🚨With USA & most of the world distracted Elon Musk makes a push to move US Treasury onto blockchain (!).🤔

Danger is he's out of his depth and in Beijing's pocket. So is Ethereum, a crypto-scam created by 🇨🇳 regime's "Wanxiang Group" in 2014.

The scam is now begging for it: 🧵


MetaMask was created by Consensys, another front for the Ethereum Foundation which is a front for 🇨🇳.

PRC pushed Ethereum onto the crypto-world in same way as FTX; came out of nowhere, and was heavily promoted by paid influencers.

Ethereum, contrary to Bitcoin, was "pre-mined".

I laud every effort to wrest control of this horrific malware posing as an app from 🇨🇳's control and as its US users' privacy can't be protected retroactively, the sale might be a decent compromise since it protects their data going forward at least.

BUT, users should note..🧵

https://twitter.com/kevinolearytv/status/1876287966584221717

2/ Now is the time for TT users to take proactive steps to ensure their past data shared with Beijing is protected as best they can themselves and that QUITE POSSIBLY it would be best to make a backup on their own data now and delete most if not all of their past shared content.

Worth noting Musk & Milei couldn't be more different people in more different countries!

Argentina has been bogged down in the near-fascist "Peronism" for >half a century, which isolated the country & economy for decades.

Argentina couldn't be more different from the USA! 🇦🇷🇺🇸

https://twitter.com/NONPLVSD/status/1856790942969467178

So it seems more than anachronistic and bizarre for Musk et al. to suggest the US will benefit from a "similar" approach than Milei, who is tasked with breaking down decades of Argentinian isolationism and protectionism that simply doesn't exist in the US,..

Digital opium metaphor isn't unjustified - a problem I have with this view is the idea that the CCP which runs Tiktok & ByteDance (and Douyin) uses TT merely as some "digital opium" ie make it addictive & nothing else. No. That's only "retention & growth" part of their strat:
1/

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1589418795243917312

2/ TT isn't merely an addictive craze like say some popular online videogames tend to be (or indeed Tencent's LoL is) and to frame it this way doesn't at all alert its users and potential users to the dangers. Nope, Tiktok is malware.

I will blow your mind take u back to 2016..

Disagree; there are good indications Tiktok US penetration has peaked and has likely started to decline. Keep in mind ByteDance's self-reported numbers are entirely fake and inflated >10x and they had their app aggressively ping Cloudflare to fake activity & fool investors:

https://twitter.com/melissakchan/status/1588642090535489536

2/ If there was any good content on Tiktok, it'd be reposted. I haven't seen good content since the banned hero who explained Uyghur genocide while pretending to do a make-up tutorial.

I doubt Tiktok US has more than 1 million users, maybe 5m outside US.

Short OSINT on #CCPChina MSS outpost or "Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station" in #Rotterdam located at Van der Sluysstraat 370 staffed by 'former' PLA & Chinese intelligence/security officers for surveillance, harassment, or even kidnapping of dual Chinese citizens: 🧵

https://twitter.com/VeerleNouwens/status/1584945033777758210

2/ Report names Yanping Shu, and Jie Chen & Xiangrong Zhou as his seconds, all 3 are also on board of "Qingtian Nederland", another CCP front.

Registered to address also is "Biao Zhi Holding B.V." which was founded in 2014 & whose phone # match those in @SafeguardDefend report: