crypto billionaire w pandemic super PAC buys "progressives"

[nashvillebrook]

can someone explain to me why crypto billionaire brothers Sam and Gabe Bankman-Fried have a pandemic-associated superPAC and 501c4 dark money group that's buying congressional seats for inexperienced/young/stupid "progressives"?

Says Gabe in Politico: “If we really wanted to protect against another pandemic, then … we need the kind of bipartisan cooperation and support for this, for biosecurity in a post-Covid world, that we have for national security and a post-9/11 world.”

what is the connection to crypto -- where are they going with this?

citation
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/04/democratic-megadonor-sam-bankman-fried-00049048

here's another article on buying Congressional races
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/08/endorsements-new-yorks-10th-congressional-district/374474/

A cryptocurrency billionaire is spending big in New York congressional primaries
Josh Lafazan and Francis Conole have been supported by the Protect Our Future super PAC, and Carlina Rivera could be next.

Jeff ColtinAugust 8, 2022
Protect Our Future PAC has reported spending $498,000 so far on TV and digital ads supporting Josh Lafazan, who is running for New York’s 3rd Congressional District.
Protect Our Future PAC has reported spending $498,000 so far on TV and digital ads supporting Josh Lafazan, who is running for New York’s 3rd Congressional District. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

The endorsements for New York’s 10th Congressional District

Who’s backing who in the competitive open seat race to represent parts of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn in the House of Representatives.

Find out who’s endorsing who in the hottest election race of the summer in City and State’s new 10th Congressional District tracker.
Find out who’s endorsing who in the hottest election race of the summer in City and State’s new 10th Congressional District tracker. Through the Lens/Getty Images

It’s the race of the summer! It’s got everyone: a firebrand Assembly member with a nascent national profile, a City Council rising star, an octogenarian barrier breaker who last served in Congress in 1981, an impeachment lawyer rolling in campaign cash and a popular freshman Congress member who, ahem, recently relocated.

The race to represent New York’s new 10th Congressional District, comprising lower Manhattan, brownstone Brooklyn, Sunset Park and parts of Borough Park, is wide, wide open with 13 candidates on the ballot. Endorsements are flying – and not always where you would expect. For example, the prominent health care workers union 1199 SEIU backed City Council Member Carlina Rivera over a staunch ally, former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who later dropped out of the race. And progressive standard bearers at the Working Families Party endorsed Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou, choosing her over Rep. Mondaire Jones, who they endorsed for Congress in 2020 in a different district.

Endorsements signal to voters a candidate’s ideological positioning and demonstrate the breadth, depth and nature of their support. A particularly popular endorser can help mobilize voters. We scoured press releases, social media and candidates’ websites to compile a list of the most current endorsements, as of Aug. 8.

Daniel Goldman, former director of investigations and senior adviser to the House Intelligence Committee

Organizations: The Steady State, Village Independent Democrats

Elected officials: Assembly Members Bobby Carroll and Brian Cunningham

Other public figures: Former Rep. Steve Israel, former Lt. Gov. Dick Ravitch, gun violence activist Jackie Rowe-Adams

Elizabeth Holtzman, a former member of Congress

Organizations: National Organization for Women – NYC, New York Daily News

Other public figures: Feminist activist Gloria Steinem

Mondaire Jones, member of Congress for the 17th district

Labor: Communications Workers of America Local 1180, National Nurses United, RWDSU, Uniformed Fire Officers Association

Organizations: Congressional Black Caucus PAC, Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC, Council for a Liveable World, Demand Justice PAC, Democracy for America Action, End Citizens United/Let America Vote, Equality PAC, Grand Street Dems, Human Rights Campaign, New York Progressive Action Network, Victory Fund

Elected officials: U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (NJ), Ed Markey (MA); House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA), Reps. Ruben Gallego (AZ), Pramila Jayapal (WA), Barbara Lee (CA), Ted Lieu (CA) and Jamie Raskin (MD)

Maud Maron, former public defender

Organizations: Asian Wave Alliance, Coalition for Common Sense Covid Recovery, Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum & Education, Parents Protecting Childhood

