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UPDATE!

Shit happens.🙃

We have rescheduled #CryproBarons on the #DCG201 LIVE Stream for Sunday, February 16th at 3pm EST!

We'll be #hacking the #Soneium #blockchain and #web3 ecosystem!

@defcon #fediverse #mastodon #crypto #playstation #stateofplay

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#SEC Drops #Binance Lawsuit Days After #Crypto Exchange Lists #Trump’s #Stablecoin

The Securities & Exchange Commission dropped a lawsuit against Binance on Thursday, days after the crypto exchange began listing a stablecoin created by #WorldLibertyFinancial, one of Trump’s #blockchain ventures.

#law #corruption #billionaires #Broligarchy #plutocracy #kleptocracy #fraud #crime #felon47
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/05/29/sec-drops-binance-lawsuit-trump-stablecoin-listed/

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204d

The House Financial Services Republicans and the White House (now deleted) tagged either a hacked or fake account in their announcements that Paul Atkins was sworn in as SEC Chair. The "Atkins" account immediately started asking for crypto.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Tweet by an account named Paul S Atkins, with a blue check and a parody label. "Hi crypto believers! I'm all in on this revolution 🚀 Let's keep the dream alive-send some love my way:" (followed by several blurred wallet addresses, and an AI image of a bull exploding from some bitcoins)
Tweet by an account named Paul S Atkins, with a blue check and a parody label. "Hi crypto believers! I'm all in on this revolution 🚀 Let's keep the dream alive-send some love my way:" (followed by several blurred wallet addresses, and an AI image of a bull exploding from some bitcoins)

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Tweet by The White House
@WhiteHouse

🇺🇸 @PaulSAtkins has officially been sworn in as the Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, @SECGov, by @SecScottBessent in the Oval Office!

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Tweet by Financial Services GOP

@FinancialCmte

NEW: The Committee congratulates @PaulSAtkins as he was sworn in as the next Chair of @SECGov. He will bring a common-sense approach to regulation and usher in an era of prosperity and innovation to make U.S. capital markets the envy of the world.

sec.gov/newsroom/press...

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247d

Newsletter: Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles

The formerly anti-government bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan to stockpile seized crypto with no clear benefit to national interest

https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-reserves-no-public-good-no-principles/

#bitcoin #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

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149d

just checking in on the financial revolution that was meant to sidestep banks, tech giants, and the state

#crypto #cryptocurrency

Headline: Walmart, Amazon Mull Dollar-Pegged Stablecoins in the US: WSJ

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240d

Frankly I think the majority of the crypto backlash to the anti-trans Solana ad was because they made it too obvious that they've realized anti-woke MAGA reactionaries are the latest marks

#crypto #cryptocurrency #Solana

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272d

Newsletter: Dubbing it “Operation Choke Point 2.0”, cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it.

https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-industrys-debanking-smokescreen/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

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Representative Raskin cited my analysis in his letter investigating Trump’s memecoin dinner

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025-05-28_raskin_to_trump_wh_re_crypto_dinner.pdf

https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-memecoin-dinner-guests/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

A close analysis of the top buyers on the “leaderboard” on the website of $TRUMP shows that a majority of the attendees appear to be foreign nationals who purchased the token through offshore cryptocurrency exchanges that prohibit U.S. customers from participating. 15 Analysis reveals that 161 of the 220 top buyers, or 73% of the invitees, are likely foreign nationals. Among the top 25 “VIP” guests who were offered additional private access to you, including a “VIP White House tour” 16—and who each spent between $1.25 million and $16 million on $TRUMP tokens—23 out of 25 are likely foreign individuals or entities.17 A majority of those on the guest list had never purchased a $TRUMP token prior to the announcement of the dinner, suggesting that the buyers were primarily drawn by the promise of direct access to you rather than intrinsic interest in the memecoin itself.18

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219d

Newsletter: Trump continues to dismantle crypto enforcement while expanding his personal crypto empire.

