reading about the North Dimension bit[0], it keeps being amazing how absolutely banal and outright obviously bullshit all the scam operations were, and that any of the people involved in it could try to go "who, me?" after the fact is astounding to a degree I barely have words for

[0] for a couple of years from around 2017~2018, my city had a bad case of coiner startups (even with its own mini collective of ICO hopefuls), so I stayed away from the space as much as I could because they all made my skin crawl. resultingly there's some intermediate details that I missed