You may be seeing some noise in your timelines about a private “space agency” offering free seats on a Blue Origin flight to folk from countries such as Nigeria & India through a competition & public vote.
Such generosity & such a lot of media attention
Take a bit of a dive though & this tech bro word salad pops up on the webpage of a VC firm they work with
As always, follow the money.
“Democratisation of space” it ain’t
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Now that they have to report transactions to the IRS; what value does crypto offer?
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What the ever loving fuck does “utilize web3 tech to exploit off-world resources” even mean?
Best I can figure in English is “let’s see if we can grift space bros, mostly musk fans”
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Ooooooooh!
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I don’t know if this is really any more or less significant than past price swings but the article is sure using a lot of dramatic words to describe this:
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Like all con games; you want to get in early and cash out before the chumps realize they got a bag with nothing in it.
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Fucking hell.
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While some Granbury residents are fiercely protesting the mine
… the media really need to stop playing along with the crypto bros’ propaganda terms
There is no “mining” going on, it is not a “mine,” there are no “miners,” nobody there is engaged in any productive activity
Cryptocurrency is a form of gambling, they’re running a cybernetic casino 
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It’s the market deciding who should live and who should die! Why do you hate FREEEDUMB!!! /s
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In an email to TIME, Marathon wrote: “While we are confident in our ability to scale this new [server cooling] technology, it is our obligation, as a publicly traded company, to identify any potential risks from a financial perspective.”
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Seems to have left the UK, though.
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“ Judge James Mellor ruled in March that the evidence Wright was not Satoshi was “overwhelming”, saying in a written judgment in May that Wright lied “extensively and repeatedly” and forged documents “on a grand scale” during the case.
The judge said in a further ruling on Tuesday that he was referring Wright to Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service to consider “whether a prosecution should be commenced against Dr Wright for his wholescale perjury and forgery of documents”.”
Every part of the “industry” is grifting.
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