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You don’t find anything interesting about one of the main people behind tether, one of the shadiest enigmas in crypto, having formerly been one of the main people within a company founded around real world trading & exploitation of virtual in game currencies? Where they literally tried to create slave farms to obtain these in game currencies?

Reeks of a lifelong grifter. If you can’t put the 2+2 together of a lifelong grifter & immoral individual being at the top of tether…

Anyways, I patiently await the collapse of it all as somebody who’s been around since the near beginning of blockchain cryptocurrency.



> Where they literally tried to create slave farms to obtain these in game currencies?

None of this was convicted.

Lots of people are accused of all types of things. Some people get convicted of stuff they didn't do, but this happens much less often than wild accusations.


I don’t understand what you’re trying to say at all.

By convicted I’m presuming you think I’m implying he broke some laws?

I did not say that he broke any laws, nor do I believe that what he did was illegal in the slightest?

https://imgur.com/a/Weiki3i

When things related to things are so easy to find with a pretty serious paper trail behind it, I can only imagine your saying this to try to defend the perpetrator in some way.

I don’t think that’s the case, so I digress.

Company IGE tried to make virtual in-game currency sweatshops. IGE was headed by Pierce & Bannon. This is something that happened and there is not much more to it.

If you’re simply unfamiliar with MMORPG & related videogames - I can perhaps understand. In short - I assure you, there is a near endless amount of people who shove very large amounts of $USD into virtual trinkets in these games. Always have been, hence their exploitation since the early 2000’s


> I did not say that he broke any laws, nor do I believe that what he did was illegal in the slightest?

>> Where they literally tried to create slave farms to obtain these in game currencies?

'literally tried to create slave farms' makes me believe you did think he was doing something 'illegal in the slightest'.




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