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The only conclusion I can draw from this is that it is written by someone who is highly immature and/or unstable. I mostly feel sorry for their investors who purchased yet another block chain hoping to make a quick buck with likely little to no diligence on what they buy. The more I hear about blockchains, the murkier it looks to me.

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The author is effectively ousted from the "company", physically assaulted, signs nothing, then spends '5 days' with 'the Aeternity lawyer' mulling over a contract? All of this after not being paid while their colleagues are being 'paid regularly.'

My question is what/where is the legal void that this company existed in?!

Assuming you believe the OP. Things like "I didn't get paid so I am selling 0 days", or "I had to leave Europe to be safe because I fought with a guy", don't help me taking it seriously. Might be true. Might not be true. The only certainty is that this guy is a nutter.

You're putting words into his mouth. Particularly the first one is not at all what he wrote.

> If Aeternity is going to use the technology invented, and they wont pay me to make their software secure, then my only way to get paid is by selling zero-day exploits for people who want to attack Aeternity

No sane or honest person would ever write that.

Here's who would write it: A person sane and honest enough to realize how insane the proposition and their position is and who decides to state it to illustrate the point that they're completely out of options.

You're jumping to wild conclusions that say more about you than you're trying to say about him.

Europe is large. Not sure what European country he's exactly in. Also even in the most advanced countries there are certainly still risks of the police not upholding justice.

Aeternety website says they are based in Lichenstein, even if their police was corrupt (which I seriously doubt) you could literally run to Switzerland or Austria. The way he talks about his allergies and they would be handled makes it seem he was in a 3rd world country which makes me question the veracity of the whole thing.

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