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On today's show:
The two co-founders of MyEtherWallet, one of the world's most popular Ethereum wallets have made the decision to go their own separate ways with their own separate wallets.
This kind of change can cause people a lot of concern so allow me to explain what is going on.
So MyEtherWallet then
https://www.myetherwallet.com/#view-wallet-infoThis is a an online Ethereum wallet that has fast become one of the most important tools in the Ethereum ecosystem because it provides a way to store and manage all manner of Ethereum based ICOs and tokens.
In fact yesterday I conducted my 1 day crypto investing workshop and teaching the students about MyEtherWallet was a core part of the day.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DsJ_b6Y2OvNuXdqxzqmtAMXvm0OCTy4tYSVFem4KYxA/edit#slide=id.g328ab9ccff_0_13 The way I describe MyEtherWallet is like it is a sock puppet….
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And as you can see when you go to MyEtherWallet.com:
https://www.myetherwallet.com/#view-wallet-infoYou can drive it in a variety of different ways from software wallets to hardware wallets.
Suffice to say it has become very popular and is recommended by many ICO projects.
MyEtherWallet was co-founded by a lady called Taylor Monahan and fellow called Kosala Hemachandra back in 2015.
I never really heard much from the MyEtherWallet team beyond project updates and reassurance about potential scams etc.
Then came this Tweet:
https://twitter.com/mycrypto/status/961769008436400128Which announced that MyEtherWallet had rebranded as MyCrypto.
Which was weird because I wondered how they got over 80,000 followers on Twitter within a few days.
I think the answer to this is because this used to be the MyEtherWallet Twitter account and has been rebranded, including the account name itself.
This is confirmed by Kosala in this Reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7wgnds/official_myetherwallet_statement/This is also where he clarifies that he was the original creator and developer of MyEtherWallet and brought his friend Taylor on to help him out with the business end of things.
Long story short Taylor and Kosala have decided to end their business relationship and create their own competing versions of MyEtherWallet.
Kosala, the original developer behind MyEtherWallet will continue developing MyEtherWallet, albiet with a brand new Twitter account, and Taylor will lead her new project called MyCrypto with the old MyEtherWallet Twitter account rebranded as MyCrypto.
Then there is this blog post from the newly formed MyCrypto team which consists
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcfKt3M2qvw