I have no comment…except the rubes will lap this up along with their spray-painted gold sneakers, trump bibles and flags. From CNBC:
Key Points
- Former president Donald Trump on Thursday promoted a soon-to-launch, Trump Organization crypto platform, “The DeFiant Ones” to his 7.5 million followers on Truth Social.
- “For too long, the average American has been squeezed by the big banks and financial elites,” Trump wrote. “It’s time we take a stand — together.”
- The post marks the first time the Republican nominee for president has used his personal platform to promote the as yet unactivated digital bank.
Former president Donald Trump on Thursday promoted a soon-to-launch, Trump Organization crypto platform, “The DeFiant Ones” to his 7.5 million followers on Truth Social.
“For too long, the average American has been squeezed by the big banks and financial elites,” Trump wrote. “It’s time we take a stand — together.”
The post marks the first time the Republican nominee for president has used his personal platform to promote the as yet unactivated digital bank. Within minutes, his son Donald Trump Jr., shared the post with his 12 million X followers.
Trump’s post includes a link to a Telegram channel called “The DeFiant Ones,” which had approximately 29,000 followers as of Thursday morning, and climbing.
Feel free to point and mock
Open thread
Ksmiami
I hope they lose all their money. Suckers
Thor Heyerdahl
“Soon to launch”
So…like TIFG’s infrastructure week then?
Jackie
@Ksmiami: And Losers!
BAHAAHAHAHAAAA!
Tom65
@Ksmiami: all of Trump’s “investors” eventually get burned.
HumboldtBlue
@Thor Heyerdahl:
Wait, I thought this week was Trump’s healthcare plan.
Raoul Paste
We may be in the “gran all the money we can before we flee“ phase.
matt
I like this division of labor where Democrats are president and Trump is in charge of scamming Republican voters out of their money.
brantl
I give it a week before it goes belly up.
Derelict
Shitler’s ShitCoin. Perfect.
Give him your actual dollars and he’ll give you worthless crap. You can keep it right next to your Trump NFT!
Shalimar
His whole campaign is a crypto scam, especially picking Vance instead of a human for VP. I think Vance is AI’s interpretation of an incel.
ALurkSupreme
I don’t get the spelling of DeFiant.
dmsilev
Donald Trump and crypto. Seems like this was an inevitable combination.
dmsilev
@ALurkSupreme: DeFi. Decentralized Finance. A euphemism for “completely unregulated, usually fraudulent-in-many-ways, crypto currencies”
Shalimar
@ALurkSupreme: you know it’s really Trump because random shit is capitalized for no reason.
geg6
@Ksmiami:
Fixed.
A Ghost to Most
The “Only WE! Have the Answers!” grift is as old as tribes, and has never lacked for gullible rubes.
Captain C
While this is true, TCFG is just pissed that he got busted for massive bank fraud, rather than being allowed to screw them like he did his contractors and service providers.
kindness
Trump shares some preachers moves at fleecing the flock. Let’s see, Trump’s stock has dropped 67% since it was listed 2 years ago. It’s dropped almost 10 points in the last week. Who in their right mind would invest in anything in this company? Especially imaginary money, because that’s all crypto is.
ALurkSupreme
@dmsilev: Grazie.
@Shalimar: Heh, indeedy.
KatKapCC
Endless eyerolls.
Almost Retired
Gotta give him credit for staying current with evolving scam technology. I’m sure he started his con career with three shells and a pea and has progressed to cryptocurrency.
Xavier
Well that was overdetermined (conman gonna con).
Old School
@kindness:
I read that Trump will be able to sell his stock in late September, so I assume there will some kind of plan to increase the Truth Social stock price when he plans on selling.
SFAW
@kindness:
The Venn diagram of “Trump supporters/investors” and “People not in their right mind” is a circle.
Frank Wilhoit
I will mock without pointing, if it is all the same to you.
rodwell
Once again TFCG is breaking all the norms of this country. Starting a business in the middle of a presidential campaign. Of course, no one in the MSM is even going to question this. One hand maybe they are doing one more fleecing of the rubes before they head to a nonextradition country after the election. However, I believe they think there are going win and then who is going to stop the scam bank they are setting up.
KatKapCC
@rodwell: If Kamala set up a lemonade stand, the right would be screaming about VIOLATION!!!!! loud enough to wake the dead.
HumboldtBlue
Once a proud coach, always a proud coach.
p.a.
