Tag: Plagiarized

McAfee’s Privacy Coin Ghost Is Plagiarized, PIVX Developers Claim

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John McAfee’s anonymity-oriented Ghost project has largely plagiarized its whitepaper, according to developers of privacy coin PIVX. “After a detailed investigation, it is obvious the GHOST whitepaper was plagiarized extensively from an outdated 2018 PIVX whitepaper,” PIVX tweeted on May 17. PIVX developers went on to conclude that “at least 20 of the 26 total pages” of the Ghost whitepaper “contain material directly plagiarized from the 2018 PIVX whitepaper,” attaching a number of screenshots to back their claims. “PIVX is a MIT licensed, open-source project,” a representative for the blockchain…

Either I’m Satoshi Nakamoto, or He Plagiarized Me

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Australian computer scientist and tech entrepreneur Craig Wright has asserted that Satoshi Nakamoto, the author of the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper, plagiarized him. Speaking at the CC London Investment in Blockchain and AI Forum 2019, which took place from Oct. 14 to Oct. 16, Wright claimed that he was about to reveal the ultimate proof of his authorship of the original Bitcoin code. This will come out, according to Wright, in the form of a thesis he wrote back in 2008. Wright said that Nakamoto lifted entire sections of the…

Researchers Allege Tron Plagiarized Code from other Projects

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Researchers from Digital Asset Research (DAR) have discovered multiple instances of code copied from other projects in the Tron codebase. It seems that Tron developers plagiarised code from Ethereum among other projects and changed filenames to make it difficult to identify the source of the code. DAR published an article on Medium about the plagiarism and the legal and technical problems that may now affect the Tron mainnet going forward. “On December 31, 2017, the project was initially accused of violating the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL) because the…