buc.ci is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
cleaned up and interlinked my collection of #EpsteinFiles sites where you can browse files of particular interest with color highlighting of interesting keywords
https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/
(these pages are not optimized for mobile)
#crypto #Epstein #uspol #uspolitics #JeffreyEpstein #Trump #bitcoin #jeremyRubin #peterThiel #Scaramucci #SteveBannon #MAGA #orban #mandelson #BorisNikolic #billGates #MashaDrukova #cryptocurrency #blockchain #MIT #MediaLab #MITMediaLab #JoiIto #LarrySummers #BrockPierce
Crypto market drowns in red as bitcoin falls to $68,000
Industry experts predict Bitcoin to fall to under $10,000!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #crypto #Bitcoin
https://share.newsbreak.com/hban80ll
@openrisk this is a great video. too bad he thinks people buy #bitcoin because they can sell it later for a higher price. bitcoin is digital cash. no way paper cash will survive longterm in a meaningful size. we send information in a blink of an eye around the world. bitcoin achieves exactly that: sending cash digitally
Er war jedenfalls nen #Bitcoin - #Fanboy...
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/116058186955126560
AodeRelay boostedInteressanterweise sind vor garnicht allzulanger Zeit 80.000 BTC verschoben worden.
- Das allein ist sehr #sus aber auch wichtig zu beobachten.
Natürlich wird dass keine*r als ganzes auscashen können, sondern einfach nur verschieben und ggf. "tumblern" aka. waschen und bedarfsweise ausgeben...
a large crypto lender for institutions called #BlockFills has apparently blown up levered long - sorry, i mean "temporarily halted withdrawals"
maybe a good time to remember last year when the chairman of #IBKR said a 35% drawdown in bitcoin prices would cause at least a few traditional brokerages to collapse (bitcoin is down almost 50%)
#crypto #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #finance #stockmarket #economics #econ
@haui @theruran @50htz @forthy42 @stman I think it's simpler:
"P.R." #China wants to prevent it's #millionaires and #billionaires from fleeing and #Cryptocurrency is their prime means of #CapitalFlight.
OFC Cryptocurrency Mining Operations straining the National Grid was already outlawed for that reason, but #Shitcoins like #Bitcoin get banned so rich folks can't move their money and thus themselves overseas, ablebto survive as dissident refugees.v
There was a hearing where a congressman asked the #TreasurySecretary if he was going to want a #BitcoinBailout and all of the news coverage was of #MaxineWaters telling the #USSecretaryOfTreasury to "shut up." She does that all the time. #Bitcoin doesn't crash like this all the time. Trump turning out to have taken cryptocurrency lobbying support but rugpulling them and suppressing the news is one of the most #BTC things I've ever seen.
"When we say $2 trillion was lost from the crypto ecosystem, we should also be clear about where it went. It went nowhere. That money was never real to begin with. …
My hunch is that the current crypto crash is tied to the AI bubble. The price of bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies has been backstopped by a lot of very rich tech and finance people, who keep the whole system afloat by providing liquidity when it falls below a predetermined threshold."
"Cryptocurrencies are crashing right now. You love to see it. A few months ago, the price of bitcoin was close to $125,000. Last night it hit a low of $60,000. It has bounced back to around $70,000 now. ...Paul Kedrosky flagged yesterday afternoon that the broader crypto ecosystem has shed $2 trillion."
~ Dave Karpf
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/8
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-crypto-crashes-and-fake-money
"Bitcoin plunged on Thursday, its decline accelerating amid weakening risk sentiment driven in part by volatility in precious metals and a broad selloff in tech shares.
The world's largest cryptocurrency fell to a low of $63,295.74, its weakest level since October 2024, a month before Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election," (continued in /2)
~ Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss, Rae Wee and Amanda Cooper
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/1
https://www.reuters.com/business/bitcoin-slumps-with-key-70000-level-sight-2026-02-05/
(continued from /1)
"having signaled his intention to support crypto on the campaign trail. It was last down 12.6% at $63,525, on track for its largest one-day fall since November 2022.
Roughly $1 billion in bitcoin positions have been liquidated in the past 24 hours, according to data from CoinGlass."
