Bitcoin on a diet? Pablo Escobar and Crypto REALLY?

Okay I’m Colombian Canadian or Canadian Colombian depending on how you look at it I guess. So I don’t know what to make of this new DIETBITCOIN … Coming form the health world my brain instantly went into diet mode when I heard this think hmmm is it a lighter version of bitcoin? I didn’t fully get it but then I dug a little deeper and wen I realized it was non other than the brother of notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, Roberto, who created and launched this new token I had to read and learn more.

First of all I’m aware that Netflix and the series that are about the life of Pablo Escobar have really glorified his life and who he was … Sure he was a great business man but don’t get it twisted a lot of innocent people died because of him. He did help the people in his community however he also killed anyone who got in his way and didn’t cooperate with him when he was running for president and congressmen. He basically created a war in Colombia where bombs would randomly be set off killing lots of innocent people who had nothing to do with him, kids, women, basically lots of innocent people!

So I was kind of shocked yet intrigued about this new dietbitcoin and the creator!

The cryptocurrency, named diet bitcoin, is one of the numerous bitcoin spin-offs, and, like other spin-offs, claims to be better than the original…. Hmmm wi made this claim?

According to the official website, Diet Bitcoin will be a lighter, faster version of Bitcoin set to have a total supply of 1,000,0000 tokens which will be distributed through three different sales levels. The aforementioned pre – ICO of the first 300,000 DDX tokens is currently on offer at a 96% discount for $2. To be followed by a second tier pre-ICO sale of 300,000 tokens at $100 and finally capped when the final 400,000 go on offer at $1,000.

“The value will be very high as we are identical in numbers to bitcoin, except we are 4,000 times cheaper right now,” Roberto Escobar’s cryptocurrency website claims. The coin is now worth $2, and is mineable like bitcoin.
Escobar, who claims he made billions in his lifetime, says investing in diet bitcoin is a good opportunity to raise some cash.
“I made over $100 billion in profit throughout my career,” adding, “Buy as many dietbitcoins as you can afford, the value will be very high soon,” Escobar told theblast.com.
Pablo Escobar’s brother was the accountant of the Medellin cartel, and spent more than 11 years in a maximum-security prison in Colombia. Roberto claims he was involved only in managing the money.
“I managed the telephones, the books. I never got involved in terrorism, or killings, and I criticized [Pablo] many times for that,” he told the Irish Times in 2009.

Again I’m not too sure but it’s all very interesting and leaves lots of room for speculation.

Reading the white paper he starts off by saying:

“I am the first person in the world, Roberto De Jesus Escobar Gaviria, to publicly come out and claim that Bitcoin was created by the American Government, and I am not going to be the last person to say this. The world is going to wake up. The world is going to see that this was created by them. And when they see it, it is too late, and when the CIA founds out that the world knows about this, the CIA is going to sell all of their coins, and they will destroy the value of Bitcoin…That’s why I am creating my own cryptocurrency called dietbitcoin (DDX).” Roberto De Jesús Escobar Gaviria, Founder of Escobar Inc published in his latest book “Pablo Escobar’s dietbitcoin” released March 2018

Wild, I don’t know what to make of this and think he’s just confusing people and making up a conspiracy theory … or does he know something we don’t? I don’t know but he isn’t the most trust worthy person so I’m curious of his motives and like everything else I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens!

All in all it’s not what I had imagined when I first heard “DIETBITCOIN”, in my honest opinion I think only time will tell so I’ll sit back and observe for now.

Also very interesting white paper that is worth a read. https://dietbitcoin.org/en/ddx.pdf

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