The forbes fail-cover continues the honoured tradition

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The forbes fail-cover continues the honoured tradition

Many of us are familiar with the Forbes cover mark-of-death

It looks like they are continuing the tradition of finding some of most obvious scams and charlatans and trying to boost them.

Fukken lol

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In 2000, Saylor was charged by the SEC with fraudulently reporting MicroStrategy's financial results for the preceding two years. He later reached a settlement with the SEC for $350,000 in penalties and $8.3 million in personal disgorgement.

Saylor is a bitcoin advocate and under Saylor MicroStrategy has spent billions of dollars to purchase over 400,000 bitcoins. In 2024, he paid a $40 million fine to settle a tax fraud suit.

truly groundbreaking stuff

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Back in 2016 we sold our home and I put 500$ into Coinbase (mostly Bitcoin, a couple other smaller ones) and left it.

Years later I went to check and it was all withdrawn in 2022, no idea how it got stolen, but...yeah, that's what I figured Bitcoin was all about.

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I mean it’s a magazine about people that made a lot of money, not who they think are “awesome” people.

https://youtu.be/3jhTnk3TCtc?si=TmVYUTEgcNAro38V

it’s really more a byproduct of “investment” culture.

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