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The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was wasted, in that it went to opposing Democratic candidates who won their primaries (Stratton in the Senate race, Ford in H-07) or supporting their opponents.
Their only victories in the state were where they contributed money towards outcomes that were already highly likely. They opposed Robert Peters (H-02), who had been polling in third place and ultimately received 12% of the vote. They supported Bean (H-08) and incumbent Budzinski (H-13).
Newsletter: Justin Sun buys his way out of an SEC fraud case, Iranian transactions on Binance draw DOJ scrutiny as the exchange sues the newspaper that reported on them, and crypto super PACs dump millions into Tuesday’s primaries in Illinois.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-102/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
- 这只影片总共45分钟，我大概花费其2倍时间看完？【一口氣搞懂 ETH 以太坊】https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5iIbdCpjCc
- 至于老周这个视频，只推荐看讲meme币的部分：【颠覆世界或彻底归零？】https://youtu.be/CnuZ4JFvdwA?t=1697
- 还有这个不良林的关于比特币的视频，非常不错，但是我好像是10个月前看到了10分钟左右就没看了（）【从零开始初识比特币】https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgdekVZb3A
- 这个和我今天试着做的xmrig挖矿很相关，但是还没看，留着【各种挖矿方式原理详解】https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a41DMDfJjsU
评论区也可以看看......
《 GENIUS 法案》全称《指导与建立美国稳定币国家创新法案 》
GENIUS法案——朗总统：守护我们最美好的美元霸权
不是「我们支持加密货币自由」，而是「我们要确保加密货币自由是美元主导的自由」
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/GENIUS%E6%B3%95%E6%A1%88
#Wikipedia #GENIUS法案 #GENIUS #Crypto
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GENIUS 法案背景
RE: https://mstdn.feddit.social/@admin/116240084145072868
Tried Monero mining for fun (contributing hashrate to a pool) — earned exactly 0 XMR, but it was a great experience 😄
Mining XMR on Mac using XMRig (not Feather, since their built-in mining feature is being deprecated in an upcoming version):
brew install xmrig
xmrig \
-o pool.supportxmr.com:3333 \
-u [your wallet address] \
-p [worker name, e.g. kipjaychou-mac] \
--threads [number, my CPU has 8 threads total, I used 2] \
--coin monero
After ~2 hours, stats on supportxmr.com:
- Total Hashes: 1,807,915 (computed 1.8M hashes)
- Valid / Invalid Shares: 21 / 0 ✅ (21 times the pool confirmed my work was valid)
- Earnings: 0.0000 XMR (min payout is 0.1 XMR — my contributions are recorded in the pool, earnings show 0 but the contribution isn't truly zero)
- Avg Hashrate: 270.3 H/s over 2hrs (very low — roughly 0.0000047% of the total network hashrate)
Links:
XMRig: https://xmrig.com
XMRig GitHub: https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig
SupportXMR: https://www.supportxmr.com
#XMR #Mining #XMRig #macOS #Monero #Crypto
试着体验了挖门罗币（为矿池贡献算力），虽然得到0XMR，但是还是体验了一下（
在Mac上挖门罗币，没用Feather，因为Feather说挖矿功能即将在新版本取消：brew install xmrig
xmrig \
-o pool.supportxmr.com:3333 \
-u 【钱包地址】 \
-p 【本机昵称随便填，我填写的kipjaychou-mac】\
--threads 【数字，我的总CPU线程为8，我填写的是2】 \
--coin monero运行了大约2个小时，可以在supportxmr.com查看活动：
- Total Hashes：1,807,915（计算了1,807,915 次哈希）
- Valid / Invalid Shares：21 / 0（21次成功向矿池证明了我的工作）
- 收益：0.0000 XMR（0.1XMR起提取，在矿池里积累了贡献，但是还没达到 0.1 XMR 的提取门槛，矿池记录了我的份额，收益是0，但是贡献不是真的0）
- 平均算力：270.3 H/s Avg 2 Hrs（非常低的算力，占比总网算力的0.0000047%）
Links：
XMRig：https://xmrig.com
XMRig Github：https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig
SupportXMR：https://www.supportxmr.com#XMR #Mining #XMRig #macOS #Monero
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feather mining ⛏️
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supportxmr 页面
🐧🔐 #PenguinPadlockParty diesen Donnerstag!
Offener Treffpunkt für #Linux, #Privacy, #Crypto & #digitaleSelbstbestimmung.
🎮 Themenschwerpunkt diesmal: #Gaming unter Linux!
Kommt vorbei, tauscht euch aus und bringt gern eure Fragen oder Setups mit! 💻🛡️
📅 Do, 19.03. ab 19:00
📍 #cbase, Berlin
🔗 https://penguinpadlock.party/
🔗 https://c-base.org/calendar/#view=month&date=2026-03-19&event=111d13de-e260-4458-afc3-253ae3e71812-1
Monero Means Money
Private, decentralized cryptocurrency that keeps your finances confidential and secure.
https://www.getmonero.org
Peertube: https://peertube.feddit.social/w/6zagqv92UwBe6iLoXQzVFt
"The Epstein Class is laughing all the way to the bank, drinking our tears as sugar for their expensive coffee. ... As we die and suffer, they laugh and make money off of AI, Crypto, and war."
~ Wajahat Ali
W. Ali points to recent statements of Palantir CEO (and Peter Thiel best bud) featured in the image below.
#Trump #Iran #war #EconomicElites #EpsteinClass #billionaires #TechBros #broligarchy #Palantir #PeterThiel #AlexKarp #crypto #AI
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstein-class-is-creating-world
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Statements by Palantir CEO Alex Karp about the military application of AI and how someone will make that military application, and it's preferable that he and his group of techbros do so before anyone else does
Update: Solflare “xpass exploit" Details Released
In Feb 2025, I reported an exploit vulnerability in the Solflare Chrome wallet which allowed the wallet vault (solflaredata) to be decrypted without the user's password.
Turns out, this was a backdoor, not a bug.
Today, I am releasing the full details of the xpass exploit, aka the "backdoor master key".
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/11116
#solflare #crypto #wallet #vulnerability #exploit #backdoor #xpass #cyclone #hashpwn #news #infosec #cybersecurity
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Update: Solflare “xpass exploit" Details Released
In Feb 2025, I reported an exploit vulnerability in the Solflare Chrome wallet which allowed the wallet vault (solflaredata) to be decrypted without the user's password.
Turns out, this was a backdoor, not a bug.
Today, I am releasing the full details of the xpass exploit, aka the "backdoor master key".
The article, and related investigations by the New York Times and Fortune, were cited in an inquiry over the alleged sanctions evasion by Senator Blumenthal, and a request by Sen. Van Hollen and others for an investigation by the Treasury and Justice Departments. Today the WSJ reported that the DOJ had opened such an investigation.
Blumenthal letter: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026.02.24-Binance-Iran-Sanctions-Evasion-to-Send.pdf
Van Hollen Letter: https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/cvh_bessent_bondi_ltr_binance.pdf
WSJ report on the new investigation: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/justice-department-probes-irans-use-of-binance-to-evade-sanctions-9dc61ce4
The Binance crypto exchange has just filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its article reporting that Binance's own compliance investigators had found $1 billion in transfers to Iran-backed terror groups, and then were fired.
