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A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house

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Re: A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house

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Post by MyOutfitIsVague »

Etheryte wrote: post #55
oefrha wrote: post #42

I had a look at the community feed thingy on the right-hand side of https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zerebro/ , oh boy, never have I seen such a high concentration of scammers scamming each other in broad daylight. You'll find real gems like "Amazon" (shown as "Amazon" with Amazon logo, with the handle @nk1dfpb3fmjp conveniently hidden) announcing "the next era of digital transactions with the Am⁦az⁦on To⁦ken (AM…

I don't know what I expected, but I sure was not ready for my eyes to bleed this much at this hour: > Co⁦⁦⁦⁦i⁦nMar⁦ketCap is d⁦ropp⁦ing dia⁦monds, fa⁦m! This air⁦d⁦rop is rugproof, rea⁦dy to pump. Stack fr⁦ee ba⁦gs!

You missed the URL for that one:

> $ZEREBRO penispillreviews.com ⁦⁦⁦⁦ And yeah, that looks like an actual crypto website. This is bizarre. It's like they're rolling with the "we're totally a scam" angle.

Re: A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house

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Post by aurareturn »

ConfusedDog wrote: post #8

I remember being called to a dinner which was paid for (figures). A couple well-dressed but fashionable guys tried to sell a crypto that ask you play a mobile game or something to earn coins which can be converted into real crypto? or something like that. There were a couple people at the dinner I know being constantly fallen into this kind of traps, including MLM, despite their success in their businesses. Well, the…

  real crypto
Oxymoron right here.

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Post by aaronax »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #49
fullstop wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can keep telling yourself that, but there's enough utility and momentum behind it that it is not going anywhere. I'm saying this as a person with no stake in the matter, just observing from the sidelines.

What is the utility behind it? I don't see people using to actually do any transactions because of the volatility and fluctuating transaction fees. Scams can have momentum behind them

True fiscal self-sovereignty. Albeit quite volatile.

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Post by ggandv »

fullstop wrote: post #41
askl wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You can keep telling yourself that, but there's enough utility and momentum behind it that it is not going anywhere. I'm saying this as a person with no stake in the matter, just observing from the sidelines.

Ditto baseball cards.

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Post by aurareturn »

pantulis wrote: post #9
jackcosgrove wrote: post #3

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Not sure if all crypto is a scam necessarily, but sure that world is chock full of scammers trying to out-scam each other.

  Not sure if all crypto is a scam necessarily, but sure that world is chock full of scammers trying to out-scam each other.
It's all scams. Even if the coin itself is not a total scam, the exchanges do some of the most shady things you can imagine. They'll actively trade against their customers. They'll do insider trading, rugpull their customers, gets "hacked" by an insider and steal all your coins, etc.

Even BTC and ETH are shady. ETH should have been classified as security. BTC is an environmental disaster and centralized by a few large miners.

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Post by rdtsc »

ceejayoz wrote: post #24
rdtsc wrote: post #20

> “You can see the PTSD in my eyes, right?” he said before telling this reporter to leave. He was dead, with an obituary even and now back to being alive. Why the PTSD?! He should be rejoicing! /s But I wonder, is faking your death on social media a crime? If he still paid taxes I guess he might be legally out of the woods, just based on the faking part, not related to the scamming thing.

> But I wonder, is faking your death on social media a crime? If it's for financial benefit, it's criminal fraud.

Agree, that would make sense. I can see if he was just some artist and doing it as performance art or to make some commentary a topic, he could defend it as such. But with cryptocurrency involved it looks like fraud.

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Post by watwut »

xvector wrote: post #51
pc86 wrote: post #21

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Software engineers are just normal people. Our brains are not "special." This (objectively incorrect) mental model of software devs is very harmful if you want to actually understand things going on around you.

Nah. I assume you have friends inside and outside of software? Software people are just different from the normal person. Way different. I couldn't put my two friend groups together. Are they "special?" Maybe, maybe not.

No, we are not different then normal people.

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Post by fullstop »

ceejayoz wrote: post #56
fullstop wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can keep telling yourself that, but there's enough utility and momentum behind it that it is not going anywhere. I'm saying this as a person with no stake in the matter, just observing from the sidelines.

Bernie Madoff's investments had a lot of utility and momentum for decades, too.

This is true but his records were well hidden, and the Bitcoin ledger is public.

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Post by fullstop »

ggandv wrote: post #64
fullstop wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can keep telling yourself that, but there's enough utility and momentum behind it that it is not going anywhere. I'm saying this as a person with no stake in the matter, just observing from the sidelines.

Ditto baseball cards.

You can't send baseball cards instantly across the world and you have no guarantee of their authenticity.
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