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"in the land of the coins the man who makes it to dubai is king"

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For the curious among you, I really do recommend you read the man's text messages. Especially the text messages to/from Epstein's bestie . While you're there you can also read about how Jeffrey Epstein was funding the core development team starting from around 2015 at (possibly until his death).

Also made some improvements to the Epstein text messages page:

  • Highlighted important names ("trump", "jabor", "brock", "", "", "", etc)

  • Deanonymized (with help) as many of the emails as I could manage based on various kinds of clues, including the signature lines.

  • Added an "Other Files" section at the bottom with preview text + links to raw files that are neither emails nor iMessage log files.

  • Various other forms of analysis (common signatures, author counts, etc)

i'm really enjoying posting screenshots of Bannon inviting Epstein to the movies on Bannon's insane right wing War Room tweets. his audience Really Does Not Like the fact that the two were so close and communicated so much.

table of "sent from my iPhone" style signatures used by epstein and friends
Abbreviations Used Frequently In These Chats โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”ณโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”“ โ”ƒ Abbreviation โ”ƒ Translation โ”ƒ โ”กโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ•‡โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”ฉ โ”‚ AD โ”‚ Abu Dhabi โ”‚ โ”‚ Barak โ”‚ Ehud Barak (Former Israeli prime minister) โ”‚ โ”‚ Barrack โ”‚ Tom Barrack โ”‚ โ”‚ BG โ”‚ Bill Gates โ”‚ โ”‚ Bill โ”‚ Bill Gates โ”‚ โ”‚ Brock โ”‚ Brock Pierce โ”‚ โ”‚ DB โ”‚ Deutsche Bank (maybe??) โ”‚ โ”‚ HBJ โ”‚ Hamad bin Jassim (Former Qatari prime minister) โ”‚ โ”‚ Jabor โ”‚ "an influential man in Qatar" โ”‚ โ”‚ Jagland โ”‚ Thorbjรธrn Jagland โ”‚ โ”‚ Jeffrey Wernick โ”‚ Right wing crypto bro โ”‚ โ”‚ Hoffenberg โ”‚ Steven Hoffenberg (Epstein's ponzi scheme partner) โ”‚ โ”‚ KSA โ”‚ Kingdom of Saudi Arabia โ”‚ โ”‚ Kwok โ”‚ Chinese criminal Miles Kwok AKA Miles Guo AKA Guo Wengui โ”‚ โ”‚ Mapp โ”‚ Kenneth E. Mapp (VI Governor) โ”‚ โ”‚ Masa โ”‚ Masayoshi Son (Softbank) โ”‚ โ”‚ MBS โ”‚ Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (Saudi ruler) โ”‚ โ”‚ MBZ โ”‚ Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Emirates sheikh) โ”‚ โ”‚ Jared โ”‚ Jared Kushner โ”‚ โ”‚ Miro โ”‚ Miroslav Lajฤรกk โ”‚ โ”‚ Mooch โ”‚ Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci (Skybridge crypto bro) โ”‚ โ”‚ Terje โ”‚ Terje Rรธd-Larsen โ”‚ โ”‚ Woody โ”‚ Woody Allen โ”‚ โ”‚ Zug โ”‚ City in Switzerland (crypto hub)
table of the most common email authors in the recent epstein files archive

table of the most common email authors in the recent epstein files archive
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: I Made Epstein's Texts Great Again (And You Should Read Them)

I converted the text message logs in the recently released 20,000 pages of Epstein effluence to a more friendly format, deanonymized them, and read them. You should too.

Almost 50% of the text messages released by congressional Republicans are Epstein texting back and forth with his best friend Steve Bannon, which I must admit was pretty surprising.

Over the course of the texts Epstein describes himself as a member of the Republican party ("on the same team") and apparently one who was enough to be besties with Bannon).

Bannon and Epstein do things like tell jokes, talk about their friends in the chinese mafia (), tease each other about girlfriends, and plot to overthrow democracy and install fascism with ,

No, really. Just read the texts. It's all there

p.s. I suspect the house Repuhblicans released so many of Bannon's texts to discredit him (mission accomplished).
[dons tinfoil hat] Maybe for criticizing so much.

Screenshot of substack link
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@cryptadamist@universeodon.com avatar cryptadamist , to random

tucker carlson interviewed nick fuentes and the coalition is in absolute meltdown.

