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Investor reviewed onceupontime

7 years ago

Don’t give /u/kenCode any of your money. (self.Bitcoin)

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tl;dr: I’m a fiat bankster ISP shill who wants to stop you from revolutionizing the Internet.

/u/kenCode has been advertising his ‘ePlug’ thing basically all over the place lately, both here and on various ‘decentralization’-themed reddits. You shouldn’t give him any of your money.

Why not? Well, first let’s look at what he’s claimed: he’s going to create the first ‘Blockchain Operating System’. What does that mean? That’s the thing; he’s not really clear on it. The whitepaper makes a bunch of vague promises like that adding 10% more processors will give you 10% more computing power (because Amdahl’s law doesn’t exist), but one of the things he does heavily imply is that hacking Factom Linux would require ‘hacking the blockchain’:

The intent of this page is to explain the Factom Linux part of the ePlug project, not go into all the details of how Blockchains work. Let’s just put it this way: If you can hack a Blockchain, I’m sure the NSA will hire you.

This is patently false. Heartbleed didn’t require someone to break RSA or anything, it was a vulnerability in OpenSSL itself. Same for Shellshock and a good deal of other attacks; the cryptography itself can be entirely worked around. As a silly example, if I was running a process as root that let anybody connect remotely execute any command, my computer would get owned regardless of how many times I say the word ‘blockchain’. There have been attacks against routers that relied on the router’s web interface not having any XSRF protection, so just visiting an attacker-controlled page would cause your browser to send a request to the router resetting the password, at which point the attacker could connect to it and own you. Security isn’t just about running the code you think you’re running.

A BOS supports a single global file system visible from all authenticated nodes (ePlugs, mobile clients, pc’s, e

Thanks for keeping us updated on this, Ken.

Listen up, /r/bitcoin: Meshnet technology is an integral piece of the decentralization puzzle in the same way that bitcoin is. The two are complementary and will ultimately end up depending on one another to maintain their integrity against interference by powerful centralized actors. Put another way, bitcoin’s utility and integrity will at some level depend on the availability of meshnets, so anyone who wishes to see Bitcoin succeed should definitely consider supporting this effort.

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[–]herzmeister 8 Punkte vor 2 Jahre

I’m not sure if Bitcoin in its current state of implementation can work smoothly enough over a meshnet though. The blockchain is a global datastructure which has to be kept in sync, while meshnets would be more local; they don’t scale up so well to the global level.

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[–]sqrt7744 7 Punkte vor 2 Jahre

…yet.

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[–][deleted] 2 Punkte vor 2 Jahre

All of you are right, but this last one, this guy gets it.

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[–]erikwithaknotac 2 Punkte vor 2 Jahre

http://i.imgur.com/zFpe5Zy.png

Unless maybe its a super slow blocktime or unconfirmed until included in a lot more than 6 blocks…. who knows, maybe meshcoin?

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[–]JustPuggin 6 Punkte vor 2 Jahre

Agreed.

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[–]MistakeNotDotDotDot 6 Punkte vor 2 Jahre*

/u/kenCode has not provided any firm technical details

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7 years ago

WARNING!! Kenneth Edward Silver aka Ken Code, Ken Solar, Ken Silver, Ken Lembke is a wanted scammer!! Last known residence: Mooswiesenstr. 5B/3, 81245 Munich, Germany.

Kenneth Edward Silver always follows the same scam patterns for years: ● 2007-2008 Solar Powered Generators Selling hardware for $1,000 to $3,000 each with more than 2,500 victims. The products have been sold but was never delivered. Source: https://bewarekensolar.blogspot.de/2008/02/beware-ken-solar.html ● 2010-2013 Gun School Inc. Illegally sold more than 4,000 concealed weapon carrying licence without the required state licenses by the state of Florida, USA. Attempted fraud of $48 million USD. Further blackmailed Sheriff Scott for drug and weapon smuggling and trafficking. Sources: bit.ly/2qGpLHK ● 2012-2013 Ken Silver Lotto Claimed to have found the perfect way to identify lotto patterns, thousands of scammed customers who never saw their money again. Sources: http://lottostrategies.lottoguy.net/silver-lotto-system-it-is-a-scam/ ● 2015-2016 E-Plug Tried to raise $140,000 USD for a E-Plug that will replace ISP ́s with an “blockchain operation system” running over a meshnet. The product was never delivered. Sources: https://www.startjoin.com/ePlug and https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2vis6k/update_140k_eplug_meshnet_device_crowdfunding/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2vqhsr/dont_give_ukencode_any_of_your_money/ ● 2016-2017 Scammed Bitshares Community with Stealth Claimed to develope revolutionary blockchain stealth transaction technologies but never delivered even a prototype. Hundreds of investors lost their money.

NEVER GIVE KEN CODE ANY MONEY!!! HE IS A KNOWN SCAMMER LORD AROUND THE WORLD!!

KEN CODE HAS AN OPEN SEARCH WARRANT IN FLORIDA, USA, AFTER HE BLACKMAILED SHERIFF SCOTT FOR DRUG AND WEAPON SMUGGELING AND TRAFFICKING. CALL SHERIFF MIKE SCOTT FOR MORE INFO: +1 239-258-3292

WARNING!! Kenneth Edward Silver aka Ken Code, Ken Solar, Ken Silver, Ken Lembke

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