“电子乞丐”惹众怒，Starknet、Scroll接连遭遇舆论危机

Original - Odaily

Author - Azuma

Recently, Starknet has experienced another controversial moment.

The cause of the incident is that Abdelhamid Bakhta (abdel.stark.eth), a core developer member of Starknet, recently openly called community users who asked about the airdrop status e-beggar (e-beggar) on social media; another developer od1n It is also suspected of using emoticons to insult users in the Chinese area; in addition, Starknet also added a new Electronic Beggar sub-channel in the official Discord channel, equipped with a bug icon;.

The Electronic Beggar subchannel within the official Starknet Discord.

od1n’s record of allegedly insulting users in the Chinese area

Since Starknet has been frequently rumored to be airdropped recently, but has yet to take any actual action, users who have been interested in it for several years are already approaching the critical point of emotional explosion. Not surprisingly, this operation by Abdelhamid and the official team directly This triggered the anger of some users.

As the incident unfolded, a large number of users began to politely express condolences to Abdelhamid and Starknet; some users also made various memes to ridicule Starknet; the funniest thing is that some users also dug up od1ns early posts on X ( (It was still Twitter at the time) frequently discussed the face-slapping record of potential airdrops of various projects. After thinking that od1n I am the project owner after rebirth, he turned his back and disowned others.

Community-generated meme images.

One of the early records of od1n frequently discussing potential airdrops

Seeing that public opinion was gradually getting out of control, Abdelhamid issued an urgent apology yesterday evening, admitting that his use of the term electronic beggar was inappropriate, and explained that he only thought it was fun at first and did not consider the consequences of the wording. In addition, Uri had recently suffered from family health issues. Question resigned as one of the CEOs of StarkWare, which further controlled his emotions and reacted too strongly.

Later, Starknet also deleted the Electronic Beggar sub-channel in the official Discord channel.

Although many users expressed understanding after Abdelhamid apologized, there are still many users who did not buy it and continued to output below Abdelhamids apology statement.

It is worth mentioning that after this public turmoil, the electronic beggar concept meme coins EBG and EBGR on Starknet both experienced skyrocketing prices, and are quite regarded as the representative memes of this ecology...

Odaily Note: Please be wary that meme coins fluctuate greatly and investment risks are high.

Coincidentally, Starknet is not the only project that has recently caused public outrage due to the electronic beggar incident. Scroll has also been in trouble. Scroll senior researcher Toghrul Maharramov has recently directly called users electronic beggars when confronting each other, and even directly used malicious words like fxxk when posting a post mocking users for winning airdrops.

Like Starknet, Toghruls comments quickly earned Scroll the wrath of the community.

The deep-seated contradictions reflected in several incidents that have occurred one after another are actually ideological differences between the project party and users, including the Wool Party.

How to define real users and woolists is difficult to evaluate. Even if many users original intention of using a certain project is for airdrops, most users often perform many directional operations with clear purposes during the interaction process. These actual usage behaviors will be reflected in the network data; conversely, few users are really willing to give up the airdrop income and simply make free contributions.

For the project side, the team hopes to distribute the tokens to more so-called real users in order to maintain the fundamentals of the project after the token issuance. This is understandable in itself, but the team can quietly proceed based on its own understanding of the witches behavior. Strict address screening and staring at differences every day for verbal output are really unnecessary. In addition to accidentally hurting some real users, it will not improve the overall interactive image of the project.

Taking a step back, since the development of the Web3 industry, you want my data, I will provide you with airdrops has long been a tacit understanding in the industry. Although this concept is not so correct, there are already unclear differences between the two parties on the demand side. It is obviously unwise to emphasize differences too much in such an entangled state.

As far as this incident is concerned, Starknet and Scroll’s repeated attempts to undermine users’ airdrop intentions can be characterized as a major public relations mistake. From the perspective of project development, technology development is important, but operating methods cannot be ignored. We are very happy to see the innovations brought by Starknet and Scroll in non-EVM environment Rollup and equivalent EVM Rollup, and we do not hope that they will Because of such a low-level mistake, it was nailed to the opposite side of the user.

The journey of Web3 is still long, and it is not yet time to regard internal differences as the main contradiction. Everyone is still a force that can be united.