(6/10) 0:00 @DougPolkVids in chat
(6/13) 0:17 Coinflex 6th biggest CEX by volume?!?
- 0:28 withdrawal issue earlier than known
(6/14) 0:41 Market makers vanish
(6/15) 1:36 $USDC liq pool issues
- Non US #CoinFlex / CoinFLEXdotcom telegram pinned msg: ⚠️SCAMS⚠️
- MarkLamb (?) in weird "coiinflex" grp (May)
- so many deleted users in official channel
- wallet hacking spambots
More of CoinFLEX_US telegram channel the only one with humans... confused and abandoned humans. #CoinFLEX responses are weird until they seem to vanish. @CoinFLEXdotcom
@CoinFLEXdotcom withdrawals halted; mods (maybe #CoinFLEX employees?) deleting messages, $USDC liquidity pool issues (tied to $FLEX, maybe?)
@CoinFLEXdotcom announcements contains notice of issues way back on June 14th, well before the withdrawal halt announcement by #CoinFlex... then promises more info tomorrow, June 27th.
i'm not optimistic about that new information...
@MarkDavidLamb being shady with his desperate users on the day withdrawals were officially halted on 6/23. of course the earlier telegram chatter makes it seem likely withdrawals were halted much earlier.
There seems to be active discussion re: #Coinflex / @CoinFLEXdotcom in a Chinese language Telegram channel called "coinflex_official". no idea if it's official because i cannot read chinese, but if you or someone you know does maybe poke around in there? t.me/coinflex_offic…
if you haven't followed the #CoinFLEX drama catch read about it on reddit.
tl;dr: pattern of facts suggests $90M in $BCH disappeared from the backing pool of @CoinFLEXdotcom's "stablecoin" $FLEX... only to appear in @binance where selling began.
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There's what looks like a 2015 pitch sheet (?) from #BlockchainCapital, co-founded by epstein's pal #BrockPierce who would go on to help launch Tether (a nation state sized money laundering machine) and EOS (1 of the biggest scams in history, ~$4bn) journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/docum…
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Disgraced former head of the MIT Media Lab Joi Ito seen here telling Epstein that crypto is "like the internet" but the core team is in need of a bailout, which he used "gift funds" to "win this round".
Jeffrey Epstein touched cryptocurrency in a lot of inappropriate places. #epsteinfiles #epstein #JeffreyEpstein
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Here's the actual link. Also want to give a huge shout out to @NFTEthics whose research I heavily relied on for the article. cryptadamus.substack.com/p/crypto-epste…
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The man, the myth, the legend: Howard "Nutlick" Lutnick.
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i found a pretty fascinating trove of documents that detail one man's long and arduous 𝘬𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘧 to force #Tether to seize ~$3 million USDT that he lost to an address poisoning scam a few years back.
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Asif Ayub Patel was innocently attempting to purchase $3 million worth of gold bars from Northern Lights, a precious metals dealer based in Hong Kong that prefers to be paid in Tether, as any freedom loving Dubai resident is wont to do.
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Unfortunately he was careless & got pwned by an address poisoning attack: scammer sends you some crypto from an address that starts/ends w/the same characters as the address you are trying to transact with and hopes you copy/paste from recent txns w/out checking.
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Since #Israel attacked #Iran Tether has frozen 112 addresses on Tron and Ethereum.
- Collectively those wallets received ~$700 million USDT before being frozen
- The top 40 of those wallets are *all* on Justin Sun's Tron blockchain
Iranian exchanges mostly use Tron USDT.
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Dune dashboard with all the historical Tether blacklist data for those two blockchains can be found here: dune.com/queries/5342352
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#Nobitex, the largest crypto exchange in Iran (which is basically a Binance feeder fund, but I digress), openly advises its users on how to avoid sanctions via Tether USDT even though that is a blatant violation of all kinds of laws.
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it really looks like a few days before the $TRUMP launch someone borrowed all $ETH from #WorldLibertyFi treasury, sent it to a bunch of different Coinbase accounts (sus?), and then it came back from #CowSwap trades post-TrumpCoin w/e.