He’s going to be selling shares in his unobtanium mines as well.
🤡
jonas
@Ksmiami: Trump’s schemes are scientifically engineered to make him money while his
marks“investors” lose everything. In a recent disclosure, he made something like $7 million on his stupid NFTs. They’re worth precisely nothing, but hey, he gets to re-upholster his jet.Harrison Wesley
Dude ran a casino into bankruptcy. In Atlantic City. I’m sure everything will be fine.
KatKapCC
@HumboldtBlue: I’m trying to imagine any group of people being that happy to see JD Vance.
Maybe the staff at Ikea.
Mike E
@dmsilev: ah, thanks. I thot it was a weird appeal to DeSantis voters, heh
Captain C
@KatKapCC: Only if he leaves without sampling the goods on premises.
Geo Wilcox
MONEY LAUNDERING. He’ll use this to fleece not only his cult but every tin pot dictator hoping to buy up influence. Much like the president of Egypt did in 2016 with his $10 million dollar “donation” to Trump.
KatKapCC
@Mike E: All 12 of them.
Ocotillo
Some cable bots were talking this AM about Trump appears to not really be interested in winning the election. Who really knows what is going on in that addled void inside his skull.
Nonetheless, this is an interesting experiment to see what percentage of the voting public will support an unqualified moron who appears to be deliberately tanking his election chances.
Highway Rob
Crypto: So you can buy drugs online.
Trump crypto: So you can buy mislabeled oregano and sweet & low online.
rodwell
@KatKapCC: You are correct. Kamala’s husband Doug gave up his law practice and I got to believe that Tim Walz wife Gwen has no outside business dealing. This is why I am proud to be Democrat. We do not put up with this. Ok I am from NJ, and we did allow Menendez a long runway on his corruption. But he is gone, and we will get Andy Kim which is a 1000 percent improvement.
Mike E
@KatKapCC: aka a JD Vantz rally
JML
I hate everything about this. He’s going to keep grifting money away from people who don’t really have it and wreck their lives, while filling them with resentment and hate towards anyone who is the slightest bit different from them, so when they’re struggling and failing they won’t blame the huckster who screwed them…it’ll be minorities of any stripe that bear their ire (and the Democratic Party).
It’s horrific. Disgusting. Cruel. Evil.
Lapassionara
Where is H.L. Mencken when you need him?
Portly Neighbor
Dear God, somebody please ask him to explain how it works.
mrmoshpotato
One step above “Give me all of your money, and I’ll give you nothing in return!”
KatKapCC
@Lapassionara: Spinning in his grave fast enough to power the entire Eastern seaboard, I imagine.
SFAW
@p.a.:
Wouldn’t that be more of a Melon Husk grift? The mines would be “almost next to Mummy and Daddy’s emerald mines, so we know it’s there.”
Josie
I’m not sure I understand this any better than I understand crypto. I assume that the idea is that people send him money. What do they get for their money? Does he hold it for them like a bank does? Do they supposedly make money somehow. I don’t follow.
Geminid
Last year I was checking out anti-Ukraine aid accounts on Twitter. It seemed like every other one was a crypto enthusiast. A lot of them were also anti-vaccers, and many complained about the “Climate Hoax” as well. Weird.
Of course many of these accounts may have been bots, but that’s also weird.
gene108
I’m going to have a very bonkers and lucid dream tonight, where reporters badger candidate Trump with questions on conflicts of interest setting up a crypto exchange will cause, if he wins.
The WaPo and NYT will have banner headlines on page one about the risks this conflict of interest could have for Trump’s decision making. This will be the dominant story on CNN for every segment they run from now until the election.
I’ll wake up tomorrow knowing it was only a dream. A very very weird dream.
mrmoshpotato
@Portly Neighbor: LOL! Someone ask any of these cryptoconmen how it works.
At least science (like protein folding) has an actual objective to all of the number crunching and computer cycles.
mrmoshpotato
@gene108: Many have an edible before bed? 😁
HumboldtBlue
When I’m linking to David Frum while shaking my had in agreement because I can’t fucking believe Frum is writing truthful statements and exposing the absurdity of Trump.
Baud
Crypto is spending a lot of money in this election. I could see this as a way for Trump to signal he’s one of them.
jonas
@KatKapCC: Not only that, set up a lemonade stand while simultaneously proposing that under her administration, lemon-related businesses would not be regulated or would receive a bunch of tax breaks and other incentives. Oh, and raised venture capital by offering people LemonCoin™ in return for cash.
