The launch event coincided with a recent three day blockchain event held in Tatarstan that featured blockchain heavyweights
like Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin as guest speakers.
As average investors rush into the world of digital currency, scammers are popping up to fleece them with familiar tricks — such as claiming they're associated with famous figures in the industry
like Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin.
Not exact matches
It seems
like a lifetime ago when
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin was in Moscow, wining and dining the Russian elite.
Lubin is also a founding member of the
Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, a blockchain community that includes dozens of companies
like Microsoft and JPMorgan, and the
founder of a global blockchain company called Consensus Systems.
Ignoring the legal implications and where each fits on that spectrum for the moment, many ICOs to - date have pandered to and exploited terms
like «financial inclusion» when it best suits them.43 Others pursue the well - worn path of virtue signaling: Bitcoiners condemning the
Ethereum community (which itself was crowdfunded as an ICO), because of the popularity in using the
Ethereum network for many ICOs... yet not equally condemning illicit fundraising that involves bitcoin or the Bitcoin network or setting up bucket shops such as Sand Hill Exchange (strangely one of its
founders who was sued by the SEC now writes at Bloomberg).
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has been dealing with tons of fraudulent Twitter impersonators seeking to steal cryptocurrency from naive investors — but it seems the trend has gradually caught on to other social media platforms
like Instagram and Facebook.
Gareth Grobler, the
founder of ICE3X is confident about the relevance of ether currency to traders, he says, «The two - year old system has picked up backing from both tech geeks and big corporate names
like JPMorgan Chase and Microsoft, which are excited about
Ethereum's goal of providing not only a digital currency but also a new type of global computing network, which generally requires Ether to use.»
Among the critics are prominent figures in the cryptocurrency community including the
likes of Litecoin creator Charlie Lee and
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin.
Similar statement was done by other
Ethereum co-founders
like Charles Hoskinson who is also the
founder of Cardano.