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Molly White
@molly0xFFF
crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • @web3isgreat and @follow__crypto newsletter: https://t.co/hb1tT2Q3bJ • store: https://t.co/s7Ija9U1aT
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Nov 15 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Newsletter: Crypto’s efforts to buy the 2024 elections paid off, and we’re in for a bumpy ride.

A recap of how unprecedented crypto super PAC spending impacted 58 Congressional races, and the pro-crypto appointees Trump is already eyeing.

citationneeded.news/issue-70/ While the cryptocurrency industry failed to convincingly prove a flood of single-issue crypto voters were waiting to hit the polls, they proved that they didn’t actually need people to care about crypto so long as billionaire industry executives had enough money to throw around.
Jul 18 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Some recent tweets from the founder and CEO of a prominent cryptocurrency company.


Tweet by Ryan Selkis: "Anyone that votes against Trump at this point can die in a fucking fire. Literal war."
Tweet by Ryan Selkis: "The Civil War for the country started today, and if you are anti-Trump you are against the men who are willing to fight. Good luck."
Tweet by Ryan Selkis: "Bolshevism cannot be cured with votes. We must excise the metastatic cancer and evil of the left, by force if necessary. This is why the second amendment was and is so important. Do not initiate violence, but if it’s brought to your door, finish with violence."
Tweet by Ryan Selkis: "I hate leftists with the fire of 1000 suns. I’m not a Republican. I’m built different. War." Then there was this exchange. Messari’s Head of Engineering is on an H1-B, by the way.


Tweet exchange between Ryan Selkis and AdrianoFeria.eth: Selkis: "Are you a citizen or just a green card holder?" Feria: "I've been a green card holder for more than a decade and am about to initiate the process of becoming a citizen. What practical difference does that make in the context of this conversation?" Selkis: "I hope we send you back. That’s why I was asking. Sorry."
Tweet exchange between Ryan Selkis and AdrianoFeria.eth: Feria: "Under what premise would you "send me back"? I pay all my taxes, respect the law and, as a permanent resident, I am protected by constitutional rights. You probably didn't know about that last part and it might be a tough pill for you to swallow... here is the irony of you leaning about America from someone you deem to be undeserving of living here. You should take a break from social media and politics, it seems like you've gotten the brain virus too." Selkis: "You are protected by constitutional righ...
Tweet exchange between Ryan Selkis and AdrianoFeria.eth: Feria: "I qualify for citizenship, and your disdain won't stop me from getting it." Selkis: "that's fine, at least you won't have it in time for this election. good luck!"
Messari Inc H1B Salary all years 5 records was found, Median Salary is $125000. 40 percents of the salary are above $200K, 0 percents of the salary are between $150K and $200K, 40 percents of the salary are between $100K and $150K, 20 percents of the salary are less than $100k <100k20% Complete (success)100k-150k40% Complete (success)150k-200k0% Complete (warning)>200k40% Complete (danger) MESSARI INC ASSOCIATE PRODUCT MANAGER 80,000 NEW YORK, NY 12/13/2019 06/06/2020 MESSARI INC DIRECTOR, DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS & DATA SCIENCE 210,000 NEW YORK, NY 04/04/2022 09/06/2022 MESSARI INC HEAD OF ENGI...
Jul 12 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It’s finally time to release my newest project:

This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States. followthecrypto.org
A screenshot of the front page of FollowTheCrypto.org, showing total amounts raised by crypto-currency focused PACs ($203 million) and amounts spent ($38 million). There are also graphs showing expenditures by political party, and expenditures by PAC. There is a list of the top elections influenced by crypto industry money, of the most highly-funded super PACs overall, and of recent expenditures by crypto-focused committees. I have been working on this for the past two months, after growing more concerned about the influence this industry is trying to exert. Did you know crypto companies have spent more this cycle than the oil or pharmaceutical industries, despite being a fraction of the size? A bar chart showing the amount of election spending by sector. Data: Crypto $203,000,000,All health $193,706,986,Communications $178,671,462,Lawyers & lobbyists $172,810,610,All energy $152,567,769,Labor $120,230,704,Transportation $98,461,871,Construction $85,162,003,Agribusiness $84,400,550,Defense $25,445,961
Oct 30, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Escaped the courtroom and have my phone during lunch. Some notes from Sam Bankman-Fried's cross-examination this morning, which started around 11:25am 🧵 Bankman-Fried came off as pretty evasive in his replies, often claiming "I don't recall" or saying he didn't remember saying something "with that specific phrasing"
Sep 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
now @lindayaX has reposted the ad, claiming it's to upload a higher-res version, while quietly swapping out the tweets that were critical of elon. compare

