Brock Pierce: The Unraveling of a Crypto Dream

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/technology/brock-pierce-crypto-puerto-rico.html

by DonHopkins • 2 years ago

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DonHopkins3• 2 years ago

Brock Pierce arrived in Puerto Rico seven years ago, promising to use crypto magic to revitalize the local economy. Now he’s mired in legal disputes and fighting with his business partners.

alexnewman2• 2 years ago

Man this has motivated me to help this guy out

DonHopkins3• 2 years ago

Then please give him all of your money, if that's the kind of person you are and support! It's pretty creepy how you're so gullibly enthusiastic and easily convinced to help out a notorious accused pedophile crypto scammer fraud, though. But you be you!

alexnewman: I understand how Nigerian Letter Scam frauds purposefully put grammatical mistakes and misspellings into their letters to filter out non-idiotic people who are no so gullible that they can spell and write complete sentences, but what is it exactly about that article about Brock Pierce that impressed and appealed to you so much, that it convinced you to help him out and publicly declare your support for him? Or did you already know about his well-documented history, which the article omitted, but I'll gladly give you a few quotes and links to here in case you or other potential suckers didn't already know all about him?

#BrockPierce from @AnOpenSecret on #LastWeekTonight with John Oliver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAnAYa8gas

John Oliver called out Brock Pierce as a "douche" and a "Sleepy Creepy Cowboy From The Future" as well as recommending you all Google: Brock Pierce Scandal. We at @AnOpenSecret are very familiar with Brock as a founder of the Digital Entertainment Network AKA DEN mentioned in our documentary where pedophilia took place.

D.E.N. OF INIQUITY ; CHAIRMAN’S EXIT FOLLOWS PEDO SUIT

https://nypost.com/1999/11/03/d-e-n-of-iniquity-chairmans-ex...

The chairman and co-founder of the red-hot Internet start-up Digital Entertainment Network resigned after settling a lawsuit alleging he sexually abused a 13-year-old boy.

Brock Pierce's the Pedophile EXPOSED

https://telegra.ph/Brock-Pierces-the-Pedophile-EXPOSED-07-07

“The Last Pixel Show” ZDNet article by Mike Ryan about the collapse of DEN, the sexual abuse allegations against the founders, and the mystery of their whereabouts. This is one of the first press mentions of the rape lawsuit made against Brock Pierce which he claimed to be “unaware” of for several years.

The Last Pixel Show

http://web.archive.org/web/20081011080108/http://www.zdnet.c...

As fate would have it, Collins-Rector was served with the papers only days before the IPO plans were made public. Though he and DEN announced several weeks later that the lawsuit had been settled out of court, the IPO was canceled, and not long afterward Collins-Rector, Shackley, and Pierce left DEN. This being the dot-com world, DEN for a while managed to survive even this disaster. For one thing, the employees seemed to take it in stride when the head of their company -- a company that catered to a young audience -- was branded as an alleged pedophile. A board member made it clear that management, too, was unconcerned, more interested in money than in morals. Marc Nathanson, who sat on DEN's board of directors, told the Los Angeles Times: "Who people date is none of the board's business."

Tether Co-Founder Brock Pierce Visited Jeffery Epstein’s Private Island • ProCoinNews.com

https://procoinnews.com/tether-co-founder-brock-pierce-visit...

Tether’s co-founder Brock Pierce has some major explaining to do.

Some in Bitcoin group resign over new board member’s link to sex abuse

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/some-in-bitcoin-group-...

Hollywood’s Underage Sexual Abuse Problem: 5 Shocking Injustices From ‘An Open Secret’

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/hollywoods-undera...

