This was obvious to everyone involved.
You act like you have discovered some epic conspiracy.
We returned the PTS because our internationally known accounting firm, Grant Thornton, wisely recommended that it would benefit both the givers and getters for us to do so.
Consult your own tax advisors if you need it explained like you are five.
Dude, you are such a slime.
This was very "obvious" to everyone at the time you returned the PTS. The point of this dumb conversation was because I pointed out the fact that last year people gave you 416,000 PTS to develop Bitshares. Your response was:
1. Invictus ran out of donated BTC at the end of last year. All PTS was returned on advice of our accountants.
clearly implying you had altruistically returned a PTS that was worth something. The fact is you received a shit ton of BTC, 5660 to be exact. You received a shit ton of PTS when they had a BTS value (yes, a Bitshares value) of ~$7.00 each.
You guys still have the BTS that made the PTS valuable but you got rid of the PTS. You guys have repeatedly, approximately every six months, asked for more money and now you are finding a way to ride off into the sunset by stealing Bitshares code we paid you to create free and open source, renaming it and licensing it when you should have been finishing the product in which you raised funds for originally. This was never part of the plan. It was originated when your last money grab, the time you guys decided to dilute shareholders by sucking 4277 BTS per day per Dev, failed because the price dropped 80%.
So here we are back on track to the problem at hand. You were working on Graphene (Bitshares Toolkit renamed) while people were anticipating and expecting a Bitshares 1.0 that had been promised since March 2014. People were losing money because you guys wouldn't fix the problems that arose from Bytemaster's idiotic collateral rules. TonyK was pretty persistent in letting you guys know about that problem too and you ignored it to work on a slightly revamped code based of the original Bitshares so you can license it and make more money.
You guys have illegally collected money and sold shares in what is now a for-profit company using a smokescreen of crypto coins and dummy corps. SEC complaints are coming.