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X @Ignas | DeFi
Ignas | DeFi· 2025-12-01 20:24
Over the weekend I watched 'Now You See Me: Now You Don’t'.Tried to switch off crypto for a bit.But in the opening scene they expose three crypto scammers who robbed people via their fake CEX.Not spoiling the rest, but every time crypto shows up in movies it’s the same story.We’re always shown as money launderers or loud tech guys flexing wealth.This view hasn’t improved over the years. If anything it got worse even after major wins.Today FT wrote about the crypto crash & Saylor and the comments are the usu ...
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Ivan on Tech 🍳📈💰· 2025-12-01 20:09
RT Heidi (@blockchainchick)Can anyone explain how this isn’t a ponzi scheme? ...
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Ivan on Tech 🍳📈💰· 2025-12-01 19:55
RT Ted (@TedPillows)Look at this post from Saylor.I now declare $MSTR as a ponzi scheme.This could end REALLY bad. Don't buy this crap. ...
X @Wu Blockchain
Wu Blockchain· 2025-11-28 08:12
Former FTX CEO SBF's Ponzi SchemeTutorialOn April 25, 2022, SBF explained "yield farming" on the Odd Lots podcast but unintentionally described a full-blown Ponzi scheme. He used an example of a "box" (a project) created with nothing more than an internet connection and a token issued out of thin air. With enough hype and influence, it could attract $200 million in investment. Prices rise because money flows in, and money flows in because prices rise. By the end of it, you realize — this isn’t innovation, i ...
Everybody Loves a Ponzi
Daily Reckoning· 2025-11-25 23:00
Everybody Loves a Ponzi‘Perhaps there is still time to defeat history.’-Daniel OliverMr. Oliver must be an unreconstructed optimist. An un-mugged Democrat. A man enjoying his first vote…or his second marriage.The history he is referring to is the one we know so well. It is the history of booms and busts…and of great nations laid low by the ‘fatal conceit’ of their leaders.All bubbles burst.All paper currencies become worthless.All empires decline and fall.it is a repeatable, predictable, investable history ...
X @mert | helius.dev
mert | helius.dev· 2025-11-18 15:45
this has played out exactly correct so far btwhttps://t.co/LHFjQWL4Rkmert | helius.dev (@0xMert_):it is funny they are openly bragging about a ponzi at this point> company commits to spending some money on cloud> cloud company "invests" money into the customer> customer uses that money to raise more money> infinite money glitchcrypto has trained us for this ...
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mert | helius.dev· 2025-11-18 15:32
it is funny they are openly bragging about a ponzi at this point> company commits to spending some money on cloud> cloud company "invests" money into the customer> customer uses that money to raise more money> infinite money glitchcrypto has trained us for thisAnthropic (@AnthropicAI):We’ve formed a partnership with NVIDIA and Microsoft.Claude is now on Azure—making ours the only frontier models available on all three major cloud services.NVIDIA and Microsoft will invest up to $10bn and $5bn respectively in ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 02:59
RT Timcast News (@TimcastNews)Eliyahu Weinstein, a convicted Ponzi schemer whose 24-year sentence was commuted by President Trump in 2021, has now been sentenced to 37 years in prison for a NEW $41 million fraud scheme targeting more than 150 investors. https://t.co/aoiVj8eiih ...