The founder of Tesla and Spacex, Elon Musk, seems to still be impressed by Twitter scambots – algorithms that automatically reply to messages by high profile accounts with false promises of giveaways. Back in July he sounded like he wanted to offer the programmers behind them a job, tweeting: “I want to know who is running the Etherium (sic) scambots! Mad skillz …”. He’s apparently so impressed with their performance, he’s now joked, “At this point, I want ETH even if it is a scam.”
Mycrypto, the client-side tool for generating ETH wallets created by Myetherwallet founder Taylor Monahan, has announced today it raised $4 million in a Series A round of funding led by Polychain Capital. Additional investors include Boost VC Fund 3 LP, Mainframe’s Mick Hagen, Chance Du (Coefficient Ventures), Ausum Blockchain Fund LP, early Dropbox employee Albert Ni and Earn Co-Founder Lily Liu (4T Global LLC). “We believe today one of the major bottlenecks to cryptocurrency adoption is the lack of an easy-to-use interface for average people. Mycrypto is led by hardcore cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and is well-positioned to onboard the next one hundred million cryptocurrency users,” said Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder and CEO of Polychain Capital.
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