In Tron's (TRX) case, the project's whitepaper is plagiarized [0] from Filecoin's, and the CEO (Justin Sun) dumped 6 billion tokens [1] after pumping the price by announcing "partnerships" that turned out to be him hiring developers. TRX is the literal definition of a shitcoin, yet the price pumped 10x in less than 10 days.
[0]: http://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/08/trons-whitepaper-copied...
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7oky82/just...
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