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➤ #Binance announcing increasingly dire issues w/its fiat on and off ramps.
➤ #CryptoCom's Euro bank accounts were frozen or seized by #BankOfLithuania on 1/21 for money laundering, terrorist financing, and sanctions violations (screenshot)
Let's dig...
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Recently users of #CryptoCom were surprised to receive an email saying that #SEPA transfers of $EUR were being “migrated to a new provider” and thus Euro-denominated deposits and withdrawals were temporarily suspended.
Yikes.
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🧵3/Ω #Cryptocom customers couldn't deposit/withdraw for ~100 hours yet #CDC did not send any kind of prior notice to their customers. Many redditors confirm problems began > 24 hours BEFORE #CDC sent out the first (and only) email about the disruption.
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?
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does anyone find it kind of... 𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆... that at any point in time there was more or less the exact same amount of #Tether on #Ethereum as on #JustinSun's #TRON?
it's almost as if #Tether was minting 2 $USDT for each $1 in #USD backing, one on each chain...
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I mean I guess we shouldn't really worry about it given that almost 100% of the $USDT on the #Tron blockchain was created for use by #SBF on his exchange #FTX. The #FTXScam is basically an honest exchange run by honest folks, right? #FTXScam
(h/t @DataFinnovation)
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Internet sleuths have been able to locate roughly half of the cash that backs $USDT. Surely any day now someone will stumble on all those tens of billions of dollars worth of "treasuries" that were formerly called "commercial paper"... (h/trick @DataFinnovation)
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It should surprise no one that @Bullish, an offshore exchange backed by the #EOS scammers at Block.One, uses $SI for banking.
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Nor would it surprise anyone to know that as of Nov. 24th a little over 1/6th of $SI (16.73%) was owned by #B1 CEO #BrendanBlumer and @B1 itself. b1.com/press/b1-acqui…
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The #EOS situation is complicated but suffice it to say it is dodgy even by crypto standards. Bros cashed out $4bn selling a coin to retail in an ICO and then never delivered the product. Got fined only ~$24mm by #SEC... good take, right?
News today about $SI mentioned layoff of Chief Credit Officer but didn't mention that position was for many years filled by the co-founder of the bank. #DerekEisele also seems to have wiped his social media
Founders do not get pushed out lightly, so if the San Diego Tribune is right this is a big deal. #DerekEisele still appears on the $SI website as the Chief Credit Officer. silvergate.com/about/leadersh…