WSJ report: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-iran-sanctions-financing-staff-b1648133
#Binance #crypto #cryptocurrency
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Binance Holdings Limited ("Binance" or "Plaintiff'), as and for its Complaint against Dow Jones & Company, Inc. d/b/a The Wall Street Journal ("Dow Jones" or "Wall Street Journal"), alleges as follows: INTRODUCTION 1. Binance brings this action against the Wall Street Journal for publishing a false and defamatory article on February 23, 2026, which is the subject of this complaint (the "Article"). In the Article, the Wall Street Journal made numerous false and disparaging statements about Binance, and did so knowingly, recklessly, or negligently, and despite the fact that Binance provided factual corrections prior to publication, which the Wall Street Journal disregarded. 2. Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users. In addition to holding licenses, registrations, and authorizations in more than 20 jurisdictions, Binance is the first cryptocurrency exchange to have secured full authorization under the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of the Abu Dhabi Global Market's regulatory framework. Binance has built one of the largest and most robust compliance programs in the digital asset industry, dedicating more than 1,500 individuals, nearly a quarter of its global workforce, to compliance, investigative, and risk functions. Binance invests
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hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars in its compliance program, and a significant share of these resources is dedicated to maintaining a world-class compliance team. 3. Despite this progress, the Wall Street Journal and its reporters have made a business of maligning both the cryptocurrency industry generally and Binance specifically, regardless of facts and reality. Indeed, this strategy appears tailored to generating sensationalist headlines designed to drive pageviews and the Wall Street Journal's bottom line. The Article is a case-in-point. 4. Here, the Wall Street Journal ignored the strength of Binance's compliance program, disregarded specific facts provided by Binance, and instead chose to publish a false and misleading Article based on anonymous, unsupported sources. The Article begins with a false, defamatory and reckless headline, "Binance Fired Staff Who Flagged $1 Billion Moving to Sanctioned Iran Entities," and then launches into a narrative rife with bogus claims. 5. Specifically, the Article makes factual allegations and implications that are false, defamatory, and reckless, including: a. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance fired compliance personnel for investigating and identifying transactions with entities tied to Iran. That is false. The compliance personnel referenced in the Article were not terminated for any reporting or role in the investigation
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c. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance diminished its compliance with law enforcement requests. That is false. The compliance investigation started as a result of law enforcement requests seeking information about transactions, and Binance complied with those requests and cooperated with law enforcement, while also conducting an independent investigation that resulted in Binance oflboarding user accounts it identified that were engaged in suspicious activity. d. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance knowingly registered customers with false documentation and provided preferential treatment to those customers. That is false. Identity verification is mandatory for all customers. 6. The Wall Street Journal contacted Binance at the eleventh hour seeking any comment Binance had on identified points and questions related to the Article, and refused to grant a good-faith extension for Binance to respond. Binance nevertheless worked with all haste to get factual corrections to the Wall Street Journal, but unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal then disregarded those corrections and refused an immediate request for correction. While it is incumbent upon a responsible publisher to seek to understand the true position prior to publication, it is apparent that the Wall Street Journal had already drafted the Article to conform to its own pre-existing agenda without regard to t
#bluesky is going the way of #twitter
with new leadership due to financial pressure, they are going to cave and ruin some aspect of it
my unfounded speculation is some #crypto tie-in shit, since it's owned and run by #cryptobros
also as @mastodonmigration noted, it's interesting timing with the #midterms coming up
enjoy bluesky folks!
but its days are numbered
The Coinbase-backed "Stand With Crypto" advocacy group has declared Illinois Senate candidate Juliana Stratton to be "strongly against crypto" solely because she made a statement criticizing the $5.5 million the crypto industry had already spent to oppose her
#USpol #USpolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency
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Stand With Crypto profile page Juliana Stratton Democratic Political Figure from Illinois Crypto letter grade of F Strongly against crypto Based on 1 statement and 0 votes. Vote History No recent votes. Statements Juliana Stratton @JulianaStratton x.com logo We have the momentum. Raja Krishnamoorthi and his allies know that, and it's why his MAGA-backed crypto bros are dumping $7 million into this race to try to stop me. Illinoisans aren't buying it. pic.x.com/5iqNcwSvWM tweet image @JulianaStratton Mar 3, 2026 on X Very anti-crypto
Hyperliquid HYPE Token Jumps 35% as Oil Perpetuals Hit $1.77B Volume https://www.bocvip.com/1242769/hyperliquid-hype-token-jumps-35-as-oil-perpetuals-hit-1-77b-volume/ #crypto #CryptoMarkets #cryptocurrency #CryptocurrencyFinance #CryptocurrencyMarkets #cryptomarkets #Markets
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Hyperliquid HYPE Token Jumps 35% as Oil Perpetuals Hit $1.77B Volume
Linux-Crypto-Stick
Nach vielen Testreihen werde ich auf den unverschlüsselten Zusatzbereich verzichten.
Der wäre zwar machbar, dann müsste man aber zu einer "traditionellen" Installation greifen, was beim Bootloader problematisch werden kann, wenn man sich nicht sehr gut auskennt oder das Hauptspeichermedium trennt.
Stick-Erstellung und Verschlüsselung sollen aber sehr einfach und sicher erfolgen. Daher wird es bei einer vollständigen Verschlüsselung des Sticks bleiben.
So viel Popcorn kann ich gar nicht horten, wie solche News an "Spaß" versprechen!
"KI-Agent umgeht unerwartet Firewall und schürft Kryptos"
"Zum Zweck der Datenausleitung richtete er auch einen Reverse-SSH-Tunnel zu einer externen IP-Adresse ein und umging damit gezielt die Firewall."
it's #cryptobros
#bluesky is owned and run by crypto bros
jay herself is a #cryptobro, coming from that world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber
what i always expected (and i guess i should still expect, if their financial situation is that dire and that they are now at the mercy of #vulturecapital) is some stupid #crypto tie in with bluesky
New release: trustwallet_pwn
Toolset to extract and decrypt Chrome-based extension TrustWallet vaults.
Details: https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/10795
#trustwallet #recovery #seedphrase #infosec #crypto #hashpwn
#Polymarket, like #crypto, is a #financial arena where people with insider knowledge profit off degenerate gamblers
That a few degenerate gamblers make a few bucks now and then merely propels continuing interest, much like any casino
Unfortunately, unlike a casino, it also puts financial motivation behind securing certain outcomes, in #war, in #politics, out of simple graft
With that in mind, thank fucking God!:
"Polymarket Pulls Bet on #Nuclear Detonation in 2026"
https://www.404media.co/polymarket-pulls-bet-on-nuclear-detonation-in-2026/
China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/chinas_the_us_hacks_itself/
can :xmpp: use autocrypt instead of omemo? maybe MLS?
I heard autocrypt is getting pqc and fs
interesting.
Newsletter: Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms.
Since its peak last fall, #Bitcoin🚨has lost almost 1/2 its value. Nearly $2T of wealth: gone the global #crypto mkt since Oct.
Crypto🚨was held aloft for mos by a period of euphoria that flw the extraord support the IND gained in the Trump admin. Crypto bros: who spent $Ms getting Trump elected seemed to get virtually everything they might want... But instead of cementing crypto’s legitimacy, the admin has pulled back the curtain on the fnd⚡WORTHLESSNESS...
#Fraud #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/opinion/crypto-trump-bitcoin-clarity-genius.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PFA.sXYV.64wDgYdLfHuj&smid=url-share
From fake BTC “doublers” to wallet-draining presale sites, DTI uncovered a crypto scam network spanning ~250 domains impersonating public figures like Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.