Other public figures: Transgender activist Buck Angel

Yuh-Line Niou, Assembly member

Organizations: Brooklyn Asian Civilian Observation Patrol, Chuches United for Fair Housing Action, the Desiree Alliance, Downtown Women for Change, Indivisible Nation BK, The Jewish Vote, Muslim Democratic Club of New York, New Downtown Dems, New York Communities for Change, New York Working Families Party, No IDC NY, On Leong Merchants Association, Progressive Women of NY, Save Our Storefronts NY, Sunrise Movement NYC, Taiwanese Americans for Progress

Elected officials: New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams; State Sen. Julia Salazar; Assembly Members Emily Gallagher, Ron Kim, Marcela Mitaynes and Michaelle Solages; Boston Mayor Michelle Wu; Michigan state Sen. Stephanie Chang, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu; California Assembly Member Ash Kalra, Virginia State Delegate Mark KeamOther public figures: Former gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, comedian Ronnie Chieng, former Manhattan district attorney candidate Tahanie Aboushi

Rescinded endorsements: Assembly Member Brian Cunningham

Carlina Rivera, New York City Council member

Labor: 1199 SEIU; New York State Iron Workers District Council, Transport Workers Union of America, TWU Local 100, Uniformed EMS Officers Union Local 3621; Uniformed EMTs, Paramedics and Fire Inspectors Local 2507

Organizations: 504 Democratic Club, Coalition for a District Alternative LES, Emgage Action, Guarding Against Pandemics PAC, Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, New York League of Conservation Voters, Poder PAC, Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City, United Democratic Organization, Vote Pro Choice, Voters for Animal Rights

Elected officials: Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velázquez; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine; New York City Council Members Alexa Avilés, Diana Ayala, Erik Bottcher, Selvena Brooks-Powers, Eric Dinowitz, Amanda Farías, Jennifer Guitérrez, Kamillah Hanks, Rita Joseph, Ari Kagan, Farah Louis, Julie Menin, Mercedes Narcisse, Sandy Nurse, Keith Powers, Lincoln Restler, Rafael Salamanca Jr., Lynn Schulman, Althea Stevens and Marjorie Velázquez

Other public figures: Former New York City Council Member Margaret Chin, former City Council candidate Jenny Low

Brian Robinson, CEO of Churchill Credit Solutions

Organizations: New Yorkers for Safer Streets

Jo Anne Simon, Assembly member

Organizations: Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, Downtown Independent Democrats, Independent Neighborhood Democrats, Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn

Elected officials: State Sen. Roxanne Persaud; Assembly Members Peter Abbate, Steve Cymbrowitz, Pat Fahy, Deborah Glick and Linda Rosenthal

Other public figures: Former state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery, former Assembly Member Joan Millman, former New York City Council Member Margarita López

Other candidates include Quanda Francis, a business consultant and president of Sykes Capital Management, who was endorsed by rapper CL Smooth. Also running are Peter Gleason, an attorney; Jimmy Li and Yan Xiong, a human rights activist. They have not received any notable endorsements yet.

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped out of the race on July 20, but before that had been endorsed by UNITE HERE Local 100, New York City Council Member Mercedes Narcisse, former Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero.

[nashvillebrook]

feel free to move this to an appropriate thread -- i'm just trying to get the RI take on this b/c the answer seems obvious, but i need to spelled out like i'm a 5-yr old b/c i need to explain it to...normies.

[Wombaticus Rex]

It deserves its own thread because the Bankman-Fried gigaplex is going to become an important issue on American shores and beyond. Yung Sam is something of a myth. Almost all billionaires are of course fronts, but few of them are quite as brittle and hastily fabricated as he. Seeing the panels he was invited to last year tipped me off early on to the fact his sponsors are not run of the mill private equity guys; the lad has juice. But only to the extent he toes the line and executes the plan.

That plan is pretty plainly what we have seen playing out in the aftermath of the May 2022 Crypto Crash: playing John Pierpont Morgan to consolidate huge swaths of market share at fire sale bargain prices. Like Morgan, he too is doing this with Other People's Money.

It is worth remembering that for all the very accurate and well-founded skepticism of "Crypto" on the fundamentals level, BIS, like Wall Street and City of London and XSHG, is very interested in the field. And for all the Wild West cowboy culture of these startups, and "definancialization" rhetoric behind their projects, the cryptocurrency market, in toto, is just a planet sized test sandbox for the future of fintech. Just as The Internet was not building a technology to set the world free but a military force multiplier, Crypto Bros are building Central Bank Digital Currency -- "CBDC," an acronym you can expect to see far more of for, well, shit, the rest of our serf lives.

