It's not the stakes so much dzarmush , for ages it seems we have been talking up this project to everyone we know cos we thought it was worthwhile. We agreed to put real effort into it .We are just disappointed.
I see no reason to take away all 3 stakes. I think you should get your stake coz there's no chance to prove you're not 3 different persons. But since it looks very suspicious the other two accounts shouldn't get their stakes.
from a guilty till proven innocent point of view it may look suspicious , I do agree. From our point of view it was just three friends who live together who were doing something together. If the devs had not hidden the fact that IPs were getting checked then this problem wouldn't have happened. Was it never expected that friends or small groups would get interested together?..everyone had to act alone?