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Larry Cermak
@lawmaster
CEO of The Block. DMs open
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Mar 31, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Some personal news after a much-needed Twitter hiatus. Today, I'm stepping into the CEO role at The Block. I’m also excited that @EvgenyGaevoy is joining the board, and together with the team, we'll work to strengthen our position following a challenging year. Almost 5yrs ago, after months of @mdudas relentless recruiting, I joined The Block during the last bear market. Very few cared about crypto then. My goal was to build the best crypto research team and to establish The Block as a go-to firm helping institutions navigate crypto.
Nov 10, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The withdrawals from FTX seem really weird. Some of them actually go to Binance deposit addresses, and some of them appear to be fresh wallets which could indicate a consolidation. Some pretty large (100k+) processing as well This Binance deposit wallet for example received $400k already. So could be preferential withdrawals etherscan.io/address/0xc2fa…
Nov 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
For the sake of transparency, I'm releasing my entire database of all wallets labeled as Alameda.

1. Total on-chain balance decreased by $230M in the last month (47% decrease)

2. Most of the funds were deposited to FTX and Genesis Always important to caveat that on-chain data (on Ethereum only) will never provide a full picture of what's going on. There are a lot of off-chain holdings and it's also theoretically possible Alameda is just creating new wallets so it's not as easy to track by idiots like me
Aug 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
0xb1 is completely full of shit. He claims 0x8cc, which washed Celsius funds through Tornado, is not his wallet but:

1. He accidentally swapped dust ETH to FODL

2. He tried to Sybil Ukraine Crypto Donation with 0.1 ETH from all his addresses around the same time Accidental FODL swap

etherscan.io/tx/0x16cf625fd… Image
Jun 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In the interest of transparency, I am releasing my database of all wallets that I believe belong to Celsius.

Currently, there is still roughly $1.5billion sitting on them.

Also please keep in mind that on-chain labeling is not an exact science. I could have made some mistakes Please keep in mind that there could be mistakes. The list might not be complete and I could have possibly mislabeled some over the years of tracking them. If you want the full list in Excel format, please respond under this tweet and I will DM a link.
May 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Really difficult to be in the “failed experiment but at least they tried” camp when there is still no info about hundreds of millions of BTC in the reserve. Twitter accounts look like they have been taken over by lawyers. CT really should put more pressure into getting info ASAP In all the documents Terra used to raise, the reserves were collected specifically for defending the peg, not to serve as a treasury in case the peg failed. Really fucking absurd it’s been days and nothing.
Apr 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Looks like Infura isn't working for a lot of people The quick solution (outside of running your own node which no one does) is to set up Alchemy or QuickNode RPC endpoints:

1. docs.alchemy.com/alchemy/guides…

2. quicknode.com/guides/knowled…

Relying purely on Infura isn't ideal.
Apr 6, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Luna Foundation Guard's wallet just sent $231M to Binance. First such transaction in a week and larger in size than the previous ones

etherscan.io/tx/0x8ffac2727… There is now roughly $610M left in that Ethereum wallet. One thing to keep in mind though is that that wallet is almost certainly managed by Jump and they can be (and likely are) doing psyops
Mar 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If Metamask/Infura is open and willing to block countries like Venezuela by IP addresses, it's only a matter of time until they are forced by regulators to censor individual people's IP addresses. We need alternatives immediately, hoping that Alchemy and others don't do this Just a reminder to use secure VPNs by default when interacting with crypto. Ideally also using a local node with MetaMask or other wallets but not many people will do that obviously. Most importantly let's put pressure on wallets to not do this shit. They should be neutral
Feb 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In her investigation, Laura alleges that the DAO hacker is Toby Hoenisch, ex-CEO of a failed ICO TenX.

Seems to have messed up by using his IP address without VPN and his username for his lightning and grin nodes. Wild if true When I had dinner with Toby in Singapore a couple of years ago, he seemed like a really cool guy. But then afterward, he rode off on one of these guys and I instantly knew something was wrong
Jan 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Internet has been down in Kazahstan for a few hours where roughly 18% if Bitcoin's hashrate is.

Looks like the impact on the hashrate is so far 12% drop just in the last few hours since internet went down. Another look at the same data from BTC com
Dec 16, 2021 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
1/ This crazy year is almost over and so it’s time to do a little retrospective. This 150-page report is full of charts, timelines, infographics, maps, etc. It’s the work of 30 research analysts we now have at The Block. Let’s dive in:

Download here: tbstat.com/wp/uploads/202… 2/ First, let’s start by saying the obvious. 2021 has been a record year for crypto. Pretty much all metrics we track in the real-time Data Dashboard have hit all-time highs this year.

theblockcrypto.com/data/
Dec 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We've seen $1.3 billion in long positions liquidated on this dump from $51k to to $42k. Keep in mind this number is likely undercounted because of Binance and Bybit limiting liquidations data. First massive liquidation in a while Total open interest has gone down from $21.6 billion to $16.7 billion in about 30 minutes. This would mean that almost $5 billion of open interest evaporated. This tends to be a much better proxy for liquidations because exchanges now massively limiting liquidations data
Nov 15, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Please be more upset you didn't get five figs worth of tokens because you sybiled an airdrop wrong LMFAO Apparently, a lot of also legit users are getting cut off as well. Seems like a pretty high false-negative rate but maybe those users are just loud
Oct 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Let’s gooooo Crypto fights are starting now
Sep 14, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
LMAO what's up with Arbitrum now? You can't tell me that it's down too right? Wow this last hour has been a rollercoaster of emotions lol
Sep 14, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The last block on Solana was produced almost 40 minutes ago. Not fantastic Actually never mind it's been down for much longer. The timer on Solana Beach is actually just broken. Looks like down for almost 2 hours now
Sep 13, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
God damn what a chart If this is real then god have mercy on us all. Walmart getting scammed lmao
Aug 31, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The wallet that funded this NFT's creation has a lot of suspicious transactions. Funded from Binance (likely KYC-less), used Tornado, and also played Dice2Win.

For now I would say to stay cautious and the link has been pulled again.

Wallet here: etherscan.io/address/0xbe1d… IMO makes literally 0 sense to bid unless Banksy actually posts to Instagram. Otherwise you could very well get rugged and it's weird that Pranksy bid 100 ETH with no confirmation
Jun 16, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I've been asked by a few people what I think about the current market and the honest answer is that I have no fucking clue right now. I think no one knows. CT has just been a lot of noise and not much substance lately. Everyone is still down a lot and coping. My brain dump: What jump-started this market last year and attracted a lot of interest was undoubtedly institutional investment in Bitcoin as a macro hedge. MicroStrategy kicked off the balance sheet trend and when Tesla announced they allocated, the market exploded. It was a validated trend
Jun 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Bear posting seems to be back and the market looks to be flimsy. I don't really know what will happen short term but I just want to say that looking at previous bear markets and thinking it will be a multi-year one again will almost surely be wrong. Very different dynamic now Flushing the complete horse shit that was pumping over the last few months is actually going to be healthy. Most retail interest is declining and the vast majority of meme ponzis are heading to 0. Same with useless DeFi tokens. The space and insti buy-in is here to stay though