"The fact that BTC is now lower than it was before the 2024 election is significant in two ways. It shows the limits of political favor — all the boasts about making American a crypto superpower, all the deregulatory talk and pardons for cryptocriminals, in the end couldn’t defy gravity."
~ Paul Krugman
"But it also means that everyone who bought Bitcoin in the belief that Trump would make Bitcoin greater than ever has lost money, in many cases a lot of money. So this is another case of ETTD: everything Trump touches dies.
Finally, this crash may have political consequences."
"At least some young men supported Trump because they believed that he would enhance their crypto investments, and have remained favorable because he seemed to be delivering. I don’t know how many bitterly disillusioned bros there will be now, but there will be some."
"Tim Miller and Catherine Rampell give their takes on the crypto crash, why Bitcoin and meme coins are plunging, and what the sell-off says about speculation, interest rates, and the broader economy. They break down why crypto hasn’t held up as an inflation hedge, how rising rates are squeezing risky assets, and why Trump-world’s deep exposure to crypto and speculative stocks suddenly looks a lot more precarious."
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/6
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-crypto-grift-is-imploding
Philip Gourevitch responds to the New York Times headline which — predictably — frames the crypto crash as something happening "despite" Trump's support:
"Despite? Or because there is no surer indicator that something is a scam?"
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market #NewYorkTimes
/7
https://bsky.app/profile/pgourevitch.bsky.social/post/3me63ghqy3s2m
Kursrutsch geht weiter: IT-Aktien im Minus, Bitcoin kratzt an 60.000 US-Dollar
Für die IT-Branche sieht es an den Börsen weiter nicht gut aus, zugleich fällt der Bitcoin auf immer neue Tiefstwerte. Experten sehen eine Kurskorrektur.
Given that #bitcoin was hyped as the replacement of gold during a crises, the current #crypto crash is nothing but amazing https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypotocrash
Given that Bitcoin is a speculative instrument (and so, normally, I wouldn't bother tracking its movements), it is notable its now dropped down to the level it was trading at before the start of the Tangerine Tyrant's second term, losing all the 'value' it had gained in the last 18 months.
Look like the speculative gamblers (and dark economy) are having a crisis of sentiment, which may be yet one more indicator that the fast approaching AI-crash will be soon upon us?
If your "currency" loses 13% of value in a day, or 60% in half a year, you don't have a currency. You have a ponzy scheme that ran out of buyers. #bitcoin #ponzyscheme
@u-s-and-canada-BBCNews @BBCNews good.
Let all the #Shitcoins wither!
#Bitcoin #Ethereum #Litecoin #Monero #Cryptocurrency #Sarcasm #Shitcoin #Commentary #NotFinancialAdvice
BREAKING NEWS:
people who play casinos rigged by whales lose their money to said whales
more news on this truly shocking revelation can be found today in various social media posts by two bit degenerates bemoaning their place as the fucking obvious suckers in the fucking obviously rigged games
for the rest of us, rejoice
because the pathetic joke that is #cryptocurrency plays a big role in #corruption and #crime on the right. this hurts #MAGA
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/technology/bitcoin-price-drop-crypto-market.html
Schlecht gealtert: https://www.fdp.de/krypto
Wir begrüßen die Entwicklung von Kryptowährungen und Digital Ledger Technologie und setzen uns für die Zulassung von Krypto-ETFs ein. Wir sind offen dafür, dass die Europäische Zentralbank und die Deutsche Bundesbank Kryptowährungen wie Bitcoin als Währungsreserven verwenden. Das kann die Resilienz des europäischen Währungssystems stärken.
"A new form of money, on a world wide basis" is especially interesting: Russia was pushing cryptocurrency hard in the 2010s, and there are Russian figures behind some key crypto projects in the west.
And of course crypto is an extremely useful tool for Russia in the context of sanctions.
#Epstein #Epsteinfiles #trump #sanctions #russia #crypto #cryptocurrency #russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #jeffreyepstein #putin #finance #news #bitcoin #ethereum #norway
Former Estonian prez Ilves also noted: "From my experience as foreign minister and prez, Jagland was the most pro-Russian European leader other than Tuomioja/Halonen in Finland and Mogherini in Italy."
