What would you prefer - a dev that said that during negotiations but is present or a dev that has not said that but has disappeared?

By using the exchange proceeds to buy XTP on an exchange and burning the coins, instead of paying out the proceeds as dividends.

Fudbuster, you might want to read this article that would assist you with reducing your risk in future.

http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/more-than-100-flavors-of-malware-are-stealing-bitcoins/d/d-id/1141396?

I highlighted the section that was your downfall. It was an unfortunate choice of words by the dev. Instead of saying your wallet must be unencrypted, he should have said your wallet must be encrypted but unlocked for staking only. There is a big difference. You might have had a latent infection that searches for the existence of wallet.dat files all the time. If it finds one it checks for encryption and if unencrypted extracts the private key and other metadata of the coin or copies the file off and sends the data to his command and control. Unless you can find a good heart that will give you some coins they are gone. Everyone learns the lesson at some point of losing coins through theft of files or corruption thereof.

I thought this was a trial by community? 

In addition, Virustotal gives the OP file the same hash value and a clean bill of health. The evidence therefore points to a higher probability of a local infection but from a different source.

Thanks. The values you get is the same as the wallet on the OP and others have not been hacked. If the wallet was infected, other people would also detect the infection. Since you are the only one reporting an infection, it proves then that your infection did not originate from the OP file, but some other method. You can typically get infected by other means like visiting a pr0n website that installs a trojan that could steal wallet.dat files and install a keylogger. The attacker then copies off the wallet.dat or extracts the private key and then steals your coins. If your wallet was encrypted he can steal your coins using your key-logged password or worse if it was not encrypted extract the private key and import it into another wallet or just copy the wallet.dat and transfer the coins.

can you do the same with the exe file inside the zip file?

is this the zip file or the viral-qt.exe file?

Perhaps the guys who have been hacked can upload their zip file and the viral-qt.exe file to the site below. Select convert and and post the top most hex value displayed in the results box.

http://hash.online-convert.com/sha256-generator

Drink a chill pill guys. Nothing wrong with keeping coins, even sometimes right to the end. If you don't buy a lottery ticket you cannot win the lottery. As long as you have coins anything can happen.

Not helping.

I am sure coin management will do the right thing.

They are not taking it out on you. It is just that if you are correct it has far reaching implications to the project. Much more far reaching than you can imagine. It is therefore of the utmost importance for the community to find out exactly what happened in your case and therefore they are asking all the questions.

Bittrex is a key player in the Crypto ecosystem whether you like it or not. In addition, in the absence of regulation, exhanges in cryptoland has to be seen as at least self regulating and also complying with certain rules eg KYC etc. as far as possible. A coin needs all the support it can get. Life is not fair and sometimes certain actions and requirements can pi$$ off people based on their point of view. Mature people learn to deal with life's curveballs, including actions from other players that you might not agree with based on a certain point of view. Sometimes one has to work with someone that you do not like or whom you do not agree with but working together is required to achieve an objective.

I still say to the dev team deal with it, find the middle way and manoeuvre in such a way as to comply with Bittrex rules and maintain the listing. It is not necessary to be hard headed as that will only lead to despair.

Everyone should think about the bigger picture. Saying "screw an exchange" will get nobody no-where. A coin needs volumes. I suggest a diplomatic route to find an acceptable middle ground while maintaining a Bittrex listing. There are many ways to skin a cat. The quickest way to ruin is to burn bridges as a burnt bridge cannot be repaired easily and cuts off one route to your destination and most of the time is only to your own detriment.

Why don't the dev team instead of paying out dividends, rather use the proceeds from the exchange and buy XTP coins on the market which gets burned with public accounting. This way inflation is countered and coins become more valuable because of lower supply. This should be a win-win situation for all involved and should pass compliance tests.

Read the fine print.

Only saw this now. 40+ pages TLDR. Just asking a few questions before I make a decision to buy or not. Is there confirmation that the Adam guy is involved? He seems to play an important role in the prospectus? Is there a proof of dev for this project where such a huge amount of BTC is involved like in this ICO?

What does not kill you makes you stronger.

How about a coin swop on gorilla.ex when the time is right?