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I held Ethan to a higher standard, pushing FUD for his own agenda, whatever that may be, is fucking crazy. He could have quite easily messaged me if he felt there was any truth behind this so I could quite easily clear it up.

Ghost is someone who has been around in the community for a long time and has the technical knowledge to run a platform of this caliber, as well as I trust in his morals enough that I believed he would be an ideal candidate to be running shops for vendors. Initially when vendors asked me, I vouched in this same way, which I later retracted as I shouldn't be vouching for anyone regardless of what I believe, I don't know their true intentions.

- From what I have saw, vendors were paying $2500 for 6 months of hosting, he also offered a 10k package which would pay off the hosting for multiple years, the majority were paying in 6 month periods, so only a handful of vendors lost a 10k total to their servers. He took the shops down after reaching out with an issue he was experiencing and the recommendation was to do as he has, it was the best option and he hasn't publicly discussed the details of them issues as of yet. The shops were taken down with all vendors paid out for their orders, so no one lost any funds from the closure itself, they are only out money from what they put into their servers. Now for him to solve this, he needs to replace their servers, which I believe he is still in the process of doing and I've read messages as well as spoke to vendors directly, where he has updated them infrequently on this.

At this moment in time, I believe him to be working on getting the shops restored, so no one would be out of money as well as he had offered them part solutions to help them up until that point.

To not only suggest that I am Ghost, but also to post a news article to try and dox someone by linking their separate alias' says a lot to me here. Especially when it is factually incorrect that anyone was scammed. I'll be the judge of that and would be making a write up as I always do on every situation, if it appears he cannot or will not solve this.

Any comments wiped were what I set up in a cron because the same user or group of users were also pushing this FUD. Something tells me it may have been you making these comments Ethan, considering you kept a good record of them immediately. FUD is against the platform rules and when it is a targetted attack clearly being utilized for an ulterior motive, it will be wiped, as has been the case with any similar attacks directly against individual users or markets. This is not censorship, I allowed these same discussions to run rampant many times and they were never removed, knowing it wasn't true and simply responding to it to clear it up, but there's a point where I'm not going to spend my day doing that as these attacks on me continue.

Vendor's coming to a consensus once one accused me of being Ghost and convinced others of the possibility is a conspiracy out of control at this point, but its also one I understand from the outside. I'm still here and still overseeing everything I can. I make mistakes, its not the first time and it won't be the last. I've involved myself now in this situation unfortunately and I will keep an eye on how it pans out from here, but I always hold my hands up when an apology is due and this is not the time for it.
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