Some thoughts on the spike of attention CoinFlip is getting for knowingly facilitating ML.

1) What @LTLovesdigi and others are doing is heroic. This should be a norm, not an exception. As an industry, we talk about not wanting gov't intervention. This is the only route to that. 2) Blockchains don't lie. Until and unless CoinFlip produces their addresses and something tangible about where their BTC goes to disprove what took me mere minutes to find, they're full of shit. To argue otherwise is an exercise in Brandolini's law.

Bitcoin ATMs have 3xd in quantity in the past year. This isn't due to adoption. It is due to elder fraud, and ATM operators knowingly facilitating it -- 50%+ of volume for US-based machines to African exchanges is not remittance.

These companies are on notice. Remember this. Paid opinions and compliance theatre will not outweigh irrefutable, irreversible evidence on the blockchain. These snakes may be able to deceive the uninitiated, but enough is enough. Soon enough, the act will come to a crashing halt. Nothing outmatches blockchain data. Nothing.

Not been feeling so hot lately. Hoping it isn't COVID. I've been, in practice, paranoid about COVID to the point my sanitary practices raise eyebrows. TL;DR, last week an elderly gentlemen yelled for help, nobody helped him, and I carried him down/out of a road. Gave him medical attention and ultimately looked after him all the way home. Poor dude was sobbing his eyes out and hugging on me, and I'm sure you could imagine what that means for exposure. Claimed he didn't have COVID, but... can't know for sure.

name an exchange and ridiculous costume/name pair for me to consider

i'm thinking maybe huobi and hawaii is totally a country btw

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Chinese authorities seize $4.2B worth of crypto from PlusToken. Note where it's going -- their coffers.

Is this to say "no restitution for investors?" No. But don't hold your breath for significant, let alone full, recovery.

See next Tweets for a wakeup call on this. Whenever I put exchanges like OKEx and Huobi on blast for their dogshit AML, I often cite an enforcement arms race as a reason to care.

Not saying that if US authorities got to PlusToken first the outcome would be different, but it's fair to say that's a better bet than the CCP.

"OKEx Says Founder Not Detained for AML Investigation"

"OKEx wishes to build a safe and compliant ecosystem in the blockchain industry"

Let me put 30 minutes into a Tweetstorm with me literally throwing darts at addresses and tell you why that's bullshit My firm has 886 OKEx deposit addresses which would have been flagged by most (and in many cases all) known compliance tools (Chainalysis KYT, CipherTrace, Elliptic, Crystal -- you name it.)

20 minutes for "shit exchange of the day": GO.

Presenting LAToken, the consequence of IEO hype and the cash-grab soft-exits that plagued the 'complacency' phase of the market. @CoinMarketCap claims nearly $900M 24H volume there. The order books make that fucking unlikely.

/1 The only thing that could be LARPed as substantiating $900M volume is the frequency of (alleged) trades displayed. Compare the frequency of trades here to the frequency of trades on bigger exchanges and you'll see why that's bullshit. /2