My BIG story on the NFT collapse for Vanity Fair has a bombshell: the buyer of the $24 million trove of Bored Apes at Sotheby's appears to be Sam Bankman-Fried's disgraced FTX. It's a deep-dive into deals with the devil during a gold rush, before the fall. https://t.co/PseW1YVIaZ— Nate Freeman (@NFreeman1234) January 18, 2023
― groovypanda, Friday, 20 January 2023 06:52 (one year ago) link
it's not a new thought, but jeez sotheby's suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks
― Karl Malone, Friday, 20 January 2023 07:44 (one year ago) link
what is even going on
https://www.mollywhite.net/etc/ftx-contagion
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 21 January 2023 00:52 (one year ago) link
all that money from investors wow is that real money
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 January 2023 00:58 (one year ago) link
I presume the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund was not minting their own coins
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link
teachercoin™️
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:31 (one year ago) link
Never use Slack pic.twitter.com/jxyxK1fWeU— kadhim (^ー^)ノ (@kadhim) January 31, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 13:41 (one year ago) link
unveiling my new cryptocurrency PonziCoin
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
btw i watched this video on the real ponzi, its a wild story, people were going crazy for his investment opportunities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4waqVKanxA
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
at least he was handsome, none of these aholes are handsome anymore
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
no one knows how to be a proper dandy these days
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
thinking its best not to use a technology that publicly exposes an immutable record for crime
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/property-grab-afp-smashes-alleged-10-billion-chinese-money-laundering-operation-20230201-p5ch7k.html
Federal agents have dismantled an alleged Chinese-Australian money laundering organisation that moved an estimated $10 billion offshore while amassing a blue-chip property portfolio comprising Sydney mansions, a luxury city building and hundreds of acres of land near Sydney’s second airport.
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Police have also seized cryptocurrency and are examining how the syndicate used crypto exchanges to transfer tainted funds around the world without drawing the attention of authorities, according to confidential sources with knowledge of the investigation.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
menawhile scrunkly is scrimblo-staked blarf, many take this as an indication the hacker is a wangspung bluvbif
Wormhole hacker becomes the third largest holder of stETHJanuary 23, 2023https://t.co/uiHwcpktlu pic.twitter.com/c47XRPPY5F— web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat) February 1, 2023
― mark s, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
tho tbf there are some cryptos that dont leave such a trail and mb they were just busted by records kept by the exchanges, either way better to use time tested crime methods and not throw your lot in with standford grads who do not have crime experience xp
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
throw your lot in with standford grads who do not have crime experience
is this effective altruism butterfly.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:20 (one year ago) link
fwiw not sure crypto was really a big part of that investigation but still
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
The alleged transnational crime organisation exploited Australia’s migration system, with a senior syndicate figure being granted a significant-investor visa and another receiving Australian citizenship despite being a wanted fugitive.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
Presumably they did this through the loophole known as “being white”.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 2 February 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
sound like theyre chinese, they were rich tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 February 2023 23:33 (one year ago) link
were they crazy rich
― 龜, Friday, 3 February 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
criminal rich azns
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 February 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link
crime imitating art (movie titles)
― mh, Friday, 3 February 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
BREAKING per @EleanorTerrett & my reporting: Securities lawyers including a past top @SECGov official say SEC looking to largely "cut off" crypto in all its forms after FTX debacle. @SEC_Enforcement has "blanketed" crypto w so-called Wells Notices signaling intent to bring cases— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) February 14, 2023
i am guessing that, despite appearances, this will have no effect and right now is actually a great time to buy crypto
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 00:22 (one year ago) link
Buy the dip(shit)!
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
interested to see where the political donations stuff goes some compelling evidence out there that big name consultant types, lis smith sean mcelwee, might be wrapped up in this
Nishad Singh, former director of engineering at FTX, has pled guilty to six charges including fraud charges, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and a charge related to campaign finance violations. He will cooperate against SBF.— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) February 28, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
a long packed thread on the failed bank signature, not even sure where to drop it it touches so many sides: the recent unpleasantness (big bank run, wobbliness ongoing), and thus thiel, musk (walk-on), anna selvey (who comes out looking good!) (ish), FTX, wirecard (comparison), BCCI, crooked new york landlordism (what other kind is there), madoff and ponzi, def jam & murder inc, russian and israeli oligarchs, diverse mafias, putin and the ottoman empire, and to start it all an assassination (perp very disputed) (someone got locked up but may have been framed!)
