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December 21, 2020, 11:45:35 PM |
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Hi Bitcointalk members,
I wanted to respond on the whitepaper plagiarism claims.
I apologize for not responding sooner than this, it’s was brought to my attention around 30 minutes ago and I was in shock as we are definitely not scammers and are just trying to support everything decentralized.
I will at least make an attempt at a statement below and I would be more than happy to answer any questions that land with us after that directly. And I mean any...
I appreciate everyone’s opinion on this post and even though these comments and claims are not something anyone wishes to wake to in the morning after working so hard to stand a new dApp up, the evidence that our whitepaper is plagiarized in some technical element descriptions is compelling and evident.
I made the wrong decision in having one of our junior dev team members put it together. I don’t appreciate the short cuts taken in the whitepaper but I can assure you that our lead developers and his team have produced some great code that works as intended and is already at Version 1 and tested and proven on Testnet deployment.
I take full responsibility as I made the call and I will have it amended immediately by the central team and lead dev and proof read and fact check prior to release of a final iteration.
Please understand that we haven’t taken anyone’s money or cash, we are far from anything resembling a scammer and we are not running away from this project as we have worked too hard to get out dApp to this point.
Heck, we developed and paid for our dApp development out of our own pockets and haven’t yet raised a single penny. I do understand how a plagiarized whitepaper looks, yes I do remember Justin Sun....
Please feel free to shoot any questions at us about our project in the meantime, I also apologize if you hate our website, we really didn’t think it was all that bad tbh.
We would sincerely appreciate your understanding on this matter and we will continue to attempt to save face where we can and reinforce the honesty and integrity that should have been attached to our ecosystem in the beginning rather than claims that we are scammers.
I do understand that trust can only be earned from this point on with actions, so we now have some extra work to get to that point.
I will also bring this fact to your attention, we have already released our version 1, we haven’t moved to any crowd sale until we had finished, yes there was a lot of moving parts and the whitepaper suffered as a result of this. I do understand that the whitepaper should express our vision and technology scope, I wish we had a better first iteration to compliment the fully working dApp.
Thank you kindly for reading this, if you are celebrating Christmas, or just celebrating the holidays or other festivities, we hope you have a safe and happy time.. it’s been a ridiculously trying year to deal with lock downs, COVID and everything else going in around the world... so make the most of this important time with your family and loved ones. I also wish that the bull keeps up its bullishness and caps off a crappy year to get some of our bags of alts to ATH’s! Wouldn’t that be nice?
As mentioned above, please reach out to me with any questions, either on here or over DM, I will be more than happy to answer anything.
Sincere apologies,
James Lee & KwikSwap Team
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