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No, Enron isn’t coming back with a new crypto token

A new Delaware-based crypto project that parodies long-bankrupt energy company Enron is apparently “recruiting” for a nuclear systems engineer as it gears up to launch its first token. Houston-registered Enron Corporation famously went bankrupt in December 2001 after a number of its executives were found to be using fraudulent accounting practices to inflate the firm’s revenues. However, the ‘Enron’ that is apparently preparing to make waves in the world of crypto is a very different entity. For starters, at the time of its bankruptcy in 2001, Jeffrey Keith Skilling and Kenneth Lay were the company’s CEOs. Recent trademark documents, however, reveal that the new Enron Corporation is not only now registered in Delaware but the venture, which describes itself as a “parody” in its official terms of use, is helmed by a new CEO called Charles Gaydos. We're back. Can we talk? pic.twitter.com/9kt4g0Q84Z — Enron (@Enro...