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Author Topic: [ANN] (QTUM) - A Scalable Smart Contract Platform w/ Proof of Stake  (Read 525426 times)
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March 04, 2017, 04:14:18 AM
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The project has received support from a number of notable entrepreneurs in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space including ethereum founder Anthony Di Iorio, OKCoin CEO Star Xu, BitFund founder Xiaolai Li and Fenbushi partner Bo Shen.

Bitfund, the same outfit who brought you Sfards: http://www.bitfundpe.com/



Bitfund, the same outfit who brought you YUNBI: http://www.bitfundpe.com/



Bitfund, the same outfit who now brings you Qtum, but has yet to mention Qtum on its platform in spite of its CEO, Xiaolai Li, investing in Qtum: http://www.bitfundpe.com/ (more on Li later, but here's a teaser: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fenbushi-capital#/entity)

Since Investards are so special, it's time to once again recount (that means revisit or see again): https://qtum.org/qtum-crowdsale-update/

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Qtum Crowdsale Update

The Qtum team has been working very hard to prepare for the upcoming crowdsale. Although the official date and other details are yet to be published (will come soon), we are so excited to announce that you will be able to participate in our crowdsale through any of the following channels.

1. Bizhongchou (bizhongchou.com)
2. Yunbi (yunbi.com)
3. Yuanbao (www.yuanbao.com)
4. ICO365 (www.ico365.com)
5. ICOAGE (icoage.com)
6. Qtum official crowdsale website (crowdsale.qtum.org) – coming soon


<pause, so that the Investards playing at home can take a hit off their one-hitters in preparing themselves for what The Gleb is 'bout to spring on them next>

http://www.innospace.com.cn/actActivity/detail.htm?id=2aab6646f6bc11e39f3d00155d00ad28

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【Presenter】
Xu Yiji - Bit Fund (bitfund.pe) Shanghai Leader, 2014 World Cup Global Summit (Beijing) sponsor, former Google search engine anti-cheating team members.

【Mail Registration】:
Bitcoin Fund, Xu Yiji: hitters.xu@gmail.com
InnoSpace, Mr. Shao: stanley.shao@shuion.com.cn
Hotline: 65107878-829

Who is Xu Yiji of hitters.xu@gmail.com, you ask while coughing up a lung?

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Domain Name: ico365.com
Registry Domain ID: 2034467145_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: grs-whois.hichina.com
Registrar URL: http://whois.aliyun.com/
Updated Date: 2016-12-30T01:59:57Z
Creation Date: 2016-06-08T13:18:36Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-06-08T13:18:36Z
Registrar: HICHINA ZHICHENG TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Registrar IANA ID: 420
Reseller:
Domain Status: ok http://www.icann.org/epp#OK
Registry Registrant ID: Not Available From Registry
Registrant Name: ZHOU SHUOJI
Registrant Organization: Shen Zhen Zhong Lian Ke Ji You Xian Gong Si
Registrant Street: Nan Shan Qu Yue Hai Jie Dao Ke Yuan Lu 18Hao Bei Ke Da Sha 8009Shi
Registrant City: shen shi
Registrant State/Province: guang dong
Registrant Postal Code: 518054
Registrant Country: CN
Registrant Phone: +86.18811633544
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +86.18811633544
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: zhousj@p2ppe.com

Billing Name: YIJI XU
Billing Organization: hitters
Billing Street: shanghaishi tianlinlu 192 3 lou
Billing City: shang hai shi
Billing State/Province: shang hai
Billing Postal Code: 200060
Billing Country: CN
Billing Phone: +86.2159188305
Billing Phone Ext:
Billing Fax: +86.2159188305
Billing Fax Ext:
Billing Email: hitters.xu@gmail.com

Which brings us back to ...

https://qtum.org/qtum-crowdsale-update/

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Qtum Crowdsale Update

The Qtum team has been working very hard to prepare for the upcoming crowdsale. Although the official date and other details are yet to be published (will come soon), we are so excited to announce that you will be able to participate in our crowdsale through any of the following channels.