No surprise, then, that his political philosophy should be shaped by the same dream of digitally executed global control. There is a certain sweetness to the fact that he -- rightly, rightly -- views Progressives as the ideal stalking horse for expanding government control through the barrier of human flesh into an all-encompassing Biosecurity State regime. Don't you want to be safe? Don't you trust the experts? And what is progress, after all, but the religious certainty that our proliferating technological novelties are proof that we are better and wiser and greater than the ancestors who came before us?

Much like Musk, what is undeniably real about SBF is his work ethic and intelligence. As much as they play Ah-Shucks regular bros in public; a curious studied affectation for such uncomfortable autistic and insecure men, innit? -- they are monomaniac sharks at heart. SBF's innate and detailed understanding of markets likely stems from his early genius for math and his experience structuring ETFs, both in terms of building the actual instruments and building market systems to trade them. (There is a certain symmetry there, too, as ETFs are extremely correlated assets that suffer from extreme bottleneck / exit illiquidity problems when the music stops.)

While the man clearly has a bright future, a lot could go wrong along the way. He is Robert Maxwell type leveraged right now and the market volatility is far from over; while I assume that many of his moves will pay off, making monthly margin & overhead could trigger an implosion in a bad quarter. And there are a lot of those incoming.

More important, though, is his political impact, and it's worth remembering that all donors talk their books and put the best possible PR spin on what is, always and forever, buying protection from elected officials. In his case there is the additional imperative of laundering money while it still spends. Consider this CNBC story from earlier in the week outlining some of the financial details that emerged from an ongoing bankruptcy inquiry for Voyager Digital. There are a lot of nine-figure sums flowing into his Alameda umbrella from entities that are themselves barely solvent. When he's not acquiring controlling stakes in crypto exchanges with high volume, the rest of that dry powder needs to get spent ASAP. Politicians are an asset on par with real estate.

He also knows, from the circles he operates in, gets funding from, and parties with, that the biosecurity state is expected to be a multi-trillion dollar growth sector, so it makes good financial sense to get involved there, too. Securing no-bid long-term government contracts is perhaps even more lucrative than minting and selling digital assets.

The connection to crypto there is easy: blockchains, permanent open-book ledgers, aka digital spreadsheets. This will be the core technology of the biosecurity state, your digital ID.

[nashvillebrook]

"More important, though, is his political impact, and it's worth remembering that all donors talk their books and put the best possible PR spin on what is, always and forever, buying protection from elected officials. In his case there is the additional imperative of laundering money while it still spends. Consider this CNBC story from earlier in the week outlining some of the financial details that emerged from an ongoing bankruptcy inquiry for Voyager Digital. There are a lot of nine-figure sums flowing into his Alameda umbrella from entities that are themselves barely solvent. When he's not acquiring controlling stakes in crypto exchanges with high volume, the rest of that dry powder needs to get spent ASAP. Politicians are an asset on par with real estate."

YES YES YESSSSSS!

and thank you -- this is exactly the reality check i needed!

[nashvillebrook]

thank you for the clarity Wombat! i've been struggling with this for awhile b/c...well...i've avoided all the digital ID/CBDC stuff.

i don't have any kind of economic background, and def not fintech -- so i've not felt well equipped to judge any of the stuff as it's been happening. i have to trust the ppl i trust who understand it!

now it's in line with work i'm doing so i can't ignore it, and i needed to get up to speed quickly. i don't think anyone else i know could've made these narrative connections.

so he's
developing a new currency exchange
buying up baby squad frauds
leveraging his entire pile thru political wagers
AND
pushing vaccine ID

IT'S THE WHOLE BURRITO AND a side of guac.

It deserves its own thread because the Bankman-Fried gigaplex is going to become an important issue on American shores and beyond. Yung Sam is something of a myth. Almost all billionaires are of course fronts, but few of them are quite as brittle and hastily fabricated as he. Seeing the panels he was invited to last year tipped me off early on to the fact his sponsors are not run of the mill private equity guys; the lad has juice. But only to the extent he toes the line and executes the plan.

That plan is pretty plainly what we have seen playing out in the aftermath of the May 2022 Crypto Crash: playing John Pierpont Morgan to consolidate huge swaths of market share at fire sale bargain prices. Like Morgan, he too is doing this with Other People's Money.

