Ajit Pai made Elizabeth Pierce his "broadband advisor," and now she's been arrested for a $250,000,000 fraud

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$250 Million, yeah that’s kinda bad.

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Vietnamese ICO scammers disappear with $660 million

Those sorts of ‘utopians’ tend to make traditional anarchists and other solidarity-types very sad and/or peevish. Blockchains can(when correctly implemented and ideally with the silicon burning arms race of proof-of-work dealt with) be an interesting mechanism for cases where there is no trust; either in some authority or in the other parties. This is modestly alien to current market standards; where one or more arbiters usually do the heavy-hitting norms enforcement(though much of the day-to-…