1. Bizhongchou (bizhongchou.com)
2. Yunbi (yunbi.com)
3. Yuanbao (www.yuanbao.com)
4. ICO365 (www.ico365.com)
5. ICOAGE (icoage.com)
6. Qtum official crowdsale website (crowdsale.qtum.org) – coming soon

Unless you're in Camp Cocksuckeroverflow, it's suffice to now say that Team Qtum (AND I MEAN ALL THE TEAM MEMBERS) put all their ducks in a row prior to announcing Qtum, some of the tech already, or in the process of being built over at Bitse and VeChain, rebranding the tech under the auspices of Qtum.

How fuckin close am I?
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March 04, 2017, 04:45:14 AM
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Revisiting Global Blockchain Summit in Shanghai where Qtum won an award, GLOBAL-BLOCKCHAIN-SUMMIT.COM was registered by ... wait for it ...

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Domain Status: ok http://www.icann.org/epp#OK
Registry Registrant ID: Not Available From Registry
Registrant Name:  YIJI XU
Registrant Organization: hitters
Registrant Street: shanghaishi tianlinlu 192 3 lou,,
Registrant City: shang hai shi
Registrant State/Province: shang hai
Registrant Postal Code: 200060
Registrant Country: CN
Registrant Phone: +86.02159188305
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +86.02159188305
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: hitters.xu@gmail.com

Put that in Matt Carson's hookah and take a hit:

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March 04, 2017, 04:50:36 AM
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Where can we see how many BTC have been raised so far in the ICO?

And why don't the knuckleheads behind this project have this information clearly displayed in the OP?
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March 04, 2017, 05:21:02 AM
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Where can we see how many BTC have been raised so far in the ICO?

And why don't the knuckleheads behind this project have this information clearly displayed in the OP?

No place you can find how many BTC have been raised because ICO has not started yet, it is delayed. They are liars, they try to hide dark side information, why show us?
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Time to reveal that Time Markov is really Toni Markov. I'm sure that that crazy fuck, Patrick Dai, will come along and explain it to us as to why Macedonians need to change their name to something we Westerners can accept, like Time being morer betterer than Tony because we Westerners may mistake him for being Italian. Patrick will also explain away why it's morer betterer to depict a younger self on ones LinkedIn page.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/time-markov-6403874/



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 Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Degree Name Postgraduate Field Of Study Embedded systems
Dates attended or expected graduation 2008 – 2010
PIC, ARM, DSP

Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje, Postgraduate
 Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Degree Name Bachelor's degree Field Of Study Computer Techniques, Informatics and Automation
Dates attended or expected graduation 2002 – 2007

https://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-markov-a7314a52/



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University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
Degree Name Master's degree Field Of Study Embedded Systems
Dates attended or expected graduation 2008 – 2010

University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
Degree Name Bachelor's degree Field Of Study Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Automation Grade 8,5
Dates attended or expected graduation 2002 – 2007

https://coins.newbium.com/post/5884-qtum-utxo-based-pos-smart-contract-platform

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Qtum core team comprises of several members, spanning the globe.
  
Patrick Dai (China/Singapore) - Project Co-Founder
Neil Sakr (Morocco/China) - Chief Blockchain Architect / Co-Founder
Jordan Earls (USA) - Lead Developer / Co-Founder
Caspal (China) - Qtum Developer
Qiyu (China) - Qtum Web developer
DJaen (Sweden) - Qtum Test developer
Time Markov (Macedonia)- Qtum Developer
Toni Markov (Macedonia)-Qtum Developer

Alex (Belarus)- Qtum Developer
Mike Palencia (China / Colombia) - Project Manager
Brett (Canada) - PR / Community
John Scianna (USA / China) -  PR / Press
Ibai Basabe(USA/China)-PhD Product Manager/Researcher
Emiliano (Argentina) - PhD Document Writer / Researcher
Carry Shen (China) - PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) process control
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March 04, 2017, 06:36:43 AM
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Holy shit.

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March 04, 2017, 07:09:24 AM
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The bloody truth!

