http://archive.is/bXZaW
interesting, but that sounds quiet differently from the claims from maxwell and your original post.
Did you expect him to say, "Yes you caught me guys!" - instead he blames it on "a team" and it only had 5% chance of working, etc.
He has never denied trying to get money for a quantum project. If rumors were floating around that I had I'd instantly deny it 100%
so vitalik says he just had a short term connection to this team before he grew suspicious. if he really was the head behind a scam, why did noone sue him? why is there no evidence, like former employees, payments, company registration?
> why did noone sue him?
perhaps because not a single person was dumb enough to fall for it?
How about this- for 4 years people have been talking about this, not once has he simply replied "I never tried to raise money to build a quantum bitcoin miner"
well, i guess he gave a talk about quantum computing and bitcoin, you could see that as an ad for that company.
this looks to me like a motte-and-bailey argument.
if he gave a talk, grew suspicious of their plans, quit supporting them, then there is no wrongdoing here, no proof that he ran a scam company.
i'm honestly trying to verify this. i'm quiet skeptical about the character of some developers of bitcoin, i dont know about peter todd.
bitcoinerrorlog is linking to this video of him talking about quantum computers as a proof. this is the closest i have come to hard evidence of this extreme claim.
i have listened to the first half of the video, just him talking about quantum computers. Very impressive talk for a 19 year old.
How about Vitalik himself
Jorge Timón was pitched it
> Was he soliciting investment though? > Jorge Timón @timoncc Yes, he and another guy were claiming the classical computers simulating quantum would be a mining revolution.