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$70M EOS ICO: GitHub Commit “Remove Cruft, Rename BitShares – Eos” (github.com/eosio)
4 points by mbgaxyz on June 29, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


https://eos.io/purchaseagreement/EOS%20Token%20Purchase%20Ag...

2.2. No U.S. Buyers. The EOS Tokens are not being offered to U.S. persons. U.S. persons are strictly prohibited and restricted from using the EOS Distribution Contract, using the EOS Token Contact and/or purchasing EOS Tokens and Company is not soliciting purchases by U.S. persons in any way. If a U.S. person uses the EOS Distribution Contract, uses the EOS Token Contract and/or purchases EOS Tokens, such person has done so and entered into this Agreement on an unlawful, unauthorized and fraudulent basis and this Agreement is null and void. Company is not bound by this Agreement if this Agreement has been entered into by a U.S. person as Buyer or Buyer has entered into this Agreement or has purchased EOS Tokens on behalf of a U.S. person, and Company may take all necessary and appropriate actions, in its sole discretion, to invalidate this Agreement, including referral of information to the appropriate authorities. Any U.S. person who uses the EOS Distribution Contract, uses the EOS Token Contract and/or purchases EOS Tokens or enters this Agreement on an unlawful, unauthorized or fraudulent basis shall be solely liable for, and shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless block.one and block.one’s respective past, present and future employees, officers, directors, contractors, consultants, equity holders, suppliers, vendors, service providers, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, representatives, predecessors, successors and assigns (collectively, the “block.one Parties”) from any damages, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses of any kind, whether direct or indirect, consequential, compensatory, incidental, actual, exemplary, punitive or special and including, without limitation, any loss of business, revenues, profits, data, use, goodwill or other intangible losses (collectively, the “Damages”) incurred by a block.one Party that arises from or is a result of such U.S. person’s unlawful, unauthorized or fraudulent use of the EOS Distribution Contract, unauthorized use of the EOS Token Contract and/or the receipt or purchase of EOS Tokens.


The current contributed ETH: 551,764 , estimated MCAP $760,396,838 USDT.

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That's some "defensive coding" right there.


I noticed the license on this repo is "All Rights Reserved" until 2018, at which point it reverts to MIT.

It also has 46 forks at the time of writing. Is forking All Rights Reserved code technically a breach of license? I'd never actually considered the implications of that button on such a license before.




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