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Re:We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX by sgt101 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:49PM (#33538415)
We've been here a long time ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com
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Re:We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX by simonjgreen on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:21PM (#33538864)
Wow I had forgotten all about that.

I remember a lot of hype in the dot-com era around that

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Re:We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX by ArtWomb on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:50PM (#33539266)
The NFTs of 1997: "etoy shares compel people to think about the elusive and amorphous nature of Internet art. One of the many controversies about Net art is that there is no original copy; an artist can’t exactly “sell” a home page to a collector. The “shares” play with the idea of ownership and the Net, as well as spoof absurdly overvalued Net stock" ;)

https://www.villagevoice.com/1999/11/30/e-toy-story/

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Re:We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX by vba616 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:22PM (#33540340)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com

"In 2001, Flooz.com was notified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that a Russian-Filipino organized crime syndicate used $300,000 worth of Flooz and stolen credit card numbers as part of a money-laundering scheme, in which stolen credit cards were used to purchase currency and then redeemed.[2][3] Levitan has stated that fraudulent purchases accounted for 19% of consumer credit card transactions by mid-2001."

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