Announcement from the CEO, COO and CTO of SPECTRE :
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Dear all,
We would like to take the opportunity to set the record straight in what seems to be a coordinated attack filled with a lot of baseless accusations, as we have received multiple threats of defamation from the admin (who chooses to remain nameless) of spectrecoin today, via email as well. A brief look at our team and their background on LinkedIn (along with the companies associated) will reveal that we are a serious financial technology company with a very public face, not only now but for years. Upon due diligence, "spectrecoin" appeared on our radar few months ago. As our product, which removes financial fraud out of a trading scenario by removing brokers, was in no way competing with "spectrecoin" and more importantly the fact that they were called "spectrecoin" as per their own website and literature including a New York Times article (
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/business/dealbook/coin-digital-currency.html) that mentions them as "spectrecoin", the decision we took was to continue with our brand, "spectre". Spectre is an acronym for Speculative Tokenised Trading Exchange. It is not some "cool" name we plucked out of the air or with the view to "piggyback" on "spectrecoin". There are far bigger and more successful ICOs with very attractive names whose names one would consider hijacking before purposely targeting a small newly listed project. Clearly this was not our intention. Despite this, we had planned a reach-out to them and a new project "spectre" from Israel, shortly before our marketing began to let them know, at the end of this month (September). This was to inform them that our website would include a notice to all visitors that we are "spectre" and not spectrecoin.
Moreover, there are some accusations that the SPEC token is already taken and we haven't done any due diligence regarding this token name. We indeed came across SPEC token but found that it is inactive (
https://gyazo.com/83e87619e11a9471dd44314d3328a55d ). Also, the inactive one is not a ERC20 token. Our team had already initiated the process of getting this SPEC token name allocated to us. Needless to say, we have a range of differentiating 'backup' tickers given they are being mopped up quickly (note, even 'spectrecoin' as per ICO-age (
https://gyazo.com/4d47b22ed7597c3c36f893701ea66e7c ) had decided to go with 'SPEC' but then had to change to 'XSPEC'). While the ticker is of secondary importance, please note that our brand is not. SPECTRE stands for Speculative Tokenised Trading Exchange and we will not be rebranding despite us being openly threatened. As for the some of the posts above, unfortunately the level of inaccuracy is high.
To start with, the structure of the indicated company is presented in a misleading way. This is the structure of a legitimate, professional company that acts as a cost centre in a corporate structure and has
- As director the CEO of the company
- As Secretary, a licenced and accredited company offering fiducieri services under the UK law, which is what the name itself indicates: "Fiduci - corp" (UK) Services. Therefore having 110 clients, means that they are actually good at what they do.
As per the fact that there are 0 filings, this is a lie, as a simple search showcases this:
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08245873/filing-history Last but not least, there is nothing wrong with having the registrants of a domain hidden.
www.spectreproject.io's registrants are hidden as well. In case of spectre.ai, for which we are doing the ICO, this is not hidden,
for the purposes of transparency.
We hope this clarifies the situation. As a team we have a strong and transparent foundation and our goal is to eliminate broker fraud from the financial industry and bring transparency and fairness back into the forefront.
We urge spectrecoin to focus on delivering to their investors the targets they promised during their ICO rather than defaming and threatening projects that happen to have similar names and solve an entirely different problem.
Kind Regards,
Team SPECTRE
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