WE LIVE IN A CORRUPT FINANCIAL SYSTEM
BACKED BY A COMPLICIT GOVERNMENT
After watching two self righteous billionaire assholes complain about how unfair the #GME short squeeze is, I was reminded of this scene from the Big Short.
As @JoelKatz tweeted,☝️Leon Cooperman was on discussing how, under normal circumstances, the smart money is on the big time short sellers because of how knowledgeable they must be before going short on a company as opposed to us mere individual speculators. Just when I thought
no one could be any more pompous or arrogant, the Chairman of Interactive Brokers, Thomas Peterffy, was interviewed as to why @IBKR cut off individual traders from buying #GME, #AMC and other stocks. This pompous jerk actually said "We froze the ability to buy these stocks for
now because they should only buy stocks because they think the companies are doing well." He said that GME is worth no more than $17 and its ridiculous to be over $200. He claimed that they had to protect themselves from potentially unlimited losses. He will ALLOW those stocks to
be purchased again when the market is back to normal and at prices the stocks should be. When I thought that I couldn’t get any more pissed off, I read this tweet from @biancoresearch about Peterffy’s appearance on Bloomberg. The REGULATORS agree with the BROKERS?
Are you f***g kidding me? There is only one regulating body he could be talking about - the @SEC_News! @HesterPeirce if the Peterffys of the world are protecting the hedge funds, and the SEC agrees with them, whose looking out for us? That’s why we choose DeFi and Crypto!
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RIPPLE RESPONDS
I’ve been asked to provide my thoughts on @Ripple’s Answer. I quickly looked over the Answer late last night. It’s 93 pages and I spent less than hour reading it over so please take that into consideration. I plan to review it in much more detail in the coming
days and will likely revisit these initial thoughts. Before I provide any thoughts, I should warn you that if you ask 3 different attorneys to respond, you are likely to get 3 different opinions. Also, I always provide my honest assessment even if it’s not what I know people want
to hear. Personally, I was disappointed in the Answer. My disappointment means nothing and has no impact on the issues. In fact, if this case is going to trial, I would have advised Ripple to Answer the Complaint much like it did. My disappointment isn’t a reflection regarding
⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ AND
⛔️ DANGER ⛔️ THREAD
In several previous Threads, I have warned about government overreaching into the Cryptocurrency markets. Have governments around the world ever truly believed that #Bitcoin and Crypto would get to the point that it finds itself today?
I don’t know. I know that these fiat loving government leaders and career bankers feel THREATENED by Crypto. Why did Jamie Dimon call #Bitcoin a fraud? Of course, his Bank JPM started buying it, and now, after buying it at a lower price, are predicting it goes above 150K in 2021.
Watching Dimon’s reaction, regarding #Bitcoin , is one reason that convinced me to become even more interested in the Crypto space. You can literally see the fear in his eyes and face. In fact, he recently commented that the major Banks should be scared “shitless” of FinTech.
Ripple executives like @bgarlinghouse@chrislarsensf@JoelKatz@s_alderoty have stated that XRP was not designed to pay for a cup of coffee. Instead, it was
designed for the banks and money service providers. In fact, XRP was labeled by the hard-core #Bitcoin community as
the “Bankers Coin.” XRP, as the Bankers Coin, has been helping several financial institutions and/or money service providers during the last several years. Help to these financial institutions runs afoul with the original vision of #Bitcoin, which was to replace and/or bypass
the banks. If you disagree, simply read the first paragraph of Satoshi Nakamoto’s White Paper. It reads “Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments.” The first sentence of
One other thing that I must make clear: I’m not claiming that the Writ of Mandamus I filed is easy to win. In fact, over 90% lose because the Court finds that there are other legal remedies available and/or because it involves a discretionary function of the Officer or Agency
that the Petition for Writ was filed against. For example, the Court could find that there are other remedies available to XRP Holders, such as, filing a motion to intervene in the SEC v. Ripple case. What I’m claiming, here, is that it is easy, IMO, to demonstrate that 2021’s
XRP is NOT a security. Sorry, but I felt compelled to explain the distinction, so that people don’t misunderstand what I’m claiming. If forced to file a motion to intervene; and, if granted, we would file a Motion For Summary Judgment asking the Court to declare, as a matter of
THE SEC WAS WARNED INVESTORS WOULD LOSE BILLIONS. Considering the magnitude of an SEC enforcement action against the 3rd largest Digital Asset, XRP, the SEC, and it’s Chairman, Jay Clayton, was sent a letter, prior to the filing of the action, from former Chief Joseph Grundfest.
He warned Clayton and the SEC that the mere filing of the lawsuit, declaring XRP an unregistered security, “would result in an UNPRECEDENTED scenario of billions of
dollars in losses resulting from an exodus of intermediary market service providers.” That’s a direct quote from
a former Chief who saw all this coming. The “exodus of intermediary market service providers” has already taken place. @coinbase@krakenfx and almost every other service provider has suspended trading of XRP in the U.S. Others, like @BitwiseInvest and @Grayscale have liquidated
THEORY 2: PERSONAL GAIN Jay Clayton, prior to the SEC, was a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as its Head of Corporate Practice and Finance. Clayton advised the largest firms in INVESTMENT BANKING and had a long history of advising and working with Goldman Sachs (GS).
Read @Santiag78758327 Thread below for great insight. He points out GS is deeply involved and familiar with the global banking infrastructure including cross-border commodity swaps and the SWIFT PAYMENT SYSTEM. Jay Clayton’s wife has worked for and closely with GS for 2 decades.
The SEC in it’s Complaint admits that since, at least 2015,
Ripple has targeted replacing SWIFT in the international payment arena with XRP. As @sentosumosaba and others have discussed, SBI Holdings is testing the use of XRP in the Fx markets. A former GS executive,