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What happened: QI Blockchain is yet another fake project with completely plagiarized whitepaper and website content from multiple sources.

Scammer Profile: Jawadu (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3365760)
Flag Type 1 (support/oppose): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=3020

ANN Thread: [ANN] QI Blockchain - The only blockchain the world will ever need. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5409957.0) [archived (https://archive.ph/oNTZH)]
Other Threads: Signature Campaign (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5409722.0), Bounty Campaign (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5409723.0)

Website: https://qiblockchain.online


Whitepaper: https://qiblockchain.online/images/QI-blockchain_whitepaper.pdf [archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20220718185259/https://qiblockchain.online/images/QI-blockchain_whitepaper.pdf)]

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https://i.imgur.com/sMq1Ibf.png (https://i.imgur.com/sMq1Ibf.png)
https://i.imgur.com/2Lbqjvy.png (https://i.imgur.com/2Lbqjvy.png)
https://i.imgur.com/JSB55sa.png (https://i.imgur.com/JSB55sa.png)

Original Source: https://www.multichain.com/download/MultiChain-White-Paper.pdf

Most of the content is plagiarized from the MultiChain Whitepaper, but some other sources were also used, for example:

https://i.imgur.com/hujaABd.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/hujaABd.jpg)
Source: https://www.amcollege.edu/blog/qi-in-traditional-chinese-medicine

https://i.imgur.com/KTDpVQi.png (https://i.imgur.com/KTDpVQi.png)
Source: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/decentralized-applications-dapps.asp

https://i.imgur.com/qL6RgKz.png (https://i.imgur.com/qL6RgKz.png)
https://i.imgur.com/7WO3xe1.png (https://i.imgur.com/7WO3xe1.png)
Source: https://www.investopedia.com/tech/bitcoin-lightning-network-problems/

I don't know why you reported us, but this is not fair! Now all our campaigns have a warning message and we are not scammers.

We are promoting the real QI blockchain, and you can see all the detail on social media, website, or you can follow our TG group and meet the owner there cause we added him to track his campaign.

I wonder what you will say when QIE coin goes live (because soon you will see it in big exchanges) time will tell bro, let's wait and see.

Good day, buddy :(

I suggest you to stop putting red alert on bounty management team or to a project. You are doing this and this has no value because your report can do nothing with the project. We talked with the project team already , they have shared with us already all the information regarding this project.

Why don't you join their telegram group and ask this thing before putting reg alert? Stop doing this shit thing

I tagged your account because you posted their ANN and you are the only one on the forum representing this fake project as far as I know. If there is an official representative of the QI project in this community, please let me know so I can tag him as well. It is also not the first time your account has been used to promote scam projects without due diligence.


I'm not interested in what goes on in other social networks or telegram groups, all I care about is what's going on in this community.


This doesn't change the facts. I would still report it for plagiarism in the whitepaper and on the website even if it was on big exchanges right now!

Even the announcement you created and posted is composed of plagiarized content. For example, here's just an excerpt you copied from the Avalanche project (you even stupidly forgot to remove the word Avalanche in a few instances):

https://i.imgur.com/rVlq2BA.jpg https://i.imgur.com/E7klPpq.png
Original source: https://docs.avax.network/

You just mentioned the avalance words but the truth is this is editor mistake, how you can take it seriously ?

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https://ibb.co/DCkNYB5 have a look on this screenshot , this is the real docs . That is just editor mistake. Please try to understand this simple thing

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

Unfortunately most of these new projects are all looking the same, they are so lazy to create their own whitepaper page and plans so all they do is copying from bigger projects and change the name and some details. But QI blockchain is yet to confirm if it’s a scam or not, surely it’s not a professional project but we don’t know their attentions yet. And warning users about it is the right thing to do for now until the prove it wrong
Plus they are running promoting campaigns here and with a non trusted promoter so it’s kind of suspicious. Time will show us everything

What's the originality of a project if it has to be plagiarized? A project is supposed not to have a plagiarized whitepaper. It is supposed to have a unique concept of what it offers than copying other whitepapers.
Scamming, deceiving and lying to people in crypto is it fair?

