NEO
NEO is a cryptocurrency designed for hosting smart contracts and decentralized applications. NEO uses a delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanism. NEO was launched in 2014 as AntShares in China.
Reviews for NEO
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Wasn't NEO just shot in the knee by the Chinese government? Why would you want to own an ETH clone facing regulatory destruction?
Full review2017-09-04
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A *Byzantine* *fault* *tolerant* consensus system's whole purpose is to be designed to handle ANY error or malicious behavior from a subset of the nodes and still reach consensus. In NEO, their system couldn't handle the most simple error of one node.
Full review2018-03-04
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Was just tipped off to the fact it costs 500 GAS (currently US$13k+) to deploy a single smart contract on the NEO network.
Just a *tad* pricey. 🤔
Full review2018-03-07
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Hilarious. #6 cryptocurrency NEO is just a 7-node system uber the control of a single party, and the code isn't designed to handle even a single, benign failure.... Chances of NEO NOT being broken right now: 0%.
Full review2018-03-04
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And yet NEO still maintains an ~$8B valuation despite proof that it's not even fault tolerant to a single consensus node failing, much less tolerant to Byzantine actors... not sure if the market is irrational or just ignorant.
Full review2018-03-04
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Whenever an ICO is run on NEO, you will see complaint after complaint of the network being down or wallets not working. This is not characteristic of a blockchain capable of 1000 transactions per second.
Full review2018-02-25
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I don't know that much about NEO, but I'm generally skeptical. I also generally don't care for this author but figured I'd share. NEO holders, beware.
Full review2017-12-19
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NEO's "Ethereum but China" pitch reminds me of Litecoin's "Bitcoin but Scrypt" pitch in 2013. A long, dark winter followed.
Full review2017-08-13
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NEO is crashing so hard it's about to be rebranded as AntShares.
Full review2018-08-11
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