A brand new Delaware-based crypto undertaking that parodies long-bankrupt vitality firm Enron is seemingly “recruiting” for a nuclear methods engineer because it gears as much as launch its first token.
Houston-registered Enron Company famously went bankrupt in December 2001 after various its executives had been discovered to be utilizing fraudulent accounting practices to inflate the agency’s revenues.
Nonetheless, the ‘Enron’ that’s apparently getting ready to make waves on the planet of crypto is a really completely different entity.
For starters, on the time of its chapter in 2001, Jeffrey Keith Skilling and Kenneth Lay had been the corporate’s CEOs. Latest trademark paperwork, nevertheless, reveal that the brand new Enron Company will not be solely now registered in Delaware however the enterprise, which describes itself as a “parody” in its official phrases of use, is helmed by a brand new CEO referred to as Charles Gaydos.
In what’s presumably additionally a part of the bit, a put up on the undertaking’s hiring web page says it’s trying to find a “Nuclear Systems Engineer.” That is regardless of it now being within the enterprise of promoting Enron merchandise — $118 for an Enron hoodie, or $28 for a water bottle — and crypto companies — particularly NFTs and an trade.
An “Enron Web4” trademark can be within the works.
The account’s posts are already being marked with group notes, presumably from individuals who missed the parody half. For instance, one calls the enterprise “a crypto scam masquerading as bankrupted Enron Corporation.”
Customers have additionally seen that members of its supposed group had been really inventory picture fashions.
X person @Pledditor speculated that it might be “Elon Musk’s scam,” as his brother Kimbal adopted the brand new Enron account when it had only a few followers.
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