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writing about technology and finance for @nytimes; author of Digital Gold, a history of Bitcoin; nathaniel.popper@nytimes.com; dm me for signal or pgp

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    Nathaniel Popper‏Verified account @nathanielpopper Apr 16

    The reviews of http://Earn.com  on Hacker News today are not great. They make it sound mostly like a mass marketing tool for ICOs. Is that the main use case? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16850062 …pic.twitter.com/ngHWoa6JLZ

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      2. CJ Black‏ @charleseblack Apr 16
        Replying to @nathanielpopper

        I signed up and after a couple of weeks, all I had to show for it was 10-15 ICO solicitations, literally nothing else. There weren't even any of the typical materials platforms send out about user success-stories, etc.

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. grahammcbain‏ @grahammcbain Apr 17
        Replying to @charleseblack @nathanielpopper

        http://EARN.com  has a large userbase of people that understand crypto and are open to working for it. #Coinbase has the capital to test other types of bounties and now the population to test it on. Also a large slice of the #ethereum browser community with #cipherbrowser

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      2. Tuur Demeester‏ @TuurDemeester Apr 17
        Replying to @nathanielpopper

        My experience has been positive overall. Ratio of non personalized ICOs maybe 50%.

        2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Mark Beylin‏ @MarkBeylin Apr 17
        Replying to @TuurDemeester @nathanielpopper

        You’re lucky you’re famous, for regular people the metric is 100% ICOs asking me to join their telegram groups.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      4. Nelson M. Rosario‏ @NelsonMRosario Apr 17
        Replying to @MarkBeylin @TuurDemeester @nathanielpopper

        Ditto. 100% ICO solicitation.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Mr. Kruger‏ @MrKrugerCrypto Apr 17
        Replying to @NelsonMRosario @MarkBeylin and

        Yup, pretty much: 1. join telegram 2. follow on twitter 3. wait for a few tokens... no personalization here 🤔

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Ankit Chaudhari‏ @realistictatva Apr 17
        Replying to @nathanielpopper

        First the support for ERC20 tokens, then the acquisition of a major marketing showcase in the ICO space, open ended support for all regulated offerings. @Coinbase is heading towards creating a trillion dollar exchange for all regulated or exempt from regulation asset classes.

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      1. Rui Ma‏Verified account @ruima Apr 17
        Replying to @nathanielpopper @ofnumbers

        That’s what it is for me ... I have $35 to show for it, plus a few telegram group joins (required to receive “bounty”). I’m actually surprised it’s not more popular since when do people pay you directly to spam you :) But then again maybe everyone in crypto is too rich for this?

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      1. Yousef‏ @byourseff Apr 16
        Replying to @nathanielpopper

        Users can simply opt-out of receiving ICO-related messages.

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      2. Ashlee Vance‏Verified account @valleyhack Apr 16
        Replying to @nathanielpopper

        They "invented" the 1-900 number of email

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      2. Douglass Turner‏ @dugla Apr 17
        Replying to @nathanielpopper

        I tried to actually use Earn. Open mind. Give it a shot. UNUSABLE. Endless airdrop spam. Are you ready for $5 to send an email? Welcome to Earn.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Douglass Turner‏ @dugla Apr 17
        Replying to @dugla @nathanielpopper

        I find it incomprehensible this is a $100M deal.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. Musashi‏ @elmusashi Apr 17
        Replying to @dugla @nathanielpopper

        They are acquiring the team, not the product.

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      5. Douglass Turner‏ @dugla Apr 17
        Replying to @elmusashi @nathanielpopper

        Clearly. 😂😂😂

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      6. Douglass Turner‏ @dugla Apr 17
        Replying to @dugla @elmusashi @nathanielpopper

        The crypto reality distortion field makes the Apple RDF look like story time at kindergarten.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Ankit Chaudhari‏ @realistictatva Apr 17
        Replying to @nathanielpopper

        Definitely a channel to increase the count of participants in telegram channels and twitter followers, mass marketing - not sure. Also, gets you a limited list of interested participants but mostly say yes because they intend to have that dollar worth of Bitcoin as reward.

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      1. Ico Ideas‏ @IcoIdeas Apr 16
        Replying to @nathanielpopper

        It would be interesting to see their books. That multimillion dollar run rate could have only happened with ICO and airdrop spam. This acquisition may have had more to do with AH needing to be bailed out on their investment.

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      1. ecurrencyhodler‏ @ecurrencyhodler Apr 16
        Replying to @nathanielpopper

        It wasn't like that until recently.

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      1. Hans Larsen‏ @solohaldor Apr 18
        Replying to @nathanielpopper

        I see coinbase using this model to sell crypto so u can email it to friends and family that wouldn't normally get in to it ... remember Xmas when everyone wanted to give btc gift cards but it wasn't easy to do? It will suck the nonuser to coinbase and they will profit.

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