Most recently, Trump has called the DOJ off cryptocurrency enforcement and dismantled the agency's crypto enforcement team.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-81/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

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199d

It still seems hard to believe, but in the last #Congress, the #House #Republican majority formally launched an #impeachment inquiry against Joe #Biden. The endeavor never made any sense, but the underlying allegation was that the Democratic president was somehow the beneficiary of a weird #bribery scheme.

#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ForeignAsset #Compromised #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Trump #crypto #grift
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-controversial-meme-coin-contest-proves-predictably-profitable-p-rcna203293

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Prosecutors have requested Alex Mashinsky, CEO of the collapsed Celsius cryptocurrency company, be sentenced to at least twenty years in prison for his "sustained, calculated campaign of deceit carried out over years, targeting ordinary people."

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67604619/144/united-states-v-mashinsky/

#Celsius #crypto #cryptocurrency

$respect for the law, and the need to avoid unwarranted sentencing disparities, the Court should impose a term of imprisonment of no less than 20 years. I. The Nature, Circumstances, and Seriousness of the Offense Warrant a Significant Sentence The nature and circumstances of the defendant’s crimes are extraordinarily serious. First, the scope of Mashinsky’s fraud is staggering. Tens of thousands of customers deposited billions of dollars based on false assurances of safety and soundness. When Celsius inevitably collapsed, Celsius’s customers lost access to more than $5 billion dollars of their crypto, devastating the financial lives of countless victims. Even after the bankruptcy process, investors are short over $1 billion under even the most conservative calculation. Mashinsky’s criminal conduct was aimed at and harmed retail investors at an unimaginable scale. Mashinsky’s scheme focused on soliciting crypto from what he describes as “everyday people.” Def. Mem. at 14. As a result, almost all the victims of his crime were retail crypto investors whose losses constituted a significant portion of their savings and had devastating consequences on their lives. This was not a financial crime in which a few well-heeled hedge funds and sophisticated institutional investors lost a small fraction of their assets. It was a crime in which Mashinsky deliberately targeted real, “everyday”$

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The more than 200 victim letters submitted in connection with sentencing are heartbreaking. They reflect the devastating real-world impact that the defendant’s fraud had on working people who trusted him to keep their savings safe. For example: • He used my bitcoin to inflate the price of his printed CEL token and whilst insiders ran for the exits when the smoke alarm rang I stood firm inside believing the loans were secure when in reality Celsius operated as a hedge fund and crypto speculator . . . I was emotionally devasted into darkness followed by the shame of confronting all those I had convinced to invest in Celsius . . . My will to live remained only because I was a father to triplets and was responsible for their well-being.16 • I’m now 59 and lost my entire life savings (nearly 9 Bitcoin) in the Celsius bk case. Needless to say, at my age, it was absolutely devastating . . . I lost my apartment, I could no longer help my very sick mother, I had to liquidate everything else I owned just to scrape by. I literally had to ‘camp’ out of my vehicle for nearly a year until I could begin to get back on my feet. The suffering, depression, humiliation & despair was far beyond any jail term. I implore the Court to impose the absolute maximum sentence permissible when sentencing Alex. He still has no shame, no remorse nor any regret for robbing hundreds of thousands of victims

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$• Due to Alex’s misrepresentation & blatant lies of how celsius was rehypothecating creditor's bitcoin, I lost my entire retirement savings, home, and am struggling to pay medical expenses.21 • Alex Mashinsky preyed upon the lowest hanging fruit—yearning people in need of financial success—which is why so many people were hurt by his actions. Myself included. . . Thousands of us are left scrounging and praying that we can get a tiny fraction of our previous claim returned.22 • I had placed all my cryptocurrency on Celsius Network because of statements made weekly by Mr. Mashinsky on his AMAs. I relied on what he said and he intentionally deceived me and misrepresented the facts. . . . I am a retired school teacher and I was counting on my cryptocurrency holdings to fund my retirement and to pass on to future generations. Mr. Mashinsky has changed my financial trajectory and that of my family. He will never understand the damage he has done to me and other victims.23 This is only a small sampling of the victim statements discussing the harm suffered by those who trusted Mashinsky. Contrary to Mashinsky’s claims, Mashinsky’s victims were not made whole by the bankruptcy process. On its effective date, the restructuring plan in the bankruptcy showed that the total estimate for allowed claims, which entirely or almost entirely includes customer claims, was over $5 billion—meani$