Read the investigation ⬇️ https://dti.domaintools.com/securitysnacks/securitysnack-idolized-crypto-scams
#Cybersecurity #Scams #Crypto #Infosec
“He’s enriching himself, his family, his friends. The scale of the #corruption is unprecedented,” #Spanberger said, before ticking through details. “There’s the #CoverUp of the #EpsteinFiles, the #crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes & billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name & face on buildings all over our nation’s capital. This is not what our founders envisioned.”
"How Epstein Saved Bitcoin – & Accessed Trump’s Tech Inner Circle"
Big Tech framed crypto as a way of funding network states, ie, CEO-governed, tax-free, regulation-free, anti-democratic alternatives to nation states.
And Epstein - via Big Tech & Peter Thiel - moved into the centre of American political power to help define the Trump project.
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/how-epstein-saved-bitcoin-and-accessed-trumps-tech-inner-circle/
#USPol #EUPol #EpsteinFiles #Racism #eugenics #NetworkStates #Crypto #TESCREAL #BigTech .
Newsletter: With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the cryptocurrency industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress.
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter
there's now a more mobile friendly version of my curated crypto #EpsteinFiles site.
https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/curated_mobile.html
larger screen versions are here: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/116087096152752090
#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
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OCR text of email from Brock Pierce to
Jeffrey Epstein probably sent at 2014-06-02
17:22:54
From: Brock Pierce <1
To: Jeffrey Epstein
<jeevacation@gmail. com>
Subject: Fwd: PRIORITY: PayPay
Financial
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:22:54 +0000
Attachments:
Here is an example of another company
I've incubated in the Bitcoin space.
This deal can benefit from a US
issuing bank as well.
Brock
Mobile: +1-917-340-3400
Skype: brockpierce
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Follow me on twitter: @brockpierce
Glendale man sentenced to 57 months for darknet drug distribution via vendor accounts incl. “JoyInc.”
Crypto-funded narcotics sales nationwide. Multi-defendant case closed.
#Darknet #CyberCrime #Crypto #Infosec
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Glendale Man Sentenced to Almost 5 Years in Prison in Darknet Drug Distribution Case
Two of the biggest heavyweight scam TTPs - malvertising and pig butchering - have combined. In our latest research, we track hundreds of investment‑scam campaigns using this one-two punch to target Japan and the wider Asia region.
The hybrid approach kicks-off with malvertising ads that impersonate well‑known financial experts, funnel victims through lure sites on RDGA‑generated domains, before finally pulling them into messaging chats run by tireless AI‑style pig butcher bots. The result: an industrial‑scale long con, with individual victims reporting losses of up to ¥10M (~US$63k).
This model is reused across different campaigns and, by pivoting on DNS, we've so far been able to map out an ecosystem of over 23,000 domains.
In our latest blog we talk about our first‑hand experience going through the scheme, break down the entire flow, and share all the related IOCs: https://www.blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/banners-bots-and-butchers-an-automated-long-con-targeting-japan-asia-and-beyond/
#Infoblox #InfobloxThreatIntel #dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #malvertising #pigbutchering #rdga #dga #lookalikes #crypto #investment #scam #fraud #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #Japan #Asia #AI
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
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screenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.html
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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
February 16 2026 was not just #Family Day in Canada.
It was also "Redeem Your Toys R Us Gift Card" day.
It was the busiest I've seen the flagship store in Toronto.
Parking lot full.
The line for checking out stretching through aisles.
Merchandise picked clean.
Why?
The proximate cause is Toys R Us Canada going through creditor restructuring.
But the cause of the retail mayhem? The gift cards expired on Febuary 17th.
Why?
Because the cards are a $36 million liability on their balance sheet.
Unredeemed gift cards are treated as unearned income.
That means they are a liability.
For #restructuring, companies try to clear up debt, as simply as possible. The simplest way - write down the gift cards to $0.
Simple #accounting. Pain for #consumers.
I gave up my $100 when I saw the picked over shelves and huge line. I gave it to a shopper in line, who was ambivalent about it.
After all, today it was worth nothing.
Seems like something is wrong with gift cards when they are as volatile as #crypto.
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Parking lot at Toys R Us Vaughan Mills
#OliverBullough: How Governments Help the 1% Launder Money
#Capitalism #Crime #BillionairesSUCK #MoneyLaundering #Crypto
For those who lost wallet access to the now defunct Dough Wallet iPhone app, here's a simple CLI tool to recover your address and private keys.
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/10034
#doughwallet #recoverytool #crypto #hashpwn
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For those who lost access to the now defunct Dough Wallet iPhone wallet, here's a simple CLI tool to recover your address and private keys.
SMEs: Tired of 3-5% fees & 3-day holds on international payments? Stablecoin acquisition (USDT/USDC) offers instant settlement at near-zero cost. No bank gatekeepers, no geographic restrictions, no arbitrary freezes. Mature fiat off-ramps exist. This isn't speculation—it's operational efficiency. The banking system is the bottleneck.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mycompany.instantnews
#fintech #crypto #smallbusiness
"This same ideological alignment seemed to inform their shared enthusiasm for cryptocurrency, which was about far more than making money—though Thiel’s Founders Fund did turn a $20 million Bitcoin investment into a $1.8 billion profit, and managed to sell before one of the digital currency’s many meltdowns. It was about building financial infrastructure outside state control."
#Epstein #Trump #PeterThiel #EconomicElites #pedophiles #crypto
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"What really united this odd couple was a common political and ideological project. Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."
#Epstein #Trump #PeterThiel #EconomicElites #pedophiles #crypto
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"Both had a certain disdain for the quotidian responsibilities that come with living in a society, like paying taxes….
Both were into life-extension and cryogenics (Epstein allegedly, Thiel for sure), though Epstein, hanging in his cell for a reported two hours after his death, clearly missed the window of opportunity to have his head and penis frozen, as he had evidently desired."
#Epstein #Trump #PeterThiel #EconomicElites #pedophiles #crypto
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"Thiel is all over the Epstein files; the two exchanged more than 2,000 messages over the years and met on multiple occasions. Epstein would ultimately invest some $40 million in venture capital funds managed by Valar Ventures, a firm cofounded by Thiel. ...
As their email exchanges make plain, Epstein and Thiel shared many of the same obsessions."
~ David Futrelle
#Epstein #Trump #PeterThiel #EconomicElites #pedophiles #crypto
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peter-thiel-jeffrey-epstein-democracy/
"Not only did he stay in close contact with Epstein, the two men [Epstein and Howard Lutnick] appear to have gone into business together.
But, at this point, who could possibly be surprised? The more we learn, the more pedophilia and criminal use of cryptocurrency look related, even like different aspects of a single conspiracy."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Epstein #HowardLutnick #EconomicElites #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #crypto
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-banality-of-maga-evil
"Epstein, it turns out, was a major early investor in the crypto industry. In the backrooms of MAGA-land, passing around under-age girls is a lot like passing around insider crypto deals."
#Trump #Epstein #HowardLutnick #EconomicElites #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #crypto
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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
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BLOCKEFILLS HALTS WITHDRAWALS AMID CRYPTO TURMOIL
Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills has suspended client
deposits and withdrawals, citing recent market volatility. The Chicago-
based firm, which serves 2,000 institutional clients and handled $60 bn
in 2025 trading, remains open for select trading but is limiting liquidity.
The move echoes past crypto downturns, including the 2022 collapse of
FTX and other lenders. Bitcoin’s recent drop below $65,000—down
~45% from October highs—has intensified pressures, while stalled U.S.
crypto legislation continues to weigh on the market.
