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Ethereum Founder Is Boycotting One of the Biggest Crypto Summits

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One of the biggest names in cryptocurrencies is boycotting one of the highest-profile conferences in the space.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted Thursday that he’s boycotting this year’s Consensus conference after CoinDesk, the news website that organizes the event, linked to a fraudulent website in one of its stories. Buterin, with almost 750,000 followers on Twitter, said he encourages others to say away from the event.