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Featured in FT Alphaville today. Is this real? Feels like FYRE 2.0 https://www.ft.com/content/c79ea41b-41c0-4900-90ee-6e6347449610 https://www.ft.com/content/c
by eisa01 5y ago
Featured in FT Alphaville today. Is this real? Feels like FYRE 2.0
https://www.ft.com/content/c79ea41b-41c0-4900-90ee-6e6347449610 https://www.ft.com/content/c79ea41b-41c0-4900-90ee-6e6347449...
https://cryptoland.is/ https://cryptoland.is/
- cinntaile 5y agoThey have a quote by Carlos Matos, from BitConnect fame. "We are changing the world as we know it." lol Probably fake.
- walrus01 5y agofor something fake clearly somebody, somewhere put a lot of time into doing the 3D modeling and animation. seems like a bit too much effort for satire.
- arcticbull 5y agoMatos found out they mentioned him in the video. He tweeted his displeasure. Trying to find it...
- CuriousCosmic 5y agoThat's because it basically is. I'm pretty involved in the cryptocurrency space and I haven't found a single person outside of the memecoin get rich types (see "Shiba Army") that thinks this is a good idea or seriously viable in any real way. Honestly I can do nothing but hope that the craze around cryptocurrency dies down so that these types go back to other get rich quick schemes and leave the actual researchers, engineers, and developers to their work.
- jmspring 5y agoThey eventually removed the request, but there was a group that wanted to create a blockchain utopia (smartcity) north of Reno, Nevada. https://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/07/blockchains-withdraws-innovation-zone-plan-northern-nevada/6046332001/ https://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/07/blockchai...
- lottin 5y agoAnother group actually bought a cruise ship, the Satoshi... a fascinating story. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voyage-satoshi-cryptocurrency-cruise-ship-seassteading https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya...