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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: October 09, 2020, 11:57:33 PM
As Energi Mods/ Admins seem to be unable/ or still not willing to explain April MN Reward  Issue... Over 6 mnoths passed, nothing but silence or banning people asking for info. A large Issue lasting several days, and they hide them in silence. So far for Energi´s transparency. Angry

Is here someone able to explain what exactly happened? And eg. why the blockchain was not halted- as MN´s are essential for their Network.

A bit long story:

1. Apparently Energi Core had performed security audit before Feb 25 and knew the problem of Migrations which can be arbitrary drained into the EBI fund. However, there is little real possibility to steal it unless your are Ryan or Tommy. BTW, within the first week, almost 90% of coins have been migrated without any concerns.

2. On Feb 25th, Tommy and Ryan called me as mentioned earlier. Tommy tried to humiliate me to demand submission, but failed. Then Tommy asked if I would still be with Energi if I earn 1 million USD. I told that I am not interested to continue cooperation after Gen 3 release. He did not believe in that and continued his pre-planned talk: "if you want to stay with us bla bla bla bla". I repeated him once again, and then he became mad. Apparently "earning one 1 million" was about keeping silence and play the game of "security issues" to keep the deposits closed. Then there was a call on Feb 27th, also already mentioned.

3. On Mar 06 iirc, they have deposited at least 200k from Treasury into exchanges and ordered to close deposits. That clearly shows their intention to block deposits for at least 2 months as the average total deposit from Treasury to exchanges was less than 100k per month.

3. I left on Mar 19th, but offered advisor role. However, Tommy got further mad and created a shit show with "termination". They tried to delete my access to systems while I was talking to Ryan, but failed. Then I was cleaning the remaining access to servers and other stuff by myself while joking around with Peter. Even after that, I stayed in touch with Peter, Leon, Ryan and other Energi Core members while they were trying to put own ballast staking service. Then, I provided them with Testnet keys on Mar 31 upon the first request. Obviously, no "disgruntled employee" would do anything like that.

4. On Apr 06-07, Ryan has created an "impossible checkpoint" as he stated by himself. Possibly, it was due to artificial Migrations "security breach" with no real consequences. At the same time, Bashful was sending me some non-sense messages about "draining the network" after talking to Tommy. That's another funny rabbit hole story plot. With Integral team in the picture and actively playing at that time, it's clear for me that Bashful and Integral team were working together on Gen 2 stake mining and Gen 3 security research after Integral team got kicked out from the project because of the failed first Energi 3.0 attempt back in May 2019. Any way, the unclaimed funds would remain in the EBI Compensation Fund and not go anywhere further.

5. What Ryan has done, provoked already described Masternode Registry infinite loop on rewards because all MNs were inactive. That never happens on live network. Again, nothing critical and could be solved in one day maximum. It took them more than one month to match with the criminally planned period of closed deposits.

6. For me, all that was a clear bullshit and I had to raise my concerns publicly as I became a victim of that as well. They extorted my silence with threats first, then blocked 94+k coins related to me, then tried to continue threatening and further extorting my silence. Yes, Tommy sent his lawyer as promised, but only harmed self with that. Unfortunately, they did not go into civil court as I was planning.

7. In May, they upgraded the MasternodeRegistry contract with the fixes suggested by me + minor asserts and some functionality getting changed without security fixes. I judge based on disassembly. Again, it may be considered as a quite low important Denial-of-Service, but not as any security issue which would justify closed deposits.

8. Energi Core has violated GPLv3 license and have not published the new contract code AFAIK. Apparently, they try to fool Police and FBI with the contract fix, like they really had a security breach which could justify closed deposits.

At the end, we have a clear transnational organized crime group, which cries loud how they fight with "scammers" while being the main scammers in the whole story. Bashful and Integral team are kids compared to them.


Btw, if you're already interested in what is exactly wrong, wouldn’t it be easier to ask the creator of that problem?  Wink

Yeah, right, why Ryan, the creator of the problem, does not tell anything?
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: October 03, 2020, 07:58:59 PM
Uhm- right, you´re the man  Grin
constantly  equals 3 times asking in over 5 months!!

Sorry but is it really to hard to communicate in a clear open manner with community? Like "the Issue was solved, we will post an explanation about the cause in X Weeks"  But instead hide in silence... Not paying rewards, energi team owns to investors is also a form of #Cybercrime


Well, the answers has been given by me, the creator of Energi Gen 3. For that, I've been persecuted by Energi Core in various illegal ways with quite real threats. Obviously, police is aware and I cannot tell much except what was previously published, e.g.:


IMO, Energi Core is a transnational organized crime group, which has violated many laws and regulations of US and EU. The recent BitMex case confirms that well.

If you feel that you received damage because of the gang's actions, including market manipulation due to closed deposits for two months, you are free to contact your local financial crime police department and ask them to get in touch with the State Police of Latvia in regard to Andrey Galkin case. I am happy to explain what was the cause on Apr 07 as I have the original data dump - my nodes as the whole network were left on the correct chain.

P.S. I won't be surprised if Energi names you as "another account of Andrey". There were lots of fake posts from my name here - they removed them.
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: July 23, 2020, 06:00:31 PM


Energi Defense (EBI) is proud to announce that we have discovered the real-world identity of one of the most sophisticated scammers in the cryptocurrency space: Simon S. Tadros.



After two years of investigation, our cybersecurity experts have exposed this malicious actor that scammed over one million dollars from multiple cryptocurrency projects, enabling the recovery of $500,000 of stolen funds. This is a cybercrime story about how Energi is bringing professionalism into the crypto sphere, where reality seems to surpass fiction.

“We now have sufficient evidence linking his crimes to over a dozen fraud cases and two Dash masternodes, worth over a million dollars in total — and that’s just what we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. We suspect him of much more. We have not begun to assess all of the other crypto projects he may have been preying on as well.” — Peter, Director of EBI.

A Day in the Life of a Crypto Con Artist

If you’ve been into crypto long enough, you know that scams and money heists are a daily occurrence of the space. Unlike traditional banks, where you deposit your money in exchange for certain protections and guarantees, the very nature of cryptocurrency places all the responsibility in the hands of the user: you are your own bank. Because it’s an unregulated, global market, it attracts scammers and hackers of all kinds, and they’re constantly getting better.

Many of them are just basic hustlers that send thousands of emails pretending to be someone else and asking for cash. On a lucky day, they’ll trick a minuscule percentage of their targets. They don’t pose a major cybersecurity threat, as most people know they shouldn’t send their money to strangers on the internet.

But there’s a different type of scammer. Someone that doesn’t rush it, that takes their time to earn your trust and then one day you wake up to discover that your wallets have been emptied and you’ve lost your entire life savings. These are the kind of crooks we’ve dealt with for the past two years. A crypto con artist that employs hundreds of accounts to hide in plain sight. Some of them may even believe that they’re simply smarter than everyone else and that what they’re doing is not wrong or illegal.



“It was terrible to see Bashful stealing people’s life savings. We saw many cases where he caused considerable damage to his victims — both financially and mentally. Furthermore, he never showed any remorse for his crimes, and even bragged about his so-called ‘lessons’ and accomplishments.” — Peter, Director of EBI.

Fighting this type of cybercrime requires lots of resources, and that’s why Energi Defense is a team formed by cybersecurity experts, including veterans from intelligence agencies. Our original approach to fighting thefts was identifying suspicious accounts on our Discord server and banning them. This worked well, and we disabled plenty of low sophisticated scammers, but there was a new guy in town, more dedicated and convoluted. Some Energi users raised concerns about his activities, and our security department decided to take him down.

