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This is the guy that did some iOS jailbreaks, reverse engineered the PS3 and now runs a self driving car startup.

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And the shady cheapETH business last year: https://oldreddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hotz...

I had to replace oldreddit by reddit to make that link work...

Yeah should be old.reddit.com, not oldreddit.com.

I'm thinking he meant to link to old.reddit which forces the old (read: non-broken) reddit UI

So he's a two-bit scammer too.

Adding a comment as I don't think this is a fair representation of George. He livestreamed the creation of cheapETH as a technical demonstration of web3 development[0] and continually talks about it being worthless while developing it. He's also on record as being a serial 'no-coiner'.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaIezgiUmw

> continually talks about it being worthless

Kinda weird to try to sneak millions of a worthless coin into your wallet.

That was the whole point of the stream.

That is how you keep cheapETH cheap

fixed link:

https://old.reddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hot...

Who is goku?

I'm not certain but I think it's this guy: https://twitter.com/tomkysar

What makes you think this is the guy? I could not find any reference to geohot in his tweets.

He was in Vegas hanging out with Tom when he was streaming cheapETH creation. You can hear another person in this stream, pretty sure that's him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaIezgiUmw&t=1029s&ab_chann...

Also posted a picture of them together in a Ferrari around this time lol (taken down)

Here's his response: https://cheapeth.org/whalegate.html It casts the situation in a rather different light - you should read it.

Not sure if it's a startup when it's profitable and not looking for investors.

Long enough ago that it was iPhone OS jailbreaks.

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