Re: Banning "Trade Runner" aka Uwe Martens from BitcoinTalk
mprep, No worries. 
Regarding the issue being between two people, it is highly unlikely given that everyone I listed above, from BayAreaCoins to biolizard89, all had some issue with Uwe Martens aka "Trade Runner" and received trust feedback on his profile.
I can't link to hundreds of his posts, but I can tell you that the guy is a complete charlatan. Try to explain why once more.
Timeline of events:
March 2020: Uwe Martens made the first mention of Namecoin on BitcoinTalk.
July 2020: Uwe Martens registered the namecoin(dot)pro domain, which is now displayed in posts as "namecoi[Suspicious link removed]o" because it is considered spam by BitcoinTalk.
August 2020: Uwe Martens became one of the administrators of the Telegram channel https://t.me/namecoin, which had less than 300 followers at the time.
September 2021: Uwe Martens stated on BitcoinTalk that his channel has approximately 840 "members."
In the same month, September 2021, Uwe Martens began attacking everything related to Namecoin, including attempting to halt funding for Namecoin; he also targeted WikiPedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Namecoin#Undeclared_donation_to_Namecoin_contributors, and posted the full message to BitcoinTalk.
December 2022: There are over 3,200 "members" in that Telegram channel, and based on the usernames and photos, a 10x increase is not natural. There was no change in ether exchange volumes or new Namecoin registrations, both of which should account for at least 5% of the 3,200 members.
What has happened in the last two years is that Uwe Martens has tried to justify his obviously false claims that he is a Namecoin "developer" by pointing to the Telegram channel and claiming that he is supported by a massive community, despite the fact that there are only about 4-5 "members" who post to that channel on a regular basis, including him. He also uses the same bogus Namecoin Telegram channel to mislead organisations such as the NLNet Foundation.
Regarding the issue being between two people, it is highly unlikely given that everyone I listed above, from BayAreaCoins to biolizard89, all had some issue with Uwe Martens aka "Trade Runner" and received trust feedback on his profile.
I can't link to hundreds of his posts, but I can tell you that the guy is a complete charlatan. Try to explain why once more.
Timeline of events:
March 2020: Uwe Martens made the first mention of Namecoin on BitcoinTalk.
July 2020: Uwe Martens registered the namecoin(dot)pro domain, which is now displayed in posts as "namecoi[Suspicious link removed]o" because it is considered spam by BitcoinTalk.
August 2020: Uwe Martens became one of the administrators of the Telegram channel https://t.me/namecoin, which had less than 300 followers at the time.
September 2021: Uwe Martens stated on BitcoinTalk that his channel has approximately 840 "members."
our main Telegram group @namecoin. I recently kicked several hundred accounts that were inactive for more than 6 months, so we have "only" around 840 active members at the moment (while the "community" around "J.R." aka biolizard89 stucks at 14 members on their main IRC channel on libera chat).
In the same month, September 2021, Uwe Martens began attacking everything related to Namecoin, including attempting to halt funding for Namecoin; he also targeted WikiPedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Namecoin#Undeclared_donation_to_Namecoin_contributors, and posted the full message to BitcoinTalk.
To:
NLnet Foundation
Science Park 400
1098 XH Amsterdam
Netherlands
bureau@nlnet.nl
Mr. Joost Agterhoek, xxxx@nlnet.nl
Mr. Bob Goudriaan, xxxx@nlnet.nl
Mr. Michiel Leenaars, xxxx@nlnet.nl
Mrs. Hanneke Slager c/o Cordemeyer & Slager / Advocaten B.V., xxxx@xxxx.nl
Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI)
info@ngi.eu
European Commission
Department Next-Generation Internet (CNECT.E.3)
Mr. Olivier Bringer
Beaulieulaan 33
1160 Brussel
Belgium
cnect-e3@ec.europa.eu
Review of a donation by NLnet to the Namecoin project in May 2021
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
in the name and on behalf of the Namecoin community (i.a. Telegram group @Namecoin, currently around 820 active members) I hereby request the review of a donation by NLnet to the Namecoin project in May 2021.
Recently Jeremy Rand posted online on his personal blog at namecoin.org that NLnet funded the Namecoin project in May 2021 with 50,000 Euro, taken out of the funds of the European Commission. In the meantime, we revealed that these same Namecoin contributors received a faucet, a kind of airdrop, from the Handshake project back in February 2020, worth approximately $1 million USD at the time of the airdrop, currently around 2.2 million USD. This airdrop was intended to encourage the development of the Namecoin project. On February 20, 2020 this donation has been split among undefined and unknown recipients and has nowhere been publicly declared from the Namecoin contributors.
