Both celebrities received these promotional fees from Centra Tech, Inc.
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Tu artículo sobre todo se centra en las películas estadounidenses.
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What Centra offered sounded almost too good to be true.
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Mayweather didn't disclose a $100,000 promotional payment from Centra Tech Inc.
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Another high-profile scam involved a company called Centra Tech Inc.
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According to SEC officials, Khaled was paid by Centra Tech Inc.
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The SEC alleged that Centra had no relationship with either company.
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Centra also paid celebrities to promote the ICO on social media.
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Centra raised $30 million with the help of the famous names.
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The Centra team said at the time that the Centra token would give investors access to a new virtual currency exchange and a virtual currency debit card that would operate on the Visa and Mastercard networks.
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The SEC said Centra had no relationships with either Visa or Mastercard.
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David Kanin, Centra analytic director, spent 31 years as a CIA analyst.
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Sohrab "Sam" Sharma and Robert Farkas, co-founders of Centra Tech. Inc.
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Centra is not the first ICO that the SEC has gone after.
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Sohrab "Sam" Sharma and Robert Farkas, co-founders of Centra Tech Inc.
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He posted a picture of himself in September 2017 holding a Centra card.
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Since then, the founders of Centra were arrested and charged with defrauding investors.
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" Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled posted support for Centra Tech on Instagram during the run-up to the token sale, writing that they were excited to use Centra Tech's card to pay for things using Bitcoin, Ethereum, and "other coins.
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Mr. Sharma announced that he was leaving Centra after the Times article was published last fall, but the company has continued its operations and said this week that it would release the "Centra Roadmap 3.0" at a conference in South Korea.
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Mayweather received $100,000 from Centra Tech while Khaled got $23,000 from the failed ICO.
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Like Booth, Indiana University political scientist Sumit Ganguly has spoken at several Centra conferences.
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The SEC also determined that Khaled failed to disclose a $50,000 payment from Centra Tech.
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Centra also paid celebrities, including Mayweather and Khaled, to promote the offering on social media.
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She politely heard me out, checked with Rosenbaum and told me that Centra wouldn't comment.
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Centra has separately been charged by the SEC, which alleged that its ICO was fraudulent.
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The company in question is called Centra and it raised $32 million via an ICO.
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The S.E.C. said that several of the executives listed on the Centra website were fictitious.
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"Anybody who works with Centra knows they're in effect working for the U.S. government," he said.
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The Centra founders appear to have been the first people arrested because of a coin offering.
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The primary fraudulent statement concerned Centra Tech's fake partnerships with Visa and MasterCard to help sell tokens.
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On Friday, the SEC announced charges against Raymond Trapani, the third co-founder of Centra Tech Inc.
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He had his eye on the Centra on East 44th Street, and checked online listings there daily.
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Mr. Khaled will pay back the $50,000 he got from Centra as well as a $100,000 penalty.
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Centra Tech drastically exaggerated its connections, but as the complaint notes, it also spun up its c-suite out of whole cloth, going so far as to falsify these executives' credentials as well (emphasis ours):"Michael Edwards" was listed as the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Centra.
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The company, Centra, raised $32 million through a fundraising mechanism known as an initial coin offering, or ICO.
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Una vez más, la trama involucra influencia extranjera en las elecciones y se centra en la esfera postsoviética.
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Mayweather failed to disclose that he'd received $300,000 from three different ICO issuers, including $100,000 from Centra Tech.
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After being reached by The Times, Mr. Mayweather deleted some of the social media posts that endorsed Centra.
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The New York Times recently profiled the bumbling 20-somethings behind Centra, a digital token that Floyd Mayweather endorsed.
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" Another political scientist, who has given four presentations for Centra, said he was told that it represented unnamed "clients.
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The authorities did not charge a third man who had been listed as a Centra co-founder, Raymond Trapani.
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The payments and broader problems with the Centra coin offering were first reported by The New York Times last fall.
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After The New York Times reached out to Visa this month, Centra took all the mentions of Visa off its website.
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After The New York Times reached out to Visa this month, Centra took all the mentions of Visa off its website.
