Hello all,
Today (11th October, 2017) at approximately 10:30 AM UTC the developer (username: vtorrent) logged in for a period of approximately 11 minutes.

During this time he changed his bitcointalk profile to hide his email address from public appearance (email address is vtorrent.crypto@gmail.com). Besides this change to their profile (which has been confirmed by multiple independent members of the VTR slack) they did not post any updates or respond to any private messages (to the best of my knowledge). It doesn't appear they edited the announcement post either.

Further to my previous post (link) I'm still in active discussion with numerous people who have been following this project. There is so far no clear decision or path forward, however, given the current events it is my ambition that we come to some form of consensus about how to move this project forward without the current developer who appears to have abandoned the project.

At this time I would kindly ask the community the following:

• Please try to keep the discussion civil, sometimes things just happen. This is obviously not an ideal situation for anyone, some of us had true hope that this project would release one day and some people have invested a large amount of money and time in the hope that they'd make a return on their investment.
• In the cryptocurrency space, this isn't a rare occurrence, numerous projects have had major setbacks by developers abandoning projects, having health/real life issues and so on. The world is an imperfect place, the main thing we should focus on is trying to work our best (if you agree of course) with trying to salvage what we can.
• Please keep an eye out for any torrent projects that pop up as this would be of interest for not only the obvious reasons (i.e. dev running away and setting up another project) but also may be of interest from a technological perspective.

At the moment I am personally just taking on the role of a kind of spokesperson to try and do something with this project. I can't speak officially for the dev or the current project. I also am apprehensive to take on the full role of working with the future of this project, for sure I'd like to play a part in some sort of advisory role and invest money in development (depending on game plan and primarily depending on market conditions) but this would be a team effort. It would also require a significant amount of patience from everyone. There will be things that take time, effort and funds and like all projects in the cryptocurrency space there are no promises or guarantees in any way/shape/form.

Just an FYI that I'm available on slack most of the time and you can also PM me through the forums if you wish.