Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has repurposed the Ethereum Classic Twitter account for the benefit of Ergo Platform.
Followers of the Ethereum Classic Twitter account may have become unwitting fans of an entirely new crypto project after Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson turned the account into the new Ergo community page..
Account Ethereum Classic had amassed over 600,000 followers since its inception in July 2016, and as of September 15, it had been used to post about Ethereum Classic.
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Nevertheless, As of October 6, the Twitter page is about Ergo Platform, a proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain capable of facilitating smart contracts, similar to Ethereum, with links to Cardano.
In a lengthy thread posted on the new Ethereum Classic Twitter handle on Oct. 6, Bob Summerwill, CEO of a public charity that supports Ethereum Classic, criticized Hoskinson for repurposing the account, noting that “6 years of community work has been erased.”.
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The new account has not yet reached the number of followers of your old account; he only has 364 followers at the time of writing this article.
So what just happened with this account?
— Ethereum Classic (@eth_classic) October 6, 2022
What happened to this account?
in the thread, Summerwill outlines how Hoskinson’s blockchain firm Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) withdrew from ETC for the second time following lack of support for a proposal of its own and refused to discuss the Twitter account until a Twitter post on September 6. in which he stated that he would not return it to the ETC community.
Return? It’s my account. As for return, I can’t get back the millions of dollars of development we spent nor the years of time supporting a blockchain that didn’t seem to want to do anything other than preserve a status quo. We’ll call it even
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) September 5, 2022
return it? It is my account. As far as payback goes, I can’t take back the millions of development dollars we spent or the years of supporting a blockchain that didn’t seem to want to do anything but preserve a status quo. We’ll call it “draw”
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Essentially, Hoskinson’s move has boosted the Twitter following of the Ergo Platform, which has the old handle of ergoplatformorg with just 64,000 followers.. The Ergo account holder has even sent his followers to his “new account” Ergo_Platform.
The problems between Hoskinson and his old project are not newas Hoskinson is well known for his aversion to Ethereum and went so far as to qualify to Ethereum Classic as a “purposeless dead project.”
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