And to think, I almost felt pity for him.
Comment on Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after falling for crypto scam, causing bank collapse
PeachMan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Kinda misleading or poorly written title. He was not convicted of falling for a crypto scam. He was convicted of embezzling funds from the bank, which he did while pumping them into a dumb crypto scam. It would have been illegal even if the crypto thing was NOT a scam (which is rare, I know).
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Almost doing dome heavy lifting there
xavier666@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
that comment had to hurt the crypto community hard
qaz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The people who still don’t know have built up a level of ignorance to miss any kind of message like that.
msage@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
If they could read
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I think it’s much harder for anti-crypto ideologues to admit that crypto has non-scam usage.
orrk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
to be fair, buying drugs or untraceable money transfers are totally a use case of crypto (basically everything that is illegal)
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
Crypto is very traceable though - every transaction that has ever happened is in a public ledger!