Hello everyone, unfortunately we’re forced to lock this thread due to
bambarmia and
mosprognoz threatening to extort money from the project.
We have moved to a new moderated thread to protect the project and the community.
These two accounts are the same person, Anton Malikov. It all started when he tried to add his new token (literally named) "scam coin" to our exchange. We replied that we had temporarily paused the addition of new tokens but would get to it soon, which set off a series of escalating threats to DDOS us and attempt to ruin our project:
https://imgur.com/a/IAxdyHere is a link to his twitter profile (
https://twitter.com/gemalikov), you'll see he links scam coin in his bio section -
https://imgur.com/a/WpqGp On Twitter they sent us a message from their "Scam coin" account claiming that it was “other users” and that if we just add the token and pay 1 ETH into his ICO he will “get the people to delete the messages” -
https://imgur.com/a/jaTYr We reached out politely on bitcointalk and offered to talk to them over video chat to prove who we are and to hear their concerns. We were met with another threat to give them 1 ETH or it “will be a very bad choice believe me.”
http://d.pr/i/LVRP7k . Crypto is not about bullying and extortion, and we will not be swayed. We have reported this to the moderators and will be pursuing legal action.
We also wanted to spend a moment to address their messages directly to alleviate concerns that they have any validity at all.
The markets they accuse us of scamming have no connection to Aurora and all can also be traded on Etherdelta. That's how decentralized exchanges work-- we add projects that ask to be listed through our form and give proper information. We review projects regularly and refuse to add or remove any that appear to be scams.
We're not Chinese (as you can plainly see from our bios and Linkedin pages), not that it should matter anyway as that’s just racist, and we haven't scammed anyone. There's not a single post about anyone being scammed besides these two (or one) users FUDDing. None of our bitcointalk accounts or social media have been purchased or faked, we’re exactly who we say we are and are willing to talk to anyone anytime through whatever ways they wish.
To Anton, thank you very much for bumping our announcement thread, it was getting a little quiet in here and now we’ve got a lot of people joining our telegram interested in learning more. More importantly, thank you to our many faithful supporters, we hope you understand this decision as we cannot let two con artists affect the success of the project. Onwards and upwards!
Warm regards,
The Aurora Team