  • on one side you have the pro , pro neoneocons who are shocked - shocked! - that there is going on in this establishment (just ignore the fact that they voted for the guy who invited fuentes and kanye to dinner at Mar-A-Lago)

  • on the other side you have MAGA influencers with enormous followings finally just taking the mask off and saying "nick's right, the problem is the jews"

...and the groypers are swarming everyone's replies with non-stop memes.

i feel like this interview finally put the match to the antisemitic gasoline that Candace Owens has been pumping for years now.

incredible drama ๐Ÿฟ

#X

Hodgetwins @hodgetwins Look at everybody that is mad about Tucker interviewing Fuentes They all got one thing in common 11:24 AM - Oct 28, 2025 - 281.1K Views
Madeline Schultz @madelinefry my mentions rn (picture of an inquisitive man in a yellow shirt saying "you jewish?")
otter labeled "the jews" eating most of the way through a tree that's about to fall labeled "our country"

otter labeled "the jews" eating most of the way through a tree that's about to fall labeled "our country"
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the is now officially visiting the homes of people spotted at protests like , , etc.

it boggles the mind that there are people at in the US who, upon finding agents at their door asking โ€œdo you have a few minutes to talk about the protests?โ€ answer with anything other than โ€œdo you have a warrant?โ€ followed by a polite request that they leave your property.

this isnโ€™t complicated. you need to shut the fuck up. the exists for a reason. shutting the fuck up cannot be used against you, for any reason, ever. not shutting the fuck up will never help you. it can only hurt you.

any false statement to the FBI can be charged as a crime. even if you just forgot. even if you mix up the order of events. even if you tell the truth but the agents find another person whose story contradicts yours. even if you tell the truth but the agents misrember what you said (!!!)

talking to the FBI is much more legally perilous than talking to the police (and you shouldnโ€™t do that either) and talking to Kash Patel's FBI is far worse than talking to the old FBI.

i know itโ€™s hard. you want to be helpful. you want to explain yourself. itโ€™s a very natural human thing and thatโ€™s exactly what theyโ€™re going to use against you. so hereโ€™s a helpful script you can follow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqo5RYOp4nQ

literally every single lawyer in the united states will tell you exactly what iโ€™m telling you now. tell a friend. tell all your friends. tell random people you see on the street.

and shut. the. fuck. up.

don't be like this guy, who helpfully stepped out of his house to chat with the FBI outside the range of audio recording for most of an hour: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-agents-visit-anti-ice-protester

VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester โ€œYour name was brought up. (doorcam shot of FBI agents at protesters door)
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new startup idea from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's a16zยน: a tool to let you control thousands of accounts that look "as human as possible"

ยน Owners of large stakes in , The Privatized Public Square (AKA โ€œXโ€ AKA โ€œThe Everything Appโ€), and (soon)

#X

(F near Bl X.com WW @nearcyan a16z-backed DoubleSpeed lets you control 1000s of social media accounts with Al, ensuring they look as human as possible - "never pay a human again"! 7 ee S 9 Nโ€”7 Z 4 oW = SF \f f01] bh Controlisall you need. \ GL = \9) The doublespeed TERMINAL allows you to orchestrate Y IN @7/X actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk <i "ey content creation and deployment oxy PAE - h never pay a human again. It's never been easier to create and deploy content without human cost. Stay up to date with changes and strategies in our community. (Join Discord ) 5:15PM - 10/23/25 - 485K Views
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โ€œmay you live in interesting timesโ€
https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1981106676271853609

(fwiw i definitely do not think the CIA created bitcoin, though I do have strong opinions about who did because all the available evidence points in the same direction: satoshi is cypherpunk encryption programmer turned international drug kingpin and warlord Paul LeRoux. see here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-77404595 )

@WatcherGuru JUST IN: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Tucker Carlson says he will not invest in Bitcoin because he believes the CIA created it.
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wake up babe new $20 bill just dropped

twenty dollar bill with image of the white house replaced with an image of the east wing of the white house being demolished
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin wonโ€™t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like itโ€™s 2022.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

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@molly0xfff a16z vs. Winklevi civil war?

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age verification going about as well as was to be expected i see.

all your passport are belong to darkweb.

https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack

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: Make Argentina Gold Again

Is the American taxpayer's bailout of Argentina just a secret bailout of and the crypto industry? And where did Argentina's gold reserves disappear to?

Over the last year , the central bank of international criminal finance and the most important company in , has been buying up agriculture and technology companies in under the guidance of , 's Commerce Secretary.

