would you be surprised if i told you that the team of #crypto bros that was behind #Brexit, #NigelFarage, #ReformUK, #FTX, and #EricAdams is also the team behind the new #goldencalf at Mar-A-Lago? because it is. to be specific the calf was brought forth by the #Hasidic Jews that work for #Tether co-founder #BrockPierce.

some day someone will explain why ultra-orthodox jews would want to work for a former child actor who:

a) is not even jewish
b) was involved in hollywood's most infamous gay paedo ring before being arrested in a house in spain with "8,000 fotografias pornografia infantil"

their religion and his lifestyle are just like, fundamentally incompatible. it's like finding out Marilyn Manson's whole team is made up of fundamentalist mormons and the Amish.

#israel #netanyahu #BrockPierce #haaretz #palestine #uspol #uspolitics #corruption #crypto #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #stablecoins #USDT #YaakovFlitchkin #jewish #MarALago

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Haaretz: 'A beautiful piece of art': The Hasidic Jews behind Florida's giant golden Trump statue

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tweet from Yaakov Flitchkin about his trip to trump's inauguration with eric Adams and Brock Pierce.

america's most "respectable" #crypto journalists thowing their flagship annual industry party in a strip club is almost too on brand

#crypto #uspol #corruption #cryptocurrency #GeniusAct #bitcoin #journalism #journalists #stripclub #strippers #coindesk

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<p Jess | CEO @ Blockus & I @theweb3jess 1/ This year’s official @consensus2026 closing party by @CoinDesk was a massive step backward. Hosting the flagship event at E11even — a strip club — wasn't just inappropriate; it was incredibly low-brow for an industry trying to grow up. 2/ Let’s be clear: I'm all for alcohol, music, and a good time. Hire a world- class DJ. Throw a massive rave. Go to Club Space. But choosing a strip club as the official venue for a global conference is a choice that reflects poorly on all of us. 3/ Just because this happened in 2021 doesn't mean it should happen in 2026. Back then, Coinbase, FTX and Binance execs were there, but the industry has evolved. We are supposed to be moving toward institutional maturity, not leaning into "bro-culture" clichés.

@Skwerlgyrl the goal is to take control of the global financial system (currently run by america via US dollar dominance) and replace it with crypto (currently controlled by russian and chinese organized crime).

here's the trump fam with the most infamous scammer in the entire #crypto sector. a dude who is so incredibly crooked that even the scumbag american crypto scammers won't do business with him is now the president's business partner.

@rk @molly0xfff

it's very interesting computer science

and there is a concept of an idea of a possibility of it doing good in the world

but it's money without rules

(which to some sounds great, like a lot of simple premises without any thought given)

as such, #crypto attracted the worst sort of characters, and they dominate crypto. always have, always will

it's a fucking cesspool

only harm can come from it, from personal loss akin to a gambling addict, up to criminal and political malice

@molly0xfff

i've always despised #bitcoin

but i understand the *concept* of some starry eyed #techbros being into crypto in the 2010s, when it was cool and new and non-bitcoin projects like #ethereum were taking off. i don't buy the hype, but i give a little room for some sort of innocence there

but now?

it's #degenerates being milked by #whales via #marketManipulation

it's a tax on stupidity

who is still doing #crypto?

oh right: #criminals and #plutocrats and a cult of #financial patsies

@990000 all ransomare is made possible by cryptocurrency. in fact that and sanctions evasion are some of the only useful things #crypto has ever managed to do.

https://bsky.app/profile/jane.meangirls.online/post/3mlc3xfevbs2n

#Crypto #Canvas #Ransom #Extortion

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Jane (@jane.meangirls.online): another ransom made possible by cryptocurrency Jess Calarco: Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. InsideHigherEd: "Pay or Leak": Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week…

