A lot of people are saying that EOS is a scam. After just a short time in comment sections or twitter you will quickly come across this claim. And if you trust random people on the internet then you might actually start believing in it. It's really easy to focus on negative news or comments because that's just how our brains are wired. I've seen this claim so much lately that I thought I'd address it here.

In this podcast I want to go through the lazy man's guide to discerning whether or not EOS is a scam.

Let's start with Dan Larimer, the Chief Technology Officer of Block.One, the company that is building EOS. He is largely seen as the brains behind this project and the inventor of the technology. He previously built bitshares which was the first decentralized exchange back in 2014. On bitshares he created the first stable coin called bitUSD. Many people don't know much about these projects. They were very successful in the technical realm but seem to have been overlooked in the cryptomania of the last year.

Next he built Steemit which is a blockchain based social network that works sort of like reddit. However the users get paid for creating and curating content. This platform has nearly a million users and has an alexa rank of 1,335 which is pretty big.

How likely do you really think it is that someone who created two successful blockchain projects that were certainly not scams just woke up one day and said to himself now it's time to ruin my reputation and legacy and create a scam even though I'm already a multimillionaire from my previous projects. Seems unlikely to me.

Aristotle said that the appeal to authority is one of the weakest arguments. (See what I did there?) but nonetheless let's talk about other people and organizations that support EOS because many of these are putting themselves at great financial risk to support EOS.

ICO Alert is a very successful ICO rating website. Not only do they like EOS but the founder of ICO Alert, Rob Finch, started another company to become a Block Producer and they did a miniseries on their main ICO Alert Podcast called 'Everything EOS' where they talk about how great EOS is.

Next is Weiss ratings. This is a financial ratings company that recently got into rating crypto. They rated EOS in the top 7 of all cryptos and recently tweeted about how they thought EOS would 'Eat Ethereum's lunch'

#EOS (B) vs. #Ethereum (B-). At MainNet launch, EOS will process 600 transactions per second and then speed to thousands. Ethereum can only do 10. How long before EOS eats Ethereum’s lunch? #bitcoin #crypto #cryptocurrency #btc #eth #altcoin #altcoins

— Weiss Ratings (@WeissRatings) May 30, 2018

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