Social media, websites and telegram groups are not enough reasons to believe a project is legit. Those accounts can be put down by their owner at any given time and that's the end of the project

If this is a fake project then please share the real one here! At least you would read the whitepaper yourself without using plagiarism software because it's obvious some words can be the same with other words on the internet.

And, we are not the only managers to get scammed by projects! We are bounty managers, brother! Tell me which bounty manager has never posted a scam project? Who bro?

Like the Partyland project was posted by +4 managers, but we are the only ones who got reported! People only look at our profile and they just report us without even checking us on detail, why is no one talking about the good projects that we already managed and distributed like ExcelDefi, PayRue, PlayTreks, BikPot, DafriBank, ASHIB, Cowboys, Spume, and our active campaigns which are all escrowed and genuine like Entice, NEKI Club, PanKUKU, Mars Mission, QI blockchain, Rice Protocol... why we only get reported like we are scammers?

Perhaps these messages can change how people think about us (a convo about Fox in the Alladin bounty group);

https://prnt.sc/x_o0kxtBke7C (https://prnt.sc/x_o0kxtBke7C)
https://prnt.sc/scuLFp_Tyh5D (https://prnt.sc/scuLFp_Tyh5D)
https://prnt.sc/MAANkAL4A2zL (https://prnt.sc/MAANkAL4A2zL)
https://prnt.sc/DSJ6fp5oBWS- (https://prnt.sc/DSJ6fp5oBWS-)
https://prnt.sc/LhmbGeekmmFL (https://prnt.sc/LhmbGeekmmFL)
https://prnt.sc/imTmfKfneYuw (https://prnt.sc/imTmfKfneYuw)
https://prnt.sc/T5HW1FjPeeYy (https://prnt.sc/T5HW1FjPeeYy)

Sometimes you just have to find more details for yourself, don't just report. But it's okay!

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Don't use plagiarism software, read the whitepaper for yourself or use different plagiarism and you'll see if those tools are safe 100%

You guys don't just blame, just share here the real project if you think we are promoting the fake one.

Scam projects can come on exchanges too, what's a big deal about it. Scammer make more money by listing on exchanges and then rug pulling everything. The question is that if the project is good why the white paper is Plagiarized ?


Lol, are you giving this excuse to promote a scam project ?

What are you trying to say that this plagiarism software showed the wrong result and using the other one will not detect this plagiarism?
No one is blaming, we are showing the reality of this project. Stop scamming the people.  >:(

Is that the only proof that this project is fake? I have just asked for one question from the OP, if what I am promoting it's fake then kindly he can share the real project here with us. Don't just check one thing, we need strong proof of what he wrote.


What am trying to say is that many people report us like we are the only ones who got scammed by fake projects in our services which is not true. I hope you got me now, am just speaking the truth but not excuses.

Bro, am not blaming but what am saying is that these tools are not to be trusted 100%. I'm a BM and I have used them mostly in checking articles, one tool will give you different results compared to the other (why now?).

Also, you can't just come and say STOP SCAMMING PEOPLE. I have scammed who? and when? Don't just write. You need to have strong proof that this project is fake, commenting here just saying stop scamming without strong proof is nothing! That's the truth.

If the OP will come with proof of the real project that he claimed to be copied by the one we promote, then I will agree with him! But I will never agree with him since he used a plagiarism tool to check the whitepaper and says the project is scam.

If scam was to be checked like that, then a lot of projects would be tagged as scam!

You might be correct that the whitepaper of the project is plagiarised, but you might be wrong calling the manager of the project a scammer or the project a scam. You provided evidences of plagiarism instead of that of scam. To the best of my knowledge, plagiarism is not equal to scam. You can report the account for plagiarism(which I'm not sure whitepaper plagiarism is among the forum rules). If the evidences are compelling, the account could get banned.
Meanwhile, you lack tangible evidence that the project is a scam, this is because majority of the projects these days doesn't engage professionally whitepaper writers, they go about paraphrasing multiple whitepapers to come out with their own version of garbage.
So, you could reconsider, because I know how frustrating it is for a genuine project struggling to see the light being faced with scam accusations without proves.

