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Posted by teractiveodular 10/26/2024

Akon's Cryptocurrency City in Senegal Has Evaporated(foreignpolicy.com)
33 points | 19 comments
Animats 10/26/2024|
Minor celebrity's crypto scam goes bust.

Wikipedia reports a fraud lawsuit.

rbanffy 10/26/2024|
I struggle to find something in this space that’s not a scam.
tim333 10/26/2024|||
Polymarket is interesting if you want to gamble $20m on Kamala winning and similar.
3np 10/26/2024|||
I challenge you to tear down Monero.
portaouflop 10/26/2024||
Akoin would’ve been a great name though
sorokod 10/26/2024|
way ahead of you: In 2018, Akon announced a new cryptocurrency, to be called “akoin.”
cryptica 10/26/2024||
It reminds me of when I built an open source, fully decentralized exchange and the founders of the project I worked for tried to shut it down. I quit the industry because there were too many government and possibly intelligence agency shenanigans going on. In such environment, you start becoming paranoid. I had enough of the senseless politics, sabotage, deception, corruption, etc...
algo_trader 10/26/2024||
BTW, which OSS exchange would you recommend for self hosting and simplicity?

Doesnt have to be state-of-the-art, just for trading in-house used banana peels

yunohn 10/26/2024||
So your claim is that there’s no other open source fully decentralized exchange in the world, despite that being the goal and claim of innumerable crypto enthusiasts like yourself? And it’s all because of 3-letter-agencies, in a domain literally full of people who are building things to avoid them?

I mean, I wouldn’t be too surprised tbh. But also, why is everyone ignoring this obvious situation you present then?

cryptica 10/29/2024|||
Now there are quite a few. Mine was one of the first ones and it's one of the few DEXs which is fully deterministic. Meaning that it's highly secure, traceable and auditable.

The founders of the community I was associated with defamed me but they have too much money and potentially shady government associations for me to do anything about it legally.

namaria 10/26/2024|||
Greed. The strings of words and an underlying logic don't matter.

If you sell your money rain dance you get paid and move on.

brap 10/26/2024||
Cryptocurrency... city?

What will the scammers come up with next

netsharc 10/26/2024||
How about a cruise ship? Long article: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya...
9dev 10/26/2024|||
Cryptoland, obviously. An island of digital sovereignty!
Animats 10/26/2024||
That's been announced at least four times now, if you count Akon's vaporware city.

- Satoshi Island [1] STC coin, value near zero, volume zero.

- Cryptoland [2] There was an NFT land deed, but the site is dead.

- Praxis [3] Still in the hype phase.

None of these projects seem to have ever built anything in the real world.

[1] https://www.satoshi-island.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFoAF6lY6iI

[3] https://cryptonews.com/news/utopian-city-project-for-crypto-...

varispeed 10/26/2024|||
Crypto mining on the Moon.
rsynnott 10/26/2024||
AI city. I mean, come on, that one’s obvious.
jzebedee 10/26/2024||
Paywall free: https://archive.is/sV4Sx
PUSH_AX 10/26/2024|
Shocker.
paigehart61 10/26/2024|
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