
(bong rip) "hear me out - what if did ethnic cleansing, but this time on the blockchain?"
https://www.ft.com/content/0b1bc761-c572-4b61-882a-fb4467259dcd?shareType=nongift
#gaza #palestine #israel #crypto #blockchain #cryptocurrency #iran
(bong rip) "hear me out - what if did ethnic cleansing, but this time on the blockchain?"
https://www.ft.com/content/0b1bc761-c572-4b61-882a-fb4467259dcd?shareType=nongift
#gaza #palestine #israel #crypto #blockchain #cryptocurrency #iran
"Britain’s drug gangs and Moscow’s hackers were just two nodes in a vast criminal super-network [that] included sanctioned oligarchs, Russian intelligence operatives and an Irish crime family."
(and of course that network also now includes the #Trump administration, because Howard Lutnick is/was Tether's money manager)
* #TheEconomist: https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/07/04/how-tether-became-money-launderers-dream-currency
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/NiCRD
#moneylaundering #crime#corruption #crypto #cryptocurrency #iran #russia #uspol#howardLutnick #economist #economics #finance #uk #ukpol #garantex #threatintel #ransomware #cybersecurity #vladimirputin #oligarchs #putin #ukraine #kinahans #kinahan
The team behind Trump's World Liberty Financial project has proposed lifting restrictions on the WLFI "governance token" to make it tradeable. I predicted shortly after its launch that if Trump succeeded in gutting the SEC, he would do this.
This would lift the substantial restrictions on the token (non-US or accredited investors only, locked tokens with no secondary sales) that were aimed at sidestepping attention from the previous SEC, and could be enormously lucrative for Trump.
It could also be enormously lucrative for early buyers like Justin Sun or the Emirati Aqua 1 Foundation, who hold $75 million and $100 million worth of WLFI, respectively.
Prior to the Trump administration, a token like this would likely have been considered an unregistered security by the SEC, and its sales illegal offerings.
A reporter tried asking Trump directly if he might divest from his crypto businesses, and Trump repeated “I’m president” and rambled about China. So... that’s a no, I guess
Crypto super PACs spent $1 million to back Democrat James Walkinshaw in the Virginia special election to replace Rep. Gerry Connolly. While Connolly was a staunch crypto skeptic, Walkinshaw’s promise to “embrace the next generation of technology” earned him the support of the crypto lobby.
Jupiter is the latest crypto project to reveal itself as decentralized in name only, “pausing” DAO votes over a “breakdown in trust” stemming from... Jupiter employees swinging DAO votes.
Newsletter: Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat.
I’m watching closely to see if crypto money will enter the NYC mayoral race, where crypto (and other) billionaires have been reacting with horror at Mamdani’s win.
Polymarket is facing even more allegations that large bettors are manipulating the outcomes of its dispute resolution system to resolve contentious disputes in their favor, this time over whether President Zelenskyy’s outfit at a NATO summit was a “suit” or not.
Crypto super PACs spent $1 million to back Democrat James Walkinshaw in the Virginia special election to replace Rep. Gerry Connolly. While Connolly was a staunch crypto skeptic, Walkinshaw’s promise to “embrace the next generation of technology” earned him the support of the crypto lobby.
I’m watching closely to see if crypto money will enter the NYC mayoral race, where crypto (and other) billionaires have been reacting with horror at Mamdani’s win.
FHFA Director Bill Pulte has directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to “prepare a proposal for consideration of cryptocurrency as an asset for reserves in their respective single-family mortgage loan risk assessments.”
Judge Analisa Torres has rejected the joint request by the SEC and Ripple to lift the permanent injunction and reduce Ripple’s $125 million penalty to only $50 million. Ripple has opted to walk away rather than continue their ongoing appeal.
A reporter tried asking Trump directly if he might divest from his crypto businesses, and Trump repeated “I’m president” and rambled about China. So... that’s a no, I guess
FHFA Director Bill Pulte has directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to “prepare a proposal for consideration of cryptocurrency as an asset for reserves in their respective single-family mortgage loan risk assessments.”
For all Trump likes to talk about “America First” crypto, his businesses are looking very UAE-first. Trump’s World Liberty Financial has just secured a $100 million investment from the UAE-based Aqua 1 Foundation, which has leapfrogged Justin Sun in Trump’s pay-for-access leaderboard.
There’s been some reporting that Trump is pulling away from his crypto projects, but this isn’t supported by financial disclosures published on June 13.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes