Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact · HackerPapers discussions

Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact — mentioned by elevensies

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:02:14 GMT

I just realized, I'm severely confused about what Filecoin is, and possibly ICOs in general. I assumed "ICO" was analogous to IPO. If a token is essentially a bearer share that is coupled to the payment system. No reason you couldn't create the coin, run it privately until you get some revenue, and then offer it, as IPOs are usually done. But when I search Filecoin's website for "revenue" and "profit", I only see references to the participants in the system, and not the token holders. https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Afilecoin.io+revenue…

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Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact — mentioned by bayonetz

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:57:27 GMT

So far it's basically a listing of scam sites trying to masquerade myetherwallet.com. It's like 20 pages deep for just for that. I was thinking it would be something more akin to: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03779.pdf

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Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact — mentioned by AJRF

Sun, 18 Jun 2017 11:55:59 GMT

You are categorically wrong about this. Ponzi schemes are financial frauds where, under the promise of high profits, users put their money, recovering their investment and interests only if enough users after them continue to invest money. Further to this, its qualatively provable, as you can look at the contracts and actually class the type of Ponzi scheme they are. * https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/06/01/2189634/its-not-just-... https://stratechery.com/2017/tulips-myths-and-cryptocurrenci... * https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03779.pdf

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Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact — HN submission

Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:36:28 GMT

Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact

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