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[?]Natanael » 🌐
@Natanael@slrpnk.net

Instagram drops end-to-end encrypted chats: What it means | Proton

(https://infosec.pub/c/crypto)

[?]Natanael » 🌐
@Natanael@slrpnk.net

[?]Molly White » 🌐
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

The article, and related investigations by the New York Times and Fortune, were cited in an inquiry over the alleged sanctions evasion by Senator Blumenthal, and a request by Sen. Van Hollen and others for an investigation by the Treasury and Justice Departments. Today the WSJ reported that the DOJ had opened such an investigation.

Blumenthal letter: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/up

Van Hollen Letter: vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media

WSJ report on the new investigation: wsj.com/finance/currencies/jus

    [?]Molly White » 🌐
    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

    The Binance crypto exchange has just filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its article reporting that Binance's own compliance investigators had found $1 billion in transfers to Iran-backed terror groups, and then were fired.

    Complaint: courtlistener.com/docket/72409

    WSJ report: wsj.com/finance/currencies/bin

    Binance Holdings Limited ("Binance" or "Plaintiff'), as and for its Complaint against Dow Jones & Company, Inc. d/b/a The Wall Street Journal ("Dow Jones" or "Wall Street Journal"), alleges as follows: INTRODUCTION 1. Binance brings this action against the Wall Street Journal for publishing a false and defamatory article on February 23, 2026, which is the subject of this complaint (the "Article"). In the Article, the Wall Street Journal made numerous false and disparaging statements about Binance, and did so knowingly, recklessly, or negligently, and despite the fact that Binance provided factual corrections prior to publication, which the Wall Street Journal disregarded. 2. Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users. In addition to holding licenses, registrations, and authorizations in more than 20 jurisdictions, Binance is the first cryptocurrency exchange to have secured full authorization under the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of the Abu Dhabi Global Market's regulatory framework. Binance has built one of the largest and most robust compliance programs in the digital asset industry, dedicating more than 1,500 individuals, nearly a quarter of its global workforce, to compliance, investigative, and risk functions. Binance invests

    Alt...Binance Holdings Limited ("Binance" or "Plaintiff'), as and for its Complaint against Dow Jones & Company, Inc. d/b/a The Wall Street Journal ("Dow Jones" or "Wall Street Journal"), alleges as follows: INTRODUCTION 1. Binance brings this action against the Wall Street Journal for publishing a false and defamatory article on February 23, 2026, which is the subject of this complaint (the "Article"). In the Article, the Wall Street Journal made numerous false and disparaging statements about Binance, and did so knowingly, recklessly, or negligently, and despite the fact that Binance provided factual corrections prior to publication, which the Wall Street Journal disregarded. 2. Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users. In addition to holding licenses, registrations, and authorizations in more than 20 jurisdictions, Binance is the first cryptocurrency exchange to have secured full authorization under the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of the Abu Dhabi Global Market's regulatory framework. Binance has built one of the largest and most robust compliance programs in the digital asset industry, dedicating more than 1,500 individuals, nearly a quarter of its global workforce, to compliance, investigative, and risk functions. Binance invests

    hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars in its compliance program, and a significant share of these resources is dedicated to maintaining a world-class compliance team. 3. Despite this progress, the Wall Street Journal and its reporters have made a business of maligning both the cryptocurrency industry generally and Binance specifically, regardless of facts and reality. Indeed, this strategy appears tailored to generating sensationalist headlines designed to drive pageviews and the Wall Street Journal's bottom line. The Article is a case-in-point. 4. Here, the Wall Street Journal ignored the strength of Binance's compliance program, disregarded specific facts provided by Binance, and instead chose to publish a false and misleading Article based on anonymous, unsupported sources. The Article begins with a false, defamatory and reckless headline, "Binance Fired Staff Who Flagged $1 Billion Moving to Sanctioned Iran Entities," and then launches into a narrative rife with bogus claims. 5. Specifically, the Article makes factual allegations and implications that are false, defamatory, and reckless, including: a. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance fired compliance personnel for investigating and identifying transactions with entities tied to Iran. That is false. The compliance personnel referenced in the Article were not terminated for any reporting or role in the investigation

