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I cannot imagine such a swindle being attempted in the US today, much less successfully. I feel a little sadness for that. There is something attractive about
by dzdt 6y ago
I cannot imagine such a swindle being attempted in the US today, much less successfully.
I feel a little sadness for that.
There is something attractive about a place where so many crazy things are possible. Not that I would trade my existence for that one, but I feel something akin to nostalgia for the wide-open possibilities of such a place.
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- pyrophane 6y agoI don't know, I look at the world of cryptocurrencies and things like NFTs and think, man, there are some pretty wild swindles going on right now! Things that Mr. McMahon would never imagined possible when he put 480" on those designs.
- roywiggins 6y agoCrypto is already there. Swap a O and a 0 and you get a 31m swindle: https://obelisk.medium.com/meerkat-finance-and-the-0-that-was-worth-31m-769d9321d245 https://obelisk.medium.com/meerkat-finance-and-the-0-that-wa...
- bombcar 6y agoNowadays similar things get out to the public and bored internet people pick them apart. The best scams these days are hidden under NDA so you never hear of them (one hired someone to disprove maxwell’s equation as that was needed to run their over unity device. So he developed tests that could show if maxwell was right or wrong and collected the paycheck).
- cosmodisk 6y agoI do follow some of the shortsellers and read their reports on certain companies from time to time: America has no shortage of swindlers even today,only nowadays they have fancy job titles.