The fireworks start at 50:30 when @PeterMcCormack leads with "is what #DCG / #Genesis did to #GeminiEarn customers when they used retail money to prop up the price of $GBTC ethical?"
I realize some people may be wondering WTF just happened so here's the unannotated short version...
The story begins when $SI, a small regional bank, decided to go full crypto.
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A bunch of crypto companies used $SI to hold user deposits, stablecoin backing, etc - $USD cash. As it got more crypto customers it grew - $SI went from being a small bank to a medium bank, holding IIRC ~$15 billion in customer deposits.
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Since it had all this cash around $SI execs decided to invest it in a very safe asset: US Treasury bills. Basically they loaned the government of the United States money in exchange for interest plus guarantee of getting it back in N years.
The joke is even more of a $RIOT when you realize that #RiotBlockchain **already** had to amend their 2021 numbers with the SEC because they "forgot" about all the money they spent acquiring a couple of 9 figure businesses. see where it says "amendment" on SEC page:
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Now that #JosephDePaolo has suddenly resigned as CEO of $SBNY under a cloud of money laundering/fraud related smoke (he banked #Binance under a nonexistent Seychelles company which is illegal) here's a recording of an earnings call where he claims to not know who FTX is.
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In the aftermath of the #FTXplosion DePaolo, one of two CEOs of "crypto friendly" banks in the United States, would like you to believe that he has no idea what this "#FTX" thing is.
SBF was easily the most famous dude in finance at that moment and a CUSTOMER AT HIS BANK
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Maybe he really was that clueless. Would explain how so much #Binance money got laundered through his bank and how $SBNY ended up being #Tether's banker.
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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.