Defunct crypto exchange Bittrex is trying a strategy we’ve seen (unsuccessfully) modeled by Ripple and Gemini: asking the SEC to repay past penalties now that the SEC under Trump has decided the laws they broke no longer apply to crypto.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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In regulators SEC The defunct Bittrex cryptocurrency exchange is trying out a strategy we’ve seen Ripple and — to a lesser extent — Gemini try: demanding their money back now that the SEC under Trump has completely reversed course on crypto. With the SEC actually joining their request, Ripple asked a judge to return $75 million of the $125 million fine they were ordered to pay in 2023 after a court found they had violated securities laws in their institutional sales [I80]. The judge refused [I87]. The Winklevoss twins, who run the Gemini exchange, have hinted at similar hopes. In February 2025, after the SEC closed an investigation into the exchange,d Cameron Winklevoss argued that the SEC should pay him 3× his legal expenses. Gemini later sent an angry letter to the CFTC’s Inspector General only months after agreeing to a $5 million settlement with the agency. Though they stopped short of asking for their money back, they seemed to regret settling the case only weeks before Trump’s inauguration, when they could’ve waited and gotten the whole thing to disappear [I86].

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Now, Bittrex has asked a judge to make the SEC refund its $24 million settlement from 2023, which came as the result of a lawsuit alleging the company sold unregistered crypto securities [I25, 36]. They argue that the SEC “explicitly has abandoned” the premise that the cryptocurrencies like those sold on Bittrex were securities, and points to the agency’s long list of similar lawsuits against other exchanges that they have dropped since Trump’s inauguration. “The SEC has done an about-face”, they write, pointing to various statements from the SEC that its previous enforcement actions under other administrations were misguided. “The [SEC] cannot credibly maintain that the Final Judgement should remain in place when it has issued a Final Rule that declares that cryptocurrency tokens are not securities,” Bittrex argues in the complaint.15

The DOJ and CFTC are going after a US soldier who allegedly used his access to confidential military information to profit more than $400,000 on Polymarket bets. They are not going after Polymarket, which is supposed to prohibit US bettors, and whose advisory board includes Donald Trump Jr.

“The whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino,” said former casino tycoon and current President Trump.

“I don’t like it,” said the man whose own social media platform has announced plans to launch a crypto-based prediction market feature.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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In prediction markets The Justice Department has brought charges11 and the CFTC has filed a lawsuit12 against a US soldier who placed bets on Venezuela-related Polymarket contracts while helping plan the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The soldier, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, allegedly made nearly $410,000 on the bets, then transferred the funds to a brokerage account and made a few clumsy attempts to erase his tracks. Van Dyke has pleaded not guilty. Notably absent is any action against Polymarket. The New York-based platform agreed to stop serving US customers in a 2022 CFTC settlement, but its easily bypassed geofencing continues to allow widespread American access. Federal agencies have previously prosecuted firms for such inadequate controls, but appear unconcerned with Polymarket — where President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., is an investor and advisory board member.

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“The whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino,” said former casino tycoon and current President Trump. “And you look at what’s going on all over the world in Europe and every place, they’re doing these betting things,” he said, referring to a continent where at least ten countries have broadly banned prediction markets as unlicensed gambling websites even as the federal regulator he appointed embraces them and sues states that try to apply oversight via their existing gambling laws. “I don’t like it, conceptually, but it is what it is. No, I think that I’m not happy with any of this,” said the man whose own social media platform has announced plans to launch a crypto-based prediction market feature and whose son is an adviser and investor in Polymarket and a paid adviser to Kalshi. Trump later backpedaled on his comments, arguing that the US risks being left behind by other countries that permit such platforms. “I know people that are in the prediction market business, and they’re pretty happy with it,” he added.13

The crypto industry is ramping up polling to try to (once again) convince legislators who are up for re-election that they need to support the industry’s legislative agenda in order to win over voters. But two massively different poll results illustrate the dubiousness of these polls.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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Crypto polls A survey commissioned by the CoinDesk crypto publication has indicated that 73% of the US voters they polled (evenly split among Republican– and Democratic– identified respondents) disapprove of senior government officials having personal business with the crypto industry, including 59% of Republican respondents. However, most were not aware of Trump’s crypto ties: 55% self-reported that they were not very or not at all aware of Trump’s involvement with the sector, and only 17% were aware that he and his sons co-founded World Liberty Financial.1

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The cryptocurrency industry is ramping up their own polling in hopes of (once again) convincing candidates that they need to support the industry’s legislative agenda in order to win over voters. HarrisX, a frequent pro-crypto pollster, has just published a new poll stating without any evidence that “crypto voters represent a sizable and influential bloc”. It appears designed to lobby Congressmembers to vote for the Clarity Act, with a section at the end advertising that “A senator who votes to pass the CLARITY Act enjoys a +20 net electoral upside” and that “For the broader electorate, supporting CLARITY is a clear net-positive credential.” The poll also claims that 52% of respondents said that a candidate’s position on cryptocurrency regulation is extremely or somewhat important to their voting decisions.10

