by The Medianistas | Jan 31, 2024 | Find the Fraud, Guest Contributors
Riot Platforms is leading the polluting Bitcoin boom in Texas. The company operates the largest, and one of most energy and carbon-intensive, Bitcoin mines in the U.S. at their Rockdale facility and now plans to build an even bigger and dirtier mine in Corsicana. And...
by The Medianistas | Apr 28, 2023 | Crypto, Facebook, Find the Fraud, Scams
He claims to have gone to NYU, Oxford University, Duke, and Morehouse College. There is no education listed on his LinkedIn profile. He did run a gardening business. (Click on image to enlarge it) Behind the Videos, Marketing & Hype – Chad Everett...
by The Medianistas | Mar 1, 2023 | Crypto, Deceptive Marketing, Find the Fraud, Guest Contributors
(As the CEO of Whinestone and CCO of Riot, one can assume that Chad Everett Harris was aware of the Cool Mara Riot: big money, bitcoin-biotech daisy chain. Sharesleuth showed in a report earlier this year how a network of writers, some real and some fake,...
by The Medianistas | Jan 29, 2023 | Find the Fraud
Probably not. But here are some techniques grifters use, courtesy of Maria Konnikova and her book about con artists. Maria Konnikova, a psychologist and New Yorker contributor, explains in her book, The Confidence Game, grifters manipulate human emotions in evil ways,...
by The Medianistas | Jan 26, 2023 | Crypto, Deceptive Marketing, Find the Fraud
Find it humorous that Chad Harris chose an incel name as his handle — GigaChad. RIOT just updated it’s investor presentation. You can find it here. Interesting to compare to the old one here: The big change is the huge reduction in detail. No forecasting...