It is worth remembering that for all the very accurate and well-founded skepticism of "Crypto" on the fundamentals level, BIS, like Wall Street and City of London and XSHG, is very interested in the field. And for all the Wild West cowboy culture of these startups, and "definancialization" rhetoric behind their projects, the cryptocurrency market, in toto, is just a planet sized test sandbox for the future of fintech. Just as The Internet was not building a technology to set the world free but a military force multiplier, Crypto Bros are building Central Bank Digital Currency -- "CBDC," an acronym you can expect to see far more of for, well, shit, the rest of our serf lives.

No surprise, then, that his political philosophy should be shaped by the same dream of digitally executed global control. There is a certain sweetness to the fact that he -- rightly, rightly -- views Progressives as the ideal stalking horse for expanding government control through the barrier of human flesh into an all-encompassing Biosecurity State regime. Don't you want to be safe? Don't you trust the experts? And what is progress, after all, but the religious certainty that our proliferating technological novelties are proof that we are better and wiser and greater than the ancestors who came before us?

Much like Musk, what is undeniably real about SBF is his work ethic and intelligence. As much as they play Ah-Shucks regular bros in public; a curious studied affectation for such uncomfortable autistic and insecure men, innit? -- they are monomaniac sharks at heart. SBF's innate and detailed understanding of markets likely stems from his early genius for math and his experience structuring ETFs, both in terms of building the actual instruments and building market systems to trade them. (There is a certain symmetry there, too, as ETFs are extremely correlated assets that suffer from extreme bottleneck / exit illiquidity problems when the music stops.)

While the man clearly has a bright future, a lot could go wrong along the way. He is Robert Maxwell type leveraged right now and the market volatility is far from over; while I assume that many of his moves will pay off, making monthly margin & overhead could trigger an implosion in a bad quarter. And there are a lot of those incoming.

More important, though, is his political impact, and it's worth remembering that all donors talk their books and put the best possible PR spin on what is, always and forever, buying protection from elected officials. In his case there is the additional imperative of laundering money while it still spends. Consider this CNBC story from earlier in the week outlining some of the financial details that emerged from an ongoing bankruptcy inquiry for Voyager Digital. There are a lot of nine-figure sums flowing into his Alameda umbrella from entities that are themselves barely solvent. When he's not acquiring controlling stakes in crypto exchanges with high volume, the rest of that dry powder needs to get spent ASAP. Politicians are an asset on par with real estate.

He also knows, from the circles he operates in, gets funding from, and parties with, that the biosecurity state is expected to be a multi-trillion dollar growth sector, so it makes good financial sense to get involved there, too. Securing no-bid long-term government contracts is perhaps even more lucrative than minting and selling digital assets.

The connection to crypto there is easy: blockchains, permanent open-book ledgers, aka digital spreadsheets. This will be the core technology of the biosecurity state, your digital ID.

[Belligerent Savant]

I'll need to come back to this later when I've time to digest it fully.
Agreed, good thread to start here, Nashvillebrook.

These bits here were also touched on in related threads, many of which are still in the first page of General Discussion:

And for all the Wild West cowboy culture of these startups, and "definancialization" rhetoric behind their projects, the cryptocurrency market, in toto, is just a planet sized test sandbox for the future of fintech. Just as The Internet was not building a technology to set the world free but a military force multiplier, Crypto Bros are building Central Bank Digital Currency -- "CBDC," an acronym you can expect to see far more of for, well, shit, the rest of our serf lives.

Yes. Do a search within this forum for "CBDC" and "smart contracts" and you'll see related content on this. It's been my primary concern for some time, the 'Trojan Horse' of CBDC snuck in while the crypto bros are misdirected by the 'promise' of Bitcoin. (though I continue to believe there is some promise there, perhaps -- thriving decentralized sub-markets can develop as centralization continues to be challenged. Or maybe I remain a foolish idealist. The best option, anyway, may be an agrarian barter system. May turn out to be the only alternative depending on how things shake out)

Here's one sampling Re: smart contracts, which would be a core attribute of CBDC systems:

...

So, hypothetically:

Once an individual's "Digital ID" (vaccine status, health info, bank/digital asset info, employment status, criminal record, internet activity, etc) is stored on the blockchain, a 'smart contract' can/will be appended to that individual's ID.

