JSON file in which it was stated that a back-up wallet. We call on all lovers of equity and fairness who want to see justice prevail to help us raise a total of two hundred fifty thousand dollars as estimated by the ICCWBO calculator here - needed to file this claim to establish access to our Ethereum wallet which is just to a. We cannot do this all alone because of the hundreds of thousands involved with filing a case at this level in the ICC courts. Patrick Storchenegger, who till this day is a member of Ethereum's board of Trustees, reneged on his offer despite our reluctant agreement.Īs suggested by our attorney, our next line of action will be to file the claim through the International Chamber Of Commerce (ICC). We have decided to ask for your help through this campaign because Mr. Storchenegger then stated that he prefers not to arbitrate in the ICC courts in Paris, France, and suggests settling for the wallet's value minus the court cost and traveling expenses as he would provide the ETH in a subsequent wallet minus the fees that he would incur.
When we replied that we have the password saved on a flash drive and were only seeking our file, we received an extremely discouraging and demoralizing response letter stating that they (the Ethereum Foundation) were not responsible for nor are the custodians of our wallet! JSON file but not the encrypted password." Zoryan several weeks later to state that "they could retrieve the. Patrick Storchenegger, Ethereum Foundation Counsel, contacted Dr. They admit that we are the wallet's rightful owner and would try to retrieve the JSON file for us. We have met with an Ethereum Foundation attorney via video conference. The case was filed for conciliation in Zug, Switzerland, on March 1st, 2018. After a year of working on the case, we were told that this must be filed in Switzerland, where Ethereum Foundation is now headquartered. It became harder to reach them as the project became successful and attracted millions of cryptocurrency enthusiasts like you and me, who believe in blockchain technology and decentralization.Įven now, we can see the contents of our Ethereum wallet, which is currently valued at more than $5.9 million unfortunately, we have no means to access the coins in our wallet despite having the CoinBase time-stamped receipt and character password, notwithstanding all the other efforts we have put in. Unfortunately, no one from their end followed up with the resolution as the email never came through.Īfter one year of Private Sales, Ethereum went live. While we have done everything possible to gain access to our wallet, Ethereum, on the other hand, reassured us that they had a backup wallet file which they would email to us.
Two subsequent professional scrubs of the hard drive concluded that the. Unfortunately, the progress bar froze, and that became the genesis of our struggles to this day. There was a provision made by the foundation to enter your email address and a file would be sent. We had also left our computer on for more than ninety minutes as instructed. We had read through the instructions as we were advised. While the wallet address populated with the character encrypted password successfully generated, the most important. .JSON file refused to respond as it was supposed to. At the time of the transaction, the Ethereum Foundation was supposed to send over our JSON file, which will give us access to the Ethereum wallet that contained our coins. Somehow, we have faith, believing that you will support us in whichever way you can.ĭuring the 2014 Ethereum Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Event, we had purchased a total of 3000 ETH Coins because we believed it would become a leading blockchain platform. It is the same optimism that triggered the launch of this gofundme campaign. It was optimism that helped build our faith when we participated during the launch of the Ethereum coins genesis sale.
The well-being of our children, family, friends, and people in our community always motivated us to push beyond our limits and stay optimistic against all odds. We never gave up on seeking out new opportunities.
As supportive members of our community, our inability to support our family, friends, and local businesses whom the effects of the pandemic have hardly hit compounds the anxiety. Like everyone else, Covid/Pandemic impact did not help our situation. The last few years have been utterly challenging for our family. Our 7 year battle with Etheruem Foundation.
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