Perhaps it would be wise to withdraw your ICO funds as soon as you can, to your own wallet. There should be a deadline. It's the same as leaving money on an exchange or online wallet. You never know when it bitcoinica's or gox's or insta-wallet's or cryptsy's on you.
This is of course good council. However in this does not help those that did not do that.
If they can prove they have vidz locked down on the ICO site they should be viable for swapping them since they are going getting burned anyway.
To be honest I am shocked you are still touching any of this since this person is at least half of the initial PV. He left at a critical time causing market crash and the old dev to stop work on the project as far as we know. This is without doubt. Now with people not only burned on this well timed exit (after the btc was released) there is now people burned hard who have provable vidz left trapped on the ICO site.
These trapped vidz were bought from this dev and the last dev. It is okay saying he left and left all responsibility but he kept 40 btc. That btc comes from the sale of those vidZ that are now trapped on HIS original PV site. This was orignially half his ICO right?
If I were the holders of these vidz i would either demand back 50% of my BTC he hold or else I would demand 50% of my trapped vidz are counted toward this new ICO.
He took half the BTC raised from the sale of those vidz he needs to make sure they are delivered from the old ICO site to the holders since his actions led to them being locked there and he still has the BTC those people paid.
Failure to do this will lead to a big issue down the road with this project. Do not be held back by this in the future.
I would expect you as and escrow and staff member to uphold this without question.
There was not deadline and besides this website was supposed to be where the coins would be eventually used so you could argue those that left their coins there were supporting the project and not just withdrawing to the exchanges like the others just wanting to dump and trade.
I would be creating a huge scam topic in the main section about this and keeping it on the first page if i had 100k+ vids trapped on this original ico site that i could prove were there and this second ico whilst retaining the btc i paid for them would not accept them swapped in for the second ico from half of the same team of breakaway product of the first ico.
To be fair I have not heard this devs alter ego say he will not accept accounts handed to him as burnable vidz for this vidz2 ico.
So let's here it right now will people with trapped vidz be able to hand over control of their accounts toward novus or not? yes or no
You keep mentioning he got part of the ICO money from the Vidz which no one can deny. however he got them by helping to provide what was required for them to be released. This also cannot be denied (the API was there to see).
You also keep going on about him causing a market crash which is wrong, his departure caused a drop in price. this would have rectified and stabilized if the other dev had kept working and providing information as to how the changes affected the project and how further development was progressing. The crash was caused through panic when the remaining Vidz dev seemed to drop off the face the earth and the fudders which I will not name but those who have looked at the Vidz thread will know.
You say these trapped Vidz if proven to be real should be eligible to swap but no they should not, those being swapped are being taken out of circulation. Until such time as the coins stuck are destroyed they are still a viable commodity and if the Vidz dev does return and release them the owners they have gained Atmos at absolutely zero cost and still have the Vidz to sell even if it is at 1 sat.
No-one said those who left their coins on the ICO website should have placed them on a exchange, there was a wallet available where you could stake those coins and in turn earn more for doing nothing more than just holding them.