catching a private conversation that had nothing to do with the ARK team as a whole, nor myself. The team member that had his phone open to a private convo has already apologized and been reprimanded, we cannot control all private conversations, nor stifle someone venting. Calling me names and blowing up like this is makes very little sense to me.

ARK is a registered business held to specific legal standards, we are real people with our real names and real addresses and real lives associated with ARK. It's a real company and project and for many people in these chat rooms, this is their real lives on daily basis, not just some internet pseudonym that can do whatever it wants with no repercussions. Our professional reputations and that of our team are on the line in how we do business and handle ourselves. We try to approach every situation fairly and I think in most cases we have done a good job allowing free speech and people to vent without letting it cross a line. You were banned by a mod in a modded chat with rules, these rules apply to everyone, you broke the rules. People have been banned in the past and have returned after ongoing civil conversations.

You were banned for a reason and I fully support the moderators for doing so. (personally i believe you should have been banned years ago with all of your constant rule breaking/bending, harassment, lies, bashing of community members, bashing of team members and constant fudding.)

That's sucks! The reason I will never participate in any Slack, Reddit, manual edit thread or thing like that for any crypto. If they're not liking you or your idea then they would just kick you out and ban.

vote thrice.pi_prometheus ...it is a 50% pool

check out my delegate proposal https://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?t=490

been here since the beginning! and still going strong in LISK.

Currently I am very close to the 101.

Vote for me and before you know it you will be getting 50% of my profit sharing pool

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I went and bought a lot more Strat today but just saw that buy support has dropped to half of what it was few days ago and there is twice as much up for sale. I wonder what is pushing STRAT down when other less decent coins are getting pumped left, right and center. Any reason for the sudden EXODUS and sell off? Is it just the early Whales cashing in and moving on? I bought for long term holding but wondering how low it is going to get now before it starts an uptrend again and should I wait for it to get lower before I buy again? I am a bit shocked it dropped so much, especially as I know it's a good coin, but it's lacking in the support at the moment that other coins are getting.

It's great they will be automatic now  
Would someone point out where the 0.0028 is calculated?  Thanks!


Edit: So you get 56 Lisk per week with 20,000LSK voting?  So about 1LSK a week for each vote.  Wouldn't it be more profitable to vote for just pool delegates then?  Voting for the 17 delegates on bioly's site here: http://tools.mylisk.com/calculator.php  you get 25.6 LSK a week, which is 1.5LSK a week for each vote.  If some more of those standby delegate pools get voted in, you could make more than 56LSK a week with 56 votes.  Also, that way you can be more selective in your votes instead of being required to vote all 56 to get any rewards at all.