Enter Kratøs

A breakthrough came when we changed our whole approach to this case. In the second half of 2019, we stopped trying to exclude scammers and instead kept them busy with fake victims called “sockpuppets”, or “honeypots.” Our objective wasn’t to close down the scam but to prolong the hunt for as long as possible while gathering valuable intelligence.

This proved to be a very effective approach. To our surprise, it became clear that over 90% of all scams involving the loss of assets on Discord led to the same single threat: Kratøs.



Kratøs worked on each victim for an average of two to three weeks, taking time to earn their trust by giving them real technical support with his many fake accounts. He impersonated developers and moderators from many projects, and after a few days of becoming “friends”, the users trusted him completely.

Whenever they faced a technical issue, they went to Kratøs directly, keeping all his activity hidden from the Energi Support Team. Once he had their trust, he had a few ways to get his victims’ money, like offering over-the-counter deals to sell their coins or asking them for the login credentials to their wallets.

Camouflaged as a Vigilante to Eliminate the Competition

We did not know who was behind this account, but we knew this was no ordinary low-life scammer. Rather, it was a highly educated individual with a technical background in hacking and customer service, who spoke fluent English. Energi Defense started mapping out all the Discord accounts involved in stolen funds. As we mapped each account, they all were related to the one and only: Kratøs.

Kratøs was very active in the anti-scam community. He was pretending to be one of the “good guys” and went as far as to run his own anti-scam Discord server. A server that included numerous admins and moderators from a whole range of crypto projects.

We quickly realized that the purpose of this server wasn’t to prevent scams at all. It was to gain trust among different projects while eliminating his competition and deflecting any suspicions that led his way. It was an ingenious setup, as he was able to hunt for potential targets by searching some 100 crypto platforms. He kept an almost exclusive monopoly on victims across Discord while being in a unique position to detect whenever a rival scammer came onto his “turf.”

Kratøs also posed as an active vigilante within the Energi community. He gave us vast amounts of data dumps on past victims and possible leads that we took as valid evidence and invested time and effort to investigate them. It was a frustrating and challenging time. It’s said that the best lies have an element of truth. What made Kratøs so difficult to detect was that he often helped to identify real scams. However, his leads usually pointed to small-time scammers, and many more led to dead ends. Presumably, he enjoyed this game of playing both sides. A game that was about to end.

Now we had positively identified Kratøs as the lynchpin of this operation, our next goal was to discover his real-life identity. Our initial reconnaissance showed he was in Lebanon, but we needed to dig deeper, designing, and laying traps to extract more specific information.

Social-Engineering: A Taste of His Own Medicine

Once we discovered this malicious behavior, our gut reaction was to act immediately. This fraudster was not only stealing people’s life savings but also destroying the trust in cryptocurrency as the next evolution of money. However, we needed to dig deeper and find out who this person was, so we carried on gathering information and evidence. Our discoveries had to be a closely-guarded secret for some time.

“It’s ironic, poetic justice that his own weapon of choice — ‘social engineering’ — was turned against him, which ultimately led to his own downfall.” — Peter, Director of EBI.

We made steady progress in tracking him by laying multiple traps, exploring all angles, and chasing down every lead. Piece by piece, we were able to collect conclusive data confirming his Lebanese nationality. For instance, we found that his computer language settings were in “Arabic-Lebanon” (most people don’t realize that you can still tell a lot about a person when they’re using a VPN).

Finally, in February this year, after numerous and prolonged attempts at social engineering, we were able to crack the case wide open, which led to the discovery of his real identity. Kratøs took the bait when he introduced us to some of his “friends” from “France” regarding a potential security consulting job.



By this time, we were able to track him and knew almost instantly that his “friends” were just different accounts he was running.

It’s a strange feeling to engage in a conversation with several people knowing that every single person in that conversation except you is fake and, in fact, you’re speaking to the same person the whole time.

We had to play along and pretend that we were clueless, which meant continuing to talk to each party as if they were different people.

Our discussion topic was a potential partnership where EBI would handle security for a gambling and trading project called “goliquid”. A rudimentary Whois investigation led us back to a company which, no surprise, was based in Lebanon. The company was named “cNepho SARL” and, lo and behold, the founder of that company was one Simon S. Tadros. Did we finally have our guy?

Exposing Simon S. Tadros

When we started to investigate this “Simon S. Tadros,” we knew almost instantly that we had likely found the culprit. His background, education, and timeline were a perfect fit.

Almost exactly a year ago, our suspect had a particularly productive month. He was able to steal a total of 103,000 USD (at that time, 14.7 BTC) from four victims. This series of big hits culminated in one final incident on the 25th of June 2019. On this date, our scammer transferred almost 5 BTC to his wallet (in addition to what was stolen from other projects); that same day, his real identity advertised coins for sale on his social media account.



We made sure to record every single piece of information we found about him: messages, videos, printouts, you name it. The data we collected was excessive and vast. We then took this data to law enforcement and received confirmation on its validity.

We could have stopped there and let the police take over, but we feared that their investigation could last months or even years. We wanted to expose Simon S. Tadros sooner than that because he was not only damaging Energi, but the whole crypto space. Now with our goal set, we came up with a simple but effective plan to nail him once and for all.

Digging His Own Grave

We wanted to get one more piece of evidence that confirmed our findings not using any of our previous leads, and who better to give us that than Simon himself?

Our idea was for Tommy World Power to follow Simon’s real-life twitter account — the “ping” — and then to contact one of his many known scam accounts to let him know we knew who he was. We name-dropped his first name and, as proof, suggested he check his social media accounts. To add further pressure, we deliberately “leaked” skewed information about this discovery to Kratøs, adding more heat to the situation.

Now with all the pieces in place, all we had to do was sit back and watch the fireworks. We knew Simon would spin out of control, desperately trying to find out what went wrong and, in doing so, giving us the confirmation we were looking for.

It didn’t take too long. There was no way he could have known who, or how, we “pinged” him on the other side with only a name and some vague instructions about his social media profile. That was the inventive part of the whole operation: under pressure and with little information to work with, his imagination took over. We knew Simon would eventually break and try to convince us that we had the wrong guy. Yet, by doing so, he was giving us the final, unrelated piece of information we needed.



We had previously seeded the idea to Kratøs that we had commissioned an outside forensics company. Simon imagined that they had traced the funds back to him, which he used to profess his innocence.

He went on to claim that he knew the person we targeted and tried to pass “Simon Tadros” as an OTC broker who had done some work for him last year. His intention was to convince us that we had the wrong guy.

When it was apparent that his attempts at persuasion had failed and once the stolen NRG in his wallet was drained, he even tried to bribe members of the Energi team.



Solving Crimes Requires Professional Processes

Bounty hunters and those new to cybersecurity often go looking for one incredible piece of evidence, the “home run” or clincher, that solves the case. In our experience, that’s a myth.

Solving crimes boils down to one thing: process. In the course of our two-year investigation, there was never one single eureka moment. It was time-consuming, tedious work. We were continually collecting, filing, and chipping away at the rock, one piece at a time until the whole wall came tumbling down. When that happened, the scale of Simon’s crimes was revealed.

Peter, the Director of EBI, answered questions about how much money was stolen and how long he had been doing this: “Based on our research, he seems to have been active since at least late 2017. Each year, he got exponentially better, so we can’t know how much for sure. We do know that the server group he was in was used to target almost 100 projects. Furthermore, we know that he’s caused much more damage than we could ever prove. If we’re currently able to prove one crime out of every hundred, you can do the maths yourself.”