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But this poll doesn’t align with CoinDesk’s, which I should also note is a pro-crypto publication whose new editorial board endorsed Trump in 2024 [I68]. In a very similar question, 24% of respondents identified crypto as important to them in the 2026 elections — less than half of HarrisX’s findings. Only 1% identified it as the single most important issue to them when presented alongside issues like cost of living, the economy, Social Security and Medicare, immigration, or healthcare. HarrisX did not immediately respond to my request for poll data or questions about their methodology or who commissioned the poll.

Senior GOP officials reportedly phoned up Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to get him to pressure a pro-crypto super PAC funded by the company he “divested” from to nix a planned ad spend in favor of Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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In elections and political influence In an April [noted] post, I outlined how the Fellowship PAC, a new pro-cryptocurrency, pro-MAGA super PAC, is primarily funded by Cantor Fitzgerald — the firm previously run by Howard Lutnick before he “divested” by transferring it to his sons when he was appointed Commerce Secretary. Link to other Citation Needed article: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s old firm pumps $10 million into super PAC led by Tether executive

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The PAC filed an FEC report announcing planned independent expenditures of $1.75 million to support Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton in his contentious Texas primary runoff against incumbent John Cornyn.7 Trump has conspicuously declined to endorse either candidate. According to Axios, senior Republican officials called Lutnick to pressure him to cancel the expenditures, which they viewed as a potentially disastrous move.8 “Backing the guy who came in second place [in the GOP state primary] and risk[ing] handing Democrats the Senate is pure political malpractice”, said an NRSC spokesperson about the planned ad spend. While Axios noted that “it was unclear to people familiar with the matter if Lutnick followed up on those phone calls,” the Fellowship PAC later amended the report with the Paxton line item missing and a note that they had “remove[d] an ad with no anticipated air date”.9 Transferring the mega-firm to his 29- and 27-year-old sons was already a highly dubious divestiture. But if GOP officials believe pressuring Lutnick is a worthwhile strategy to influence a super PAC primarily funded by the firm he now supposedly has nothing to do with — and if that strategy apparently works — it’s further evidence that Lutnick has not properly eliminated this massive conflict of interest.

In short: the two sides are suing one another despite likely knowing the true nature of the deal they agreed to. Sun admits the tokens he bought are unregistered securities, World Liberty admits they’re not decentralized and Sun shouldn’t have taken their claims to be seriously.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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The lawsuits reflect a common crypto pattern: two experienced cryptocurrency entities, both with less than stellar reputations for trustworthiness, entered a deal, both likely aware of its true nature. Sun admitted the tokens he purchased were effectively unregistered securities with “boilerplate” disclaimers that everyone knew were false. World Liberty built in centralized controls to a supposedly decentralized project after completing its initial token sale, claiming Sun as an experienced crypto figure “knows that it is common for a cryptocurrency company to have the ability and right to freeze accounts” — as though he shouldn’t have taken seriously their claims of decentralization and promises not to freeze accounts. Each side bet they could profit despite the contradictions, and now they’re locked in a legal battle claiming the other violated principles neither of them actually believed in.

In World Liberty’s defamation suit against Sun, they claim that their ability to freeze his tokens was well known to him, and that claiming they installed a secret “backdoor” is defamatory. They also object to him describing WLF’s governance as a sham, and accusing them of treating the crypto community as “a personal ATM”.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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World Liberty v. Sun World Liberty made good on their threat to “see you in court pal” with a defamation lawsuit filed in a Florida state court on May 4.3 The case focuses on Sun’s tweets in which he accused World Liberty of embedding a secret “backdoor blacklisting function” to “freeze investor funds without disclosure or due process” and treat “the crypto community as a personal ATM”. Sun also claimed World Liberty’s community governance votes were mere “theater” with “predetermined” outcomes, and that the project’s governance framework had been “hollowed out from the inside”. World Liberty’s complaint is considerably shorter and narrower than Sun's sprawling lawsuit, focusing entirely on defamation rather than the broader contractual and fraud claims Sun raises. But what the complaint lacks in breadth, it attempts to make up for in outrage, repeatedly emphasizing that the cryptocurrency industry is “built on trust” and that Sun’s “false statements strike at the core of World Liberty's reputation”.c

