What is Vitalik Buterin’s connection to OmiseGo as he tries to untangle himself from the OmiseGo (OMG) faltering
During the 2017, OmiseGo was one of the most hyped projects in the crypto world. Their rock solid team and strong ties with crypto icon Vitalik Buterin coalesced OMG into one of the most promising projects in the whole branche.
Then the harsh reality struck – advisers went mute, team proved to be incapable of delivering on their promises and the community divided in the relentless hopium intoxicated believers and harsh, chippy critics.
In the recent interview filled with excessive, groundless laughing, OMG CEO Jun Hosegawa, had little concrete things to say on where the project is heading which in combination with his rather nonchalant and irreverent attitude towards the whole interview enraged quite a few OMG holders. Hosegawa even dismissed Vitalik’s role in the project by saying he only helped writing the whitepaper.
This caught Buterin’s attention so he took to Reddit and clarified his position in the OMG project:
“The help I provided to OMG includes:
- Participating in the original Plasma whitepaper
- Plasma MVP https://ethresear.ch/t/minimal-viable-plasma/426
- Plasma Cash https://ethresear.ch/t/plasma-cash-plasma-with-much-less-per-user-data-checking/1298
- Plasma Prime https://ethresear.ch/t/rsa-accumulators-for-plasma-cash-history-reduction/3739
- Assistance to Plasma implementation teams
- Various discussions around development and release strategy, DEX design, etc, that doesn’t really fit into a specific category
So both public-good tech like Plasma that OmiseGo depends on, and also advice regarding designing the exchange.
“I just wrote the white paper and then did nothing but let them use my name indiscriminately” is definitely not the case.”
Other community members that are sober enough to take off the “biased lenses” and look at the real state of OmiseGo project chimed in with unfavorable commentary on the video:
“As a great advocate of OMG it pains me to say… but that video was a fluff piece. It was definitely nice to see something new but Jun didn’t even really explain anything or very well to would be new comers that may stumble across it. We shouldn’t blindly praise anything because we are so hungry for information that we will eat anything. (bracing for impact of down votes) ;)”
OMG appears to be in a free-fall, both in terms of the trust in the project and their market performance. Even though, crypto buyers are accustomed to disappointments, OMG is surely top of the line in this regard as they were seen as one of the most promising and legit projects in the space.
How dare you use my comment to push your agenda. You need a few more years in journalism and maybe a clue. You are a joke.
Hello tough guy from the internet, thank you for the comment 😉
Wow that’s a shitty article. You obviously have no clue what you’re talking about
The gist of the article is the quote from Vitalik himself, does he have a clue what’s he talking about? Go take your pills grandpa
You got it right.. OMG doesn’t have any future just like its CEO. You can make out from the interview Jun was quite nervous and kept on laughing insanely throughout the interview as he did not have any solid plan or message to his community! All his claims are false. He claimed mcdonalds as their client and raised money. We checked mcdonalds and they clearly negate Omise’s claims. They NEVER agreed to use OMG coin! Moreover they probably would sue Omise for using their name! It is gonna get darker. We have done thorough research on this coin. contact me if you need more information.