As you observe, this would cause no heads whatsoever to explode at political newsdesks across the country.
CaseyL
@JML:
It’s a hard thing to say, but there exist people who are simply born saps. They’re incapable of connective reasoning, and become belligerent if not violent when challenged.
They’re never ever going to figure things out, but just keep lurching from one false idol/false hope/get-rich-quick-scheme to another.
There’s nothing we can do about or even for people like that. They’ve been around all through history and will always be around. The best we can hope for is that their kids don’t turn out like them.
Bill Arnold
@Old School:
The elderly felonious narcissistic conman’s media company is mostly a meme stock.
The current price-to-sales ratio is 810. Admitedly down from its peak of 1962. (Real companies have a price to sale ratio a lot closer to one.)
Trump Media & Technology Group PS Ratio: 809.88 for Aug. 22, 2024
ETA that means that it is very vulnerable to total collapse, which could be triggered by an attempt by Mr. DJT to sell a lot of shares. (Unless e.g. some billionaire decides to buy Trump’s stake in return for favors.)
Captain C
@Highway Rob: “You too, can own a piece of the Adderall that came flying out of Dear Leader’s nose!! Only 50 TrumpCoins!!”
oldster
Oh, it’s time we “take a stand” against the (((big banks))) and (((financial elites,))) is it?
Oh, yes. With Trump railing against the “Jewish” governor Shapiro this week, we are clearly moving into the outright anti-semitic segment of the program.
As Chris Rock said, that train is never late!
Ken
Excellent, we need that extra energy for the crypto and AI server farms.
rodwell
According to Mark Cuban, all Crypto bros are investing heavily in Trump. If he wins everything the crypto industry needs to steal will be approved and if there is a crash the US will backstop them. Hey, just like the big banks. This will make the GFC looks small in comparison.
MisterForkbeard
@Thor Heyerdahl: Nah. When it come to Trump grifting people and taking money from them, he can actually get things done
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Absolutely. I’ve been saying this for months. They were heavily involved in the ouster of Biden too, but it backfired on them.
Geminid
@Geo Wilcox: It could be harder for Trump to sell his influence now than in 2016. Foreign leaders and their advisors follow American politics as closely as most of us do, and Trump’s prospects have become dubious.
My guess is that most foreign leaders are rooting against Trump now, including the Gulf Arab leaders. These last know that the fickle and self-interested Trump is a chaos agent, and the last thing they need is a chaos agent in the White House. They want regional stability more than anything else.
3Sice
Trump to RNC:
Put it on my tab.
JaySinWA
Trump wants to gild Trump bucks with crypto so he can get his cut.
realbtl
Next scam- “These are my personal stocks that I own. Yours for (market price + 50%).
JaySinWA
@Baud:
No signal, he is either a direct competitor or is backed by one of them.
ETA have the Crypto bros formed a consortium backing one or more currencies?
Elizabelle
Oppositional DeFiant.
Trump knows his rubes very well. I hope he’s been badly advised and the DOJ and/or SEC come after this company warp speed.
FWIW, Truth Social’s parent company is Trump Media and Technology Group. TMTG. Easy to remember: The Moron That Grifts.
gvg
I doubt he understands this con well enough to make it work, and I wonder if he is finally committing a fraud crime he can be convicted on quickly and ordinary people understand the charges and testimony. At any rate we have got to crack down on crypto. Obviously they understand people are getting fed up, which is why they are spending so much on bribes and ads this election.
Trump is going to screw this up.
I’d like some smart groups to pay to have a lot of stuff streaming and on TV for the next year on how a lot of historical financial frauds worked. Stuff like Enron to the Bank collapses to various goldbug scams. Both factual and done as entertainment as long as the entertainment isn’t misleading. We need a more educated population and have to be sneaky about it.
Another Scott
SEC – Investor.gov:
Scamming people isn’t Ok. People don’t somehow deserve to be scammed.
I hope the SEC comes down hard on these monsters, and all the rest of them.
Obliatory Smiling William Tecumseh Sherman
Cheers,
Scott.
3Sice
They should probably just denominate it in Venezuelan Bolívars.
