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Crypto and Frauds | Co-host: @CryptoCriticPod | Research: @protos | Discord: https://t.co/vSrKudoFKl
Oct 19, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
One of my favorite forgotten crypto stories is @sendwyre, and maybe someday I’ll make @CasPiancey record an episode about it, but for now:

Wyre was a payment processor servicing the cryptocurrency industry 1/ At one point Bolt was going to acquire Wyre at an eye watering valuation of $1.5 billion, but the deal fell apart as Ryan Breslow’s empire did
Sep 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Deductive argument proving that Tether was unbacked: bennettftomlin.com/2021/06/04/a-s…

Image Article responding to claims of conspiracy theories and accusations of 'truthers': bennettftomlin.com/2021/07/03/tet…
May 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Hey can someone explain to me what TRON Decentralized Autonomous Organization Venture's is and how it is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization? @justinsuntron what makes it decentralized and autonomous?
May 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
What about Yuan Tether? Why is that one always forgotten? Is it because the guy behind it ended up in a Chinese prison for money laundering?
Apr 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
RFK Jr. is lying about the law. Interviews and appearances are explicitly carved out. Fucking disgraceful people support this anti-vax asshole law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47… ImageImage David Sacks is lying too. RFK has been anti-vax and claiming vaccines cause autism for almost two decades Image
Apr 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Joseph Bankman, SBF’s father, apparently knew FTX was insolvent and called people including Scaramucci to warn them about this fact Mooch really killed Joseph’s “I know nothing defense”
Apr 29, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Free speech, but only if it’s used to lie to children Children should not just be taught about how the founding fathers were slaveowners, but about the specific abuses they were willing to levy against the people they owned
Apr 28, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Next session is A CFTC Commissioner speaks Image Image
Apr 28, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
First session today is about Tokenized Identity featuring the head of Animoca Brands and the person who bought the expensive Beeple NFT Image Image
Apr 27, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Next session will be @realDannyNelson interviewing Tigran Gambaryan of Binance Image Image
Apr 27, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Next session will be @nikhileshde interviewing Paul Grewal of Coinbase Image Opened with recorded statement from Brian Armstrong and Paul about their Wells Notice
Apr 12, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
8 more days! protos.com/crypto-capital…
Apr 12, 2023 • 40 tweets • 10 min read
This is hilarious I so desperately wish they actually defined 'blockchain' in this, because the way they're using it is just incoherent
Apr 12, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
The Confederacy existed solely to preserve the institution of owning human beings
Apr 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Holy fucking shit, Riot is fucking stupid on main apparently The complaint about Bitcoin is that the incentives of the system are designed so that spend on energy always approaches reward paid to miner, and society is feeling as though that is not a good place for limited resources to go
Apr 11, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Yuga Labs raised $450m from A16Z thanks to the enthusiasm of the fandom they created.

I checked Yuga’s livestream this morning and was the only person there. At least their podcast is successful
Apr 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It has been 652 days since Stuart Hoegner said the 2018 Tether audit was coming as soon as possible 2018 would be the year where Bitfinex took hundreds of millions out of Tethers account and papered it over by saying they were owed money from the money launderers for the Colombian cartels who had stopped responding to Giancarlo
Apr 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Narrative: We are an innovative company using cryptography in innovative ways to create digital scarcity.
Reality: lol y'all if you unlist Episode 3 I will still find it, if you really want to hide that trash you really need to delete or private it
Mar 21, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
TrueUSD and it's counterparts are some of the weirdest stablecoins in cryptocurrency, and I want to summarize some of the weirdness from this article in a thread.

Starting with: The first time TUSD hit $1b happened right before Terra collapsed, and involved the MC tripling 1/ TrueUSD (TUSD) was launched in 2018 by California-based Trus That's weird! Marketcap tripling is weird and the timing is just so fucking strange.
Mar 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Oh the guy running money and humans for the mafia has a disease that absolutely requires him to be released from jail and treated in a different country? That’s unexpected. One way or another I bet the friend of the mobsters is not returning after that treatment
Mar 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This is incredible: wsj.com/articles/crypt… They were using Harborne's aviation companies! If they found it for AML Global, they should also check: Sherriff Global Group