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really couldn't be a better time for fake "verified" twitter accounts to come into the mix of this shitstorm, could there

(not in ref to the blockfi thing, btw)

iirc blockfi has been known to be in trouble for a while now, so not really big seal imo

This old SBF post arguing that Shakespeare is a “shitty writer” reveals him to be a plotcel rather than a word rotator https://t.co/prhwtLPDSf pic.twitter.com/8pEL2n6xpY

— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) November 29, 2022

if he paid attention in high school he would have realized this was discussed in class lol

I’m glad I have the word “plotcel” to describe a kind of person I hate now!!

isn't this the dude who says he doesn't read books? kind of checks out that everything he namechecks is something my high school english classes covered

"I've read these five books (teachers made me) and they are bad"

Damn, I can't believe Austen decided that women shouldn't have careers.

finally someone said it

And Shakespeare isn't alone in being a shitty writer from hundreds of years ago.

anyway, so much for being doted on by the drossy age. blow them to their trials, the bubbles are out.

Jane Austen lacked the imagination to believe that women could be capable of productive contributions to society, such as engaging in tulip arbitrage

all fall down

Miners, who raised as much as $4 billion from mining-equipment financing when profit margins were as high as 90%, are defaulting on loans and sending hundreds of thousands of machines that served as collateral back to lenders. New York Digital Investment Group, Celsius Network, BlockFi Inc., Galaxy Digital, and the Foundry unit of Digital Currency Group were among the biggest providers of funding to finance computer equipment and build data centers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-30/crypto-lenders-woes-worsen-as-bitcoin-btc-miners-struggle-to-repay-debt

good news for pc gamers tho

nah bitcoin miners have all used custom ASICs for years now that have, like, no other purpose than hashing. GPUs were still viable for eth

until the proof-of-stake switch made it irrelevant I guess

saw some thing that gpu prices are dow 50% over the last six months

what a fucking farrago

why wont this guy stop talking, hes genuinely strange

Let's see how this goes: https://t.co/BLtMDNIONI

— @BennettTom✧✧✧@ms✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@BennettTomlin) November 30, 2022

he thinks he can just keep conning, the jig is up buddy

Let's see how this goes: https://t.co/BLtMDNIONI

— @BennettTom✧✧✧@ms✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@BennettTomlin) November 30, 2022

Reporters don’t have friends

Oh damn I meant to put the one in the thread where he’s like “my longtime friend who I forgot was a reporter” about the Vox reporter who definitely wasn’t his friend

yeah they def werent friends she had talked to him before for a story awhile doing her job as a reporter, its a bizarre claim

He probably doesn’t really know what a “friend” is

yeah something like that

lol

Call me crazy, but I think @sbf is telling the truth.

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) November 30, 2022

https://vancouversun.com/news/world/cryptocurrency-billionaire-vyacheslav-taran-dies-in-mysterious-chopper-crash/wcm/94c27f47-ac91-493e-8098-c8e2f1ef3ffb

Cryptocurrency billionaire Vyacheslav Taran dies in mysterious chopper crash

The latest to die, according to the Daily Mail, is Russian billionaire Vyacheslav Taran, 53, who was killed in a Nov. 25 helicopter crash near the French resort town of Villefranche-sur-Mer after taking off from Lausanne, Switzerland.

what’s the Russian expression for “where’s my money”?

I think it’s the sound of cocking a Glock

if sbf never stops confessing they can never start charging him tapsheadwisely.gif

More from here:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/libertex-crypto-exchange-head-vyacheslav-taran-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-france

Taran is the third crypto executive to die unexpectedly in recent weeks. Amber Group cofounder Tiantian Kullander (TT) died on Nov. 23 in his sleep at the age of 30, and MakerDAO cofounder Nikolai Mushegian drowned in Puerto Rico on Oct. 28 at the age of 29. Taran is also the latest in a long string of Russian businessmen to die under various circumstances.

Taran’s death has led to some speculation in the press. The helicopter accident that claimed Taran’s life is under investigation; It took place in good weather conditions with an experienced pilot. According to France Bleu, a second passenger was booked for the flight but canceled at the last minute.

suppose that's a change from the crypto bro who faked his own death on his way to stealing all his users funds https://nypost.com/2021/12/20/mystery-of-crypto-ceo-who-died-taking-250-million-with-him/

there's a decent CBC podcast about that dude titled "A Death in Cryptoland"

I was left with the impression there might not have been a lot of money to run off with

one of the most bizarre details was that the guy handling cash-outs from Quadriga holders was someone living in a trailer in Quebec who was just moving bags of money around, iirc

moving them around the trailer?

The trailers in Quebec are pretty large

my bad, it was New Brunswick
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/transcript-a-death-in-cryptoland-e5-where-s-the-money-gerry-1.6196653

And I'd never heard of Aaron Matthews. And so I looked up the address that was on the registration and I found that it was this prefab home park in New Brunswick. And this is the address where this user has been asked to send his money. And I just thought that's really strange, because at the time I thought of Quadriga as very much a Vancouver entity. And here we have money being wired to this guy in New Brunswick.

I may be confusing this with another crypto operation but I think that to assuage one investor who was threatening them if they didn't get money out, a bag of cash was delivered in person at some point

that guy seems like did actually just die on vacation in india i watched a show on it and they interviewed the doctor who treated him seemed legit, and it also seemed like that he actually lost most of the money via bad investing rather than stealing, tho he did obvs steal some of it

speaking of crypto fraud tho

Wow, tell us Tether is running a Ponzi scheme without telling us that Tether is running a Ponzi scheme. Just listen to his answers. IMHO, as a former SEC enforcement official of 18 yrs, the evasion/deflection/lack of responsiveness makes me believe Tether is a house of cards. https://t.co/smBHui1Djv

— John Reed Stark (@JohnReedStark) December 2, 2022

tho the bad investing was a form of stealing he wasnt supposed to be investing depositors funds xp self, but rather than being alive hoarding the money somewhere more likely hes dead and the money is gone

wild how common the investing depositors funds without asking pattern is in crypto no one wants to just opperate a normal exchange

good show tho i think its on netflix everyone said he presented as this upbeat honest enthusiastic almost innocent crypto true believer then after he died they found another internet fraud in his past lol

Levine good yesterday on the waft of ponzi coming off tether

yeah otm

tether has stunk ever since they posted this lol

https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/coindesk/TB33XCJ57VECRBTITBRQW5TJGU.png

Pie charts that have the vibe of an obvious lie

who would even slice a pie up that way

is tether the one where they claim to have a bunch of currency but wouldn’t say what country’s?

Are there any standards at all for what can be considered "commercial paper?" I'm guessing not in their case if they're not audited anyway. And of course it could all just be made up for that matter.

journalists have talked to all the big commercial paper brokers and have never been able to find someone whos done business with tether, which is interesting considering how much of it they claim to own