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- Have you ever felt down on your luck?

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Do you wish you could turn
it all around, make a splash,

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imprint your name onto
an irrevocable chain

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of data already known for
failed startups and scams?

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Come on, you already know the answer.

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There's a new trend this year

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among both failed businesses
and denounced tech bros alike.

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After seeing their names dragged
for poor decision-making,

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many failed entities and
individuals are coming back

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to life, not with new names or identities,

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but bearing the moniker of "Web3"

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to get new investors on their side.

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Jordan Belfort, the "Wolf of Wall Street"

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who previously pled guilty to fraud

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and manipulating the stock market,

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has started advising people
on how to get rich in crypto.

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Failed presidential and
mayoral candidate Andrew Yang's

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now focused on a
crypto-focused lobby firm.

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His old campaign slogan should now

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read "Make America Think
Harder... about crypto."

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Adam Neumann, the face behind WeWork,

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remember, that shared-work space company

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that imploded a few years ago?

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Well, now he has his fingers

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in two separate crypto projects.

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He's invested in a company
trying to put carbon credits

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on the blockchain.

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Just a reminder, but
blockchain tech is notorious

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for being power hungry.

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There's no word yet on how many

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of its own credits it'll
have to sell to make up

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for its own waste.

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And hey, remember defunct torrent sites

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like Napster and Limewire?

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Well, two separate crypto
groups have raised them

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from the dead and turned
them into NFT platforms.

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The general idea is to become
the NFT platform of choice

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for the music industry.

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Talk about singing a different tune.

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But perhaps the most disgusting attempt

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at a crypto comeback comes

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from none other than
the Pharma Bro himself.

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Martin Shkreli, the
former hedge fund manager

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who raised the price of a live-saving drug

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over 5,000% a few years ago,

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is out of jail and headlining
his own Web3 project.

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It's called Druglike,

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and Shkreli said he wants it

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to "democratize" drug discovery

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by putting it all on the
blockchain. (shudders)

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The thing is, as haphazard
as some of these attempts

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to regain lost fame are,
some seem to be working.

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Neumann's got investors
going millions deep

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into his planned crypto-wallet
enabled real estate startup.

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Belfort has people dropping
thousands of dollars

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to listen to him crow about
making money in crypto.

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Though it's not all roses for these folks.

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This month Shkreli found
that his wallet containing

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all the tokens for his upcoming
startup had been hacked.

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The "Pharma Bro" has yet
to say how he'll recover,

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but if this video is any proof...