!buttcoin
@awful.systemshttps://www.followthecrypto.org/
Follow the cryptocurrency industry’s influence on 2024 elections in the United States.
https://www.wired.com/story/pig-butchering-scam-crypto-huione-guarantee/
Deepfake scam services. Victim data. Electrified shackles for human trafficking. Crypto tracing firm Elliptic found all were available for sale on an online marketplace linked to Cambodia’s ruling family.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/9/24195089/german-government-refuses-to-hodl
German law enforcement seized over 50,000 bitcoin (worth over $2 billion at the time) while busting a movie piracy site earlier this year. Now the government is liquidating so much crypto at such a fast pace that the price of bitcoin is dropping in response. It’s not helping that Germany’s sell-off coincides with repayments to creditors (in crypto) by the Mt. Gox bankruptcy estate.
https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/
A Bitcoin mine moved to a small town in Texas. One by one, the residents fell ill.
https://protos.com/german-mp-joana-cotar-holds-btc-and-says-the-government-should-stop-selling/
German MP Joana Cotar criticized her government for failing to keep bitcoin before revealing she holds the crypto as part of her portfolio.
https://www.wired.com/story/after-a-10-year-wait-mt-gox-bitcoin-is-finally-being-returned/
Former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange Mt. Gox are preparing to be reunited with their lost bitcoin—and it’s a $9 billion windfall.
https://amycastor.com/2024/07/03/silvergate-settles-with-sec-dfpi-and-federal-reserve-over-ftx-money-laundering/
With a sufficiently awful public disaster, there’s always room for more scorching.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-sec-sues-silvergate-securities-fraud-2024-07-01/
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/06/30/sec-sues-consensys-over-metamask-swaps-and-staking/
Another in the SEC’s series of cases against unregistered crypto security broking.
https://amycastor.com/2024/06/27/crypto-is-going-coinbase-sues-fdic-and-sec-under-foia-epoch-times-crypto-money-laundering-consumers-research-vs-tether-ftx-salame-terra-settles-with-sec/
85 years old and still running Ponzis? Now that’s a work ethic.