"We’ll see if there’s something we can do that’s a positive one, and not a fly-by-night coin where people are just trying to make a quick buck overnight…"
While my eyes are yet to be opened to the mysterious world of cryptocurrency, Kelly Slater, the greatest surfer of all time, eleven world titles and counting although no Olympic medals, has devoted himself to the study of digital currency in all its variations.
And, now, just three days before the bunting is loosed and the horns erupt at the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, Slater has threatened to steal the thunder of the Games after revealing his plan to launch a cryptocurrency.
It wouldn’t be any ol cryptocurrency, either.
Like his surfwear brand Outerknown and a wood recycling company he’s bought into, Slater’s digital currency will be a capitalist enterprise with a conscience.
“I’ve started reaching out to people in the crypto world who make these things. We’ll see if there’s something we can do that’s a positive one, and not a fly-by-night coin where people are just trying to make a quick buck overnight,” the almost-fifty-year-old Slater told The Gentleman’s Journal in an interview ostensibly about his eco-watch collaboration with Breitling, the device strapped onto the wearer’s wrist with “a recycled ECONYL nylon strap.”
Slater adds, “I think it’s interesting to have a currency – a storage of value – that isn’t controlled by a CEO or a government… It’s an exciting, rare time for people to do their investing themselves… I do hope that Bitcoin is more widely accepted by different industries and people and money managers, and it seems like it’s going in that direction… At the same time, it seems like there’s people coming in who aren’t in it for its purpose… it seems to me there’s some manipulation going on with it and I’m afraid that’s what happens with stocks and companies in that way.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Slater talks about his blood feud over crypto with Elon Musk (“Does he have an issue with kids mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo to build batteries?”), as well as plastics in the ocean.
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Well this is even a better spotlight stealer than squelching Adriano’s world title giggles 13 hours later. He’s not in the Olympics….the only way Kelly can retribute. “You can’t script this.”
Slate Grit
Please someone wake up Ben and get his opinion on this.
No. Leave Marcunt alone in his own dimension, where he belongs.
It’s just so sad.
Internet trophy*
He’s always around Indonesian people.
The best thing you can do is start a garden, and start storing dry foods/ammo.(That’s ammunition for firearms Australians) By the time everybody is realizing they’re being had, we’ll already be in a World War. I don’t care, I’ve had a good go.
We’ve only got nerf guns.
“By the time everybody is realizing they’re being had, we’ll already be in a World War.”
bingo
just when I think he couldn’t be a bigger cunt…
Have you noticed the more he talks the less he wins?
He was clearly muzzled by the system for an 11 years and sold as the star now his opening up they have stopped pushing him though heats
For fucks sake Kelly, please just shut up and retire already. These attempts to stay relevant are fucking embarrassing.
Truer words were never spoken.
So I’ve been listening to Jaws on audiobook and I’m pissed! Hooper, that fucking snake in the grass, banged Brody’s whore wife in motel a few miles down the beach while Brody busts his ass trying to keep people from being eaten. Not finished yet but I’m hoping hooper gets eaten and doesn’t get to share a debris raft with Brody while they kick off into the sunset like in the movie.
I read it when I was 12 and always wondered what
Sonofabitch was
I pronounced it sono fabitch
Only Brody makes it, Soz
This will go as well as his tilt at a 12th world title…
this timeline is fuuuuuuuuuucked.
FUCK! THAT’S IT DAMMIT.
HURLULEY IS GOING TO START A CRYPTO!
WHO’S IN!?!?!!?
Considering the energy use and the reliance on advanced technology (industrial processes, slave labour, environmental degradation etc etc.)
the is no such thing as a truly ‘ethical crypto currency’.
As far as ethics goes, I think work of state cryptocurrency is less damaging than the world bank. It may not be as secure as the federal banking system but it offers a more even playing field that is more likely to lead to a more ethical economy. Maybe more tube time .
I think he’s looking for somewhere to wash his green.
I was gonna photoshop Kelly into all of them and then I realized they kind of look like him https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I’m weak I’ll leave it to the pro commentors to name it properly.
* Kelly koin
* FTWSL
* POOLZ
PURPCOIN
Baldcoin
POSCOIN
Name it after Vietnams currency, the Dong.
My wife had a great time in Viet when sh was paying for her endless shopping saying “I’ll just get my dong out” or ” Do you prefer dong?” She thought it was fucken hilarious.
CarbonCoin
Kelly Kult Koin
Outerkoin
Bobcoin…seeing as though he is a Roberto? …Bitsandbobs coin?
Sure Pound?