He added, “I enjoy my work at Energi very much. I can think of no other cryptocurrency project with the means, or the willingness, to carry out the scale of investigation needed to identify and expose this guy. It’s all-consuming work.”

Solving these crimes is never accomplished through a high tech, “hacking the hacker” operation. It’s much simpler than that. We all make stupid mistakes, and hackers are no different. You only need two ingredients: time and grit. The evidence and errors will come in their own time if you’re there to capture them, and that is how we cracked this case.

Unfortunately, we were unable to recover the funds of his first victims from last year. At that time, the Energi project was still relatively new, and our processes and procedures were not what they are today, where we have been able to prevent all his cases in Gen 3.

User Protections Like Ours Are Badly Needed in the Space

Scammers like Simon are an unfortunate reality of the crypto space, and they are only going to get better and multiply in number. We’ve been able to assess that he stole over one million dollars, but the real figure could be ten times higher. Looking at the likely damage that this one bad actor caused, it’s no surprise that many projects and low cap coins have such difficulties early on. A large-scale attack could prove an existential threat to projects like this and we believe that individuals, like Simon, have contributed to the failure of many more.

Because scammers are always innovating their tactics and using the latest technology available for their malicious activities, companies can’t rely on governments or traditional task forces to protect them. A police department will take between 12–30 months to investigate this sort of highly complex scamming, not to mention the added difficulty of dealing with someone in a different jurisdiction.

The only feasible way of stopping these sophisticated scammers is by having your own defense team. Cryptocurrency projects that don’t implement this cybersecurity measure are doomed, and their users’ holdings are in constant danger.

For the whole industry to thrive, we must continue to innovate when it comes to security. By doing so, we can make projects less appealing to scammers and safer for users. Every innovation is a step towards greater mass adoption, which is why having a cybersecurity team like Energi Defense removing bad actors is not only beneficial for our project, but for the entire crypto space.

P.S.

We thought some readers might want to check out Simon Tadros’ activities by themselves, so here you have some of his social media profiles.

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/evilqubit/
Facebook Main: https://www.facebook.com/thearchitectblog
Facebook alternative: https://www.facebook.com/evilqubit
GitHub: https://github.com/evilqubit
Ycombinator: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=evilqubit
About Me: https://about.me/evilqubit
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/simon-tadros
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/conversionpoint
BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/evilqubit/
Codepen: https://codepen.io/evilqubit/pens/
CodeWall: https://coderwall.com/evilqubit
PasteBin: https://pastebin.com/u/evilqubit
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/thearchitectblog
SlideShare: https://www.slideshare.net/thearchitectblog
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thearchitectblog
Medium: https://medium.com/@conversionpoint
TradingView: https://www.tradingview.com/u/conversionpoint/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZaG-2D1lVaU-XKRsS6I-XA


1. Energi actions:
I understand you guys have gone nuts. If you post that then you have zero essential evidence to accuse the person. Otherwise, law enforcement would require you to keep silent during an investigation. Disclosure of investigation details is equal to disclosure of state secrets in any respected country.

How funny, that you do that after me filling a criminal process appeal against the Energi Gang leaders? I guess you are just trying hard to show self as "scam fighters" for law enforcement which investigate your own deeds.

What else is on the image? Accounts: 0x41E29bef972D8DA3729, 0x625dfddacf761b2ef030 and 0x592d41811ff3e5a553284. They are not valid account addresses. Indeed, you are such con artists.

2. The amounts from the poster image:
The amount of 94,043 NRG you post in the screen apparently directly and indirectly belongs to me as the sum of the four account balances you have locked in a criminal act. How Bashful, Simon or anyone else are connected to those, if they come from the Energi Treasury, Mining/Staking and Masternode rewards? You obviously lie.

I wonder what are the other 20k, but the amount is quite similar to frozen stake miner funds. AFAIR, it became clear that stake mining was done by another bad actor who was not Bashful with serious clues to the Integral Team. So, why do you connect those to Bashful or Simon? Just to show that you have succeeded in seizing something? The real answer is that you failed to get anything from Bashful, clowns.

The main problem is that Bashful has made his(her?) scam either by not paying in trade deals OR when the victims GIVING access to keys by themselves. In all cases, it is a CIVIL process and NOT a criminal one. The ownership of crypto is proven by KEYS and not any other way.

On the other hand, what Energi has done, they have BLOCKED ability to control the property unlawful way. Virtual currency is recognized as capital property in EU and US. What Energi does is a CRIME by entering false data into automated data processing systems by an organized group using their duty access to the system as defined in the Criminal Code of Latvia and many other countries.

3. Re Mr. Tadros:
Well, I did think Simon is Bashful some time ago too, but based on his reaction without referring to BitcoinTalk, I seriously doubt that now. Bashful was quite active in the forum to know the content of my posts against Energi.

However, Simon had a chance to independently characterize Mr. Romain Rostami mental state. It seems, Mr. Rostami runs to everyone via internet and tries to sell his mercy.

The story short:

1. About two years ago, Peter (Director of Defense) assumed that one of Lebanon IPs was related to Kratos (NOT even Bashful). Then, it was noticed that whenever Discord connection of Kratos got interrupted, the connection of only some(!) other suspected accounts got interrupted as well. There was no evidence those accounts were connected to any scam done by Bashful.
2. Then we had like three or four different suspects, Rommy was ready to send ex-military to each of them, but then we understood innocence of those people and their weak connection to crypto.
3. One of the many Kratos IPs deduced from one of websites Kratos referred to was either shared with cNepho company websites or related to its ASN. I do not really recall that weak connection details.
4. Guess what? Oh yeah, the company owner must be the scammer! They were desperate to find evidence against the elder partner of the business...
5. Then I went through facebook photos and found the elder gentlement sitting with Simon in an airplane. I told Peter that he must be his son and fits better for a "scammer" candidate. Peter told that Simon is co-owner, but he did not think to check him up.
6. Then Peter saw that Simon is related to Bitcoin and had even performed a trade deal around the time of one of trade scam events (I doubt it was reported to law enforcement). "Bingo!" like in the previous cases.
7. So, Energi has thrown away any logic and started to try to find any evidence of Mr. Tadros being the scammer.
8. Apparently, once I submitted a criminal appeal against Mr. Romain Rostami, Mr. Ryan Lucchese and Energi Core Ltd in April (!) 2020 with consequences in June 2020, they have tried to show self as "scam fighers"... Ghost busters!

Now, let's ask how Peter knew Kratos IPs, etc. Well, should I start that a lot of sensitive data on users and systems was available to Kratos? Why Energi and Kratos became hostile? I do not know, perhaps some money question as usual.

Just to note, that Energi became hostile to me because of that as well. The greedy gang leaders only talk about philantrophy and being thankful to people who help them.

4. Where is Bashful in all that game?:

I know that since late 2018 - early 2019, so-called Bashful was offering protection services to Energi while Kratos was rendering them for free. Is it really the same person? Where is the logic?

The Bashful not comitted any cyber crime - coin owners where giving their coins by themselves. Bashful was extorting a monthly fee this way from Energi.

That is the main problem about Energi vs. Bashful - Energi has NOTHING to accuse Bashful in cyber crime or even any theft. So, they publish the non-sense articles to seek for recognition in crypto community and to try to find a plausible excuse for law enforcement IMO.
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: May 03, 2020, 03:14:11 PM
I will make a post here in regard to Andrey's termination, and subsequent behavior, to clear the air, once and for all.

