Everything got better when I became a green-haired 2D girl. I do fun and unusual things with video games and pinball.

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arborelia
@arborelia

always wild to hear the news about someone I vaguely knew as "that frosh" from when I was in grad school, a guy who got really lucky once and could have quit while he was ahead, donated his winnings to normal things, and retired to spend more time with his League of Legends, but instead tried to own the world and is now awaiting extradition from a shitty jail to a different shitty jail. [1]

anyway the Reuters caption writer here lives in a different world than the article writer. The caption writer thinks a "liquidity crunch" forced him to "declare bankruptcy", a thing that would happen to normal companies sometimes. The article writer gets more to the point.

It wasn't a little whoopsie liquidity crunch. "Complete insolvency" forced him to "say out loud that he didn't have the money because he spent it". Just normal crypto things! [2]

[1] they're all shitty but I figured that multi-billionaires would find a way to get locked up somewhere comfy. I guess multi-negative-billionaires can't though

[2] In case my position on all this is unclear, we should work to abolish prisons, but the last people we should abolish them for are people who fucked the world with cryptocurrency.


arborelia
@arborelia

they let him out when he got to the US. He doesn't have to go to jail with the poor people, he gets to be in comfy house arrest.

imagine if other people awaiting trial got to just, go home and have a nice winter break with their family. or even a winter break with awkward conversations with their family. imagine if this wasn't just a perk for multi-millionaires, or ex-billionaire children of multi-millionaires. wouldn't that be great


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As much as we don't like it, there is a class system in the US beyond just money. His riche is too nouveau for a fake billion to get him the same treatment as a real billion.