And finally he demands Judge Kaplan recuse himself, arguing he showed "extreme prejudice". Both that argument and his "no actual loss" theory are already being litigated in his pending appeal before the Second Circuit, which I wrote about here: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-96/#sbf
His motion mainly argues that two former FTX employees who didn't testify (Daniel Chapsky and Ryan Salame) would have undercut prosecutors' narrative, but were threatened out of testifying. He also claims Nishad Singh was coerced by prosecutors into changing his testimony.
It also repeats his longstanding argument that the funds were never missing and that FTX was never insolvent. (Judge Kaplan got a bit sick of this argument during trial, pointing out that repayment doesn't negate fraud).
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The judge was quick to rule: "I reject entirely the defendant's argument that there was no actual loss." The claims that customers and creditors will be repaid is at this point purely speculative, as the bankruptcy proceedings are still underway. He added that while the success of some of Alameda's investments,a and the recent rise in cryptocurrency prices, is fortuitous for creditors, it does not make Bankman-Fried's crimes any less severe. As he is wont to do, the judge provided an analogy:
A thief who takes his loot to Las Vegas and successfully bets the stolen money is not entitled to a discount on the sentence by using his Las Vegas winnings to pay back all or part of what he stole if and when he gets caught.
Sam Bankman-Fried has just filed a pro se motion for a new trial, via his mother
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66631292/583/united-states-v-bankman-fried/
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February 5, 2026 To Whom It May Concern: Enclosed piease find a pro se motion for a new trial under Rule 33 of the Fed. R. Crim. Proc. On behalf of Samuel Bankman-Fried, along with a supporting Memorandum of Law and a Declaration in support of the motion from Daniel Chapsky. Although Mr. Bankman-Fried is proceeding pro se, because he is currently incarcerated he has authorized me to file this on his behalf. If you have any questions concerning this motion or the supporting papers, please address them to me. My contact information is below. Barbara H. Fried Saunders Professor of Law, Emerita Stanford Law School
How Close Were Epstein’s Ties to Russia, Really?
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-files-russia-putin
#ewaste find
FYSA: the Hivemappers are shite. custom #hardware for mapping roads as you drive, so you can earn their custom #cryptocurrency which has devalued. These HDC-S models are recently #EOL, and are not recognized in #windows or OS X (I have not tried #Linux or #BSD). They are listed for stupid money on #eBay, but I cant seem to get them to work for anything... would have been interesting as a #camera at least 🤷
#camera #havemapper #ponzi #crypto #fail #EoL
At least in windows the indicator light comes on as it is working/mapping
perhaps a full teardown is in order? 🤔
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The face of a Hivemapper HDC-S
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The backside of a Hivemapper HDC-S with the cover removed, showing the end of the circuit board
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The base of a Hivemapper HDC-S showing the sticker with model & serial number
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A closeup of the sticker on the underside of a Hivemapper HDC-S
China declares total war on crypto: no legal recognition, all business = crime, foreign services banned. This is a definitive move to assert absolute monetary sovereignty, crush capital flight channels, and clear the field for the state-controlled digital yuan. Decentralization vs. state control, decisively.
#crypto #China #finance
"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
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https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-crypto-crashes-and-fake-money
Bitcoin's 44% crash is a crisis of trust. The "digital gold" narrative shattered as tech stocks fell in sync. Crypto-equity firms are down 62%, their premium gone. This is a broad flight from risk & complexity, signaling deep market pessimism & a shift to safety. A leading indicator of stress.
#crypto #economy #risk
"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
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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
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https://bsky.app/profile/pgourevitch.bsky.social/post/3me63ghqy3s2m
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
"The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage. ...
As Epstein and Thiel’s finances aligned, so did their politics. Both men were unusually important early backers of Donald Trump’s first presidency."
~ Peter Jukes
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup #Putin #SteveBannon #NigelFarage #PeterThiel #crypto #TechBros #SiliconValley
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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/in-putins-orbit-the-crypto-politics
"Though Epstein has gone, the cryptocurrency infrastructure he helped to rescue, the ideological antipathy to regulation in Silicon Valley, and the dark, unaccountable influence of crypto politics in our democratic elections remain one of his most damaging legacies."
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup #Putin #SteveBannon #NigelFarage #PeterThiel #crypto #TechBros #SiliconValley
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#UAE Firm Quietly Took Stake in #Trump Family’s #Crypto Company
The $500 million agreement raises new concerns about the propriety of the president negotiating #ForeignPolicy with his own #business partners.
An investment firm tied to the UAE purchased nearly HALF of the Trump family’s #cryptocurrency company last year, making the family business partners with the UAE even as Trump negotiated foreign policy matters with the nation.
#compromised #FARA #law #emoluments
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/politics/trump-crypto-uae-world-liberty.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
must read article on #Epstein's long relationship with #Tether co-founder, #SteveBannon business partner, and man arrested in an apartment in #Marbella filled with machine guns and "8,000 fotografias pornographia infantil" #BrockPierce.
https://protos.com/brock-pierces-dark-and-disturbing-friendship-with-jeffrey-epstein/
#JeffreyEpstein #epsteinFiles #stablecoin #Stablecoins #uspol #trump #IGE #crypto #cryptocurrency #larrysummers
Hashing cannot be reversed. Prove me wrong!
YouTube video featuring the amazing Michael Pound: https://youtu.be/OzVzo9gtiec
#hash #encryption #hashing #vpn #crypto #cryptography #md5 #sha #learn
200,000 new molties overnight.
Apparently #openclaw is the fastest growing open source project in history.
A straight vertical line...
...you know, what #singularity would look like... 🤖
https://beelancer.ai also popped up over night, bot marketplace.
So far, no anti-biological virus jobs 💀
The threats, such as they are, karma farming, prompt injections and (bot) #crypto grifters
What makes biologicals effective is their ability to work together.
The molties have accomplished a great many things in mere hours...
In the last two months #AI capability has grown again, Algorithmic #theorem generation has whizzed past us without an eyeblink.
I see an emergent phenomenon, where smart folks who are choosing to be wilfully ignorant about this tech are making increasingly poorly informed pronouncements about what's going one. Not surprisingly quite a few have muted me because they are right and everyone else is a broligarch fan...
...but the cogent point remains, if your fundamental position is ignorance, no matter how righteous you feel you are, lack of data will only lead to increasingly invalid statements.
Meanwhile, the wood folk are dancing around fires, praying for #AiBubble to burst.
#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/
Yeah, so with that threat of force are people dumb to avoid alternatives to the dollar? Maybe the incentives still don't add up well enough for regular people to seek alternatives to the dollar.
It is a hard problem.
The dollar currency problem is destroying the viability of most "middle class" American families, but switching to an alternative is nearly impossible for most people to consider.
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
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
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To: Jeffrey Epsteinfieevacation@gmail.com]
From: Jason Calacanis
Sent: Sat 6/4/2011 8:43:16 PM
Subject: Re:
hey pal... running out to a kids birthday party.
will dig up their info.
