➤ thank god for jerome powell
➤ retail customers getting fleeced
➤ shitcoins are king
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I'll say it again: shitcoins are king.
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$COIN is saying assets on platform are up 62% because more people moved their crypto onto Coinbase but... isn't the price of BTC and ETH also up like 70%?
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On the expense side $COIN's big layoffs in early January 2023 definitely showing up in the numbers bigtime.
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This program "Coinbase Borrow" is unsecured loans against crypto collateral (sort of) and will be discontinued as of May 10th (announcement was yesterday).
@HarrieScarlet pointed out most people thought this was a small # but $400 million in exposure is not small.
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$COIN provided vague "outlook". Remember this is an preliminary announcement and not an SEC filing so they can say kinda whatever they want, within reason.
tl;dr they are predicting big drop in revenue and higher costs.
god help them if the price of crypto falls again
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Also I couldn't help but be troubled by the fact that the federal reserve and the taxpayer bailed out such a piece of shit company, bc if Circle had lost $3.3bn in #SVB's collapse like it should have, $COIN would be totally rekt.
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Think about that anon the next time some crypto bro is trying to tell you about "operation chokepoint".
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: The Epstein / Russia / Israel / Crypto Timeline
The recently released #EpsteinFiles make it crystal clear that Epstein's involvement in crypto was much deeper and long lasting than had been previously understood.
(link in bio, RTs 🙏)
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If you're just catching up now here's a reminder that one of the things that came out in the recent "#EpsteinFiles" was the fact that bitcoin's core development team was funded from 2015 to [???] almost entirely by Jeffrey Epstein's largesse.
somehow no one has ever posted on twitter about the 5 emails in the #EpsteinFiles that seem to be between epstein and Renata Bolotova, who appears to be a fund manager at New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) and who asks Epstein "how are you sneaky?", so I'm posting about it.
...to which epstein replies "sexy" #EpsteinFiles
i have no idea if ms. bolotova is the "kazakh daughter" referred to in the bannon / epstein chats but assuming the picture above is of the right renata bolotova (which i think it is, but not 100% sure) then you have to admit she does look pretty kazakh.
2016: Epstein receives an email from Qatari "Jabor Y." regarding "Sharia guys" and "e-currency" a year and a half after Epstein had provided the funding for the bitcoin core development team at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. #EpsteinFiles
2/ maybe not actually a Qatari - @matthew_petti at @reason described the "Jabor Y" who was interested in "e-currency" as "an influential man in Qatar".
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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".
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Epstein's Arrest Shook The Blockchain
#JeffreyEpstein's arrest seems to have set off a wave of suspicious crypto payments that have heretofore gone unexamined.
(link in bio; RTs appreciated)
#epsteinfiles #epstein #epsteinCoverup
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After publishing my last post about Epstein's crypto connections I stumbled on something that kind of shocked me: Epstein had proposed the creation of a blockchain based BRICS currency to a "former" FSB operative way back in 2015.