Crypto is a security. I’m under the impression that crypto is just a massive fraud, market manipulation, including insider trading. The whole MtGox debacle[0] cemented then idea in my mind that crypto is shady AF.
[0] Lest we forget, the original largest crypto exchange was named “Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange”.
Going back a bit further, lest we forget the huge amount of Viagra and Penis enlargement scams that was in this Internet thing during the 90s! I'm under the impression that this internet thing is just a massive fraud and scam .
The Amazon river runs through the Amazon... I'm not sure if the land area got the name from the river or the other way around. I see some mention of the company name referring to the river, but I wasn't sure if that was apocryphal, and I always associated the river and land together as part of the same thing. I could be wrong, in which case the company is named after a river, and shares the name with a jungle.
I'm guessing Coinbase, Kraken and "Binance US" which is totally not the same company as Binance because that one was banned by the NYAG, it just happens to have the same name and owners but it's totally not the same company. Very well regulated.
The idea that it was "an inside job" is laughable. Mark Karpeles was a doofus who got in over his head, churning out php scripts, while bounding up and down on his exercise ball chair. I remember that Roger Ver hostage video like it happened yesterday. For it to be "an inside job", they'd have to effectively be secret geniuses operating on time scales that have never been seen in events of this nature.
