Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik Believes NXT is a "Scamcoin"
While many people believe there is a divide in the Bitcoin community when it comes to the early-adopting libertarians and the new breed of venture capitalists, it seems that the real battle in the world of cryptocurrency is between Bitcoin and appcoins. Around the same time that Chris Odom, the creator of Open Transactions, was dismissing the relevance of altcoins at InsideBitcoins London, Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik was tied up in a public spat with the NXT community. As someone who has been suspicious of projects that create their own cryptocoins for quite some time, I'm happy to....
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