Sick of your nonsense.

I've asked about this with Hive's Community Manager. This is what he had to say about the allegation:

The allegations made regarding copying and plagiarism clearly have no basis.

I don't even know why this is being raised.

We won at CoinAgenda Barcelona. Yes Hive, has won first price for best ico in 2017!

We were scrutinised in great depth by the panel of judges, and our white paper was dissected and discussed thoroughly. If any allegations of copying could have been substantiated, they surely would have been then.

Now, pls stop your fud about copying white paper's. Stop your PPT propaganda. Hive is populous 5.0  and populous can't even stand in Hive's  shadow.

Maybe it's better you  focus on your CEO who is a habitual lying convicted criminal for Wire Fraud. Check for more details below.

https://steemit.com/populous/@rob.roche/populous-fraud-the-habitual-lying-of-ppt-ceo-and-convicted-fraudster-steve-n-ico-williams

Maybe  1 day you'll have a good working beta. Hive already has a working up and running DEMO since 21 December!

Maybe Populous will be transparent 1 day. Hive has always been transparent and you can ask any question you'd like.
You can join Hive's telegram at any time you wish. You will not be kicked out like in the PPT telegram for asking serieus questions.

Hive has a real deal with an ERP provider named Adacta and more to come. (The Adacta integration  commences in Slovenia, our first target market, before rolling out to Germany, Russia and the other countries covered by that deal. Hive also has letters of intent in place covering Turkey and Latin America)

What does Populous have? Oh yeah, wait Populous had a deal with Luxure Global Citizen.
But it got cancelled! Which you promoted btw. as a 1 billion dollar company which  isn't really worth 1 million dollar. Also PPT talked about it as if they would recieve all of  their invoices when it was only 10%. Wow, another lie!

Now, I can keep going on and on,  how much better Hive is than Populous ,because the list goes on and on. But DYOR and see by yourself.
All I want to say is Hive delivers and delivers and every time on time. And Populous every time isn't!

Hive doesn't mind competition :

It even feels  to be beneficial to raise awareness of how blockchain will revolutionise the world in the same way as the Internet has done.

This is a quote of Hive's Community Manager Oliver Muldoon a real gentleman who is always ready for all of your questions. So is our great community btw!

Anyway good luck with your PPT. You are more then welcome in the Hive telegram chat https://t.me/hiveprojectnet.

 

You did a great job. Too bad your head was in the sand too long. Sad that you did not see the many obvious red flags Populous has sooner.

Read what I've just wrote. Your demo doesn't matter anymore there will be no serieus company use it anymore if it ever goes live! Why are you so blind to see what is going on?

For all the gullible PPTers this means the so called 1 billion deal is off. Why wasn't this communicated 8 days ago?
when the agreement was terminated on 01-02-2018. Finally this scam leads to an end.

Also got this nice read from the Reddit pages. Not my words ,but something to make you think about.

Even in the slight off chance that the Populous invoice trading platform is real and legitimate, AND that Steve has the business experience and acumen to make it happen properly.... Gosh this is a huge stretch of the imagination!!

...Even if all that, Institutional investors, General public, smart investors will not give any money to Populous because the CEO is a convicted criminal who did time for IDENTITY THEFT and FINANCIAL THEFT. He admitted it himself. Him being a Nigerian with a sole Nigerian lawyer (surname also Williams) as the company's legal team probably won't help him gain trust from big money either. There is no way that anyone will give him custody of any amount of money to create a liquidity pool, and or whatever is needed to make this work.

So, even if a small group of deluded people somehow manage to keep the price afloat, there will be no liquidity in PPT being traded on the market if you ever wanted to cash out.

Companies and businesses and smarter-than-you investors will never give money and sensitive identification documents to Nico and group of Nigerian scammers.

The biggest concern now is that people might still upload their ID docs to complete KYC, which is completely out of the ordinary. Nico (nickname of the CEO - Darren Stephen Williams.. or whatever he goes by) is asking people for a scan of their bank statement as well as their passport or drivers licence.

This will allow fraudsters to steal your ID and borrow money as you! Please warn others and stay away.

Get off this sinking ship and report the CEO to scamalert and to the authorities.


In other words Demo or not this company is doomed to excist.

Well, thank you for clearing that up ,but that link doesn't work m8! You can do better then this I know you can.

Because, Steve said so? Or whatever his name is lol...

Hi,

I guess this  PPT SCAM has finally come to an end. Not my words ,but got this from the Reddit pages. It blew my mind ,but DYOR.


