Considering the number of outright fraud artists and charlatans masquerading as "c level executives" of dozens of different cryptocurrency firms, isn't the whole thing an elaborate LARP?
My fear here is that people are using events like these as a tool to generate believable false identities (for opsec purposes. watch the grugq's video).
Recycle a few key identities between events and you can build something really useful.
Was thinking similar thoughts - if the characters are reused at a few parties, meet a ton of people, and those people go on and bring up memorable characters in the future they can eventually connect. Outside validation immediately makes that 'character' a real person to those who met them or read about them.
The fact that enough of us are a) thinking this b) that such a strange event has such reach, and c) involves Monero, leads me to believe that this is the true purpose of this event series.
I do ARGs and Nordic LARPs and generally know of everyone involved in organizing events of this nature and this is totally off my radar.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 68.3 ms ] threadAs a veteran of LARPs and raves, this read like something extremely boring!
Recycle a few key identities between events and you can build something really useful.
>Suddenly I’m curious about this strange person. From the balcony, I ask her where she’s from.
>“The U.K.,” she says.
>“Where exactly?,” I follow up, wondering if it’s London, Scotland, or wherever.
>She squints back up at me, surprised by the question, and repeats, “The U.K.”
>I watch her walk quickly down the block, hail a taxi, and drive away forever.
I do ARGs and Nordic LARPs and generally know of everyone involved in organizing events of this nature and this is totally off my radar.