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This is the guy that did some iOS jailbreaks, reverse engineered the PS3 and now runs a self driving car startup.

• Teknoman117 5y ago
  Long enough ago that it was iPhone OS jailbreaks.
• pixelpoet 5y ago
  And the shady cheapETH business last year: https://oldreddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hotz_who_wrote_the_geth_fork_to_create/ https://oldreddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hotz...
  • tromp 5y ago
    I had to replace oldreddit by reddit to make that link work...
    • ZephyrBlu 5y ago
      Yeah should be old.reddit.com, not oldreddit.com.
    • hbn 5y ago
      I'm thinking he meant to link to old.reddit which forces the old (read: non-broken) reddit UI
  • sydthrowaway 5y ago
    So he's a two-bit scammer too.
  • fortydegrees 5y ago
    Adding a comment as I don't think this is a fair representation of George. He livestreamed the creation of cheapETH as a technical demonstration of web3 development[0] and continually talks about it being worthless while developing it. He's also on record as being a serial 'no-coiner'. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaIezgiUmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaIezgiUmw
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    • throwawaybner3 5y ago
    • jallen_dot_dev 5y ago
      > continually talks about it being worthless Kinda weird to try to sneak millions of a worthless coin into your wallet.
      • nextlevelwizard 5y ago
        That is how you keep cheapETH cheap
      • chairmanwow1 5y ago
        That was the whole point of the stream.
  • jrib 5y ago
    fixed link: https://old.reddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hotz_who_wrote_the_geth_fork_to_create/ https://old.reddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hot...
  • throwawaybner3 5y ago
    Who is goku?
    • pingeroo 5y ago
      I'm not certain but I think it's this guy: https://twitter.com/tomkysar https://twitter.com/tomkysar
      • throwawaybner3 5y ago
        What makes you think this is the guy? I could not find any reference to geohot in his tweets.
        • pingeroo 5y ago
          He was in Vegas hanging out with Tom when he was streaming cheapETH creation. You can hear another person in this stream, pretty sure that's him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaIezgiUmw&t=1029s&ab_channel=georgehotzarchive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaIezgiUmw&t=1029s&ab_chann... Also posted a picture of them together in a Ferrari around this time lol (taken down)
  • ulber 5y ago
    Here's his response: https://cheapeth.org/whalegate.html https://cheapeth.org/whalegate.html It casts the situation in a rather different light - you should read it.
• rickdg 5y ago
  Not sure if it's a startup when it's profitable and not looking for investors.