Don’t forget bombing our installations with our own planes.
(And for some reason I’m imagining a confrontation between Trump and Major ________ de Coverley. The Orange Peril would shit his britches at the first stare.)
Since it is a “crypto” venture I can with 100% certainty tell you there is not an account somewhere with 4.4M real dollars in it.
I am amusing myself with imagining what is going on in MaL right now: “sir, we sold all the cards”
- “ok, gimmie the money”
- “wait sir, it doesn’t quite work like that”
-“don’t care, gimmie my money” - “there is no money sir”
…
He can decide if he wants to nail his crypto buddies to the nearest tree or to dance for joy at all the media that is reporting he “sold out” something.
The grifter got grifted. Wouldn’t this be better suited for the schadenfreude thread?
The grifted grifted, the biter bit.
Since it’s Trump, who gives a shit?
I’m not sure what you mean by this. If it’s true that people bought them they had to pay with real dollars. That’s the con - to get people to give you real money in exchange for something worthless.
Yes, that was one of the scams.
But a significant part was sold for “ETH”: most likely by the people selling them.
Paying themselves from wallet #1 to wallet #2. Crypto is a repeating story of people holding the assets doing all kinds of shit to inflate the “price”. One or two people buying one of those cards for an inflated price is the goal. “Selling out” the cards is an essential first step in accomplishing that.
The fun part of crypto is that everybody who holds any amount of coins/tokens is in on it. They all have the same goal: Artificially inflating the price (preferably creating headlines) - find a mark - sell the token.
Nobody holding any amount of crypto will ever admit to it (why would they?). Nor will they ever come out to tell how much of the “trading” is “wash trading” (spoiler: all of it).
The Trump cards are useful because they are guaranteed to generate headlines, One or two marks buying the hype will pay for the whole venture.
But, really, haven’t all the Trump threads become schadenfreude threads by now?
Muses…I wonder if the mods could merge all the trump threads into one ginormous thread-- in The Pit, of course. That would solve the problems of keeping up with all the dumpster fires and reposting links from one thread to another… 
Thelma, might sort of be like trying to un-bake a cake.
Chocolate?
What does Ethiopian Airlines have to do with this? (Or are you using the ‘Extraterrestrial Hypothesis’ meaning?)
Going back to the origination of the NFT, Trump would have licensed/sold his image for money up front (that’s how he does it) then get a percentage of the sale money.
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Upfront money (guaranteed pure profit).
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Percentage of sales - 30 to 50% or more (insider engineered/pumped).
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10% vigorish on resales (pumping, pumping, pumping).
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GRIFT (totally insulated by multilevel LLCs and lawyer speak).
I see it more as when you make soup* out of all the odds and ends that you find in the fridge.
Or a frat party where you pour every kind of booze in the house into a big tub…
The big tub part fits.
Carry on.
*For myself, I never do this, as my odds and ends usually have little furry coats (mold, not actual fur) or else they’ve turned to slime. But I hear some people can do this successfully.
Ethereum/Ether, a blockchain and its associated cryptocurrency.
I’m guessing a possible whoosh on that.
I love all the separate threads.
I come back here in the morning and say “Hey, it’s going to be a good day: six new shadenfreudes, five disgraceds, and four ‘truth’ socials!”
Not to mention three stupid MFers, two religious fucks… and an Elmo in a pear tree.
Given the historic understanding of ether (a substance that has been proven to not actually exist) and it’s current usage (‘etherware’ a thing for which there is no evidence it actually exists) that name is just so revealing.
And the rubes are oblivious to what they’re being told in no, really, uncertain terms!
Hmmm… I get it. It’s like discovering in the morning that the hens have laid more than you expected.
This guy, on the other hand, is a major major major major asshole.
So this!