Rob Finch, the CEO of EOS block producer team CyperglassBP have become an influential persona in the EOS community. His team is currently ranked 21st among all the block producers and earning 701 EOS every day (estimates are from oct 2018 when I originally wrote this. See the disclaimer at the end of the article for more).
A lot of people in the EOS community, to be precise, a lot of general users of the EOS community appear to love this guy. Whenever Cyperglass losses the top 21 position, there is always guy out there to shill for them. His tweets routinely get to the top of r/eos subreddit. But do they really deserve to be in one of the top 21 block producer slots?
Their node has the worst CPU performance. They are above greymass but they haven’t produced anything as good as greymass eos voter. Oh, and they didn’t produce the fairy wallet. They only paid for it and claimed that they used their own money to do it. They made a lot more money being a block producer.
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But the most distasteful thing about him is that he is a liar and a professional at that. Take for example, in this video, he claims that 100k joined the EOS blockchain but in fact the number is lower than 5k (5k is the highest estimate I can give, it is much lower). Most of the accounts created were by name speculators, soc puppets and by DApp developers.
Again, in the video featured below, he is championing mutability without mentioning its demerits. I totally agree with his sweet words but not mentioning any demerits of mutability seems deceptive to me.
He also hasn’t disclosed much about who own shares of his BP candidate. Read more here:
Cypherglass is NOT who we thought they were – very deceptive and they dodge questions about ownership!
Also, his famous “Million Dollar Bet” was deceptive. It wasn’t received well by many people. You can realize that by just reading some of the comments on Youtube or reddit.
Disclaimer: I originally wrote this draft in Oct 2018. All the estimates are from Oct 6, 2018.
I watch cypherglass/everything eos podcast from time to time and something that always strikes me is the complete lack of critical thinking towards just about any EOS project or promotion. And there's a difference between FUD and raising criticisms that might actually benefit the projects being discussed, the ecosystem and the overall community.
One instance that always comes to mind is the over-the-top fanboy giddiness towards the introduction of biometric ID. I'm consistently floored by the complete absence of discussion around some of the potential dangers, ramifications and implications of biometrics throughout society. At the very least, they could acknowledge the downsides.
A few months ago I read a steemit post by @cypherglass account bragging how EOS was the first of its kind to introduce a Owner key and Active Key security feature! And they posted this on the Steem blockchain, hello? Earth to cypherglass, Steem has had multiple security levels and permission keys since it's inception in 2016.
https://steempeak.com/@cypherglass/new-proposal-eos-unstaking
Now, I do find cypherglass and Everything EOS to be informative on a number of topics but I really wish they would be less shilly and do their homework before making claims that are simply untrue.
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Why wait so long to post this? And why not update the data so it's current? I'm not disagreeing with your points, but posting this now with out of date data makes it seem less like trying to share info and more of a personal attack.
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I originally drafted the article than. But forgot about it in the meantime. A few days earlier, I saw an update video on the fake million dollar bet which was obviously deceptive. The bet was with one of his company subordinates in ICO alert.
And the data hasn't changed much.
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