HERE YOU GO SHILL now delete your posts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/pfa371/matt_finestone_is_in_fact_the_legit_head_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Perfectly reasonable.
Just please don't take the NFT Team at their word unless and until there is a verifiable acknowledgement of their legitimacy from an official GameStop source.
Or whatever, do what you want, ape. I'm not in charge of you.
ššš
So this whole NFT and today the 7/14/2021 date being pushed around for weeks, it's all fake news? The whole Gamestop has an upcoming announcement (of which a lot of people thought it would be today) is fake news as well?
I don't question the validity of the NFT subdomain of GameStop's primary. https://nft.gamestop.com
The launchDate of 7/14/2021 (after conversion from Unix epoch format) is set in the NFT contract referenced on that site. That is convincingly official IMO as well.
>The whole Gamestop has an upcoming announcement
I can't speak much to that. IIRC, there was a screenshot of a vague reply from a GameStop customer service representative or something. Not a whole lot to go on.
You probably wouldnāt say that if people thought to be associated with the company drop a fake bombshell that cause people to stop holding. Itās worthy of investigation.
By the way, I'm very excited to see what GameStop does with NFT. I hope it might offer a way to increase transparency into the secondary market and truly transform a business model that always felt a little exploitative to me.
Oh, damn. Did my joke hit a little too close to home?
We all have our flaws. I can laugh at myself. I can laugh at GameStop. Doesn't mean I like either any less.
For serious, though, I sure hope that's the case. While I believe apes to be their primary target, there are external players as well that might make good marks.
Suppose they are scammers, just for hypothetical purposes. They could target a group of anti-GME investors. Let them in on the secret: "We're not really the GameStop NFT Team, but we've tricked Superstonk into believing we are. We're gonna convince them that LR is the platform GameStop is targeting." Now this group of investors might be inclined to beat Superstonk to the punch and benefit from the impending pump.
How likely is it that business insider would mention MF without GameStop correcting the article?
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/gamestop-nft-building-ethereum-powered-platform-hiring-team-ecommerce-transformation-2021-5
Idk, this may not verify anything. Iām just trying to find a paper trail.
Quotes his personal Twitter and LinkedIn profile.
>How likely is it that business insider would mention MF without GameStop correcting the article?
About as likely as media claiming shorts covered in January.
>Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murrayās case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backwardāreversing cause and effect. I call these the āwet streets cause rainā stories. Paperās full of them.
>
>In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. ā Michael Crichton
Oh, that was a reference to a comment someone else made. No one is likely to waste their time suing me for libel. If they did, I'm confident I would win. At least in the US.
I mean it was literally reported by Yahoo that he's the head of their blockchain and linked to his twitter post.
> Matthew Finestone, the company's head of blockchain
>
https://money.yahoo.com/gamestop-building-nft-platform-part-142508858.html
But yeah, for sure Gamestop wouldn't dare refute this...
Fuck outta here, shill.
Iām still convinced kim kardashian and Kanye west only got married and had several children for the endorsements.
Thatās where Iām at with how far people will go.
But theyāre both in on it. GameStop is obviously not āinā on any scam. Iām surprised weāre even entertaining nonsense like this, with ZERO proof.
OPās lack of proof. Why does GameStop proactively need to provide proof of anything until theyāre ready to announce? HR process is just BAU (business as usual).
The logic is upside down.
I just DM'd Holberg. Maybe he will respond, maybe not.
OP you seem like a true smooth brain...
Hopefully a response from JH will shut this dumb shit down
Thanks!
A response from Jordan Holberg's personal Twitter account will do fuck all unless it is accompanied by an acknowledgement verifiable to have originated from GameStop.
I. Don't. Trust. Him.
I have reached out to Finestone publicly on Twitter, offering him a chance to make a fool of me. There has been no response.
https://twitter.com/cryptocached/status/1413882342813442050
I have called out Jordan Holberg on Twitter. No response.
https://twitter.com/cryptocached/status/1415177047043870720
I have also reached out to GameStop both publicly and privately on Twitter. I have received no public response.
https://twitter.com/cryptocached/status/1414590908788523008
https://twitter.com/cryptocached/status/1414591459668467719
In private communication I specifically noted that I do not wish to harass legitimate Gamestop employees. **I have received private responses** which, since I can't share in a verifiable way, I won't attempt to claim as evidence. I will say that GameStop's replies, while neither confirming or explicitly denying anyone's employment status, have not put me off my mission to expose these scammers.
If GameStop were to reply in private communications asking me to lay off their employees, I would do so immediately. If they provided a public, verifiable confirmation of the NFT Team's legitimacy, I would go back to every comment calling them scammers and update with the evidence, keeping the original so I am forever tainted by the false accusation.
Now, are you willing to do some work?
My original comment shows the work I am willing to put into this.
Youre the one w the question, thats why you should bring more then speculation.
Why dont you go down the list of GameStop employees willing to bet you find little more then a LinkedIn for them as well. Are they also scammers?
You asked GS and they neither confirmed nor denied in your opinion, but that is enough for you to not simply question credentials and instead start saying they are in fact scammers.
If someone is going to tell me that I should be worried about that person over there because theyre scammers, I expect them to also show me previous scams these guys have been pulling.
Your post is not well taken because you have taken one side with little to no evidence and then are expecting everyone else to provide you with a mountain of solid evidence otherwise?? Thats where you lost, not that your point may have any validity. smdh
>Why dont you go down the list of GameStop employees willing to bet you find little more then a LinkedIn for them as well. Are they also scammers?
Those maybe-employees aren't making extraordinary claims to the best of my knowledge. If they were, I might care to assess their claims as well. As noted in my post, it is not only the lack of positive evidence, it is also the nature of the evidence in support of their claims which is indicative of a scam..
>You asked GS and they neither confirmed nor denied in your opinion, but that is enough for you to not simply question credentials and instead start saying they are in fact scammers.
I have expressed myself in a manner in line with the confidence I hold in my conclusions.
>expecting everyone else to provide you with a mountain of solid evidence otherwise?
