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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Versus Project | Blockchain in Bussiness | Skein | POW/POS/Masternodes | on: April 23, 2018, 07:51:43 PM
Quote from: plamzi on April 22, 2018, 03:23:42 AM
Quote from: versus project on April 22, 2018, 12:13:38 AM
The question was discussed in Discord. The use of open source software is not forbidden and our developer has used the Ferrum explorer code. And he forgot to change one icon.
So much for the explorer. And do the usage of part of the code of the bitcoin makes us suspected as its authors?

Conveniently, the Ferrum GitHub project disappeared around the exact time Versus was announced. But I have a local clone of it and there is no explorer in its source code.

Strangely enough, the official Ferrum explorer that is still up at https://altmix.org/coins/65-FerrumCoin does not have the Ferrum logo as its favicon.ico.

And why would anyone fork their iQuidus explorer from another coin instead of directly from https://github.com/iquidus/explorer?

The evidence is not in your favor, like, at all.

Whoever buys this coin does so against overwhelming odds that their money will evaporate overnight.


Thsi is not only project with Ferrum code:
https://github.com/search?q=financialstocksminer&type=Code


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3371276.msg35333365#msg35333365
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Scam investigation on: April 22, 2018, 05:40:12 PM

After Ferrum coin developers abandoned project, and deleted source code, i managed to find a source code that someone forked on time.

This is salvaged code, github account is not from original devs:
https://github.com/mackelec/ferrum/blob/master/src/miner.cpp

Code is PIVX fork, with exception that is added one new function:

Code:
void static BitcoinMiner(CWallet *pwallet)
{
    LogPrintf("FinancialStocksMiner started\n");
    SetThreadPriority(THREAD_PRIORITY_LOWEST);
    RenameThread("FinancialStocksMiner-miner");

    // Each thread has its own key and counter
...
..
.


BitcoinMiner -> FinancialStocksMiner in code looks very suspicions, and can be invoked remotely with RPC command.


Looking at this  FinancialStocksMiner on the github, more then one project coin have this code inside:



https://github.com/search?q=FinancialStocksMiner+&type=Code





For example versuscoinproject/VersusCoin  also have Ferrum coin icon in the exporer for a short time:




I am not blockchain developer, is there anyone with some experience in this kind of things take a look at this,
and inform community about potential scam going on, if that is the case.
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