Tweet by Linda Yaccarino: a hint of what's to come... (in higher res)
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Sep 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
shoutout to whichever twitter employee snuck two tweets dunking on twitter and elon into their new ad



roon @tszzl the timeline algo is dying fr it’s becoming mediocre engagement maxxed on low effort repost accounts and dating discourse
Right Wing Cope @RightWingCope Twitter’s value has fallen by at least 50%, and Elon is blaming it all on the Jews. Masterful gambit sir Screenshot of Elon Musk tweet: Interesting. In our case, they would potentially be on the hook for destroying half the value of the company, so roughly $22 billion.
Screenshot of Twitter ad showing the roon tweet scrolling past on a phone
Screenshot of Twitter ad showing the RightWingCope tweet scrolling past on a phone twitter ad: "✨ you've been here before for news, sports, and culture 💖"

the tweets: "life under late stage capitalism is a hellscape"


Tweet: eve6 @Eve6 "You aren't owed a living for doing a job that creates value and enriches people who don't create anything" is a good way to describe the conceit of capitalism Quoted tweet: Post-Left Watch @PostLeftWatch · Sep 3 Bill Maher wants to acknowledge the "big other side" of the writer's strike, and while he says they're getting "screwed a little bit by the streamers", a lot of their demands are "kooky". "They kinda believe that you're owed a living as a writer, and you're not".
Tweet: Mia Blume @mialoira My entire career has been dependent on men. To promote me. To hire me. To advocate for me to their peer groups. I’ve been slowly changing that, but I look forward to the day where it doesn’t feel true any more.
Tweet: A. H. @a_h_reaume When an HR person asked if I gave permission to share I'd been diagnosed w/ PTSD from discrimination to my boss, I told them I wouldn't give permission until they told me they would protect me from retaliation. In an email to share this, they started by writing out SIGH.
Tweet: Nathan Hare @nathanharenice Me: Can I please have a place to live Every apartment: Join the ranks of a new generation. A bespoke, crafted living space at the intersection of work and play, just steps away from everlasting memories. Welcome to the Manchester™. Rent is 7000
Sep 13, 2023 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
remember golden, which was supposed to be web3's project to "fix" wikipedia by adding crypto incentives for editing?

you don't get points for editing it anymore and they've done a full pivot to AI

their website used to say that they created golden because "the world is lacking a decentralized graph of canonical knowledge that is open, free, permissionless and incentivizes agents to enter data into the graph."

(from oct '22: ) web.archive.org/web/2022100412…

A decentralized canonical knowledge graph Get involved ➜ Sign up for updates ➜ / Decentralized / Permissionless / Canonical canonical /kəˈnɒnɪk(ə)l/ accepted as being accurate and authoritative. The world is lacking a decentralized graph of canonical knowledge that is open, free, permissionless and incentivizes agents to enter data into the graph. Our vision is to create a protocol that maps the 10 billion entities that exist and the public knowledge that surrounds them.
Consensus and / graph validated Each agent can submit triples to be validated, and, if accepted, will be rewarded tokens. Validators and predictions from the knowledge graph itself decide if triples are accepted. In essence, the protocol incentivizes the knowledge graph construction while defending against gaming attacks.
Sep 7, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Former FTX exec Ryan Salame has pled guilty to two charges in the ongoing FTX trial. Many had been wondering when an indictment would come out against him, particularly as his donations to Republican political causes had already been alleged to have been straw donations. Salame (pronounced "Salem", not "salami") was mentioned in the prosecutors' motions in limine, which revealed that they had access to some of his personal communications.

4. Ryan Salame’s Messages About Being a Straw Donor Are Not Barred by the Rule Against Hearsay6 The Government seeks to admit statements by Ryan Salame, a co-conspirator in the defendant’s illegal campaign finance scheme and unavailable declarant, about his agreement with the defendant to make political donations in his own name but paid for by the defendant. These statements are excepted from the rule against hearsay as statements against penal interest under Rule 804(b)(3).7 For example, in a private message to a trusted family member in November 2021, Salame explained that the defendant ...
Aug 11, 2023 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
In 30 minutes: a hearing on whether Sam Bankman-Fried will be remanded to jail after leaking to the press private diary entries of a witness in his case.

See my past coverage of this:
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• https://t.co/WCbaAWSkCT
• https://t.co/n3KPYDsefe

Or in longer form:
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• https://t.co/zeYI0iwU6Inewsletter.mollywhite.net/i/135471114/sa…
newsletter.mollywhite.net/i/135669426/sa…
Jun 7, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
I wish the SEC had filed their exhibits in the binance lawsuit, which include internal chatlogs, before I published my article (newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sec-v-binanc…) because these are great reading 🍿

Instead I will do a thread 🧵 Chats between Samuel Lim (former Binance Chief Compliance Officer) and Alvin Bro (another Binance employee):
Lim: "bnb suka suka anyday can go to zero"
Bro: "can easily go to cents"
Lim: "anyone who takes BNB now is fking brave" Samuel Lim: bnb suka suka ...
May 9, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so.