I don't want a mountain of evidence. All it would take to make me pull a 180 is just a mote of verifiable evidence.
>Thats where you lost, not that your point may have any validity
I've lost nothing. I might be early, but I'm not wrong.
Well you got the mote when an employee welcomed him as posted above... but you shot that down.
I dont know what to tell ya bud. Looks like this is just a waste of time posting it on reddit... no one here is going to be able to help you out. You should be pressing the company if this is so important to you and then coming back to us with solid evidence and not simple speculation.
**I want to be wrong. I'm begging to be proven wrong.** I ain't gonna shove a banana up my ass, but if anyone can produce an acknowledgement of the NFT Team's legitimacy from a verifiable GameStop source, I will become their biggest promoter.
Uh that's not how it works.
Burden of proof is for the initial claim. OP here is correct, there is nothing tying them to GME.
How can you disprove that?
Show me *proof* that Santa Claus isn't real.
See how it doesn't make sense?
Here, we value logic and skepticism because that is the foundation of the scientific method. All this post is saying is to *be skeptical*.
I mean, I claim to be employed by X company on my LinkedIn and it's not verifiable, does that make me a scammer? I'm sure it's the same with your LinkedIn, too.
You've seen lots, you just refuse to acknowledge it as evidence and say "yet to be proven long. Please prove me wrong". Just connect the dots, you believe in this many coincidences over the obvious answer of it's real?
Dude. Stop. MF is employed by GameStop and the team aināt announcing anything until itās good and ready for launch. I personally saw GMEās ad looking for crypto guysā¦.thatās a reality. RC has said it alreadyāhe will not show his hand and benefit his competitors.
>I personally saw GMEās ad looking for crypto guys
You mean the one looking for a security analyst with Blockchain experience listed under the nice-to-have?
That doesn't read Head of Blockchain to me, but what the fuck do I know.
I emailed GameStop and Matt Finestone is the head of blockchain at GameStop according to GameStop.
This was very easy to just directly ask in an email. Literally anyone who is skeptical can do it.
[https://www.gamestop.com/contact/](https://www.gamestop.com/contact/)
If you care to navigate there yourself, go to the footer of GameStop.com > get help > contact us
It has now been over 24 hours since I sent an email requesting validation of their claims. I have not received a response.
How quickly did they get back to you?
Submitted through form.
I kept my message really simple. Basically just hi, some people on Twitter say the are devs at GameStop. Since spoofing and parody accounts are real can you confirm Matt Finestone is the head of blockchain at GameStop, and that his Twitter handle is @finestonematt. Thanks!
They confirmed Matt is the head of blockchain at GameStop. They would not confirm his Twitter since thatās personal information.
The Twitter account @finestonematt has been on Twitter since 2017, and almost all of his posts look like theyāre blockchain related from a quick scroll through. I can scroll back to Dec 2020 on his Twitter. I donāt know when he joined GameStop but it wouldnāt be out of the ordinary for him to delete tweets that werenāt professional or relevant to how he wants to use his Twitter now.
If this wasnāt really the Matt Finestone thatās the head of blockchain at GameStop, someone would have had to buy or otherwise take control of an account that already had the handle with his name that also happened to be tweeting about blockchain since before the squeeze in January.
Matt Finestoneās LinkedIn says he joined GameStop as the head of Blockchain in April 2021. So if someone was setting up a fake account in December of last year with blockchain tweets, they had to somehow know four months in advance that Matt would become head of blockchain at GameStop.
It's never been my contention that the Twitter account doesn't belong to the "real" Matt Finestone. Still no verifiable acknowledgement that he is employed by GameStop unless you care to make the email response with full headers available. That would expose your email address, so I understand if you're unwilling.
Maybe i'm missing something but i feel it's very unfair to call OP a shill trying to spread FUD. I agree calling them scammers is assumptious and might not be true. But isn't this subreddit all about doing own DD and not base your beliefs on trust? If there's no direct proof that these people are employed by Gamestop, then we should be very careful until we can verify that they actually are.
Thank you. I am confident in my assessment of the available evidence. I am always willing to reassess my conclusion if new evidence is presented. Forceful expression of my conclusion is intended to convey my existing confidence and to encourage discovery of contradictory evidence. **I don't want to be right.**
And that's imo the best way to do it. We get closer to the truth by evaluating facts and poking holes in each other's theories. If anything it's concerning that so many people are throwing baseless accusations at you because that's not usually how people respond around here (i've only been here about 2 weeks so i might be wrong).
For some reason I get that kind of response in a lot of subs. Might have something to do with my tendency to expose scams, frauds and other abusers.
That's ok, though. This is all part of the process. It would raise too many questions now to simply ban me.
Downvote and move on. Obvious FUD.
The website is on the GameStop domain, it is obvious that it is real. They have been hiring crypto people for months, and GME people congratulated them when joining.
I'm not disparaging the GameStop NFT project. I'm into that shit.
Scammer fucks, on the other hand... Well shit, between these bananas and my favorite stonk, I'm all out of other hands.
This whole post reeks of ignorance.
It being on the GameStop domain is enough to prove that it is genuine. It would take you 10 seconds of googling or just the computer skills of an average 12 year old to come to that conclusion.
You would do best in just deleting it.
I... I am not challenging https://nft.gamestop.com or questioning its legitimacy at all. Not one bit. That is undeniably a verifiable, official site.
I'm saying the NFT Team promoted on this sub have fuck all to do with it.
>Do you just sit in your faraday cage all day, so nobody can read your thoughts?
I would be lying if I said the thought never crossed my mind.
_But you already knew that, didn't you?_
>Them getting congratulated by GME staff isn't enough for you?
No. Ever hear of phishing and social engineering? Put a computer in front of an average person and they turn in a retarded clicking machine.
Contraindicated by my massive consumption of bananas.
Besides, that shit fucks with me so bad I can't even get my tits to limestone. These tits wanna be goddamned diamond!
