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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 70 points 11 months ago

What is this article, haha?

It's no surprise that the former trader would quickly catch on to the commodity of choice in his new environment. He has been a professional trader for much of his career. In 2013, he got his first intern gig at Jane Street Capital, swapping exchange-traded funds before cofounding his crypto-trading firm Alameda Research in 2017. A year later, he figured out how to arbitrage bitcoin between the US and Japanese markets.

Yes, with his lengthy four year career before getting into the scam business he was certainly a master of his craft, lol.

[-] livus@kbin.social 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It feels like it originates with his publicist.

I fact checked the bit about mackerel and it sounds like everyone uses it in prison over there, so he's just doing what all the other inmates do.

Whatever happened to chocolate.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago

I thought cigarettes were still the main currency.

[-] Monkeyhog@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Cigarettes are banned in the Federal prison system, and most other state prisons as far as I'm aware.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

But not mackerel

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

I mean, it's Business Insider

[-] nomecks@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Hear me out: Fishcoin!

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

He should license his face out to a canned fish company.

non-fungible tuna.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

I first heard about the federal-prison mackerel economy in a Wall Street Journal article back from when the WSJ actually did offbeat interesting reporting... Like 15-20 years ago?

Stackable, non-perishable, essentially (but not totally) zero consumption value... Better than bitcoin as a currency.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

How is mackerel unperishable?

[-] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure how I feel about the can of mackerel I have now 🤔

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

You're a prison thousandaire!

[-] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Holy Mackerel.

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