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We have seen some people or groups, who claim they are hardforking ETH,.
The plan of the first, NOVA, whose intention was to scam others of their hard earned money, was foiled early enough, because it was using a fake.
ETCV on the other hand was not quickly detected, but its team was anonymous, which i feel is enough to suspect them of scam.
Right now, its telegram account has changed when i checked.
It's website is suspended and so on.
They are now asking people to buy their coin, which does not exist.

Therefore, the only genuine hardfork, is the constantinople.

I am usually confused when a coin to be forked from another is conducting an ICO or bounty campaign. I thought the hard fork implies just splitting an already existing coin into another? People should be wary of such ICO project no matter how attractive their bonuses may be.

Although fork from an existing coin, but it needs to develop. Therefore, ICO for development fund or bounty for spreading the world is normal. But I think If they can not improve to better than origin chain, it will become a shitcoin later.

Ofcourse everyone knew and was aware that Constantinople is the only hardfork which involves corrections and solves scalability problems

 But few people tried to gamble on those other tokens in the plan to hit and run
But they got phished
So unfortunately

I think it's very simple to judge whether a project is scam. It only needs to see if it is officially recognized. Neither NOVA nor ETCV, neither of them is officially recognized by Ethereum. (although I think Ethereum should release one statement)

being anonymous is not a reason to suspect someone. suffice it to mention that Satoshi Nakamoto (the one who created bitcoin which is the start of all this) is still anonymous to this day.

as for all these forks, it seems to me that certain people are trying so hard to both make money by doubling their coins and also at the same time try pumping ETH price. they didn't succeed at either so far which is one of the reasons why they are failing.

ETCV is also a scam. There are testers who caught this fork to be a scam too, getting private keys of those people that wanted to claim their fork. 3:1 ratio is really getting an eye to the interested people who thinks this coin is good enough.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/two-alleged-ethereum-scam-forks-appropriating-users-private-keys-report-finds

Good thing that these forks were exposed before their said forks. Yes, Constantinople is real fork that's going to be done by the real and legit ETH devs.

This one almost fooled me because I saw some avatars of Ethereum Classic Vision wore by members here before (probably it's a bounty campaign because I can't found it in the Services section) but fortunately I found a thread which revealed the truth that the real and only hardfork of eth is Constantinople. Here is the thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5090742.0). I also verified it in google and it was the same so I hope this issue is now cleared to everyone :).

I have heard about it on telegram and on some group that the only ethereum hardfork is Constantinople. Even MEW's facebook account announced that they will only be supporting Constantinople hard fork, which means all the remaining hard fork is not legitimate.

I was amazed that scam hard forks had already started to appear. This is a new kind of money theft from ordinary people. these cheaters need to be find and punish

Yes, only Constantinople is the legit one. I felt bad for those who fell victim to other "hardfork". This should be a hard lesson to them, it is probably their greed that led to that.

People too much greedy and lost his eth because follow the YouTube instruction to prepaid "upcoming hardfork', they just want the free tokens, but don't check the project is fake or real, so current the real one is eth hardfork, the other is fake or not trustworthy, just wait for ETH hardfork happened and market pump again. :)

speculation about Hardfork seems to have ended. people know that 2 hardforks besides Constantinople are scams. so it's better to focus on seeing market predictions after Constantinople's hardfork later.

All right  Three hard forks and only one thing we knew officially from the team, not a word was said about the other two!

But some dumb people have been sending their private keys to the phishing wallet and look at someone in the accusation thread of ETCV said that scammer has already sent all of ether that stolen from the privatekey of participants to the his wallet.

No, there are about three Ethereum hard forks, but Constantinople is the major fork. I have been following up with it and I learnt that there are three which are –Classic Vision hard fork, Ethereum Nowa hard fork and Constantinople hard fork which is the major thing. So you can see that there is not just only one, but three hard forks. The only thing you should focus on is the third which is Constantinople, forget about the other two.

Yes, It was clear with Nova from the beginning. But ETCV was looking pretty good. But it was strange that Fork has bounty  :o I was just looking and when they wrote about private keys, I understood that it's scam.

Yeah, NOVA and ETCV utilize Ethereum Hardfork's moment by creating a SCAM project.
And I've realized it from the start if NOVA and ETCV are SCAM. Because there is no official announcement from Ethereum and surely they are not part of Ethereum.
I think they are too stupid to be able to cheat people.  ;D

Doing fork to enhance a coin technically is a good reason for the fork, but I see the other greedy side too.
I'm waiting for the fork to see what will happen.

Ethereum classic (ETCV) was able to deceived a lot of people before they got busted.
Their bounty spreadsheet had a lot of people, most especially highly ranked members wearing its signature.
I was just imagining that those that said wanted to distribute freely, started asking for investors to come and buy.

Yes, the fork turned out to be a Scam I doubt that anyone will find people who have created it , since they were anonymous , and I doubt that many people fell for this hoax with a private key

Yes you’re right, I can remember that Blockchain gave out $25 dollars worth of Stellar coins (XLM) each to every user of the blockchain wallet with a verified account. And they have also added the coin to their wallet, users can now send and receive XLM with it. So I believe every new coin needs to promote their coins by doing some kind of giveaway just to grow their awareness.

But its too hard to do that since this market is known for being unknown. People should be more educated, and don't listen to anyone. This can collect a lot of money if those newbies don't make any research about the hard fork and becomes a victim later on.

Better not to participate or what, this is a clear scam that trying to make people fool again.

Constantinople is pushed back to February 27th.

After a security vulnerability sparked a delay for ethereum's next system-wide upgrade prior to going live, core developers have proposed activating Constantinople in late February.