This is a deep dive on Signature, the "other" bank failure of March 2023. Barney Frank & the WSJ editorial board have called it an "Execution"Appropriately, Signature's origins date back to an assassination.The year was 1999, dateline Monte Carlo https://t.co/7fReQf2uHv— moe tkacik (@moetkacik) March 24, 2023
― mark s, Saturday, 25 March 2023 10:37 (one year ago) link
good article but i want everyone involved to be thrown into an active volcano
― I'm sad that you wouldn't bother to watch my youtubes (cat), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 04:43 (one year ago) link
keep anne selvey, she has a funny voice and like robin hood only scammed the rich to give to the poor (herself)
― mark s, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 09:37 (one year ago) link
tbf its handy for wash trading too sure the whales already have their ways to do it but what about the lil guy who wants to pump n dump some shit coin whos looking out for him
Here comes another fraudulent Tether exchange, which openly admits to being a no-KYC/AML money laundering exchange.It makes sense for Tether to integrate with more money laundering operations. How else would terrorists launder their money?Tether 🤝 Terrorist money laundering. pic.twitter.com/1RdDNHweb2— Bitfinex’ed 🔥🐧 Κασσάνδρα 🏺 (@Bitfinexed) April 11, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
Bitcoin miners can also avoid fees Texas charges to maintain and bolster the power grid by strategically powering down during peak demand, when those fees are assessed. And when power prices are high, the miners can also shut down and resell their allotted electricity — which they prepurchase at low rates — for hefty profits.
The Times gave two examples of how this works. During 2021's Winter Storm Uri, during which about 40 Texans froze to death during extended blackouts, ERCOT paid Bitdeer's Bitcoin mine in Rockdale an average of $175,000 an hour for not operating, earning the company more than $18 million over four days — "from fees ultimately paid by Texans who had endured the storm," the Times adds. Another Bitcoin company made tens of millions reselling electricity during Uri.
https://theweek.com/in-depth/1022698/how-voracious-bitcoin-mining-is-messing-with-texans
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 23:30 (one year ago) link
jfc
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 23:37 (one year ago) link
Just the markets at work, nothing to see here.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:27 (one year ago) link
Every use case that gets touted for bitcoin turns out to be something that actively makes the world worse without even a positive side effect.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
We screwed up and we are sorry. Yesterday we shared an overview of the $pepe meme coin to provide a fact-based picture of a trending topic. This did not provide the whole picture of the history of the meme and we apologize to the community.— paulgrewal.eth (@iampaulgrewal) May 11, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 May 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
An NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet bought for $2.9M is now valued at less than $4 pic.twitter.com/yQGjT2pUbI— Stocktwits (@Stocktwits) July 21, 2023
― mark s, Saturday, 22 July 2023 13:10 (ten months ago) link
not what that picture says -- it's listing all current bids, the biggest of which is $47.
it had a top bid of $280 last year.
― formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 22 July 2023 22:15 (ten months ago) link
tether untethering?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 August 2023 02:05 (ten months ago) link
hilarious vulnerability discovered in popular wallet tool, accounts being drained of funds: https://milksad.info/
― crutch of england (ledge), Thursday, 10 August 2023 08:12 (ten months ago) link
but but but public ledger
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 August 2023 09:03 (ten months ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 August 2023 11:15 (ten months ago) link
If you do that, is it even a crime?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 11 August 2023 00:04 (ten months ago) link
not so much a crime as a civic responsibility imo
also lol
― pretty god (cat), Friday, 11 August 2023 11:04 (ten months ago) link
In 30 minutes: a hearing on whether Sam Bankman-Fried will be remanded to jail after leaking to the press private diary entries of a witness in his case.See my past coverage of this:• https://t.co/Q83XlNt69b• https://t.co/WCbaAWSkCT• https://t.co/n3KPYDsefe— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) August 11, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried's bail has been revoked.— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) August 11, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 August 2023 21:49 (ten months ago) link
he needs to work on being more subtle with his crimes
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 August 2023 21:59 (ten months ago) link
bankman sr and the mooch in trouble
Because of Daddy Bankman the Mooch was able to execute his/Skybridge exit agreement with #FTX the day before FTX entered bankruptcy....its always good to have a shadow director on speed dial. https://t.co/R8v40ggU7k pic.twitter.com/nhCsHDkuKb— @intel_jakal (@intel_jakal) August 13, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 August 2023 14:16 (ten months ago) link
Bitcoin trading volume is at its lowest in more than four years https://t.co/vCshqfxTu3— CNBC (@CNBC) August 28, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 August 2023 21:40 (nine months ago) link
SBF's father was unhappy with his salary at FTX US so he emailed SBF asking for more money, and then pulled the "I'm telling your mother" Dad move and looped SBF's mom into the email thread pic.twitter.com/jJaHFqpI7Z— Conor (@jconorgrogan) September 19, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 15:59 (eight months ago) link
levine on tether
The Tether conspiracy theories weren't conspiracy theories after all? Because it sure sounds like Tether's spokesperson just admitted to them. via @matt_levinehttps://t.co/tUfxTG0LiJ pic.twitter.com/RyXBJuQ33U— John Paul Koning (@jp_koning) September 22, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 September 2023 21:11 (eight months ago) link