theflyingexecutive posted:

people will never know it says that because they'll see the logo and never get close enough to read it

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:

I kind of want to get the "it can't be this stupid, you must be explaining it wrong" bitcoin logo as an enameled button pin run but the sweet spot seems to be a run of about 300 pieces

ugh

smellmycheese posted:

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1622967238654320640?s=46&t=zKrIs3vpEvRn2jFcI1qYaQ

smellmycheese posted:

lol. let’s see how this works out for Fraudo

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1623092931904294912?s=46&t=8c02U4FZU3DxBBgTqFQsEA

quote:

Day Trading BTC looks easy as fk (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 21 minutes ago by cotton_clad_scholar

Disclaimer: I know nothing about investing.
BTC is now around 20k to 22k. Throughout the day it goes up and down between those numbers.
Do people just sell every time it goes up 1k and buy back again when it goes down 1k.
Is there a name for this?

Crust First posted:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/webaverse_crypto_stolen posted:

Scammers steal $4 million in crypto during face-to-face meeting

Ahad Shams, the co-founder of Web3 metaverse gaming engine startup Webaverse, discovered in late November 2022 that someone had stolen $4 million of his cryptocurrency – during a real world interaction.

[...]

"We aren't 100 percent sure as to technically how this happened yet, but in short it involved the scammers convincing us to move funds into a fresh wallet (which we created and controlled) in order to provide 'proof of funds'," Shams wrote.

[...]

In the Webaverse case, Shams wrote that he was working to close a Series A fundraising round when he was contacted by man calling himself the lawyer for a person – "Joseph Safra" – who wanted to invest in Webaverse. The email seemed to be from a legitimate law firm – Shams checked the website – and the lawyer sent him know your customer (KYC) information, which eventually turned out to be fake.

[...]

"We sat across from these men and transferred 4M USDC [USD Coin] into the Trust Wallet," Shams wrote. "'Mr Safra' asked to see the balances on the Trust Wallet app and took out his phone to 'take some pictures'. We thought it was weird but since no private keys or seed phrases were showing, we humored them."

He said Mr Safra was satisfied but needed to step outside to discuss it over with his colleagues.

"We never saw him again," Shams wrote. "Minutes later the funds left the wallet. I was in shock … I had absolutely no idea how these guys had stolen the money from us."

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

yeah i would love to invest in your company, one thing though first. can you put $4 million into this box right in front of me? i promise i wont take it

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

yeah i would love to invest in your company, one thing though first. can you put $4 million into this box right in front of me? i promise i wont take it

raminasi posted:

reading that felt kinda similar to watching a magic show

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

yeah i would love to invest in your company, one thing though first. can you put $4 million into this box right in front of me? i promise i wont take it

smellmycheese posted:

Great long read on Fraudo’s shenanigans from the FT no paywall

https://www.ft.com/content/6e912f25-f1b7-4b19-b370-007fbc867246

smellmycheese posted:

no paywall

Scarodactyl posted:

There is a paywall.
E,fb.

smellmycheese posted:

weird. I could read it no problem by clicking through on Elon musks Twitter. but thanks for fixing. it’s a great read.

gschmidl posted:

There's absolutely a paywall, but not here: https://archive.is/hdQe9

quote:

Since moving home, Bankman-Fried has occupied a book-lined room where he has parked a desk with two huge monitors in the middle of the floor. To one side, there is a sofa where he frequently sleeps, even though his bedroom is down the hall. When he shifts to sit cross-legged in his swivel chair, a characteristic pose, he has to adjust the chunky black ankle monitor he wears as a condition of his confinement.

Trillhouse posted:

lol at John Ray leaving SBF on read. get hosed nerd.

Trillhouse posted:

lol at John Ray leaving SBF on read. get hosed nerd.

lol.

(in gradeschool I remember the badass kids bragging about learning how to get the ankle monitor off without tripping it from their parents. I guess sam doesn't have any real criminal friends.)

Boxturret posted:

you knew multople people with ankle monitors?

bort posted:

The best part is Sam's decision to start using "Mr. Ray" in the third message.

bort posted:

The best part is Sam's decision to start using "Mr. Ray" in the third message.

Boxturret posted:

you knew multople people with ankle monitors?

Boxturret posted:

you knew multople people with ankle monitors?

Grace Baiting posted:

ankle monitor, preferred couture of the well-appointed White collar criminal

quote:

Ellison weighed in over chat from Hong Kong but seemed disengaged. Alameda had gambled hugely and been badly affected by the collapse of digital assets in 2022. Ellison told a colleague she was “relieved” that she wouldn’t have to carry the burden of running Alameda any more. “She felt a little trapped,” the colleague said. “It was over, even if it was a bad ‘over.’”

quote:

He complains of too much down time and the opportunity to stew. In his den, there is a marble slab table with two chess sets set up side by side. Who does he play with? “Right now, no one. It is sort of there prospectively as much as anything else,” he said. He spends his days on calls with lawyers and journalists, or writing long and rambling reflections on what happened. So far, he has produced over a thousand pages, he told me.

evilweasel posted:

this whole article is off the hook and I can't copy/paste enough to do it justice: https://www.ft.com/content/6e912f25-f1b7-4b19-b370-007fbc867246

i will leave you with this one little gem:

"boy i'm glad alameda is done. it sure was stressful and now that it is bankrupt i can lie back with a drink and relax. now, what is this email about "regulators" who are "upset" and "threatening a lifetime in jail" over "stealing billions of dollars" trying to communicate???"