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Es miembro fundador del boletín Race/Related y gran parte de su trabajo se centra en cuestiones de identidad y discriminación.
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Today, however, the SEC announced that "Money" Mayweather failed to disclose a $100,7000 payment he received from Centra Tech for his services.
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As we previously reported, Floyd and DJ Khaled both went to social media in 2017 to promote a crypto coin called Centra.
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According to the SEC complaint against Centra Tech, Sharma and Farkas said the ICO funds would be used for building financial services.
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The CIA supplies Centra with funding and a list of people to invite, who gather in Centra's Conference Center in Arlington, Virginia.
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Most of the claims in the S.E.C. complaint were detailed in an article in The New York Times about Centra in October.
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Hopefully that ties a bow on the ignominious saga of Centra Tech—a company whose $32 million pitch I still don't fully understand.
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Como resultado, la elección de un bolso de mano responde menos a una compra emocional y ahora se centra en decisiones más racionales.
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Mayweather and Khaled were allegedly paid $100,000 and $50,000 each to endorse an initial coin offering from Centra Tech, according to the SEC.
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The article focused on a troubled project, known as Centra, that was promoted by the boxer Floyd Mayweather and the rapper DJ Khaled.
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Michael Shifter es presidente de Diálogo Interamericano, un centro de pensamiento con sede en Washington que se centra en asuntos del hemisferio occidental.
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Based in part on these claims, victims provided millions of dollars' worth of digital funds in investments for the purchase of Centra Tech tokens.
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In or about October 2017, at the end of Centra Tech's ICO, those digital funds raised from victims were worth more than $25 million.
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The SEC order found that Mayweather failed to disclose that he was paid $200,000 to promote the ICOs, including $100,000 from Centra Tech Inc.
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The company had also never applied to run Centra cards on the Visa network and were believed to be misleading their thousands of investors.
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Centra Tech raised $32 million in backing during the initial coin offering in 2017 ... thanks, in part, to the celeb endorsements ... the lawsuit claims.
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Centra was supposed to offer a debit card with Visa and Mastercard integrations but the SEC alleges that it had no connection with either company.
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Un creciente canon de ciencia ficción que se centra en la mujer analiza temas como la desigualdad de género, la misoginia y el sexismo institucionalizado.
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Centra's founders said they had paid Mr. Mayweather and DJ Khaled to promote the project's virtual currency, known as Centra tokens, in social media postings.
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Then there was Centra, a start-up promoted by the boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., whose founders, Sam Sharma and Robert Farkas, were arrested in April.
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After SHARMA and TRAPANI worked together at a luxury car rental company in Florida called "Miami Exotics," they and FARKAS co-founded a startup company called Centra Tech that claimed to offer cryptocurrency-related financial productions, including a purported debit card, the "Centra Card," that supposedly allowed users to spend various types of cryptocurrency to make purchases at any establishment that accepts Visa or Mastercard payment cards.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled have agreed to "pay disgorgement, penalties and interest" for failing to disclose promotional payments from three ICOs, including Centra Tech.
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"What's important is Centra is being endorsed and they have a product," a Reddit user named islandsurf wrote back to the critics, explaining his own investment.
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The S.E.C. said in its complaint that the Centra team had never received approval from Visa and Mastercard and had misled investors on several other counts.
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"What's important is Centra is being endorsed and they have a product," a Reddit user named islandsurf wrote back to the critics, explaining his own investment.
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El libro se centra en la vida del periodista Carlos Denegri y en la grosera corrupción que por décadas imperó entre la prensa y los políticos.
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Some of Mayweather's social media posts advertising Centra are still live, while DJ Khaled has deleted his tweets and Instagram photos in which he promoted the cryptocurrency.
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Centra raised $32 million last summer and fall in a so-called initial coin offering, a method of fund-raising in which companies sell custom virtual currencies.
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"Get yours before they sell out, I got mine," Mr. Mayweather wrote to his followers on Twitter last year, with a link to the Centra token sale.
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One month past the fifth anniversary of the singer's death, the Amy Winehouse Foundation will open a women-only rehabilitation clinic with the help of housing charity Centra.