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World Liberty’s argument is that the so-called secret backdoor wasn’t a secret at all. The complaint insists the freeze authority “was clearly and repeatedly disclosed to Sun” in his agreement with the company, the Token Unlock Agreement (which Sun says were additional terms imposed on holders who wished to unlock their tokens only after he had purchased his tokens), the publicly available terms of sale, and in the smart contracts themselves. Sun does somewhat undermine his own framing in his lawsuit, where he admits “the upgrade is technically visible on the public blockchain”. This admission may prove awkward for his defense, as it’s hard to characterize as “secret” something he acknowledges was visible to anyone who looked, although Sun also suggests the blacklisting function was implemented in July 2025 — after he had already acquired his tokens. That said, World Liberty’s position essentially boils down to “we disclosed that we kept all the centralized powers we said we were building a defi platform to escape, so calling those powers ‘secret’ is defamatory.”

Sun is also attempting a delicate balancing act: accusing the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial of fraud while simultaneously maintaining he is still an “ardent” supporter of Trump and his family. His strategy is to pin the whole thing on WLF co-founder Chase Herro.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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Sun walks a narrow tightrope in his lawsuit, criticizing a Trump family-run cryptocurrency project while simultaneously claiming that he “has long been (and remains) an ardent supporter of President Trump and the Trump family”. He attempts this by aggressively targeting World Liberty co-founder Chase Herro instead, reaching all the way back to alleged drug busts when he was a teenager. Sun portrays Herro as a career grifter whose background is in hawking get-rich-quick schemes. He suggests that Herro owes hundreds of thousands in unpaid taxes and accuses him of making contradictory claims about his primary residency — alternately claiming Puerto Rico or Florida — to dodge both tax liabilities and legal proceedings. He even claims that Herro once boasted about visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s island. And he notes Herro’s participation in a crypto project called Dough Finance shortly before joining World Liberty, and points to speculative tweets suggesting the $2 million hack that ended the project [W3IGG] could have in fact been an insider rug pull. It’s not immediately clear how Herro’s arrest at 18 for selling drugs or his alleged Epstein connectionb relate to Sun’s contract dispute with World Liberty. Instead, it appears Sun is hoping to remain in the Trumps’ good graces by offering to publicly accept Herro as a scapegoat for whatever wrongdoing may have occurred.

It’s a little rich that Sun is alleging that World Liberty is engaged in fraud, manipulating markets, and potentially violating securities laws after himself only just escaping those very allegations after investing more than $200 million into the president’s family’s crypto projects.

But he also has something of a point: after World Liberty Financial promised they were a solution to “debanking” and that “no one’s ever going to tell you that your account is shut down”, they proceeded to do exactly that to Sun.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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On the one hand, it’s a little rich that Sun is alleging that World Liberty is engaged in fraud, manipulating markets, and potentially violating securities laws after himself only just escaping those very allegations after investing more than $200 million into the president’s family’s crypto projects. And Sun’s lawsuit is selective about which agreements he finds to be binding — while much of the lawsuit is based on promises made in various contracts and marketing materials outlining platform governance and token issuance, Sun also readily admits that he read the claim that WLFI tokens were not investments as mere “disclaimers to avoid application of federal law governing the offering of securities” and that “everybody who purchased the tokens in exchange for real-world dollars knew all along [that] the tokens were expected to become tradable”.

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But he does have something of a point: World Liberty claimed it was building a decentralized finance platform after the Trump family claimed that they had experienced politically-motivated debanking. The project’s CEO once claimed that on World Liberty, “no one’s ever going to tell you that your account is shut down”, then did exactly that to Sun. The freeze also left Sun unable to transfer, trade, vote with, or stake his tokens, and in November 2025, World Liberty again changed the smart contract to add a capability to seize or destroy any holder’s tokens at will.