I was also very interested in this project according to the social media. However, I can only find the truth here.
It looks like a total scam designing for cheat Chinese richy fools.

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March 04, 2017, 07:22:57 AM
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The dev of QTUM is said that he is a scam!Can you explain for it?
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March 04, 2017, 07:24:11 AM
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Time to reveal that Time Markov is really Toni Markov. I'm sure that that crazy fuck, Patrick Dai, will come along and explain it to us as to why Macedonians need to change their name to something we Westerners can accept, like Time being morer betterer than Tony because we Westerners may mistake him for being Italian. Patrick will also explain away why it's morer betterer to depict a younger self on ones LinkedIn page.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/time-markov-6403874/



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 Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Degree Name Postgraduate Field Of Study Embedded systems
Dates attended or expected graduation 2008 – 2010
PIC, ARM, DSP

Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje, Postgraduate
 Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Degree Name Bachelor's degree Field Of Study Computer Techniques, Informatics and Automation
Dates attended or expected graduation 2002 – 2007

https://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-markov-a7314a52/



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Education

University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
Degree Name Master's degree Field Of Study Embedded Systems
Dates attended or expected graduation 2008 – 2010

University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
Degree Name Bachelor's degree Field Of Study Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Automation Grade 8,5
Dates attended or expected graduation 2002 – 2007

https://coins.newbium.com/post/5884-qtum-utxo-based-pos-smart-contract-platform

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Qtum core team comprises of several members, spanning the globe.
  
Patrick Dai (China/Singapore) - Project Co-Founder
Neil Sakr (Morocco/China) - Chief Blockchain Architect / Co-Founder
Jordan Earls (USA) - Lead Developer / Co-Founder
Caspal (China) - Qtum Developer
Qiyu (China) - Qtum Web developer
DJaen (Sweden) - Qtum Test developer
Time Markov (Macedonia)- Qtum Developer
Toni Markov (Macedonia)-Qtum Developer

Alex (Belarus)- Qtum Developer
Mike Palencia (China / Colombia) - Project Manager
Brett (Canada) - PR / Community
John Scianna (USA / China) -  PR / Press
Ibai Basabe(USA/China)-PhD Product Manager/Researcher
Emiliano (Argentina) - PhD Document Writer / Researcher
Carry Shen (China) - PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) process control

Possible that Time and Toni are brothers/twins?
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March 04, 2017, 07:26:10 AM
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so  Time Markov is  Toni Markov . WOW ... JUST  WOW  Shocked Shocked Shocked
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March 04, 2017, 07:35:08 AM
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half-ass Sherlock usual BS ...

Possible that Time and Toni are brothers/twins?

Yes does not look like it's the same person, different hair color and face, possibly siblings.

But the point is the trolls are trying to make such small details seem like a big deal, it means they don't have anything solid.

Looks like that troll forgot to take his meds again today!
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March 04, 2017, 07:48:53 AM
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half-ass Sherlock usual BS ...

Possible that Time and Toni are brothers/twins?

Yes does not look like it's the same person, different hair color and face, possibly siblings.

But the point is the trolls are trying to make such small details seem like a big deal, it means they don't have anything solid.

Looks like that troll forgot to take his meds again today!

Let's try the comparison again, but this time sans the pictures:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/time-markov-6403874/

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 Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Degree Name Postgraduate Field Of Study Embedded systems
Dates attended or expected graduation 2008 – 2010
PIC, ARM, DSP

Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje, Postgraduate
 Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Degree Name Bachelor's degree Field Of Study Computer Techniques, Informatics and Automation
Dates attended or expected graduation 2002 – 2007

https://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-markov-a7314a52/

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Education

University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
Degree Name Master's degree Field Of Study Embedded Systems
Dates attended or expected graduation 2008 – 2010

University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
Degree Name Bachelor's degree Field Of Study Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Automation Grade 8,5
Dates attended or expected graduation 2002 – 2007

Is that solid enough for you, cocksuckeroverflow?

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Software engineer with about 8 years professional experience with C/C++ Qt and QML (Qt3, Qt4 and Qt5).
Work experience on a projects which include QML as a UI part of the applications.
Worked on large and critical software in automotive industry.
Experienced with all stages of software development process: analyzing of requirements, creation of design documents, estimations, unit testing, system testing (integration testing), deployment.

