Home Billionaires embrace cryptocurrencies case goes hell That sure sounds impressive, but his gesture wasn’t about generosity any more than Herschel Walker’s Senate candidacy in Georgia is for the children. After all, the money Bezos is now so magnanimously distributing was made through his dehumanising labour practices, his tax avoidance, influence peddling, monopolistic power and other tactics that make him a cause of the problems of modern American life rather than a swashbuckling solution.
From following what’s been happening for the last half a decade, and enjoying continuous discussions about the state of crypto-assets at https://stadivm.com/forums/cryptocurrency.72/, I’ve seen the cycles of large wall street identities proclaiming the illegitimacy of Bitcoin one month, and then singing its praises as a new paradigm a few months later. What needs to be understood is that if money can be made, those accustomed to making it will embrace it wholly, if not publicly, then privately with how they invest. In tweeting through one of the most extraordinary corporate meltdowns in history, Musk has been performing a vital public service: shredding the myth of the billionaire genius The full post-mortem of his epic collapse from crypto wunderkind and billionaire to broke crypto villain extraordinaire won’t be ready for some time. Prosecutors in the US attorney for the Southern District are eyeing possible charges before the end of the year, I am told, so barring exculpatory evidence we can’t label him a criminal yet.