#Epstein #Epsteinfiles #trump #sanctions #russia #crypto #cryptocurrency #russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #jeffreyepstein #putin #finance #news #bitcoin #ethereum #Estonia #Norway
#BITCOIN #CRYPTO #FINANCE one of the most serious crypto-related security scandals involving public funds.
https://www.ccn.com/education/crypto/john-daghita-lick-token-pump-fun-rug-pull-40m-government-wallet-scandal/
Bitcoin Price Crashes To $75,000 Range As Crypto Sells-Off
> The #bitcoin price #crashed into the $75,000 range, breaking below key technical support levels as heavy #selling pressure swept through the market.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-price-crashes-to-75000 #crypto #cryptocurrency
oh look, Jeffrey Epstein appears to have been an investor in one of the O.G. blockchain companies and one of the companies most closely tied to #Tether, Adam Back and Austin Hill's #Blockstream.
cc @davidgerard
#AdamBack #bitcoin #crypto #uspol #epstein #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #uspolitics #blockchain
@molly0xfff are they buying #Bitcoin? Did they lose funds? Or is this just because of an expected dip?
Jeffrey Epstein emailed All-In Podcast bro / friend of David Sacks / Uber investor etc. Jason Calacanis back in 2011 asking to be introduced to "the bit coin guys”
that’s 4 years earlier than we had evidence of Epstein being interested in crypto/bitcoin etc. prior to today.
more: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-epsteincrypto-timeline-is-alarming
#jasonCalacanis #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein #bitcoin #crypto #uspol #uspolitics #epsteinFiles #uspolitics #corruption
I find it funny how many shitty #Spam #eMails try to #blackmail the recipient.
Personally, the only recommendes step is to delete them unread and completely ignore them.
Plus they don't even personalize messages.
Still, as they all ask for #Shitcoins like #Bitcoin, I just have a collection I got over the years on multiple occasions so #AntiFraud professionals & #Investigators can take a closer look and flag the Addresses for further analysis.
1/ I hate Bitcoin with a probably-unhealthy intensity and have a hook set up so I get notified on big moves (e.g. down 5.3% today). When they come in I glance at the chart and occasionally get stuck for a few minutes. Stock markets have been explained as an argument between buyers & sellers as to the correct value of the underlying real-world thing. But…
#Bitcoin
Intel's roadmap adds mysterious 'hybrid' #AI processor
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/infotech.html#45
Have lopsided 'Rivalry Series' wins over #Canada established
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/canada.html#26
The Most Important #Foreign #Policy Speech in Years
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html#5
#Bitcoin trend line cross mimics 2022 amid ‘insane’
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/markets.html#18
NTSB arrives to investigate #Maine plane crash that
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-cities.html#10a
#Home Now
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#32
#Gold is almost as fake as #crypto #bitcoin. If you look at gold as a commodity for making jewellery or electronics, based on the global supply it is excessively over priced. It only has that excessive value because people hoard it because they choose to believe it is worth excessively more than it's use value.
The DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases.
Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction.
Then Donald Trump won a second term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/bitcoin-jesus-roger-ver-tax-evastion-friends-of-trump-doj?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #DOJ #Law #Tax #Crime #Fraud #Billionaire #Crypto #Bitcoin
https://www.europesays.com/2720238/ ‘It’s Now Happening’—Urgent $38 Trillion U.S. Dollar ‘Collapse’ Warning Issued As Markets Brace For Gold And Bitcoin Price Shocks #bitcoin #BitcoinPrice #business #crypto #FederalReserve #Gold #JeromePowell
"These Finnish homes are being heated by a surprising source: Bitcoin"
https://grist.org/buildings/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-district-heat-finland/
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @cryptadamist The 3rd rat-themed act of #EricAdams in #NewYork is further evidence that the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ is clairvoyant.
“#Bitcoin (and other #crypto currencies) is like rat poison squared.” - Warren Buffett
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Aakerbeere/115875208558460898
Kein guter Morgen für Rechtsmimetiker, Fossilisten & Antisemiten: Im #Iran erheben sich immer mehr Menschen zur #Revolution gegen das fossile #Revolutionsgarde - Regime, in den #USA wehren sich immer mehr Menschen gegen die #ICE - Truppen von #Trump , das antisoziale Netzwerk #Instagram gerät erneut in #Datenschutz - Turbulenzen & der Podcast #HossundHopf fliegt inmitten einer #Bitcoin - Schwäche mit Vorwürfen um #Antisemitismus & #Drogen auseinander… 😳
Der #Fossilismus zerfällt… #Solarpunk
fascinating history of the rise and fall of one of the world's top scam lords operating out of #Cambodia, Prince Group CEO Chen Zhi.