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Sharma and Farkas, through Centra, offered unregistered investments in the company through the sale of CTR virtual tokens, a cryptocurrency akin to bitcoin, Ethereum and other digital coins.
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The SEC alleges that the two co-founders of Centra, Sohrab "Sam" Sharma and Robert Farkas, offered and sold fraudulent and unregistered investments via a digital token called CTR.
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"[Un] vicio de la justicia en México es que la investigación para esclarecer los crímenes no se centra en llegar a la verdad, sino en encontrar a un culpable".
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The two co-founders of Centra, a cryptocurrency initial coin offering (ICO), that was endorsed by musician DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather, have been arrested and charged with fraud.
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Centra allegedly marketed fake business relationships with major credit card companies including Visa and Mastercard, published fictional executive bios and misrepresented the viability of the company's products, according to the SEC.
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In April, federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed securities and wire fraud charges against three defendants accused of obtaining more than $25 million from investors in a start-up called Centra Tech.
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After the arrests were announced on Monday, the price of Centra's token on virtual currency exchanges crashed and the administrators of a Centra chat room on the Telegram messaging app expressed confusion.
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En enero, un huracán mediático se centra en las inclinaciones electorales de sus votantes porque es el primer lugar donde se miden las fuerzas de quienes competirán por la presidencia de Estados Unidos.
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The ICO was the focus of increasing skepticism on cryptocurrency forums and in the press, and Centra Tech was hit with its first class-action lawsuit from a burned investor in mid-December.
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The founders of Centra Tech, a company that raised a $32 million ICO, have been indicted for wire fraud and securities fraud, charges that could lead to a minimum of five years in jail.
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Aunque el Partido Comunista mantiene su hegemonía, los analistas resaltan la omisión del objetivo final de construir una "sociedad comunista"; el proyecto actual se centra en el socialismo y será sometido a consulta popular.
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The coin at the center of the scandal is called Centra Tech -- and, according to the class action lawsuit, Floyd and Khaled were influential celebrity endorsers who promoted the virtual currency on social media.
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The men in question are Sohrab Sharma and Robert Farkas, 26-year old friends who co-founded a startup called Centra Tech Inc and raised $32 million through an ICO by selling CTR tokens last year.
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Prosecutors said the defendants, who live in Florida, misled investors in Centra tokens that they had formed partnerships with Visa Inc, MasterCard Inc and Delaware-based The Bancorp Inc to issue debit cards, among other allegations.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission said Mr. Mayweather was paid $100,000 and Mr. Khaled $50,000 to promote a virtual currency released last year by the start-up Centra Tech in a so-called initial coin offering.
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Mr. Mayweather has agreed to give back the $300,000 he received from Centra and two other coin offerings he promoted, pay an additional $300,000 penalty, and adhere to a three-year ban on promoting other investments.
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El periodista Carlos F. Chamorro afirma que el dilema actual en Nicaragua se centra en saber si la negociación de las reformas para convocar elecciones libres se hará con o sin Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo.
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"We allege that the Centra co-founders went to great lengths to create the false impression that they had developed a viable, cutting-edge technology," the SEC's Cyber Unit Chief Robert A. Cohen said of the ICO.
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Sohrab "Sam" Sharma, Robert Farkas and Raymond Trapani, who co-founded Centra Tech Inc, were each charged with securities fraud, wire fraud and two conspiracy counts, according to an indictment filed with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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"If you know anything, when you see Centra, you know it's likely to be CIA or ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence]," said Robert Jervis, a Columbia University professor of international politics and longtime CIA consultant.
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By now, we know that Centra, one of the coins he backed, was charged with fraud by the SEC, while another coin, Hubii, tanked its initial coin offering, raising less than a fifth of the $50 million it sought.
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It was somehow unsurprising when the founders of a crypto debit card called Centra, which had been endorsed, to widespread sniggering, by the boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and the producer DJ Khaled, were arrested for securities and wire fraud.
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The co-founders of the Centra virtual currency, Sam Sharma and Robert Farkas, were arrested on Sunday, a day before the Securities and Exchange Commission released a complaint against the men and announced that it was halting the project.
