4) I created the white and blue papers of the projects with Michael Malley being my proof-reader and Sam Cheng Hung being the webmaster. Those were the only contacts I had within Mass, besides Alexander Pankov (a lot) and Alexander Kuzmin, occasionally, on general topics. By that time, I assumed that Alexander Pankov has hired all the dev team members by himself.
Who could be more involved than the person that wrote the whitepaper which is the whole basis for the project? Surely the white paper would be written by someone intimately familiar with the end result and the strategy used to get there. By your own admission, you have been compensated for the work and have not been affected by the collapse of the project, other than becoming one of the fall guys. If it is true the project was based in Russia, it is unlikely anyone will see their "investment" again.
The issues you point out are worthy attention and I will do my best to help ease any fears that I am responsible for an abuse or fraud.
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Whitepaper creation being the responsibility.First of all, I am proud of my work. Now, as I moved along researching the matter and a few months have passed, I would probably put some things in a different light, but generally, I still think that as long as programmatic ads are still there, ad-blocking will be growing, meaning that the ad industry will need to find ways around it.
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Intellectual involvement meaning ability to affect implementation.I have to disagree with you here. There were no means for me to actually affect the implementation. As I have already mentioned, the core of my conflict with Mass CTO, Pankov, was that he was not making sense to me. At least I could not understand how exactly is he going to merge the service into the RTB framework. I mean who will pay who for what by what means. I have asked that question many times, with no answer. I still think Mass is a promising project with unique positioning. Theres just no reason for you to blame me as I have never envisioned or planned any pre-programmed failure.
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Russian issue.Here I would agree with you. Russia has been a controversial place and international legal entity for decades, but in 2014, after invading Ukraine, it became illegitimate. As a matter of fact, it became illegitimate even earlier, with faked parliament and presidential elections, as it is obvious to anyone who believes Carl Friedrich Gauss more than Putin:
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http://politika.eizvestia.com/vybory-2012/full/matematicheskoe-dokazatelstvo-falsifikacij-na-vyborah-grafikahttp://trv-science.ru/2011/12/20/matematika-vyborov-2011/[Suspicious link removed]/@nikolayistomin/378008
there are tons of more evidence).
I am proud to say that I have officially left Russia and asked for EU residence right after the Crimean events, for that exact reason not to be associated with the massive crime. So you probably should at least consider the fact that I have to deal with my native state already being occupied by criminals, while you are only facing mere threat from occasional outside guests. And I support the point of view asking anyone with potentially legit intentions what the hell are doing in Russia?. That is exactly what I meant in my item #7 concerning giving to the Mass management.