I don’t think anything good can come out of the project than scamming investors at the end, a project that can not write their whitepaper on their own, I think they are not really ready for anything serious, a serious project will write their whitepaper theirself, and they won’t plagiarize any project.
@jawadu, you keep on saying that the project have not scammed before, you might be right, but what’s the probability that they won’t scam people later in the future? A project that can copy other projects whitepaper can definitely scam people. I think it will be better if you pause the campaign for now and clear the issue of whitepaper plagiarism.

I don't use plagiarism detection tools, I don't know where you got that idea from. This is the text compare tool you see in the screenshots, and as you can see, it works perfectly. Learn something about it if you want.


A project that steals content from other projects, even something so simple like content on a website, or even the whole whitepaper, which should be the most important document for any new project, is a fake project. You can find all the evidence in the OP.


Again, I didn't use any plagiarism detection tools, and I don't care if you agree with me or not. That's up to the community to decide. As for the "real project", you can find all the information in the OP. I don't understand what more you want me to prove.


That may actually be true.

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First of all, I'm surprised with your stance. As a senior member of this community, I think you should know better by now. You say, I might be correct about plagiarism? Please review the evidence first and let me know if I'm wrong about that. I welcome the opportunity to listen to and consider new information and opposing viewpoints, and admit when I am wrong.

Second, we seem to disagree on semantics, so let's get some facts straight. Plagiarizing other people's work without permission or attribution is a deceptive and fraudulent act that is not only detrimental to the community, but it is also illegal, and according to the English dictionary:



So, can you explain to me, in which sense you can call a fraudulent project that steals ideas and content from someone else's work a "genuine" one?

It's not a genuine project. It just copies another project, and tries to fool people into thinking it's something new and innovative when in fact it is neither. Therefore, it's just a scam. And I find it odd that you think this practice is acceptable. It's not. Plagiarism is stealing, and theft is wrong.

If you bothered to do check whitepaper with a simple Google search you would find the plagiarism that @FatFork discovered. After all, tools used are irrelevant here as everything is obvious from those screenshots.


Welcome to crypto buddy, majority of projects ARE scam.


An obvious plagiarism is not "tangible" enough for you? Beside, what do you think will happen with a project where team is not capable of writing their own whitepaper and instead they have to copy/paste from someone else's?

This sentence from their whitepaper will show you how mindless team behind QiBlockchain is when they didn't even adjust the BTC price lol and instead they just copy/pasted text. Anyone remembers last time BTC was  at ~$250?

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Flag supported and nice find FatFork!

You are constantly asking that if this is a fake project then tell you which is the real project. I think you fail to understand.
To clear things I mean to say that QI Blockchain is the only project and it is a scam. There is no other QI Blockchain project. I hope now it is clear.
Also, if you ask for proof, then there are 99% of projects who have Plagiarized whitepaper, they were scams. Tell me any project which had a Plagiarized white paper and it was a trusted good project?

You don't have to be surprised at my stance on this unless you don't get me right.
What I'm saying in essence is that a plagerist is not a scammer and these are two different crimes in the forum. Ironically you would even see a scammer tolling the forum with some few red tags while a plagiarist wouldn't be that lucky. Plagiarism is an offence whose consequence is permanent ban.
My stance on this is; instead of alleging a scam that hasn't even happen and which might not happen, why not project plagiarism and then the account might be banned outrightly.

I see that Jawadu is a bounty manager who might have promoted a scam project before in the forum, so that is not enough to conclude that the QI Blockchain is a scam project, unless you have some reserved evidences which you may want to show the community.

Report in the thread for plagiarism, Report to moderators and then the account might not survive it.

An obvious plagiarism of whitepaper is surely a red flag. A scam project is always hasty to get their project running and hence uses any available tools to set up their platform as fast as possible.

Hi, just talked with the dev and team. They are sorry for this mistake because they paid third party team to prepare the whitepaper but they did not knew this thing become so messy . They are preparing the new whitepaper and I will update it as soon as possible .

Thank you everyone.

You're right. I have no frickin' idea what you're trying to argue here.


So what's your point exactly? You find nothing "tangible" in the OP that this is obvious plagiarism? Or do you mean that even though the project is clearly plagiarized, it can still be "genuine" and honest?

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Who the hell are you? (with a sarcastic tone)

You are such an egoistic person I seen in this forum and you don't need to know WHO I am. I am sharing with you the update of this project and you are blaming me? What kind of stupidity is it?