Therefore we kindly ask
1. if this kind of donation in February 2020 has been brought to your attention during the application for a public fund through NLnet,
2. if NLnet would still have approved the application in case of point 1,
3. whether NLnet would subsume the concealment of the Handshake donation and thus the deliberate untruthful pretense of financing worthiness under the criminal offense of subsidy fraud under the jurisdiction of all eligible nations.
In case of point 3 is fulfilled, we request:
1. that the subsidies granted will be reclaimed,
2. to file a criminal complaint for subsidy fraud in the jurisdiction of the applicant(s),
3. to decline any future requests for donation.
Independent from the legal assessment we kindly request a public declaration which amount has been sent to which recipient. For details and proofs on the Handshake blockchain please see the appendix. In the Telegram channel @namecoin_online of our connected Namecoin blockchain explorer you get further documents and all info regarding the general situation of the Namecoin project. Of particular note, the website at namecoin.org has turned out to be Jeremy Rand's personal blog, especially after he arbitrarily deleted the Namecoin wiki without consulting the other contributors first. Our new website at o]namecoi[Suspicious link removed]o replaces this deleted wiki and provides now the absolute how to basics along with two browser add-ons for .bit blockchain domain resolution.
Kind regards,
signed,
Uwe Martens
September 16, 2021
NLnet Foundation
Science Park 400
1098 XH Amsterdam
Netherlands
bureau@nlnet.nl
Mr. Joost Agterhoek, xxxx@nlnet.nl
Mr. Bob Goudriaan, xxxx@nlnet.nl
Mr. Michiel Leenaars, xxxx@nlnet.nl
Mrs. Hanneke Slager c/o Cordemeyer & Slager / Advocaten B.V., xxxx@xxxx.nl
Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI)
info@ngi.eu
European Commission
Department Next-Generation Internet (CNECT.E.3)
Mr. Olivier Bringer
Beaulieulaan 33
1160 Brussel
Belgium
cnect-e3@ec.europa.eu
Review of a donation by NLnet to the Namecoin project in May 2021
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
in the name and on behalf of the Namecoin community (i.a. Telegram group @Namecoin, currently around 820 active members) I hereby request the review of a donation by NLnet to the Namecoin project in May 2021.
Recently Jeremy Rand posted online on his personal blog at namecoin.org that NLnet funded the Namecoin project in May 2021 with 50,000 Euro, taken out of the funds of the European Commission. In the meantime, we revealed that these same Namecoin contributors received a faucet, a kind of airdrop, from the Handshake project back in February 2020, worth approximately $1 million USD at the time of the airdrop, currently around 2.2 million USD. This airdrop was intended to encourage the development of the Namecoin project. On February 20, 2020 this donation has been split among undefined and unknown recipients and has nowhere been publicly declared from the Namecoin contributors.
Therefore we kindly ask
1. if this kind of donation in February 2020 has been brought to your attention during the application for a public fund through NLnet,
2. if NLnet would still have approved the application in case of point 1,
3. whether NLnet would subsume the concealment of the Handshake donation and thus the deliberate untruthful pretense of financing worthiness under the criminal offense of subsidy fraud under the jurisdiction of all eligible nations.
In case of point 3 is fulfilled, we request:
1. that the subsidies granted will be reclaimed,
2. to file a criminal complaint for subsidy fraud in the jurisdiction of the applicant(s),
3. to decline any future requests for donation.
Independent from the legal assessment we kindly request a public declaration which amount has been sent to which recipient. For details and proofs on the Handshake blockchain please see the appendix. In the Telegram channel @namecoin_online of our connected Namecoin blockchain explorer you get further documents and all info regarding the general situation of the Namecoin project. Of particular note, the website at namecoin.org has turned out to be Jeremy Rand's personal blog, especially after he arbitrarily deleted the Namecoin wiki without consulting the other contributors first. Our new website at o]namecoi[Suspicious link removed]o replaces this deleted wiki and provides now the absolute how to basics along with two browser add-ons for .bit blockchain domain resolution.
Kind regards,
signed,
Uwe Martens
September 16, 2021
December 2022: There are over 3,200 "members" in that Telegram channel, and based on the usernames and photos, a 10x increase is not natural. There was no change in ether exchange volumes or new Namecoin registrations, both of which should account for at least 5% of the 3,200 members.
What has happened in the last two years is that Uwe Martens has tried to justify his obviously false claims that he is a Namecoin "developer" by pointing to the Telegram channel and claiming that he is supported by a massive community, despite the fact that there are only about 4-5 "members" who post to that channel on a regular basis, including him. He also uses the same bogus Namecoin Telegram channel to mislead organisations such as the NLNet Foundation.