in that I've been tempted to be a paypig but not to buy bitcoin
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
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
that plea deal must have been sweet to roll over so quickly, or people really hate paying lawyers
― mh, Thursday, 22 December 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Thursday, 22 December 2022 03:02 (one year ago) link
DOJ and SEC often don’t file charging docs until they already have the plea.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 December 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
the vcs are how the sec has jurisdiction here, unfortunately― 龜, Wednesday, December 21, 2022 10:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
they can still be guilty of crimes right
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
i mean, yeah, but what would you charge them with?
― 龜, Thursday, 22 December 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
pumping n dumping shitcoins
but just generally there seems to be a ton of collusion between the various crypto whales were some of them vcs do any of the cooperators know anything about that, and even outside of ftx seems like industry wide were going to have a lot of telling happening soon, its probably happening now tbf
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
my intuition is that your general traditional VC type firms like a16z or sequioa did not run crypto prop trading desks, but who knows
― 龜, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
nor would you need to to be involved in a conspiracy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link