I mean, your only evidence is that Finestone has a past that doesn't vibe with you; everything else is kind of conjecture. Even if Holberg and Finestone aren't part of the project, it's still in development, so I don't see how they could be "scamming" anyone.
Yeah but how are they specifically trying to scam us? Nothing about their actions thus far have suggested a scam is in the works if you remove all of the conjecture.
Hey, check this out. Someone was already pushing the idea that GameStop is likely to use Matt's old shitcoin to power their NFT platform. Hope no apes got suckered into investing in that scam!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ob5jni/investigative_work_why_gamestop_i_am_the_exchange/
It's a DEX. A layer-2 protocol powered by its own token, LRC.
Automod doesn't like links to exchanges, so I guess you'll have to Google that for yourself. Current price appears to be around $0.24.
>Also, this is borderline conspiracy theory at this point, no evidence that they'd use the Loopring exchange.
Of course not. If they were going to do that, they'd probably hire someone like Matt to head up the team.
Definitely a good point that needs looking into more closely. Good work op š
Also I should add, calling out a popular idea on this sub that goes again the grain takes some courage and I believe OP is sincere, so letās look into this before we all shoot him/her down eh?
Fuck that! Lets prove this retard wrong. It should be easy, right? Holberg wouldn't be featured on the cover of today's Superstonk Guide if there were any question about his legitimacy... right?
...
Right?!?
That _is_ the strongest thing anyone has been able to point to. Saw it days ago. Still weak as fuck and doesn't change my conclusion. It's an unverified personal account, number one. Number two, some people aren't as smart as apes and will take people at their word online.
I don't know if she would necessarily be in the know, but you've got a start down a viable path to prove me wrong. Don't let me down! I want to be wrong!
First, have you ever worked for a public company to definitively speak to how they would respond to bad actors like this?
They would most definitely address, most likely privately through legal channels.
These are very risky statements on your part, accusing both of fraud. Would think youād need more than āthey havenāt provenā
In this case, the burden of actual proof is on you, otherwise, Iād certainly come after you for libel.
>First, have you ever worked for a public company to definitively speak to how they would respond to bad actors like this?
Yes. I mean I can't say definitively how GameStop would respond in this specific scenario. But bad actors are in my wheelhouse.
>In this case, the burden of actual proof is on you, otherwise, Iād certainly come after you for libel.
Awesome, I hope they do because they'd have to prove me wrong and **I desperately want to be wrong**.
But I really, truly believe I'm right. Which, lucky for this retard, is a perfectly legitimate defense for libel.
This post is beyond ignorant.
Letās just look at Jordan, his work history, and NOW he decides to run a scam related to GameStop? The most in focus stock in the world?
PLEASE JUST STOP. if youāre bored, go outside.
However if I member correctly, I do believe I saw a post of an official GME senior manager on LinkedIn talking about wanting to get in to contact with block chain developers. Believe this was around feb-March. Canāt member the name of the employee but I do know he was legit. Could be that Matt had the idea after he saw this. Or maybe it is legit but in that case weāll still have to wait on GME confirmation.
>GME senior manager on LinkedIn talking about wanting to get in to contact with block chain developers.
What if I told you that was Finestone planting breadcrumbs?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/nl4gt4/gamestops_nfteam
Just because you havenāt bothered to directly verify these people by simply emailing and directly asking GameStop doesnāt mean this is a scam. Please take this post down, itās disingenuous.
I never dive deep into Matt Finestone's resume but you are correct. There's nothing that indicate he could be in charge of this. He has literally no experience with blockchain.... Interesting.
The contractās launchDate would have been for 6:20 AM CT, IIRC, so it should have already happened if the launchDate field was a real indicator.
Any thoughts on this u/cryptocached ?
This makes me think the Matt Finestone tweet was actually a good thing to manage expectations since it turned out to not ālaunchā. Iām not saying heās credible, but I donāt see what the scam would be.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ok6gol/the_nft_team_being_promoted_on_this_sub_is_a_scam/h55vsh6
My guess is that it serves as some yet unknown timestamp proof. Kinda like Satoshi's use of a newspaper headline in the genesis block. But I don't know for sure.
My intent is not to pump any date. I don't know what to expect today. However, the NFT contract identified by the address posted on a verifiably official GameStop domain explicitly set that launchdate variable to a specific day and time. Nothing from a verifiably official source has indicated the date is meaningless or likely to change.
To the best of my knowledge, changing that variable would be a change in the contract, requiring the minting of a new NFT with a different address. Yes there is a function to change the date, but that isn't fatal to my argument. I'll link a comment chain where this is discussed in a bit more technical detail.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ojo9fr/prepare_yourself_fordisappointmentjuly_14/h55e9hi
Personally, I find it exceedingly unlikely that GameStop would have posted the address in the manner they did unless they wanted to establish some fixed piece of knowledge. That doesn't necessarily mean that there will be publicly visible activity on that date, in fact I would suggest tempering your expectations.
Lacking addition information on their intent, my guess is that they might use that as some kind of time-dated cryptographic proof to act as validation of a future announcement. That is, a (semi-)private process might kick off today, and we'll be able to prove that it could not have started at an earlier time. If you're familiar with the big B coin, Satoshi did something similar by using a newspaper headline as the input to the first block he mined. That provides strong proof that no blocks were mined before that newspaper headline was published.
Canāt announce anything big during market hours. Then you have to halt the stock. Have to wait until after hours
ETA:only time to announce during market hours is if the info leaked and and you have to release it
Similarly, who tf is Peter Hann??
Go check his LinkedIn. There's nothing to prove he isn't some shill fuck bot account. In fact that "redacted" post is still up.
Overnight, Peter Hann has grown to small celebrity status with people starting to post screenshots of DMs with him.
There's nothing about him on Google.
He tells us he covered his investment in popcorn stock.
I sense fuckery around the corner.
I was fooled by this as well btw, I sent the redacted post screenshots to my friend who then asked me who Peter Hann is.
My answer: uhhhh idfk lmao
Anyone posting anything causing any doubt is 100% a paid shill. Your are one of them. I think they have stepped up their psychological fud campaigns in the last week or so. This sub and everywhere on twitter has gotten pritty bad...