Zhi was just arrested and extradited (to china) and the US government seized $13 billion worth of his #bitcoin a few months ago (China got the man, US got the bitcoins).
#PrinceGroup and the massive cyberscam slave compounds Chen Zhi operated are among the biggest users of #Tether's #stablecoin #USDT on Trump business partner #JustinSun's blockchain #Tron.
https://huangyan.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-chen-zhi
#ChenZhi #PrinceGroup #HuionePay #HuioneGuarantee #crypto #uspol #vietnam #Myanmar #infosec #scam #scams #fraud #corruption #asean
🆕 blog! “Where is Bitcoin?”
Happy Birthday Bitcoin! At the risk of awakening long-dormant beasts, it looks like Bitcoin has failed for day-to-day transactions. So I've a simple question to ask - can you meaningfully spend any cryptocurrency in your city centre?
A few months ago, my wife and I went on a 30 day Interrail holiday across Europe. 10 countries, over a dozen cities, making over a…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/01/where-is-bitcoin/
⸻
#bitcoin #crypto #money
Peter Thiel and Howard Lutnick’s “free speech” video and cloud services platform Rumble has launched its new Tether powered in-app money laundering crypto¹ payments system and a truly impressive array of rightoid freaks, conspiracy theorists, russian influence peddlers, and sex pests is here to tell you about it.
¹ i think you can now pay your spies send tips via Tether USDT, bitcoin, and (i think) “Tether Gold” (XAUT).
#PeterThiel #Thiel #Broligarch #HowardLutnick #Tether #RUM #Rumble #youtube #cloud #cloudservices #rightoid #Tether #bitcoin #crypto #USDT #XAUT #russia #timpool #russellbrand #AlexJones
Against #PopularBelief, #ProofOfStake is quite often even worse than #ProofOfWork when it comes to #Cryptocurrencies.
At least unlike #Bitcoin these #PoS #Shitcoins don't do #ASIC|s and thus create a shitton of #eWaste.
It's just absurd that these businesses burn through #NVMe-#SSD|s and saturate Gigabit-NICs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g&t=1629
#Cryptocurrency #Enshittification #CryptoBros #PoW #Shitcoin #WTF #IT #Greedflation
Fun fact, the wankstortioner thinks the non-existent video is worth 1.5 #bitcoin, or EUR 112408.455 at today's rate.
As I said in the article, this is a scam that *should not* work.
Oh, there's a new #wankstortion campaign brewing, it seems.
The one that inboxed here today (https://nxdomain.no/~peter/wankstortion/20260101_wankstortion_localhost.localdomain.62yun.com_peter@bsdly.net_cleartext.txt) came, unusually, over IPv6 - 2a0d:6c2:6:6bd:: (the 62yun.com net), otherwise unremarkable. See "The Despicable, No Good, Blackmail Campaign Targeting ... Imaginary Friends?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/despicable_no_good_blackmail.html #sextortion #blackmail #bitcoin #bitcon #cybercrime
Today #OpenStreetMap received an incredibly generous 2 BTC #Bitcoin donation - Thank you so much! ₿❤️🙏
Around this time last year, a 1 BTC gift made a real difference in keeping our servers and services running. 2026 looks extremely challenging with rapidly rising hardware costs.
If you'd like to support OSM via Bitcoin: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Bitcoin ❤️🗺️
Other donations methods:
https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate
Here are several, including a crypto list.
https://github.com/blocklistproject/Lists?tab=readme-ov-file#available-lists
#public #OpenSource #banlist #OSINT #database #Bitcoin #Shitcoins #monitor #block #ban #cyberfascist #Chainalysis #IntegraFEC #TSV #Shitcoin #Cryptocurrency #Crypto #Fraud #Investigating #Investigations
Is there any #public & #OpenSource #banlist / #OSINT #database for #Bitcoin (and other #Shitcoins) Addresses to #monitor / #block / #ban?
