• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would simply have not given real money to some company in the Bahamas in exchange for a token and a promise the token would be good for more money later. But I’m street smart like that.

    • ours@lemmy.world
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      They didn’t make their own crypto coin.

      I remember finding them in a list where they offered something like 8% interest if you deposited your bitcoins with them which was still fishy as hell. It looked like a sweet deal but I wondered how they managed to do that sustainably. I guess the answer was “they didn’t”.

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        I think you’re thinking about Celsius. SBF absolutely had his own coin, and it is tantamount to the whole FTX collapse. Their competitor owned a shit load of it, it was called FTT iirc. He then just decided to tweet out that they were selling all their FTT, and then everyone started selling FTT which started a run on the token.

        The company also pumped FTT and other tokens value through their hedge fund Alameda research. The man deserves every last day of sentencing.

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          I think you’re right. I must be mixing up all these crypto-based scams.

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            1 year ago

            It’s almost like crypto itself is one giant Ponzi scheme?! Forget I said that. It’s tHe FutUrE

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            Also, be glad you didn’t put money in Celsius. I have a friend that did for the interest that they were offering. It worked… Til it didn’t. He lost $50k.

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        And they’ll continue to commit fraud until they can’t kick the can anymore. Then they kick us because they have everything anyway.

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          No they won’t. There’s way more of us. They’ll take serious action and make heavy weights testify before congress. Court cases will follow and the news and speculation will be dizzying. Then as the trials slowly work their way through the courts they will be found not guilty or face mild slaps on the wrist or have to resign from ceo to a lesser role like vice ceo. And which ever rich person stole the most from other rich people will be thrown to wolves and the cycle will continue for another decade.

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    “Originally placed under house arrest, he was sent to jail in August for violations of his bail conditions, including using a VPN to watch a football game and leaking the diary entries of his ex-girlfriend”

    Ok I get the diary, that’s shitty…but using a VPN to watch football? That’s a normal Saturday afternoon.

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      When you’ve got bail conditions on the order of roughly a lifetime’s income riding on not using a VPN, I think you can skip football for a while.

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      leaking the diary entries of his ex-girlfriend

      August 4th
      Dear diary, I have tried once again in vain to get Sam to get a decent haircut. In the movie of your life you’re going to be played by Jesse Eisenberg, the least you could do is move over to his default haircut. It’s only courteous.

      Unless he listens not.

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    Try to incite an insurrection and steal an election: you’ll walk away with no consequences.

    Steal money from the rich: you will burn.

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    So, will all the conservative chuds who were convinced he was going to walk because he donates to the Democrats do any kind of follow-up on that theory?

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      While reading your comment I somehow managed to overlook the emojis initially and I just pictured you running outside with a bubble wand and a container of soapy water to celebrate.

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    It really is a mind fuck that I could walk out into the middle of the street in broad daylight in full view of 100 people, shoot someone in the head at point blank range, killing them and still end up with less time than this guy will most likely get so long as the person I murdered wasn’t well to do financially.