Last year, the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial project froze the $​WLFI tokens belonging to crypto billionaire Justin Sun, their largest token investor, with little explanation. Now he’s suing them for contract violations and fraud, and they’re suing him for defamation.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #citationNeededNewsletter

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Sun v. World Liberty Sun filed a May 5 lawsuit in a California federal court alleging World Liberty vindictively froze his $WLFI tokens after he refused to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more into minting the project’s stablecoin, USD1, on his Tron blockchain.2 He claims World Liberty threatened to destroy the frozen tokens and report him to US authorities — presumably the very authorities who had mysteriously dropped their investigations and lawsuits against him shortly after his substantial investments into Trump family projects [I102]. Sun alleges that World Liberty fraudulently induced investments by marketing itself as a decentralized finance platform that would free users from what the project’s CEO described as “the big boogeyman behind the curtain” of centralized control, while in fact secretly retaining the power to unilaterally freeze tokens. “Far from freeing its users of centralized control, World Liberty positioned itself as the new boogeyman behind the curtain,” the lawsuit observes with a certain dramatic satisfaction.

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Sun’s lawsuit also repeats his public allegations that World Liberty’s supposedly decentralized community governance is a sham. He alleges that World Liberty co-founder Chase Herro admitted in private communications that governance votes were essentially predetermined, alleging that Herro represented to him that “the World Liberty leadership team controlled a meaningful percentage of the outstanding $WLFI tokens in circulation, and would thus be able to effectively control the outcome of any such vote.” Sun makes the dramatic claim that World Liberty is “on the brink of collapse and potential insolvency”. As proof, he points to the company’s controversial Dolomite borrowing [I104], and the parallels some have drawn to FTX’s reliance on leveraging self-issued tokens prior to its collapse, as well as the token’s ongoing price decline and World Liberty’s massive payouts to insiders.

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Sun notes that World Liberty has offered various explanations for freezing his tokens: that he took massive short positions responsible for $WLFI’s 40% plummet after early investors could trade, that he made straw purchases for other buyers, or that they were angered by his $100 million $TRUMP memecoin purchasea. He dismisses all these reasons as pretextual, denying the allegations that he shorted the token or made straw purchases, and claiming the real motivation was extortion and market manipulation (by preventing him from selling his large holdings, which would have driven prices down).

Newsletter: Crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who escaped fraud allegations after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto projects, is now accusing the Trumps’ project of fraud.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-105/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

#Crypto gang member gets 6.5 years for role in $230 million heist

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crypto-gang-member-gets-65-years-for-role-in-230-million-heist/

#cybersecurity #privacy #cybercrime

RE: https://mastodon.social/@knoppix95/116535230485977464

an important law of #crypto is that as the arrow of time progresses the % of famous people and brands that have had at least one social media account hacked to pump and dump a #solana #shitcoin will approach 100% (cc: @molly0xfff)

https://universeodon.com/@knoppix95@mastodon.social/116535230552352959

#memecoins #cryptocurrency #infosec #memecoin #crypto #ubuntu #cybersecurity #threatintel #linux

knoppix » 🌐 2026-05-07 / 2026-05-07
@knoppix95@mastodon.social

Ubuntu’s X account was briefly compromised to promote a fake AI crypto project using cloned branding, Solana tags, and a deceptive Ubuntu-style domain ⚠️
The phishing thread followed days of DDoS attacks on Canonical services 🔐

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-twitter-compromised/

#TechNews #Ubuntu #Canonical #Linux #Cybersecurity #Phishing #DDoS #OpenSource #Privacy #Infosec #Solana #Blockchain #FOSS #Transparency #X #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Crypto #Cryptocurrency

Ubuntu’s X account was briefly compromised to promote a fake AI crypto project using cloned branding, Solana tags, and a deceptive Ubuntu-style domain ⚠️
The phishing thread followed days of DDoS attacks on Canonical services 🔐

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-twitter-compromised/

#TechNews #Ubuntu #Canonical #Linux #Cybersecurity #Phishing #DDoS #OpenSource #Privacy #Infosec #Solana #Blockchain #FOSS #Transparency #X #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Crypto #Cryptocurrency

nothing to see here, just #HowardLutnick's #stablecoin company #Tether showing up as the preferred choice of slave traders and rapists in #Cambodia for the 10,000th time

https://x.com/jacobincambodia/status/2052303444166451361

#USDT #crypto #cryptocurrency #ASEAN #myanmar #malaysia #corruption #uspol #uspolitics #CantorFitzgerald #slavery

