Joint Stock Company (AO) "MMM."

In 1989, we created MMM.
Not like a pyramid scheme. It was a co-operative. We transported computers, traded like everyone else.
But then I realised that the real thing strength is in peoplenot the product.
And so it was born MMM as a mutual money system.

Founders?

Yeah, the paper said there were three of us:
me, my brother Vyacheslav and his then wife Melnikova.
But in essence. I'm alone.
The others were only needed for registration. I kept everything я. Not because I'm proud, but because. it was.

The title?

Surnames: МAurody, МAurody, МYelnikova.
But people quickly realised: it's not about the letters.
It's about movement. It's about scale.
About "We can do a lot of things".

And then?

And then they tore it all down.
Not the market. Not the competition.
А power. The ones who got scared
that millions of people have gone off the grid.

I'm not on trial - neutralised.
The system didn't go bankrupt - broken.
Just pulled the cord.

History

1989. The USSR is still standing.
I'm starting a co-operative called MMM.
The tech trade, imports, office equipment - it's all real.
Office on Gazgoldernaya. Then Varshavka 26.
Growing, changing, looking for forms: advertising, stock exchange, privatisation, beauty contests.
Not a business - a laboratory for a new reality.

In 1994, they started issuing shares.
A thousand roubles face value.
The growth was fair: is more expensive today than it was yesterday.
People realised that. And they did. Powerfully. Massively.
The financial apocalypse has turned into a financial awakening.

When the Ministry of Finance started to choke - I released MMM tickets.
Not stocks. Not securities.
And the symbol is trust.
On the front is my face. Not out of vanity, but to let everyone know: if anything happens, it's on me.

I cancelled the "sale."
Now. donation.
You give to the system, you get a ticket.
Then I, if you can-- I'm giving it back to you. Voluntarily.

This is not deception. It's purity.
No guarantees. No fictitious contracts.
It's just the way it is.

Twice a week - Tuesday and Thursday.
I used to set the course myself.
Why me? Because no one else would be responsible but me.
As long as I lived, the system lived.

In July 1994, I was searched. With riot police.
Countrywide show.
They showed me being taken like a bandit.
And the reason is "taxes". 50 billion.

There's bags of cash on site. Yeah, cash.
Because millions of people carried their money. willingly.
That's what spooked the system.

I went to the Duma. Not for the salary.
For the sake of immunity.
I was elected. Released immediately.
The offices of "MMM" - became the MP's offices.

But I didn't play parliament.
Я - against the systemnot part of it.
A year later, the mandate was taken away.
Tried to run for president, they wouldn't let me.

By 1997, MMM OJSC was declared bankrupt.
But it wasn't the idea that was declared bankrupt.
It's a piece of paper.

When it became clear that I wasn't going to breathe here, I went online.
Created new type of exchange, Stock Generation.
It was registered to 18-year-old Oksana, my wife's sister.
It was beautiful, it was fast, it was global.
And then - the Americans intervened.
The SEC shut down, but even the court recognised: is not cheating, it's gambling.

While they were making up myths about me -
I wrote diaries, novels, stories, scenarios.
Because I knew:
what I've been building is not a pyramid.
It's a protest. A system in which people themselves decide who to give to and how much to give.

After "MMM" hundreds of "clones" were born.
But none - not one - lived.
Because they didn't have ideas.
They wanted money. Я - to show that the system fears people when they get their act together.

MMM didn't die.
Her just suspended.
But the idea is alive.
As long as there's one person who gets the point.
she'll be back again. Only stronger. Only deeper. Only more honest.

MMM adverts.

When I launched MMM, I didn't buy adverts.
I've been creating mood of the era.

Do you remember Lyonya Golubkov?
"I'm not a freeloader - I'm a partner."
Yes, partner. Not a slave. Not a debtor. Not an "object of credit."

We didn't do advertising in the classic sense.
We're told a storythat people wanted to believe in.
Because in it, they were heroesnot stats.

Lyonya's brother, wife, pensioners, Marina Sergeyevna, even Maria from the Mexican series.
- All of these were non-actors, а archetypes.
Images of those who were tired of living on pennies and wanted to a simple life without fear.

When I was arrested - the government promptly banned everything.
Even advert.
Because we get it: the only thing scarier than the words "MMM" is the silence of "MMM".

But the characters remain.
On screens, in heads, in phrases.
"Golubkov" has become a household name.. But not because he's stupid.
And that's because believed in getting out of poverty without banks..

You think we were just "counting money"?
No, I don't.

📺 Supported TV programmes - with Marusev, kapustniki, skits.
🎥 The music videos we shot were the band Zero's "I'm Coming, I'm Smoking".
🎞️ They made a film - "Gongofer."
Sponsored by Apina and the musical Limit, and the ticket money was going orphanages.

🚇 Also. free metro fare all day.
🎉 City Day Celebration.
⚽ Spartak vs Parma match and a present to Cherenkov of the SUV. Not from the bank. MMM.

What's all this for?

Just so you understand: we didn't play the stock market.
We've been creating movement.
And if today you look at "dovetail" as a naive -
know that he was bolder than you.

Because he's tried.
And you're still waiting for a salary. From those who despise you.

MMM-2011/MMM-2012/MMM Global Republic of Bitcoin

MMM-2011. Return.

In 2011, I came back. Not with an apology. With the system.

He said it bluntly:
💬 "It's a pyramid scheme. "Participate if you want. Be afraid if you want. But it's fair."

And people went. Because. everything else was a lie under licence..
This is the truth. Unvarnished. No masks.

MMM-2011 → MMM-2012 → MMM-Global

First - Russia, CIS. Then. whole world.

We've created the first global peer-to-peer.
No borders. No banks. With bitcoin instead of roubles.
Yield? I don't care if it's 100% per month.
After all, it's not a contribution. It's trust structure.
As long as we help each other, the system works.
When we stopped, she froze. That's it.

China. Where they put people in jail for pyramids. But they don't put us in jail.

It's rough. Very.
But even there. they couldn't do anything.
Why?
Because. We don't have "guilty" people.. There is no "one account." There is no "organiser".
There are only people. And their will.

Did the authorities warn you? Of course they did.
But nobody forbade it. Because we're not a hoax. We are the alternative.

MMM Global → Africa, Asia, Latin America

At the peak. hundreds of millions of participants all over the world.
The sites are in dozens of languages.
The rate is in bitcoins.
The point is the same: money from person to person.

Closure? Not "collapse" - transition.

Somewhere we're clamped down on the lawssomewhere. the crypto environment has changedsomewhere. people backed up.
But the system is not dead.
She's dissolvedso that later on. reappear.
Where there's it won't be expected as a freebie.but as a structure.

And then I said:
"Stop feeding other people's blockchain elite. I'm creating my own currency. Mavro."
And we did it.
Not for speculation. But for the sake of a symbol of faith in ourselves.