So long as one keeps to their vaccine schedule, or avoids certain activities deemed to be 'domestic threats', access to your digital monetary assets will remain active. Stray from the straight line, however, and mechanisms will automatically trigger to withhold funds (no human 'broker-bureaucrat' required; the terms/code of the 'smart' contract does all the work), or otherwise prevent you from making purchases (such as public transit or meals).

These smart contracts would also be built-into other services, such as UBI. In order to qualify for UBI, you must meet certain prerequisites -- easily verified via your Digital ID profile. Failure to maintain certain policy requirements will result in withholding of UBI until the 'issues' (e.g., getting your latest booster shot) are resolved.

This becomes particularly important if CASH/FIAT is no longer a viable alternative.

...

No surprise, then, that his political philosophy should be shaped by the same dream of digitally executed global control. There is a certain sweetness to the fact that he -- rightly, rightly -- views Progressives as the ideal stalking horse for expanding government control through the barrier of human flesh into an all-encompassing Biosecurity State regime. Don't you want to be safe? Don't you trust the experts? And what is progress, after all, but the religious certainty that our proliferating technological novelties are proof that we are better and wiser and greater than the ancestors who came before us?

...

The connection to crypto there is easy: blockchains, permanent open-book ledgers, aka digital spreadsheets. This will be the core technology of the biosecurity state, your digital ID.

Yes, indeed. and all the rest. Will come back to read through NBrook's comments at a later time.

[Agent Orange Cooper]

SBF and the Alameda/FTX exchange are currently getting hosed by CZ over at Binance who recently announced their intention to dump $8 billion worth of FTT token, due to SBF's increasingly loud anti-Bitcoin rhetoric and calls for regulatory capture. It seems that Alameda has maybe been printing their own token and using it as collateral to borrow USD - massive loans which will go bust if the FTT token drops in value enough (it dropped 30% today).

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

[Agent Orange Cooper]

SBF is now bankrupt and FTX is insolvent.

[semper occultus]

While the man clearly has a bright future, a lot could go wrong along the way. He is Robert Maxwell type leveraged right now

well Wombat pretty much nailed it apart from the bright future bit

and it looks like he was dipping into clients money to prop up the whole collapsing edifice exactly like Maxwell started on his employees' pension funds

[drstrangelove]

after the crypto crash in May we saw massive spikes in the price of the 10, 20, and 30 year US government bond. The 10 and 30 year have once again spiked, and i suspect the 20 year will in the next few days. seems as if crypto is being used to prop up the bond market and keep yields down.

[Belligerent Savant]

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Short and largely on-point synopsis:

The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX/Alameda empire has been swift and spectacular. I could talk about it for hours. But there's no time for that. Here's a mountain of crypto-fraud mayhem crammed into 99 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow-MN7qJnIY

JC M
5 hours ago

I think it's possible SBF was a trojan horse in the crypto space to bring in the regulators, and he did exactly what he was supposed to do.

[Agent Orange Cooper]

https://www.theblock.co/post/185746/sen ... x-collapse

Senators moving forward with SBF-backed bill after FTX collapse

QUICK TAKE:
- Authors of legislation to increase federal oversight of crypto exchanges and underlying spot markets pledged to move forward on legislation in the wake of FTX’s shocking collapse.
- Sam Bankman-Fried was a major proponent of the bill, which led to friction between him and other industry leaders.

Unreal. Add in the cozy relationship between SBF, FTX, and SEC chairsnake Gary Gensler... it couldn't get any more obvious what happened here.

[Belligerent Savant]

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The following thread is a rabbit hole/'deep dive' with mostly fact-based/corroborated info with a smattering of speculation towards the end (the author also offers his own opinions related to bitcoin/DeFi in a couple spots). Sharing here as added consideration for discerning minds.

I believe there is far more to this story than currently presented (and it's unlikely the full extent will ever be disclosed/uncovered, at least overtly, given where it seems to lead).

Caveat Lector.

@Trad1ngMach1ne

Deep Dive into Sam Bankman-Fried

Good guy who messed up, FED, or something worse?

Follow the white rabbit and decide for yourself...

Firstly, the "Mr Nice Guy" media persona.

Now start from the base principle that people don't get on the front cover of major magazines, nor are pushed by the mainstream media WITHOUT it serving THEIR agenda.