    Alt...hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars in its compliance program, and a significant share of these resources is dedicated to maintaining a world-class compliance team. 3. Despite this progress, the Wall Street Journal and its reporters have made a business of maligning both the cryptocurrency industry generally and Binance specifically, regardless of facts and reality. Indeed, this strategy appears tailored to generating sensationalist headlines designed to drive pageviews and the Wall Street Journal's bottom line. The Article is a case-in-point. 4. Here, the Wall Street Journal ignored the strength of Binance's compliance program, disregarded specific facts provided by Binance, and instead chose to publish a false and misleading Article based on anonymous, unsupported sources. The Article begins with a false, defamatory and reckless headline, "Binance Fired Staff Who Flagged $1 Billion Moving to Sanctioned Iran Entities," and then launches into a narrative rife with bogus claims. 5. Specifically, the Article makes factual allegations and implications that are false, defamatory, and reckless, including: a. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance fired compliance personnel for investigating and identifying transactions with entities tied to Iran. That is false. The compliance personnel referenced in the Article were not terminated for any reporting or role in the investigation

    c. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance diminished its compliance with law enforcement requests. That is false. The compliance investigation started as a result of law enforcement requests seeking information about transactions, and Binance complied with those requests and cooperated with law enforcement, while also conducting an independent investigation that resulted in Binance oflboarding user accounts it identified that were engaged in suspicious activity. d. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance knowingly registered customers with false documentation and provided preferential treatment to those customers. That is false. Identity verification is mandatory for all customers. 6. The Wall Street Journal contacted Binance at the eleventh hour seeking any comment Binance had on identified points and questions related to the Article, and refused to grant a good-faith extension for Binance to respond. Binance nevertheless worked with all haste to get factual corrections to the Wall Street Journal, but unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal then disregarded those corrections and refused an immediate request for correction. While it is incumbent upon a responsible publisher to seek to understand the true position prior to publication, it is apparent that the Wall Street Journal had already drafted the Article to conform to its own pre-existing agenda without regard to t

    Alt...c. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance diminished its compliance with law enforcement requests. That is false. The compliance investigation started as a result of law enforcement requests seeking information about transactions, and Binance complied with those requests and cooperated with law enforcement, while also conducting an independent investigation that resulted in Binance oflboarding user accounts it identified that were engaged in suspicious activity. d. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance knowingly registered customers with false documentation and provided preferential treatment to those customers. That is false. Identity verification is mandatory for all customers. 6. The Wall Street Journal contacted Binance at the eleventh hour seeking any comment Binance had on identified points and questions related to the Article, and refused to grant a good-faith extension for Binance to respond. Binance nevertheless worked with all haste to get factual corrections to the Wall Street Journal, but unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal then disregarded those corrections and refused an immediate request for correction. While it is incumbent upon a responsible publisher to seek to understand the true position prior to publication, it is apparent that the Wall Street Journal had already drafted the Article to conform to its own pre-existing agenda without regard to t

      [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
      @cryptadamist@universeodon.com

      @GhostOnTheHalfShell

      rough guide to theft perpetrators based on attack vector:

      - scarily sophisticated breach = north korea

      - hiring a guy off linkedIn who turned out to be a malign actor = north korea

      - someone opened the wrong PDF = north korea

      - sim swap (stolen cell phone number) = amoral american 19 year old boys

      - manipulation of smart contract math to extract from a broken market = math nerd in his 20s from europe, israel, or the US

      - fake love interest (pig butchering) or other romance scam = vietnamese person enslaved by the chinese mafia in cambodia

        [?]Molly White » 🌐
        @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

        The Coinbase-backed "Stand With Crypto" advocacy group has declared Illinois Senate candidate Juliana Stratton to be "strongly against crypto" solely because she made a statement criticizing the $5.5 million the crypto industry had already spent to oppose her

