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I just realized that the Bloomberg reporter who wrote the recent story is named "Zeke Faux." (Faux meaning "fake" in French, in a story about fraud.) Is his name a pseudonym? If not, it's another surreal point in a surreal story.

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Nope - that's his real last name. We have some mutual friends and via FB I can see at least a dozen family members with the same surname.

"Well, Mikey Ouse on HackerNews vouched for him"

It's pretty clear that Zeke Faux from Bloomberg existed long before Tether existed as a company.

Or is that just what 'Zeke Faux' wants you to believe??? /s

Right.. I could post screen shots but who actually cares? He's got bylines in Bloomberg about questionable finance companies going back a decade..

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-04-13/ubs-order...

Guess it could be the long con.. his first article for Bloomberg was written shortly after Bitcoin was first created...

Zeke = ZK = zero-knowledge?

I guess it's actually his real name, and Zeke short for Ezekiel isn't uncommon. But Zeke can also mean 'cloak'.

Christ this may as well be numerology.

As I said, I think it's probably his real name. But it's a cool name for sure; his name would be right at home in a cyberpunk novel.

Just a hop skip away from Q

I'll play!

Teth - Er

Teht: The Phoenician letter name ṭēth may mean "spinning wheel" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teth

ER: Abbreviation for Emergency Room

"Teth" + "ER" = Spinning dangerously out of control, putting one or more lives at risk.

How did I do?

Your user name is "nine" and you're studying a Wikipedia page about the Semitic letter which means '9' in gematria. Is any of this a coincidence?

Nein!

You've opened up a can of something. Check this out: Zeke = 4 letters. Ezekiel, the long form = 7 letters (note this number, cos it will come up further down). Cloak = 5 letters. 4 + 5 = 9. 9 is the number of spiritual adepts that govern the 7 Universes. 9 * 7 = 63. Add those two digits, and you get 9, again. See where this is headed?

Well, if that's a legit name, it's sure doing a good job looking fake!

My cousin married a guy named "Chris Smith" and I was like, "yeah, that doesn't sound made-up or anything".

lol with a name like that its hard to not think its from a Charles Stross novel... ZK Fake .

good lord, the world is a strange place. or, we make it a strange place...

If you're unacquainted, look up (other?) examples of 'nominal determinism' - you're in for a treat!

*nominative determinism

Hm, that does seem to be more standard. Both nominal and onomastic redirect to the page titled nominative determinism on Wikipedia though. Nominal makes a lot more sense to me than nominative.

It also means wrong

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