Read this article:

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/07/11/sale-of-the-century-the-inside-story-of-ethereums-2014-premine/

The eth founders/eth foundation:

- kept 20% of the pre mine for themselves

- collected bitcoin for the pre mine sale and kept 76.5% of the bitcoin for themselves and almost all the rest for “communications, community outreach, and research” (sounds pretty centralized)

- have drastically changed the monetary policy from the beginning

- paid themselves 25-50% interest on loans they made to the project

- had no mechanism to enforce the 12.5% of total supply purchase limit during the premine (Al of the eth could’ve literally been bought by 1 person or 1 group with multiple addresses)

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Thank you for the information, very much appreciated 🙏

Read “Out of the Ether” if your still not convinced, the more you know the worse it is. Honestly. I wouldn’t touch that shit (ever again, I used to own some 🤢)

Will do, adding it to my list

Thanks! 🙏