No doubt, ETCV and NOVA are scam projects. They take advantage of some ignorance of ETH hardfork, to steal their private key ò their ETH wallet

People mistake, when thinking, that Constantinopol is another hard fork like it was in BTC blockchain with real BTC and this shit BCH :D. Because Constantinopol hard fork will be only like update, just new version of Ethereum software. And scammers want to steal your private keys, pretending a new branch of ETH blockchain.

It's not a problem as long as there will be no vulnerability in the next hardfork and that's more than enough. Just try to expect ethereum team will try to do another audit again to all of its. hope all will be running smoothly next month.

The Ethereum team also announced the introduction of Istanbul in September 2019.

You need to carefully check the information, because Buterin did not talk about the creation of a new coin.

I am actually indirectly scammed by one of the so called hardfork of ethereum which is ethereum classic vision, the way they've scam me is through joining their bounty and lose my time to it. Though I didn't invest a direct money, my time is wasted.

Yes that's true, its not really fun to support projects in the world that pertains to free coins like hard forks that occurs in ethereum blockchain. Constantinople really seams to be legit as they do not want investors to risk their investment.

It is a pity that the fork did not come out on time, which was set by the programmers, because everyone was waiting for this. And now I understand everything that cryptocurrency is now something very, very difficult that will rise for a very long time.

It's sad that many hard fork events created under this event. NOVA and ETCV are officially scam projects after they require participants to use private keys to receive free tokens from them. So rely on official information and be supported by large exchanges to avoid risks.

I have read that only constantinople is legit among all other fork that's coming out this year. Some are scam where they will take your hard earned ethereum. Even MEW's social media account announced that they will only be supporting constantinople hard fork.

Ethereum classic vision is the most cunning of the two scam hard forks they used bounty to attract a lot of people and used it to advertise their fork. Both ETCV and NOVA were only concerned in stealing from unsuspecting investors who do not want to miss out on the hard fork.
Constantinople is a legit hard fork and it has been moved to a block that will be mined by 27th February

Yes, you're absolutely right. Othere forks are just scam forks. Their teams want to collect our private keys from our wallets. If you will do this, your money will disapper very shortly.

it's a sneaky way used by some teams who want to get money quickly and easily but fortunately that it can be quickly thwarted, I really hate it because HF can be the beginning of the rise of ETH and therefore if there is scam in the ETH name will tarnish and that will prevent it to growing

Yes, A lot of scam used the Ethereum to Hard fork to try to steal from users, Other Ethereum publicized hard forks including Ethereum Nowa and Ethereum Vission turned out to be scam, Constantinople Hard fork has also been delayed to February 28th.

Once again postponed. Let's see if the update will take place at the end of February or will be postponed again. I have a feeling that every time it is done specifically for some unknown reason.

I do not know why scammers will always want to make use of any good opportunity that comes and will want to do the counterfeit of it.
This did not only happen to ethereum, it also happened to waves.
We just need tl be careful in this crypto space and test the genuineness of projects.

There is no more Constantinople ethereum hardfork. It has now be suspended and no one even knows the new date. More, be careful with any hardfork doing ICO.

From what I understand, the problem is very small (much smaller than the one that appeared in November), so I do not expect the new date of event to be very distant. I hope that hardfork will take place in February, and in March we will see how Ethereum price is skyrocketing!  :D

it's sad to say that there already people who got scammed by fake ethereum hard fork Ethereum NOVA and ETCV, all the site got suspended and ETCV telegram channel got the name changged.
as for ethereum constantinople hard fork launch got delayed and still no news about new date till now.

This topic was relevant. Really had a lot of extra information on the topic of a fork of Ethereum. There is only an update that has been delayed.

It's best to avoid unofficial forks as most of them are scam orientated and may attempt to steal your private keys or other valuable information so just transfer your ETH to a major exchange that supports the Constantinople upgrade if you're wanting to take advantage of any additional bonuses that might occur but there shouldn't be anything to worry about when the upgrade takes place next month

That is also what i know about the current hardfork for Ethereum, there will be just one hardfork on ethereum and its just to upgrade the current Ethereum with the increase of it s technology and also to reduce the number of reward for the miners.

If the anonymous person is the basis to define scam then why not we don't suspected bitcoin as scam? Nobody knows who Satoshi Nakamoto in real person and yet we are here celebrating and going together in ups and down scenario of crypto. Constantinople is not yet long enough to define that it is potential because it wasn't proven yet. Let us give more time to it until the market fully recovered.

I saw many colleagues who were trapped in ECTV so this was very unfortunate, at first I would also be trapped, but a little knowledge so I avoided. Ethereum held a hardfork and the supporters' enthusiasm was so legit that many scammers took advantage of this. But unfortunately Hardfork Eth was finally postponed for various reasons, we just wait for further developments.

Indeed, the dubious appearance of two more hard forks seemed personally strange to me, especially the situation with the holding of a bounty!

It's already exposed that those bounties we're all scam.
ETCV and Nowa were both scam but some exchange are allowing to trade there.
And everyone is aware of that.

It's gaining support from big exchanges and authority so I believe it is the only fork worth waiting all the others have proved to be scam and just want to make an opportunity to make money for themselves.

It gets another delay in the next month and it can be tolerated. beware more scammers are using the name of ethereum fork to create their shitty tokens. A month is enough to check all of the codes to find the vulnerability on its code.

I have never heard of those projects that can be related on the upcoming constantinople fork. Because the fork, happens on ethereum itself, and no investment needed, you just need to stake your ethereum coins in your MEW wallet, or any supported wallet. Make sure to read the update post on how to participate. Be careful also on some poser projects claiming that they also have a fork for ethereum.