If anyone has an Idea for one let me know.
@bunny @hyc @DavyJones Lighting is garbage because #Bitcoin is garbage!
Whereas #Monero is cheaper, faster, more.convenient and doesn't result in yourself constantly doxxing your own wallet everytime you use it!
Solo VS Pool Bitcoin Mining – BEST Option Explained https://www.bocvip.com/1135999/solo-vs-pool-bitcoin-mining-best-option-explained/ #BestBitcoinMiningPool #BestBitcoinSoloMiningPool #bitcoin #BitcoinMiningPool #BitcoinPoolMining #BitcoinSoloMining #btc #crypto #cryptocurrency #CryptocurrencyMining #currency #HowToSoloMineBitcoin #MiningFarm #MiningProfitability #SoloMiningOrPoolMiningEarnMore #SoloVsPool #SoloVsPoolMining #sololuck #VoskCoin #VoskcoinBitcoinCalculator #VoskcoinMiningCalculator
More Perfect Union went to a small Texas town where one Bitcoin mining facility uses as much power as the entire city of Austin.
Everyone is town is affected by the constant noise from the crypto facility, even the animals.
One resident told them: "Every person here is sick."
#USPolitics #ClimateEmergency #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Bitcoin
Remember when video cards first started spiking due to hoarding by #Bitcoin miners? Remember a few years ago when HDD prices spiked over that dumb hard drive alternative to Bitcoin? Basically just that again, but for RAM.
Keonne Rodriguez was a programmer who cared about privacy. Now he's in jail on a trumped-up charge. What was he doing? Trying to make certain #Russian mobsters can't steal #Bitcoin.
#News #FreeKeonne #SoftwareDevelopment #LawEnforcement #Corruption #Privacy #Technology #Finance
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/12/19/hes-serving-5-years-in-prison-for-bitcoin-privacy-software
Three key questions for Wall Street entering 2026
When it comes to projecting a year ahead for stocks, all the probabilities and most of the incentives…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #AlphabetClassA #Amazon.comInc #Bitcoin/USDCoinMetrics #BroadcomInc #businessnews #InvescoS&P500EqlWghtETF #Investmentstrategy #Markets #MetaPlatformsInc #NASDAQComposite #NVIDIACorp #S&P500Index #TeslaInc
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/360716/
In this interview for Deep Focus, I talked to Keonne Rodriguez, an American software designer and co-founder of #samouraiwallet, who was fined millions of dollars and sentenced to five years in federal prison by the U.S. Justice Department for allegations of creating source code for an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. #bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft_WgUh56xw
Retracement (noun): when other suckers are left holding the bag while market makers laugh
Synonyms: bear market, recession, correction, ponzi scheme
AodeRelay boostedBitcoin Market Decline a 'Healthy Retracement,' Says MARA's Thiel
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-12-16/bitcoin-in-healthy-retracement-says-mara-s-thiel-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Bloomberg Television @bloomberg-television-bloomberg
this story about Benjamin Mauerberger, a south african #crypto bro and card carrying member of the chinese #mafia who made so much money via #pigbutchering and other crypto scams that he managed to co-opt a large part of #Thailand's government (to say nothing of #Cambodia and #Myanmar) is nuts.
if you’re wondering about the dark forces driving the current war between thailand and cambodia, this is one of those forces.
#sapol #southafrica #whaleHunting #triads #organizedcrime #ChineseMafia #pigbutchering #ASEAN #scams #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #princeGroup #huione
@GhostOnTheHalfShell fun fact: a very common form of crypto scam is to run a fake murder-for-hire site and take money in exchange for killing people and then just never kill them.
"Kill List" is a fun #podcast about this kind of thing:
Quantum Computing Could Bring Bitcoin Chaos. The Rush Is On To Stop Crypto-geddon. | Investor's Business Daily https://www.investors.com/news/technology/quantum-computing-bitcoin-chaos-cryptocurrency/ #Technology #Bitcoin #Cryptocurrency #cybersecurity #QuantumComputing
@bedast #metaplanet #MTPL was one of the first "borrow money to buy #bitcoin companies i saw doing billboards, starting around a year ago
@giggls @frumble Von @Taler gehört aber wie alles #GNU-lastige verstaubt in ner Ecke ubd wenn's keiner Nutzt ist's tot.