Firstly, if you haven't yet, read Energi's response here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4912743.msg54292046#msg54292046 -

To be straightforward -- Andrey is habitually and intentfully a malicious manipulator and sociopath, entailing many criminal elements in his character. Being of poor moral quality, he can't recognize the good in the world, which is the root of the high-level issue: someone of his low moral character simply does not fit in our organization -- it's like oil and water, nor does our caliber of organization fit his reality, so he fought against it. Andrey likes to pick fights, like he did with others in our organization, and like he has tried to do with me here. I HARDLY interacted with him while he was in our organization. He had the benefit of working in one of the BEST cryptocurrency projects in the world. He has proven himself to be extremely UNGRATEFUL, and UNCONSCIOUS. It's exactly the qualities we don't want in our organization, and I have our instructed our directors to be FAR more careful who allow in, and who we tolerate in our organization! His behavior, as a whole, is a reflection of his own internal problems and conflicts and extremely negative perspective of the world.

The reason Andrey was terminated was due to his final display of disrespect within our organization several weeks ago. This occurred after a call we had with him 2 months ago where we were ready to fire him, but gave him YET ANOTHER chance out of mercy. We specifically discussed the serious requirement of respecting everyone in the organization. Throughout Andrey's tenure at Energi, we felt a disconnect, which Ryan and I both attributed to his poor english and otherwise communication skills (a member of our team described it as "deciphering hieroglyphics)", as we tried to to only see in the good in him. Meanwhile his subtle (not so subtle anymore) disrespect was felt by leaders and contributors alike in Energi, along with repeated bullying/demeaning type of behavior. Most people ducked away from, or submitted to his bullying type of behavior, in order to avoid confrontation. These were always a concern for me, and a major reason why Andrey was never invited to the executive circle of Energi (and Thank God for that!).

In the same phone call I mentioned above, there's a great example of Andrey's character:
The purpose of the call 2 months ago was to either fire him (due to his disrespectful attitude), or given him one last chance out of mercy  (we shouldn't have). In the call, I sought to diagnose the reason for his pattern of disrespectful behavior. As a very conscious person, I was present with him, giving him my time and care. I distilled to the root of his behavior, discovering where it stemmed from his childhood problems. I hit a nerve when we got here, as he started sobbing on the phone. I was so kind to him, from my heart (what a betrayal!). In my last communication with him, he told me he was fake-crying for "theatrics." Ryan and I (who were both on the call with him), don't believe that. Rather, he is lying about that, to spin anything he can in his favor. This is a perfect example of Andrey's way of being. I'm pretty sure he takes pride in this type of behavior too - changing the story to whatever he thinks makes him look best, despite the fact that he's lying (which he sees as merely an inconvenience). On that note, if Andrey continues to makes any more disparaging claims about me or Energi, just ask yourself "does sound twisted, not factual, or to fit some desired narrative by Andrey?" If they answer yes, then he is lying. As he has done for dozens of things he has claimed thus far.

I will add, I had no personal qualm with Andrey, even when he was fired, I always tried to help him (and again, in hindsight gave him way too many chances). Only weeks after, when he re-surfaced, broke his NDA and started attacking our organization, did I have a problem with him. Until this time, I looked at Andrey with KINDNESS and MERCY and tried to help him. He is too mentally sick to see that. And this is what we got in return. Now he has now sadly gone WAY over the line. Since he was terminated, Andrey has shown he doesn't respect contracts/agreements, and we will take all measures possible to protect and uphold justice in the Energi ecosystem, against ALL criminals/bad actors. He has majorly violated the contracts he signed, including his NDA, claiming it doesn't apply to him - basically trying to weasel his way out (we'll see about that, won't we Andrey?)

Since Andrey's original post, he has attacked the Energi ecosystem by collaborating with lowest-of-the-low, Ziggy/Bashful, a wanted scammer who has scammed nearly 1 MILLION DOLLARS worth (or possibly more), from the Energi community and other cryptocurrency communities. He has leaked code weaknesses and collaborated with Ziggy in conducting DDOS attacks against our network. Birds of a feather stick together! He has also attempted to defraud as well in this Bitcointalk thread, using numerous fake alias', to have a conversation with himself, including "Hastaguy", "Selicio", "E:", and probably more. On a Discord channel he recently created to attack Energi, he was even caught and ADMITTED creating fake secondary accounts. He's doing the same thing here. He thinks readers here are stupid and can't recognize his same broken English and same sentence structure from every brand new account talking to himself.

Andrey has also sent damaging messages including with claims to exchanges, Coinmarketcap, and our other partners. A disgruntled employee is one thing, Andrey has crossed the line, he has passed the line to CRIMINAL behavior. He has done virtually everything he can think of attack Energi, while again using manipulation techniques, sending fake apology letters to legal and myself, and otherwise lying through his teeth. His actions are an attack on every contributor, community member and investor in Energi. He doesn't care about Energi, or anyone in it, as seen by his actions (trying to damage Energi, with disregard to everyone involved -- a reflection his unconscious self-serving behavior).

If it wasn't already obvious, all of his negatively-spun statements and conclusions are false, sometimes so out of the realm of reality it would be amusing if it weren't disparaging to myself and Energi . Anyone even distantly aware of Energi, the values we what stand for, and what we've proven by way of ACTIONS (not just words) knows Andrey's allegations do not fit Energi's character, as we've proven by what WE HAVE DONE. I created the Energi Earndrop giving away over $6.5 million dollars, giving each participant TRIPLE what they should have expected (that was my doing), and I did this instead of doing an ICO like everyone else raising $20M (and how many of those projects are doing well now? I have a portfolio of other projects too!). I have helped in the world, and will continue to help those around me! I created Energi Impact- one of the most prominent public health and service organizations in the cryptocurrency space. And also, have led Energi to be a financial success in a cryptocurrency market where 95%+ of other ICO's have utterly failed! So while Andrey is calling us a "scam" and "ponzi scheme" maybe he should take a look around the rest of the space first! I will NOT tolerate someone out-of-control bad-mouthing us and attacking us at no end. He WILL be held accountable for his behavior.

This experience has caused me to reflect on why we had such a toxic individual around for so long, and it comes down the fact that our leadership was too merciful, and too tolerant of bad behavior. We all actually wanted to help raise up Andrey, to help him be the best he could be. There were situations in the past (some more than a year ago) that we seriously considered firing him but gave him another chance (we gave him numerous extra chances since his on-boarding, which again, was a mistake). Going forward, we will have much higher expectations from the onset, and a very important subject of that is treating other team members and all superiors with respect.

Once again, Andrey has now shown his colors by by his attacks, seeking to harm Energi’s relationship with exchanges and service providers, the network itself, and more. This is unacceptable to us, and Andrey will face justice for his actions, and we will protect against any and all attackers that seek to harm Energi. Energi was built out of love, and we will fight for what we love!

I will not be around to discuss this further, I have more important matters to tend to, specifically, ensuring our organization has funding to get through this upcoming global market depression we are getting into, and protecting our contributors jobs and livelihoods. I don't have time to waste for this, and will let our legal team teach Andrey to finally have respect, and for him to understand defamation is a crime (btw Andrey, defamation is a criminal charge in Latvia, maybe you should take a break from your temper tantrum's and reflect on what you are getting yourself into).




"The monster uncovers its face" apparently Wink


It is extraordinary demonstrative how Tommy shows his abusive nature. If I would really be an employee of a US company then such public admission of harassment would cost too much for any business.