Ken
I’m a programmer, and I sometimes half-joke that we all have a vocabulary under twenty words when it comes to naming things (“object”, “util”, “value”, and, um….). Glad to see that other businesses are worse, even if the “business” is suckering the gullible.
artem1s
The last Great Grift from TCF before he flees the country. How long does it take to effectively pump and dump a Ponzi scheme? Seems like he’s not going to get optimal return in the 100 or so days before the election. He’s probably banking on (see what I did there?) roping in a bunch of rubes after he loses too and starts the next phase of “Stop the Steal”. So that maybe gives him until January or February ride out the promises he made to establish his platform as the first federally backed crypto? Real question is what’s the timing on his sentencing and other court cases cause that’s going to be the determining factor in when he has to flee the US. And actually fleeing might extend his pump phase. You know, the POTUS IN EXILE phase. So I guess the determining factor will be how fast the MAGAt wise up and stop putting money in the Ponzi and start a run on the bank. Never, I guess might be the answer on that? And then again maybe this is Elmo’s pump & dump to get out of Xhitter dept. I doubt he waits very long to dump whatever he’s told TCF he’ll put in to get the grift rolling.
Quaker in a Basement
The retail appeal to individual
marksinvestors is only misdirection. This is really a pipeline to receive untraceable money directly from foreign governments.Eunicecycle
@Old School: even at the current price he will make a killing, because he did not invest ANY of his own money! Whatever he gets will be all “profit.” And of course the other shareholders (rubes) will be left holding the empty bag.
Geminid
@3Sice: They could call them Bullívars.
Ksmiami
@Tom65: Pity…wait, no
3Sice
Baud
@3Sice:
Crafty. Since everyone knows he always lies, now people will think Biden/Harris made us unsafe.
Elizabelle
@Geminid: Bullivars! That’s beyond perfect. Lol.
JaySinWA
@Ken: Patriot Memory, Patriot LLC, and Patriot Software are some of the companies named Patriot something or other in computing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=companies+named+patriot
KatKapCC
@3Sice: Let’s be honest. There is a non-zero chance Trump does not know what the word ‘safe’ means.
Geminid
@Elizabelle: But maybe not as perfect as the weather in Central Virginia today. I hope you are also enjoying it.
different-church-lady
“Now it’s time for you to be squeezed by us!”
Harrison Wesley
@JaySinWA: Wasn’t that a song by Queen? All we hear is patriot Gaga. Or something like that.
different-church-lady
Wait… Don Jr. has more followers than Don?
Scout211
Oops wrong thread.
Aziz, light!
@artem1s: How does a convicted felon awaiting sentencing flee the country? Didn’t he have to surrender all his passports?
SatanicPanic
@Aziz, light!: on his own jet I assume. I don’t think he’ll need a passport when he arrives in Venezuela or Russia or Saudi Arabia. Passports are for the little people.
Jackie
Anyone in TCFG’s inner circle willing to suggest this isn’t such a smart idea?
Conservatives, independents, and the undecideds will undoubtedly vote for the Insurrectionist In Chief!🤦🏼♀️
Sister Golden Bear
Flight from San Francisco got cancelled but thankfully was able to rebook out of San Jose. But they omitted my Pre from the new ticket. Thanks Alaska. At least I’m on board.
New flight only had a middle seat available and I’m stuck between two extremely broad shouldered people. It’s literally shoulder against shoulder sweaty meat sandwich. Probably the most uncomfortable flight I’ve had in years.
So much for getting a nap — I’m running short on sleep since I packed after the DNC. Kill me now
Old School
@different-church-lady:
Twitter/X vs. Truth Social
Jackie
@Scout211: Add Georgia’s (R) Geoff Duncan: “Voting for Kamala Harris is not voting as a Democrat; you’re voting for patriotism!”
eta: you deleted your post, so my response is now random lol
Ksmiami
@jonas: yep, just a fraudster con- artist all the way down
Scout211
@Jackie: Moved it upstairs where it should have been. Move your comment upstairs?
JoyceH
Trump’s Truth Social stock is going to crater and become worthless when one of two things happen – when Trump sells his holdings, or when Trump loses the election, whichever comes first. I’m beginning to think that Trump is going to sell his shares as soon as he legally can, in late September. So the tragic tales of Trump supporters who lost their life savings will be this year’s October Surprise.
Ksmiami
@Another Scott: The recent horrific Chevron SC decision has defanged the SEC. This is entirely the fault of the Goddamn GOP so if their stupid asshole followers get fleeced, I don’t really care- do you?
Ksmiami
@JML: eh, they won’t afford much so that will reduce their impact
catclub
I think this thread should be pulled, repeatedly.