Now Trump and Scott Bessent are announcing a $20 billion for Argentina's Javier Milei, which is coincidentally exactly the same amount of money just announced it's going to raise in a "private placement".

Oh, and Argentina's reserves disappeared last year, and now Tether is claiming to hold the same amount of gold on its books that Argentina held before its gold did a disappearing act.

It's all very "sus" as the kids say.

(Retoots appreciated)

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hey @Sibshops would you mind posting this to ?

@cryptadamist@universeodon.com avatar cryptadamist , to random

behold: , the first energy drink.

(maybe it's named in honor of @molly0xfff ?)

@crypto bitlord7 Itโ€™s crypto in a can. There are (480) $SMOLLY FOUNDER editions. Cans are: -AIRDROP ELIGIBLE- You scratch scan and redeem Crypto + NFTs straight into your phone. This is how we change the game @Ascend_Horizon
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@wordshaper @molly0xfff p.s. i am choosing to believe it's named as an homage to @molly0xfff and not MDMA

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

Weโ€™re living through personal agency hyperinflation.

Every new app or AI copilot feels like printing fresh banknotes. At first, you feel richer.

But when the power goes out, you realize the reserves of actual skill are gone.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/personal-agency-inflation

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The Onion is undefeated.

https://theonion.com/desperate-kash-patel-asks-shooters-family-if-they-can-solve-any-other-cases/

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooterโ€™s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , (edited ) to random

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman suggests Eric Adams drop out of the New York mayoral race, but first "place a large bet on Andrew Cuomo and then announce your withdrawal from the race" to "fund [his] future".

He writes: "There is no insider trading on Polymarket." Americans are currently prohibited from trading on Polymarket (though Polymarket makes only perfunctory attempts to block it, which are widely circumvented.)

By "no insider trading on Polymarket" he likely is referring to the fact that the SEC can't bring insider trading charges because Polymarket contracts are not securities. That doesn't mean trading on insider information would be legal (or ethical), though.

Screenshot of the end of a long tweet: The mirror does not lie. Eric, please take a close and hard look. And to fund your future, you could place a large bet on Andrew Cuomo and then announce your withdrawal from the race. There is no insider trading on Polymarket. [Screenshot of Polymarket showing Zohran Mamdani with a large lead of 82% in a bet on the outcome of the NYC mayoral election, with Andrew Cuomo behind at around 15%]
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

this is the company in charge of custody for crypto assets held by the US government ๐Ÿ™‚

Tweet by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: ~40% of daily code written at Coinbase is AI-generated. I want to get it to &gt;50% by October. Obviously it needs to be reviewed and understood, and not all areas of the business can use AI-generated code. But we should be using it responsibly as much as we possibly can.
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@molly0xfff also all the bitcoins held by MicroStrategy, Blackrock, and all the other bitcoin ETFs which put together could be as much as 8% of the total available supply of non-lost bitcoins.

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FBIโ€™s June arrest of crypto bro Iurii Gugnin for laundering & sanctions violations leads to canceled โ€œ$8.5M polar party cruiseโ€ & subsequent lawsuit over missing refunds against Franceโ€™s billionaire Pinault family by travel agency that courted Russian-speaking corporate/tech execs & TV personalities. https://www.ft.com/content/2ec3cb03-6be5-40f0-a321-a64c217b7080

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@kevinrothrock i was able to connect one of the payments mentioned in Gugnin's criminal indictment to , the largest crypto market maker and one that is run by a Russian couple (Evgeny Gaevoy and his wife).

i asked evgeny about it and he did not deign to respond, which is interesting because he usually is pretty responsive to anything that might impinge on wintermute's reputation (cc: @kardinal691 @noelreports )

https://x.com/Cryptadamist/status/1940434039208558790

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

โ€œMake America Healthy Againโ€ is off to a terrible start.

A screenshot of an Axios X post from 3 hours ago, breaking news about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announcing moves to limit eligibility for COVID vaccines. The post includes an image of three COVID-19 vaccine vials labeled "Spikevax, mRNA Vaccine" and "Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine" with EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) details, placed on a surface. The text overlay reads "RFK Jr. limits who is eligible for COVID shots," with a link to axios.com
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@georgetakei depends if the goal is to raise the average level of health or just to let the less healthy die off.

both will technically raise the average level of whoever's still alive at the end.

