• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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    27 days ago

    Imagine having the advisory team named after the cryptoscam one of the members (at least) participated in. Doesn’t get more clowny and openly dishonest than that.

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      27 days ago

      named after the cryptoscam

      “doge” became a meme in 2010, long before cryptocurrency was a thing the mainstream were even aware of, let alone the one named after it.

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          26 days ago

          Dogecoin is also not his. It came into existence in 2013. Elon’s first tweet about it was in 2020.

          If anything, you could reasonably argue that both that department name and his interest in that particular cryptocurrency are based on his affinity for the same original meme. But neither the meme nor the currency belong to him.