“Pedophile ring” DEN was founded by an abuser, his former victim, and a well-known child actor
Brock Pierce, a frequent Villard subject who appeared in “The Mighty Ducks” films, was introduced to Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley by “The Usual Suspects” director Bryan Singer. Collins-Rector and Shackley met in a chatroom, began dating, and moved in together when Shackley was 15 and Collins-Rector was 31. After starting an internet service provider, they recruited Pierce to form the Digital Entertainment Network, a 1998 precursor to modern streaming platforms. DEN provided original content starring child actors. Prior to the company’s planned $75 million IPO, the trio was hit with sexual abuse allegations and a lawsuit filed by a New Jersey who’d worked for Collins-Rector. With an investigation underway, they fled the U.S.; Interpol arrested them in Spain in 2002. Collins-Rector spent 18 months imprisoned prior to extradition, then plead guilty to nine counts of child sexual abuse. He was soon released, and after registering as a convicted sex offender, he ran away to London.

The Decline and Fall of an Ultra Rich Online Gaming Empire

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/ff-ige/

I was in the business myself at the time, selling items in the classic MMO Ultima Online. After the conference, I blogged “Brock Pierce looks like a Norman Rockwell 13-year-old, talks like a coked-up 35-year-old, and happens to have turned 23 last Friday. He is either my new best friend or my new worst nightmare.” What alarmed me was the news that IGE was planning to move beyond EverQuest to other games—including Ultima. “I haven’t even had a chance to get my little five-and-dime up and running,” I lamented, “and already the Wal-Mart is coming to town.”

Digital Entertainment Network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Entertainment_Network

DEN was slated for a $75 million USD IPO in October 1999 but the IPO was withdrawn[11] in the wake of allegations of sexual assault against Collins-Rector, Shackley, and fellow executive Brock Pierce. All three executives subsequently resigned.[2] Layoffs followed in February 2000.[12] While a new executive team led by former Capitol Records President Gary Gersh[11] and former Microsoft executive Greg Carpenter[13] tried to salvage the company and relaunch in May 2000,[14] DEN filed for bankruptcy and shut down in June 2000.[15][16]

The Strange Saga of Jeffrey Epstein’s Link to a Child Star Turned Cryptocurrency Mogul

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/s...

How Brock Pierce ended up as a Jeffrey Epstein guest along with a NASA computer engineer, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and a Nobel laureate in theoretical physics is bizarre tale involving Steve Bannon and an international man of mystery who may or may not be dead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31847600

Who remembers the World of Warcraft oriented Thottbot web site, and how it pivoted to farming and selling gold, and who was involved, and what they're doing now? It's a fascinating, lurid, and twisted story, worthy of its own Connections episode by James Burke. [...]
Through a dramatic saga of infighting and scams and scandals and lawsuits, ex-child-actor-who-turned-into-a-banana then underage-sexual-abuse-scandal-triggered-dot-com-scam-video-streaming-company-ipo-meltdown-involved and now Trump-boot-licking-crypto-bro-new-age-burning-man-whack-job and failed-presidential-candidate Brock Pierce spun the company out into Affinity Media.

1995 Betty Crocker Gushers Commercial, in which Brock Pierce turns into a banana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyzt3Q05Ris&t=10s

alexnewman2• 2 years ago

Nice!

Other epstein guests include bill clinton and bill gates? Should I not contribute to there charities? Or do they dress fancy enough for me to help?

Actually I was aware of all of this. Show me where he was convicted. I'm currently talking to him about the hospital. I live in Puerto Rico so I'm well connected to some of the top doctors on the island. It seems once again, well meaning but he got screwed over by his financial partners and now he's left with a bill for a community hospital. There's no value in just letting the hospital fail. Someone needs to help him keep this community hospital from going away. Also it doesn't seem he wants to administer it, he just needs an administrator who isn't going to rob him.

Look I know it's easy to say rich man bad. Look at how funny looks. But the reality is no one benefits from him failing at helping this island so instead of whining about all the problems on the island, I intend on using my hard earned money on helping him not fail on specific projects underwhich neither of us economically are rewarded. I'm sorry if this upsets you.

tromp• 2 years ago

https://archive.is/JrJIa

Brock Pierce: The Unraveling of a Crypto Dream

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