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Things did not work out well for our initial test runs over the weekend.  But I don't like keeping people in the dark.

We are going to continue working on our technology but we clearly started this project too early.  And it is unfortunate that some whales used our coin price as a personal play toy for their own gain.  And we are getting blamed for that.  We still hold our coins.  Development takes time and we can't satisfy the whims of every entry price for people in this thread.  The next time you see us will be when the tech is closer to finished.  This might take up to another month.  Our initial chats with our partner made it sound like this would go more smoothly but additional time is clearly needed.

If the community would like to take over as they keep suggesting, then we could reconvene at a later time to combine our features with whatever feature set the community here develops.  But if what we develop seriously interferes with what the community here does then we will need to have a conversation about that.  At that point it may need to be a different coin/fork.

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Now for something very serious that needs to be addressed which is not being taken lightly.

Someone in here did some real investigative work over the weekend, 4chan-style.  The previous threat was taken a step further and one of the developers had been contacted at their home.  They were threatened along with their family.  A complete name dox of family members associated with the developer was attained somehow.  Whether this has real intentions behind it or not is irrelevant and all threats are now being taken seriously.  A police report has been filed and all threats in this thread along with usernames have been recorded.  If the police consider it a real threat then bitcointalk may be subpoenaed for further information of the offending usernames.

We believe a personal information leak had something to do with 99designs because this is the dev who paid 99d up front with their credit card with the same phone number on file that was called.  He shut the contest down Monday morning without discussing these actions with the rest of the team.  This may have been premature and I am unsure if the entries can be recovered or not.  I do not blame him though for acting in such a distraught manner after hearing the voicemail.

It is unclear whether the threatened developer is leaving our team at this time.