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lol

Today, Starbucks launched its web3 loyalty program, which could radically change the perception of NFTs.

Here’s what it means for coffee lovers and the future of brand marketing: pic.twitter.com/JFAd4CbueA

— Matt Smolin (@Estimatted) December 8, 2022

I got an invite! Haven’t really explored though. I have low expectations.

acquire the coffee nfts and grow rich

the level of corruption in crypto is frankly very high

CEO of crypto media outlet The Block resigns after it's revealed he took tens of millions in loans from Sam Bankman-Fried

December 9, 2022https://t.co/n9cgpsi4I9 pic.twitter.com/apHWMHQYJm

— web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat) December 10, 2022

ethics in crypto journalism!

ohhhhh myyyyyy goooooood pic.twitter.com/Z7ia9ClRG3

— mr. pussy (@nuns_on_film) December 7, 2022

social media has just not been good for criminals

i use an alt for crimes

common sense really

thats the way to do it name it like clay_crimes

bro dont give out my alt

my bad

all the big crypto guys have a group chat

It's frustrating that "cartel" is solely associated with powerful drug gangs because it's a very useful term https://t.co/vVpuYDf1iZ

— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) December 10, 2022

“My honest advice: stop doing everything. Put on a suit, and go back to DC, and start to answer questions,” Mr. Zhao told Mr. Bankman-Fried.

“Thanks for the advice!” Mr. Bankman-Fried replied, asking Mr. Zhao to clarify: “Did you attempt to accuse me of trying to depeg a stablecoin by doing a $250,000 trade?”

Mr. Ardoino eventually jumped in: “Just to be clear, we’ll redeem whatever amount of money comes to us. We’re solid.”

Argo is preparing for a bankruptcy on Monday, per a screenshot of a document sent my way (likely accidentally posted). https://t.co/aXmFuMNSXF pic.twitter.com/kQtLwZOKct

— Will Foxley 🧭 (@wsfoxley) December 9, 2022

Jimmy Fallon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Justin Bieber, and other celebrities are being sued for endorsing NFTs and misleading their followers with undisclosed payments from Bored Ape: https://t.co/IQPDCsyx0k pic.twitter.com/w6Dwqz2Npw

— Ryan Brown 🎮 (@Toadsanime) December 10, 2022

lol

GET THEM

it was so obvious

Surely Fallon has also fallen afoul of any NBC network standards and practices regs.

yeah couldnt believe that shit was on the air, quite audacious, he couldve just put it on the socials like a normal celeb

the one with him and paris hilton was the single most psychotic thing i've ever seen coming from the famously psychotic genre of late night talk show

crazy these people have more money than they could ever spend and theyre out there doing fraud with weird internet guys, tho tbf they were prob recruited by intermediaries as max detailed https://maxread.substack.com/p/mapping-the-celebrity-nft-complex

i just watched it like 10x in a row lol xp paris claims to have given fallon the idea and gotten the idea from him all within five seconds

Deeply strange pic.twitter.com/ycilbi1iNL

— James Kelleher (@etienneshrdlu) January 25, 2022

i got an ape
i got an ape too
you did?
this is my ape
this is your ape! this is my ape
i love it
yeah

i like the ape even though im instinctively revoted by the stench of loser desperation coming off of it

yeah me too its fun

It's like pogs but if pogs were a massive financial sinkhole that ruined lives

so _exactly_ like pogs then

like pogs with pictures of beanie babies on them

BlockFi got a $400m credit line from FTX US and drew down $250m, not in cash but in FTT tokens.

BlockFi lent $680m to Alameda, not in FTT tokens but in client deposits.

Maybe @BlockFiZac and @SBF_FTX can explain how this isn't outright fraud with US-regulated entities. pic.twitter.com/et2u9TMqHM

— Ben Hunt (@EpsilonTheory) December 11, 2022

its pretty satisfying to see the pervasive collusion come to light, i look forward to learning the details of all the price manipulation schemes

Who’s playing SBF in the movie, is Jesse Eisenberg too old now?

honestly i recommend finding a very precocious child and telling them that they're the best actor in the world. let them wing it in every single scene and then make up an award and tell them they won it for best acting

That’d be very funny

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kyX9aldzA-o/sddefault.jpg

Feel like one shouldn’t lie to children tho

not sure where the dirty money is coming from in this formulation but it sounds interesting

That’s how the money laundering works.

You invent a shitcoin and sell the shitcoins to dirty money “suckers”.

SBF was the designated “sucker”. In reality, he got that money to launder it. The extra suckers he reeled in was just gravy. https://t.co/1foI3bShYl

— Bitfinex’ed 🔥🐧 Κασσάνδρα 🏺 (@Bitfinexed) December 12, 2022

weird how many criminals there are around crypto

Eva Kaili, the ex-PASOK MEP was one of the most vocal proponents of crypto in EU. She was arrested today on suspicions of corruption, with bags of cash reportedly in her flat. Not very crypto. The q now is if only Quatar paid her, or crypto firms as well. https://t.co/yZjlK936V0

— @b✧✧✧@some✧✧✧.el✧✧✧.compu✧✧✧ (@bodobalazs) December 10, 2022

if youre going to do crime at least take it seriously dont be cute

The crypto platform’s founders Sam Bankman-Fried and Zixiao “Gary” Wang, engineer Nishad Singh and ex-Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison had a dubious forum. https://t.co/GifgvvMPKt

— Financial Review (@FinancialReview) December 12, 2022

guess the media tour did not work

BREAKING: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas after U.S. files criminal charges https://t.co/0zAaXiED9X

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) December 12, 2022

*publicly confesses to crimes* theyll never arrest me now, im rly self-aware B-)

poor kid i feel bad for him, just an innocent computer boy caught up in the go go world of international money laundering and wire fraud

weve all been there one day youre a billionaire the next youre in the feds such is this crazy lil thing called life

there should be a new Keating Five with the same punishment (slap on wrist, maverick status)

SDNY unsealing indictment tomorrow, we'll see if Matt Levine waits for that to come out before he pubs the newsletter

USA Damian Williams: Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY. We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.

— US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) December 12, 2022

reading the full "Samuel Bankman-Fried" really has a "get in here, this instant!" vibe.

Re: SBF’s parents, this is an insanely sympathetic story, all of these people should be thrown off a cliff afaic

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/technology/sbf-parents-ftx-collapse.html

tbh as soon as it emerged that sbf's parents were stanford law professors with sidelines in moral philosophy (mum) and psychology (dad) they shd have locked the whole family up and invented charges afterwards

this is justice as i understand it

the trolley problem but anyone walking on a train line has their life insurance paid to the train company and the train driver is on a pedestrians killed KPI bonus scheme

impressive

SBF FACES 8 COUNTS:

1- Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud on Customers
2- Wire Fraud on Cust
3- CtC Wire Fraud on Lenders
4- Wire Fraud on Ls
5- CtC Commodities Fraud
6- CtC Securities Fraud
7- CtC Money Laundering
8- Conspiracy to violate Campaign Fin Lawshttps://t.co/eVsN6WBrXF

— kadhim (＾ｰ^)ノ (@kadhim) December 13, 2022

Wire Fraud on Ls: accurate if unkind description of those defrauded imo

can't believe these out-of-control woke courts are trying to criminalise the the simple act of doing crimes