        Stand With Crypto profile page Juliana Stratton Democratic Political Figure from Illinois  Crypto letter grade of F Strongly against crypto Based on 1 statement and 0 votes. Vote History No recent votes. Statements Juliana Stratton @JulianaStratton x.com logo We have the momentum. Raja Krishnamoorthi and his allies know that, and it's why his MAGA-backed crypto bros are dumping $7 million into this race to try to stop me. Illinoisans aren't buying it. pic.x.com/5iqNcwSvWM tweet image @JulianaStratton Mar 3, 2026 on X Very anti-crypto

        Alt...Stand With Crypto profile page Juliana Stratton Democratic Political Figure from Illinois Crypto letter grade of F Strongly against crypto Based on 1 statement and 0 votes. Vote History No recent votes. Statements Juliana Stratton @JulianaStratton x.com logo We have the momentum. Raja Krishnamoorthi and his allies know that, and it's why his MAGA-backed crypto bros are dumping $7 million into this race to try to stop me. Illinoisans aren't buying it. pic.x.com/5iqNcwSvWM tweet image @JulianaStratton Mar 3, 2026 on X Very anti-crypto

          [?]ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES » 🔓
          @benroyce@mastodon.social

          @drahardja @wendinoakland @slyborg

          That's the way of the sales pitch

          Make big promises, fail to deliver, but, due a hack of human , harvest endless devotion off the promise. people ignore the reality

          " is !"

          Nope, sorry cultist, that shit is not decentralized. But it is run by . And there you have it

            [?]ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES » 🌐
            @benroyce@mastodon.social

            @stefan

            is going the way of

            with new leadership due to financial pressure, they are going to cave and ruin some aspect of it

            my unfounded speculation is some tie-in shit, since it's owned and run by

            also as @mastodonmigration noted, it's interesting timing with the coming up

            enjoy bluesky folks!

            but its days are numbered

              [?]ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES » 🌐
              @benroyce@mastodon.social

              @mastodonmigration @ikuturso

              the play is easy

              genuinely likes their audience

              but.. are finances

              the goons who control the purse strings lick their chops with very goon-based dreams, replace the leadership, and then fucking ruin it

              just like

              just like traditional ( , , etc)

              so a warning for all:

              enjoy bluesky

              but its days are numbered

              it will become a cesspool like twitter eventually

              with certainty

                [?]ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES » 🌐
                @benroyce@mastodon.social

                @mastodonmigration @ikuturso

                it's

                is owned and run by crypto bros

                herself is a , coming from that world:

                en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Grab

                what i always expected (and i guess i should still expect, if their financial situation is that dire and that they are now at the mercy of ) is some stupid tie in with bluesky

                  [?]Ω 🌍 Gus Posey » 🌐
                  @Gustodon@mas.to

                  I just met a guy whose miner scans cars driving by and sells the data for .

                  Is there a time when we start being good to each other?

                    [?]DigitalEscapeTools » 🌐
                    @xabd@mastodon.social

                    Rotki is an open-source, privacy-first portfolio manager for tracking crypto assets, balances, and transactions locally.

                    Runs on your device so your financial data stays private — no cloud tracking.

                    Alternative to CoinStats, Delta, and other cloud-based crypto portfolio trackers.

                    👉 github.com/rotki/rotki

                    More privacy-friendly tools curated at : digital-escape-tools-phi.verce

                    rotki GitHub repository statistics showing version 1.42.0, 180 commits since release, 198 contributors, 145,724 visitors, 714 forks, 3.7k stars, 421k downloads, 103 GitPOAPs, and hiring status with last commit yesterday.

