In fact apparently he had 500 bank accounts¹ held in 80 different names in 3 countries:
1. USA 2. UAE 3. Bahamas
Know any other companies in Bahamas?
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Guo had a company called #Saraca that was some kind of #GTV holding company but maybe more interesting is the size and number of investors. He sold $452mm to 5,500 people for an average of $82,181 per investor.
Who are the investors? Seems kinda high for crypto degens...
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There is actually a law against making a thread about #MilesGuo without posting a video that demonstrates his immense skill as a cryptocurrency rapper, so here you go:
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It's also illegal to make a #MilesGuo thread and not remind everyone that #SteveBannon, AKA "the mad zealot who got Trump elected president", was arrested on Guo's boat.
🧵9/Ω #MilesGuo also makes an appearance in the arrest of Fugees member #PrasMichel. Long story but apparently #JhoLow, Leo DiCaprio's friend who stole $4bn from Malaysia (and used some of it to fund The Wolf of Wall St) needed PRC protection. bloomberg.com/features/2023-…
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Might as well put this here and remind everyone there are no coincidences.
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Just to make sure this thread has all the key points for those unfamiliar with this international man of mystery, here's #GeorgeSantos (yes, that George Santos) decrying the persecution of #MilesGuo on the floor of the Congress earlier today.
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Maybe worth pointing out that Miles Guo and Sam Bankman-Fried of #FTX fame have a few mutual friends in high places... #TonyBlair is one of them. Royal families in Arab states some others.
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I was a little surprised to find out that #MilesGuo bought a palatial estate in... New Jersey. And not just anywhere in New Jersey, but in Mahwah, which i knew was pretty suburban but never understood to be the kind of place a chinese "billionaire" might hang out.
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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".
Jeffrey Epstein touched cryptocurrency in a lot of inappropriate places. #epsteinfiles #epstein #JeffreyEpstein
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Here's the actual link. Also want to give a huge shout out to @NFTEthics whose research I heavily relied on for the article. cryptadamus.substack.com/p/crypto-epste…
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The man, the myth, the legend: Howard "Nutlick" Lutnick.
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i found a pretty fascinating trove of documents that detail one man's long and arduous 𝘬𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘧 to force #Tether to seize ~$3 million USDT that he lost to an address poisoning scam a few years back.
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Asif Ayub Patel was innocently attempting to purchase $3 million worth of gold bars from Northern Lights, a precious metals dealer based in Hong Kong that prefers to be paid in Tether, as any freedom loving Dubai resident is wont to do.
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Unfortunately he was careless & got pwned by an address poisoning attack: scammer sends you some crypto from an address that starts/ends w/the same characters as the address you are trying to transact with and hopes you copy/paste from recent txns w/out checking.
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Since #Israel attacked #Iran Tether has frozen 112 addresses on Tron and Ethereum.
- Collectively those wallets received ~$700 million USDT before being frozen
- The top 40 of those wallets are *all* on Justin Sun's Tron blockchain
Iranian exchanges mostly use Tron USDT.
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Dune dashboard with all the historical Tether blacklist data for those two blockchains can be found here: dune.com/queries/5342352
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#Nobitex, the largest crypto exchange in Iran (which is basically a Binance feeder fund, but I digress), openly advises its users on how to avoid sanctions via Tether USDT even though that is a blatant violation of all kinds of laws.
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it really looks like a few days before the $TRUMP launch someone borrowed all $ETH from #WorldLibertyFi treasury, sent it to a bunch of different Coinbase accounts (sus?), and then it came back from #CowSwap trades post-TrumpCoin w/e.