criminal mastermind pic.twitter.com/O2QBBu84l1— web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat) December 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 01:53 (one year ago) link
I feel like these dudes might actually believe their own bullshit?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
they really do lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
def some industry wide feeling that it was a crimes are legal zone, but really the feds were just slow to get to work
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
*fake Matt Levine voice* If someone exploited a vulnerability in the Charles Schwab website to execute a nine figure trade with other people’s money and then tweeted that they believed their actions were using the protocol as designed, the FBI might be busy laughing for the few crucial minutes necessary for you to board your flight for Venezuela.
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link
JUST IN: SBF to enter plea deal in FTX fraud case, Reuters reports.— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) December 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
Looks like it's a plea, not a deal.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
SBF pleads for just one more chance to make it right, baby
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
When you are CEO and face of the org, and your #2 and #3 (I guess) have already flipped, I'm not sure who he could even flip on at this point.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
if only they had designed bitcoins to be flipped
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
he can name all the VCs in the "let's go crazy doing the financial crimes we describe in detail in the chat group" chat group
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
I'm not sure who he could even flip on at this point.
matt yglesias
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
― mark s, Wednesday, December 28, 2022 3:37 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I must have missed this chat group where the VCs admitted to doing financial crimes, but I am extremely skeptical VC-types have anything to worry about.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
he defiantly did crimes with the tether org, are his prosecutors interested in tethers crimes, idk probably tether is bigger than ftx and is at the root of a lot of crypto mischief, im sure theyd listen if he had things to say about vcs and various other crypto characters but tether is the one
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
could be the other ftx execs who flipped already gave up all that info tho
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
the straw donations thing should probably be run down but won’t
― mh, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
The vc thing seems like a kill one person (murder) v. kill a million ppl (king) thing. I'm pretty sure the buck is going to stop at SBF.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 29 December 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
you missed the group chat in question bcz i made it up to make a funny joek abt the dumbness of all this, i have no idea who SBF is going to flip on, maybe it's senators or paris hilton
― mark s, Thursday, 29 December 2022 11:49 (one year ago) link
fed look interested in taking down Binance, maybe he's got something on them for a lighter sentence
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 29 December 2022 11:53 (one year ago) link
i still don't understand any of this but i notice a wild winklevoss
340,000 Gemini Earn customers are missing over $900 million.Cameron Winklevoss of Gemini called out Barry Silbert for not returning the funds.Here’s what we know 🧵— Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) January 3, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link
the really confusing thing about this is that gemini and genesis are too similar words
To explain what happened here: Gemini offered Gemini Earn, a magical thing that gave you up to 7.4% returns - unrealistic returns - and did so by lending the $900m in Gemini Earn to Genesis/DCG, who have now lost that money. The money is gone! Woosh! https://t.co/u7DzjFWTta— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) January 2, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
As far as I can tell, just reading about it now, it's actually a pretty simple and old story -- Company A: "Lend us your money and we will pay you more in interest than it makes any sense to pay on it." Company A then takes that money and lends it to Company B, who offers even higher doesn't-make-sense interest on it. Company B then uses the money to engage in dumb high risk trades that have a small chance of a huge payout. Those trades go bad. Company B to Company A: "Oops, I don't have the money to pay you back." Company A to its investors: "Company B didn't pay us back, so now we can't pay you back." Did I miss anything?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 02:40 (one year ago) link
It's just a variation on a ponzi scheme -- put money in magic box and we promise we make even more money come out
one thing is that company a wasnt totally clear that they were asking for people to loan rather than deposit money, good account here https://ez.substack.com/p/i-lost-900-million-dollars-but-its
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 02:43 (one year ago) link
and fwiw im sure the scheme worked wonderfully while crypto was booming
going up a hill by boat works great when the water's rising
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 03:03 (one year ago) link
it also works if you just really want to do it (fitzcarraldo, herzog, 1982)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 03:09 (one year ago) link
seems like all the big crypto players just panic every time someone expects liquid assets and get one of their peers to give them money, and in return they might give the other company some tokens or magic beans that are, as all cryptocurrency, going to always go up in value
you see it's not a ponzi scheme because I traded my very valuable magic beans for real money to pay people trying to cash out and magic beans are an infinite resource
― mh, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
prob impossible but it would be interesting to figure out how much real money went into the system and where it ended up
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
what if all money is made up
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
its all made up to some degree but some is more made up than others, crypto was trying to grow to the point that it by virtue of its size became more real, but it never really got close, particularly considering a lot of its growth was fake too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
that's not what this 14-year-old turd told me online. and he seemed extremely confident
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
Real money? You mean the made upFIAT currency crying laughing emoji, drools into lap
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
the next stage is to arbitrage the made-upness differential, enjoy being real ilxors
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
hey its the company that advertises during sports that its the above the board fully audited usa based exchange
Coinbase fined $100M over KYC and AML failures https://t.co/JI5peeKy63— Protos (@Protos) January 4, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:21 (one year ago) link
hah that's just a state investigation, that's not even the feds
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
2023 and you can't find a slurp juice anywhere
― mh, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
Can’t get over the fact that Logan Paul subscribed to my Patreon, advertised it on his main channel, said he admired my “work ethic” & “creativity”, and then said he’s suing me. https://t.co/eYB57EIHgQ pic.twitter.com/8guq428rtM— Coffeezilla (@coffeebreak_YT) January 4, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:28 (one year ago) link
fyi that guy is a crypto muckraking youtuber who just did a video on logan pauls many nft crimes
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link
he has this extreme cringe scifi noir schtick but he does do a good job digging stuff up, its actual journalism happening on youtube now that i think about it, waht a world
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link
“One second of research would prove that to be false,” Paul hit back. “You can definitely hatch eggs and even breed your animals.”
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:57 (one year ago) link
lmao just the dumbest shit ever
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
Want a MasterShake read of that line
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 5 January 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
is this a slurp juice thing
― mh, Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:48 (one year ago) link
its slurp juice adjacent
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2023 03:13 (one year ago) link
it’s also extremely On Cinema
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 January 2023 07:49 (one year ago) link
this is one of my favorite songs
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-core-developer-claims-to-have-lost-200-btc-in-hack/
bonus, he's a mel gibson-y "fuck this newfangled catholicism" catholic *and* a monarchist
― doctor w00t (cat), Thursday, 5 January 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
and oh wow what's this, there was a bitcoin fundraiser for him just 5 yrs ago, after his house got dinged by hurricane irma. maybe the bitcoin-munity will pull together once again and funnel more fake dumb money to this choad.
― doctor w00t (cat), Thursday, 5 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link