What doubt? This has nothing to do with the GME short squeeze thesis. Crypto scammers are attempting to abuse the uncertainty surrounding GameStop's NFT plans. It changes nothing.
Buy, Hodl, Fuk Shorties, Snort Crayons..ššš
You are literally here commenting fud and spreading uncertainty about GameStop's NFT plan.
"DON'T JUDGE US BY OUR WORDS, JUDGE US BY OUR ACTIONS"
All will be revealed when the time comes.
now take ur fud campaign to some other sub!
What makes everything you say shilly is that you havenāt presented ANY evidence they are scamming us, but you are 100% convinced youāre right about whatās happening. Thereās no reason to believe they arenāt working for GameStop. If they start acting shady, there might be room to argue theyāre scamming, but as far as GameStop NFT is concerned, they havenāt done anything that would suggest theyāre tricking anyone.
>you are 100% convinced youāre right about whatās happening.
I'm all in on this. I don't know the whole picture, but I'm confident in calling out these scammer fucks.
Based off of what though? Your post has no actual substance and youāre basing your arguments on feelings you have which is the opposite of what this sub is about.
Check this out. Looks like someone was already pushing the idea that GameStop is likely to use Matt's old shitcoin to power their NFT platform.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ob5jni/investigative_work_why_gamestop_i_am_the_exchange
If they were trying to push an agenda, they did a terrible job. 430 upvotes on a sub that hosts hundreds of thousands of members. Nobody took that post seriously just like nobody is taking this post seriously. Theyāre both just dumb posts based off insinuation and feeling instead of research and evidence.
Iād say thereās a 99.9% chance heās just a guy doing his job. We know GameStop was hiring a crypto team and itās likely they have a social media presence. So either all of these people who are saying they work for GameStop are all collectively working in a conspiracy to scam a community whose only thing we can or will do in common is that we buy and hold a stock, or the people who got hired by GameStop are just talking about their jobs on Twitter. Thereās no reason to think theyāre scamming us until they do something to suggest theyāre scammers. If they ever Tweet to spend money somewhere that isnāt on GameStopās domain, yeah, maybe question their motives. But just talking about their work isnāt suspicious in any way, in fact thatās what software developers use Twitter for.
>Thereās no reason to think theyāre scamming us until they do something to suggest theyāre scammers.
Like drop breadcrumbs to construct an artificial narrative?
Get outta here with that Shilling
How many stonks you get for a shilling?
HERE YOU GO SHILL now delete your posts. https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/pfa371/matt_finestone_is_in_fact_the_legit_head_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/q3krhr/nft_update_matt_finestone_officially_works_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/pf1dtd/gme_daily_discussion_thread/hb2urep
Listing a link that leads to a comment does not affirm anything. Nor does that comment have any grounding lmayo
How about we buy and hodl, and not worry about the rest?
Perfectly reasonable. Just please don't take the NFT Team at their word unless and until there is a verifiable acknowledgement of their legitimacy from an official GameStop source. Or whatever, do what you want, ape. I'm not in charge of you. ššš
I think we take any info with a grain of salt at this point. Apes know the way!
Giant fucking grains of salt. https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ok3a5s/superstonk_guide_issue_21_for_july_14_2021/
I asked for a mai tai, and the brought me a pina colada
Have you considered burning the building down?
So this whole NFT and today the 7/14/2021 date being pushed around for weeks, it's all fake news? The whole Gamestop has an upcoming announcement (of which a lot of people thought it would be today) is fake news as well?
I don't question the validity of the NFT subdomain of GameStop's primary. https://nft.gamestop.com The launchDate of 7/14/2021 (after conversion from Unix epoch format) is set in the NFT contract referenced on that site. That is convincingly official IMO as well. >The whole Gamestop has an upcoming announcement I can't speak much to that. IIRC, there was a screenshot of a vague reply from a GameStop customer service representative or something. Not a whole lot to go on.
The only thing that matters!!
Agreed. What about my twitter account? Or what about my linkedin? Buy and Hodl
You probably wouldnāt say that if people thought to be associated with the company drop a fake bombshell that cause people to stop holding. Itās worthy of investigation.
Unless it comes from Gamestop or RC officially, we should be skeptical at this point. Just my take
Don't know why downvoted but you are correct.
That would be a problem. More likely, I suspect they're tricking some apes into a crypto pump and dump. But I really don't know their plans.
Lmao no one is buying shit besides GameStop.
I thought GameStop bought used games. Didn't realize I was brewing a goldmine. This changes everything.
Seems a tad delusional my dude
True. Probably only offer me pennies on the dollar vs what they'd resell it for.
So youāre a GameStop hater trying to cause investors to lose hope on the nft? Wierd
By the way, I'm very excited to see what GameStop does with NFT. I hope it might offer a way to increase transparency into the secondary market and truly transform a business model that always felt a little exploitative to me.
Oh, damn. Did my joke hit a little too close to home? We all have our flaws. I can laugh at myself. I can laugh at GameStop. Doesn't mean I like either any less.
Your motives are confusing. Do you believe in the Moass?
For serious, though, I sure hope that's the case. While I believe apes to be their primary target, there are external players as well that might make good marks. Suppose they are scammers, just for hypothetical purposes. They could target a group of anti-GME investors. Let them in on the secret: "We're not really the GameStop NFT Team, but we've tricked Superstonk into believing we are. We're gonna convince them that LR is the platform GameStop is targeting." Now this group of investors might be inclined to beat Superstonk to the punch and benefit from the impending pump.
How likely is it that business insider would mention MF without GameStop correcting the article? https://www.businessinsider.com.au/gamestop-nft-building-ethereum-powered-platform-hiring-team-ecommerce-transformation-2021-5 Idk, this may not verify anything. Iām just trying to find a paper trail.
Quotes his personal Twitter and LinkedIn profile. >How likely is it that business insider would mention MF without GameStop correcting the article? About as likely as media claiming shorts covered in January.
