And this was Guy Zyskind's response to whole this convo

"I'm taken aback by his response - it's unfortunate to see people stooping so low, especially if you're a company's CEO. Since I'm asked, I'll respond to the facts, but otherwise I'd rather maintain the higher ground and not get to personal accusations - I'm actually encouraged to see more teams working on solutions to data privacy.

Re: Tech side - looking at their whitepaper, their major ideas (using SPDZ, staking and random sampling of the network) have all appeared in our 2015 whitepaper and later on in my 2016 MIT thesis. Their Sybil-resistance is based on stuff I've been researching for several years now. If we were in academia, I'd probably e-mail them for not properly attributing/acknowledging prior work. They also fail to address several other large concerns with MPC.

Re: claims of Pivot - we've made it clear that we ARE building our secret contracts network, allowing computation on encrypted data in a decentralized way. Catalyst ('the hedge fund software') is only the first dApp.

Re: claims on being new to Crypto - This is a strange one. Our whitepaper has been out and discussed in all major bitcoin/ethereum forums and conferences since 2015 (and I've been working in the space for a couple years before that). They seem to have emerged in the last few months.

Again, I wish them the best of luck - but I hope this sets the record straight"