A brand new Delaware-based crypto challenge that parodies long-bankrupt vitality firm Enron is seemingly “recruiting” for a nuclear programs 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 have 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 earth of crypto is a really completely different entity.
For starters, on the time of its chapter in 2001, Jeffrey Keith Skilling and Kenneth Lay have been the corporate’s CEOs. Latest trademark paperwork, nonetheless, 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 submit on the challenge’s hiring web page says it’s looking for 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 providers — particularly NFTs and an alternate.
An “Enron Web4” trademark can also be within the works.
The account’s posts are already being marked with neighborhood 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 staff have been really inventory picture fashions.