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"Whatโ€™s troubling to me,โ€ Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said, โ€œis that the Indians are so arrogant about this. They say, โ€˜Oh, we donโ€™t have higher tariffs. Oh, itโ€™s our sovereignty. We can buy oil from anyone we want.โ€™ India, youโ€™re the biggest democracy in the world, OK? Act like one." lol ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-27/navarro-calls-ukraine-modi-s-war-hits-india-over-russian-oil

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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

Issue 91 โ€“ GDP on the blockchain

The regulator set to take on primary crypto oversight is down to a single Commissioner, and new pro-crypto PACs focus on installing more Republicans in the midterms

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-91/

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@molly0xfff i know i'm just a smooth brained crypto sceptic but investing any amount of money in 's bullshit token and a blockchain that literally no one uses (not even money launderers use !) strikes me as completely unhinged.

they want to put more cash into their treasury than any "digital asset treasury" company other than MSTR w/the bitcoins.

wtf?

https://x.com/Cryptadamist/status/1960723981960667296

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@molly0xfff yeah i remember those shenanigans (as do a lot of members of on twitter, apparently... lol)

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ICYMI, the US intelligence community and pretty much all of our erstwhile allies are now on the same page about state-backed Chinese companies that are responsible for hacking into the telecoms infrastructure of half the planet. This is quite a remarkable document in many ways. Everyone's saying emphatically (at the same time for once): Yes, we're all seeing the same thing.

https://www.ic3.gov/CSA/2025/250827.pdf

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@briankrebs tiktok was banned from the U.S. like 150 days ago. total bipartisan support in congress plus 9-0 SCOTUS, IIRC.

and yet... here we are.

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The โ€œagreementโ€ Justin Sun says should prevent Bloomberg from publishing the amounts and types of crypto assets he holds seems extremely shaky to me (caveat: Iโ€™m not a lawyer, some images are missing).

It looks like Justin Sun and his team sent the information he now claims is confidential on or around February 28.

A month later, on March 27, Justin Sun posted terms including: โ€œThe data is solely for verification and may not be used for any other purpose (including reporting) ... Bloomberg must also agree to use the data strictly in accordance with our requirements โ€” for example, to provide only a general assessment or overall valuation based on the data, without making any specific references or detailed reporting on the figures.โ€

Bloombergโ€™s Tom Maloney: โ€œNobody at Bloomberg agreed to the terms sent by Justin, weeks after the data was shared with us.โ€

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71089620/8/2/sun-v-bloomberg-lp/

20 June 2025 โ„ข 10:42 Tom โ€”_โ€” 21 June 2025 HS 11:51 HE. Justin Sun Currently we don't have it 11:51 15 July 2025 โ„ข 14:47 Tom Maloney Justin, we are writing a story about Do you have any comment for the story? YP 14:50 Yeweon Park In reply to this message Hi Tom. No comment. 29 July 2025 sw 19:09 Sprina Wang In reply to this message Hi iT want to reiterate that these data are strictly confidential and must not be disclosed extemally. 19: I saw your editor Muyao is citing these data in her profile story, thatโ€™s not what we have agreed on. B 19:13 BB BBG wealth team, Tom cere sraermrerae honor the confidentiality of the wealth verification process and safeguard private personal data, the fact that Muyao from your editorial team is sending this around back to our other team members as media questions is strictly in violation of that, both unethical and unprofessional, <= agreed to BBG publishing any detailed breakdown of this wealth composition or verification process sw 19:17 Sprina Wang The data requires revision. However, please first confirm that this information will be treated with full confidentiality before we proceed to share the modification details. Tom can you pls reconfirm this? โ„ข 19:23 Tom Maloney Hello. Acknowledging your message I will get back to you later tonight. HS 19:32 HE. Justin Sun was 19:32 Wa 19:32 We all agreed on this in March
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@molly0xfff justin sun and CZ are thriving because they are far more sophisticated when it comes to operating in a deeply corrupt regulatory environment than their american brethren.

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I have recently learned that there was a cryptocurrency launched with my name attached to it. For the record, I am not involved with any such crypto project.

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@tao i'd be shocked if there were only one such cryptocurrency.

if you were on the bird app your account would be under constant siege by crypto grifters trying to hack it for a few hours to dump a token on your followers. they could easily clear $200-500k for the effort.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cryptocurrency-is-a-hideous-monstrosity

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nuclear war is a hell of a way to get people to stop talking about the epstein files

รฉiโ€˜ Donald J. Trump &2 @) @realDonaldTrump Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, | have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that. Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, | hope this will not be one of those instances. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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The mutant version of capitalism we have now -- overwhelmingly tilted toward financial looters and their cartels -- is destroying community after community. This is deliberate, not an unintended outcome. Local hospitals are just one notably egregious example.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/the-landlord-gutting-americas-hospitals/

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@dangillmor adding the hashtag (that's their ticker). this company is notorious with short sellers and the whole fiasco has been going on for a very long time (unfortunately).

