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Another claim to add is Charles Hoskinsons’ ‘love him or hate him’ figure!
Mostly it happens whenever an author comes with his writings, bringing some sensational information, facts, or figures about an individual, community, or even an industry. It seems like this time; all the prior mentioned checkpoints have been ticked with the recent release of a book called The Cryptopian written by crypto-journalist Laura Shin.
In parts of her book, she traced some details about the Ethereum network’s founding and made claims about the hacker’s identity involved in the 2016 hack of Ethereum DAO. Different stories were collected through interviews and research; the journalist investigated even into the past of almost everyone involved in Ethereum’s early days. Mostly those are Vitalik Buterin, Joe Lubin, and Charles Hoskinson. In her book, she portrayed allegations on the founders of Ethereum as individuals with poor integrity.
With no surprise, these claims and blames are enough to create sensations and put up a debate on it, after which conspiracies and controversies follow. Even the subheadline of her book justified the possible context of the book stating idealism, greed lies, and the making of the first significant cryptocurrency craze.
Reaction to such a considerable allegation was obvious, and it happened as usual. In his tweet, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson blew the journalist that referred to the book ‘great work of friction’. Intending to mock, he further added that it’s a tough market to beat George R.R. Martin and Tolkien but wish her well.
However, not even Shin took the response lightly and slammed back and argued with university receipts and claimed that Charles Hoskinson was lying about finishing his undergrad program. In her words, she greeted and mentioned Charles asked him if he thinks of it as fiction. He can address discrepancies between his claims of Ph.D. programs dropout and universities confirmation that he has not enrolled as an undergrad.
Shin also added other pages of her book dedicated to Hoskinson and shared them on social media, creating even more drama as expected. Many fanatics of Cardano and founder Charles Hoskinson bullied and threatened Laura for her work, but later they were removed from the platform.
All in all, it is not the matter that Laura Shin wants to disrespect someone by her allegation. Instead, as she said, she is aiming to expose a lie, and that’s what she is doing. They are not to be considered her feeling or implication of her thinking that lack of academic credentials would make someone intellectually incapable of being an entrepreneur and mathematician. It is just her point to ask and clarify if there is any fraud or lie.
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