SEC Wants To Be Funny With New Game Show, But Social Media Is Outraged
Last week, the SEC Office of Investor Education and Advocacy presented a campaign for “investor education” that includes a series of game-show scenarios. The campaign is titled “Investomania” and includes a half-minute television spot, a 15-second instructional video on crypto assets, FOMO, interactive questions, margin calls, and guaranteed returns. The purpose is: “to assist investors […]
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Back in March, live streaming company Streamin' Garage announced the world's first bitcoin-only game show, "Take My Bitcoins." Since then, the series has gone on to produce four episodes with between 18 and 19 BTC given away to participants to date. "Take My Bitcoins" is sponsored by ButterflyLabs, and uses bitcoins generated by the show's in-house mining rig for prizes. ButterflyLabs also contributes to each show's prize purse, which averages 4 BTC per show. Creator, host and executive producer Mike Rotman told CoinDesk that one of the major successes of the show has been the opportunity....
Here's something eye-catching that crossed the news desk today. Online media production company Streamin' Garage announced today plans to produce a live bitcoin-only game show to be broadcast on the web. Dubbed "Take My Bitcoins," the programming is sponsored by Butterfly Labs - and according to Streamin' Garage, "the first-of-its-kind game show will give away thousands of dollars per week in bitcoins." Each Thursday at 8 PM Pacific Time starting on April 3rd, a different celebrity co-host will be challenging online contestants to "games and knowledge," and according to Streamin' Garage,....
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a game-show campaign to help investors make informed decisions “in a playful way.” One of the contestants in the game show chose to listen to a celebrity and invest in crypto.
SEC Debuts ‘Game Show-Themed Public Service Campaign’
The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy unveiled “a game show-themed public service campaign” last week. Titled “Investomania,” the campaign aims “to help investors make informed investment decisions and avoid....
Live streaming company Streamin' Garage has announced plans to launch the world's first bitcoin-only game show: "Take my Bitcoins". The unconventional programme is already in production and it is sponsored by Butterfly Labs, one of the best-known and increasingly controversial providers of bitcoin mining hardware. In recent months, the company has come under fire from miners who are still waiting for products, following lengthy production and delivery delays. "Take my Bitcoins" will offer contestants a chance to win thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin every week. The show will be....
I. The flaws of centralized social media platforms & the problems can be solved by their decentralized counterparts Today we use social media applications such as WeChat, Discord, Twitter, and Facebook to transcend spatial/temporal limits and communicate with others, thereby minimizing the time needed for communication or social interaction. However, such centralized social media platforms […]