Now all the chaos from the past few days has calmed down, I thought it would be a good idea to address to the FUD, properly and officially.
I could of course, opt to leave it where it is, the cancellation of the scheduled IPO, and the pending decision on what to do about it seem to have spoken volume enough to those that matter.
However, I did chose to be open about my identity, who I was, and have been called out regarding my integrity. Now that I've had a chance to reflect and cool off, I've decided to present a rebuttal to the ridiculous claims made against me.
I am of course referring to this thread here -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=411366.0Case 1 - Beta IPO Daniel claims to have 600 BTC ($500K to $600K USD) and there is a $8K investment limit. That means they needed 75 to 500 people in the beta test to take part in a beta presale. If you think people would invest into a 'beta', of all things, then I have a bridge in Somalia for sale.
Fuserleer could counter and said that BTC was raised a long time ago but still no one would invest $60K or $120K into a 'beta' - it's all bollocks.
All I need to do is post this -
https://blockchain.info/address/1EMunieVKAs8PC8mXeBkXnnry79toEKustThe sharp eyed among you will notice a deficit in the current balance and amount received, there are 2 reasons for this.
1) A few early investors requested that I cash out their Bitcoins to lock in their value early, the total was ~60BTC
2) As I'm sure you are all aware, a couple of weeks ago BTC took a huge dump below $500 due to the China news. I decided to move the majority of the BTC at that time to various exchanges, so that in the event that the drop continued, I could sell out a chunk of BTC and protect the investments. Once BTC had stabilized and recovered, I moved those BTC back to the wallet as I had not cashed out. The total was ~ 220 BTC at the time.
Case 2 - Identity http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/dan-hughes/7/b11/2a6
http://www.pof.com/viewprofile.aspx?profile_id=41163580
We know Daniel is a 34 year old male, with no education, no sure status about his real profession (unless being a scammer counts), et cetera. Take a note at his age on Plenty of Fish and compare it with his Linkedin profile. Age 34 means Daniel was born in 1980.
Daniel's first listed job at was a "Senior Developer at Senior Creations" (see Linkedin), in 1996 - meaning he was only 16 years old. Did Daniel drop out of Highschool to become a senior developer? Damn - he should had dropped out at age twelve, maybe he would had been made CEO. Daniel learned so much in his first year and a half that he later made "Director of Technology" at another company. The claim that my linked in and professional history are fake and manufactured are pretty insane.
If you check my linked in profile, you will see a large amount of individuals from the telecoms industry, mainly T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, and others. KDB Technology was my company for many years, and we worked with the companies I have just listed, T-Mobile being our main client. I invite anyone to message any of my contacts to verify my identity and professional relationship with them.
I'm not sure of the relevance of the POF account, I did not realize that being married to the spawn of the devil, which resulted in my becoming single was a crime.
As for my "claims" of being a Senior developer at Software Creations at the at the age of 17, I refer you to this
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/fa-premier-league-stars/credits I worked as an Assistant Lead developer (which is pretty senior) on the Playstation SKU, if you scroll down the page, you'll see my name. You can get a copy of this game on eBay, Amazon still if you hunt around, my name is there in the credits listed as "Assistant Lead".
I am self educated in many disciplines, including development, business, mathematics/scientific & economic theory. Most of brightest minds in the world are self-educated, which means they are not institutionalized and thus can think outside of the box. Having no official qualifications should be praised, not judged, as those persons are typically more self-motivated and likely to succeed.
Case 2.5 - ScammingDaniel at the time wasn't doing anything for a living, I had sold the IP and assets of KDB and was living a nice, semi-retired lifestyle. After being so active for so many years, I soon got bored, so I decided to learn some new skills, one that I thought would be useful in the future was internet marketing.
Say what you will about BHW, but it has some of the smartest white hat internet marketers on the planet residing there (its a shame management aren't quite as smart) and I decided to participate there, and other websites, to learn about IM.
If you actually spend some time to check out BHW, you will notice that many many people there post the results of their internet marketing milestones. My posting about the first day I made $1500 was nothing out of the ordinary, and they generally help to motivate and encourage the people spending many hours learning and honing their IM skills.
