Response to some of the comments made

"BTG or the team isn't a scam"
That may or may be the case. Personally I reserve the word "scammer" for people that trick other people out of something. They did do a few things though that would be considered unethical in a regulated environment. They may not have hidden the fee code but they sure as hell weren't upfront about it and snuck it in. Most mining software and pools state their fees upfront for the sake of transparency. How can we trust them?

"Why would the developers steal funds when they did a premine?"
I don't know, why would they sneak in a mining fee in their software? Some people are just greedy like that. The premine is supposed to pay for ALL development yet in this case they didn't think it was enough and wanted more.

"The premine wasn't any different than any other premine or ICO reserve"
Well actually it was. First off it wasn't a premine as they themselves state. Secondly we already knew the base price from the Bitcoin Cash fork instead of it being valueless like with new coins. That means they already calculated what they were getting out of it. That part was a money grab whether the project survives or not. Personally I don't care about this as there are bigger issues. The team is hugely unprofessional with how they handled the fork and it's clear they aren't professional coders that created a lot of issues along the way.

"mybtgwallet got scammed/hacked"
Well that is a matter of debate. I can say for sure it's the same site from my browser history so there was no impersonation and I followed the link directly from the BTG site. It's also debatable whether it got hacked. The site was working fine with no security warnings until the theft occurred. Why was an invalid certificate then added? If this was an issue with a hack then it raises another serious question, why were the private keys stored when they were only needed at the time of a user checking their balance? Even real online wallets don't need to store any keys to function and calculating an address can even be done entirely on the client side. It's negligence at the very least and who uses a free host for something like this in any case? Why have the owners now run away without making a statement as well?