You might recognize the CEO Bannon took over from, is the child actor that played Young Gordan Bombay in the Mighty Ducks…
And honestly, I’m like 99% sure it’s what started crypto in the first place. The oligarchs got a hit of digital money they control with almost zero oversight, and a couple years later crypto started popping up.
That article is 2008, and the first Bitcoin was created January 2009.
So this guy fled the country with his buddies after his bloated dotcom failed and to escape pedophilia accusations, he played WoW remotely and became a millionaire and came back to the country? Fucking hell. There really are two different worlds. What is it with the demented urge to become a billionaire or even millionaire? Immortality? We’ll all be dirt, just enjoy your time.
The story is crazy, good read. It’s unbelievable how much money is involved in online gaming or specifically for virtual merchandise, people laughed at NFTs but then they’ll go pony up for some other dumb shit like that. It’s criminal that Blizzard and those companies let it go on, but they were making bank as well. Antonio Hernandez is a hero even if the company was falling apart already. Gaming companies took what he was doing and incorporated it into their business models I guess. That’s interesting I never really thought of the connection between digital items in early MMOs and crypto but that progression makes a lot of sense and I’m sure how can a bunch of greedy fucks resist money for nothing? It’s always people who are bending the agreed upon rules to suit them who ruin the fun for everyone else, too bad that notion is celebrated in America thanks to decades of romanticizing gangsters. Fascinating read thanks!
Bannon wasn’t just spreading hate and grifting gold, he was running a multimillion Goldman’s Sachs venture in third party online micro transactions:
https://www.wired.com/2008/11/ff-ige/
Can’t get any crazier right?
You might recognize the CEO Bannon took over from, is the child actor that played Young Gordan Bombay in the Mighty Ducks…
And honestly, I’m like 99% sure it’s what started crypto in the first place. The oligarchs got a hit of digital money they control with almost zero oversight, and a couple years later crypto started popping up.
That article is 2008, and the first Bitcoin was created January 2009.
So this guy fled the country with his buddies after his bloated dotcom failed and to escape pedophilia accusations, he played WoW remotely and became a millionaire and came back to the country? Fucking hell. There really are two different worlds. What is it with the demented urge to become a billionaire or even millionaire? Immortality? We’ll all be dirt, just enjoy your time.
The story is crazy, good read. It’s unbelievable how much money is involved in online gaming or specifically for virtual merchandise, people laughed at NFTs but then they’ll go pony up for some other dumb shit like that. It’s criminal that Blizzard and those companies let it go on, but they were making bank as well. Antonio Hernandez is a hero even if the company was falling apart already. Gaming companies took what he was doing and incorporated it into their business models I guess. That’s interesting I never really thought of the connection between digital items in early MMOs and crypto but that progression makes a lot of sense and I’m sure how can a bunch of greedy fucks resist money for nothing? It’s always people who are bending the agreed upon rules to suit them who ruin the fun for everyone else, too bad that notion is celebrated in America thanks to decades of romanticizing gangsters. Fascinating read thanks!