Mathias Groennebaek

It is all a trap for retail investors to get robbed.

Stellar is there because Stellar and Ripple are equally Ponzi schemes. Stellar is a Ripple fork started by Jed McCaleb, the guy who started Mt. Gox. Jed is the king of getting hacked and disappearing with the money.

IOTA is garbage.

Tether is still shady as fuck though, but as a principle it could be applied to other tokens and is an interesting development.

Honestly, I don't understand the whole EOS thing. Why people decided out of all the companies in the world that could run a federated permissioned ledger that it should be one run by people with a track record of borderline fraud I will never understand.

I think Augurs approach leaves something to be desired. Disincentivizing it by demonetizing it is not strong enough IMO.

Bancor is all the risk of a centralized exchange, with none of the benefits like instant multilateral execution, and settlement guarantees. The worst of both worlds.

I like to hate on Ripple as much as the next guy, but in the interest of accuracy, Ripple the company can't directly freeze Ripples; they can censor transactions on the validating nodes they control, and gateways can freeze Ripples. That's what happened to Jed [McCaleb] on Bitstamp.

The whole premise the OmiseGo decentralized exchange is built on is flawed. You can't have an efficient market without execution guarantees. Plasma relies on bonding, fraud proofs, and penalizing, which only provides execution guarantee under the assumption of no bad actors.