And SBF and FTX was everywhere.

The guy loved himself so much he thought it a good idea to put his face everywhere, spending your money to do it.

Major publications reported him as being a Robin Hood type figure who drove an old Corolla and slept on the office floor.

@tlupick

'A 30-Year-Old Crypto Billionaire Wants to Give His Fortune Away' https://bloom.bg/3ulkJnz "Sam Bankman-Fried (@SBF_FTX) drives a Corolla, sleeps on a beanbag, and has a Robin Hood-like philosophy." #crypto #bitcoin #activism

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... ent=crypto

They set up the FTX Foundation - "a force for good".

https://ftxfoundation.org

The media presented an altruistic persona, of a hard worker. Someone investible.

Massive sports sponsorships served to legitimize the business further.

@cryptowithabhi

A $40B crypto empire is on the brink of collapse
You know whom I'm talking about. This is a company that :
• is a sponsor of T20 world cup
• is on the Mercedes-AMG formula 1 cars
• named the Miami Heat stadium the FTX arena
Yup, SBF's FTX is in DIP problems

And even Tom Brady and Gisele invested a fortune into FTX.

Ouch.



Was he a bad guy, though? Let's see...

So, we all know the saying "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree", so let's take a look at his parents and see the type of tree he came from



Firstly, Joseph Bankman is a well regarded tax lawyer from Stanford.

An expert in taxation and has written numerous books on the subject. A great asset when performing fraud for $ billions. It is reported that he worked for FTX in some capacity.

Barbara Fried is also a well connected tax lawyer from Stanford.

She is a massive Progressive, and 'enemy' of free market capitalism, going so far as to write a book named: "The Progressive Assault on Laissez-Faire". The exact opposite of crypto.

Now, more notably, she has big connections with the Democrats, and set up a rather secretive Super PAC called "Mind The Gap".

The purpose of which was to funnel money into Democratic Party candidate campaigns.




Conveniently, FTX launched a mere 13 days after Biden announced his 2020 Presidential campaign.

This allowed SBF to become one of his biggest donors...




So here you have SBF's two parents, both tax lawyers, both Progressives, both anti-free market capitalism, and who have a Democratic Super PAC.

They support their son in the BIGGEST FREE MARKET experiment in modern history, and subsequently become a huge Biden donor.

SBF repeatedly spoke about giving away his wealth to better causes. FTX is registered in a tax haven in the Bahamas.

The apple didn't fall far from the tree at all. But let's continue...

@CoinMarketCap

#Cryptonews SBF was being heralded as one of the youngest self-made millionaires in history, and was vowing to give away as much of his wealth as possible

So far, regarding the "was he a FED sent to destroy crypto?" question, we only have some evidence that at the very least, he saw crypto as a great way to make (steal) and redistribute money from the system into the hands of the Dems.

What else?

@lex_node

CFTC and Democrats were palling around with SBF, suing DAOs and devs, decrying the scourge of DeFi and plotting to regulate websites and wallet APIs while FTX played with customer money.

Madoff and Enron were fully SEC regulated.

Regulators do not protect us, period.

FTX is (was) a member of the World Economic Forum.



SBF often spoke about regulating DeFi.

What is DeFi? The greatest technology ever invented to give regular people full sovereignty of their money. Financial "freedom" in the truest sense.

SBF wanted to regulate it, and thus was against it.

@jgarzik

What was SBF lobbying against? DeFi.

What would have prevented this? DeFi.

What exchanges already publish real-time proof-of-reserves? DeFi.

What will US regulators try to shut down? DeFi.

SBF worked closely with regulators, in particular: Gary Gensler.

@RepTomEmmer
·
Nov 10

Interesting. @GaryGensler runs to the media while reports to my office allege he was helping SBF and FTX work on legal loopholes to obtain a regulatory monopoly. We're looking into this.

Why Gensler? Well, Gensler is a Biden appointee, to whom SBF and his family are a main donor.

But also, the father Caroline Ellison (the CEO of Alameda), Glenn Ellison is VERY well connected with Gensler.

@JagoeCapital

Did you know: Alameda CEO
@carolinecapital's Dad, Glenn Ellison is the Department Head of Economics at @MIT?

And...
Prior to getting appointed to the SEC, @GaryGensler was a Professor for the Practice of Global Economics & Management at @MIT
...