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Lured from Malaysia, sold for $50K USDT in Sihanoukville A Chinese karaoke worker was lured from Malaysia to Sihanoukville by another karaoke worker who promised her a job. She landed at the new airport, got picked up by car, and was held in a downtown condo while traffickers drained nearly 300,000 yuan from her Chinese bank accounts. Once the money ran out, the plan was to sell her on for $50,000 USDT. She was rescued yesterday after gendarmes tracked her from a villa in Sangkat 2, to a condo in Sangkat 3, to Lon City borey in Bet Trang. Six Chinese nationals arrested. Two are women, who were used to recruit other karaoke workers into the same trap. Inside the condo, she was drugged and sexually assaulted. The captors also pressured her to call her own friends with fake job offers. According to investigators, the only way to be released was to deliver a replacement.

my entire reality is crumbling upon the revelations that an upstanding guy like #HowardLutnick might be a liar
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2052091559362134475/history

#Tether #uspol #corruption #uspolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency

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@Acyn Rep. Ansari says that Howard Lutnick is a “pathological liar” who is enabling a cover-up. Ansari: After what we have seen so far in this transcribed interview, I feel very comfortable saying that Howard Lutnick is a pathological liar who is enabling the most egregious cover-up in American history. In 2012, he took his family and his staff to Jeffrey Epstein’s island. I focused my questions today on how he could have done that if he and his wife were truly so uncomfortable—especially when, in 2008, we know that Jeffrey Epstein was accused and a sweetheart deal took place for soliciting a minor. Howard Lutnick tried to tell us in that room that he essentially didn’t know any of that. I asked him, how did I, as a child at the time, see this all over the media about Jeffrey Epstein, and you—an adult who was this person’s neighbor and had engaged with him before—how could you possibly not have known? I mean, the level of the lies that are taking place inside that room, without video, is unbelievable.

the #trump family has entered the #AI market with a $10,000 #WLFI #mac mini they're calling #WorldClaw / #WorldRouter
https://x.com/worldlibertyfi/status/2051659743513473486

#WorldLibertyFinancial #corruption #uspol #crypto #cryptocurrency #uspolitics

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"The Hardware Manifestation of WLFI" shows a mac mini with a branded WLFI logo on top

#NigelFarage's financial backing from #crypto has been memorialized in song

(most of his money is coming from a #Tether shareholder #ChristopherHarborne, a man who included screenshots of my tweets in his lawsuit against the Wall St. Journal, who was also the biggest donor to #Brexit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5A0qpWUrfg

#ReformUK #Farage #ukpol #stablecoin #eupol #USDT

good read on what Trump's #crypto project #WorldLibertyFinancial actually is and does (or doesn't do)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-world-liberty-financial-token-price-usd1/

#JustinSun #uspol #corruption #cryptocurrency #WLFI #USD1 #stablecoin #stablecoins #Dubai #UAE #defi

#Telegram Mini Apps abused for #crypto scams, #Android #malware delivery

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/telegram-mini-apps-abused-for-crypto-scams-android-malware-delivery/

#cybersecurity #scam

Connecting your Wallet to a #Monero Node on your Local Network

https://theprivacydad.com/connecting-your-wallet-to-a-monero-node-on-your-local-network/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #privacy #anonymity #guide

Did you personally ever used #crypto for a use-case that was needed and only possible thanks to that technology and could not be solved for your case by any other means?

i suspect #northkorea has figured out how to use AI for #cybersecurity purposes

#crypto #DPRK #infosec #threatintel #cryptocurrency #lazarusGroup #defi

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chart of crypto hacks per month 2016-2026 showing sudden massive increase in april 2026

in the future of finance your parents' retirement savings will be able to go directly to #northkorea instead of having to make pitstops in #cambodia and #palau
https://x.com/0x_Abdul/status/2049830893209190681

#crypto #defi #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #solana #ethereum #corruption #DPRK #LazarusGroup #infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel #economics #sanctions #futureoffinance