The report itself is 60 pages long, so this is a long one.

newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-h… If you found this critical analysis of their report valuable, consider signing up for a pay-what-you-want subscription. My writing is never paywalled, and your support goes long way to helping me continue doing this kind of work. newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/pay-what-you…
May 9, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Sam Bankman-Fried has filed motions to dismiss all but three charges in the criminal case against him.

The charges he is not contesting atm are:
5. Conspiracy to commit commodities fraud
6. Conspiracy to commit securities fraud
and
11. Conspiracy to commit money laundering NOTICE OF SAMUEL BANKMAN-FR...Pretrial Motion No. 5: Moti... At least part of it seems to come down to the fact that additional charges were added after SBF's extradition agreement was made.
Apr 27, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Ted Cruz says "I'm a Bitcoin investor personally. I have a standing buy order. Every morning I have a buy of Bitcoin that comes in... I own a little more than 2 BTC."

Per his STOCK Act disclosures he bought btwn 0.4 and 1.4 BTC in Jan 2022. Hasn't disclosed any purchases since. Few possibilities here.
1) He's not been filing his disclosures.
2) He's lying to play to his Bitcoiner audience
3) He bought the remaining 0.6 – 1.6 BTC ($17,400 – $46,400) within the last thirty days, and set up the repeat buy order within that window.
Apr 26, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
sure would be a shame if people reposted the screenshots that twitter's trying to hide, since it's probably a pretty laborious process to take images down this way.

(cw: transphobia, violence) Jake Shields: Tweets removed, account active, has not posted since tweets removed
AJ McGregor: Went private
Anthony Gorman: Reply still up, account active, still tweeting
graffanati19: Account suspended Archived copy of a tweet by...Screenshot of tweets by ver...Replies by three verified T...
Apr 26, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
wow. @Esqueer_ posted screenshots of tweets by verified users supporting the murder of anyone who helped children transition. twitter removed the tweets AND any evidence that they ever happened, including her screenshots.

assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/… Tweets by Alejandra Carabal...This morning on Twitter a p... @Esqueer_ twitter takes down TOS-violating tweets all the time but i don't think i've ever seen them remove images in this way
Apr 18, 2023 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
Gensler: "Putting crypto assets off balance sheet is a recipe for further risk in the system and disaster for the system." Rep. Lawler (R-NY): "Does the SEC deserve any culpability for the collapse of FTX?"
Lawler wants a yes or no answer, which he is not getting and not likely to get based on Gensler's answers today so far lol
Apr 18, 2023 • 90 tweets • 12 min read
Beginning in 15 minutes: a Congressional hearing focused on the SEC, where Chairman Gary Gensler will face scrutiny over the commission's activities involving the crypto industry (among other things).

Livetweet thread: 🧵 Some background in this short thread:
Apr 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The @FinancialCmte is holding a hearing tomorrow at 10am ET entitled "Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission", where SEC Chairman @GaryGensler will be the only witness.

financialservices.house.gov/news/documents… Various Congresspeople — notably the very pro-crypto @GOPMajorityWhip — have been slamming Gensler, blaming him for crypto failures including the FTX collapse. Emmer has gone so far as to accuse Gensler of "helping SBF and FTX work on legal loopholes".
Apr 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
a lot of headlines are focusing on the 75% number, but it's most startling to me that 6% of US adults familiar with crypto think that the current ways to trade crypto are "very" or "extremely" reliable and safe

i feel like even most crypto true believers don't feel that way lol Image (this is from @pewresearch's latest crypto study: pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023…)
Apr 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
other weird shit from a16z's investment portfolio: newnew, a project described by the BBC as "the app that lets you pay to control another person's life"

indeed, the app invites you to "sign up to become a creator and have people pay to vote and bid on your life decisions!"
Come together to shape reality Bid and vote on what the world does next!
Image "The app, which is still in its "beta" or pre-full release stage, describes itself as "a human stock market where you buy shares in the lives of real people, in order to control their decisions and watch the outcome'."

bbc.com/news/business-…
Apr 9, 2023 • 44 tweets • 12 min read
The new team in charge of the FTX bankruptcy have released their first interim report on the failures of control at FTX and related businesses.

It's 43 pages long, let's go through it 🧵

courtlistener.com/docket/6574882… The debtors reiterate the stunning lack of recordkeeping and controls at FTX: "Normally... there are readily identifiable records, data sources, and processes that can be used to identify and safeguard assets of the estate. Not so with the FTX Group."