William Shatner, a renowned Canadian actor, author, producer, director and singer famous for his role in the mega-popular media franchise Star Trek, recently defended Ethereum and its technology. On November 7, Shatner tagged Vitalik Buterin, a co-creator of Ethereum, in a Tweet, publicly portraying his interest in cryptocurrencies and the blockchain. Several individuals responded to the statement of Shatner, falsely accusing Ethereum to be a scam due to its premine. Despite reportedly having more geographically distributed nodes in comparison to Bitcoin as shown by the research or Cornell professor Emin Gun Sirer, ... (full story)