Am Ende ist es nutzloser als irgendein random #Shitcoin den anders als die beschissensten Shitcoins (#Bitcoin, #Ethereum & #Solana) hat es NULL AKZEPTANZSTELLEN!
recently pardoned #Binance CEO changpeng zhao (and now Trump family business partner, sort of) is thrilled that Vladimir Putin is now a committed bitcoin bro
https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1998368629847724072
#changpengZhao #CZ #crypto #cryptocurrency #VladimirPutin #russia #ukrainewar #bitcoin #uspol #eupol #ukpol #trump #ukraine #WLFI #USD1
🔥 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #49/2025 is out!
→ It includes the following and much more:
🇫🇷 French DIY retailer Leroy Merlin says a #cyberattack exposed some customers' personal data;
🇪🇺 🤑 European authorities shut down #Cryptomixer and seized about $28 million in #Bitcoin;
🇮🇳 📱 #India plans to verify and record every smartphone in circulation... and rolls back;
🔓️ 🤖 Vulnerability in #OpenAI’s Codex CLI;
🩹 🤫 #Microsoft Silently Mitigated Exploited LNK Vulnerability;
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I forgot about #Hashcash (the framework that inspired #Bitcoin mining). If you're not familiar, it's a proof-of-work system to combat email spam.
I was rather entertained reading this answer on the Information Security Stack Exchange.
In 2016:
- 0.002% of mail mints Hashcash
- 0.034% of mail is signed with #PGP
- 69.332% of mail uses DKIM
In 2019:
- Hashcash was about the same
- PGP signatures dropped by half
- DKIM increased by 1.389x
From our magazine: Billing data from Corpus Christi #Water obtained by the Observer shows the #Bitcoin mine guzzled 11,563,000 gallons from May to August this year. It consumed 3,950,000 gallons in July alone, about 127,500 gallons a day. https://www.texasobserver.org/crypto-energy-grid-texas-bitcoin-water/
#politics #tech #USpol #Texas #environment #energy #crypto #AI #SouthTexas
so one of the first things #Binance is doing after #CZ's pardon is launching a degenerate gambling - sorry, i mean "crypto trading" - app for kids aged 6 & up.
no, really.
Mike Brock explains why he concludes the following:
"Bitcoin is for fascists."
A system built on perceiving everyone else as the enemy and enriching oneself at everyone else's expense as the admirable goal….
#Trump #economy #prices #inflation #EconomicElites #pardons #corruption #bitcoin #crypto
/9
"The question I keep asking Bitcoin advocates, the one they always dodge:
Why do fascists love Bitcoin?"
~ Mike Brock
#Trump #economy #prices #inflation #EconomicElites #pardons #corruption #bitcoin #crypto
/10
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-banality-of-bitcoin-advocacy
"Donald Trump used to borrow money from banks. Now he’s out of the bank game altogether. His money is in the cloud of crypto so nobody can count it, nobody can see it, nobody can trace it.
That’s where all his payoffs are. No more paper trails."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #economy #prices #inflation #EconomicElites #pardons #corruption #bitcoin #crypto
/11
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/our-president-is-a-thief-what-other
Law Enforcement shuts down #Cryptomixer in major crypto crime takedown
https://securityaffairs.com/185217/cyber-crime/law-enforcement-shuts-down-cryptomixer-in-major-crypto-crime-takedown.html
#securityaffairs #hacking #bitcoin
Europol + Eurojust have dismantled Cryptomixer, a longstanding crypto-laundering service used by ransomware operators and dark-web markets.
• €25M BTC seized
• 12 TB of data collected
• 3 Swiss servers & domain seized
• Service laundered an estimated €1.3B+ since 2016
Full breakdown:
https://www.technadu.com/cryptomixer-laundering-service-dismantled-in-europol-operation-seizing-e25-million-in-bitcoin/614882/
💬 How significant is this for disrupting digital money-laundering pipelines? Follow for more cybersecurity updates
#Cryptomixer #Europol #Cybercrime #Bitcoin #CryptoLaundering #DarkWeb #CyberSecurity #BlockchainCrime #Ransomware
@ryanc @GreenFire same, cuz I'm pretty shure #Texas hosting #Shitcoin-Mining operations proudly is part of the problem!