Oh, I see. So you're part of the Fox campaigns team or an alt of Jawadu? How am I supposed to know that if you've never mentioned it before?
I guess that explains the fake retaliatory feedback left on my account. You know that's trust abuse, right?



By the way, when did I blame you, and for what exactly?

That's a classic excuse that we heard so many times before, as its always someone else's mistake and just confirms how clueless QI Blockchain is when they are not capable of writing their own whitepaper, or at least proofread it. If they bothered to do that they would catch that ridiculous mistake that mentions BTC price being ~$250. Either way I can't see how this can end up good and don't expect tags being removed just because you sort the whitepaper.

By the way, what's your connection with QI Blockchain?

Oh stop the drama LOL
Well honestly speaking a project can be ruined by the third party workers if they do not have work ethic. It's not always easy to find the right person. But I doubt it's the case here.
I see their website homepage and a 12 year kid can design a html page like this. Are they really thinking to crowdfunding using this website?

It will be a big LOL.

Does it matter I am jawadu or alt account? If you have power just check IP, location, who care? I just wanted to means why did you report a BM or tag a project as scam just because of it's Plagarism before talking with the project team? This could a project team mistake because as far as I know Qi blockchain project still in the early stage. Even their blockchain explorer not updated yet fully so is not this is normal that the there could be some issue with whitepaper .
And at the end , who care the whitepaper ? People just look to project utility . Just look to Terra luna, what happen with them, what about celcius network? They had security , whitepaper , where are they now?


Anyway, I don't want to have any argue, Just to inform you, new whitepaper with solution will be out tomorrow , I wish to see your investigation on it.

No connection, I am part of the team and I am mining the Qie coin.

This is a little bit confusing that at one point you are saying that you have no connection with the QI blockchain but on the same time you are saying that you are a part of the team  ???
By looking at the post history of yours, i find you a bounty hunter.

I suggest you all to talk with the team , not with me. I deliver to you what I know .

Guys, new whitepaper ready with plagiarism solution . Stay tune, we will publish it soon.

What a mess in here  ;D I have no idea what to think but one is sure I checked the creator of project he is seems to be a real person with linkedin using phone number related to his location so like for me seems legit I saw many projects where 3rd party prepare many things and they make a shit content. Things like that happen life is life. I know few projects already that promotion and content prepared by 3rd party was a shit but when it comes to play they grows big. Personally I don't mind  website look. Most important is a tech. In times like now ppl want to see all beautiful nice website great looking wallets and to be hones more projects that looks GREAT with great content end like scam instead of those projects with poor content. Just have look on LUNA nice concept looking good all awesome and now tell me that it was not a SCAM. Peoples forget we are here at first place for Tech not design. Cheers

So publishing the new whitepaper which is plagiarism free will solve all the issues and allegations raised on this project?

You were exposed to using a copied whitepaper and now you will replace it with a new one, will have no change in the perception of people on the project and it will remain a risk to invest in this project.

Team apologies to give the deal to third party. Have a  look on new whitepaper here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11gFjEuAfrrfIIsZUsWbImIT1xTay2APV/view?usp=sharing

They already explained that they give whitepaper creation leaved to 3rd party just let them explain and straight what they do wrong  ;D

Exactly, haha. Easy solution, nothing to do argue with this anymore, Hope the creator will understand this and remove this scam tag.

So it took them several days to create a whitepaper on their own, then why would they hire someone to create plagiarized whitepaper on first place, if they could have done it by themselves? I wont believe that the team was "super busy" and delegated the detailed description of their own project, ideas, plans to someone else. That does not make any sense.

If QI delegate such delicate task to third party, then other roadmap stages (btw where is it) are probably going to be made by third party also. Or they will always have issues or excuses like "it was due to someone else". 

I don't think the flag will be removed so easily here. This issue is not as simple as you are trying to portray it. The only way to get this tag remove is when your project really becomes a trusted project and this is not gonna happen overnight.


That's the problem that it is now hard to trust them. There is no way to know if they are speaking the truth and they were so innocent that they didn't bother to check the whitepaper produced by the 3rd party.

