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🎬🧵VIDEO THREAD (Re-creating due to videos being corrupted) Explaining how #Ethereum is a con game to enrich the biggest #ETH holders/stakers at the expense of users 📺 #1: Pre-Sale 📺 “Not sold for speculative purposes & started decentralized” -Joe Lubin / ETH Foundation

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📺#2: Pre-Sale📺 CEO Vitalik giving a pre-pre-sale marketing presentation of his new company Buyers give BTC (real money) & in return they get a pre-mined “token” Notice how he’s talking about how they had to setup their “company” in the right jurisdiction to avoid liability

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📺#3📺 “we determine the price” Pre-ICO, Vitalik struggles to explain how they came up with the token price Note: Bitcoin launched w/no “price” & was mined/spread by hobbyists before any “exchange” existed ETH foundation still manipulates the price. Don’t believe me? See #4

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📺#4 📺 “(In 2017) I did get the Foundation to sell 70,000 ETH…right at the top & that’s doubled our runway” So, the ETH/BTC price is around the same today, but the “foundation” has doubled their “runway” (ie: US Dollars) Equivalent: CEO dumps on shareholders w/o disclosure

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📺#5: The Merge📺 Vitalik says ETH forking to “proof of stake” means they won’t be constrained by physics & they can make their own “security” Note: the nature of security is forcing software to obey physics ie: captchas requiring human work that software can’t do Ie: bitcoin

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📺 #6: Censorship 📺 At pre “merge” #ETH developers meeting, devs explain that their switch to “proof of stake” can enable censorship.. …then ironically suggesting they can kick off a validator if the validator censors. Irony

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📺 #7 📺 ETH co-founder, Lubin, is asked about how much ETH he holds “I guess no comment” Note: “proof of stake” means the biggest “stakeholders” get the most rewards & have the most say on changes to the protocol (supply/issuance/Etc)

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📺#8📺 2018 Cringeworthy tech company style marketing hype for “ETH 2.0” Rapping meaningless buzzwords Paid employees dancing in the background ..which helps make them sound super smart, & like they aren’t building an (technically, economically, ethically) unsound system

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📺#9📺 "I basically expect that the Merge is going to be kind of, not priced-in" -Vitalik (July 2022) Telling people to expect a price increase from the merge. This didn’t happen & they dumped more ETH As of today, the ETH/BTC price is down about 15% since the “Merge”

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🖼️ #10 🖼️ Scammer Vitalik telling someone to launch a token and “speculate around the announcement” Note: Threw this chat screenshot image in this video threat to highlight how he has no ethical qualms about dumping on retail “investors” (ie: marks)

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📺 #11 📺 “It hasn’t yet, but we’ll see…” Creepy scammer Vitalik in an PR interview with Vice. Vice never asks any hard questions & OFC paints him as a genius changing the world Remind you of anyone? (ie: SBF)

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📺#12📺 Mashup of US Securities & Exchange Commissioner, Gary Gensler explaining securities laws & clips of vitalik’s own words …highlighting how Ethereum is actually violating US securities law ie: company issuing stock & masking as a decentralized money H/T:@HODLneverSODL

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🖼️ #13 🖼️ Who do you think “we” is?

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📺 #14📺 ETH Co-founder, Joe Lubin saying the government should regulate other cryptocurrencies trying to be money… …but not his scam.. …b/c he says it’s “infrastructure” & “you don’t want to regulate innovation” So it’s not “Ultra Sound Money” (as #ETH promoters claim)?

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📺 #15 📺 Here Vinay Gupta, someone who worked on #ETH in its early development days …but sold his ETH, & left… …before it turned into the leveraged scheme con game used to extract liquidity from retail…

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📺#16📺 Vitalik at an ETH conference in Prague… Not 5 years ago…in 2023… …telling people: 1) ETH can easily be replaced by a big tech company with more capital 2) ETH could still fail 3) ETH is still centralized H/T meme edits by @TheVladCostea

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📺 #17 📺 Here’s vitalik talking about how he’s not comfortable with the security risks of staking ETH

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📺 #18 📺 The Ethereum foundation is “bullish” on “Ponzi games”

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📺 #19 📺 “One possible scenario...is that we lose decentralization with restaking, but it doesn't actually matter.”

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📺 #20 📺 Another Ethereum core developer who doesn’t feel comfortable staking his eth.

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🖼️ #21 🖼️ Consensys (Ethereum Foundation Company) advertising how CBDCs can run on the #Ethereum Blockchain Ethereum influencers promoting ETH being used for government CBDC authoritarianism & surveillance

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🖼️ #22 🖼️ There’s also this gem… In 2017, #Ethererum CEO, Vitalik Buterin claims that possession of child porn doesn’t impose risks on others.. …then makes the case for legalizing possession of child porn I added this basically to show you that he’s just a flat out creep

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📺 #23 📺 Here’s ETH co-founder, Joe Lubin on 5/21/22, sadly telling people that Ethereum can be used for CBDC slave money ETH is a disgraceful scam & anyone who supports it is scum

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📺 #24 📺 Joe Lubin lying, dodging, and words like “disseminate” when pressed about his & consensys’ ownership of the ETH network and about how he encouraged single wealthy individuals to buy under multiple identities during the ICO

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📺 #25 📺 CEO of “Ultra Sound Money”

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🖼️📉 #26 🖼️📉 Total amount of “#DeFi” (decentralized IN NAME ONLY) hacks/exploits as of 8/1/23: $77 BILLION Stolen. Gone. Note: most of these “hacks” can be the creator pulling the rug on the users “Defi” is the biggest centralized (trust based) scam going on ETH today

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📺#27📺 @TomerStrolight narrates his article explaining: “The Problem with Ethereum” Part 1 of 2

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@TomerStrolight 📺 #28 📺 @TomerStrolight narrates his article explaining: “The Problem with Ethereum” Part 2 of 2

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@TomerStrolight 📺 #29 📺 YouTube educator, @mattkratter explains how Vitalik Buterin and #SBF were actually partners on a lot of things; and Vitalik clearly lied when he said he didn’t respect him

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@TomerStrolight @mattkratter 📺 #30 📺 Vitalik admits that all the ETH “layer 2s” and “rollups” have “backdoors” that they plan to remove at some point. The future of finance Sure

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@TomerStrolight @mattkratter 🖼️ #31 🖼️ Reminder: “The purge” is part of Ethereum’s roadmap of hard forks. Removing old data from the history

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