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.