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1. JumpCr+hc[view] [source] 2022-05-21 22:06:28
>>mkeete+(OP)
If you are in the U.S. and lost money, please write to your state's Attorney General [1].

The company is Stablegains, Inc. and the people to name are Kamil Ryszkowski and Emil Rasmessen, co-founders and, I think, Board members. Copy Ken Paxton, Office of the Attorney General, P. O. Box 12548, Austin, Texas as well as his challenger George P. Bush at P. O. Box 26677, also in Austin. (Stablegains and its founders are in Texas. They are spearheading the criminal complaint.)

[1] https://www.usa.gov/state-attorney-general

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2. giantg+li[view] [source] 2022-05-21 22:43:18
>>JumpCr+hc
For what it's worth, they are also a YC backed company.
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3. JumpCr+jj[view] [source] 2022-05-21 22:48:53
>>giantg+li
> For what it's worth, they are also a YC backed company

Severely disappointing. I respect PG too much to believe he would knowingly condone this. The partner who did this didn't understand what they were investing in or should be decoupled with haste.

At the very least, the Alaska RMB, U of M Endowment, Bloomberg's family office and SMC should be asking why their capital is backing what should have been clear as day ex ante a fraud. Anyone living in Alaska, going to or an alumni of U of M or Stanford, or working for Bloomberg should be asking the same question.

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4. sergio+Kj[view] [source] 2022-05-21 22:51:53
>>JumpCr+jj
Let’s not even get started with Sama pushing Worldcoin, a pretty exploitative attempt at getting everyone’s irises with a pre-mined currency supposed to revolutionize world finance.
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5. majorm+vk[view] [source] 2022-05-21 22:56:59
>>sergio+Kj
The VC drive to jump into the crypto world was startling to me. People hold varying opinions on various crypto products, but so many of the ones getting investment are making claims that should gather extreme scrutiny from a crowd that should be familiar with finance and returns. "We expect 10%+ returns for a long time"? Folks investing in companies instead of banks should know firsthand that guaranteed market-beating returns are almost definitionally suspect!

Even if you think it's not fraudulent on the part of the founders, the industry is frothy and unproven and fraud-adjacent enough that investing in many companies in the space should appear to be a huge potential reputational risk beyond just losing some invested money. The people putting up the cash should be looking long and hard at this whole story.

And then once you get into the details, the moment you hear about one of the use cases for defi lending leading to these high interest rates being "put up crypto collateral to borrow to buy even more crypto since it's appreciating rapidly"... run!

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6. tmpz22+VR[view] [source] 2022-05-22 04:51:53
>>majorm+vk
VC has always been about getting in really early and getting out early.

This is their bread and butter.

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