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182d

Coinbase announces it's joining the S&P 500 and then announces a serious data breach two days later

oof

#coinbase #crypto

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190d

Newsletter: Crypto traders are spending millions of dollars on TRUMP memecoins to buy access to the president at an upcoming private dinner, exacerbating existing ethics concerns. 73% of the attendees are likely not American, only adding further concerns over foreign influence.

https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-memecoin-dinner-guests/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

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178d

With 16 Democrats voting in favor, the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill has passed cloture in the Senate.

Alsobrooks (MD), Blunt Rochester (DE), Booker (NJ), Cortez Masto (NV), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Gillibrand (NY), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Lujan (NM), Ossoff (GA), Padilla (CA), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Slotkin (MI), Warner (VA).

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---66
Alsobrooks (D-MD)
Banks (R-IN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Booker (D-NJ)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)
Budd (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Curtis (R-UT)
Daines (R-MT)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Husted (R-OH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Justice (R-WV)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY)
McCormick (R-PA)
Moody (R-FL)
Moreno (R-OH)
Mullin (R-OK)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rosen (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schiff (D-CA)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sheehy (R-MT)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Warner (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)
NAYs ---32
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Coons (D-DE)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Moran (R-KS)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Paul (R-KY)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

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Alphabetical by Senator Name
Alsobrooks (D-MD), Yea
Baldwin (D-WI), Nay
Banks (R-IN), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Nay
Blackburn (R-TN), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Nay
Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Yea
Booker (D-NJ), Yea
Boozman (R-AR), Yea
Britt (R-AL), Yea
Budd (R-NC), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Capito (R-WV), Yea
Cassidy (R-LA), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Cortez Masto (D-NV), Yea
Cotton (R-AR), Yea
Cramer (R-ND), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
Cruz (R-TX), Yea
Curtis (R-UT), Yea
Daines (R-MT), Yea
Duckworth (D-IL), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Ernst (R-IA), Yea
Fetterman (D-PA), Yea
Fischer (R-NE), Yea
Gallego (D-AZ), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Hagerty (R-TN), Yea
Hassan (D-NH), Yea
Hawley (R-MO), Not Voting
Heinrich (D-NM), Yea
Hickenlooper (D-CO), Nay
Hirono (D-HI), Nay
Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Husted (R-OH), Yea
Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Justice (R-WV), Yea
Kaine (D-VA), Nay
Kelly (D-AZ), Not Voting
Kennedy (R-LA), Yea
Kim (D-NJ), Nay
King (I-ME), Nay
Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Lankford (R-OK), Yea
Lee (R-UT), Yea
Lujan (D-NM), Yea
Lummis (R-WY), Yea
Markey (D-MA), Nay
Marshall (R-KS), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
McCormick (R-PA), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Nay
Moody (R-FL), Yea
Moran (R-KS), Nay
Moreno (R-OH), Yea
Mullin (R-OK), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murphy (D-CT), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Ossoff (D-GA), Yea
Padilla (D-CA), Yea
Paul (R-KY), Nay
Peters (D-MI), Nay
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Ricketts (R-NE), Yea

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163d

SCOOP: Trump to launch branded crypto wallet and trading application, encouraging his supporters to purchase his memecoin and other crypto assets.

https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto-wallet/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

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163d

Absolute chaos. After my scoop about the upcoming launch of a Trump Wallet by Magic Eden, in cooperation with the $TRUMP memecoin team, Magic Eden pushed out their announcement. Both Eric and Don Jr then repudiated the project, stating they had no prior knowledge.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Eric Trump
@EricTrump
I run
@Trump
and I know nothing about this project!
@worldlibertyfi
$Trump
@AmericanBTC

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Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
The Trump Organization has zero involvement with this wallet product.
@EricTrump
and I know nothing about it. Stay tuned—World Liberty Financial
@worldlibertyfi
, which we have been working tirelessly on, will be launching our official wallet soon.

