Podcasts about enric duran

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: List of past fraudsters similar to SBF, published by NunoSempere on November 28, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. To inform my forecasting around FTX events, I looked at the Wikipedia list of fraudsters and selected those I subjectively found similar—you can see a spreadsheet with my selection here. For each of the similar fraudsters, I present some common basic details below together with some notes. My main takeaway is that many salient aspects of FTX have precedents: the incestuous relationship between an exchange and a trading house (Bernie Madoff, Richard Whitney), a philosophical or philanthropic component (Enric Duran, Tom Petters, etc.), embroiling friends and families in the scheme (Charles Ponzi), or multi-billion fraud not getting found out for years (Elizabeth Holmes, many others). Fraud with a philosophical, philanthropic or religious component Bernard Ebbers Prison: Yes Jurisdiction: US Amount: $18B I find the section on his faith most informative: While CEO of WorldCom, he was a member of the Easthaven Baptist Church in Brookhaven, Mississippi. As a high-profile member of the congregation, Ebbers regularly taught Sunday school and attended the morning church service with his family. His faith was overt, and he often started corporate meetings with prayer. When the allegations of conspiracy and fraud were first brought to light in 2002, Ebbers addressed the congregation and insisted on his innocence. "I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook," he said. "No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud." Also note that eventually, $8B was restored to investors. Enric Durán Prison: No, life in hiding Jurisdiction: Spain Amount: ~$700k (all amounts are inflation approximate and adjusted using in2013dollars.com) During the 2008 crisis, he robbed Spanish banks by taking out spurious loans, and donated the amounts to anticapitalist causes. He wrote a guide about how to do this, and widely distributed it: an online version in Spanish and English can be found here. Personal takeaway: Stealing money for altruistic causes is not unprecedented. And if you are going to cross that line, it can be done with much more style. It will also be viewed much more sympathetically if you steal from organizations perceived to be corrupt. Tom Petters Prison: Yes Jurisdiction: US Amount: ~$5B Some of his donations were later returned (bold emphasis my own): Petters was appointed to the board of trustees for the College of St. Benedict in 2002; his mother had attended the school. In 2006 he gave $2 million for improvements to St. John's Abbey on the campus of adjacent Saint John's University. In light of the criminal prosecution, St. John's Abbey arranged to return the $2 million gift to the court-appointed receiver for the Petters bankruptcy. In October 2007, Petters made a $5.3 million gift to the College of St. Benedict to create the Thomas J. Petters Center for Global Education. In 2006, he served as a co-chairman of a capital campaign at his high school, Cathedral High School, and offered to match donations up to $750,000. Petters formed the John T. Petters Foundation to provide gifts and endowments at select universities to benefit future college students. The foundation was formed to honor his son, John Thomas Petters, who was killed on a visit in 2004 to Florence, Italy. The college student inadvertently wandered onto private property where the owner, Alfio Raugei, mistook him for an intruder and stabbed him to death." In response, in September 2004, Tom Petters pledged $10 million to his late son's college, Miami University. He later promised an additional $4 million, with the total to support two professorships and the John T. Petters Center for Leadership, Ethics and Skills Development within the Farmer School of Business. Miami Univers...

Heute: Runde von Vermut In der Rubrik “Investments & Exits” begrüßen wir heute Martin Janicki, Partner von Cavalry Ventures. Martin hat die Runde von Vermut kommentiert: Das spanische Startup Vermut hat seine erste internationale Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 1,5 Millionen Euro abgeschlossen. Vermut ist ein AgeTech-Startup mit dem Ziel, die Einsamkeit von Rentnerinnen und Rentnern durch eine soziale App zu bekämpfen. Auf der Plattform können ältere Menschen sich für Aktivitäten anmelden oder einer Gemeinschaft beitreten. Das frische Kapital nutzt Vermut, um das Wachstum der Plattform auf dem spanischen Markt fortzusetzen sowie um den nordamerikanischen Markt zu erobern. Zu diesem Zweck hat das Unternehmen auch einen amerikanischen Hauptsitz in Delaware eingerichtet, der in Vermut Senior Community INC umbenannt wurde und das erste spanische Agetech-Startup mit einer US-Basis ist. Die Runde wurde von BitKraft angeführt mit Beteiligung von Gaingels, Service Providers und Calm/Storm. Vermut wurde 2020 von Fernando Dellepiane und Enric Duran in Barcelona gegründet.