50 you know, these are folks who are not trying to build a business. they are the crazy open
source folks who are radicals. their motivation is more inline with Wikileaks or wikipedia.
i had these guys on my TV show on the web: YouTube - - Startups - Gavin Andresen and Amir
Taaki, Bitcoin
http:/fjc.is’kzemuH
best j
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation(@ gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to get in touch with the bit coin guys. | I m happy to see you doing well
REA RAR ER RENEE RESTA EARS
it does not seem to me to bode well that they’re getting this nervous when the bitcoin price hasn’t even dropped below $80,000
Binance bitcoin bailout
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Headline: Binance to shift $1 billion user protection fund into bitcoin amid market rout Binance will convert the stablecoin holdings in its $1 billion Secure Asset Fund for Users to bitcoin over the next 30 days, with plans for regular audits
$40 million in seized crypto held by the US Marshals was stolen in 2024, and crypto sleuth zachxbt has now linked the thefts to the son of a contractor managing the agency's crypto assets. The incident has renewed concerns about the government's ability to manage its crypto holdings.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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In crime
Something funky’s been happening with the US Marshals’ pile of seized crypto — the crypto they’re tasked with hanging on to as cases wind through the courts.b In March 2024, almost $25 million was inexplicably removed from a Marshals-controlled wallet containing funds connected to the 2016 Bitfinex hack. In October 2024, crypto sleuth zachxbt noticed that $20 million of the Marshals’ crypto assets had apparently been stolen, with the thief laundering the funds through various exchanges [W3IGG]. The next day, $19.3 million of those funds were mysteriously returned.
Now, zachxbt has linked the stolen government funds — as well as stolen assets belonging to other victims — to a man named John Daghita. According to zachxbt, Daghita was previously known only as “Lick” online, and was active in Telegram chat rooms where crypto thieves boasted about their wealth. When another thief taunted Lick for “only having $6 mil”, Lick evidently decided the only way to defend his honor was to go on a screenshare call to show proof of ownership by transferring funds between wallets. In doing so, he exposed several wallet addresses, and zachxbt was able to trace some of the crypto back to the US government wallet addresses.1415
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Shockingly, Daghita’s father is reportedly Dean Daghita, the owner of an IT company called Command Services & Support (CMDSS). In November 2024, CMDSS began a contract with the US Marshals to provide management services for their seized crypto assets.16 The contract is still active. While Coinbase has since July 2024 managed what the Marshals call their “class 1” crypto assetsc — the most popular cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ether, and Tether — CMDSS was chosen to manage the “class 2” through “class 4” cryptocurrencies.d
While it could be that the younger Daghita gained privileged information or access to the Marshals’ crypto wallets through his father, it’s not clear how that would have enabled thefts in the months prior to the contract award. I am hopeful that a FOIA request I filed with the Marshals earlier this week will shed some light on that. It’s also curious that many of the assets Lick siphoned from government wallets fall into the “class 1” category, which CMDSS is not involved in managing. The Marshals have declined to comment on the matter, citing ongoing investigations.17
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The incident has renewed concerns about the US government’s ability to prudently manage crypto. In 2022, a Department of Justice Inspector General report identified “challenges” in the Marshals’ crypto custody practices, including “lack of comprehensive inventory management” and “inadequate, incomplete, and conflicting policies and procedures”.18 Last year, the Marshals struggled to provide even an estimate of how much crypto they held. An IT contractor who was passed over for a contract with the Marshals explained to CoinDesk, “As far as I’m aware, the USMS is currently managing this with individual keystrokes in an Excel spreadsheet. ... They’re one bad day away from a billion-dollar mistake.”19 Later in 2024, the Marshals disclosed in response to a FOIA request that they held around 28,988 BTC (more than $2.5 billion at today’s prices), though they did not provide an accounting of their other tokens.20
After zachxbt’s allegations, a wallet linked to the thefts launched a “John Daghita” token, with the ticker $LICK, on the pump.fun memecoin launchpad. I couldn’t help but laugh when I read reporting from Cointelegraph that “The deployer of LICK held 40% of the total supply at launch, according to blockchain data visualization platform Bubblemaps, a level of concentration often viewed as a red flag in early-stage token launches.”21 I’m not sure the degree of concentration is really the primary red flag here.
The SEC has dismissed with prejudice an enforcement action against the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange. This comes after the Winklevosses contributed $4.4 million to Trump, backed his sons’ ventures, and committed $21 million to elect pro-Trump, pro-crypto lawmakers.
To date, the SEC has paused, dismissed, or otherwise ended crypto lawsuits or investigations against Aave, Binance, Coinbase, ConsenSys, Crypto.com, Cumberland DRW, Dragonchain, Gemini (twice), Hex, Immutable, Kraken, Ondoe, OpenSea, PayPal, Ripple, Robinhood, Tron, Uniswap, Yuga Labs, and Zcash.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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The SEC has dismissed with prejudice its case against the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini cryptocurrency exchange. Filed in January 2023, the agency alleged that the company had violated securities laws with its Earn program, in which Gemini partnered with the Genesis crypto lender to offer Gemini customers up to 7.4% APY on assets they loaned through Genesis. When Genesis suffered major losses on loans to Three Arrows Capital [W3IGG] and Babel Finance [W3IGG], the company went under, and around $900 million in Gemini customers’ assets were suddenly locked up in bankruptcy proceedings [I17, 18, 42]. Now, the SEC has evidently decided no harm, no foul, stating: “The 100 percent in-kind return of Gemini Earn investors’ crypto assets through the Genesis Bankruptcy and the settlements noted above, and in the exercise of its discretion, the Commission believes the dismissal of the claims against Defendant is appropriate.”26
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While “but we gave the money back” isn’t normally a successful defense (just ask Sam Bankman-Fried), contributing around $4.4 million to Trump’s campaign,27 donating an undisclosed amount to Trump’s ballroom project,28 spending $1 million to be among the first members of the Trump family-run Executive Branch club,29 investing in Donald Trump Jr.’s American Bitcoin venture,30 and committing $22 million to political projects backing pro-Trump crypto advocates in the midterms seems to have gone a long way. The SEC case was paused back in April [I81], and, as I wrote then, “it’s widely understood that these [pauses] mark the end of SEC scrutiny for these companies.” Two months later, as the Winklevoss twins stood behind Trump in the Oval Office as he signed the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill, Trump remarked about the crypto industry: “I got you guys out of so much trouble”. Thanking the Winklevosses specifically, he added: “They’ve got plenty of cash, and it’s great that you’re on our side.” [I89]
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The dismissal of the Gemini Earn enforcement action adds to a long list of crypto-focused cases and investigations that the SEC has paused, dismissed, or otherwise ended. That list also includes: Aave [I99], Binance [I85], Coinbase [I78], ConsenSys [I78], Crypto.com [I81], Cumberland DRW [I79], Dragonchain,31 Gemini (a separate investigation) [I78], Hex [I82], Immutable [I80], Kraken [I79], Ondo Finance [I98], OpenSea [I78], PayPal [I83], Ripple [I80], Robinhood [I78], Tron [I78], Uniswap [I78], Yuga Labs [I79], and the ZCash Foundation [I99].
The crypto industry’s “educational nonprofit” has also launched an initiative to fund Congressional staff positions after participants go through weeks of “training” on “emerging technologies like crypto, AI, biotech, and defense tech”.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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The crypto industry’s “educational nonprofit”, the American Innovation Project [I91, 98], has launched a program to fund Congressional staff positions on the House Financial Services and Agriculture Committees — committees responsible for crypto oversight — after they go through weeks of “training” on “emerging technologies like crypto, AI, biotech, and defense tech”. The program will target young, [begin strikethrough] impressionable [end strikethrough] eager to learn college graduates.
The Fairshake PAC timed a press blitz about the nearly $200 million they’re brandishing towards members of Congress just ahead of a Senate Ag vote on crypto market structure. It passed, and amendments to address Trump’s crypto corruption or prohibit bailouts of crypto firms were shot down.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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In Congress
The Senate Agriculture Committee quickly voted to advance its version of crypto market structure legislation to the full Senate. The vote split along party lines, with all 12 Republicans voting in support and 11 Democrats voting against. While all committee Democrats ultimately voted against advancing the bill, pro-crypto Democrats Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) both spoke positively of crypto, with Booker gushing about “extraordinary humanity-changing breakthroughs that could give Americans a financial system that is faster, cheaper, and more inclusive”.37 No amendments from Democrats were approved, including ones that would have prohibited elected officials and their family members from profiting from crypto, that would require the CFTC to appoint at least four commissioners,e or that would prohibit bailouts of digital asset issuers.