If regulators were working with SBF, they did a terrible job.

Here he sits in a room full of lawmakers lying with impunity.

@HaloCrypto
·
Nov 9

In front of a room of lawmakers…

[video at link]:
https://twitter.com/Trad1ngMach1ne/stat ... 6oZ0yXFwdw

And in spite of SBF's rampant fraud and theft to the tune of $ billions, the crypto regulatory Bill he backed is happening...

@mattdorta
·
SBF runs a massive fraud from an offshore exchange.

SBF backed bill is what Senators decide is best to move forward with.

The White House wasting no time in jumping on the 'crypto regulation' bandwagon...

@disclosetv
·
Nov 10

NOW - White House: "Regulation of cryptocurrencies is needed."

Starting to make sense?

At a certain point you find enough breadcrumbs to satiate your hunger for a realistic conclusion.

@DylanLeClair_

Good guy SBF has been telling everyone since June.

Anything else?

Well... Crypto Bahamas.

Blair and Clinton went to SBF's "Crypto Bahamas" event. Those two have friends in high places, and a donation can go a long way.

@Rhodri_H_Davies

Bill Clinton and Tony Blair appear to be on stage at a crypto conference in the Bahamas with Sam Bankman-Fried (aka the biggest philanthropic donor you haven't heard of of. Yet).

I'm gonna suggest this has some relevance from a philanthropy p.o.v...

In investigating this, something else came to light.

Now put your tinfoil hat on a moment, because this gets interesting.

Aside from being warmongerers and 'foundation' money launderers, what is first thing you think of regarding Blair and Clinton?

Epstein Island.

And the Bahamas is well known for a certain 'perversion'.

@FREEPHONEFREES1

PENTAGON CONF

PRINCE ANDREW, PRINCE HARRY

INVOLVED W NYGARD IN

PEDOPHILE, PROSTITUTION TRAFFICKING RING

VIA EUROPE, CANADA, US, CARIBBEAN, LATIN AMERICA

NYGARD WAS ARRESTED BY FBI IN DEC

https://justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/canadi ... cketeering

Nygard w Prince Andrew on his Bahamas island, 2011

Tinfoil hat off.

In summary...

It's clear that SBF isn't just a regular kid who made a mistake. He's exceptionally well connected, he stole vast amounts of money, pushed regulation, and everything he did regressed the crypto space.

The End. Share it around. Thanks.

https://twitter.com/Trad1ngMach1ne/stat ... 6oZ0yXFwdw


There may, or may not, be a potential connection between this "Crypto Bahamas" and the recent death of another crypto maven, as referenced in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42381

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Mostly breadcrumbs for now. Can potentially be moved to an existing related thread, though this may merit its own.

Difficult to parse, at this time, how much of this may also include drug-induced 'fabulism' (or other series of events wholly unrelated to the CIA or trafficking rings) though the fact is he was very recently found dead.

Dylan LeClair
@DylanLeClair_
·
10h

The 29-yr old co-founder of MakerDAO, Nikolai Muchgian has been found dead in in San Juan #PuertoRico, just three days after tweeting the following from his personal twitter account.

https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_/statu ... f8rugOElwQ

sunday night, conditions met, surprise discovery, new opportunity, now all in on timeline shifting insanity index, quantum immortality but for human civilization, a bet that there is no future where negative sum banker global slave agenda doesn't end in extinction. wish me luck

3 possible futures for me 1) suicided by CIA 2) CIA brain damage slave asset 3) worst nightmare of people who fucked with me up until now, I am sure these are the only options

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1566 ... 85283.html



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[Agent Orange Cooper]

That's a great post BS.

But still a lot more happening in real time. A hacker (or someone) has been draining FTX's wallets, nearly $600 million and counting. Meanwhile twitter is tracking a private jet which left the Bahamas and is headed to Argentina, alleged to be SBF.

Apparently Michael Lewis (of The Big Short, Moneyball) had been tracking FTX as the subject of a future book. What an ending it will have. Why do I feel this is was all by design, and will make an entertaining movie a few years from now.

[drstrangelove]

after the crypto crash in May we saw massive spikes in the price of the 10, 20, and 30 year US government bond. The 10 and 30 year have once again spiked, and i suspect the 20 year will in the next few days. seems as if crypto is being used to prop up the bond market and keep yields down.

And the price of the 20 year spiked today.