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BuzzFeed backlash after ‘doxxing’ of Bored Ape Yacht Club founders
American Internet media and entertainment company Buzzfeed has revealed the identities of two of the four original Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection founders “Gordon Goner” and “Gargamel” as being Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow in real life. Journalist Kate Notopoulos authored the Feb. 4 article, which was entitled “We Found The Real Names Of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Pseudonymous Founders.” Notopoulos was able to uncover the pair’s identities by search the publicly available records of Yuga Labs, the company behind the collection. Yuga was incorporated in Delaware with an address associated with Greg Solano, and other records pointing to Wylie Aronow. Got doxxed against my will. Oh well. Web2 me vs. Web3 me pic.twitter.com/uLkpsJ5LvN — GordonGoner.eth (@GordonGoner) February 5, 2022 T...
Buzzfeed Acquires Complex Networks For $300 Milli
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Complex / Complex Networks Buzzfeed is coming up in the world. We mean, they were already up there but they’re about to grow something serious. HypeBeast is reporting that the Internet media, news and entertainment company has just expanded their empire by purchasing Complex Networks for Bill Gates pocket change. According to the report, Buzzfeed will be taking home the media company for a cool $300 million with a down payment of $200 million in cash and $100 million of equity in Buzzfeed. And to think that we were happy with those $1500 stimulus checks a few months back, right? Just a reminder that we got a ways to go, people. “In a published memo to staff, BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti cited that the company is projecting half a billion USD in ...
Major banks moved vast sums of illicit money – investigation
Massive sums of allegedly dirty money have flowed for years through some of the world’s largest banking institutions, said an international journalism investigation published Sunday, which denounced shortcomings in sector regulations. “Profits from deadly drug wars, fortunes embezzled from developing countries, and hard-earned savings stolen in a Ponzi scheme were all allowed to flow into and out of these financial institutions, despite warnings from the banks’ own employees,” according to the probe from Buzzfeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The investigation, which was led by 108 international media outlets from 88 different countries, is based on thousands of suspicious activity reports (SARs) submitted to the US Treasury Department’s financi...