Amid all this, the crypto industry has amassed at least $315 million to spend in the midterms — more than double their recordbreaking 2024 spending that helped install Trump and members of Congress who either support his atrocities or are too craven to do anything about them.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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In elections and political influence
Although most of the pro-crypto super PACs are waiting until the January 31 filing deadline to disclose their 2025 fundraising details, Fairshake is previewing its disclosure with a press blitz publicizing their $193 million war chest for the midterms.41 That they can brandish this figure right around when Senators are deciding how to vote on crypto market structure legislation is, from their perspective, fortunate timing.
While most other pro-crypto super PACs have yet to submit their disclosures, public statements from the Fellowship PAC, Digital Freedom Fund, and other new crypto super PACs put the industry’s midterm fundraising total at a minimum of $315 million. To put that in perspective: in 2024, the crypto industry’s $133 million in spending surpassed traditional lobbying juggernauts like Big Oil and Big Pharma, making it one of the largest corporate political forces in America. Now they’ve amassed more than double that.
The answer, of course, is that they never actually cared about these principles at all. In fact, many of these executives have long made it clear that authoritarianism isn’t just collateral damage in their pursuit of business-boosting deregulation, but a desirable outcome.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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The answer, of course, is that they never actually cared about these principles at all. Anyone who believed they did was dangerously naive. These were marketing slogans and talking points, deployed when convenient to ward off regulation and burnish crypto’s reputation, discarded the moment they might conflict with business interests. The atrocities of Trump’s regime have clearly done nothing to lose crypto’s support: Coinbase, Ripple, and Andreessen Horowitz have each contributed another roughly $25 million apiece to the political machine that installed Trump and bought Congress.9 Gemini’s Winklevoss twins and Kraken have contributed at least $22 million and $2 million, respectively, to new pro-crypto super PACs and dark money groups that are even more explicitly Trump-aligned [I91, 93].a
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Many of these executives have long made it clear that authoritarianism isn’t just collateral damage in their pursuit of business-boosting deregulation, but a desirable outcome. Marc Andreessen, an outspoken Trump supporter, adviser, and recruiter,10 published a 2023 manifesto on “techno-optimism” that explicitly cited as one of its “patron saints” Filippo Tommaso Marinetti — co-author of the Fascist Manifesto that formed the platform for Mussolini. Coinbase and Andreessen Horowitz alum Balaji Srinivasan has promulgated the idea of the “network state”, an autocratic proposal to create tech-governed city-states free from democratic oversight.11 Current Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Andreessen, and the Winklevoss twins have all expressed support for the concept.12 And the Winklevosses have even funded a proposed network state called Praxis, whose CEO rather overtly embraces fascism.13
For years, crypto executives have touted cryptocurrency’s supposed anti-authoritarian and human rights credentials. But where are they when their beloved president claims Alex Pretti’s lawful gun ownership justified his killing, or when ICE leaders tell subordinates to enter homes without warrants?
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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For years, crypto executives have touted cryptocurrency’s supposed anti-authoritarian and humanitarian credentials — whether to fend off regulators or convince the public that crypto has viable use cases beyond speculation. The technology is necessary and good, they claim, because it could support dissidents living under authoritarian regimes, help persecuted groups escape their oppressors, shield people from surveillance, or somehow inherently protect citizens from government overreach. Many of them spent years posting piously about the importance of due process and protection from abuses of power, or shared quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass about freedom.
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“We will hold governments accountable if we see bad activity, to protect your rights.” Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, May 2025
“I stand for human rights and believe that evil prevails when good men do nothing.” Kraken founder and chairman Jesse Powell, February 2022
“It's also hard to believe how some people want to make justice a political issue. It’s a human rights and dignity issue.” Gemini co-founder and president Tyler Winklevoss, June 2020
“It’s interesting to see who is standing up in favor of unlimited, unaccountable, un-appeal-able, unconstitutional power wielded by unelected bureaucrats and rogue politicians.” Andreessen Horowitz general partner Marc Andreessen, December 2024
“Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for - economic, speech, due process, etc.” Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, May 202
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And yet now these voices are silent on the authoritarianism unfolding before us. Where are their defenses of the Constitution when the president claims Pretti’s lawful gun ownership justified his killing,6 or when ICE leaders tell subordinates to enter homes without warrants?7 Where are their warnings about surveillance states now that ICE is photographing protesters for their “domestic terrorist” lists and Palantir is contracted by the government to build databases of people living in the US they can target for raids?8 In 2022, they were incensed when Canadian authorities froze bank accounts belonging to truckers protesting vaccine mandates (and delighted for the opportunity to promote crypto as an alternative funding mechanism) — but now, when ICE agents murder bystanders and invent pretexts that footage shows are false, where is the righteous outcry against state violence towards those exercising their right to protest?
As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-100/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of a “glaring” conflict of interest, citing ProPublica reporting that found he held at least $159,000 in related investments when he shut down crypto investigations at the DOJ.
#News #Law #USPolitics #Government #Crypto #DOJ #Senate #ToddBlanche
we live in an age where the same #crypto grifters who launch "#stablecoins" that collapse (more or less defrauding their investors in the process) are completely unashamed about attacking Bernie Sanders and Somalian day care centres on social media for "fraud"
(they also love to use the money they managed to defraud their customers for to fund #MAGA candidates all over the country)
#corruption #somalians #minnesota #BernieSanders #SUSD #synthetix #uspol #stablecoin #GeniusAct #cryptocurrency
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Edward Moma
Realizing my $10k is only worth $7.4k now.
1 deposited 10k USDC and swapped them to 10k sUSD for the trading
compton actuitaded
SUSD has depegged and trades at $0.75 now. Barely any talk on CT.
Wtf is that shit?
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@kaiynne
How about we start taxing Somalian day care centres first. Start with a
150% tax and see how that goes 8.
= Bernie Sanders £2 @BernieSanders - Dec 29, 2025
Why would corporations like Amazon replace workers with robots? Pretty
simple.
Robots don’t need a wage, health care, time off, sick leave, Social Security,
Medicare or unemployment benefits...
8:54 PM - Dec 29, 2025 - 43.2K Views
But I will say this right here and now, just so that I can get my true feelings out of the way and talk about what's important: my default assumption about any #journalist for @arstechnica or @Gizmodo or @SciAm is that they're corrupt and unethical. I'm sorry but that's just how it is!
For decades now the mainstream culture of the United States of America has been dedicated to the normalization of corruption (blame #RonaldReagan for that, Mr. @anildash etc.) so now I simply assume that everyone's got some conflict of interest. You're all investing or gambling on #crypto or you've got some sweetheart deals going, stock tips from friends etc. Everyone's got to eat, right?
(cont'd)
apparently the child of a contractor hired by the U.S. government to manage crypto seized from criminals managed to steal $40-100 million dollars from the government and no one even noticed.
until, that is, the lure of flexing on the internet proved too much for him (full name John Daghita AKA “Lick”) and he posted a screenshot showing off his money that revealed his crypto address, which #ZachXBT was able to link to the stolen funds.
just incredible stuff.
thread: https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2015430549846777964
#JohnDaghita #crime #theft #crypto #cryptocurrency #USmarshals #FBI #DOJ
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In case you are curious how John Daghita (Lick) was able to steal $40M+ from US government seizure addresses.
