The bounty that fooled poidh: Kenny on the Gaza claim.

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A minute and a half from the first episode of the podcast’s new season, with Kenny, who built poidh, the bounty board the weekly contest on this site ran on. Has Kenny ever been finessed? “I have been finessed. It is what it is. There was a bad one. Somebody faked a... for a Gaza relief bounty”

The bounty was to plant a tree in Gaza. Donations took it to about $300. Someone submitted real photos, “it’s for sure in Gaza,” but as a middleman: “it’s for my friend, my friend is the one who did it in Gaza, so like, I’m going to submit the claim, and then I’ll pass the money along to him.” Kenny: “I didn’t feel great about it from the very beginning.” Then it blew up on Farcaster, “People love the pictures that he posted,” a stranger added about $800, and Kenny took that as a signal. “I will approve the bounty. And so did it. And then guy never gave any any sort of evidence of sending the money through to people.” His close: “now I’ve always taken it seriously, but.” The full episode, an hour on the Marxist case for Bitcoin, is linked below. The transcript below is from the original audio.

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0:00A: Kenny’s unfinesseable. I mean, I have been finessed. It is what it is. There was a bad one. Somebody faked a -- for a Gaza relief bounty. That was -- that one made me very, very, very, very mad. Which it was -- what happened? The bounty was to plant a tree in Gaza and a lot of people donated to it. Right? I think it was up at like $300. And so somebody, somebody then claimed, like, he sends photos and it’s in Gaza, it’s for sure in Gaza. And you can see from the background photos, and there’s a lot of social media context. But he’s messaging me, he’s like, it’s for my friend, my friend is the one who did it in Gaza.

0:00A: So like, I’m gonna submit the claim and then I’ll pass the money along to him. And I didn’t feel great about it from the very beginning. But the problem was he posts it and then it gets -- it blows up on Farcaster. People love it. People love the pictures that he posted. And somebody else adds in like $800, right, of like, oh, I really want to see this guy get paid, right? And so I think, okay, well, this, this person thinks it’s legit enough to put in this money, uh, I will approve the bounty. And so did it. And then guy never gave any sort of evidence of sending the money through to people.

0:00A: So This is why I am so -- yeah, now I’ve always taken it seriously, but

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