A lot of intense questions this week, and a controversial guest => heavy risk of denial. Let’s be honest: Do we really believe that alternative structures can flourish from within the existing system, supported by nation states? It feels like we don’t really want to accept the answer to this fundamental question, because the consequences would be profound.

This is the second and final part of our interview with Enric Duran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enric_Duran) of the Faircoin (https://en.everybodywiki.com/Faircoin) / Faircoop (https://en.everybodywiki.com/Faircoin) project. We discuss: the advantage of using Faircoin rather than Bitcoin or even Euros; the history of anarchism of in Spain and the use of pre-crypto 'scrip' currencies in and between anarchist communes; the need to build an infrastructure for the coming community of disaffected normies, and more. We also take a long excursion into Enric's backstory as the 'Robin Hood' of the antiglobalisation movement: how he stole half a million euros plus from banks and gave it all to anticapitalist projects , and his ensuing life in the underground.  And finally we come around to the big question: how to get to a global Commons without requiring big-state communism. Bonus: the mysterious link between Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin and Enric Duran's commune Calafou. 

Part one of a two-part series with Enric Duran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enric_Duran) , outlaw and leader of the Faircoin project (https://fair-coin.org) and founder of Fair Coop (https://fair.coop/en) . Faircoin is a fascinating experiment in cryptocurrency: a LETS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system) -style community currency which also functions as an exchange-traded token. With it, Duran's Fair Co-op wants to power an international co-operative movement based on ideas and principles emerging from the Catalan Integral Co-operative: peer-to-peer organization, and horizontal governance by consensus. Support STEAL THIS SHOW and get involved! https://patreon.com/stealthisshow  

ImportantCool associate Karun Cowper and Perth Indymedia’s Alex Whisson speak with "Robin Hood of the Banks" Enric Duran (from an undisclosed location somewhere in Europe) about his vision for FairCoop, the launch of Faircoin 2 and the importance of projects such as these in breaking the uncategorically shitbox current economic and social paradigm.

Fugitivos fuera de la ley. Así comienza nuestra carnicería esta semana. Uno de los nombres más reconocidos en nuestro país por su huida de la justicia es Enric Duran, también conocido como Robin Bank por expropiar cerca de medio millón de euros a diferentes entidades financieras para denunciar el capitalismo y financiar a movimientos sociales anticapitalistas. Duran es uno de los representantes visibles del decrecimiento y la Revolución Integral y vuelve a la carnicería para contarnos en qué consiste #OccupyBanking, acción que denuncia que los mecanismos del sistema monetario y bancario son antidemocráticos y para ofrecer una alternativa a través de FairCoop, una red que pretende hackear el mercado de divisas y convertirse en una alternativa más justa. Duran vuelve a la carnicería para reivindicar su #RetornoEnLibertad.

Fugitivos fuera de la ley. Así comienza nuestra carnicería esta semana. Uno de los nombres más reconocidos en nuestro país por su huida de la justicia es Enric Duran, también conocido como Robin Bank por expropiar cerca de medio millón de euros a diferentes entidades financieras para denunciar el capitalismo y financiar a movimientos sociales anticapitalistas. Duran es uno de los representantes visibles del decrecimiento y la Revolución Integral y vuelve a la carnicería para contarnos en qué consiste #OccupyBanking, acción que denuncia que los mecanismos del sistema monetario y bancario son antidemocráticos y para ofrecer una alternativa a través de FairCoop, una red que pretende hackear el mercado de divisas y convertirse en una alternativa más justa. Duran vuelve a la carnicería para reivindicar su #RetornoEnLibertad.

Tomi facendo autocontrol e dándolle a rec cando xa ía media hora de programa. Ainda así pillades parte da entrevista con Margarida Vázquez, concelleira de Igualdade do Concello da Coruña. Entre outras cousiñas. Deume moita rabia que se perdese a entrevista con Enric Duran, o que se dedicou a pedir créditos a bancos para non devolvelos e investir os cartos en movementos sociais. Ben, pasa e escoita.