Xtrabytes team,

Recently, an extremely avid Xtrabytes supporter, user DJC-1973 (aka doucie1 by his own admission) decided they wanted to not only doxx me, but to also accuse me of being a drug addict, as well as tagged both my employer and my boss in a tweet. This is just the latest in a series of events in which this person has doxxed someone.

DJC was permabanned from Reddit some time ago for doxxing me, as well as Sabih in a Reddit thread - a thread in which he also blatantly admits to doxxing us and not caring about doing so. DJC has doxxed us across 4chan/warosu, Bitcointalk, Reddit, Twitter, and who knows where else.

The reason I am writing this is that despite all these instances, you have yet to condone his actions. While I firmly believe DJC is a team member, it is irrelevant. However, the fact that he is such an avid supporter, often releasing information for the project rather than a team member doing so, shows that he is clearly close to the team in some way shape or form. The fact that that you have not come out to condone his actions and separate yourselves from this low-life is incomprehensible. The unwillingness to distance yourself from this person is made even more questionable due to the fact that despite DJC often restoring to these types of measures, the Xtrabytes team does not ever delete his posts nor have you blocked this user, yet you do delete and block whomever you claim is spreading ‘FUD’. I’m not here to FUD and I don’t want to get into it with y’all. Y’all know how I feel about the project and team and I know how y’all feel about me. It’s besides the point.

At the end of the day, Xtrabytes is a blockchain project and XBY a cryptocurrency. It is not life or death here. It’s just not. It’s a hobby, passion, job/career for some and an investment for others, etc. We are all certainly passionate and persistent, if nothing else lol (Hey, I’m trying here, ok?). I can own up to the fact that I can be and have been extremely vocal in expressing my discontent, and I will admit that I can, at times, be a dick. I’ll wholeheartedly cop to that right now. It’s crypto. It’s CRYPTO... and you, DJC, you feel the need to reveal people’s personal information, say the things you say, and, in the most sleezy, shitty thing you’ve done to date, you are threatening my livelihood and my families livelihood - via threatening my employment - by tagging my employer AND my boss in a tweet in which you also call me a druggie... that is just absurd when you take a step back and actually consider what this all is. And to take it a step further, you followed my boss on Twitter. Wtf man?!

This isn’t the first time anyone close to the team has done something like this either. Nick Tsili acted in a very similar way when he made a fake profile of me, called me a druggie in the bio, and made inappropriate comments and tweeted at my company... I mean wtf?!

Am I innocent in this? No. Of course not. But these behaviors are miles past anything I’ve ever even come close to doing. It is honestly downright lunacy. I have a family to support. I have a kid. Attempting to seriously impact my life and my family’s life over all this is such abhorrent and reprehensible behavior, and shows a completely callous disregard for a person’s life.

It’s just not right. To act like this and do these things is just fucked up. There’s no other words for it. - BTW DJC, I’m actually 20 months sober as of Tuesday, March 11 for whatever it may be worth. I am not going to go into my life or explaining myself other than saying that people go through some shit sometimes; many times, we do things that we shouldn’t - and we know we shouldn’t - as a way to cope with what we’re going through. Very rarely are those things positive or good for our lives. It is most often the exact opposite of that. What matters is that we persevere, weather the storm, and come out on the better side of things. Sometimes, we have to go to a shitty place to get to a better one. There’s many things I’ve done that I’m not proud of, but I am proud of who I have become as a result of those things. I will always be an addict. I know that. But, I am currently not using any substances and have not used any substances for 20 months. It’s about progress, not perfection, and I’m progressing every day.

I didn’t intend to write thing long of a post. So, I will make my point and wrap this up. Xtrabytes, it’s not a very good look for the team when you have people like DJC, Nick, and Aristofanis acting this way, while also not doing anything about it, at least not publicly. DJC, I’ve pretty much said all I wanted to say to you. The only thing else I’ll say is that you are going too fucking far with this.

Pics: https://imgur.com/a/n0ikqA1