Dear Community,

I am very sorry for what has happened over the last ~week. I fell very ill with a ruptured appendix and have only just got out of hospital last night. Unfortunately the timing could not have been worse with a very hectic life IRL and with the new launch of Shade.

I did leave the server upgrade etc to the other person who was helping me develop Shade on the side but I have not been able to contact him this morning and seems he has "done the runner" on me and taken what was left of the pre-mine with him also.

I realise I have most likely lost all of my supporters at this stage, and now I am also out of pocket like some of you who invested. As the server costs/domain name etc all came out of my pocket to start with. Coupled with the loss of the pre-mine, surgery costs and being off work I am out of pocket even more.
Rest assured this does not mean this is the end of Shade, over the next few days I am going to have to re think/design the development plan and try and secure some more development money to ensure things continue on course.

No this does not mean I will be asking the community for any Shade or Bitcoin's but please be aware this will delay things. You are more than welcome to donate but please be aware it is not necessary at all.

I am currently in contact with DigitalOcean (our vps provider) to see if we can get our "Snapshot" restored as it seems like it has been deleted (most likely to try and cover the tracks of the other person that was helping me develop on the side) and get all services back up and running!

I will keep you updated as soon as I have worked all this out, and please be patient as I have hundreds of messages to reply to.

Yours sincerely,
William
(iShade)