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Additionally, VICE News obtained a copy of a CIA contract awarded to Burlington, Massachusetts–based Centra Technology, which the CIA paid more than $40 million for administrative support and other tasks related to the Senate's investigation of the CIA.
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"We allege that the Centra co-founders went to great lengths to create the false impression that they had developed a viable, cutting-edge technology," Robert A. Cohen, Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division's Cyber Unit said in a statement.
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For starters, the company's ICO paid for public endorsements from celebrities including Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled (though neither are specifically named.) Centra Tech also lied about having relationships with a number of powerful financial companies, including Visa, Bancorp, and Mastercard.
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"We allege that Centra sold investors on the promise of new digital technologies by using a sophisticated marketing campaign to spin a web of lies about their supposed partnerships with legitimate businesses," said Stephanie Avakian, co-director of the SEC's enforcement division.
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La galardonada serie española que se centra en el tráfico de drogas en Galicia se estrena hoy en esa plataforma y narra la vida de Sito Miñanco, el hombre que en los ochenta puso a disposición la cocaína que esnifó toda Europa.
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By the end of the month, the S.E.C. had also settled charges with the boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the music producer Khaled Khaled, known as DJ Khaled, for their promotion of digital tokens issued by a start-up called Centra Tech.
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A controversial phenomenon known as an initial coin offering (ICO) for instance was banned in South Korea and China, and the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year charged the founders of Floyd Mayweather-backed cryptocurrency firm Centra with carrying out a fraudulent ICO.
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Boxer Floyd Mayweather and kind-of-a-rapper, sort-of-producer-not-really-a-DJ DJ Khaled coughed up tens of thousands of dollars to the SEC in connection with their decision to promote Centra Tech—a cryptocurrency firm whose founders were charged with fraud last year.
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"We allege that Centra sold investors on the promise of new digital technologies by using a sophisticated marketing campaign to spin a web of lies about their supposed partnerships with legitimate businesses," Stephanie Avakian, co-director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a statement Monday.
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Sin embargo, otros comentarios no fueron muy receptivos al argumento de Bravo Regidor (y tal vez algunos no lo leyeron por completo), como el que sentenció que "en México la oposición no construye ni apoya, se centra en defender intereses de partido y se olvida de su labor fundamental".
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En Facebook, nuestro lector Sergio Gazzo reflexionó sobre la distinción entre el guion "hollywoodense", que centra toda la acción en su protagonista, y "la realidad total y colectiva como la muerte, que no tenía una sola figura, sino que estaba formada por muchos rostros, visibles unos y ocultos otros".
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Despite obvious red flags, the coin Centra Tech created for its ICO—CTR—got listed on major cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance and Cryptopia where it appears it can still be purchased; its wallet app was approved on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, helping to sell the lie.
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La periodista Virginia López Glass reflexiona sobre la grave crisis económica venezolana y se centra en el proceso inflacionario que acaba con el poder adquisitivo de los salarios, además de convertir a la compra de alimentos en una agotadora prioridad debido a las largas filas provocadas por el permanente desabastecimiento de los productos básicos.
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Es el caso de Otto Castillo, por ejemplo, quien aseguró en Facebook que el actual gobierno de Colombia se centra en tomar medidas contra los consumidores y los cultivadores pero, en su opinión, deja un flanco abierto: "Si solo se ataca al que consume y al que cultiva, pero no al que la refina y la distribuye, no se está resolviendo ningún problema".
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The complaint alleges that the men "engaged in an illegal unregistered securities offering and, in connection with the offering, engaged in fraudulent conduct and made material misstatements and omissions designed to deceive investors in connection with the offer and sale of securities in the Centra I.C.O." The chairman of the S.E.C., Jay Clayton, has said that most tokens offered through coin offerings should be categorized as securities and registered with regulators, which few have done.
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The piece includes two of my favorite written paragraphs of recent memory (included below, but you should read the whole thing in its entirety): The… endorsement of Centra, along with a similar endorsement from the popular rapper DJ Khaled, lent a patina of credibility to a project that has ended up with more than a few problems, including a chief executive who does not appear to have been a real person and a shaky, fast-shifting business plan.
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