#commentary #USpol #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Solana #BitcoinMining #Mining #Electricity
after murdering a bunch of couriers on some (alleged) drug boats trump now intends to pardon former president of #Honduras Juan Orlando #Hernandez who, in between trafficking at least 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US because he wanted to “shove drugs right up the noses of the gringos”, was the guy who set up the network state city of #Prospera with Peter #Thiel etc. as a “special economic zone”.
> "The zone recently made #Bitcoin legal tender and passed legislation facilitating the issuance of Bitcoin bonds. Próspera’s investors include Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen through #Pronomos Capital."
99% chance it’s the Network State/Nerd Reich guys (thiel, andreessen, etc.) up in trump’s ear telling him a cocaine kingpin with whom they founded a fake country deserves a pardon at the same time as they encourage him to murder the poors who actually do the trafficking with the new weapons systems they’re selling him.
@wordshaper there's more to the story, like the part where bannon and #Epstein talk about using #crypto to circumvent election finance laws in europe.
also the part where Epstein talks to an "influential man in #Qatar" named "Jabor" about "the e-currency" right around the time #Netanyahu started encouraging Qatar to allow money to flow to #Hamas is what Elon Musk might call "concerning".
or the fact that Epstein seems to have an open line to the #Trump administration... people ask him to pass along info to Trump and he's like "OK".
#EpsteinFiles #uspol #israel #gaza #crypto #bitcoin #BTC #cryptocurrency #eupol #Bannon #SteveBannon
For the #EpsteinFiles curious among you, I really do recommend you read the man's text messages. Especially the text messages to/from Epstein's bestie #SteveBannon.
While you're there you can also read about the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was funding the #bitcoin core development team starting from around 2015 at #MIT (and possibly never ending).
I also made some improvements to the Epstein text messages + email data site:
- Highlighted important names ("trump", "jabor", "brock", "#bitcoin", "#SaudiArabia", "#Israel", etc)
- Deanonymized (with help) as many of the #Epstein emails as I could manage based on various kinds of clues, including the signature lines.
- Added an "Other Files" section at the bottom with preview text + links to raw files that are neither emails nor iMessage log files.
- Various other forms of analysis (common signatures, author counts, etc)
i'm really enjoying posting screenshots of Bannon inviting Epstein to the movies on Bannon's insane right wing War Room tweets. his audience Really Does Not Like the fact that the two were so close and communicated so much.
* Site: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/
* Post about some of the more alarming things in the Bannon / Epstein discussions: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/i-made-epsteins-text-messages-great
#EpsteinFiles #uspol #Bannon #WarRoom #uspolitics #Trump #MAGA #MBS #middleEast #Gaza #EhudBarak #Mossad #Netanyahu #bitcoin #BTC #crypto #cryptocurrency #Jabor
"Trump family’s crypto holdings lose nearly $1 billion amid market collapse. Some public holders have suffered far worse, with Trump memecoin buyers losing almost their entire investment."
~ Brian Daitzman
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #courts #economy #ApprovalRating #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #market
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-familys-crypto-holdings-lose
@isomerc IMHO #Bitcoin's only effective use-case is #CapitalFlight and #MoneyLaundering on behalf of #Oligarchs, #Millionaires and #Billionaires that are sanctioned.
It's #ASIC-dependency only results in thousands of tons of 100% avoidable #eWaste at the hand less than a dozen big miners that effevtively control the hashrate.
Whereas #Monero solves all these things including the nonexistant privacy of #Shitcoins.
»Bitcoin bricht weiter massiv ein:
Die älteste Kryptowährung stürzt gerade ab und ist weit unter 100.000 Dollar gefallen. Auch andere Digitalwährungen brechen ein.«
😎🍿 P.S. kein weiteren Kommentar von mir diesbezüglich ausser dass dies bei jeglicher Finanz-Hoffnungen geschieht, egal vom Trump & Co. unterstützt oder nicht.