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@0x_abdul april 2026 was the worst month ever in terms of defi exploits ~$635M lost in total, 28 incidents in 30 days: 1) apr 1 - drift - $285m 2) apr 3 - silo v2 - $392k 3) apr 4 - tmm - $1.67m 4) apr 5 - denaria finance - $165k 5) apr 9 - aethir - $423k 6) apr 12 - hyperbridge - $2.5m 7) apr 12 - subquery - $60k 8) apr 13 - dango - $410k 9) apr 13 - mona - $61k 10) apr 14 - zerion - $100k 11) apr 16 - rhea finance - $18.4m 12) apr 16 - grinex - $15m 13) apr 18 - kelp dao - $293m 14) apr 20 - juicebox v3 - $52k 15) apr 20 - thetanuts finance - $50k 16) apr 21 - volo protocol - $3.5m 17) apr 22 - kipseli - $80k 18) apr 23 - giddy finance - $1.3m 19) apr 25 - purrlend - $1.5m 20) apr 26 - scallop - $150k 21) apr 27 - singularity finance - $413k 22) apr 27 - zetachain - $300k 23) apr 28 - judao - $228k 24) apr 28 - quant - $138k 25) apr 29 - aftermath perps - $1.14m 26) apr 29 - sweat foundation - $3.5m 27) apr 29 - syndicate - $330k 28) apr 30 - wasabi protocol - $5m+ 8:39 AM · Apr 30, 2026 · 65.9K Views

Hackers exploit #RCE flaws in #Qinglong task scheduler for #cryptomining

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-rce-flaws-in-qinglong-task-scheduler-for-cryptomining/

#cybersecurtiy #crypto

European #police dismantles €50 million #crypto investment fraud ring

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/european-police-dismantles-50-million-crypto-investment-fraud-ring/

#Europe #cybersecurity #scam

New: President Trump's memecoin project is preparing to launch a membership club promising "elite and extraordinary experiences". This is the latest attempt to prop up a token down 97% from peak.

https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-coin-club/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Newsletter: Although Sam Bankman-Fried tried to withdraw his motion for a new trial, Judge Kaplan rejected it on its merits. This leaves Bankman-Fried with essentially no realistic avenues to avoid his 25-year prison sentence.

https://www.citationneeded.news/sbf-new-trial-denied/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #FTX

Money launderer linked to $230M #crypto heist gets 70 months in prison

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/money-launderer-linked-to-230m-crypto-heist-gets-70-months-in-prison/

#phishing #privacy #cybersecurity #MoneyLaundering #crime

guess who had enough #crypto to pay #Iran's #StraitOfHormuz toll
https://x.com/OutFrontCNN/status/2048926078534869157

#AlexeyMordashov #Oligarch #Russia #IranWar #putin #ukraineWar #bitcoin #israel

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[video] A $500m megayacht linked to a sanctioned Russian oligarch just passed through the Strait of Hormuz amid the US blockade, according to tracking data. Erin and Seth Jones react:

never forget that #SamAltman is also a #crypto grifter
https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2048969461953401333

#WorldCoin #WLD #AI #OpenAi #uspol #ScamAltman #ChatGPT #ZachXBT

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@zachxbt No one seems to mention Scam Altman’s other company WorldCoin aka World which launched with a predatory low float crypto token $WLD that was on par with SBF / FTX companies. They have preyed on people from low income countries for biometric data by giving away small amounts of $WLD tokens. The tech was intended a way to prove you’re a human except it has resulted in a black market for verified accounts. The token supply inflates at unsustainable levels while insiders regularly OTC holdings.

New: “How the Trumps’ Billion-Dollar Crypto Stake Depends on a Company That Helped Iran Evade Sanctions.”

my first report for Public Citizen

#news #politics #uspol #trump #crypto #iran #binance #WLFI $WLFI

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https://www.citizen.org/article/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial-binance-iran-sanctions/

Reporting on Trump's Meme Coin event?

Consider noting that $trump hit an all-time low of $2.52 today.

That's down from a high of $73.43 shortly after its launch.

#news #crypto #tech #trump #uspol #politics $trump

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/official-trump

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CoinGecko's $Trump page

@timkmak there's nothing new here. #israel, the US, and #Tether have been working to freeze billions of dollars of #Iran's #stablecoins since a few months before the bombs last summer.

it's been continual ever since. this announcement is just PR for the #Trump administration.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/israel-vs-iran-on-the-blockchain

#iranWar #straitOfHormuz #crypto

The White House says Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick properly divested from Cantor Fitzgerald by transferring leadership to his sons.

