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

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

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

fixed link:

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

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

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

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

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)

So he's a two-bit scammer too.

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