Feel like one shouldn’t lie to children tho
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 11 December 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
*publicly confesses to crimes* theyll never arrest me now, im rly self-aware B-)
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
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
― Clay, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
weve all been there one day youre a billionaire the next youre in the feds such is this crazy lil thing called life
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
there should be a new Keating Five with the same punishment (slap on wrist, maverick status)
― mh, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
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
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
reading the full "Samuel Bankman-Fried" really has a "get in here, this instant!" vibe.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
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
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 12:34 (one year ago) link
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
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 12:52 (one year ago) link
impressive
SBF FACES 8 COUNTS:1- Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud on Customers2- Wire Fraud on Cust3- CtC Wire Fraud on Lenders4- Wire Fraud on Ls5- CtC Commodities Fraud6- CtC Securities Fraud7- CtC Money Laundering8- Conspiracy to violate Campaign Fin Lawshttps://t.co/eVsN6WBrXF— kadhim (^ー^)ノ (@kadhim) December 13, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Wire Fraud on Ls: accurate if unkind description of those defrauded imo
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
can't believe these out-of-control woke courts are trying to criminalise the the simple act of doing crimes
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
lol xp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
someone on twitter said that all the charges are related to ftx investors, people who gave them actual money, cause the prosecutors dont want to deal with crypto
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
Reasonably, probably
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
You wanna explain crypto to a jury?
asked and answered at the house committee on financial services
Rep. Perlmutter (D-CO) asks if dogecoin is pronounced "doe-gee-coin" or "doggycoin". Someone helps him out. "Oh, dohj-coin!"#FTXhearing— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) December 13, 2022
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
Perlmutter didn't run for the next congress, so these last few weeks of his tenure must feel a little like the last day of school
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
Shades of Ian Watkins here
Sam Bankman-Fried and other members of the inner circle of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX allegedly formed a chat group on the encrypted platform Signal under the name “Wirefraud”.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
lmao they used QuickBooks for recordkeeping
― mh, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
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
― 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