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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: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026.02.24-Binance-Iran-Sanctions-Evasion-to-Send.pdf
Van Hollen Letter: https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/cvh_bessent_bondi_ltr_binance.pdf
WSJ report on the new investigation: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/justice-department-probes-irans-use-of-binance-to-evade-sanctions-9dc61ce4
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.
WSJ report: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-iran-sanctions-financing-staff-b1648133
rough guide to #crypto theft perpetrators based on attack vector:
- scarily sophisticated #cybersecurity 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
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
@drahardja @wendinoakland @slyborg
That's the way of the #crypto sales pitch
Make big promises, fail to deliver, but, due a hack of human #psychology, harvest endless devotion off the promise. people ignore the reality
" #bluesky is #decentralized!"
Nope, sorry cultist, that shit is not decentralized. But it is run by #cryptobros. And there you have it
#bluesky is going the way of #twitter
with new leadership due to financial pressure, they are going to cave and ruin some aspect of it
my unfounded speculation is some #crypto tie-in shit, since it's owned and run by #cryptobros
also as @mastodonmigration noted, it's interesting timing with the #midterms coming up
enjoy bluesky folks!
but its days are numbered
the play is easy
#bluesky genuinely likes their audience
but.. #finances are finances
the goons who control the purse strings lick their chops with very goon-based #crypto dreams, replace the leadership, and then fucking ruin it
just like #twitter
just like traditional #media ( #WaPo, #nytimes, etc)
so a warning for all:
enjoy bluesky
but its days are numbered
it will become a cesspool #socialMedia like twitter eventually
with certainty
it's #cryptobros
#bluesky is owned and run by crypto bros
#jaygraber herself is a #cryptobro, coming from that world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber
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 #vulturecapital) is some stupid #crypto tie in with bluesky
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.
👉 https://github.com/rotki/rotki
More privacy-friendly tools curated at : https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/
#OpenSource #Privacy #Crypto #SelfHosting #Finance #DigitalMinimalism
see an #EpsteinFiles 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, #crypto, and #virtualcurrency / #videogames).
https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/device_signatures.html
- 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
#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos
@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org @cryptography@lemmy.ml
#YggTorrent Shuts Down After Hack, Leak and Stolen #Crypto
https://torrentfreak.com/yggtorrent-shuts-down-after-hack-leak-and-stolen-crypto/
#Polymarket, like #crypto, is a #financial 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 #war, in #politics, out of simple graft
With that in mind, thank fucking God!:
"Polymarket Pulls Bet on #Nuclear Detonation in 2026"
https://www.404media.co/polymarket-pulls-bet-on-nuclear-detonation-in-2026/
https://soc.octade.net/cypherpunk/
A fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #cypherpunks.
#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro #cypherpunk #crypto #cryptography #encryption
never forget how much money #HowardLutnick made enabling #Iran's military operations
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/israel-vs-iran-on-the-blockchain
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.
“He’s enriching himself, his family, his friends. The scale of the #corruption is unprecedented,” #Spanberger said, before ticking through details. “There’s the #CoverUp of the #EpsteinFiles, the #crypto 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.”
"By harnessing the greed and corruption of the Trump family and its cronies, as well as many Democrats, the #cryptoIndustry has assembled a juggernaut of power that aims to revolutionize the financial system to place #crypto and their businesses at the center of #finance, 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..."
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-crypto-chokehold/
#cryptoLobby #USpol #economy #financialBubbles
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.
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.
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter
there's now a more mobile friendly version of my curated crypto #EpsteinFiles site.
https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/curated_mobile.html
larger screen versions are here: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/116087096152752090
#crypto #Epstein #uspol #uspolitics #JeffreyEpstein #Trump #bitcoin #jeremyRubin #peterThiel #Scaramucci #SteveBannon #MAGA #orban #mandelson #BorisNikolic #billGates #MashaDrukova #cryptocurrency #blockchain #MIT #MediaLab #MITMediaLab #JoiIto #LarrySummers #BrockPierce
#bluesky feels very #cryptocurrency
which makes sense since it's run by #crypto bros and funded by #cryptobros
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 #centralized shit endlessly promising what #mastodon already offers
#decentralization is always just around the corner, just you wait!
and wait, and wait, and wait...
cleaned up and interlinked my collection of #EpsteinFiles sites where you can browse files of particular interest with color highlighting of interesting keywords
https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/
(these pages are not optimized for mobile)
#crypto #Epstein #uspol #uspolitics #JeffreyEpstein #Trump #bitcoin #jeremyRubin #peterThiel #Scaramucci #SteveBannon #MAGA #orban #mandelson #BorisNikolic #billGates #MashaDrukova #cryptocurrency #blockchain #MIT #MediaLab #MITMediaLab #JoiIto #LarrySummers #BrockPierce
Crypto market drowns in red as bitcoin falls to $68,000
Industry experts predict Bitcoin to fall to under $10,000!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #crypto #Bitcoin
https://share.newsbreak.com/hban80ll
a large crypto lender for institutions called #BlockFills has apparently blown up levered long - sorry, i mean "temporarily halted withdrawals"
maybe a good time to remember last year when the chairman of #IBKR said a 35% drawdown in bitcoin prices would cause at least a few traditional brokerages to collapse (bitcoin is down almost 50%)
#crypto #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #finance #stockmarket #economics #econ #susquehanna
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: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-96/#sbf
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).