Anyway GOP officials called Lutnick about a Cantor-funded PAC planning to spend $1.75M on Ken Paxton and the PAC reversed course, but that’s probably just how independent companies behave when the former owner gets a phone call.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/24/texas-crypto-howard-lutnick-republicans

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

america's two top law enforcement officials will be speaking at the #bitcoin conference.

said another way, american law enforcement is now wholly on the side of russian and iranian money launderers.

(the third speaker #PaulGrewal is the Chief Legal Officer at #Coinbase, the company that purchased the US government at a discount in 2024)

https://x.com/TheBitcoinConf/status/2047020804508996082

#Iran #irgc #uspol #corruption #trump #toddblanche #DOJ #kashPatel #btc #crypto #russia #putin #ukrainewar #ukraine #eupol #crime #blockchain #freespeech #1stamendment #lawfedi #FBI

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The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel & Acting AG Todd Blanche will speak at Bitcoin 2026 next week 🇺🇸 Their panel will be called "Code is Free Speech: Ending the War on Bitcoin" ⚔️💬

He also writes “As I have had to focus on responding to these questions rather than drafting a response to the prosecution's opposition, and because I do not believe I will get a fair hearing on this topic in front of you, I am now requesting to withdraw the Rule 33 motion” (for a new trial)

#SBF #FTX #crypto #cryptocurrency

Sam Bankman-Fried’s affidavit has arrived. He says his attorneys of record had no input into his motion for a new trial, but that he shared drafts with his parents (both attorneys). “They made editorial and organizational suggestions, some of which I incorporated”

#SBF #FTX #crypto #cryptocurrency

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Dear Judge Kaplan: I am writing to respond to your Memorandum Order of march 23, 2026, requesting me to state whether an attorney wrote either my rule 33 motion or supporting memorandum "in whole or in substantial part." (I am assuming that the inclusion of Mr. Chapsky's accompanying Affidavit was inadvertent, as I neither wrote nor purported to write that.) I conceived of the Rule 33 Motion, formulated the arguments, drafted multiple versions of it myself, and did the bulk of the legal research while I was at MDC Brooklyn and had better access to legal materials as well as a word processor. You asked about the three attorneys of record in other stages of this case; none of them had any significant input into the Rule 33 Motion. I have not discussed it with them or shared any drafts with them. Mr. Mukasey and Ms . Young only represented me in the sentencing phase, and no longer do so . While Ms. Shapiro is still representing me on my appeal, she is not representing me on this matter and I have not consulted her on it. I also shared drafts with my parents, Barbara Fried and Joe Bankman. They made editorial and organizational suggestions, some of which I incorporated into the motion. They also helped print it, as I no longer had access to a word processor. I also shared earlier drafts with a New York attorney who was originally hired to represent me on the Rule 33 Motion before I

#China's #Apple #App Store infiltrated by #crypto-stealing wallet apps

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinas-apple-app-store-infiltrated-by-crypto-stealing-wallet-apps/

#cybersecurity #iOS #phishing

#KelpDAO suffers $290 million heist tied to #Lazarus hackers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kelpdao-suffers-290-million-heist-tied-to-lazarus-hackers/

#Kelp #crypto #cybersecurity #NorthKorea

Shufflecake will be presented at the Crypto Applications Workshop (CAW) in Rome, Italy (co-located with EUROCRYPT 2026 and many other crypto events), on May 10th, 2026. This talk is going to be an update of the latest news and status of the project in 2026, including juicy news on the Hidden OS!

https://shufflecake.net/#20260422-caw2026

#cryptography #crypto #security #privacy #eurocrypt #iacr #shufflecake #caw2026

the indian ship that was fired upon by #Iran as it attempted to pass through the #StraitOfHormuz a few days ago even though it had paid the toll was actually the victim of a #crypto scam.

the ship's owners did in fact pay a toll... but they sent a few million dollars in #crypto (#Tether #USDT of course) to scammers, not the real IRGC.

- recording of the captain as he was fired upon: https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2045503858130956788
- article: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/scam-messages-offering-ships-safe-transit-through-hormuz-security-firm-warns

#scam #IRGC #middleEast #israel #Hormuz #Blockade

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Beware scam messages offering ships safe transit through Hormuz Strait, says security firm