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7 Months After Ethereum dApps Bet Was Made, Joseph Lubin Still Quiet On The Matter

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Jimmy Song

Bitcoin engineer-turned-instructor Jimmy Song has said that seven months after Joseph Lubin announced a public bet with him concerning the future of Ethereum, the ConsenSys CEO is yet to put his money where his mouth is. It will be recalled that at Consensus 2018 in May, Lubin and Song announced an audacious wager onstage at the event for “any amount of bitcoin” on the premise that the availability of decentralized apps with real user traction will become widespread within five years.

Although the bet was publicised at the time with Lubin in support and Song on the opposing side, the terms and conditions of the wager were left to be ironed out subsequently. In a Twitter post  on December 22 however, Song alleged that despite Lubin’s bullish words and consistently confident tone on the subject of building a new decentralised paradigm on Ethereum, he has yet to put any money behind his prediction, which according to him shows that Lubin is not to be taken serious.

Responding to a tweet posted by Lubin, Song wrote:

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