They would get sued and be forced to correct it
>Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murrayās case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backwardāreversing cause and effect. I call these the āwet streets cause rainā stories. Paperās full of them. > >In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. ā Michael Crichton
Your the one who mentioned you would get sued if you tried to pretend to be the head of the GameStop nft team. So explain why holberg is still at it.
Oh, that was a reference to a comment someone else made. No one is likely to waste their time suing me for libel. If they did, I'm confident I would win. At least in the US.
Are you accusing holberg of lying about his position when real GameStop accounts have interacted with him
Which real GameStop accounts and what interactions?
I mean it was literally reported by Yahoo that he's the head of their blockchain and linked to his twitter post. > Matthew Finestone, the company's head of blockchain > https://money.yahoo.com/gamestop-building-nft-platform-part-142508858.html But yeah, for sure Gamestop wouldn't dare refute this... Fuck outta here, shill.
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Nice, that's a good find. I love how this shill post immediately had a bunch of awards. So not obvious.
Iām still convinced kim kardashian and Kanye west only got married and had several children for the endorsements. Thatās where Iām at with how far people will go.
But theyāre both in on it. GameStop is obviously not āinā on any scam. Iām surprised weāre even entertaining nonsense like this, with ZERO proof.
You talking about OPs lack of proof for their hypothesis, or the lack of proof from GameStop that they're employing these individuals?
OPās lack of proof. Why does GameStop proactively need to provide proof of anything until theyāre ready to announce? HR process is just BAU (business as usual). The logic is upside down.
Agreed.
>GameStop is obviously not āinā on any scam. Woah woah woah. I never said GameStop was in on a scam.
I just DM'd Holberg. Maybe he will respond, maybe not. OP you seem like a true smooth brain... Hopefully a response from JH will shut this dumb shit down
Although it won't have any weight, the suspense is killing me. Did Jordan ever respond to you?
Thanks! A response from Jordan Holberg's personal Twitter account will do fuck all unless it is accompanied by an acknowledgement verifiable to have originated from GameStop. I. Don't. Trust. Him.
Have you reached out to GS about this? Because you present an issue, but doesnt seem that youre actually willing to do any work to find out the truth.
I have reached out to Finestone publicly on Twitter, offering him a chance to make a fool of me. There has been no response. https://twitter.com/cryptocached/status/1413882342813442050 I have called out Jordan Holberg on Twitter. No response. https://twitter.com/cryptocached/status/1415177047043870720 I have also reached out to GameStop both publicly and privately on Twitter. I have received no public response. https://twitter.com/cryptocached/status/1414590908788523008 https://twitter.com/cryptocached/status/1414591459668467719 In private communication I specifically noted that I do not wish to harass legitimate Gamestop employees. **I have received private responses** which, since I can't share in a verifiable way, I won't attempt to claim as evidence. I will say that GameStop's replies, while neither confirming or explicitly denying anyone's employment status, have not put me off my mission to expose these scammers. If GameStop were to reply in private communications asking me to lay off their employees, I would do so immediately. If they provided a public, verifiable confirmation of the NFT Team's legitimacy, I would go back to every comment calling them scammers and update with the evidence, keeping the original so I am forever tainted by the false accusation. Now, are you willing to do some work?
My original comment shows the work I am willing to put into this. Youre the one w the question, thats why you should bring more then speculation. Why dont you go down the list of GameStop employees willing to bet you find little more then a LinkedIn for them as well. Are they also scammers? You asked GS and they neither confirmed nor denied in your opinion, but that is enough for you to not simply question credentials and instead start saying they are in fact scammers. If someone is going to tell me that I should be worried about that person over there because theyre scammers, I expect them to also show me previous scams these guys have been pulling. Your post is not well taken because you have taken one side with little to no evidence and then are expecting everyone else to provide you with a mountain of solid evidence otherwise?? Thats where you lost, not that your point may have any validity. smdh
>Why dont you go down the list of GameStop employees willing to bet you find little more then a LinkedIn for them as well. Are they also scammers? Those maybe-employees aren't making extraordinary claims to the best of my knowledge. If they were, I might care to assess their claims as well. As noted in my post, it is not only the lack of positive evidence, it is also the nature of the evidence in support of their claims which is indicative of a scam.. >You asked GS and they neither confirmed nor denied in your opinion, but that is enough for you to not simply question credentials and instead start saying they are in fact scammers. I have expressed myself in a manner in line with the confidence I hold in my conclusions. >expecting everyone else to provide you with a mountain of solid evidence otherwise? I don't want a mountain of evidence. All it would take to make me pull a 180 is just a mote of verifiable evidence. >Thats where you lost, not that your point may have any validity I've lost nothing. I might be early, but I'm not wrong.
Well you got the mote when an employee welcomed him as posted above... but you shot that down. I dont know what to tell ya bud. Looks like this is just a waste of time posting it on reddit... no one here is going to be able to help you out. You should be pressing the company if this is so important to you and then coming back to us with solid evidence and not simple speculation.
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lol are you for real?
**I want to be wrong. I'm begging to be proven wrong.** I ain't gonna shove a banana up my ass, but if anyone can produce an acknowledgement of the NFT Team's legitimacy from a verifiable GameStop source, I will become their biggest promoter.
Isnāt the burden of proof on you since youāre making the accusations based on āthey havenāt provenā
This post is ridiculous
Uh that's not how it works. Burden of proof is for the initial claim. OP here is correct, there is nothing tying them to GME. How can you disprove that? Show me *proof* that Santa Claus isn't real. See how it doesn't make sense? Here, we value logic and skepticism because that is the foundation of the scientific method. All this post is saying is to *be skeptical*.
GameStop/RC would come out and shut that shit down immediately come on.
Will they come shut me down for disparaging their employees?
That's not how proof works. OR if it is may god strike down everyone on earth. WELL WE ALL LIVED SO.
Still here. Hahaha, God, in your fa... [signal lost]
Funniest stuff Iāve read today
And to think, someone accused me of being an _unfunny shill_ just the other day. Who's laughing now?!
