MetalBlock - plagiarized whitepaper!

alexgeller22

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Quote from: morvillz7z on March 08, 2020, 01:12:01 PM

What happened: MetalBlock have plagiarized their WP off various places, absolutely no links to sources present.

Reference Link: https://metalblock.io/

Announced by: alexgeller22

ANN: [ANN] Metal Block ⚡ A Token Backed by Gold ⚡

Flag 1: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1437

MetalBlock's whitepaper is highly plagiarized, they are also using text spinners to avoid detection which i find even more damning.
Another gold-backed ERC20 shit token on the horizon as if we don't have enough of those already.

Some good ol' TEXT SPINNING:

On the left side is MetalBlock's spinned text and on the right side, we have the source goldencurrency WP.

Hello. You read the messages? wrote that we're crooks and you don't answer.

https://goldencurrency.world/white_paper_eng.pdf

Word for word copy:

https://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/gold-market.html

https://bitrezus.com/ico-ieo-sto-development/

Archive of the website: https://web.archive.org/web/20200308180912/https://metalblock.io/
Archive of the ANN: http://archive.md/Z7B3C
Archive of the whitepaper: https://web.archive.org/web/20200308181013/https://metalblock.io/whitepaper.pdf

alexgeller22

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We company who does extraction of gold is not Kotia Hedge ltd. Kotia Hedge is only in charge of smart contracts for this project. DBD International is the company who is in charge of extraction processes and is duly incorporated under the laws of the Ivory Coast. DBD has a license permission for extraction of gold approved by the Government. Here is the link, you may double check from official website of Cadastre of Ivory coast http://portals.flexicadastre.com/cotedivoire/en/
All data regarding mineral report and geological analyses is disclosed publicly https://metalblock.io/documents/

alexgeller22

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Quote from: AlexSimion on March 09, 2020, 06:20:34 AM

Quote from: alexgeller22 on March 09, 2020, 06:01:30 AM

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Your company was registered 3 weeks ago , So I find it a bit odd that a "big" company able to back a token by gold only got registered a few weeks ago

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You mean the company kotia hedge?

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Quote from: alexgeller22 on March 09, 2020, 06:01:30 AM

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Your company was registered 3 weeks ago , So I find it a bit odd that a "big" company able to back a token by gold only got registered a few weeks ago

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alexgeller22

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Quote from: morvillz7z on March 08, 2020, 01:12:01 PM

What happened: MetalBlock have plagiarized their WP off various places, absolutely no links to sources present.

Reference Link: https://metalblock.io/

Announced by: alexgeller22

ANN: [ANN] Metal Block ⚡ A Token Backed by Gold ⚡

Flag 1: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1437

MetalBlock's whitepaper is highly plagiarized, they are also using text spinners to avoid detection which i find even more damning.
Another gold-backed ERC20 shit token on the horizon as if we don't have enough of those already.

Some good ol' TEXT SPINNING:

On the left side is MetalBlock's spinned text and on the right side, we have the source goldencurrency WP.

https://goldencurrency.world/white_paper_eng.pdf

Word for word copy:

https://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/gold-market.html

https://bitrezus.com/ico-ieo-sto-development/

Archive of the website: https://web.archive.org/web/20200308180912/https://metalblock.io/
Archive of the ANN: http://archive.md/Z7B3C
Archive of the whitepaper: https://web.archive.org/web/20200308181013/https://metalblock.io/whitepaper.pdf

Hello Dear , Thank you for your comment and attention to this project. Let us clarify once again all points in order to avoid any misunderstandings in the future.
First, the person, who was hired to do white paper probably took some inspiration in writing from other sources. Since, exist similar projects with a similar concept. And he is already facing the consequences, be sure. But the fact is – not white paper, it’s about documentation and proofs.
Second, The Metalblock project is REAL. Every single documentation about mineral report, geological analyses , and license permission can be checked and double-checked in real time in the official sources. Here is the link. https://metalblock.io/documents/ And all of them are disclosed in a clear and transparent way.
Third, if you are really interested in investment into this project, we are more than happy to give you more information, facts and proofs to make you sure in reality of this project. Thank you for your comment. We appreciate it.

rhomelmabini

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The OP of it already defend it with the good old alibis again that have already made millions out of it, these people really don't know when to stop scamming innocent individuals. This isn't cool to see that they'll just take action when busted.

Quote from: alexgeller22 on March 08, 2020, 03:46:39 PM

The Metalblock project is REAL. Every single documentation can be checked and double-checked on the official sourses. The person, who was hired to do white paper probably took some parts from net. Since, exist similar projects. And he is already facing the consequences, be sure. But the fact is – not white paper, it’s about documentation and proofs. And all of them are disclosed in a clear and transparent way. Thank you for your comment. We appreciate it and will fix immediately.

I've been eyeing a project that has the same case as they plagiarized and most of their introduction on their whitepaper but one thing is they referenced it on their reference chapter but the whitepaper itself lacks other info what they really could bring on the project. My question is do it provides legitimacy and professionalism if they just copied almost all of their intro on other articles found on the net because IMO I guess it's not? Yeah, they referenced it's quite not nice to see how they've done it. I'll be posting it once I get enough opinions from the community.

morvillz7z

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What happened: MetalBlock have plagiarized their WP off various places, absolutely no links to sources present.

Reference Link: https://metalblock.io/

Announced by: alexgeller22

ANN: [ANN] Metal Block ⚡ A Token Backed by Gold ⚡

Flag 1: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1437

MetalBlock's whitepaper is highly plagiarized, they are also using text spinners to avoid detection which i find even more damning.
Another gold-backed ERC20 shit token on the horizon as if we don't have enough of those already.

Some good ol' TEXT SPINNING:

On the left side is MetalBlock's spinned text and on the right side, we have the source goldencurrency WP.

https://goldencurrency.world/white_paper_eng.pdf

Word for word copy:

https://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/gold-market.html

https://bitrezus.com/ico-ieo-sto-development/

Archive of the website: https://web.archive.org/web/20200308180912/https://metalblock.io/
Archive of the ANN: http://archive.md/Z7B3C
Archive of the whitepaper: https://web.archive.org/web/20200308181013/https://metalblock.io/whitepaper.pdf

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