Shame Boy posted:

i see we're at the pets dot com dog stage

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fins posted:

Justin Sun update: Grenada's ruling party changed in the recent election. New Government will be recalling all ambassadors.

There is a very high chance that "his excellency" Justin Sun will be stripped of his post. Having drinks with some folks later that will give me a better idea of the timeline.

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Shageletic posted:

Also Justin sun update

https://mobile.twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1546026281266909185

Shageletic posted:

Also Justin sun update

https://mobile.twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1546026281266909185

Shageletic posted:

Also Justin sun update

https://mobile.twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1546026281266909185

trucutru posted:

This is the first time I see this type of wikipedia disclaimer



This is the guy who escaped to Grenada, right?

Beeftweeter posted:

yeah there was a verge article about him too i think? everyone they interviewed was afraid he'd have them killed lol

quote:

LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - The world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, continued to process trades by clients in Iran despite U.S. sanctions and a company ban on doing business there, a Reuters investigation has found.

In 2018, the United States reimposed sanctions that had been suspended three years earlier as part of Iran's nuclear deal with major world powers. That November, Binance informed traders in Iran it would no longer serve them, telling them to liquidate their accounts.

But in interviews with Reuters, seven traders said they skirted the ban. The traders said they continued to use their Binance accounts until as recently as September last year, only losing access after the exchange tightened its anti-money laundering checks a month earlier. Until that point, customers could trade by registering with just an email address.

"There were some alternatives, but none of them were as good as Binance," said Asal Alizade, a trader in Tehran who said she used the exchange for two years until September 2021. "It didn't need identity verification, so we all used it."

Eleven other people in Iran beyond those interviewed by Reuters said on their LinkedIn profiles that they too traded crypto at Binance after the 2018 ban. None of them responded to questions.

The exchange's popularity in Iran was known inside the company. Senior employees knew of, and joked about, the exchange's growing ranks of Iranian users, according to 10 messages they sent to one another in 2019 and 2020 that are reported here for the first time. "IRAN BOYS," one of them wrote in response to data showing the popularity of Binance on Instagram in Iran.

Binance did not respond to Reuters' questions about Iran. In a March blog post, published in response to Western sanctions on Russia, Binance said it "follows international sanction rules strictly" and had assembled a "global compliance task force, including world-renowned sanctions and law enforcement experts." Binance said it used "banking grade tools" to prevent sanctioned people or entities from using its platform.

qirex posted:

gee I wonder why all these places dragged their feet so hard on kyc/aml

this is an excellent way to get just royally owned by the us government

quote:

Lawyers say this structure means Binance is protected from direct U.S. sanctions that ban U.S. firms from doing business in Iran. This is because the traders in Iran used Binance's main exchange, which is not a U.S. company.

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

i'm morbidly curious as to what this entails. is there a mode that somehow makes images uglier when you save them? or is it about how to automate photoshop actions so that it generates and saves every possible combinations for your layers?

qirex posted:

it's awesome how big business blockchain projects are launching just as the whole space is falling apart

HappyHippo posted:

i feel like these are all projects that started 8 months ago and now they're ready for production and whoops, nobody cares about that anymore

see also: gamestop's nft marketplace

haveblue posted:

see along: square-enix selling some absolutely plum studios and IPs and then having to immediately deny it was to fund crypto poo poo

quote:

To shore things up, NFT projects have turned to a new kind of role: the vibes manager.

Also known at some companies as a “chief vibes officer” or “director of vibes”, the vibes manager is something of a cross between a marketer, influencer and investor relations officer, tasked with promoting NFT projects to newcomers while reassuring existing funders. The goal? To keep things positive, no matter what.

“Vibes are everything,” explained tropoFarmer, a thirtysomething Minnesota resident who was one of the first buyers of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs (one of the most hyped and expensive collections) and is an advocate for vibes management. “There are ways that you can swing trade based on the momentum that is, for the most part, built on vibes.”

haveblue posted:

see along: square-enix selling some absolutely plum studios and IPs and then having to immediately deny it was to fund crypto poo poo

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

or ubisoft's worthless hat garbage in that rainbow six game which they ended up shutting down like a month after introducing the nfts

Beeftweeter posted:

yeah there was a verge article about him too i think? everyone they interviewed was afraid he'd have them killed lol

quote:

BitTorrent’s C-suite executives, just in from San Francisco, were ferried from Hotel Shangri-La in Beijing to a coworking space and led into a glass-enclosed conference room. Sun took the head of the table and read a typed speech, calling himself “Chairman Mao,” telling the C-suite executives they were “his generals” and that, together, they would massacre their competition. “People were feeling uncomfortable and incredulous at the euphemisms and metaphors,” a person who was present said. When Sun finished, BitTorrent’s CEO made a key observation: “Weren’t all of Mao’s generals killed?” To which Sun supposedly confirmed, “Yes, yes.”

Plank Walker posted:

gives new meaning to "un banked" as well

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I've heard that the sponsors got really mad," Venturelli says. "They tried to break into the talk while I was talking, but the organization would not let them. That doesn't surprise me, because the organization, not at a single point did they censor me, did they stop me from putting what I wanted on the slides. I gave them access to the slides before the talk. There was never any kind of intention on their side to shut me up or anything like that.

njsykora posted:

king poo poo, both the talk and the convention taking the blockchain idiots money and also approving an event sanctioned dunk on them
https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1546517744455229440

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There's the uncanny resemblance between these profit-driven grifts and pyramid schemes, but there's also the philosophical concern that things like cryptocurrency represent a libertarian ideal founded in paranoia about institutions, and about other human beings. That, Venturelli says, is in part why they're so inefficient in the first place.

"Computationally, like in real life, if you don't trust the people that you're working with, you have to spend a lot more energy to achieve the same things," he says. "If I'm living with you in the same house and we don't trust each other, I have to, every time before I leave my house, hide my valuables. I have to make inventory of the things that I own, and maybe put cameras or locks inside of things. When I come back home I need to check everything and see if you messed with any of my stuff, and make sure that you don't get into my room when I'm sleeping and all that poo poo.

"It's so much energy that I have to use just to exist in a room with you, because I don't trust you. That, I feel, is a very good metaphor about how computationally blockchain works, and what is the underlying philosophical idea behind it, which is, 'We want a world without any sort of centralized authority because we cannot trust any of them ever.' And that is the opposite of what we want as a society, in my opinion."

Malloc Voidstar posted:

https://www.theverge.com/c/22947663/justin-sun-tron-cryptocurrency-poloniex

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“Weren’t all of Mao’s generals killed?” To which Sun supposedly confirmed, “Yes, yes.”

lol

fisting by many posted:

this is a good quote

quote:

Venturelli did eventually bring his talk back to the future of game design, adding that he'd fooled everyone again—he wasn't there just to rag on Web3. Venturelli's indie studio Rogue Snail is working on a looter-shooter called Relic Hunters Legend that's putting into practice some of his ideals, attempting to build trust and community between players with "more human" F2P monetization and a looking-for-group system built around helping others.

"Right now we are living in a crisis of trust in Western society—trust in each other, in institutions, and even in our future together is in decline," Venturelli says. "We should be building systems that help connect people and build trust, build sustainable solutions, and build infinitely scalable human solutions. We should not be shifting away from culture, entertainment, and storytelling towards economic activity. We should not just be eliminating the final hiding places that we have to run away from the oppression of capitalist society."

fisting by many posted:

this is a good quote