Okay, so here's a revolutionary idea ... If the same questions are being asked over and over and over again, and Drak says that those Q's have been answered why doesn't someone add the Q and answer as a sticky to the beginning of this thread? Would make fudding or w/e a lot harder.
Drak has been intentionally been trying to avoid answering a single simple question, which is: Are the original ICO funds to be used to advance the coin or are they his, simply as payment to him for having delivered VIA and XCH? (Note: The original ICO funds were ~600BTC or roughly $360k at the time of the ICO)
A LOT of the original ICO contributors and forum participants have recently asked this and have become concerned with his lack of response (i.e. myself, Primitive, Barabbas, Chompy Z, and the list goes on much further for anyone wanting to read thru this thread).
He considers this Fud, but any reasonable person would see it is not.
It's pretty straightfoward, but for whatever reason Drak refuses to answer this directly, instead he chooses to attack me with numerous false claims, dox'es primitive, and calls everyone else a fudster, when he could just answer it. At this point it's obvious what the answer is, everyone would still rather hear it from him.
He explained time and time again that those funds were obtained from a PRESALE. He spent as much as he needed on the coin to develop it himself (his own time) + whatever else had to be paid. There is no central fund for the coin because it was not done as a crowdsale/fundraising/startup. He basically got paid a lump sum up front to develop VIA, everything that he didnt spent on other devs, other things that had to be bought, etc, is his own money.
Also DRAK is still working on the project, he didnt vanish like some altcoin devs that had done. to be honest, all this fud is retarded, you will not shake people's confidence in DRAK. As far as things go, by the books, he delivered what he promised to deliver. The coin pumped, twice in the first few weeks, and the again when it hit like 35k or something a few months ago. You had plenty of time to gtfo if you felt that this investment is not working out for you at a good price (assuming you didnt buy at 60k like a fucking noob, and if you did, well sucks2beUAndTnx4UrMoney )