                    Alt...rotki GitHub repository statistics showing version 1.42.0, 180 commits since release, 198 contributors, 145,724 visitors, 714 forks, 3.7k stars, 421k downloads, 103 GitPOAPs, and hiring status with last commit yesterday.

                    rotki dashboard showing total balance of $124,523.83 with 490.86% increase, exchange balances for Kraken ($5,494.88), Bybit ($156.89), and Binance ($8.88), blockchain balances across multiple networks including BSC, Arbitrum, Ethereum, and manual bank balance of $99,801.37

                    Alt...rotki dashboard showing total balance of $124,523.83 with 490.86% increase, exchange balances for Kraken ($5,494.88), Bybit ($156.89), and Binance ($8.88), blockchain balances across multiple networks including BSC, Arbitrum, Ethereum, and manual bank balance of $99,801.37

                    rotki history events view displaying transaction history with filtering options, showing swap transactions and gas fees for account lukicenturi.eth, including ETH amounts and USD values, with transaction hashes and timestamps from February 2025.

                    Alt...rotki history events view displaying transaction history with filtering options, showing swap transactions and gas fees for account lukicenturi.eth, including ETH amounts and USD values, with transaction hashes and timestamps from February 2025.

                      [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                      @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                      [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                      @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                      [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
                      @cryptadamist@universeodon.com

                      see an email from <REDACTED> but with a "Sent from my iPad" style signature and wondering who the author could be?

                      i have a page to help with that (especially if that email has anything do with Epstein's favourite topics of russian girls, , and / ).

                      michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/ep

                      table showing who was spotted using various permutation on "sent from my iphone" or "sent from my windows 10 smartphone" etc. style email signatures

                      Alt...table showing who was spotted using various permutation on "sent from my iphone" or "sent from my windows 10 smartphone" etc. style email signatures

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                        [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                        @octade@soc.octade.net

                        Generate Random Data From Sound Card

                        - a neat hack for the properly paranoid -

                        Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and whitened for use in cryptography.

                        https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-March/039388.html

                        @cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org @cryptography@lemmy.ml

                        Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.

                        Alt...Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.

                          [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                          @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                          [?]ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES » 🌐
                          @benroyce@mastodon.social

                          , like , is a arena where people with insider knowledge profit off degenerate gamblers

                          That a few degenerate gamblers make a few bucks now and then merely propels continuing interest, much like any casino

                          Unfortunately, unlike a casino, it also puts financial motivation behind securing certain outcomes, in , in , out of simple graft

                          With that in mind, thank fucking God!:

                          "Polymarket Pulls Bet on Detonation in 2026"

                          404media.co/polymarket-pulls-b

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                            [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                            @octade@soc.octade.net

                            CYPHERPUNK GROUP

                            https://soc.octade.net/cypherpunk/

                            A fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to .

                            @cryptography@soc.octade.net @cypherpunk@soc.octade.net

                            Glowing green-lined skull on black background with digital circuit board lines and one eye a glowing bitcoin symbol and the other eye a glowing hashtag with the tagline 'CYPHERPUNK REVOLT'.

                            Alt...Glowing green-lined skull on black background with digital circuit board lines and one eye a glowing bitcoin symbol and the other eye a glowing hashtag with the tagline 'CYPHERPUNK REVOLT'.

                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                              [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
                              @cryptadamist@universeodon.com

                              Glyph boosted

                              [?]Molly White » 🌐
                              @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

                              Newsletter: Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms.

                              citationneeded.news/issue-101/

                                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                “He’s enriching himself, his family, his friends. The scale of the is unprecedented,” said, before ticking through details. “There’s the of the , the scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes & billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name & face on buildings all over our nation’s capital. This is not what our founders envisioned.”

                                  [?]Paria sans portefeuille » 🌐
                                  @PariaSansPortefeuille@jasette.facil.services

                                  "By harnessing the greed and corruption of the Trump family and its cronies, as well as many Democrats, the has assembled a juggernaut of power that aims to revolutionize the financial system to place and their businesses at the center of , not just in the United States but throughout the globe. The most immediate economic risk of this is the prospect of a crypto-induced financial crisis..."

                                  bostonreview.net/articles/the-

                                  [rubric ] CLASS & INEQUALITY

The Crypto Chokehold

Trump’s return has vaulted pro-crypto interests into power. As they capture ever more Democrats, the political will to stop them is dwindling.