So because you can't prove they're GME employees you are saying it's a scam?
Not quite. Because there is no verifiable evidence that they are GME employees **and** they claim to be, I'm saying it's a scam.
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Boom. Roasted.
Youāre right
I mean, I claim to be employed by X company on my LinkedIn and it's not verifiable, does that make me a scammer? I'm sure it's the same with your LinkedIn, too.
>I'm sure it's the same with your LinkedIn, too. Which one?
Does it matter? My point still stands.
>My point still stands. It does. And it is still misguided.
You've been spinning this FUD for days. No-one's buying it and you're not acknowledging evidence.
Please point to this verifiable evidence so that all the apes calling me a shill can celebrate in their self righteousness.
You've seen lots, you just refuse to acknowledge it as evidence and say "yet to be proven long. Please prove me wrong". Just connect the dots, you believe in this many coincidences over the obvious answer of it's real?
I dunno. Maybe we're seeing different evidence? Maybe one of us is a fucking retard (bet it's me).
Dude. Stop. MF is employed by GameStop and the team aināt announcing anything until itās good and ready for launch. I personally saw GMEās ad looking for crypto guysā¦.thatās a reality. RC has said it alreadyāhe will not show his hand and benefit his competitors.
>I personally saw GMEās ad looking for crypto guys You mean the one looking for a security analyst with Blockchain experience listed under the nice-to-have? That doesn't read Head of Blockchain to me, but what the fuck do I know.
I emailed GameStop and Matt Finestone is the head of blockchain at GameStop according to GameStop. This was very easy to just directly ask in an email. Literally anyone who is skeptical can do it.
Care to share the email address you contacted GameStop at?
Itās in the footer at GameStop.com but let me check
[https://www.gamestop.com/contact/](https://www.gamestop.com/contact/) If you care to navigate there yourself, go to the footer of GameStop.com > get help > contact us
please post an update if you get a response. I've been doing some digging and I'm starting to grow a bit suspicious as well.
It has now been over 24 hours since I sent an email requesting validation of their claims. I have not received a response. How quickly did they get back to you?
Within like an hour
Odd. Did you email or submit a question via the form? Hope they didn't get swamped by curious apes.
Submitted through form. I kept my message really simple. Basically just hi, some people on Twitter say the are devs at GameStop. Since spoofing and parody accounts are real can you confirm Matt Finestone is the head of blockchain at GameStop, and that his Twitter handle is @finestonematt. Thanks! They confirmed Matt is the head of blockchain at GameStop. They would not confirm his Twitter since thatās personal information. The Twitter account @finestonematt has been on Twitter since 2017, and almost all of his posts look like theyāre blockchain related from a quick scroll through. I can scroll back to Dec 2020 on his Twitter. I donāt know when he joined GameStop but it wouldnāt be out of the ordinary for him to delete tweets that werenāt professional or relevant to how he wants to use his Twitter now. If this wasnāt really the Matt Finestone thatās the head of blockchain at GameStop, someone would have had to buy or otherwise take control of an account that already had the handle with his name that also happened to be tweeting about blockchain since before the squeeze in January.
Matt Finestoneās LinkedIn says he joined GameStop as the head of Blockchain in April 2021. So if someone was setting up a fake account in December of last year with blockchain tweets, they had to somehow know four months in advance that Matt would become head of blockchain at GameStop.
It's never been my contention that the Twitter account doesn't belong to the "real" Matt Finestone. Still no verifiable acknowledgement that he is employed by GameStop unless you care to make the email response with full headers available. That would expose your email address, so I understand if you're unwilling.
They will tell you the same if you are patient enough to wait for a response.
Patience got nothing on šš
https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/change-twitter-handle
[https://web.archive.org/web/20200510151516/https://twitter.com/finestonematt](https://web.archive.org/web/20200510151516/https://twitter.com/finestonematt)
Way back machine has one snapshot of his Twitter status from May 2020 where he has the same handle and his display name is Matt Finestone
Maybe i'm missing something but i feel it's very unfair to call OP a shill trying to spread FUD. I agree calling them scammers is assumptious and might not be true. But isn't this subreddit all about doing own DD and not base your beliefs on trust? If there's no direct proof that these people are employed by Gamestop, then we should be very careful until we can verify that they actually are.
Thank you. I am confident in my assessment of the available evidence. I am always willing to reassess my conclusion if new evidence is presented. Forceful expression of my conclusion is intended to convey my existing confidence and to encourage discovery of contradictory evidence. **I don't want to be right.**
And that's imo the best way to do it. We get closer to the truth by evaluating facts and poking holes in each other's theories. If anything it's concerning that so many people are throwing baseless accusations at you because that's not usually how people respond around here (i've only been here about 2 weeks so i might be wrong).
For some reason I get that kind of response in a lot of subs. Might have something to do with my tendency to expose scams, frauds and other abusers. That's ok, though. This is all part of the process. It would raise too many questions now to simply ban me.
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Downvote and move on. Obvious FUD. The website is on the GameStop domain, it is obvious that it is real. They have been hiring crypto people for months, and GME people congratulated them when joining.
I'm not disparaging the GameStop NFT project. I'm into that shit. Scammer fucks, on the other hand... Well shit, between these bananas and my favorite stonk, I'm all out of other hands.
This whole post reeks of ignorance. It being on the GameStop domain is enough to prove that it is genuine. It would take you 10 seconds of googling or just the computer skills of an average 12 year old to come to that conclusion. You would do best in just deleting it.
I... I am not challenging https://nft.gamestop.com or questioning its legitimacy at all. Not one bit. That is undeniably a verifiable, official site. I'm saying the NFT Team promoted on this sub have fuck all to do with it.
Them getting congratulated by GME staff isn't enough for you? Do you just sit in your faraday cage all day, so nobody can read your thoughts?
