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Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://autistics.life/@VulcanTourist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>VulcanTourist</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.community/@PeterBlok" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>PeterBlok</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://apobangpo.space/@dnkboston" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dnkboston</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@vfrmedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vfrmedia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Szipek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Szipek</span></a></span> </p><p>Dealing with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hydrogen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hydrogen</span></a> proponents is like dealing with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> bros</p><p>It just doesn't make any sense</p><p>On the economics, the science, the engineering</p><p>Just use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/batteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>batteries</span></a></p><p>Which suck for many reasons but not as badly as hydrogen sucks</p><p>But it's like dealing with a cultist. They don't listen, they're speaking with religious fervor, not sober thinking</p>
Peter N. M. Hansteen<p>I hear crytpotulip based phishing scams are still a thing, so reprising "Your 'Forgotten' Blockchain Account Needing Reactivation? It's a Scam" <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/forgotten_blockchain_account_scam.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nxdomain.no/~peter/forgotten_b</span><span class="invisible">lockchain_account_scam.html</span></a> from 2022 might be useful to some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptotulips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptotulips</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/phishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybercrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybercrime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>As RC Whalen (FT Letters) points out:</p><p>'Owners of crypto tokens hold nothing except an option to sell their flutter to a greater fool'... to which I would add another waring to those dabbling in crypto currency assets...</p><p>'if you are unaware of who the fool is in the market, then its likely you'....</p><p>And if you point to the rising value of crypto 'assets', let me ask you whether you've ever seen a pyramid scheme just before it collapses?</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crypto</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a></p>
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<p>more evidence of crypto doing the thing it was designed to do: corrupt and destroy the world's democracies</p><p><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/08/15/czech-police-arrest-donor-in-billion-dollar-bitcoin-scandal-report" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">coindesk.com/policy/2025/08/15</span><span class="invisible">/czech-police-arrest-donor-in-billion-dollar-bitcoin-scandal-report</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/czechrepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>czechrepublic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/czpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>czpol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/eupol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eupol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/moneylaundering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moneylaundering</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>Trump🚨owns $1.2M to $2.65M worth of stock in Apple &amp; Nvidia, 2 tech cos that he recently granted sp concs in his ongoing trade war.</p><p>Trump &amp; his cronies have found many ways to grift off the presidency. The <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> has ushered in a plethora of <a href="https://toad.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a>, from shaking down CEOs, PMs &amp; presidents, to manipulating markets, stk &amp; <a href="https://toad.social/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a>, engaging in fraud &amp; scams, weakening regs, appting officials who'll do its bidding at TSY, SEC, DOJ, IRS...<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a><br><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-cuts-big-breaks-for-businesses-like-apple-and-nvidia-that-he-has-stakes-in/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thedailybeast.com/donald-trump</span><span class="invisible">-cuts-big-breaks-for-businesses-like-apple-and-nvidia-that-he-has-stakes-in/</span></a></p>
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<p>so does anyone really think the trump family backed bitcoin mining company is going to have to pay the massive china tariffs on their $300 million worth of bitcoin transaction processors?</p><p>somehow i have a hunch the competitors will be paying tariffs that the trump family's friends don't have to pay...</p><p><a href="https://theminermag.com/news/2025-08-14/abtc-bitcoin-bitmain" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theminermag.com/news/2025-08-1</span><span class="invisible">4/abtc-bitcoin-bitmain</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EricTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EricTrump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DonJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonJr</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/americanbitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>americanbitcoin</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/hut8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hut8</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bitcoinmining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bitcoinmining</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bitcoinminer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bitcoinminer</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bitmain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bitmain</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BitmainAntminer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BitmainAntminer</span></a></p>
Hackread.com<p>🚨 Watch out as the new <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PS1Bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PS1Bot</span></a> malware steals crypto wallets, passwords, and sensitive data, spreading through <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/malvertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malvertising</span></a> while evading detection.</p><p>Read: <a href="https://hackread.com/malvertising-attack-crypto-stealing-ps1bot-malware/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackread.com/malvertising-atta</span><span class="invisible">ck-crypto-stealing-ps1bot-malware/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Malware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Malware</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crypto</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Keylogger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Keylogger</span></a></p>

Some execs who reliably give to Dems feel that party leaders view SV as a piggy bank & aren’t promoting policies that help the IND. Trend: fueling concerns among Dems -bleeding support among tech elites.

Story blames🚨SV’s support of MAGA #fascism on the Dem Party. Biden refused to give #Tech #Oligarchs everything they want.
Biden💙resisted #crypto +insisted on laws to protect against tech abuses.

Most #BigTech execs: pro #corruption +enemy of #democracy.
#Protest #USPol
thenerdreich.com/democrats-urg

The Nerd Reich · Democrats Urged to Bow Down to Tech FascismAs tech billionaires embrace Trump's authoritarianism, consultants urge Democrats to bend the knee in the name of Silicon Valley 'innovation.'