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Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.

h/t @cryptadamist

Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know whoโ€™s pulling the stringsโ€ฆ ๐Ÿคซ [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025
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@molly0xfff maybe add the hashtag for those who follow the man's actions here on the fediverse

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having trouble confirming but i think this is the "fake" letter from trump to epstein?

trump's "bawdy" letter to epstein for his 50th birthday
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FT: "Donald Trump is preparing to open the $9tn US retirement market to cryptocurrency investments ..."

Trump is seeking to direct Americans' retirement funds to a sector in which he and his family are heavily invested.

https://www.ft.com/content/07906211-5ab8-4917-bcad-5397c0bc3170

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@molly0xfff

> "The executive order would instruct Washington regulatory agencies to investigate the remaining hurdles needed to allow for such alternative investments to be included in professionally managed funds used by 401k savers"

not to be pollyannaish but so far when trump issues executive orders to "investigate remaining hurdles" in other domains it hasn't amounted to all that much

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New, at KrebsOnSecurity.com: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence to learn that Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) developed by Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge-denizen-marko-elez-leaked-api-key-for-xai/

A photo of a hand holding a large phone with a white background and the xAI logo in black. Behind the phone is a lighted computer screen.

A photo of a hand holding a large phone with a white background and the xAI logo in black. Behind the phone is a lighted computer screen.
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@briankrebs who ever would have guessed a bro wouldn't have the best security hygiene?

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-crypto-grifters-of-doge

@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

In addition to going full MechaHitler yesterday, Grok was also offering targeting advice for bombing Ukraineโ€™s oil refineries. https://x.com/grok/status/1942523373311123721

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@kevinrothrock mechahitler's just trying to live up to its namesake

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

every time we get a spate of hot weather i remember i'm a discworld troll whose brain slows to a crawl above 70หš or so

DETRITUS Troll, you see? Brain of impure silicon. Problem of heat dissipation. Daytime temperature too hot, processing speed slows down, weather gets hotter, brain stops completely, trolls go still as a stone till nightfall. However, lower temperature... brain works faster โ€” so in cold store, can think as fast as you warm-blooded types. (he looks into a side room) Oh dear.
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

Good scoop by reporters with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), who confirmed that Sergio Gor, the director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, was born in the former Soviet Union, specifically in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Gor prompted speculation about his origins when he declined to say where he was born, saying only that it was not in Russia.

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/exclusive-top-trump-advisor-sergio-gor-was-born-in-the-soviet-union

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@briankrebs just in case anyone was wondering why and the trump administration brutally slashed the budget...

@cryptadamist@universeodon.com avatar cryptadamist , to random

fascinating deep dive on motorcades (่ฝฆ้˜Ÿ) - the auxiliary players in the global industry who help pig butchers and other scammers move money through the banking system and .

https://globalchinapulse.net/moving-bricks-money-laundering-practices-in-the-online-scam-industry/

For instance, in 2022, the Supreme Peopleโ€™s Procuratorate of the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China issued a press release about its investigation of cyber-scam money-laundering channels. It documented a money-laundering case in which a Chinese man frequently bought and sold Tether (a type of cryptocurrency commonly known by the acronym USDT) on different online trading platforms (Jian and Cai 2022). The man claimed he was just โ€˜moving bricksโ€™ with friends to earn commissions, but in fact he was laundering money for cyber-scam operations. Indeed, the โ€˜clientsโ€™ to whom Jingjing was referring were cyber-scam companies, which she and her colleagues call pankou (็›˜ๅฃ). In the context of the cyber-scam industry, โ€˜moving bricksโ€™ refers to the activity of assisting or brokering these money-laundering transactions. This is an aspect of the sector that is widely known but so difficult to penetrate that the existing literature often gloss over it, except for a few studies and reports based mostly on blockchain analysis (Reiter and Bitrace Team 2024; Griffin and Mei 2024; UNODC 2024; for valuable
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

Newsletter: Trumpโ€™s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdaniโ€™s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-87/

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@molly0xfff crypto money is already a big part of the NYC mayor's race. where do you think eric adams gets his money from? (hint: it's brock pierce)

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/eric-adams-yet-another-crypto-success

