Another one bites the dust: BlockFi files Ch 11 (link)
by irishnyer (2022-11-28 11:34:29)

I think I still have friends working for Kraken
by ravenium  (2022-11-28 13:59:21)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I wonder how that's going...


They just settled with the Treasury Dept
by DBCooper  (2022-11-28 15:19:10)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Over Iran sanctions violations. So they have that going for them


A good friend almost took a job there over the summer.
by EricCartman  (2022-11-28 13:42:32)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

He would have been very high up (Dir/VP level). They were offering high six figures in equity as part of the comp package (obviously this would be toast now).

During the interview, everyone kept talking about the next round of funding that was coming (around $1B, I think). They ended up with an infusion from FTX instead.

Everyone that he spoke to left a legit finance role to join the company, and they all had huge equity packages.

He ended up taking a boring job at a bank because he wife refused to tell her coworkers that her husband works in crypto.

I know another guy that joined Coinbase a few months ago. He absolutely loves it there.


Good call by your friend and his wife. *
by G.K.Chesterton  (2022-11-28 16:46:12)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


All of our friends told him to take the crypto job.
by EricCartman  (2022-11-28 18:57:03)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I said take the bank job because it had a higher base pay.

He wanted to try something new and was leaning towards crypto…


Good call *
by az_irish_devil  (2022-11-29 09:40:54)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


I wonder how the NFT industry is doing.
by HScorpio  (2022-11-28 12:38:32)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Seemed like a sure fire, riskless way to make millions.

Staking and various Earn/lending platforms seem to have done well lately too. Probably was worth it for all the people chasing an extra 2-4 percent over FDIC insured accounts.


My dipshit BIL used to say that his passion was NFTs
by IndianaIrish131131  (2022-11-28 20:50:54)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

He had about 30k ‘invested’ in various NFTs and used to claim that they were worth 100k+. All of the sudden he stopped talking about them, and I was advised by my wife not to ask him about it over thanksgiving.


Anyone track the ND leprechauns for Name-Image-Likeness
by squid  (2022-11-28 14:02:13)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

payments to Notre Dame student athletes? Did that ever take off? Brady Quinn is involved as I recall. Edit: I think Quinn’s NIL entity was different. Anyway, I don’t see what happened with the 5555 $200 leprechaun NFTs after initial reports.


Chestertonlep was ahead of his time
by mintirish  (2022-11-28 14:57:08)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Could have been a real NFT king


An NFT pom salute
by nd06seattle09  (2022-11-28 15:49:50)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Or was it porn salute?


Update
by IRISHBlessing  (2022-11-28 14:43:08)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

This is all I have on the story.


Not good, based on what I've seen.
by The Irish Cardinal  (2022-11-28 13:57:20)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

There's a former colleague of mine who made daily posts on LinkedIn touting NFT projects that he was involved in and invested in.

He stopped posting about four months ago.


Macy's was advertising some NFT on Thxgiving day parade
by ravenium  (2022-11-28 13:58:48)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I can't remember what it was for but I think I blurted out "ooooh, bad timing guys."