New reports reveal that an investigator on the chain has raised allegations connecting Vitalik ButerinThe founder of Ethereum, at the hacking of Gatecoin of $ 500 million in 2016. According to the Sleuth Crypto, the Etherin Foundation would have transferred funds to the main portfolio of the Gatecoin pirates.
Buterin accused of having contributed to Gatecoin Hack
Truthlabs, a popular crypto investigator and Sleuth on X (formerly Twitter), A accused Buterin to be directly involved in the first Hack of Ethereum in 2016, which led to the loss of tokens worth more than $ 500 million today. The Crypto analyst revealed that the financing of the Gatecoin pirate portfolio had only received ETH from only three sources of portfolio.
Gatecoin’s original crypto portfolio was funded by a Portfolio belonging to Ethereum FoundationA non -profit organization that supports ETH blockchain. The second financing portfolio is from the Genesis Block 0 account of Ethereum. This portfolio interacted with two primary addresses – a user controlled Poloniex portfolio and a contract implemented by Buterin.
Truthlabs also revealed that the third and last portfolio that financed Gatecoin pirates was generated in a similar way from a Genesis 0 block. The crypto investigator alleged that the third anonymous portfolio was directly linked to the nucleus Ethereum developerVlad Zamfir.
Based on these new developments, Truthlabs revealed that a large unchanging book is currently indicating that Buterin and members of the Ethereum Foundation were involved in the hacking of Gatecoin of $ 0.5 billion. He said Gatecoin’s exploitation most likely occurred 30 days before the foundation was to lack money. In addition, this chronology precedes the Dao feat, which saw millions of dollars lost just a few weeks after Gatecoin’s hack.
For the moment, there has been no official response from Buterin or the Ethereum Foundation concerning the allegations made by Truthlabs. The cryptographic community also awaits additional clarification and confirmation of the involvement of Buterin as the story takes place.
Silk Road Bitcoin put under the spotlight
While he accuses Buterin of being connected to Gatecoin Hack 2016Truelabs too common Overview of recent developments involving the founder of Silk Road Ross Ulbricht. According to the claims of the crypto investigators, the Bitcoin seized of the Silk Road portfolio helped finance the ICO 2014 project of Ethereum and the BTC portfolios.
The analyst alleged that Ross’s incarceration had funded the creation of the Ethereum FoundationLike the BTC of Silk Road and Mt. Gox had helped develop the foundation. Truthlabs also called Buterin for not having shown his support to Liberation of Ulbricht After being sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in 2015.
Shouting the founder, Truthbs described it as a “stain on the word integrity”, accusing Buterin of shaking his moral responsibilities. The chain investigator says Buterin built the Ethereum Foundation using Silk Road bitcoin But failed to publicly defend the release of Ulbritch – a largely champion within the cryptographic community.
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