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte: โ€œAfter significant studying, and in keeping with President Trumpโ€™s vision to make the United States the crypto capital of the world, today I ordered the Great Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prepare their businesses to count cryptocurrency as an asset for a mortgageโ€

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Order Issuing Directive to Consider Cryptocurrency as an Asset for Single-Family Loans Delivered to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac WHEREAS, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) maintain a pivotal role in the U.S. housing finance system by providing stability and liquidity to the secondary market for residential mortgages through prudent standards to help ensure sustainable, long-term homeownership. WHEREAS, cryptocurrency is an emerging asset class that may offer an opportunity to build wealth outside of the stock and bond markets. WHEREAS, cryptocurrency has not typically been considered in the mortgage risk assessment process for mortgage loans delivered to the Enterprises, without converting the cryptocurrency to U.S. dollars prior to loan closing. WHEREAS, U.S. Federal Housing FHFA has now determined that the consideration of additional borrower assets in the Enterprises' single-family mortgage loan risk assessments may enable the Enterprises to assess the full spectrum of asset information available for reserves and to facilitate sustainable homeownership to creditworthy borrowers. NOW THEREFORE, U.S. Federal Housing FHFA, as conservator, hereby directs each Enterprise to prepare a proposal for consideration of cryptocurrency as an asset for reserves in their respective single-family mortgage loan risk assessments, without conversion of said cryptocurrency to U.S. doll
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@molly0xfff i'm extremely unclear as to how the executive branch has any authority whatsoever over fannie mae and freddy mac... everyone thinks they are government entities but they are private corporations.

@cryptadamist@universeodon.com avatar cryptadamist , to random

  1. Is anyone else getting routed to chinese language when they visit this URL? because i am: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/apps/ (i end up at the URL https://docs.joinmastodon.org/zh-cn/methods/apps/ - note the "zh-cn" in the path.
    i doublechecked my browser locale, VPN, etc. etc. and there's nothing configured for mainland chinese locale, but this happened even after clearing cache data for joinmastodon.org

  2. who maintains the site?

cc: @mastodonmigration @FediTips @fediversereport @LaurensHof

@vij@sfba.social avatar vij , to random

lol

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@vij i'm reasonably certain already that this image is going to prevent a JD Vance presidency, and for that i am eternally grateful to the AI meme makers

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @vij i don't do anything on the internet with a cell phone, including (or maybe especially) social media, so hopefully i'm safe

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@JessTheUnstill @GhostOnTheHalfShell @vij my phones not blank, it just doesn't have any apps or web history.

plenty of texts to my mom though!

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@JessTheUnstill @GhostOnTheHalfShell @vij real talk that's kind of an amazingly good idea

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@JessTheUnstill @GhostOnTheHalfShell @vij i think your first idea is like 1,000x better than your second one lol. one requires lying, the other just requires posting cat pictures semi-regularly and letting the customs guys' infer the rest.

@cryptadamist@universeodon.com avatar cryptadamist , to random

whenever the price of starts to drop because of global instability (or any other reason) โ€œinvestorsโ€ immediately decide to send billions of dollars to , a financial company that more or less openly works with , has almost no employees, has been linked to hundreds of financial crimes, and has never produced an audit to prove it actually has all the money it says it does to back its . it's like clockwork.

todayโ€™s crash saw an immediate creation of $2 billion USDT, 100% of it on Donald Trumpโ€™s new business partner Justin Sunโ€™s blockchain Tron (AKA โ€œthe crime chainโ€).

$2 billion minted at Tether treasury
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@emojirafe@piaille.fr avatar emojirafe , to sociology group

I'm new here and looking for people/accounts to follow, who have interests in the following areas::

  • Psychology & Sociology
  • Conflict resolution
  • Music

Do you have anybody to recommend? That would help me to feel less alone ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

(boosts welcome)

sociology@a.gup.pe icon sociology group

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@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

Government internet shutdowns are quite common to silence dissent, but I think this is the first time that a government has shut down the internet in its own country as a defensive measure against cyberattacks.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/irans-government-says-it-shut-down-internet-to-protect-against-cyberattacks/

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@evacide got hacked for $90 million by the israelis and the IRGC is far more dependent on crypto to fund its operations than most people understand...

@cryptadamist@universeodon.com avatar cryptadamist , to random

increasingly clear that farming gambling addicts is the ultimate business
https://archive.ph/ashGK

#X

FT: Elon Musk's X to offer investment and trading in "super app" push
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