>>60634941>copy paste sections of an article>skitzoWhen the report was published, Arkham only publicly listed a single employee, 21 year-old founder and CEO Miguel Morel. At the time, both Arkham and Miguel were unknown, with no prior histories on the internet.
After publishing the report, Arkham appeared to come into substantial money, and moved their small team from rural Austin, Texas, to a luxury mansion in Chelsea, London, costing $43.5K a month.
At the time of publication, Morel had no academic or professional experience relevant to creating reports. In fact, his only experience listed on LinkedIn was being a cryptocurrency trader and co-founder of a fringe cryptocurrency — indicating potentially unclean motives and further reasons it is inexplicable that The Times would co-publish his report with the intent of harming a network that had been created by hundreds of renowned cryptographers, engineers and computer scientists.
Without Sorkin co-publishing the report in The Times, it would not have been taken seriously due to its origins. Co-publication by The Times ensured it caused vast reputational harm, and was used as a false factual basis for massive FUD campaigns and torrents of opportunistic lawsuits attacking DFINITY and its leadership.
We noted that the hidden actor for whom the report was produced would also have organized its co-publication by The Times, and they likely had a preexisting relationship with Sorkin — as did Bankman-Fried