The first call on Feb 25: that's true that Tommy and Ryan called me shouting loud: "YOU FAILED, DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?". I answered: "OK, please explain". Tommy explains that I have not prepared Support and Marketing materials, and not implemented the (trouble-making) auto-collaterilization feature, and not added packages. My answer was quite clear that a) Product Management is a Marketing discipline, b) Support is under Community Management at Energi, c) auto-collaterilization was never captured in any requirements, d) packaging was already there from Ethereum, but not used on purpose as Core Node was not assumed to be run on desktops, and the existing scheme fitted auto-deployment better, e) finally, I was not paid to do others' job, but I was raising my concerns about overall readiness in meetings and reports. Tommy answered that Support and Marketing is my responsibility, that Energi Marketing department does only SALES, that auto-collaterlization was not implemented just because "I did not want to do that". And, that packaging is the most important part of the project. Then I told him that I am not looking to continue cooperation with Energi once Gen 3 is released. He was so angry, that he "demoted" me, but asked not to tell anyone. LoL. I gave a chance Tommy to retreat with the remaining of his dignity. Should I explain further why he was afraid to talk to me in public, not to show his incompetence as self-entitled CEO as he just proofed with telling about the exec's meetings?

The second call on Feb 27: after two days, Tommy was still not happy with his defeat-by-fact, and returned with a new attack. He started from: "if you would be in military, do you know how your commander would SLAP you?". He repeated that like 10 times, receiving only sarcasm from my side. Then he tortured me and Ryan with his monologue comparing me to a puppy in his backyard for about an hour, and only allowing to response with "yes, sir" for the first half hour. LoL. Finally, he started guessing of my "troubles". He came to my ex-bosses, and I told how I was grateful to them, especially the first ones who helped me in professional growth by own role model. Then he started to guess about parents, and it was the second hour. I gave what he wanted - his sick feeling of dominance, so I could get rid of him and complete Gen 3 migration. Note: later on Mar 19, I admitted to Ryan that my mother was quite strict until I was 12 years old and could psychologically defend self and be independent, and that's the reason I am quite sensitive to any false accusations, and that's why I click Tommy on the nose each time he starts his ego-shit-storms.

Regarding issues with me, the guys do not tell that they begged to me to supervise technology department back in Spring of 2019 when Energi was technologically falling apart. Now, Tommy tries to tell that there was some circle of "anonymous offended by Andrey" for almost two years with "promotions" of Andrey up to Director role. How childish...

I am even grateful to Tommy. As a private consultant, I've worked with different types of SANE people, but it's the first time I met such irrational bottom which has started a public war because of an article which no one has really read. My appearance in this forum was not even caused by the call from Tommy on Apr 15, but due to public defamation in Discord and obsessive trolling via other communication means. Again, Tommy, how childish?

I did propose cease fire & make peace, I gave them a post with an opportunity to somehow excuse what they were doing. Then, I found an unimportant-now bug, and made an excuse for the bug, but the opposing side continued this circus with accounts which impersonate me. Still, Tommy, how childish?

I do not need that bullshit to make my answers, as I ALWAYS represent myself.

P.S. "He has leaked code weaknesses and collaborated with Ziggy in conducting DDOS attacks against our network" (c) Tommy. Facepalm, it's clinical.
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I would like answers on that on: May 02, 2020, 07:44:16 PM
Just my two cents from the person who started raising the concerns.

Re network stability:

1. Every team member knows that I have written a farewell on Mar 19 and it was there for half a day until it got removed when "someone" woke up. Tech teams knows that I announced the decision on Mar 05, the week before Gen 3 migration.
2. In the farewell, I've told that I step down, but would be available for an advise if needed. Energi Core were consulting to me until my article on Apr 13/14.
3. The exchanges were expected to have wallets closed for 1 week only.
4. Exchanges got order to close deposits on Mar 06. Right before that, large amounts from Treasury got deposited to exchanges as shown before. Overall exchange wallets got bloated dramatically.
5. Migration happened on Mar 10, the majority of coins migrated until Mar 15 iirc, possible scammers like Bashful were stopped, exchanges where expected to open deposits on Mar 17 latest (it can be seen in announcements).
6. Then, exchanges were ordered to only open withdrawals, but keep deposits closed. I could not get explanations for that.
7. When I was leaving, the network was stable - fact, the deposits where overdue to open for 4 days compared to withdrawals.
8. If there would be even a slight known uncontrolled technical issue, I would know about that at that moment and would not leave that early.
9. The CoinFabric must be able to confirm that we started negotiations on audit in Aug 2019 (!), but Energi leadership overtook that and assured me that the audit was handled. Therefore, I can assume that "someone" could know about possible security issues in advance to use that for an excuse.


Re security issues:

1. No one from Energi has told me anything about possible security problems except the "nothing at stake" problem, but I have found a few of them later and even reported to Energi immediately.
2. The "nothing at stake" problem was mitigated in Gen 2 as part of DoS protection. The same protection was introduced into Gen 3 with some tweaks and improvements. So, it was a poor excuse to have deposits closed.
3. They disabled DoS protection in v3.0.4/v3.0.5 even with my immediate protests. After 18 days, they restored everything in v3.0.6 and called that an accomplishment.
4. I admit, that I have recently found a bug I introduced in very early proof-of-concept code, before even talking to CoinFabric, but that does not give an opportunity of account draining and affects only coins at migration (not a problem for users now). That also has an elegant quick and non-hardfork solution to mitigate.
5. I have found possible large staker "run-away" problem in connection with target of Difficulty 1 and a number of other minor issues, all reported and available as code: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4912743.msg54285537#msg54285537 . PoS difficulty+time model may need some revision though.
6. The "run-away" problem does not apply to exchanges, unless they do staking, but a solution to bail out miner has been provided already.
7. There was a partial consensus smart contract call reversion done from about Apr 07 when Energi Core forcibly rebuilt a chain overriding 500+ blocks from a valid main chain. It was caused by an infinite loop which would not get triggered on a live chain. It affected only Masternode payouts, not critical for deposits.
8. I've also found a possible narrow place where "address().send()" and "address().transfer()" are used what can be used as a sort of DoS vector: potentially, gas can be recovered in target contracts through freeing of storage memory what can be used to bump EVM memory usage and/or stack depth to cause reversion inside the consensus contract. That does not allow to steal funds though and could be easily and quickly mitigated, e.g. forbid targets with non-empty code.
9. There is also a theoretical way to do stake mining after a block gap of 1h to build a stronger total work chain, but it's not exploitable on a live chain. There is old fork DoS protection well described in the SRS, the one Energi Core disabled in v3.0.4.
10. The network staking entropy was heavily affected by 1k MN collateral and auto-collateralization feature. That was affecting the pace of block generation. Partially, it seems that the originally chosen difficulty change algorithm has too large coefficients and I would tune that. However, the ballast staking was compensating the problem pretty well.
11. There is a known tricky bug with Merkle/Patricia tree state due to non-determinism of some operations which get triggered under some conditions on some old forks, but that prevents some large reorgs while the main chain continues to work.
12. The large "reorg" problem is not a problem itself (Proof-of-Stake needs to know state in previous blocks to verify headers), stalled forks and dynamic checkpoints are assumed to stop weak chains and force fallback to chain downloader instead of individual block retrieval. "PoS state error" message is not an error in that case at all, it was left just to visualize such cases.
13. Can there be other problems? Of course, it is a complex software, it must have bugs. Why the chain was rebuilt on Apr 06/07? From what I have heard until Apr 13, I understand that it was a terrible mistake of choosing a badly side-chained Treasury staking node as reference for dynamic checkpoint creation instead of the proper main chain. I have not heard anything about security breaches because Energi Core was still consulting to me almost until the time I wrote my article about Crypto Gen 3. Nodes left on the proper chain were staking with no problems AFAIK. If there would be a demo of a security issue then why it was not done in the testnet instead? If a real attack then what would be the point as the last exchange closed its deposits on Apr 03?
14. The main security issue is that Tommy and Ryan can drain ANY account they want and excuse that with "Masternode owner voting", and they can override blockchain causing double spend attacks, and they can change the dynamic consensus at any time with no voting. Their excuse is the same as if local gang in town would decide who's next property to take by a 20% of quorum. There are reasons why absolute monarchies passed away, and why we have separation of concerns in state governance. There is a reason why it is a crime to take functions of any authority.

