I don't care if his project raises less funding because of people legitimate concerns.
Ok. That's perfectly fine.
It is not their fault they can not remove their vidz from the PV site.
Who's fault is it if they had more than enough time to remove it but neglected to do so?
Anyone who does not see novus dev keeping their btc whilst him leaving directly/indirectly caused them to have their vidz frozen and therefore scammed is not looking at it correctly. He can pose a solution to them and must make some effort to compensate them entirely or partially even at ico prices. If you had 500k vidz trapped there or greater you would be looking at it entirely differently.
There is a solution if you are holding vidz. You can swap them. I think that's very generous, don't you think?
If you had 500k vidz trapped there, knowing you had about a month to withdraw them, then yes, I believe that is your fault.
1. The onus is on him to dispel the rumours and legitimate concerns of MANY that he is indeed PV if he wants to maximise the potential of his ICO.
Why is the onus on him? Perhaps the onus is on them? Again, how do you prove a negative? I would really like to know.
I change my mind now though, I'd like the password to your bitcointalk account. I'd love to read all your PM's. You don't need to send me a single bitcoin. Any other account you send me, would be hard to prove it is yours anyway, unless you link them together. You can encrypt it to my GPG key so you know only I can read them.
Sounds like a reasonable request.
You seem to be going above and beyond what is required as an escrow?
You're a staff member and you're requesting to read all of my PM's ? I am concerned. I am not asking to collect BTC or provide any service. What is your interest in my account may I ask?
The onus is on him if he wants their confidence to invest their BTC? you don't see that then I can't assist you further. I mean it seems obvious that if I am collecting money in from people I have to give them the confidence to do so. Why would the onus be on them he needs the money apparently it will cost several hundred k and if there is not enough confidence.... then not enough funding... then no product ? they move on to other projects and he is left with a bag of worthless vidz and the BTC he got from the last project you were both in on. 40 BTC or whatever is not even enough for the unaccounted expenses apparently so good luck with that.
I am not personally interested in picking a dispute with you. As you said you get the terms you make others aware of the terms you enforce the terms? that would be fair enough. Please stick to that only not promotion and excusing past mistakes - one going into business with a scammer and two having no control over the funds/tokens of people you encourage to invest, announcing at such a critical time.
Some say the withdrawals were stopped almost immediately after his announcement to leave...others say it was recent. After asking more questions it seems larger amounts were disabled but small amounts could still be withdrawn. Then nothing at all. This suggests the wallet they were linked to ran dry and was being emptied.
Lets wait and see what happens. To some degree he is doing a good thing accepting vidz but if you are left with vidz trapped then you are out of luck.
I think you personally dabs need to act more like an objective escrow and staff member and not become involved with the projects you are working with. From all the green trust you must be overall honest but I do not approve of your moral code and blame apportioning. You do not seem neutral in these projects you seem more like part of their team. You can not blame anyone who lost vidz because they didnt remove it before it turned scam. Where was it in the terms there was a deadline to remove the tokens?
That's like working with big vern on a new exchange and saying I blame the people who lost money in cryptsy not vern, it was the hackers fault, his partners fault, anyone elses fault. You never blame the victims in a scam situation.