I will suggest to be calm and wait for results that is the only way to check project is trusted or not. Cheers

That's not exactly how things work around here and it will take much more than just correcting whitepaper to get thoise tag removed.


They probably hired someone else to rewrite whitepaper for them. Or who knows, maybe the same people that wrote the first version wrote the 2nd one as well.

Your tone sets the ridiculousness of this post.

Kindly note that they have a live blockchain with a NFT marketplace already live and have done no ICO.  Even their previous whitepaper was in line with their vision.  Their actions clearly speak louder than words.  What are you trying to achieve? They are not trying to take investor money clearly.  They offering the general public an opportunity in advance technology with lower transaction fees.  Noticed you also asked about how to mine the coin?!  That furthermore emphasis my point as it is publically available on their site - run the genesis file with their command lines api in a linux terminal.  Just as transparent as their code on github.  If they don`t list on exchanges in September then I will swallow my words otherwise I think you should...   

I'm not sure that the main problem is that they use plagiarized whitepapers, it is more of a problem that they decided on such a way of doing business. Writing a new WP will not change their understanding of running a business.
 

it seems that you too could be negatively tagged as a shill account for the QI Blockchain scam.

If their vision was to steal from other people's work, then I agree. Their original whitepaper definitely reflects that.


What actions? What advance technologies?
What exactly have they developed so far? Is there even one line of code written by their developers? Please show.


You are wrong. I never asked that.


You're wrong again. That's not their code on GitHub.

The so-called QI-Explorer (https://github.com/Qi-Blockchain/QI-Explorer) is copy-pasted from: https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum-explorer
The so-called QI-Blockchain (https://github.com/Qi-Blockchain/QI-Blockchain) is copy-pasted from: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu

No code forks, no commits, not even proper attribution to the original repositories. Just plain copy-paste. So, you can swallow all you want for all I care, but that won't make this fake project credible.

I will only say time will show. Maybe they dont want to show their code yet who knows I will patiently wait and mine meanwhile :D

I would say that time will only tell that they were a fraud company.
They had a Plagiarized whitepaper and a copied code, and you still believe that they will come up with something good. Oh common. These are the early signs of scams and if you want to ignore them, you will regret it later.

I will not agree as I browse code and it uses besu hyperledger node to run qi-blockchain also it uses eth core codebase and are on sha256 algo that they use opensource code do not mean it is a scam project. maybe a mess everywhere but in basics it looks like own blockchain with some ethereum core and besu node usage. They use own rules in mining I was trying to run genesis.json on geth it can run but mining do not work so they have own algorythm/mining rules. "They had a Plagiarized whitepaper and a copied code"- whitepaper is corrected and each fork use a copied code :)

Reading all the response of Jawadu, I was surprised he does not understand the implication of plagiarism or what it really means. Any software that states a writeup has been plagiarized means the word wasn't said for the first time and was sourced elsewhere. We might not have access to the word right away, but the internet had a backup of it. My sadness stems from how badly the negative trust has been painted, as well as the difficulty in supporting Jawadu's actions.

Qi has launched 5 successful projects.  And the talk of the town!  Making this thread completely FUD and rubbish!
Feel sorry for this guy trolling accounts and looking foolish calling every project a scam.

You are welcome to dispute any argument I have made in this thread. And since you seem so eager, how about you start by explaining why the coin of such a "successful project" lost almost 90% of its value within just one month?

https://nomics.com/images/roi/1663884000000-1666607173043/QIE-USD-1000-900x471.png
https://nomics.com/assets/qie-qi-blockchain?view=roi


Speaking of looking foolish, if I'm not mistaken the listing price for their 30M pre-mined shitcoins on the XT exchange was 0.75 USD! It would be better to feel sorry for those poor souls who invested early despite all the warning signs, as it's pretty clear that they were duped. This is a good lesson on why it's important to do your due diligence and research before investing in any coin, especially ones that have shady start like this one has. ;)

It didn't take long and the result is out. It seems that the time wanted to be fast, just in few months these happened.


I remember when this thread was newly made by Fat, I gave them a benefit of doubt. I wanted to be neutral and hear from the project owners. But I got fade up when one of the team members didn't see anything wrong in plagiarising whitepaper.
This topic was even bumbed  by one of them claiming the project is successful and even 5 more of them.