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@DirkMcGirk16 @Bitfinexed lol "mob lawyers never go to jail"

@lugarou16 @Bitfinexed Idk wtf that is, but every major financial institution has engaged in illegal activity. And at no point in history have we arrested the people that work to stop criminal activity instead of the ones that do it.

Binance to Nigeria: Tigran Gambaryan has no decision making authority for Binance. ...So Binance sent a useless sockpuppet to talk about criminal matters to Nigeria? Be funny if Nigeria agrees to release Tigran in exchange for the Binance CEO coming to Nigeria to clear things up.

@TheStalwart Are you joking? The story is "operating without regulatory constraints"! How do you identify the issue and pass right over it? Am I missing the sarcasm?

I would argue that Polymarket’s success is not a second crypto use case besides stables. Prediction markets have existed and work well. What’s different about polymarket is that it’s funded by stablecoins it’s operating without the regulatory constraint. The story is stables.

@JDonoghueAuthor @jemimajoanna @FT A metastasizing cancer.

Great piece here by @jemimajoanna for the @FT on crypto lobbyists, and their malign influence on the US election "We should be very concerned indeed about the influence and scale of this rapidly growing crypto lobby." Full article⤵️ ft.com/content/798112…

@jonwu_ I don't get it. Where is the NFT angle? Where's the blockchain integration? Those are so bad you're moving on to addictive consumer products that have been done a thousand times?

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Coinbase's "Stand With Crypto" PAC website is now confirming what I reported earlier. More than 99% of the amount they claimed was raised by this supposedly "grassroots" PAC is in fact massive corporate contributions to Fairshake.

@matthewstoller New Dealers didnt have jets, designer drugs, smartphones, or universal internet comms. The world has grown more complicated. Responsibility must be devolved to subject matter experts or modernity is simply unmanageable, particularly in our age of deep partisan dysfunction.

New Dealers didn't have Chevon deference and they seemed to do ok.

Would sincerely love to hear @patio11 's immediate gut impressions on this matter.

Do avg people not see how insane the crypto bros are? Does it really take a law degree to be able to say "I sense there's some horseshit in the philosophy you are promoting" when you hear things like this??

@wolfofx Does Jackson ever hold an M1 Garand in the movie? I think he is always carrying the Springfield bolt-action that he is shown holding in this picture.

Surprising Facts, Tiny Details and Clever tricks That Make Movies Unforgettable A Thread 🧵👇 1. In Saving Private Ryan (1998), Jackson has a bruise on his thumb that was a common injury during WWII from soldiers' thumbs getting caught in the loading mechanism of M1 Garands.

@AdviserCounsel @MitchWex It's not as if ALJ rulings were unappealable either.

@MitchWex It wasn’t exactly a “right” until today…ALJs have been used for almost 50 years without question.

How dare they consider the rights of the individual to be paramount to the unchecked power of the unelected unaccountable administrative state?

@GaryMarcus Gary, I find it v odd how passionate you are in this argument and yet I think you were generally on the crypto hype train - am I wrong about that? "If at first you don't succeed, project the future." AI hype train is 1 yr old; crypto counterpart is *15 yrs old*

If at first you don’t succeed, project the future. Now that everyone realizes that current AI isn’t really meeting expectations, many AI bigwigs are starting to pivot from telling you what their products can do *now* to what they fantasize will happen in 3-15 years. I sorta feel like maybe I have seen this movie before.

@GaryMarcus You're talking about AI, but you're skipping right over the blockchain-gambling-industrial complex currently flooding our political system with dirty money.

What if the approach of selling of a fantastical future that had no specific basis in reality left the realm of one rogue blood test maker and became the basis for an entire industry? 🤔

@Bitfinexed @adamscochran Security so bad some might (some prosecutors definitely would) say it was intended. The metaphorical "just leave the door unlocked" makes you part of the crime and does not provide any excuse or protection to whoever intentionally ensured the door would be unlocked.

@adamscochran Crypto friendly bank that works with crypto scammers has bad security. News at 11.

Holy fucking horrendous. So the bank that banks all the fintech apps that big banks won’t take, got hacked and all the KYC info and personal data was in plain text, AND copies of uploaded KYC images were in there as well. Expect lots of breech attempts on payment apps.

2014: no need for Fed, Visa, banks 2019: just leave us alone 2024: let's bribe politicians

@mikulaja Question: what were the demands of the ransomware group exactly? How did they plan to squeeze financial juice out of this theft? (my guess: Bitcoin)

BREAKING: Evolve Bank & Trust has allegedly been the victim of a ransomware attack and data breach by Russian hacker group LockBit, multiple info security sites are reporting: The group had touted a cache of Federal Reserve data but, when its demands weren't met, released what appears to be as much as 33 terabytes of data from Evolve's systems. As reports began surfacing yesterday, Evolve sent clients of its Open Banking Division an email (screencap below) acknowledging the reports and that, in conjunction with "law enforcement and government agencies," it is investigating the situation. A request for comment on the situation to Evolve's press contact was not immediately returned. Evolve recently received an enforcement action from its primary regulator, the Federal Reserve Board, which, among other areas, cited the bank's IT practices and required it to develop a plan and timetable to correct information technology security deficiencies. While Evolve is perhaps best known as the bank partner of now-bankrupt Synapse, it supports numerous other high-profile fintech partners, including: Mercury, Stripe, Affirm, Airwallex, Alloy, Bond (now part of FIS), Branch, Dave, EarnIn, TabaPay, and numerous others. It has previously worked with Wise and Rho, though both have since migrated to other bank partners. The authenticity of and potential scope of the data breach couldn't immediately be verified by Fintech Business Weekly, but industry sources who have reviewed the data described the situation as "as bad as it gets," with clear text files that containing end user PII, including SSNs, card PANs, wires, and settlement files. This is a developing story - more here as it happens.

In case anyone hasn't noticed the crypto lobbyist blitzkrieg, you might like to know where that tsunami of cash is coming from - it definitely isn't "grassroots" like Coinbase and friends claim. @molly0xFFF

I think he meant "every cycle"

@3_deame @ZaxxonGalaxian @SilvermanJacob Ok muting you. Have a good one.

@lugarou16 @ZaxxonGalaxian @SilvermanJacob Freedom is not real. We had to have this conversation because the physical universe has generated it to be this way. Same goes for the existence of the internet, crypto, and AI. These events were all impossible to avoid.

@3_deame @ZaxxonGalaxian @SilvermanJacob As I said: bad faith. If you don't understand the difference in energy consumption from sending and viewing communications and, eg, bitcoin mining, you lack the foundation necessary to participate productively in discussions such as this 🤷🏻‍♂️

@lugarou16 @ZaxxonGalaxian @SilvermanJacob Imagine the energy it takes to just send your one comment here for multiple devices to be able to view it. Don't you think it's hysterically selfish to think that amount of energy is worthy of being used for your twitter comments?

@3_deame @ZaxxonGalaxian @SilvermanJacob Ridiculous (and extremely likely bad-faith) take lmao

@lugarou16 @ZaxxonGalaxian @SilvermanJacob If we shut down communications and amusement via the internet, it would have a multiplying effect towards restoring the environment as people would have less ability to destroy their surroundings. Terminating the internet is something we should "invest" in.