Specialties

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High level of knowledge in programming languages: C++; JAVA; C#, QML, Embedded C, XML/XSL, HTML, Python Script, Ant Script, UML;

More then 5 years professional experience with C/C++ and Qt framework Qt (Qt3.3, Qt4.8, QML, QtWebKit) worked on large and critical software in automotive industry.

Experienced with all stages of software development process: analyzing of requirements, creation of design documents, estimations, unit testing, system testing (integration testing), deployment.

Working experience in follow database: My SQL, MS SQL

Working experience with the programming packages and frameworks: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, QT framework, ACE framework, .Net Framework, IBM Rational Rose , IAR Embedded Workbench, MPLAB IDE, different types of source control software.

Experience with different network and OS architectures

Programming and debugging on follow embedded systems: Microchip PIC, ARM 7 processor, Freescale DSP.
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March 04, 2017, 07:52:42 AM
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Oh god! Truth is being told here. Thanks for researching and finding out that scam project. Lots of people would have fallen to it, even me I was going to invest big
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Oh god! Truth is being told here. Thanks for researching and finding out that scam project. Lots of people would have fallen to it, even me I was going to invest big

Me too, I was already to all-in my 5 btc, because I saw Roger Ver, Shen Bo and Star Xu are the backers, never thought they are also scammed by Patrick, he is an epic liar in the world, lol.
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half-ass Sherlock usual BS ...

Possible that Time and Toni are brothers/twins?

Yes does not look like it's the same person, different hair color and face, possibly siblings.

But the point is the trolls are trying to make such small details seem like a big deal, it means they don't have anything solid.

Looks like that troll forgot to take his meds again today!

This is just one minor thing revealed among a sea of shadiness that has been revealed. There is plenty of solid stuff, go ahead and peruse through the thread it is all still here at the moment I am typing this. But nice attempt to dismiss everything else based on the perceived insignificance of this one issue... This team is truly pathetic as it makes another clear attempt to deflect the issues at hand instead of addressing them. Why the fuck hasn't anybody answered any of the questions or concerns here? Why do you dumbasses think it is sufficient to attack the integrity of those who post the concerns and not address the concerns themselves? It amazes me any of you were capable of holding this scam together this long with the way you are handling things now.
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hi Gleb Gamow

can i hire you to make some good trolls man?

i found you are really good at it.  Grin
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2. Last year, Li Xiaolai and domestic multi-person (Shen Bo, Zhao Dong, rivalry princes, etc.) jointly launched the bit unit (3I company) has been proved as a hoax, many players lose everything. And the interesting thing is, 3I company registered in Kenya, if the players want to make legal claims is even more difficult.
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half-ass Sherlock usual BS ...

Possible that Time and Toni are brothers/twins?

Yes does not look like it's the same person, different hair color and face, possibly siblings.

But the point is the trolls are trying to make such small details seem like a big deal, it means they don't have anything solid.

Looks like that troll forgot to take his meds again today!

Let's try the comparison again, but this time sans the pictures:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/time-markov-6403874/

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Education

 Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Degree Name Postgraduate Field Of Study Embedded systems
Dates attended or expected graduation 2008 – 2010
PIC, ARM, DSP

Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje, Postgraduate
 Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
Degree Name Bachelor's degree Field Of Study Computer Techniques, Informatics and Automation
Dates attended or expected graduation 2002 – 2007

https://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-markov-a7314a52/

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University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
Degree Name Master's degree Field Of Study Embedded Systems
Dates attended or expected graduation 2008 – 2010

University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
Degree Name Bachelor's degree Field Of Study Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Automation Grade 8,5
Dates attended or expected graduation 2002 – 2007

Is that solid enough for you, cocksuckeroverflow?

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Software engineer with about 8 years professional experience with C/C++ Qt and QML (Qt3, Qt4 and Qt5).
Work experience on a projects which include QML as a UI part of the applications.
Worked on large and critical software in automotive industry.
Experienced with all stages of software development process: analyzing of requirements, creation of design documents, estimations, unit testing, system testing (integration testing), deployment.