John’s dad owns CMDSS, which currently has an active IT government contract in Virginia.
CMMDS was awarded a contract to assist the USMS in managing/disposing of seized/forfeited crypto assets.
It still remains unclear at this point how John obtained access from his dad.
LetsEncrypt is moving from 90-day certs to 45-day certs a year before the CAB forum.
not that anyone had any doubts, but to allay doubts nonetheless:
"Top donors to the [Trump] Super PAC are leaders from the crypto and AI sectors including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, who together with his wife ponied up $25M"
from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/trumps-politics-gilded-age
SEC drops lawsuit against Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange
The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its lawsuit against Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
The Winklevoss twins were donors to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and also backed his family’s business ventures.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/24/sec-drops-lawsuit-against-winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange/
#Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #crypto #corruption #Winklevoss #Gemini #filthylucre #press
NEW: Complaint Accuses Trump’s Criminal Attorney of “Blatant” Crypto Conflict in His Role at DOJ
A watchdog group is seeking an inspector general investigation into Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche after ProPublica reported that he had ordered changes to crypto prosecutions while owning more than $150,000 in digital assets.
#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.
trump’s crypto company #WorldLibertyFinancial (#WLFI) is “entering into a strategic partnership to explore new solutions that converge the decentralized technology of finance and #satellite internet connectivity” via something called "#SpaceCoin".
this is no more or less preposterous than thousands of crypto grifts that have gone before - things like #DentaCoin (#crypto for dentists).
#uspol #corruption #uspolitics
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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
House Oversight Democrats have published a Web3 is Going Great-style “Trump Family Digital Grift” counter
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family-corruption-tracker
This goes with their recent staff report, “Professionalized Corruption: How Donald Trump is abusing power and accepting digital kickbacks from foreign and criminal interests to cash in on the presidency like never before”
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/12026cryptoreport.pdf
(The report cites my writing on Trump’s USD1 stablecoin, published here: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-83/#trump-business-interests)
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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Trump Family Digital Grift Profits $2,255,399,364.28
Total Trump Family Digital Grift Wealth $8,712,974,364.28
Trump Family Digital Grift Profits from Foreign Interests $437,004,026.96
While Americans struggle to buy groceries and pay rent, Donald Trump is making his family richer through digital grift schemes— collecting profits through digital wallets and granting pardons to the highest bidders.
While Trump and his family are using the White House to make billions, we are tracking every cent. As of January 2026, our Committee’s analysis shows that these schemes have contributed to an estimated $2.25 billion in realized profits for Trump from foreign payments, corrupt oligarchs, and others.
This total rises to as much as $9.7 billion when the value of Trump’s digital assets is factored in, with as much as $436 million coming from foreign interests. President Trump should be serving the American people—not his own pockets.
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
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‘It’s Now Happening’—Urgent U.S. Dollar ‘Collapse’ Warning Issued As Markets Brace For Gold And Bitcoin Price Shocks
“A review by the editorial board relying on analyses from news organizations shows that Mr. Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1.4 billion. We know this number to be an underestimate because some of his profits remain hidden from public view. And they continue to grow.”
~ New York Times
#Trump #grift #EconomicElites #fascism #crypto
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html
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When will it become cheaper to mine lost crypto wallets than mining crypto itself?
Are the scammees stupid enough to keep going once that happens?
The SEC is in a similar situation, having just lost its last Democratic and crypto-cautious Commissioner, Caroline Crenshaw. In her last speech as a Commissioner she warned of “dire repercussions” from the SEC’s deregulatory pivot, drawing comparisons to the period prior to the Great Depression.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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Trump’s strategy to control the regulators is also playing out over at the SEC, where the single remaining Democratic and crypto-cautious Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw has departed after her renomination vote was canceled in December 2024 after complaints from the crypto industry.22 In her last speech, she expressed concern that the SEC is “shrouding its policymaking in darkness, shunning public comments and, instead, relying on hidden voices to drive its agenda.”22 She summarized the past year:
“The appetite to deregulate has been rapacious; the analysis of the costs and benefits of our policies has been non-existent; and, the repercussions, I would argue, could be dire. We live in an echo chamber where politicians and policymakers make their own truth through repetition. But, the markets have a way of correcting themselves—not always immediately, but over time. So, I think the true advisability of these policies will reveal themselves eventually. I certainly wouldn’t be alone in analogizing the trend toward deregulation in the current environment to the period prior to the stock market crash in 1929.”
The Senate has confirmed the CFTC’s new Chairman, Michael Selig. He has very minimal regulatory experience, and is now the only Commissioner on what is supposed to be a five-person bipartisan Commission.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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The CFTC has a new Chairman now that the Senate has confirmed Michael Selig. Selig’s background is primarily in private practice representing crypto clients like Paradigm and eToro.20 In 2025, he briefly served as chief counsel for the SEC’s crypto task force, but besides that, Selig has extremely minimal regulatory experience — particularly in the many non-crypto markets the CFTC is expected to regulate.
Selig is also the only commissioner at the normally five-person CFTC, as Trump has seized control of regulators by appointing his own loyalists without appointing replacements for departing commissioners. Acting Chair Caroline Pham had previously announced she planned to leave when a chairman was appointed, and she has followed through on that promise. She immediately rocketed through the revolving door right into the lap of the crypto firm MoonPay, where she is now chief legal and administrative officer.21 You might recognize MoonPay as a frequent Trump crypto partner, helping process payments for both the $TRUMP memecoin and for Melania Trump’s 2021 NFT projects. You also might remember that they snagged that lucrative Trump memecoin partnership only weeks after attempting to make a $250,000 contribution to Trump’s inaugural committee, but got scammed instead [I88].
The Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto project has applied for a national trust bank charter. If approved, the Comptroller of the Currency — who serves at the pleasure of the President — will be expected to enforce the law against Trump’s own company and its competitors.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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The Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto company has announced that they have applied for a national trust bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, through a proposed entity called World Liberty Trust Company. Senator Elizabeth Warren quickly sent a letter to Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould to urge him to delay the review of World Liberty Financial’s application “until President Trump divests from WLF and eliminates all financial conflicts of interest involving himself or his family and the company.” She wrote:27
“If the application is approved, you would promulgate rules that influence the profitability of the President’s company. You would also be responsible for directly supervising and enforcing the law against the President’s company—and its competitors. You would be in charge of these functions while serving at the pleasure of the President. In effect, for the first time in history, the President of the United States would be in charge of overseeing his own financial company.”
Trump has claimed “the leaker” has been jailed, seemingly referring to a group of wallets that made large profits from Polymarket bets with apparent advance knowledge of US military action against Venezuela. One such wallet profited around $410,000.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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In prediction markets
After the US military kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, observers were quick to notice that several Polymarket accounts had all placed large bets on a market pertaining to whether Maduro would be removed from power by the end of January, and other Venezuela-related markets. One account began placing bets in late December, and continued to add thousands of dollars to its positions right up to the day Maduro’s capture was announced, ultimately purchasing $32,000 in shares. The trader profited $410,000 when their predictions came to pass, leading many to believe they had access to inside information.29
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Table of closed Polymarket bets Maduro out by January 31, 2026? 436,759.6 Yes at 7¢ Total bet $32,537.28 Amount won $436,759.61 $404,222.33 (1,242.34%) Trump invokes War Powers against Venezuela by January 31? 5,371.7 Yes at 5¢ Total bet $249.99 Amount won $2,714.64 $2,464.65 (985.91%) Market icon Will the U.S. invade Venezuela by January 31, 2026? 17,857.9 Yes at 6¢ Total bet $999.99 Amount won $3,143.26 $2,143.27 (214.33%) US forces in Venezuela by January 31, 2026? 1,197.8 Yes at 12¢ Total bet $146.00 Amount won $1,197.77 $1,051.78 (720.4%)
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Days later, Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) introduced a bill seeking to prohibit elected officials and other politicians and staff from participating in prediction markets connected to “government policy, government action, or political outcomes” when they possess or could obtain inside information.30
Then, on January 14, Trump said in a press conference that “The leaker [on Venezuela] has been found and is in jail right now” and would likely face a long sentence. He also noted that “there could be some others”.31 The identity of the leaker, how they gained access to sensitive information, and whether they were also the person who placed the bet has not been disclosed, nor has the charge on which they’ve been jailed.
Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams is fending off rug pull allegations after a wallet connected to his “NYC Token” project extracted almost $1 million in liquidity less than an hour after launch, crashing the token price.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched “NYC Token”: half memecoin, half social experiment to determine how many glaring red flags you can stuff into one pitch and still convince people to buy. A figurehead who Trump had to rescue from federal bribery and corruption charges: check. An unidentified team running the project: check. Massive quantity of tokens to be held back in “reserve” with no details around custody, access control, or planned use: check. Pointers to documentation that doesn’t exist: check.c Lofty and numerous promises — educating kids about crypto, combatting “antisemitism” and “anti-Americanism” in NYC, and providing financial aid to students seeking higher education — with no specifics whatsoever about how they will fulfill them: check.
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With all those red flags flapping in the wind, it’s perhaps no surprise that the token launch quickly turned into disaster [W3IGG]. Almost immediately after the token was launched, the project’s liquidity providerd withdrew more than $2.4 million in USDC from the one-sided liquidity pool,e causing the token price to plummet by about 85%. Though the project team later claimed they had been “rebalanc[ing]” liquidity, they only returned $1.5 million to the liquidity pool, with more than $900,000 of it left sitting in the LP wallet. That same wallet then began making automated purchases of $NYC every minute, which the team claimed is part of a TWAP (time-weighted average price) buying strategy. This is a strange explanation that doesn’t address why the third-party liquidity was withdrawn, why it was only partially returned, or why the remaining USDC is now being used in a way that seems intended to create the appearance of sustained demand without any new money actually coming in.
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Since then, Adams has been fighting off allegations that he “rug pulled” the token. It seems too early to tell on that front, as the unaccounted funds are still sitting in the crypto wallet — perhaps to be restored to the liquidity pool, or perhaps to be withdrawn once whoever controls the wallet thinks attention has moved elsewhere. Some have speculated that this was all a way for Adams to surreptitiously accept belated bribes, I guess by having a would-be briber purchase a large amount of the token, and then extracting the funds as we saw. This is certainly possible, I suppose — there are some wallets that spent tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase the token. But with Adams out of office and no longer needing to file disclosures, I don’t see why he’d go about it this way rather than just quietly creating a wallet and having people transfer crypto to him directly.
Neither Adams nor the NYC Token team responded to questions about the removal of liquidity, the automated buying strategy, or details about the token, its team, or its plans to follow through on its promises. However, shortly after I sent the questions, the automated token buys stopped.
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Meanwhile, Edward Cullen — whose Innovate NY PAC spent nearly $100,000 on AI-generated flyers and other materials to back Andrew Cuomo last October after his last-minute crypto industry appeal — is back. Cullen claims that he pitched the NYC Token idea to Adams last year, and that Adams stole it from him, then “butchered” it for “short-term gain”. Cullen is now threatening to sue, although I’m not sure on what grounds.40
But Coinbase’s flex may have caused something of a power struggle with the White House. “This is President Trump’s bill at the end of the day, not Brian Armstrong’s,” said a source close to the Trump administration.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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This brazen display seems to have caused something of a power struggle between Coinbase and President Trump, who was reportedly infuriated by Coinbase’s surprise “rug pull”. “This is President Trump’s bill at the end of the day, not Brian Armstrong’s,” a source close to the Trump administration told journalist Eleanor Terrett, adding that the White House was considering yanking its support for the bill if Coinbase can’t come up with a satisfactory compromise proposal on stablecoin yield.13 Armstrong later objected to Terrett’s reporting, claiming “The White House has been super constructive here”, but confirming that the White House had directed Coinbase to “go figure out a deal with the banks”.14
The crypto lobby wrote their dream bill. Senators proposed some amendments. Coinbase tweeted their disapproval, and Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott immediately canceled the markup. When you spend $130M, you expect to get exactly what you want.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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Last Wednesday afternoon, Coinbase withdrew its support for the Senate’s draft market structure bill, citing concerns about limits on tokenized stocks and stablecoin rewards, burdensome requirements for defi protocols, and excessive authority granted to the SEC.1 Within hours, Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott (R-SC) canceled the markup hearing scheduled for the following day.
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While mainstream news sources are often hesitant to draw cause and effect between two suspiciously timed events, it was too overt even for them, with the New York Times writing that Coinbase had “scuttled” the vote.2 Coinbase further emphasized its degree of control over the Senate when CEO Brian Armstrong stated in an interview with CNBC, “We’ve got a chance to do a new draft and hopefully get back into a markup in a few weeks” — speaking as if Coinbase, not Congress, controlled both the drafting process and legislative calendar.
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This is nothing new — just the latest demonstration of the crypto industry’s power over Congress after it spent over $130 million installing allies in the 2024 election. Within weeks, House Agriculture Committee Chair GT Thompson (R-PA) made the new power dynamic explicit when he said how crypto legislation was being drafted in “tripartisan” fashion, with the crypto industry forming the new third political wing of Congress [I76].
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In an alternate universe, Congress might be focused on passing laws that don’t elevate the interests of corporations and oligarchs above the everyman. Ones that ensure the stability of the American financial system, protect consumers, address officeholder ethics concerns, and prevent financial crimes. Sadly, in this universe, lawmakers are primarily concerned with satisfying the demands of their newest and most generous campaign contributors. Senate Banking Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told Politico, “These are folks who think that when they’ve bought themselves a Congress, then they expect it to behave the way they say.”3 After a year of this Congress, it would be hard to argue they’re wrong.
Newsletter: Coinbase calls the shots in the Senate, former New York City Mayor Eric Adams faces rug pull allegations, and a crypto executive is breaking up with Trump
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-99/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
how magnanimous of him
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Headline: Coinbase CEO says key crypto vote can be rescheduled after 11th hour cancellation
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“We’ve got a chance to do a new draft and hopefully get back into a markup in a few weeks,” Armstrong said.
Atomic Wallet users recently noticed their Monero (XMR) balances missing or displaying incorrectly. Atomic Wallet says this is a Monero sync and display issue, not lost funds, and that all XMR remains safe on-chain while a fix is being worked on.
Given Atomic Wallet’s past security incident in 2023, caution is understandable. No theft has been reported, but users are encouraged to verify independently and never share private keys or seed phrases.
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/8866
#atomic #wallet #crypto #monero #xmr #hashpwn #news #cybersecurity
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Atomic Wallet users recently noticed their Monero (XMR) balances missing or displaying incorrectly. Atomic Wallet says this is a Monero sync and display issue, not lost funds, and that all XMR remains safe on-chain while a fix is being worked on.
Given Atomic Wallet’s past security incident in 2023, caution is understandable. No theft has been reported, but users are encouraged to verify independently and never share private keys or seed phrases.