Gerald Epstein

image (photo, at left): Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent, Donald Trump, David Sacks, Bo Hines, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong at the White House Digital Assets Summit, March 7, 2025. Image: Getty Images

                                  Alt...[rubric ] CLASS & INEQUALITY The Crypto Chokehold Trump’s return has vaulted pro-crypto interests into power. As they capture ever more Democrats, the political will to stop them is dwindling. Gerald Epstein image (photo, at left): Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent, Donald Trump, David Sacks, Bo Hines, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong at the White House Digital Assets Summit, March 7, 2025. Image: Getty Images

                                    [?]Natanael » 🌐
                                    @Natanael@slrpnk.net

                                    AirSnitch: Demystifying and Breaking Client Isolation in Wi-Fi Networks

                                    In this paper, we undertake a structured security analysis of Wi-Fi client isolation and uncover new classes of attacks that bypass this protection. We identify several root causes behind these weaknesses. First, Wi-Fi keys that protect broadcast frames are improperly managed and can be abused to bypass client isolation. Second, isolation is often only enforced at the MAC or IP layer, but not both. Third, weak synchronization of a client’s identity across the network stack allows one to bypass Wi-Fi client isolation at the network layer instead, enabling the interception of uplink and downlink traffic of other clients as well as internal backend devices. Every tested router and network was vulnerable to at least one attack. More broadly, the lack of standardization leads to inconsistent, ad hoc, and often incomplete implementations of isolation across vendors.

                                    (https://infosec.pub/c/crypto)

                                    [?]Molly White » 🌐
                                    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

                                    Newsletter: With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the cryptocurrency industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress.

                                    citationneeded.news/crypto-sup

                                      [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
                                      @cryptadamist@universeodon.com

                                      there's now a more mobile friendly version of my curated crypto site.

                                      michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/ep

                                      larger screen versions are here: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist

                                      EFTAQ0990184 (Jmail)
OCR text of email from Brock Pierce to
Jeffrey Epstein probably sent at 2014-06-02
17:22:54
From: Brock Pierce <1
To: Jeffrey Epstein
<jeevacation@gmail. com>
Subject: Fwd: PRIORITY: PayPay
Financial
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:22:54 +0000
Attachments:
Here is an example of another company
I've incubated in the Bitcoin space.
This deal can benefit from a US
issuing bank as well.
Brock
Mobile: +1-917-340-3400
Skype: brockpierce
E:
Follow me on twitter: @brockpierce

                                      Alt...EFTAQ0990184 (Jmail) OCR text of email from Brock Pierce to Jeffrey Epstein probably sent at 2014-06-02 17:22:54 From: Brock Pierce <1 To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail. com> Subject: Fwd: PRIORITY: PayPay Financial Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:22:54 +0000 Attachments: Here is an example of another company I've incubated in the Bitcoin space. This deal can benefit from a US issuing bank as well. Brock Mobile: +1-917-340-3400 Skype: brockpierce E: Follow me on twitter: @brockpierce

                                        [?]ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES » 🌐
                                        @benroyce@mastodon.social

                                        @LukefromDC @samvarma

                                        feels very

                                        which makes sense since it's run by bros and funded by

                                        the way they work is they make exciting starry eyed promises

                                        people buy into the promises

                                        and forget the reality

                                        this is by design:

                                        a true believer is immune to reality

                                        the reality is, it's shit endlessly promising what already offers

                                        is always just around the corner, just you wait!

                                        and wait, and wait, and wait...

                                          [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
                                          @cryptadamist@universeodon.com

                                          cleaned up and interlinked my collection of sites where you can browse files of particular interest with color highlighting of interesting keywords

                                          michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/ep

                                          (these pages are not optimized for mobile)

                                          screenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.html

                                          Alt...screenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.html

                                          screenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.html

                                          Alt...screenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.html

                                          screenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.html

                                          Alt...screenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.html

                                          screenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.html

                                          Alt...screenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.html

                                            [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
                                            @Free_Press@mstdn.social

                                            Crypto market drowns in red as bitcoin falls to $68,000

                                            Industry experts predict Bitcoin to fall to under $10,000!