@molly0xfff is one of the most interesting tech critics out there, covering subjects like crypto industry spending in politics, Web3, and the tech industry as a whole with integrity and (sometimes) optimism. She spoke to NiemanLab about her Follow the Crypto site, her love of RSS, migrating from Substack to @ghost, and more. At the second and third links find her DotSocial conversation with @mike and an extract from her Fediverse House presentation at last year's SXSW.

flip.it/N3o96i
flipboard.video/w/ovAsDRovkgbi
flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGr

Nieman LabIndependent journalist Molly White knows how to follow the memecoinThe cryptocurrency and tech newsletter Citation Needed is pay-what-you-want. White currently has about 29,000 subscribers including about 2,400 paid subscribers despite the lack of a paywall.

...yet another $50 million crypto heist (this time it's #BTCTurk, which as you might guess is a major #crypto exchange in #Turkey)

no confirmation yet but has the vibe of either a north korean operation or an insider taking the money and running.

x.com/BtcTurkKripto/status/195

universeodon.com/@therecord_me

X (formerly Twitter)BtcTurk | Kripto (@BtcTurkKripto) on XÖnemli Bilgilendirme

Everything you most absolutely did NOT want to know about the very stable geniuses behind Stablecoin.

"JPMorgan in recent months has assigned a team of internal researchers to unearth legal documents related to the era of so-called wildcat banking from two centuries ago. In that era, hundreds of state-chartered banks issued their own currencies. JPMorgan’s researchers were looking into whether some of those dormant laws applied to the bank’s plan to create its own stablecoin today.

"They uncovered something else, though. In the wildcat era, fraud and bank failures ruled. That tumult was fixed only by the creation of the first U.S. National Bank note, a predecessor to the modern U.S. dollar. It was issued only by official national chartered banks — one of which was the precursor to JPMorgan Chase."

#Stablecoin #Crypto #USPol #GiftArticle
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/busines

The New York Times · Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on CryptoBy Rob Copeland

The price of #BitCoin is another one of the many signs that human societies have taken the path of complete stupidity. It's a tradable financial asset with nothing at all backing it. But one which is expensive and damaging to the environment to produce.

If I made a tradable asset from sheets of paper out of our recycling basket here, using a pencil, then it would have equally little real-world value but would be less damaging than BitCoin.

The “agreement” Justin Sun says should prevent Bloomberg from publishing the amounts and types of crypto assets he holds seems extremely shaky to me (caveat: I’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: “The 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 — 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.”

Bloomberg’s Tom Maloney: “Nobody at Bloomberg agreed to the terms sent by Justin, weeks after the data was shared with us.”

courtlistener.com/docket/71089

Justin Sun has just filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg, claiming they plan to “recklessly and improperly disclos[e] his highly confidential, sensitive, private, and proprietary financial information,” which they obtained while they were verifying his assets for inclusion in the Bloomberg “Billionaires Index”.

Sun claims this will cause him “ significant and irreparable harm—both financially and physically.” He says they plan to use the information in an article unrelated to the Billionaires Index. He also claims they plan to publish “granular details about his cryptocurrency assets, including a breakdown of his cryptocurrency holdings,” in the Billionaires Index, and that he wouldn’t have agreed to share the information had he known.

Sun sent a cease and desist to Bloomberg, and was informed they still intend to publish. He now seeks an injunction against the company.

courtlistener.com/docket/71089

New Analysis Finds #TrumpFamily Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the #Presidency

America’s first family is conducting its #grift in full view of the public, but the profits remain a guessing game

by Nikki McCann Ramirez
August 12, 2025

"Even before Donald #Trump officially began his second term in office, his family businesses were beginning the race to milk the presidency for every cent they could. Now, a new analysis from The New Yorker has put a potential dollar figure on how much Trump’s #crypto ventures, real estate deals, licensing agreements, and other grifts have netted America’s first family over the course of Trump’s time in politics: a staggering $3.4 billion.

"The total is an estimate, as the #TrumpOrganization and its various auxiliary companies and ventures — which are largely under the control of the president’s adult children — have not been entirely transparent regarding their finances.

"The New Yorker estimated that the president’s various #cryptocurrency had generated at least $2.37 billion in value, financial investments coordinated by #DonaldTrumpJr. and #EricTrump have generated $339.6 million, and Trump’s flagship #MarALago resort in #PalmBeach, Florida, has raked in $125 million in extra profits."

Read more:
rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Archived version:
archive.ph/u1KTu

BALMEDIE, SCOTLAND - JULY 29:  U.S. President Donald Trump speaks next to Donald Trump Jr. (L) and Eric Trump as they attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony at a new 18-hole course at Trump International Golf Links on July 29, 2025 in Balmedie, near Aberdeen, Scotland. President Trump is visiting Scotland in a trip that’s part-vacation, part-work, as he stayed at his Trump Turnberry golf course, followed by Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire, between July 25 to 29.  (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Rolling Stone · New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the PresidencyBy Nikki McCann Ramirez

"No Sheriff in Town"
#Tech IND’s pay off:🚨leg/exec action, & the #TrumpRegime paused or withdrawn: 1/3 of the targeted investigations into tech corps. ~104 cos. in the tech sector were facing at least 143 fed invs.

1st 6 mos of 2025: 47 enforc actions: withdrawn or halted. These cos spent >$1B over the course of the 2024 election cycle. 2/3 of that pol spending went toward supporting Rs/Trump. ~1/2 of the enforc actions: dropped or paused for #crypto cos.
#Bribery #USPol
wired.com/story/james-talarico