I've now received 3 separate emails asking me to sell my potential share of the upcoming Fluence Network cryptocurrency airdrop. This project aims at rewarding the "~110,000 developers who contributed into open source web3 repositories during last year" according to the project webpage. In order to do this "Public keys of selected Github accounts were added into a smart contract on Ethereum" which they stored in a single file hosted on AWS that their own "install" script fetches in order to generate proof of GitHub account ownership.

So you can check any GitHub account eligibility on the Fluence website, of course, but you can also obtain the conveniently complete list of 108,615 eligible GitHub accounts to spam with your stupid cryptocurrency acquisition request. I've pulled down my email address from my public profile in the hope that it will stem the tide, but that's yet another possibly well-meaning Web3 project that ends up abused within seconds of its inception because of poorly thought-out process.

Also I never contributed to any web3 repository, so I'm vaguely curious how they compiled this list of accounts but not that much either.

#Web3IsGoingGreat #Web3 #Cryptocurrency

• Most popular global payment systems blocked Russia which was bad enough itself but what was even worse it became almost impossible to pay for services which remained operational but had no other forms of payment.
• SWIFT bank transfers mostly stopped working and what remained became very expensive.
• Some foreign investment accounts were frozen. So much for investing in US shares. Poof.
• EU now forbids exporting euros to Russia and some countries (like Finland) can actually confiscate² cash on border.
• Local accounts in foreign currency are restricted by the government which means you can't withdraw cash from them in substantial amount.
• At the same time now they have negative interest rates so if you just leave them they will get depleted anyway. The only way is to convert them to rubles at shamelessly low rates.
• Ruble, local currency, has about four very different rates towards other currencies (depends where, how and in which direction you convert) and suffers from high inflation (which again is very different depending how you calculate but significant no matter what).
• Local government as well as just about everyone else tightened all kinds of financial regulations, restrictions and tracking.
• Looks like everyone declared cold war on cash. I have some money in 500 and 200 euro notes which apparently are next to impossible to use in EU now because are you drug dealer, gun runner or child trafficker as no one else has use for these notes? Locally it is a bit better but clearly not for long.