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Online chess tournaments have been sponsored by FTX and obscure poker companies with Malta ties. It is pretty embarrassing how chess pros and streamers hyped b
by zlqart 4y ago
Online chess tournaments have been sponsored by FTX and obscure poker companies with Malta ties.
It is pretty embarrassing how chess pros and streamers hyped bitcoin and online poker. The image will take a while to recover.
- Raidion 4y agoFTX sponsored the World Series and F1. You can't fault random streamers from accepting money from a company that's doing ads at the Superbowl. They're not professional auditors. Hyping crypto is a bit awkward, but that's how bubbles are. I don't get at all how it's awkward for people to hype online poker. Far better than slots or blackjack, and a very strategic game.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI have seen this criticism for some other video games, but it doesn't really resonate with me. At least for the examples I was aware of, they didn't so much hype them as simply take money as funding or normal advertising. I was surprised by how strong and negative the reaction by fans was.