WAS PPT CEO CONVICTED OF FRAUD IN 2008? - DYOR

After all the FUD that has been circulating regarding PPT, I decided to conduct my own investigation. I set out below the results of this investigation.

I have nothing against PPT, i thought it was an amazing idea and I hope the platform and the idea is big enough to live on beyond this scandal. However the criminals running it need to be exposed before investors loose their money completely.

I have provided all the relevant links so you can DYOR.

With the help of my accountant to navigate through Companies House to Research Steve Nico Williams business interests past and present as per his Linkedin profile, a few tips from a detective friend and several other concerned investors we uncovered the following:

Steve and David Williams were born Stephen and Samuel Adeyemi on 15 September 1979 and later changed their names to Darren Williams (Steve) and David Williams.

Darren Williams is the CEO of Populous World according to Companies House documents. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10458726/filing-history

He and David have had a variety of other Companies, all of which have failed to submit Company accounts for reporting procedures and these Companies have been struck off.

Together with his Brother David and as per his linkedin profile, outlining that he is a publisher of Tramp Magazine, they appear to have dealings with Knight Capital Limited / Zloader – David Williams is the Director. This appears to be some sort of Equity Investment Company. However the website will lead you nowhere as all the links lead back to the home page. http://www.knightcapital.co.uk/#

Ok, lets go back to Populous World. On 23rd January 2018, they were given a First Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10458726/filing-history

Here is what my accountant emailed me after a few minutes of research: Ok basically a compulsory strike off is not good news and is in line with Directors walking away from Companies leaving it with a mass of debt.
Looks like David and Darren Williams are the boys behind this.I spent literally 5 mins on the Companies House Register and find they have connections with Upward Capital OC 415936 a partnership,Olympus Research ,Bellaface ,Zloadr, Populous Data Analytical and if I had the time could probably find a lot more..All Companies except Zloadr have been struck off with no accounts ever submitted but Zloadr is strange and could be where they sort away their funds as it has a capital base of £317K on the last accounts but mostly made up on intangibles assets whatever they are with just 17K cash . Knight Capital Ltd has just become a Director of Zloadr !!

Anyway overall they are not operating as responsible directors should and there appears to be a deal of camouflage behind what they are upto.

So why, when a Beta platform was due to be released that week, did this strike off threat occur? Ask yourselves this? His accountant, if he had one, would have been on top of all Company filings and would never allow this to happen.

That concludes some of Darren Williams aka Steve nico Williams recent work history and provides some history into the successful businesses he has run in the past.

Ok, so lets move onto the article from the City News report dated January 2007 that was posted on Reddit a few days ago. We spoke with the journalist and they confirmed that the article was genuine, but he was hazy about the details as over 10 years ago.

So lets dig a little deeper. The News Report mentioned Reading Crown Court! An email was sent to Reading Crown Court, which was then forwarded to Oxford Crown Court due to the case being moved (maybe due to the severity of the case) and Certificate of Conviction was emailed back to us stating that Darren Stephen Williams, born on 15 Sept 1979 was sentenced to 42 months in prison on 4 March 2008 for Fraud.

An extract from the sentencing certificate is below, however for purposes to expel any further FUD on this matter and to enable you to DYOR I have left details of who to contact at the court directly so you can get your own certificate emailed directly to you. I might add here that the severity of this fraud was such that it took over a year to come to trial.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Oxford Crown, Enquiries" enquiries@oxford.crowncourt.gsi.gov.uk Date: 8 Feb 2018 10:19 Subject: RE: Case of Stephen Adeyemi and Samuel Adeyemi

Dear Sir Your Email was sent on to Oxford as this case was transferred from Reading Crown Court to Oxford. I enclose the certificate of conviction.

Officer of the court Crown Administration HMCTS | Oxford Crown Court | St Aldates | Oxford | OX1 1TL Phone: 01865 264200 GoldFax: 01264 785113 Email: enquiries@oxford.crowncourt.gsi.gov.uk Web: www.gov.uk/hmcts

In the Crown Court at Oxford Certificate of Conviction.
No: T20070131

This is to certify that Darren Stephen WILLIAMS dob: 15-Sep-1979 at the Crown Court at Oxford was convicted on 04-Mar-2008

Upon indictment of:

