Daniel Larimer, the founder of EOS, BitShares, and Steemit, has predicted that a biblical apocalypse, specifically the one described in ‘Revelations,’ will occur next week.

Specifically, he believes October 9 will be “the last great day” and warned his followers they must be “ready for sudden destruction.”

This has been a theory that Larimer has been advancing recently, even releasing a YouTube video that attempts to explain the prediction. However, he’s far from the first to foresee the end of the world. Indeed, it’s so common there’s a Wikipedia page dedicated to it. 

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Larimer has also published a Biblical Tribulation Survival Guide with the subtitle ‘October 9, 2024.’ Some highlights of the document include:

• that god “described the very dimensions and nature of the nuclear missiles launched from submarines,” which will bring about this destruction
• that “the tribulation kicks off with Nuclear World War III during which a third of the world will be destroyed”
• that in 2029 we must worry about the “Apophis Asteroid,” about which we are warned that NASA may be lying and that god could nudge into Earth if he wanted.

However, all is not lost. Larimer’s video takes the view that “an occasional false alarm is better than the failure to warn people to pay attention to incredible activity in the stars.” 

And when we inevitably find out that this was another false alarm, chances are Larimer will employ the same tactic as many others before him — claim he was mistaken in his calculations, and announce a new date.

Of course, if by some miracle Larimer is right and we do find ourselves attacked by “a lion, a bear, and a serpent,” we’ll do our best to let you know which blockchain holds up best.

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While EOS is rarely mentioned as a blockchain with a real-world use case, the cryptocurrency has proven to be very useful in the latest extradition of an Uzbek national living in Ukraine: Nikita Sklyuev, also known as Valeriy Dorojkin, was finally extradited this week to face charges related to wire fraud from 2019.

According to documents from the 2019 charges, Sklyuev created a fake EOS wallet explorer that was able to access the private keys of a user who held over two million EOS — valued at $11.8 million at the time — and move the crypto onto Binance and Bitfinex, where he then traded into Ethereum and eventually cashed out.

Over half the stolen EOS has not been touched yet and is currently valued at about $640,000 — a decline of 86% from when it was hacked.

Sklyuev hacked the ‘Hodgetwins’ — a Republican-leaning comedy duo with millions of followers — back in 2018 according to an old Steemit post.

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Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and the Western District of New York

It’s unclear what the 37 year-old Uzbek national was doing in Ukraine, but his presence in the Western-aligned nation certainly made his extradition easier.

Sklyuev arrived in the US on June 20th, with his mugshot circulating on Facebook upon his arrival.

Sklyuev faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 — though he is likely to spend less than 20 years behind bars.

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