[HN Gopher] Wonderland Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous...
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       Wonderland Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster,
       Investors Shaken
        
       Author : Centigonal
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2022-01-28 21:43 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.vice.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.vice.com)
        
       | freitasm wrote:
       | Cryptocurrencies are a scammer's dream?
       | 
       | Nah...
        
       | rednerrus wrote:
       | I would be more shocked if they weren't a fraudster.
        
       | trhway wrote:
       | >So, trust is an important element of that arrangement.
       | 
       | you don't say...
        
       | b0sk wrote:
       | I'm shocked! utterly shocked.. reading this totally unexpected
       | news!
        
       | woodruffw wrote:
       | I don't know whether it was an oversight on their part, but Vice
       | fails to mention that "Michael Patryn" also isn't his original
       | name: it's Omar Dhanani[1]. His federal criminal record runs back
       | to 2004.
       | 
       | [1]: https://amycastor.com/tag/michael-patryn/
        
       | zamalek wrote:
       | The trough of disillusionment is coming.
        
         | api wrote:
         | Every time I think it's over it goes higher. Never
         | underestimate human gullibility.
         | 
         | Also don't forget that there are two _huge_ use cases for this
         | stuff that are not going away: money laundering and flight
         | capital from authoritarian countries. Those use cases alone can
         | drive this even higher.
        
           | rednerrus wrote:
           | Isn't this part of what real estate in Vancouver and NYC are
           | for?
        
           | zamalek wrote:
           | We're far less intelligent than we think, as a species.
        
           | steelstraw wrote:
           | And flight from debased fiat. A lot of currencies are
           | inflating due to governments and central banks editing the
           | money database. They can't edit the decentralized ledger and
           | print more Bitcoin. That quality is under appreciated.
        
       | CPLX wrote:
       | Good to see that despite all the crypto skepticism the market is
       | maturing and seasoned veterans of the sector are stepping into
       | key roles. It's reassuring to see someone with deep and varied
       | experience in the core crypto skillset of creating and scaling
       | effective financial fraud. A welcome change from the
       | inexperienced first generation.
        
       | dbg31415 wrote:
       | Crypto is a pyramid scheme?! Nobody could have seen this coming!
        
       | ceejayoz wrote:
       | > I am of the opinion of giving second chances...
       | 
       | OK, but this was #3.
        
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