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I cannot prove anything - all discussion were on slack which deletes history. But all discussions and development were promising BTCD will be sth in the future and there was no discussion about new ICO and anything suggesting BTCD is abandoned project... At least not last 10 months that I'm watching it. [...]
I can provide Slack logs for a lot of channels, which one do you need? Another option is to look at
http://slacklogs.supernet.org/.