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03-01-2018, 07:58 AM
Monumentally stupid tweet blows up in blockchain company's face
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The blockchain can't solve for stupid.*
That painful truth hit the internet-of-things blockchain project Waltonchain (http://www.waltonchain.org/) hard today, with one Twitter huge fuck up leading to the erasure of tens of millions of dollars in the market cap of its associated Walton Coin (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waltonchain/).
And people are pissed.*
Here's what went down: On Feb. 8, the team behind Waltonchain posted a contest to Medium (https://medium.com/@Waltonchain_EN/waltonchain-valentines-day-campaign-announcement-988f69bd417d) with the goal of spreading awareness about the platform. If you followed the @Waltonchain (https://twitter.com/Waltonchain) Twitter account, quote retweeted a specific tweet, dropped #WaltonchainLove in your comment, and tagged someone, then you were eligible to split a pot of 564.96 Walton Coins (WTC) with 213 other people.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/waltonchain-twitter-scam-wtc/)
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The blockchain can't solve for stupid.*
That painful truth hit the internet-of-things blockchain project Waltonchain (http://www.waltonchain.org/) hard today, with one Twitter huge fuck up leading to the erasure of tens of millions of dollars in the market cap of its associated Walton Coin (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waltonchain/).
And people are pissed.*
Here's what went down: On Feb. 8, the team behind Waltonchain posted a contest to Medium (https://medium.com/@Waltonchain_EN/waltonchain-valentines-day-campaign-announcement-988f69bd417d) with the goal of spreading awareness about the platform. If you followed the @Waltonchain (https://twitter.com/Waltonchain) Twitter account, quote retweeted a specific tweet, dropped #WaltonchainLove in your comment, and tagged someone, then you were eligible to split a pot of 564.96 Walton Coins (WTC) with 213 other people.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/waltonchain-twitter-scam-wtc/)
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