Re project itself:

Everyone long enough in the business understands quite well that it is a modified Ponzi scheme, but only people blind with hope of future income shutdown their minds. Masternodes stopped attracting "investors" (or "victims" correctly) due to the price barrier and general economical situation. So, MN collateral got decreased to 1k with phony voting done afterwards, but even that is not enough. That's why a derivative bubble exchange is going to be built. I won't even start about the phony charity - it would be offtopic noise. After the first Earndrop in 2018, the coins where bought out and later sold during artificial crazy market prices of 2019 - I know that for sure from the main actor Wink. Possibly quite the same happens with the last Earndrop dump of Q4'19/Q1'20 at price of a little above 1$ and now re-sold at 3+$, but they are a bit more smart the second time - they possibly left less traces in blockchain and kept funds obfuscated in exchanges. Before the Earndrop dumps, the price was apparently decreased with Treasury & personal coin dumps in Q4'19.

The total emission of NRG is about 28,500,000, and they state that a dump of the recovered 200,000 NRG, less than 1%, would seriously hurt other coin owners... As in any other pyramid. The real value of Energi is 0$, but it is common for most cryptos though. Obviously, it is one of the reasons they have blocked additional 93+k of coins which I could control - they were scary of me dumping those. I contacted only a single exchange with request for delisting based on its own rules to get a material evidence to connect trolls to Energi Core, and only after Energi Core had shown self being dangerous to any coin owner. Energi Core lies even in that.

Energi head-hunted me back in 2018, and I literally told them: "I do not believe in crypto, neither I believe in fiat". When I started to contribute into Energi Cryptocurrency (no contracts, except of verbal agreements, "Energi Core Ltd" not even existing), I was too focused on technical aspects until I learned what was Earndrop last Summer when I had to deal with its technical issues and not reported GDPR data breaches. Earndrop shows very well the totalitarian social media marketing sect with a hyper-narcissistic leader associating self with the King, Cyrus the Great. I was ready to leave Energi immediately and only my professional interest to complete the started project (Energi Gen 3) and an opportunity of building another team from scratch was stopping me. Energi has moved release date 3 times (Q3'19, Q4'19, Feb'20) in the Roadmap without even preparing Marketing or Support resources for each deadline. They just put those by pointing a finger into the sky - apparently, they knew they will move the release after the last Earndrop dump settles to re-sell coins at higher prices during closed deposits. Software readiness has never interested them. It seems, they have not even done external audit, but claimed to have that handler. I remind that Beta testing started in Aug 2019.

At the same time, you can see how Energi trolls talk to themselves with an obvious impersonation of me in the main Energi thread. This alone, is enough to understand the moral and methods of Energi leaders. So, the "deposit scam" aligns to that with no doubt.


P.S. In post-Soviet countries, we've seen enough of pyramids in 90's. No pyramid can last forever, it either collapses or transforms through a process when the majority of "investors" loses everything. Then everything starts again. This smaller scale pyramid can destroy the future of many families who make self victims by "investing" into the scheme. Unlike other coins, they constantly lie and shill with sarcastic mocking "love to the World". I've uncovered the true maniacal face of their leader during the last call with him, he literally told me: "Yes, I am a maniac" when he was threatening me, and the blocked coins prove that pretty well Wink.
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: April 29, 2020, 08:45:13 PM
STATEMENT FROM ENERGI CORE

While Energi Core continues to be a workplace that respects and protects people's fundamental rights and privacy, Energi has decided to make a public statement in response to publicly disseminated false accusations from a disgruntled and troubled former team member.

Andrey Galkin has publicly posted a series of false claims and allegations about Energi alongside bizarre and unreasonable demands. These claims include that Andrey is the creator of Energi Gen 3, that Energi is keeping exchange deposits closed without a valid reason, that Energi is a scam, that Energi should halt the blockchain, and others. Energi Core unequivocally and absolutely refutes these claims. These are the claims of a former team member whose engagement with Energi Core was terminated after multiple disciplinary actions. Energi Core considers it to be self-evident that Andrey has made these claims for the sole purpose of doing harm to Energi Core and the Energi Community.

In a peculiar show of instability, Andrey has publicly declared that contracts which he signed do not apply to him. Though Andrey has re-written much of the code for Energi Gen 3, perhaps in some plan to later make these fraudulent claims of ownership, work on Energi Gen 3 started long before Andrey was even involved. Energi Gen 3 was and continues to be produced as a collaborative effort of work from many Energi Core team members. All intellectual property rights for these designs as well as code produced under a working agreement with Energi Core are exclusively assigned to Energi Core.

These claims are very revealing about Andrey’s character and publicly show issues similar to those Energi Core faced while working with him. Energi Core terminated Andrey’s working agreement as a result of repeated misconduct against other Energi Core team members and a reckless attitude toward development that puts the entire Energi community at risk. While we are working hard to solve bugs in code Andrey wrote, it is of the utmost importance that we approach development in a way that provides the maximum protection to our users. To this end please reference this article which explains in detail why we have exchange deposits closed: https://medium.com/energi/important-update-exchange-deposits-8aad7a120b3e. The Energi Core development team has been working overtime to definitively solve these issues so exchanges may safely re-open as soon as possible.

During the same time that Energi is working hard to resolve these issues, Andrey is attacking the project in any avenue he finds, such as e-mailing exchanges asking them to de-list us, demanding that we halt the blockchain, and other hyperbolic demands which it is explicitly clear are designed solely to harm Energi and Energi users. This has put a strain on our resources as we are forced to respond to damaging claims. While we are working hard on solutions, Andrey has created multiple fake accounts with which to respond to similarly fake posts. Perhaps worst of all this is not merely trolling - Andrey is openly communicating with Bashful, a wanted criminal in multiple jurisdictions and one of the largest scammers in the cryptocurrency space. We have offered a bounty for information leading to the arrest of “Bashful”, as he is a major threat who has already caused significant damages to Energi users.

Energi Gen 3 has some of the most forward thinking and advanced features of any blockchain. These include a powerful self governance mechanism that we have fully described in this article: https://medium.com/energi/how-were-putting-security-at-the-heart-of-energi-6c6dd463a818. Self-governance affords Energi stakeholders the capability to protect each other. This eliminates the need for traditional processes, including time-consuming court orders, even when a malicious actor steals victims’ funds. Self-governance allows Energi to directly target malicious actors and that is EXACTLY what was done in the scenario Andrey shared. Again, his short-term thinking is not aligned with our long-term strategic vision, and this is now resulting in one-sided, self-serving claims.

At Energi we treasure our values: we take a strong stance against scammers, hackers, and other malicious actors and will always strive to provide the best for our community and users. Energi was founded out of love, and we are very proud of our accomplishments. We have conducted the most successful airdrop in the history of cryptocurrency giving away over $6.5 MILLION DOLLARS worth of Energi to real users. We have a self-funded philanthropy initiative called Energi Impact dedicated to doing good in the world. We have consistently met our roadmap goals and we have succeeded where many have failed. Energi was created to make the world a better place, and we have a long history of making good on our mission one step at a time - and we will continue to do so. Our values are expressed clearly on the “Join Our Team” page found here https://www.energi.world/join-our-team/. It is quite obvious from the posts made by Andrey that his values are not in alignment with our own.

