"the value trading app was up and running in the wild for nearly three years for all to use. Fake news, no?" --> Oh God, now I feel sorry, I missed to comment on this line (lie).
Fact: The web archive tells us that your app was released in July 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20161021170416/https://blog.veritaseum.com/index.php/download/veritaseum-wallet
But on this version of the website from October 2016 I can only read this:
"Note: The legacy Veritaseum clients have been taken offline in anticipation of our new HTML 5 versions. If you are an institution, prolific trader or the press you can access a copy of the legacy client as well as a quick tutorial by contacting us here."
That does not feel like 3 years. Also, where's that nice HTML 5 version? No trace of it, not even with the newly published coin. And nothing new since the ICO is over. By the way, didn't you state in your slidedeck (Whitepaper^^ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FMyNvogofqojqG6nkIjgvvjAnsWs1qOtKUFExvtp_m0/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.ga8c8a77e4_0172 slide 46) that you had to take it offline due to regulatory problems? So that text you provided on the download page is also a lie ("in anticipation of our new HTML 5 versions")?
I know you can't explain all that, so I'm OK with you not answering.
Summary: Now I trust your words even more, thanks for the reassurance! lol.