A Crypto Executive Who Wasn’t Who He Said He Was

nytimes.com

12 points·gmays··5 comments

> And who wouldn’t want to talk to him? In interviews — and a lengthy Forbes profile — he talked about turning his life around and getting his M.B.A., stints at Wall Street heavyweights like Goldman Sachs, and staggeringly profitable crypto investments

Yeah, this wasn't a "Forbes profile" that appears in a print magazine or anything. It was a Forbes 'contributor' article, as can easily be detected by the URL forbes.com/sites/[writerName]. These links aren't any better than your average HuffPost or Medium.com content mill.

Here's the interview:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rorymurray/2020/11/23/this-cryp...

And the Forbes interviewer himself focuses on "growing deFI and open finance system", and is invested in cryptocurrencies. Doesn't disclose which ones though.

No wonder Binance is basically taking ownership of that site. The name recognition is apparently enough to pull the wool over enough people's eyes.

People have been saying "forbes.com isn't Forbes, it's a blogging site" for so many years I think they mostly got old and died, so now nobody knows again.

It's funny because how does anybody associate Forbes with Wall Street now anyway?

It's like floppy disks as save icons.

Wouldn't it be more newsworthy to find a Crypto Executive who was who he said he was?

Um, yes. I expected this story to be about a different crypto executive.

Incidentally, the new Bored Ape Yacht Club project, "Otherside", is starting to look suspicious. After announcing an ambitious metaverse project, and raising over $500 million, silence. No actual 3D world went live. The Discord went down. The SDK link returns errors. Not even press releases.

Uh oh.

https://archive.ph/1PwWh

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