KEY POINTS

  • Thousands of Americans will receive little or nothing from savings accounts that were locked during the collapse of fintech middleman Synapse.
  • Customers believed the accounts were backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
  • CNBC spoke to a dozen customers caught in the predicament, people who have lost sums ranging from $7,000 to well over $200,000.
  • While there’s not yet a full tally of those left shortchanged, at fintech Yotta alone, 13,725 customers say they are being offered a combined $11.8 million despite putting in $64.9 million in deposits.
  • @[email protected]
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    191 day ago

    He’s an old man. Unless anti-aging research unexpectedly advances several orders of magnitude faster than its been doing in the next few years, he’ll be leaving office one way or another.

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          -922 hours ago

          That is how that works. Genetics strongly influence factors like disease resistance, metabolism, and cellular repair, which contribute to a longer lifespan.And trump has easy access to cutting edge medicine.

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            1222 hours ago

            Genetics strongly influence factors like disease resistance, metabolism, and cellular repair, which contribute to a longer lifespan

            A sedentary lifestyle, obesity and a diet heavy in hamberders and other crap food can more than offset that.

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                20 hours ago

                Have you seen him? That’s the best some of the top doctors can do with cutting edge drugs. I honestly doubt he makes it four years.

                  • borari
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                    317 hours ago

                    His father didn’t regularly eat McDonald’s and wasn’t filled tip to taint with microplastics like everyone alive today. Environmental factors outweigh the effects of genetics on lifespan.