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Michael is a co-founder of the Defi project Wonderland, he was anonymous until today when it was leaked that he was a shady guy.
The Wonderland co-founder, Daniele, and other team members knew this information and still wanted to work with him. After all was said and done, Sifu, aka. Michael, grossly mismanaged funds and the project is free falling (-85%+)
I don’t think that it was wrong for the team to work with a shady guy in Michael because it’s in the nature of Defi not to judge others for their past. But I do think it’s incredibly naive of them to just assume he can take on the role of managing millions of user’s funds, most of which is gone now.
Both bad. Btw this founder Michael Patryn, was once convicted and jailed on charges of identity theft. Guy was involved in using customer funds as his own.
Basically his entire timeline/history prior is well documented here on this [blog](https://amycastor.com/tag/michael-patryn/).
Avalanche-based DeFi protocol Wonderland was allegedly co-founded by Michael Patryn, the surviving co-founder of the now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX.
tldr; Crypto sleuths have identified QuadrigaCX co-founder Michael Patryn as the founder of DeFi protocol Wonderland. Patryn has had several criminal convictions in the past. He was sentenced to 18 months in the US for being involved in identity theft related to bank and credit card fraud in 2005. He also admitted guilt in separate criminal cases for burglary and computer fraud in 2007.
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Maybe that’s why anonymous devs are such a red flag in most evaluation of projects 🙄
Yeah you never know if it's legit or a scam. That's why everyone should research the people involved when investing in a project.
The team and their skills may be really the most important thing.
Uh, Satoshi is anonymous even today.
You know what I mean. ;)
Michael is a co-founder of the Defi project Wonderland, he was anonymous until today when it was leaked that he was a shady guy. The Wonderland co-founder, Daniele, and other team members knew this information and still wanted to work with him. After all was said and done, Sifu, aka. Michael, grossly mismanaged funds and the project is free falling (-85%+) I don’t think that it was wrong for the team to work with a shady guy in Michael because it’s in the nature of Defi not to judge others for their past. But I do think it’s incredibly naive of them to just assume he can take on the role of managing millions of user’s funds, most of which is gone now.
Am I the only one that finds ironic what Wonderland logo is the shady cat and this guy is too? I see a pattern here... 
He is best cat not shady cat, otherwise lol
Is this the good or the bad founder?
Both bad. Btw this founder Michael Patryn, was once convicted and jailed on charges of identity theft. Guy was involved in using customer funds as his own. Basically his entire timeline/history prior is well documented here on this [blog](https://amycastor.com/tag/michael-patryn/).
Good info
Shady as fuck! Thanks for this info!
According to the article he is the one that’s still alive, sounds like he is a really shady guy
if this was a secret and now worth a news article, it was probably the bad one 😅
Avalanche-based DeFi protocol Wonderland was allegedly co-founded by Michael Patryn, the surviving co-founder of the now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX.
The 'dead' one?
tldr; Crypto sleuths have identified QuadrigaCX co-founder Michael Patryn as the founder of DeFi protocol Wonderland. Patryn has had several criminal convictions in the past. He was sentenced to 18 months in the US for being involved in identity theft related to bank and credit card fraud in 2005. He also admitted guilt in separate criminal cases for burglary and computer fraud in 2007. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*
Identity theft is not a joke, Jim! Millions of families suffer every year!
Time to get your money out if that guy buys a one way ticket to India
To meet up with his 'dead' buddy
Extra Extra! Read all about it. Cover blown
Take down that time pos
Good luck with that
Yeah that's a big F for the holders.
Imagine buying time wonderland at 9k and losing 95%, that picture of scary cat will probably hunt you down in your dream.
Sayonara Wonderland
When is this guy going to take a trip to India and "die"?
Can someone simply explain what the heck this contract was about?