                                            share.newsbreak.com/hban80ll

                                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                              [?]stux⚡️ » 🌐
                                              @stux@mstdn.social

                                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                              [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
                                              @cryptadamist@universeodon.com

                                              a large crypto lender for institutions called has apparently blown up levered long - sorry, i mean "temporarily halted withdrawals"

                                              maybe a good time to remember last year when the chairman of said a 35% drawdown in bitcoin prices would cause at least a few traditional brokerages to collapse (bitcoin is down almost 50%)

                                              A *Walter Bloomberg & .
® @Deltaone | susscrive J cl
BLOCKEFILLS HALTS WITHDRAWALS AMID CRYPTO TURMOIL
Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills has suspended client
deposits and withdrawals, citing recent market volatility. The Chicago-
based firm, which serves 2,000 institutional clients and handled $60 bn
in 2025 trading, remains open for select trading but is limiting liquidity.
The move echoes past crypto downturns, including the 2022 collapse of
FTX and other lenders. Bitcoin’s recent drop below $65,000—down
~45% from October highs—has intensified pressures, while stalled U.S.
crypto legislation continues to weigh on the market.

                                              Alt...A *Walter Bloomberg & . ® @Deltaone | susscrive J cl BLOCKEFILLS HALTS WITHDRAWALS AMID CRYPTO TURMOIL Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills has suspended client deposits and withdrawals, citing recent market volatility. The Chicago- based firm, which serves 2,000 institutional clients and handled $60 bn in 2025 trading, remains open for select trading but is limiting liquidity. The move echoes past crypto downturns, including the 2022 collapse of FTX and other lenders. Bitcoin’s recent drop below $65,000—down ~45% from October highs—has intensified pressures, while stalled U.S. crypto legislation continues to weigh on the market.

                                                [?]suzanne [default set to she/her but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯] » 🔓
                                                @cshlan@dawdling.net

                                                @molly0xfff
                                                I'm not a great bookkeeper but these people just continue to make me itch.

                                                  [?]Molly White » 🌐
                                                  @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

                                                  And finally he demands Judge Kaplan recuse himself, arguing he showed "extreme prejudice". Both that argument and his "no actual loss" theory are already being litigated in his pending appeal before the Second Circuit, which I wrote about here: citationneeded.news/issue-96/#

                                                    [?]Molly White » 🌐
                                                    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

                                                    His motion mainly argues that two former FTX employees who didn't testify (Daniel Chapsky and Ryan Salame) would have undercut prosecutors' narrative, but were threatened out of testifying. He also claims Nishad Singh was coerced by prosecutors into changing his testimony.

                                                    It also repeats his longstanding argument that the funds were never missing and that FTX was never insolvent. (Judge Kaplan got a bit sick of this argument during trial, pointing out that repayment doesn't negate fraud).

                                                    The judge was quick to rule: "I reject entirely the defendant's argument that there was no actual loss." The claims that customers and creditors will be repaid is at this point purely speculative, as the bankruptcy proceedings are still underway. He added that while the success of some of Alameda's investments,a and the recent rise in cryptocurrency prices, is fortuitous for creditors, it does not make Bankman-Fried's crimes any less severe. As he is wont to do, the judge provided an analogy:

A thief who takes his loot to Las Vegas and successfully bets the stolen money is not entitled to a discount on the sentence by using his Las Vegas winnings to pay back all or part of what he stole if and when he gets caught.

                                                    Alt...The judge was quick to rule: "I reject entirely the defendant's argument that there was no actual loss." The claims that customers and creditors will be repaid is at this point purely speculative, as the bankruptcy proceedings are still underway. He added that while the success of some of Alameda's investments,a and the recent rise in cryptocurrency prices, is fortuitous for creditors, it does not make Bankman-Fried's crimes any less severe. As he is wont to do, the judge provided an analogy: A thief who takes his loot to Las Vegas and successfully bets the stolen money is not entitled to a discount on the sentence by using his Las Vegas winnings to pay back all or part of what he stole if and when he gets caught.

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