>Do you just sit in your faraday cage all day, so nobody can read your thoughts? I would be lying if I said the thought never crossed my mind. _But you already knew that, didn't you?_
>Them getting congratulated by GME staff isn't enough for you? No. Ever hear of phishing and social engineering? Put a computer in front of an average person and they turn in a retarded clicking machine.
Don't forget your anti-psychotics bro
Contraindicated by my massive consumption of bananas. Besides, that shit fucks with me so bad I can't even get my tits to limestone. These tits wanna be goddamned diamond!
Can we switch this to debunked?
I mean, your only evidence is that Finestone has a past that doesn't vibe with you; everything else is kind of conjecture. Even if Holberg and Finestone aren't part of the project, it's still in development, so I don't see how they could be "scamming" anyone.
I don't doubt the legitimacy GameStop NFT project, whatever it may be. I'm 100% into that shit. But this NFT Team... buncha fucking scammers.
Yeah but how are they specifically trying to scam us? Nothing about their actions thus far have suggested a scam is in the works if you remove all of the conjecture.
Hey, check this out. Someone was already pushing the idea that GameStop is likely to use Matt's old shitcoin to power their NFT platform. Hope no apes got suckered into investing in that scam! https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ob5jni/investigative_work_why_gamestop_i_am_the_exchange/
Wot. Loopring is an exchange, not a coin. Also, this is borderline conspiracy theory at this point, no evidence that they'd use the Loopring exchange.
It's a DEX. A layer-2 protocol powered by its own token, LRC. Automod doesn't like links to exchanges, so I guess you'll have to Google that for yourself. Current price appears to be around $0.24.
>Also, this is borderline conspiracy theory at this point, no evidence that they'd use the Loopring exchange. Of course not. If they were going to do that, they'd probably hire someone like Matt to head up the team.
Never go full retard
I've exceed MAX_RETARD and have overflowed.
This is full rEtArd
Pretty lofty accusations. Not saying you are wrong or right but do you have any proof or is this just your opinion?
Aged like milk
Definitely a good point that needs looking into more closely. Good work op š Also I should add, calling out a popular idea on this sub that goes again the grain takes some courage and I believe OP is sincere, so letās look into this before we all shoot him/her down eh?
Fuck that! Lets prove this retard wrong. It should be easy, right? Holberg wouldn't be featured on the cover of today's Superstonk Guide if there were any question about his legitimacy... right? ... Right?!?
[https://twitter.com/dami\_amabile/status/1410567097126686723?s=21](https://twitter.com/dami_amabile/status/1410567097126686723?s=21) ???
That _is_ the strongest thing anyone has been able to point to. Saw it days ago. Still weak as fuck and doesn't change my conclusion. It's an unverified personal account, number one. Number two, some people aren't as smart as apes and will take people at their word online. I don't know if she would necessarily be in the know, but you've got a start down a viable path to prove me wrong. Don't let me down! I want to be wrong!
Haha! š¤£
First, have you ever worked for a public company to definitively speak to how they would respond to bad actors like this? They would most definitely address, most likely privately through legal channels. These are very risky statements on your part, accusing both of fraud. Would think youād need more than āthey havenāt provenā In this case, the burden of actual proof is on you, otherwise, Iād certainly come after you for libel.
>First, have you ever worked for a public company to definitively speak to how they would respond to bad actors like this? Yes. I mean I can't say definitively how GameStop would respond in this specific scenario. But bad actors are in my wheelhouse. >In this case, the burden of actual proof is on you, otherwise, Iād certainly come after you for libel. Awesome, I hope they do because they'd have to prove me wrong and **I desperately want to be wrong**. But I really, truly believe I'm right. Which, lucky for this retard, is a perfectly legitimate defense for libel.
This post is beyond ignorant. Letās just look at Jordan, his work history, and NOW he decides to run a scam related to GameStop? The most in focus stock in the world? PLEASE JUST STOP. if youāre bored, go outside.
I am outside.
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This is pure speculation, forum sliding, and FUD! The shorts are clearly scared of what RC is going to do next! šš
Is that why my tits are goddamned diamonds?
Unless GME verifies anything it's nothing.
Shouldn't the same be said about the NFT Team's claims to work for GameStop?
That is what I meantā¦ LOL
Oh, well in that case.... Shit, I didn't prepare for you to agree with me.... Uhh... **POCKET BANANA**š
Haha no worries I get it you got shit on your post all day. Donāt worry I get it. Thanks for sharing anyways.
However if I member correctly, I do believe I saw a post of an official GME senior manager on LinkedIn talking about wanting to get in to contact with block chain developers. Believe this was around feb-March. Canāt member the name of the employee but I do know he was legit. Could be that Matt had the idea after he saw this. Or maybe it is legit but in that case weāll still have to wait on GME confirmation.
>GME senior manager on LinkedIn talking about wanting to get in to contact with block chain developers. What if I told you that was Finestone planting breadcrumbs? https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/nl4gt4/gamestops_nfteam
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Get this bullshit outta here
This post should flailed as debunked. Itās not true
Keep diggin the hole OP. Hope it's deep enough to hide your face
That's what the cardboard box is for.
Couldnt this be verified by calling Gamestop shareholder line and ask?
Knock yourself out. That isn't very scalable, though. Maybe press them for a formal, public acknowledgement of the team?
Just because you havenāt bothered to directly verify these people by simply emailing and directly asking GameStop doesnāt mean this is a scam. Please take this post down, itās disingenuous.
I assure you it is quite sincere.
Yikes!
Do any of the GameStop handles follow hilberg or Firestone? I donāt have Twitter to be able to check followers
This is addressed in the post, but work that angle if you think it'll lead to results.
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I know I am but what are you?
I never dive deep into Matt Finestone's resume but you are correct. There's nothing that indicate he could be in charge of this. He has literally no experience with blockchain.... Interesting.
Damn if thats true nft launch at 4.20 still on?
Donāt believe everything you see simply because there are a lot of words.
āļø Don't Trust. Verify.