Let us make it abundantly clear that we do not intend to allow anyone to harm the project or its users in any way, which is why we have decided to make this statement. We will exhaust all legal remedies to protect our users from malevolent actors. We as a company wish to make a clear and unambiguous statement that there is no substance to any of the allegations posted. The posts themselves constitute civil and criminal violations under US and EU law.

The Energi Legal Team is currently reviewing the best options for defense, including civil and criminal action. Energi is committed to the protection of our community and will zealously enforce all rights and remedies in this regard.


Wow guys, such tribute, so many words and major part is dedicated to me. I can only imagine how many times you have cycled through change & review process with sign-off from the Legal department.

I have to disappoint you that I am not willing to fall into a trap of resource consuming suing for defamation. This statement of yours is the best to show what you mean under love to the World, guys. Keep going.
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: April 23, 2020, 09:25:18 PM
Looking deeper into what was happening, some explanations can be found. Unfortunately, what was going in side-chain stuff is not available for analysis.
There are explanations for the Treasury as well and derail of CoinEx, in which you obviously blamed me without explaining anything once I got from vacation. However, I think clearly read the cause for derailing.

I was receiving messages that some chaos is going on, and I definitely did not like what I've seen and what releases have been made. I've never seen results of external audits even though requested that from around Sep'19 iirc, and I guess there are many shady parts.

Energi Core, I know you are messing with something more which would explain much, but there are some fixes I've done before the stuff started: https://github.com/codingfuture/orig-energi3

- A complex fix to restore dynamic checkpoint functionality and tolerate large number of items
- Changed the default connection/dial to 128/8
- Restored DoS functionality with tolerance to strong old forks and limited number of stake dups
- Accidental duplicate stake fix in miner
- Default nonce-cap of N=10,000
- Miner bail out feature to exit on N=3 own blocks in a row from current tip (configurable also at runtime)
- Something more

You probably already known todo:
- The BlockRewardV2 needs to be created to send remaining from previous ops into the Treasury like MNRegV2. A big redesing would be to implement retrieval of address:amount parts for processing as consensus txs for extra safety.
- MNRegV2 assert in reward() loop spoils everything, but msize() boundary check is required alongside gasleft() check to minimize surprises in the unavoidable loop (mostly the case abort in mass inactivated after jump into a wrong chain).
- I guess you came to a solution for merkleroot problem already
- I guess something else got reported indeed, but it was never communicated to me due to Bashful's play behind the scene.

Don't be dicks like me Wink


Kudos to Bashful - our shuttle diplomacy shitstorm event organizer and regular multi-face shitposter in the thread.

P.S. You know that my position is that all papers signed were extortion and cancel each other, and you know pretty well why.
8  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: April 21, 2020, 07:03:09 PM
Re-reading the logs of organized troll attacks which were scrolling quite fast in the public Discord channel:

Quote
Crypto_Gods:
if you guys ever held real jobs, you would understand no company discloses bugs, issues, etc they are facing. But then there are sour patches who once they get fired they only show what they want to show to make others believers.
....

If you, Energi Core, wanted to tell that it's because of a security issue in the chain, then:

...

On behalf of legitimate coin owners, I request Energi Core to immediately stop the chain and nail to the best known block like it was done for Gen 2.

Otherwise, it is a reckless attitude to coin owners which may face issues, but then would have issues proving that they are legitimate owners.

Energi Core wants to be the plaintiff, the court and the police in the same face. I am banned from all other ways to communicate to discuss the problem.
They have already drained more than 160k of someones funds into the Compensation Fund: https://explorer.energi.network/address/0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000318/transactions
Have they gotten a court order for that? What court accepts a shill BVI company with shill beneficiaries? What kind of lawyer would participate in such scam on behalf of Energi Core?

I see that something is going on with the BlockReward contract (https://explorer.energi.network/address/0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000310/coin_balances) which sometimes lefts some rewards not distributed, but that does not explain closed deposits.
Worse, it is an exact sign that the chain must be stopped immediately to find a solution!

Do you, Energi Core, have any proof that coin owners are at risk to keep the deposits closed other than because of the chain-splits caused by staking power centralization? Do you block large coin owners to keep self centralized and do all the staking for interested parties? How much profit do exchanges get from staking and sharing 0% to users? Is that the reason why they violate own policies on delisting coins which fail to provide a solution for more than a month? There is no swap period with the Migration feature.

I believe the other issue your are fighting with is a memo left by me before leaving regarding nuances of Blacklist drainage and consequences of ownership of tokens in the smart contracts like MasternodeToken. The changes were postponed due to the code freeze for the core consensus logic. However, it is not an excuse to delay deposits.

P.S. Have anyone asked CoinMarketCap about what they think about the situation? I have already contacted them and explained in details with proofs. Try to get an answer yourself, and be surprised.
9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: April 21, 2020, 08:07:38 AM
Re-reading the logs of organized troll attacks which were scrolling quite fast in the public Discord channel:

Quote
Crypto_Gods:
if you guys ever held real jobs, you would understand no company discloses bugs, issues, etc they are facing. But then there are sour patches who once they get fired they only show what they want to show to make others believers.
....

If you, Energi Core, wanted to tell that it's because of a security issue in the chain, then:

1. Why the hell don't you stop the chain immediately like it was done for Gen 2? It would simplify any hardforks right now.

2. Why your hysterical leader could not tell that directly instead of abusing and threatening for 58 minutes of mostly his monologue? Why I was blocked from everywhere afterwards without further explanations before the escalation continued? Very farsighted, very, dude. The threats have never been taken back.

3. It still does not excuse the total deposit of 35,000.00 NRG done from the Treasury funds. Or would there be a phony excuse that someone was stealing from the Treasury? Or maybe the Treasury has done OTC deal for a person who surprisingly could make a large deposit before the last exchange got closed? The pattern of deposits is obvious matching the demand to buy the coin.
10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: April 18, 2020, 03:22:39 AM
Finally, I waited this whole night, Energi Core has proven to misuse their authority. They have taken the power of court to seize personal property what is consider a crime in any civil country. To be prosecuted accordingly.

Anyone can use Energi Core Node console to confirm that:

Code:
> energi.blacklistInfo()
....
{
    blocked: true,
...
      proposal: "0x2b5a1defd4c801d2ca1d18f2c56e8c5283a04ab0",
      proposer: "0x01c3bb0b90c07b89ca38f56bd9f3e8c160fec4dc",
...
}, {
    blocked: true,
...
      proposal: "0x32eca46acd4873b98daa271789d6f2d4793d06ec",
      proposer: "0x01c3bb0b90c07b89ca38f56bd9f3e8c160fec4dc",
...
}, {
    blocked: true,
...
      proposal: "0x8842a3247dc35c01b0d9d993e314f252598f65b1",
      proposer: "0x01c3bb0b90c07b89ca38f56bd9f3e8c160fec4dc",
...
}, {
    blocked: true,
...
      proposal: "0x1074e9f07e62a09a3986f401e92128b1a4f1feb8",
      proposer: "0x01c3bb0b90c07b89ca38f56bd9f3e8c160fec4dc",
...
}]

Only Tommy and Ryan have access to the EBI private key: 0x01c3bb0b90c07b89ca38f56bd9f3e8c160fec4dc

Transactions to block:
- one
- two
- three
- four

Is there anyone who would trust these scammers now? They can seize coins of anyone they do not like.

P.S. I also see this as confirmation of the deposit scam.
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: April 17, 2020, 08:43:05 PM
Re NDA, I won't repeat myself. I have no limits in what I can tell as far as it is in the interest of the public.

