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I wonder if Hashicorp has gotten any blowback from confused Luna holders. Our company gets calls all the time from people thinking we are UPS or Fedex and wondering where their package is (we audit UPS/Fedex invoices)

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My digital product design agency is called “A Different Engine” the number of cold emails and calls we get from car part distributors is amusing.

The name source:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine

> the number of cold emails and calls we get from car part distributors is amusing

Heck, my company is called Freshpaint. The number of people that visit our site, freshpaint.io, see all the copy about data infrastructure, and still contact us looking for a quote to paint their house is hilarious.

Like most of the commenters here, it also confused me, so I'd imagine it confuses a lot of people.

I also once worked at a company that had a name similar to a video game. Two seconds of looking at our website would have make it obvious that we were not related, but we got a lot of calls about it anyway. We got a laugh out of it when it happened.

It might be fun for those kind of scenarios but as soon as money is involved you get more and more crazy people involved that can't distinguish things (esp in a scam rich environment as "crypto"-currencies).

We had one person actually come to our office wanting to find their package. We're a small company (in terms of headcount), and don't have a glamorous office. Not sure how anyone would mistake our location for Fedex, but nevertheless this person did. I was the only one here, and there was a serious language barrier. Took several times for me to explain to him he needed to call Fedex, and that his package wasn't hiding in our office somewhere.

My daughter occasionally works for a small gift shop in Dedham, MA called "Nest". She's gotten calls from people wanting tech support for Nest thermostats.

I used to work for a storage startup named ONStor. Our front desk would get 3-4 calls a week from people trying to reach OnStar (https://www.onstar.com/).

I think my heart skipped a beat when I read the headline as I had just made an investment in $HCP. I was relieved after reading it's just another nail on Terra and not at all related to Hashicorp.

My heart has already skipped a few beats since I made an investment in $HCP in December! Still holding though. It’s part of my “invest in what you use” portfolio, which is currently a basket of red tickers, being carried by a green $NET…

Is this why Cloudflare CEO bashing Hashicorp? /s

Seriously though, what happened to that debate?

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