How the most influential man in iGaming sold his reputation.
Ranked #1 of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in iGaming” — and the record of the $NATRO scam that reputation was spent on.
“SPRIBE CEO David Natroshvili takes the #1 spot on the Top 100 Most Influential People in iGaming 2026 🏆 … David is redefining player engagement … turned SPRIBE into a global category leader. Cheers to our leader! 🙌”
— @spribe.co, Instagram, 30 May 2026 · #SPRIBE #iGaming #Aviator #TechLeadership
The NATRO File describes itself, on every page, as a documented case in reputation pricing. This is the reputation being priced. Number one for influence in the industry — the single most valuable thing a launch can borrow.
In the same May 2026 window, that same name was the collateral on a Solana memecoin, $NATRO. From his verified Instagram account, David Natroshvili personally solicited presale investment — captioned over a Bentley interior: “If you want to get involved in the crypto project presale with me & @natroalex — DM @natroalex1 on telegram. Minimum investment size for presale is 1.5k” — and, over a Ferrari on a Monaco street: “We’re opening private access to our crypto project presale with me & @natroalex…”
Within seventy-two hours of launch the token collapsed ~98%. Refund requests from affected holders were refused — “Nothing to say” from the team admin, “stfu” from the founder’s personal Telegram. Within the same window the website was taken offline, the NATRO link was removed from the founder’s Instagram bio, and the paid promotional video was deleted. While that was happening, the #1 most influential ranking was being shared and celebrated — “Cheers to our leader.”
The project’s own FAQ — archived in full before it was deleted — answered the rug-pull question in one sentence:
“The reputation hit lasts forever; the cash from a rug doesn’t.”
Set that sentence beside a #1 “most influential” ranking, and the file’s title stops being a metaphor. The reputation was real. So is the record of what a slice of it was spent on. Readers draw their own conclusion.
David Natroshvili and Spribe are invited to respond; a formal notice was sent to Spribe’s published legal and corporate addresses on 25 May 2026. Documented factual corrections will be published alongside the record. The full sourcing is on his profile and the press page.