Flexing Crypto can ruin your life.

Here are real stories that show why your identity should stay hidden🧵 Crypto influencer Pavel accidentally showed his home address in one of his videos.

Days later, masked robbers dressed as Santa Claus broke into his house.

They beat him and stole all his mining equipment, PC, and Bitcoin.

Two 19 year olds launch a crypto

One slap earns them $40,000

Hours later they’re on a private jet headed to Vegas.

With a possible lawsuit on the way.

What’s really happening with the Bagwork boys🧵

(1/9) BAGWORK is a Solana token made by two anonymous 19 year olds

Two regular guys who quit their jobs to launch a token on Pump Fun.

Their first viral moment came when one of them streak a Dodgers game on stream

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A massive supply chain attack just hit the JavaScript ecosystem.

18 core NPM packages were hacked, including chalk, strip ansi and debug.

These libraries have over 2 billion weekly downloads.

Here’s what happened, how it affects crypto and how to stay safe 🧵

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On September 8th, the NPM account of developer Qix- was hacked through a phishing email:

support@npmjshelp

Attackers pushed malicious updates to 18 widely used packages, including:

chalk
strip-ansi
color-convert
debug
error-ex
ansi-styles

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The Crypto Scams of Donald Trump and his circle

A thread🧵

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As president Trump was openly against Bitcoin and other coins.

Later in 2021 Trump said he didn’t trust Bitcoin

And saw it as a threat to the US dollar.

He wanted the dollar to stay as the world’s main currency.

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Donald Trump new crypto $WLFI is here

A token backed by politics, insiders

And one of the most dangerous structures ever seen🧵

(1/9) The token $WLFI puts almost all the leverage with insiders.

~56% of supply sits with founders, team and Trump’s family entities.

Only ~3.7% was for the public at the start.

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Kanye West launched a crypto token.

94% of the supply was controlled by insiders.

This might be one of the most extractive events in crypto🧵

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Kanye’s relationship with crypto started in chaos.

In 2014, a team launched “Coinye West” a Litecoin fork with his face.

He sued them into the ground, killing the project and calling it a scam.

At the time, he wanted nothing to do with crypto.

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Michael Saylor turned a dying company into a $33B Bitcoin vault.

A system built on leverage, dilution, and a single condition:

Bitcoin must never stop going up.

And most people don’t understand how dangerous this model is🧵

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MicroStrategy holds 629,376 BTC.

They spent over $33 billion to get it.

And almost none of that came from actual business revenue.

It came from bonds, stock sales, and a never ending flow of capital from investors who believe Saylor will never sell.

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The man who built Twitter.

The billionaire who bets everything on Bitcoin.

And the theory that says Jack Dorsey might be Satoshi Nakamoto 🧵

(1/9) Jack Dorsey was born in 1976 in St. Louis.

At 15 he wrote a dispatch software used by taxi companies for years.

He dropped out of college, moved to California, and by 2006 created Twitter.

His first tweet was simple:

“just setting up my twttr.”

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The biggest Crypto fumbles ever

A thread🧵

(1/9) Adin Ross lost over $40,000,000 selling Ethereum at the bottom at $2,300

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One man controlled 25% of Bitcoin in 2010

He exploited the system and created a new algorithm

Even helped Satoshi Nakamoto

But suddenly vanished🧵

(1/9) In 2010 Bitcoin was barely worth $0.01

And mining was easy, anyone with a decent laptop could do it

That’s when a quiet programmer named ArtForz entered the scene

Within weeks, he was mining faster than almost anyone else

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He bought Crypto in 2017 and got scammed.

Lost over $15,000.

Started reading block explorers to understand what happened.

Today he’s the most feared crypto investigator.

Who is ZachXBT?🧵

(1/11) Before becoming a detective, Zach was just another retail investor.

He trusted projects, aped into NFT collections.

Then came the rug pulls.
Then came the hack.

In 2018, he lost over $15k in ETH.

So he opened Etherscan and started digging.

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This guy extracted millions in a deep bear market

Gained the attention of Andrew Tate.
Got sued for tens of millions.

And disappeared out of nowhere.

Who was Ben.eth?

(1/9) Ben’s story starts during the 2023 memecoin mania

Kicked off by the PEPE pump.

He was a small NFT influencer with 15,000 followers.

But getting in early on PEPE made him money

And gave him a dangerous idea.

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He’s the CEO of Astronomer.

She’s Head of HR.

They were seen acting like a couple at a Coldplay concert in front of 65,000 people.

The scandal of Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot🧵

(1/9) Andy Byron became CEO of Astronomer in 2023.

The company had just hit a $1.3B valuation and needed a steady hand.

He had a clean career, came from big tech companies

And lived near Boston with his wife and two kids.

The kind of CEO you never hear about.

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He made $100,000,000 in unrealized profit.

Lost everything.

Begged for donations to avoid liquidation.

Today his account got suspended.

The downfall of James Wynn 🧵

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We don’t know much about James’s past.

He was born in a small town in the UK

In December 2020, Alameda sent James Wynn around $6,000 in ETH

But he would become known years later

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He made millions shilling tokens to his fans.

Then lost his family, his career, and his freedom.

Now he’s posting from jail.

The strange story of BitBoy🧵

(1/9) Ben Armstrong didn’t have an easy life.

He struggled with addiction before finding crypto.

In 2012, he bought his first Bitcoin.

By 2015, he started Ben Armstrong Designs and helped run a rehab center called Three Dimensional Life.

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He scams every cycle

+200 launches
$30,000,000 extracted

No face in crypto has caused more damage

Who is Sahil Arora?🧵

(1/9) Sahil is a popular crypto influencer on Instagram.

You can call him “A master of social engineering”

He can manipulate even celebrities into promoting his scams.

And he’s been at it for a while.

(Source: Coffeezilla Interview)

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He won gold at the Physics Olympiad

Built a top HFT firm

Then launched a DEX doing $10B a day with no VCs and no token

The reason behind Hyperliquid

Who is Jeff Yan?🧵

(1/9) Jeff started out in science

In 2013, he won gold and silver at the International Physics Olympiad

Then studied Math and Computer Science at Harvard

After graduating, he went through Google

Then Hudson River Trading

Until Ethereum changed everything

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A $400M Bitcoin wallet just woke up after 9 years.

It’s linked to a drug lord.

It caused a minister to resign.

And it might bring down a government🧵

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The wallet belongs to Nucleus

A darknet marketplace shut down in 2016.

It was used for drugs, weapons, stolen data

Over 500,000 transactions.

Then it disappeared.

Until now.

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Elon Musk vs Donald Trump

What started as a handshake at the Oval Office has turned into open war

Here’s why the US is splitting in two🧵

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Elon Musk spent 130 days inside Trump’s government as a “special advisor”

He left last month

Since then, he’s been tearing apart Trump’s biggest plan:

“One Big Beautiful Bill”

He calls it a disaster

A law that will destroy the future of America

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He made $100,000,000 in unrealized profit.

Now he’s begging for donations to avoid liquidation.

The downfall of James Wynn🧵

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In 2023, James Wynn found PEPE early.

He bought at $300K market cap and called it at $600K.

That win made him famous.

After that, he started promoting new tokens on his profile and private groups.

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He built the biggest Bitcoin marketplace when BTC was only $0.50

He was sentenced to life in prison

Today, his wallet just received 300 BTC

Who is Ross Ulbricht?🧵

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Ross Ulbricht studied physics and materials science

Before launching Silk Road in 2011.

Using Tor and Bitcoin

The site let people trade secretly, following his idea of a free economy.

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