It would be easier to convince an undecided voter that trump is purposefully doing un-constructive things, than to convince them he is crazy (although he is).
An unenthusiastic candidate is a vote-kill for an unenthusiastic voter.
bonus, It will drive trump crazy.
“his heart is not in it.” [assumes facts not in evidence]
“he only wanted to run against Joe.”
catclub
The SEC can still go after unregistered securities. That is what trump intends this to be.
I am not saying the recent decision was any except horrible.
West of the Rockies
So rube, bigoted, fearful Repubs will lose money, pollute the environment (crypto/crapto mining), and decrepit Don will possibly make a bit more cash…
Rinse and repeat.
Ksmiami
@West of the Rockies: Boo fucking hoo. Ps I’m not a nice person when it comes to MAGA dopes
Roberto el oso
Sometime back I made the prediction that under a 2nd Trump regime, they would reconstitute the position of Drug Czar, with Don Jr. as Head, and La Guilfoyle as Deputy Director, the purpose being for Jr & the Breakdancer to serve as liaisons/ambassadors to the drug cartels, thus insuring that Trump and his dimbulb brood could wet their beaks. Setting up a crypto operation looks like the 1st step towards that dream.
Also, wasn’t the remake of “The Defiant Ones” given the awkward title of “Fled”? Seems somehow appropriate.
Dangerman
I’m sure it will be accepted everywhere? …
… ok, almost everywhere?
… SOMEWHERE?
Good grief, can anyone be stupid enough for this shit?
ETA; Hey, if Rubes wanna be robbed, just send me the money.
JoyceH
@SatanicPanic: Since Trump is still under indictment in three jurisdictions, if he attempted to flee the country in his private jet, would his Secret Service detail be obligated to stop him?
SatanicPanic
@JoyceH: I don’t think so but who knows. Pretty insane we’re talking about the possibility.
Roberto el oso
@JoyceH: they’d probably just keystone about on the tarmac, shaking their fists at the plane and muttering “Stop! Thief!”
Downpuppy
His last crypto, DJT, collapsed August 6. How long does he have to wait?
Trollhattan
@Thor Heyerdahl:
“Soon to launch” could also refer to JD sizing up the lobby furniture.
Attempted Chemistry
@Quaker in a Basement: Exactly. Taking from your fans is an any-preacher-worth-his-salt move. The real problem is that this is another avenue for bribery.
JoyceH
@Jackie: A J6 Awards Gala?! What awards will be awarded? Best flagpole spearer? Best window breaker? Best cop bear-sprayer?
The Audacity of Krope
Think it’s time for a change of clothes. Wanted to get this in on an open thread when I’ll be off for a little bit.
May I bother a front-pager for an approval?
Ken
@catclub: Pssst. Trump is a deep sleeper agent for the Democrats, working to destroy the Republican party.
Proof: He gave money to Kamala Harris, and there are pictures of him with the Clintons.
(Is that what you mean by pulling on the thread?)
Shalimar
@Jackie: I assume someone close to Trump will tell him there is video footage of what every specific one of these “J6 Patriots” did on January 6th, and news organizations can air this footage when they announce the names of every asshole being honored.
sdhays
@Ocotillo: Oh, he desperately wants to win. It’s just that he only has a very limited set of tools in his toolbox, and they aren’t working. He is incapable of trying something new. He got lucky due a confluence of factors in 2016, and has ridden on (awful) people’s excitement because of that accident ever since.
It wasn’t enough in 2020, and it’s sinking in that it might work even less this year.
Geminid
@SatanicPanic: Maybe Russia or Venezuela, but Saudi Arabia is too close to Iran for comfort. And the Houthis to the west have hit Saudi Arabia with Iranian drones in recent years, so Trump would have to look over both shoulders.
Ken
@Jackie: As I recall, once the convictions started piling up a lot of J6 groups got very paranoid about that sort of stuff, thinking that proposals to meet were FBI sting operations and everyone would be arrested. I wonder if that feeling is still out there?
wizened_guy
Fitting that The Defiant Ones is also the name of a movie starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier as escapees from a chain gang on the run from law.
CaseyL
@sdhays:
True, but there are many equally vile interest groups backing him – Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, Opus Dei – who you’d think would bring some expertise to this running-an-election stuff…?
Or maybe not. They’ve been working through intermediaries – GOP politicians and judges – up to now. Never outright ran their own candidate like this.
Maybe they don’t know how to run a campaign that isn’t entirely contained within their ecosystem.
Chief Oshkosh
I was going to make some comment about how at every Trump rally I could roll out a large black box with a slot in top and with a sign that says “Miracles! Insert a $100 bill, receive a Miracle!” and I’d be a billionaire in a month.
But then I remembered, the Church has been doing that for a couple thousand years. Oh well, maybe I’ll invent the zipper next week.
TBone
@Quaker in a Basement: 🎯
Trollhattan
@wizened_guy:
“Workin’ in a crypto mine, goin’ down-down-down
“Lord, I am so tired.”
Danielx
@dmsilev:
It’s perfect. A totally intangible product worth whatever SFB says it’s worth, at least to his idiot followers. What could be better?
kindness
Come mid September when Trump can sell his shares of course he will. As many as he can without wiping out the stock price completely. Even if he does end up making DJT a penny stock, he won’t care. He’ll have gotten his and that is his way.
TBone
@Jackie: man oh MAN I wish the DOJ and FBI could use that opportunity to kettle all those traitor bastards for ease of arrest and also to simultaneously raid their cell phones/offices, etc. for evidence.
Kosh III
@CaseyL: “The best we can hope for is that their kids don’t turn out like them.”
Fixed it!
“That they have NO kids”
Chief Oshkosh
@Aziz, light!: Has an intercontinental-capable private jet, some of the countries he’d flee to might not require that he have a passport.
But in answer to your question, I don’t think he was forced to surrender his passport.
pthomas745
Irony is dead. Photos from the movie, “The Defiant Ones”.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051525/mediaviewer/rm0874240/?ref_=tt_mi_sm
catclub
@Ken: yes!
JoyceH
@pthomas745: Sadly both Portier and Curtis are dead, and the movie was long enough ago that everyone involved in its making is probably dead too. Would be nice to have some Hollywood Big Name bash Trump for stealing the name of an Oscar winning classic for his latest scam.
matt
@kindness: He could pretty easily take in 1-2 billion dollars if his selling is done in a disciplined way.
Ksmiami
@Jackie: lol- I almost wrote that too
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
And if my dog had hooves, he’d be a horse.
Ksmiami
@Trollhattan: “How long (can this scam) go on?”
hotshoe
@JML:
True.
and worse from my personal, selfish, perspective: I have to support social programs which keep those broken people safe at some basic level — because even a heartless person like me doesn’t want them going hungry and sleeping under bridges just because they fell into Dirty Donnie’s scam.
So when Dirty Donnie’s victims and willing collaborators blame us for their fall — blame you, me, and the other Dems — we are the ones who have to, thanklessly, keep them alive.
Damn.
yellowdog
@catclub: He believes, and there is no small chance that he is right, that SCOTUS will hand him the election. So he doesn’t want to do the work to even pretend.
yellowdog
@Chief Oshkosh: He wasn’t. But a plane has to file a flight plan and the flight control system would know if it deviated outside the US.
Ksmiami
@yellowdog: they can try but the country will explode. There will be no point to remaining the USA.
Soprano2
@Another Scott: I listened to a Planet Money episode about a woman who was scammed out of most of her $80,000 in savings by people running a scam claiming to be the FBI and telling her she had been the victim of a fraud and she was helping them catch the fraudster. I have a hard time understanding why people don’t just hang up and call the FBI to find out if it’s true, because telling people to give them access to your accounts and then not look at the account is definitely not the way law enforcement would ever do anything! I have to wonder if these people are so suspicious of the government they’ll believe any crazy thing, or so gullible that again they’ll believe anything and not question it because they’re afraid to. It was sad, that was most of her life savings and they had converted it to crypto. She had hired a company to try to trace it for her and get some of it back.
PaulWartenberg
The only books on cryptocurrencies at my library are the true crime books of people taking on and crashing the criminal organizations propping crypto up.
Hamlet of Melnibone
@Soprano2: I feel like a lot of the victims of these scams have some diminished capacity.
Parfigliano
@CaseyL: Wrong. Best hope is they dont have kids.
wjca
Everything Trump touches dies. Trump is now touching crypto. You do the math….
Parfigliano
@Ksmiami: Dont care what happens to them.
Chris T.
@Ken:
What, “i”, “j”, and “k” weren’t good enough for you? 😀
But we all know that the two hardest things about programming are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors….