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I wish I had never backed this train wreck. The last 'update' I got from Atari was that they're building a cryptocurrency casino: www.casinoatari.com That didn

• faraggi 7y ago
  Nothing inherently wrong with crypto itself, but yeah that project looks really scammy and has little to do with Atari, IMO.
  • wpietri 7y ago
    There's nothing inherently wrong with snake oil [1], either. [1] That is, "mineral oil often mixed with various active and inactive household herbs, spices, and compounds": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
    • brewdad 7y ago
      Unless the snake oil salesman convinces you to consume aquarium cleaner.
  • Aaronstotle 7y ago
    I agree, even though there are a plethora of scams in the crypto-world (I'd say 90% of projects are scams), crypto gets a lot of hate. I assume it's because people were burned early on during the 2017 craze. That's also when every company realized VCs would throw money with anything related to the word blockchain.
• Nextgrid 7y ago
  Kodak (or whoever has bought the rights to the name) tried to start some stupid cryptocurrency. Worse, the investors actually bought into the bullshit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KodakCoin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KodakCoin
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  • dole 7y ago
    Not only start a silly cryptocurrency but got into the mining hardware business [1]. As a number of family members were and are lifelong photographers, seeing Kodak's long fall from grace was particularly hurtful for nostalgia's sake. [1] https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/11/kodak-kashminer-bitcoin-mining-machines/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/11/kodak-kashminer-bitcoin-...