[HN Gopher] Wonderland Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous... ___________________________________________________________________ Wonderland Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken Author : Centigonal Score : 47 points Date : 2022-01-28 21:43 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.vice.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.vice.com) | freitasm wrote: | Cryptocurrencies are a scammer's dream? | | Nah... | rednerrus wrote: | I would be more shocked if they weren't a fraudster. | trhway wrote: | >So, trust is an important element of that arrangement. | | you don't say... | b0sk wrote: | I'm shocked! utterly shocked.. reading this totally unexpected | news! | woodruffw wrote: | I don't know whether it was an oversight on their part, but Vice | fails to mention that "Michael Patryn" also isn't his original | name: it's Omar Dhanani[1]. His federal criminal record runs back | to 2004. | | [1]: https://amycastor.com/tag/michael-patryn/ | zamalek wrote: | The trough of disillusionment is coming. | api wrote: | Every time I think it's over it goes higher. Never | underestimate human gullibility. | | Also don't forget that there are two _huge_ use cases for this | stuff that are not going away: money laundering and flight | capital from authoritarian countries. Those use cases alone can | drive this even higher. | rednerrus wrote: | Isn't this part of what real estate in Vancouver and NYC are | for? | zamalek wrote: | We're far less intelligent than we think, as a species. | steelstraw wrote: | And flight from debased fiat. A lot of currencies are | inflating due to governments and central banks editing the | money database. They can't edit the decentralized ledger and | print more Bitcoin. That quality is under appreciated. | CPLX wrote: | Good to see that despite all the crypto skepticism the market is | maturing and seasoned veterans of the sector are stepping into | key roles. It's reassuring to see someone with deep and varied | experience in the core crypto skillset of creating and scaling | effective financial fraud. A welcome change from the | inexperienced first generation. | dbg31415 wrote: | Crypto is a pyramid scheme?! Nobody could have seen this coming! | ceejayoz wrote: | > I am of the opinion of giving second chances... | | OK, but this was #3. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-28 23:01 UTC)