Also in that thread there is a quote from me "...even though I'm on BHW its all pretty much white hat techniques and a little grey in for good measure..." Scammers don't use white or grey hat marketing, they use 100% black with a bit of blood colored red in for good measure.
Aside from my internet marketing, I was playing around with an retail online store, I had concentrated solely on telecoms for almost 10 years, and wanted to learn about everything. Let me tell you, operating that retail site was TOUGH work and very long hours and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Delivery companies couldn't give 2 craps about your customers, or the goods you are sending out, and as result there were a lot of logistical problems, negative reviews, and I soon decided that it wasn't for me.
Paypal however decided it would be a great idea to freeze the account due to 1 rather hard to please customer while it had in excess of £30k in it, and they were going to hold it for 180 days.
Needless to say I was not best pleased, as aside from some of that being profit, a large portion of it was to cover my expenses incurred re-sending out replacement items for those that had been lost. I decided not to wait to the 180 days for Paypal get around to releasing it and hit them head on.
Adpulse was a venture into CPA and other affiliate marketing methods and it started off extremely well. I even have an award trophy sitting on my desk for "Best CPA Network 2012" that I am very proud of (and can post a picture of, including the day it arrived in the box).
As we are seeing here though, with good work come foul souls, and it wasn't long before we were seeing a lot of fraud in the network and our advertisers were refusing to pay for those leads. All affiliate networks that are driven by lead generation take the same stance "If we don't get paid for your fraud leads, then you don't get paid for them either" and that is the stance we took. Some fraudsters weren't happy, but overall things were moving well.
Then we get to the BHW incident which I have explained in other places already so I will simply re-post my response
Because some guy on there attempted to scam me out of $2k even though he had been paid. It wasn't even anything to do with BHW, yet he posted a thread. I kicked up a fuss about it, stating it was nothing to do with BHW, it wasn't for a service or product listed on there as it was personal business and refused to yield to his threats.
For some reason the BHW mods decided to poke their noses in even though it was nothing to do with them, by this point I was trying to keep my good name yet they sided with him even though I had proof I'd paid him. The BHW mods are as crooked as the members quite frankly and I wouldn't visit that place again if I was paid to.
Hopefully that is a sufficient explanation regarding a crooked websites actions.
Case 3 & 4 - eMunieAnyone that's ever spent any time interacting with the members on the eMunie forum will immediately notice that it is different from many other forums by way of it FEELS like a real community with everyone pushing in the same direction with the same goal.
The reason for that is the way I run my own house there, its fair, everyone gets a say, I don't victimize anyone for any opinion they have, even if it goes against my own, and I listen. I encourage everyone to follow those same principles, and they do, because they feel part of something.
Some of the guys there have spent months now, working with me on a daily basis, honing and perfecting the eMunie system, and they rightly feel its as much their project as it is mine.
The client is not vaporware, and the delays are due to my own strive for perfection, if its not 100% right, I'm not happy, and if I'm not happy I feel like I have failed myself. I could of released eMunie many times over, but as we have seen with other projects, releasing too soon can do more damage than good and I'm sure if I was to launch early and someone lost their life savings due to a bug, the pitchforks would be out and rightly so.
eMunie is a complicated piece of software, much more so than BitCoin and it's clones, thus it requires rigorous testing to ensure its stability, and should be THE highest priority of all because ultimately it is ME that will be held accountable for any losses.
In ClosingI'm going to wrap this rebuttal up at this point, I could continue and provide more solid evidence to counter the ridiculous claims made against me but I feel I have provided enough to vindicate any doubt regarding my ability, integrity and morality.
Of course, your opinion is your own and you are entitled to it, and should you choose to believe or not believe the claims or my responses that is up to you.
Finally, I would ask and appreciate any future personal attacks are kept just that, personal to yourselves. Critique of the project I welcome, some of it in the past has resulted in me looking at parts of the system and redoing them, usually at the cost of great effort and have provided a better implementation than before, just to be sure.
Yours
Dan Hughes / Fuserleer
