➤ 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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Why I Think The Epstein Note Is Probably Real, A Thread
(note for those about to smash reply "lol CIA shill": the word "probably" means "more likely than not". it does not mean "definitely", just that the odds it's real are better than a coinflip)
reasons + odds 👇
🧵1/Ω subjectively, as someone who color-highlighted too many #EpsteinFiles (see 👇), it has the same voice as Epstein. "no fun" followed by "btw I'm the real victim" is more or less exactly what I'd expect the man's final message to the world to be.
🧵2/Ω epstein used the word "fun" as a quasi-synonym for "life".
his friends often asked each other "fun?" as a way of making an inquiry somewhere between "how's life?" and "how many 18 yr old russian models are in the club with you right now?"
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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".