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Correction from Vitalik[1]: > I did NOT invent 99% fault tolerant consensus; Leslie Lamport did. I just wrote an explainer and adapted it to a blockchain conte

• talltimtom 8y ago
  Damn that link really makes it look like Vitalik is running a money scam, but seems like it’s just a scammer who’s replying to him with near identical name talking about a scam. Is twitter really such a Wild West for scammers or is that just the cryptosphere?
  • api 8y ago
    Cryptocurrency is absolutely overrun with scams. It's hard to find anything with actual merit in the vast ocean of spam that is the digital currency world. It won't stop until the bubble crashes or enough people wise up that the scammers no longer make money. As it stands low effort shitcoin token scams using digital variants of the "big store" and Ponzi schemes are still cashing out pretty good. Here is a recent howler I spotted: http://metahash.org http://metahash.org That's at the higher effort end of the scam spectrum. For every one of those there are 50 search and replace coin forks and fake tokens for things that don't even pretend to exist.