1. Why this is happening?

We are in the middle of a scam event. I was contacting Energi Core every day to exit this situation, but too much is at stake for them. It's not about Ego or Pride issues of their leaders, it's about the scam plot. They are not going to open deposits while BTC is low. They do not want to spend own BTC to sustain price in dumps, but they do want to use market made NRG price to buy BTC at low. They use their contractual influence on exchanges to block users completely, but a high confirmation count would be an adequate measure.

All people responsible for that are US citizens. They have to obey US law even while they hide abroad. What they do seems to be a violation of the US law, SEC rules and regulations.

2. What about Energi Core deposits?

This is public info. Some addresses have been previously identified by me and reported to Energi Core, but not vice-versa - everyone can repeat.

2.1. Gen 2 trace:

- Gen 2 Explorer
- Efe1DsD6AW6wikmcugQseTwr6NBT99GvrV is Treasury in Gen 2 as tagged inside the explorer
- EU57hLbBi6ucDy4KnRSVNKhkD9F39XpQ4Z is former KuCoin cold wallet in Gen 2
- EMyLLKDimrvz1iSjiMBnGMZiN6Es3heFfE is former KuCoin hot wallet in Gen 2
- EdcCKyMMKo71NSE3MjamNYWiFwuyfJdCfe is the main Energi deposit address at KuCoin - deducible from the history
- EKtrfi6RfRR9NcyrKGFMFt7URYQRMhQThR - assumed to be Energi Market team wallet which directly leads to the Treasury and the KuCoin deposit address.
- Total of 760703 NRG passed through it since Sep 2019. Some part of that was relocation between exchanges.
- 200k NRG went out of the Treasury to the account before the Gen 3 migration: txs Feb 21st and Feb 28th.
- Partially, they got deposited in small chunks into KuCoin not to attract much attention: txs in Feb, then Mar 4th and Mar 5th
- Exchanges were ordered to close deposits on Friday, Mar 6th. Coincidence?
- There are myriads of related interesting addresses, but let's keep our focus on one single case of the left over in a change address of the Mar 5th deposit: 55k NRG @  EcdqbExHQ3GxtfbCgwtChK3SyQqygcY2XR left during the migration.

Comments: I know that there was an internal discussion to withdraw funds from exchanges not to jeopardize them during migration, but then someone has overridden that. Someone knew that the deposits will be closed for much longer. Someone ordered to deposit much larger amounts than usually allocated for that purposes. Also, it's possible to correlate the account activity with market price in the end of 2019.

We only cover Energi Core company funds, and do not even start talking about personal funds.

2.2. Where did the remainings go during the migration?

Actually, one good thing Energi Core has done is to implement an API to look up performed migrations... And that has added a DoS vulnerability to the Public API endpoint.

Code:
> energi.searchGen3DestinationByGen2Address(['EcdqbExHQ3GxtfbCgwtChK3SyQqygcY2XR', 'Efe1DsD6AW6wikmcugQseTwr6NBT99GvrV'], true)
[{
    Amount: 5.503818773356e+22,
    Gen3Address: "0x0952d9b93fe79605e99132407bc3b0cc5c15ba9b",
    ItemID: 101777
}, {
    Amount: 6.578359470033e+22,
    Gen3Address: "0x60d7607fc1454de984441921f5aad0470d2b4962",
    ItemID: 117445
}]

So, 0x0952d9b93fe79605e99132407bc3b0cc5c15ba9b is one of the remaining of the Market funds and 0x60d7607fc1454de984441921f5aad0470d2b4962 is the new Operations Treasury from which expenses are paid.

2.3. Gen 3 trace:

- Gen 3 Explorer
- Coins got claimed in block 0x0952d9b93fe79605e99132407bc3b0cc5c15ba9b #74
- First, 30k NRG got withdrawn to the account from possibly KuCoin hot wallet 0x7F76c60b9323bf49241dEf2B456632096667C5fE on Mar 18th
- Then, a total of 85k got sent to possibly a new Energi Market wallet 0xa901c5bD7DC9894d9600843b3A8eD502437Ef4A1 on Mar 21st
- If you look closely at 0xa901c5bD7DC9894d9600843b3A8eD502437Ef4A1 transactions then you can notice an obvious pattern previously visible at Gen 2 Market fund EKtrfi6RfRR9NcyrKGFMFt7URYQRMhQThR
- Now, let's look at what looks like a deposit address 0x2D39B9177AfBEacF52518947539f79A77A0E0e25 with deposits done from the new Market fund on Apr 01 and Apr 03 to what looks like an exchange with address of for hot wallet 0x1242f8fb7B5cC1baE08DC9c71e2Ef07687579A3b and 0xcd31b17379648934C659cafB4b4398Cfa784FB88 cold wallet.
- Energi Core had to perform a second deposit because of this large sale - someone has bought a MN for 11k.

3. Conclusions

It is obvious that Energi Core has planned to keep the deposits closed while allowing withdrawals to decrease supply. It is obvious that they have done at least two deposits to an exchange from the market funds in Gen 3 chain. They have taken an advantage of the situation created by themselves and solely by themselves. Apparently, Energi Core means Fraud, Undeniable & Documented under FUD.

Officially, Energi Core positions self as a service provider for the decentralized autonomous organization - Energi Cryptocurrency. That is the reason they are not liable for any coins being lost in scams, user mistakes, etc. If they take responsibility on decision making then they take liability for any profit loss arising due to such decision.

IMO, that requires objective investigation and opinions. I am ready to witness for any plaintiff.

P.S. I withdraw my proposal for help to the "service provider" as Energi Core clearly threatened me and my family by Tommy's call in the middle of night asking if I love my family and telling how he is going to pursue me to destroy my life. He is mentally unstable and does stupid things for a head of an organization, he does not fit for a leader role in any serious one. However, this shows well how much "FUD" is in my statements.
12  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption | PoS | MN | No-ICO or Premine | on: April 16, 2020, 03:18:40 PM
My name is Andrey Galkin and I am the creator of Energi Gen 3.

I can testify that there is no technical justification to keep NRG deposits closed. The official justification was to fight scammers at migration time, but all stolen funds are blocked & in recovery process, the majority of coins have migrated during the first week. More info on the features & current problems: https://medium.com/@andvgal/cryptocurrency-of-the-3rd-generation-lessons-learned-2f36d18587f

I wanted to get as much distant from Energi Core as possible as I got fed up with Tommy's personal issues, I have left as calmly as possible and prepared the Technology department to operate in my absence, but I offered support of the software when I was leaving. I have even offered to release v3.1.0 for FREE when I saw Energi Core impotence to fix arising issues. I have been offering my support to Tommy and Ryan FOR FREE, but Energi Core has rejected all my proposals, because they are interested in keeping the deposits closed. It is a new form of scam IMO.

I have been SCAMMED as any other Energi user. All exchanges obey the orders of Energi Core - I have contacted some of them today to confirm. Even CoinEx has closed deposits, but it has added NRG by their own discretion and was the only one accepting deposits for some time. Even with some now rare arising chainsplits, it would be possible to accept deposits with 1000-2000 confirmations, but they do not allow even that on purpose. Freshly issued dynamic checkpoints still work as they have only broken handshake checkpoints with zero testing of the changes after v3.0.2.

I already have a working node software with even more fixes than I have identified in the article, but Energi Core rejects any help.

Meanwhile, the trading have not been stopped. Worse, I am more than sure that exchanges accept manual deposits from Energi Core to keep up in the CMC list. Some of them did not even have Gen 2 funds.
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