Specialties

C/C++, Qt, QML, Software Architecture and Design

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High level of knowledge in programming languages: C++; JAVA; C#, QML, Embedded C, XML/XSL, HTML, Python Script, Ant Script, UML;

More then 5 years professional experience with C/C++ and Qt framework Qt (Qt3.3, Qt4.8, QML, QtWebKit) worked on large and critical software in automotive industry.

Experienced with all stages of software development process: analyzing of requirements, creation of design documents, estimations, unit testing, system testing (integration testing), deployment.

Working experience in follow database: My SQL, MS SQL

Working experience with the programming packages and frameworks: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, QT framework, ACE framework, .Net Framework, IBM Rational Rose , IAR Embedded Workbench, MPLAB IDE, different types of source control software.

Experience with different network and OS architectures

Programming and debugging on follow embedded systems: Microchip PIC, ARM 7 processor, Freescale DSP.

can i hire you man? you are so good.
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March 04, 2017, 08:06:05 AM
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hi Gleb Gamow

can i hire you to make some good trolls man?

i found you are really good at it.  Grin

There is a difference between trolling and exposing scammers who want to steal millions of dollars of money.
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hi Gleb Gamow

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i found you are really good at it.  Grin

There is a difference between trolling and exposing scammers who want to steal millions of dollars of money.
Gregory Maxwell: “Vitalik Buterin Ran A Quantum Computer Scam”

http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/08/17/gregory-maxwell-vitalik-buterin-ran-quantum-computer-scam/

Being a public figure in the cryptocurrency world comes with prestige and personal attacks. Vitalik Buterin, the visionary of Ethereum development and coding genius, has been active in the world of technology for quite some time now. Before he even created Ethereum, however, he was working on building a computer program to solve NP-complete problems. Or as some people would like to call it, vaporware.

NP-complete problems are decision problems revolving around computational complexity theory. While the entire explanation of this concept can be found on Wikipedia, it is safe to assume this will one of those concepts that is always subject to substantial debate.

Vitalik Buterin And The Quantum Computer Scam
Interestingly enough, Vitalik Buterin used to be involved in this particular field of expertise before he started working on Ethereum. In fact, he was working on a software tool to address these NP-complete problems in polynomial time. Building such a solution from scratch is both time-consuming and costly, though.

According to an archived post from Gregory Maxwell, Buterin was collecting investments from people to fund the creation of this computer program. However, Maxwell strongly feels this was nothing more than an attempt to fund vaporware. In fact, a post on Qntra refers to his idea for this computer program as “a quantum computer simulation scam”.

Gregory Maxwell explained this vaporware scam as follows:

“Vitalik’s project immediately before Ethereum is that he was collecting investments from people to fund building a computer program to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time, supposedly by simulating a quantum computer. (Never mind that even real QC aren’t conjectured to be able to do that, nor does ‘simulation’ make any sense; unless BPP == BQP that’s not even possible, and virtually all experts agree the complexity classes are probably not equivalent). He built up a reputation for himself writing tech explainers of other people’s ideas usually without any attribution (until someone complains), making him look like the author.”
And Then Ethereum Was Born
That is a rather interesting take on things. Complex ideas and concepts are difficult to explain, let alone making anyone see the need to address them. Yet for some reason, Buterin felt he had the tools at his disposal to convince people to give him money for this project. It remains unclear as to why he failed in doing so, though.

Regardless of the reasoning, it didn’t take Vitalik Buterin long to come up with a new idea. Ethereum, before it was even released to the public, raised several millions of dollars in investments. To some people, the whole concept of Ethereum is still hit-and-miss, as the code can be exploited in multiple ways. The DAO attack and replay attacks are just two of the examples.

That being said, no one is saying Ethereum is vaporware. Interesting concepts can be built on top of this source code that will change our society as a whole. But this whole ordeal goes to show there is a difference between creating concepts and stealing other’s ideas.

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