I'll the board directly. Unortunately (or fortunately , depending on how you look at it) we don't have the time to address every silly little accusation because we are very busy working, generating value and making deals. Masiah and I (and his little sister - yes, I bring my kids to as many business meetings as possible, and they participate!) just got back into town fron our 2nd meeting with the top ten global securities exchange . It went very, VERI well, Our next engagement with them is about two weeks away and we are all very excited, yes... them , as well.
Of course, this is not a done deal and it could always fall through, but things look positive and if the next engagement goes as well as pllaned I wouldn't be surprised if we coundn't push a deal/trial through withing 6 to 8 weeks after that.
Here's a tidbit of informaton, we didn't talk tech until we actually I actally started walking out of the door, and this was a 2 and a half hour meeting with three top execs! This is the power of Veritaseum, a true multi-disciplinary approach, not websites and whitepapers. We are blockchain agnostic. The document that I and my team left the execs with was like nothing that they've seen before, and preceding me were all of the usual suspects in management consulting and blockchain tech.
Now, as for this hacking conspiracy nonsense, the stolen tokens belonged to Veritaseum. We do not have to steal our own stuff, If I was going to sell tokens that already belonged to us, I would just sell them... and I wouldn't sell the at half price, either.
The hack was fairly sophsiticated, and it is ongoing. Physical computers and devices are being stolen, even from other countires. These guys are determined, bu we are not by ourselves. We have a very strong and supportive community, and we are in the process of investigating bigger help, ie. state and federal prosecutors. So, whoever it is, keep it up. You will not be simply fighting the VERI team, but the US govt. and potentially the govt. from other countries as well should they decide to come on board. The consequences are high, with more than just a few years in jail. We are not joking around.
On a related note of unwarranted attacks, Veritasem is being misrepresented heavily in the media. Some entities have even crossed the line ino slander. We seek, and desire to have a strong and fruitfull relatioship with the media, so you can imagine our dismay when we get nothing but negative (and oft inaccurate) coverage when the vast majority of this token's life has been incredibliy postive and without precedent. I will put several examples here, and will reserve several other examples for strategic reasons.
This is an article from Ethnews.com. In all fairness, the reporter/editor that I spoke to sincerely tried to do the right thing. It appearse that his higher ups had different plans. On the left is the original article, on the right is the article ofter the original was pulled, leaving a 404 error for an unspecified amount of time. Is this what has happened to journalism in the digital asset space?
You guys should really be ashamed of youselves.@ReggieMiddleton: There's been a slew of unerhical hit pieces in the media targeting Veritaseum, ignoring plethora of good news. Can @ETHNews_ explain this?
Coindesk finally ran an article on us as well.
They didn't run an article on the #1 asset in cryptoland.
They didn't run an article on the best performing asset in cryptoland
They didn't run an article on the precedent setting deal with the Jamacain stock exchange, a first in the crypto universe.
But they did manage to run a hit piece on a hacking with some undfounded negative inferences.
I'm not going to include the email that was sent to me from Coindesk, out of professional courtesy, but I will post my reply to there queries about the hack and allegations on this thread that it was not really a hack, but something else. I want you to look at my email response, then look at Coindesk to see what they chose to release. Again, if you are looking for the news on one of the most innovative token offergins, gaining the most traction, making the most sigificant real world deals, performing the best, holding the number one, two or three spots on coinmarketcap, you really must query... Are these the sources to get fair and unbiassed reporting?
Remember, I'm not casting aspersions, I'm just asking the questions and scarttering a little fact here and there. If there is a news outlet looking for the scoop on high performance token concerns yet is also interested in fair and balanced reporting, hit me up. I'd love to chat and have a boatload of interesting things to say. Oh yeah, here's my email responseto Coinesk:
The address that was hacked was our address, and the address with the 97 million VERI is our address as well. We emptied the suspect wallet as soon as we sensed it may have been compromised. The hackers got to about 00.04% of the tokens.
Since the address is ours and we did not authorize the withdrawal, we came to the conclusion that it was hacked. The activity that you are referring to in the wallets (other than the hack) is regular ongoig business activity.
A renown company that we use was compromised (we are not going to name the company nor the attack vector, but it has been sealed quickly), which we now know led to the hack and we are currently weighing our options.
You saw "a" comment stating that, apparently a troll (yes, there are trolls on the thread).
These people seem to think we would find more value in playing games with[out] (this was a typo on my part) our own assets on an exchange rather than continue to execute at the breakneck pace that we have been doing thus far, landing UHNW medical practice owners, the 50/50 joint venture for what will likely be one of the most innovative digital assset exchanges in the world with Jamaica Stock Exchange - with meetings with the Financial Services Authority and the Jamaican Central (these were within 45 days of our ICO close), one of the earliest patent applications for the use of this tech in capital markets and hopefully a multi-trillion global exchange group and $20B+ hedge fund - both of whom have shown significant interest in becoming clients and whom we are on our second meeting with.
As you can see, we have a lot going on in regards to industry precedent-shattering business. See MOU attachaed.
