Huizenga asks about possible US users of FTX.com.Ray says somewhere on the order of hundreds. He says that those customers having billions of dollars on FTX.com is probably an overly high estimate.#FTXhearing— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) December 13, 2022
all those ads for the US version and they had hundreds of users!!
― mh, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
oh wait, I'm misreading -- ftx.com was the "not for US citizens" version and ftx.us was the "just for you, US citizens!" version
― mh, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
You wanna explain crypto to a jury?
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, December 13, 2022 11:39 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah and they havent even really decided how to classify various cryptos and whatnot
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
is this it
The world's largest crypto exchange is blocking the ability to withdraw your funds after getting hit with almost $1 billion in withdrawals over 24 hours. https://t.co/YGzRhPC1cz— Max Burns (@themaxburns) December 13, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
Cannot wait until every one of these cryptofucks are broke, in jail, or both.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
...should do time just for calling themesves "Binance"...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
I keep thinking it’s a kink term like findom.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
being a paypig seems far more rewarding than buying bitcoin
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
in that I've been tempted to be a paypig but not to buy bitcoin
buttcoin
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:49 (one year ago) link
blockwhips, blockchains
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
paycoin
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
Paypal sounds pretty sexy too
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
paybuddy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
bitch better have my money
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
some intrigue. all I know if paul le roux is that (great) atavist profile a few years ago
If you follow the endless “who is Satoshi Nakamoto” saga, you may have seen new claims of alleged proof that Paul Le Roux is Satoshi. Since I’m getting messages about it, some thoughts... (warning: very long, mute thread if it’s not your bag) 1/https://t.co/4amOnXu4zY— Evan Ratliff (@ev_rat) December 14, 2022
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
there was a pretty convincing story about who he was a while ago but i cant remember now lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
i always forget william gibson climaxes
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
Well, as long as you’re not the one fucking him it probably doesn’t matter
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
This is weird? The auditor for Binance (and a few other exchanges) appears to be getting out of the game in a hurry.https://www.ft.com/content/9bde8b35-aba8-4f95-a408-9a3789efd889
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 16 December 2022 12:12 (one year ago) link
is this weird exactly?
― mark s, Friday, 16 December 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
Auditing firm cuts ties with crypto clients, deletes Binance's "proof of reserves" report they issued days priorDecember 16, 2022https://t.co/glg35j378w pic.twitter.com/8iYzZqD3Jj— web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat) December 16, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
ah weird
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
Mazars was also Trump Org’s auditing firm.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
🚨BINANCE_US RECEIVES $10 MILLION $USDT INFUSION FROM BINANCE MAIN WALLETS.THESE ARE NOT SEPARATE ENTITIES. FUNDS ARE COMMINGLED ACROSS ENTIRE BINANCE NETWORK!BINANCE_US IS A FRONT, JUST LIKE FTX_US. https://t.co/bIXgnLkFZX pic.twitter.com/PbxXc25bjf— DIRTY BUBBLE MEDIA: WHO AUDITS THE AUDITOR? (@MikeBurgersburg) December 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
who burgs the burgersburg
― more crankable (sic), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
why has bitcoin not been crashing these past four months? what's keeping it up?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
The international crime ring keeping it afloat through wash trades?
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
Collusion
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
I mean, I get that, but every day it seems there's a new reason that it should crash for good now, and yet... I mean are we just waiting for Tether to go?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
yeah i think so tho maybe binance going under could trigger it too, i mean the vast majority of crypto is held by a relative handful of people aka the conspirators and theyre going to continue to pump it until they lose their ability to do so or until i guess there just no point which is to say there are no more suckers walking in the door, so in some sense prob itll never end but i do think theres going to be a major crash and then itll just become much smaller for good
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
recent bloomberg article not sure if it was posted here detailing a leak of fed prosecutors discussing whether they should charge binance now or gather more evidence and charge them later, gotta think theyre all up in tethers shit too
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
Bitcoin doesn't have a single associated company to be brought down by, people buying bitcoin are generally just voting "it's worth this amount right, it makes sense that it's worth this amount?". It might not make sense, but as long as there's people who think it does, the price will stay up. It's the one that the SEC doesn't consider a security.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:58 (one year ago) link
theoretically true but not actually how it works
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:05 (one year ago) link
because of the fraud
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:17 (one year ago) link
I think you maybe need to reread that
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 18 December 2022 09:50 (one year ago) link
ok i did now what lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
oh sure in theory bitcoin and some others could be theoretically purchased from an exchange and dumped into a cold wallet you keep at home, making it portable between exchanges and whateverin practice, very few people do this and the exchange holds the actual blockchain-linked wallet(s) and they claim to hold some notional amount of crypto. don’t worry, the ability to pull your crypto out of an exchange (especially og bitcoin) is directly time-limited according to how many other people are currently attempting a transaction
― mh, Sunday, 18 December 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
no URLs. no usernames without the URL. no bypassing restrictions on URLs (like writing example dot com). no posting images with usernames in them.free speech! pic.twitter.com/S3ZnwxkvSQ— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) December 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
sry wrong thread
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
#onethread
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
ah look at that
Global Drug Conspiracy Used Binance To Launder Millions In Crypto, DEA Investigation Finds.Good job Binance. 😂 https://t.co/iNSd6fekQl— Bitfinex’ed 🔥🐧 Κασσάνδρα 🏺 (@Bitfinexed) December 20, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
“This is actually an example of where the transparency of blockchain transactions works against criminal actors,” Price told Forbes. “The bad guys are leaving a permanent record of what they're doing.
i mean it prob wouldve worked if they didnt buy the bitcoins from a fed in the first place
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Only programmers would decide to use the internet to arrange their illegal transactions instead of a network of scary guys keeping ledgers in a shoebox
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
there was a super long and interesting New Yorker article a year or two back abt the feds using blockchain analysis to bust people, not gonna go into details but bad people
― sleeve, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
yeah its a good way to extract money from cyber crimes but besides that better to do it the old fashioned way
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
🚨 BREAKING: The SEC has officially charged Caroline Ellison & Gary Wang with defrauding FTX investors. https://t.co/r1dLYLuxRw— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) December 22, 2022
🚨 BREAKING: Caroline Ellison & Gary Wang have plead guilty to fraud & are cooperating with prosecutors.— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) December 22, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 02:29 (one year ago) link
hope some vcs go down with this
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
welp that's why Caroline and Gary were so quiet
Statement of U.S. Attorney Damian Williams on U.S. v. Samuel Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, and Gary Wang pic.twitter.com/u1y4cs3Koz— US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) December 22, 2022
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 22 December 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
credit where credit’s due, thank you feds and bahamas
― mh, Thursday, 22 December 2022 02:55 (one year ago) link