In a series of tweets, Ethereum’s inventor Vitalik Buterin stated that he intends to boycott the 2018 annual blockchain summit organized by Coindesk – Consensus 2018. He went on to outline a few of the reasons for his decision, strongly urging others to do the same.
Buterin wasn’t too kind on Coindesk-organized Consensus 2018 conference, blasting the cryptocurrency news site, tweeting that the platform is “recklessly complicit in enabling giveaway scams.”
I am boycotting @coindesk’s Consensus 2018 conference this year, and strongly encourage others to do the same. Here is my reasoning why.
1. Coindesk is recklessly complicit in enabling giveaway scams. See their latest article on OMG, which *directly links* to a giveaway scam. pic.twitter.com/WDr9uZ8XOw
— Vitalik “Not giving away ETH” Buterin (@VitalikButerin) April 26, 2018
Apparently, the first reason for Vitalik’s boycott was the fact that the cryptocurrency news website posted an article, linking directly to a giveaway scam. The link led to a phony site, claiming to be the official blog of OmiseGo and it said that the latter is going to do an airdrop of 0.3 OMG tokens for each token the user owns.
And this is *after* I publicly warned …
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