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Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by jiggawatts on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:22AM (#50015968)
> pump-and-dumping .si domain names

That's literally what happened. Thousands of .si domains were bought up before his renaming, and then offered up for millions.

PS: His wife is from Slovenia. I'm sure that's a coincidence...

Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by gspr on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:41AM (#50017325)
A plead to Slovenian registrars: add a condition that says the annual fee for .si domains doubles every time the owner uses the phrase "superior intelligence".
Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by aprilthird2021 on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:34AM (#50016386)
It's also just a coincidence that his kids, who have no background in technology and no knowledge of programming or cryptography have a crypto coin company that sells, nothing of value, with, basically 0 advertising, and makes billions of dollars, mostly from deals with Gulf Arab dictators, who then get favorable deals with their dad ...
Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by Otterly99 on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:34AM (#50018166)
I had to look it up but you are right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Liberty_Financial

Laws really are just as effective as boo-boo band-aids aren't they?