Wasn’t a major tranche of Softbank’s funding contingent on their being able to do this? They might be broke a lot sooner than people thought without it…

https://web.archive.org/web/20250429034425/https://boingboing.net/2025/04/28/the-influential-signal-chatrooms-where-tech-billionaires-and-their-courtiers-swung-far-right.html

…of El Salvador?

Fair point, though individual investors also have a right of private action to sue, likely as a class action, for misleading investors

Sounds to me like he’s lying to investors about the true nature of a risk to the company

This sounds like the company from Cory Doctorow’s most recent novel, Picks & Shovels