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by blitzar 1279 days ago
Luna-Terra, FTX, Coinbase and Kraken definitely aren't "a wretched hive of scum and villainy".

Oops, correction.

FTX, Coinbase and Kraken definitely aren't "a wretched hive of scum and villainy".

Dont worry, I have it right this time ...

Coinbase and Kraken definitely aren't "a wretched hive of scum and villainy".

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Coinbase is a US publicly traded company regulated by the SEC. Their business model is garbage but they have orders of magnitude more data that shows that as a company, they’re legit.
Enron was a US publicly traded company regulated by the SEC.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/00/100900.asp

Theres another fun one from an NYSE stock ...

In December 1996, Emanuel Pinez, the CEO of Centennial Technologies, and his management recorded that the company made $2 million in revenue from PC memory cards. However, the company was really shipping fruit baskets to customers. The employees then created fake documents as evidence that they were recording sales.