that 15,427 page #GK8 document filled with #CelsiusNetwork's creditors personal detail is quite an amazing document.
i have so many questions, but let's start with:
1. Why are there an enormous numbers of creditors in countries GK8/Celsius aren't supposed to do business with?
👆These are the creditors who were serviced via first class mail. Not sure if that's because they are corporations or because they were holding a certain amount of assets on #CelsiusNetwork/#GK8 when it blowed up.
#CelsiusNetwork / #GK8 creditor corporations who were served by email, not real mail. maybe because they don't have one on file? maybe bc it's a small amount? might or might not be sus.
seems like all the bros who have been showing signs of financial distress (Huobi), signs of possibly being murdered (#TiantianKullander), or signs of both (#AmberGroup) is owed money by #Celsius.
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🧵 Oh look I just spotted "Evolve Wealth Limited".
Any connection to Evolve Bank & Trust (@getevolved1925) AKA #FTX's bank with one of the more "interesting" approaches to KYC/AML compliance? (hint: they don't really do it) #FTXScam#SBF#EvolveBank@BennettTomlin@CasPiancey
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i find it at least curious that this announcement of such a massive capital raise came just a few days after we got confirmation that the Treasury Dept is considering freezing Tether's assets and the DOJ is investigating them...
1/ anyone heard of #ChipperCash, an #FTX funded african fintech that had at one point almost $700 million deposited at Silicon Valley Bank? the funds were split up across like 10 accounts so the name didn't come up when $SVB's top depositors were a hot topic...
2/ Funds were in accounts labeled as "Deciens Chipper Cash SPV" 1-N. based on the total amount roughly matching the below tweet it seems like those funds somehow came from #Nigeria's government?
3/ Which in turn makes me wonder if this is stolen Nigerian oil money being laundered through SVB @mikulaja have you heard of this apparently kind of large fintech company?
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A thread about the recent connection of what WSJ calls “the shadow dollar that’s fueling the financial underworld” and the Trump campaign (basically a 🧵 version of my pinned tweet).
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Some background: there’s a NYC based financial firm called Cantor Fitzgerald whose CEO is a man named Howard Lutnick. Lutnick became somewhat infamous in the aftermath of 9/11 for cutting off payments to the many Cantor employees who died in the World Trade Center.
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Lutnick has two roles that matter for the purposes of this 🧵. The first is he was recently made the co-chair of the Trump transition team, meaning if Trump wins Lutnick will be choosing who will run things like the Dept. of Justice, Defense, etc. thehill.com/homenews/campa…
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I have videos of these screenshots but the frame rate is broken and i'm too lazy to correct it right now, but Uzbekistan's #Agrobank hired Brock Pierce's favorite lobbyist and went to meet Ted Cruz and went to the White House:
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maybe nothing but interesting the total value of Tether's repo assets for 2023-Q4 is only 2% less than the collateralized assets listed on #CantorFitzgerald's 2023 filing
2/ maybe more likely to be nothing but Tether's infamous "Secured Loans" number is only 3% less than the "Securities purchased under agreements to resell" on the #CantorFitzgerald balance sheet
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Just read #Chainalysis "2024 Crypto Crime Mid-Year Report". Obvs they have a habit of minimizing crypto crime stats but reading closely I realized this is kinda nuts. So nuts I that we need new rhyme akin to "pump & dump" vein. I give you:
"Minimize & Legitimize"
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The report has two parts. I focused on the 2nd half because it makes a big deal about CSAM. Surprisingly to me it seemed like Chainalysis was for once maybe not downplaying something really bad...
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Below is the tweet I dashed off as did a quick scan. CSAM is bad. If CSAM number go up = really bad. Looked like Chainalysis was admitting bad number go up!
Which, speaking as someone who's checked their work on terrorism financing, was surprising.