1/1 – Attempting to obtain a money transfer by deception

1/2 - Attempting to obtain a money transfer by deception

1/3 – Obtaining a money transfer by deception

1/4 - Attempting to obtain a money transfer by deception

1/5 - Obtaining a money transfer by deception

1/6 - Attempting to obtain a money transfer by deception

1/7- Obtaining a money transfer by deception

1/8- Attempting to obtain a money transfer by deception

1/9– Attempting to obtain a money transfer by deception

And was sentenced at the Crown Court at Oxford on 04-Apr-2008 and 30-Jan-2009 to

1/1 – 42 months imprisonment, Confiscation order for a nominal amount £1.00 or in default to serve 7 days imprisonment consecutive to any term the defendant is serving

1/2 - Count to remain on file

1/3 - 42 months imprisonment concurrent

1/4 - 42 months imprisonment concurrent

1/5 - Count to remain on file 1/6 - 42 months imprisonment concurrent

1/7 - 42 months imprisonment concurrent

1/8 - 42 months imprisonment concurrent

1/9 - 42 months imprisonment concurrent

TOTAL SENTENCE 42 months imprisonment

No recovery of defence costs order made.

This certificate of conviction is subject to any appeal against conviction of which notice, or notice of application for leave to appeal, has been or may be given, under the Criminal Appeal Act 1968.

Officer of the Crown Court: Date: 8th February 2018

Hi,

Or what about this 1? If you do a little research about PPT there are a lot of red flags. This is also not my writing ,but also a piece of somebody else from the Reddit pages.

Yes, certainly there's a big difference. Having said that, if a new ico came about now you liked and there were major questions marks over the character and history of the founder you probably wouldn't invest.

Not all charges can be proven it doesn't mean they aren't true. There's a lot of smoke there.

So, look at the facts: 1) Charged with ID FRAUD in 2007.

2) Lied about the billion dollar deal with Luxure Global citizen.

3) Wants unnecessary and they security details like your mother's Maiden Name.

4) Has multiple failed businesses.

5) 3 of the team including himself are Nigerian, nothing racial here but a large percentage of scams originate in Nigeria, this increases the risk of loss and will turn off big money.

6) Has lied about big investments: there are none and POPULOUS is neither financially or commercially viable as it stands.

7) Covers up his last name. Why not use his birth name. Adeyebi? Is it because of that article?

On two separate occasions he has been seen In top London Nightclubs buying 100 bottles of Champgne for people he barley knows. Where did this money come From? Was he that rich before from Tramp magazine (answer is no) surely that money would have been better spent on office space and a proper dev team.

Hi,

Not my words ,but got this from the PPT Reddit pages. This guy reads my mind.




People who are invested in PPT are acting like the people who invested in Bitconnect loans. They all WANT TO BELIEVE and are quick to dismiss any negative allegations. Do your research and you will quickly find that there is no office, and no core team. The team members on the website are all freelancers, or 20 year olds with no experience, or Nigerians that either have no experience or are 20 year olds. These kids would be happy that they have a job and are getting paid some coin. In other words, they might not even know that theyre working for a scam. The CEO has no successful business experience, and is not public with his words nor presence. All messages in Slack are not permanent and the chat history disappears with every new line of chat. This is the only place that the CEO says anything.

Don't take everything said on Slack as truth. There are people who are paid to continue to convince others that PPT is a great investment and that retirement is around the corner. There are paid shills in all corners of the cryptocurrency space so beware!

I would be very surprised if this turns out to be a successful project. But I highly doubt it. If this invoice trading platform is such a great idea, a proper team with real business experience will likely come up and take the spotlight. My research tells me that this is the job of a conman. Do your own research into the legitimacy of the company and team before starting to FOMO about the intricacies of how a real Populous platform will make you money. (remember how people analysed and researched into how Bitconnect will make money. it turns out that the people were shady and the operation, a scam.)

Did you hear that as the beta release was delayed once again, people were told that it would come out in just "a few hours" again and again and again. Until it became a joke on telegram and slack. This would be a great scenario for the CEO to cash out and sell his stack bit by bit at inflated prices. All the while, we now know that there was no intention of a Beta release by 31st Jan the entire time. Just lies and deceit. Now, investors are told that the beta will release within a month. How many times do you have to be fooled to realise that the CEO is a dishonest man. Think with your head screwed straight, without greed clouding your thoughts, like the investors of bitconnect then, the truth will leak into your mind also.

Authorities and journalists have been contacted to expose this scam. This could end up being another infamous crypto scam that will affect about 10k people who are holding a serious about of PPT in hope of something that won't ever happen.