---
title: "The disappointing tea.xyz"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-disappointing-tea-xyz-cy502tws7
source_url: https://connortumbleson.com/2024/02/26/the-disappointing-tea-xyz/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-02-26T15:56:18.789Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:20:02.615Z
tags: ["github", "crypto"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 31
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# The disappointing tea.xyz

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 31 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

The post discusses the disappointment with tea.xyz, a token-based crypto platform, that is being abused by users to claim ownership of open source projects on GitHub through fraudulent pull requests.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://connortumbleson.com/2024/02/26/the-disappointing-tea-xyz/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ghost** · 1 upvotes

> I am just afraid of careless and unwanted accept of these PRs, because it can happen to everyone who has public repo and I don't think that it is so easy reversable (until it will check everytime if there is that file - but I am not sure that Tea will actually do this)

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Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#crypto](https://daily.dev/tags/crypto)

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