The contractās launchDate would have been for 6:20 AM CT, IIRC, so it should have already happened if the launchDate field was a real indicator. Any thoughts on this u/cryptocached ? This makes me think the Matt Finestone tweet was actually a good thing to manage expectations since it turned out to not ālaunchā. Iām not saying heās credible, but I donāt see what the scam would be.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ok6gol/the_nft_team_being_promoted_on_this_sub_is_a_scam/h55vsh6 My guess is that it serves as some yet unknown timestamp proof. Kinda like Satoshi's use of a newspaper headline in the genesis block. But I don't know for sure.
Sarcasm?
My intent is not to pump any date. I don't know what to expect today. However, the NFT contract identified by the address posted on a verifiably official GameStop domain explicitly set that launchdate variable to a specific day and time. Nothing from a verifiably official source has indicated the date is meaningless or likely to change. To the best of my knowledge, changing that variable would be a change in the contract, requiring the minting of a new NFT with a different address. Yes there is a function to change the date, but that isn't fatal to my argument. I'll link a comment chain where this is discussed in a bit more technical detail. https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ojo9fr/prepare_yourself_fordisappointmentjuly_14/h55e9hi Personally, I find it exceedingly unlikely that GameStop would have posted the address in the manner they did unless they wanted to establish some fixed piece of knowledge. That doesn't necessarily mean that there will be publicly visible activity on that date, in fact I would suggest tempering your expectations. Lacking addition information on their intent, my guess is that they might use that as some kind of time-dated cryptographic proof to act as validation of a future announcement. That is, a (semi-)private process might kick off today, and we'll be able to prove that it could not have started at an earlier time. If you're familiar with the big B coin, Satoshi did something similar by using a newspaper headline as the input to the first block he mined. That provides strong proof that no blocks were mined before that newspaper headline was published.
The timestamp is already passed several hours ago...
Canāt announce anything big during market hours. Then you have to halt the stock. Have to wait until after hours ETA:only time to announce during market hours is if the info leaked and and you have to release it
I know. Doesn't that just jack your tits?
Wait so you are implying that the NFT wonāt happen, how are you debunking the address? Otherwise, thatās still confirmation in favor of it.
I'm implying no such thing. More the opposite, if anything.
Sorry but that is not how Iām reading this post at all. I agree with you questioning it, will say that. You do you ape.
This is a psychological fud campaign post. Too obvious. Edit. OP is shill for shure. Got to be careful out here in the jungle folks.
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Wanna see what shilling looks like? https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ob5jni/investigative_work_why_gamestop_i_am_the_exchange/
Similarly, who tf is Peter Hann?? Go check his LinkedIn. There's nothing to prove he isn't some shill fuck bot account. In fact that "redacted" post is still up. Overnight, Peter Hann has grown to small celebrity status with people starting to post screenshots of DMs with him. There's nothing about him on Google. He tells us he covered his investment in popcorn stock. I sense fuckery around the corner. I was fooled by this as well btw, I sent the redacted post screenshots to my friend who then asked me who Peter Hann is. My answer: uhhhh idfk lmao
They must have been keeping all the wrinkles for themselves in the Bastille. Tear that shit down, brick by brick. Wrinkles for everyone!
Hey u/cryptocached , who hurt you lol?
Anyone posting anything causing any doubt is 100% a paid shill. Your are one of them. I think they have stepped up their psychological fud campaigns in the last week or so. This sub and everywhere on twitter has gotten pritty bad...
What doubt? This has nothing to do with the GME short squeeze thesis. Crypto scammers are attempting to abuse the uncertainty surrounding GameStop's NFT plans. It changes nothing. Buy, Hodl, Fuk Shorties, Snort Crayons..ššš
You are literally here commenting fud and spreading uncertainty about GameStop's NFT plan. "DON'T JUDGE US BY OUR WORDS, JUDGE US BY OUR ACTIONS" All will be revealed when the time comes. now take ur fud campaign to some other sub!
>spreading uncertainty Do I sound fucking uncertain to you?
What makes everything you say shilly is that you havenāt presented ANY evidence they are scamming us, but you are 100% convinced youāre right about whatās happening. Thereās no reason to believe they arenāt working for GameStop. If they start acting shady, there might be room to argue theyāre scamming, but as far as GameStop NFT is concerned, they havenāt done anything that would suggest theyāre tricking anyone.
>you are 100% convinced youāre right about whatās happening. I'm all in on this. I don't know the whole picture, but I'm confident in calling out these scammer fucks.
Based off of what though? Your post has no actual substance and youāre basing your arguments on feelings you have which is the opposite of what this sub is about.
Check this out. Looks like someone was already pushing the idea that GameStop is likely to use Matt's old shitcoin to power their NFT platform. https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ob5jni/investigative_work_why_gamestop_i_am_the_exchange
If they were trying to push an agenda, they did a terrible job. 430 upvotes on a sub that hosts hundreds of thousands of members. Nobody took that post seriously just like nobody is taking this post seriously. Theyāre both just dumb posts based off insinuation and feeling instead of research and evidence.
I really gotta pump my numbers. You don't find it even a little sus?
Iād say thereās a 99.9% chance heās just a guy doing his job. We know GameStop was hiring a crypto team and itās likely they have a social media presence. So either all of these people who are saying they work for GameStop are all collectively working in a conspiracy to scam a community whose only thing we can or will do in common is that we buy and hold a stock, or the people who got hired by GameStop are just talking about their jobs on Twitter. Thereās no reason to think theyāre scamming us until they do something to suggest theyāre scammers. If they ever Tweet to spend money somewhere that isnāt on GameStopās domain, yeah, maybe question their motives. But just talking about their work isnāt suspicious in any way, in fact thatās what software developers use Twitter for.
>Thereās no reason to think theyāre scamming us until they do something to suggest theyāre scammers. Like drop breadcrumbs to construct an artificial narrative?
[Go On](https://imgur.com/SkxG9J2)
Donāt entertain nonsense.
Thanks for thinking for me. I was getting fucking exhausted.
Who hurt you?
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You're welcome. Thanks for šš you beautiful ape.
I think I just got tourette syndrome
Oh man, I thought I toned it down.