#bitcoin #Kryptowahrung #cryptocurrency #crypto #finanzen #absturz #geld #Wahrung #digital #digitalwahrungen
Bitcoin-Kurs fällt zeitweise unter 90.000 Dollar
Anleger ziehen ihr Geld aus dem Bitcoin, der ältesten Krypto-Währung. Dahinter steckt ein Mix aus Unsicherheitsfaktoren. Wie weit geht es noch abwärts? Von Bianca von der Au.
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smoking gun as far as epstein crypto / political fuckery...
one of the more ominous emails in the #epsteinfiles collection is a conversation where #SteveBannon and #Epstein discuss "coin issues", "campaign donations", and "foreign donors" in response to an email about General #MikeFlynn not being trusted with classified intel by the #obama administration.
we can be sure they’re talking about #crypto in the context of campaign donations + foreign donors because epstein asks bannon about "brocks people" (meaning #BrockPierce who’s involved with #Tether / #EOS / lots of chinese exchanges / #Netanyahu / etc) then saying he found a right wing “swiss” crypto bro to work with in #Zug named #JeffreyWernick (who apparently is a Substackoor should you want to test out putting his name in that Substack search bar)
also note the scare quotes around the word "swiss". #Zug is actually a city in #switzerland but #epstein's pretty clearly saying that the crypto bros in Zug aren’t actually swiss.
#bitcoin #crypto #BTC #cryptocurrency #uspol #JeffreyEpstein
Our top story: A state regulatory agency blocked our analysis of public data about #crypto mining operations and their energy use. So we conducted our own independent investigation ... https://www.texasobserver.org/crypto-energy-grid-texas-bitcoin-water/
#bitcoin #energy #environment #water #Texas #politics #USpol #news #ClimateChange #tech
Die fossilistische, auch wirtschaftliche #Blase um den wegen Wahlniederlagen & weiteren #Epstein - Enthüllungen wankenden #Trump droht zu platzen. 💥 Der #Bitcoin & anderes #Kryptogeld taumeln & die zunehmenden Verluste der #Techbro - #KI - Konzernmedien geraten in den Blick. Hatte ja schon beim #BBF in #Friedrichshafen dazu prognostiziert & beobachte die Kursverläufe… https://www.finanzen.net/nachricht/devisen/34-risk-off-34-sentiment-kryptowaehrungen-unter-druck-bitcoin-faellt-unter-100-000-us-dollar-00-15275405
Bitcoin & Co.: Sachsen fahndet mit KI-Hilfe nach steuerpflichtigen Transaktionen
Eine in dem Bundesland entwickelte Software soll Sachsens Steuerfahndung dabei helfen, in der Steuererklärung verschwiegene Kryptotransaktionen aufzudecken.
#Bitcoin #Finanzen #IT #Kryptowährung #Netzpolitik #Recht #Steuerrecht #news
$7.3B crypto laundering: ‘Bitcoin Queen’ sentenced to 11 Years in UK
https://securityaffairs.com/184521/cyber-crime/7-3b-crypto-laundering-bitcoin-queen-sentenced-to-11-years-in-uk.html
#securityaffairs #hacking #bitcoin
Über 127.000 Bitcoin entwendet: China wirft US-Regierung Milliardendiebstahl vor
Vor fünf Jahren wurden einer Kryptofirma über 127.000 Bitcoin gestohlen, jetzt werden Details bekannt. Nun wirft China der US-Regierung vor, dahinterzustecken.
China accuses U.S. of stealing $13 billion in #Bitcoin
Beijing just accused Washington of pulling off a $13B Bitcoin heist.
https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/china-accuses-u-s-of-stealing-127k-bitcoin-in-crypto-hack
Our top story: “Bitcoin miners in general, if you map out across the United States, this is my opinion, are taking advantage of small rural communities that don’t have the wherewithal to fight back.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/crypto-energy-grid-texas-bitcoin-water/
#crypto #bitcoin #environment #ClimateChange #energy #news #tech
Researchers Unleash AI into Crypto Investing. Hilarity Ensues
If you ever wondered what it is like to put AI in charge of investing, researchers are now starting to answer that question. The Initial findings are not good.
https://www.freezenet.ca/researchers-unleash-ai-into-crypto-investing-hilarity-ensues/
#Business #News #AI #bitcoin #crypto #investing #StockMarket #stocks