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Magic Eden 🪄
@MagicEden
·
1h
BIG NEWS! The Official $TRUMP WALLET is COMING SOON! The First and Only Crypto Wallet for True Trump Fans.

Join the FREE waitlist for a chance to get a share of $1 MILLION IN $TRUMP REWARDS! Go to https://trumpwallet.com NOW!

The $TRUMP Wallet is Powered by
@magiceden

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163d

I'm finally moving over to Radicle (https://radicle.xyz) instead of switching to another centralized code forge (like GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, etc.). I definitely love the idea behind a #P2P code forge and I'm hopeful for Radicle's future, but I do have some reservations starting off:

1) Despite talking a lot about freedom and privacy in the tutorial, the group building Radicle (https://radworks.org/) is planning to sell hosting and make a profit via an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency (https://www.tally.xyz/gov/radworks) as well as NFTs and smart contracts. Some big Libertarian red flags there.

2) At some point there was a Swiss nonprofit "Radicle Foundation", but this now seems to be a for-profit venture (see https://radicle.xyz/history). I wish it could just be a nonprofit.

3) In the user guide chapter on private repos (https://radicle.xyz/guides/user), it says that I need to use a public DNS address trusted seed node to share the repo. I understand there's no DHT here, but I hope it's not too much of a pain to run this over my local network instead of the internet. (And yeah, I know I can use git locally, I just want to test Radicle locally.)

Overall, I think that if radworks turns out to be evil it will be a way easier transition to fork Radicle than it has been to leave GitHub, but I still wish I didn't have to worry.

#Programming #CodeForge #Radicle #GitHub #GitLab #Codeberg #FOSS #FreeSoftware #VersionControl #crypto #Cryptocurrency #NFT #DAO #SmartContract #Ethereum #Libertarian

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Adam Levitin on the GENIUS Act: “[I]n regard to cash deposits, the stablecoin investors will have priority over the claims of ma-and-pa for their bank deposits (and thus over the FDIC's subrogation claim when it pays ma-and-pa). Yes, you read that correctly: Congress is about to put the claims of stablecoin investors ahead of ma and pa's bank deposits. That's just stunning. Now ma-and-pa's deposits are FDIC insured, so they'll be alright, but it means the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund is footing the bill. In other words, the GENIUS Act is subsidizing stablecoin issuance on the back of bank deposits. By subordinating the FDIC's subrogation claim in a bank insolvency to the claims of stablecoin investors, the GENIUS Act is effectively letting FDIC insurance leak out to cover uninsured stablecoins, without any insurance premiums paid.”

https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2025/05/the-genius-acts-insolvency-provisions-crypto-investors-come-ahead-of-bank-depositors.html

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

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162d

i think i need some red string

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

A notebook showing a convoluted web of about 10 different Trump entities and crypto projects, with arrows between them and various members of the Trump families

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162d

I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Extremely tangled diagram depicting relationships between nine LLCs, seven major companies, the Trump family, Bill Zanker and various other individuals, and various crypto projects including the $TRUMP memecoin, NFTs, World Liberty Financial, and the new Trump wallet

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149d

GENIUS Act (stablecoin bill) has passed the Senate.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

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161d

Newsletter: As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-85/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

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#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Truth Social post by Donald Trump: Newsmax link with the headline “Trump Meme Coin is ‘Tracker’ of President’s Success”

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Price chart of the Trump memecoin, showing a nearly down-only trajectory since its launch

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Acc to White House financial report, #Trump Raked in $57.3 Million From #Crypto Venture Meme Coin.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-income-57-million-crypto-venture-financial-disclosure-1235365026/

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127d

Senator Kennedy spends his time during the hearing on crypto legislation demanding that law prof Richard Painter apologize to Senator Gillibrand for tweeting that she accepted $217,000 in crypto industry money, then attacks Painter as a "whackjob" after he says Kennedy should focus on the bill.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

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