@cdarwin@c.imWith the CLARITY Act, Washington is cashing in on the crypto industry.
Americans are paying the price
Defeating Donald Trump’s authoritarian movement requires taking on the largest industry financing it: #cryptocurrency.
We know most people’s eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the word “crypto.”
The industry’s lobbyists depend on that;
they win when the public …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialCodeberg is now disallowing cryptocurrency projects...
https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/commit/f383b648fd733ab88083dc390b91e77cd7589980
Hell Yeah!
@markhburton@mstdn.socialIt's called Newspeak: war is peace, hate is love.
'Reform UK has received a £36m donation from a British cryptocurrency billionaire - a record for a UK political party.
Ben Delo wrote in the Daily Telegraph, external that he was making the move because he wanted a "fair fight and a level playing field".'
Ben Delo: Reform receives record £36m donation from cryptocurrency billionaire - BBC News
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCourt docs: an FBI agent has been charged with amassing ~$1M worth of cryptocurrency, largely by making unauthorized withdrawals from a criminal target overseas (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyFarage's UK far-right party receives record €42 million donation from crypto billionaire. The role of crypto in the tech billionaire push to topple democracy is described in Gil Duran's recent book The Nerd Reich.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v4zvyde15o
@StephenRees@mas.toAFR Commends Senators’ Rejection of CLARITY, the Billionaire-Backed Giveaway to the Crypto Industry
Following today’s failure to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in the Senate, Americans for Financial Reform and Demand Progress Action’s Mark Hays, Associate Director of Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology, issued the following statement:
Today all voting Democrats and several Republicans stood up for the public interest and rejected the deeply flawed crypto bill th…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeA man in prison for helping launder online crypto fraud proceeds allegedly orchestrated the unauthorized removal of about $290,000 in cryptocurrency that had already been seized and forfeited to the US government.
https://www.theblock.co/a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPresident Trump's 2025 financial disclosures show $80M in income from settlements tied to his lawsuits against ABC, CBS, Meta, YouTube, and other companies (Rob Wile/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune
has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues
by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefitting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more,
while federal oversight of his actions has waned.
Trump last year raked in at least
$1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financia…
@arXiv_qfinTR_bot@mastoxiv.pageDetecting unusual trading patterns on cryptocurrency exchanges by means of complexity measures
Jakub Zwydak, Marcin W\k{a}torek, Jaros{\l}aw Kwapie\'n, Stanis{\l}aw Dro\.zd\.z
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13916 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.13916 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.13916
arXiv:2607.13916v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Artificial transaction generation remains an important source of potential market manipulation on cryptocurrency exchanges, as it may distort reported liquidity and reduce market transparency. This study proposes a diagnostic framework for detecting unusual trading patterns based on complexity and statistical-structure measures derived from high-frequency trade-level data. The analysis considers log-returns, trading volume, and transaction counts, using tail distributions, autocorrelation functions, multifractal characteristics, approximate entropy, and detrended cross-correlations. The methodology is applied to BTC, ETH, and XRP traded on Binance, Bitget, KuCoin, and Kraken over the period from April 1 to June 30, 2025. The results reveal a pronounced anomaly on Bitget for BTC and ETH after mid-May 2025. The number of transactions increases sharply, but there is no proportional increase in traded volume or return fluctuations. This regime is characterised by numerous low-volume trades, weaker autocorrelations, reduced multifractal organisation, higher short-pattern irregularity, and weaker cross-correlations involving the transaction-count series. These features are consistent with a noise-like component in trading activity and may indicate artificially increased transaction counts, although they do not provide direct proof of wash trading. The findings show that complexity-based indicators can be useful for detecting exchange-specific trading anomalies that remain hidden in price-based measures.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialChainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received $100B in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 (Patricia Kowsmann/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/cryptocurrency-sanctions-evasion-d02b…
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… I don't like saying this, but I don't think the Trump cryptocurrency is a security and the SEC's Atkins will simply say that.
@bici@mastodon.socialDear American Cousins. Happy July 4th:
"On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Mr. Trump has personally pulled in at least US$2.2-billion since his return to office, more than half of which came from his family’s cryptocurrency business, which he has promoted and facilitated as President. The scale of personal enrichment that has taken place is mind-boggling, the level of audacity inconceivable."
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20% last week, its biggest three-day gain since 2023; US spot bitcoin ETFs had $1.92B in net inflows last week (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/bitcoin-price-near-80000-cryptocurrency…
@cdarwin@c.imNearly 1 million people who bought Donald Trump’s memecoin have lost money through the end of June, according to a report by the cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen.
Their losses total $3.81 billion.
The analytics firm’s assessment was calculated this week after Trump signed an annual financial disclosure showing that he walked away with a $636 million payout on the same crypto bet,
part of a haul of at least $2.2 billion from all of his business ventures in 2025.
The …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Nasdaq is investing $100M in Kraken parent Payward, valuing the cryptocurrency exchange at $21B; Kraken will distribute Nasdaq's tokenized stocks (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.imThis week, Reform UK leader Nigel Forage set out his plans
to resign as the MP for Clacton and stand again for his seat,
following a scandal over undeclared gifts, including £5m from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne,
which is being investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner.
His intention, he has said, is to be judged by his constituents rather than “the establishment”,
arguing that he has done no wrong and that the probe is a “p…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the collapse of Zondacrypto, Eastern and Central Europe's biggest crypto exchange, which went dark in April and is facing money laundering allegations (Andrew Higgins/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeNever a weekend slowdown in cybersecurity news, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed since Friday, including
--Alibaba’s Qwen races past Meta, Google with 3 billion AI model downloads,
--AI agent exploits Snowflake flaw introduced by Copilot,
--US tells allies to pick sides in AI race with China,
--China pushes to reshape the world’s AI training data,
--China’s Zhipu claims AI edge over Anthropic in cyber test,
--Pentagon scrambles to keep pace with AI’s military risks,
--France holds crisis meeting over massive tax agency hack,
--Iran targets Israeli journalists with phishing attacks,
--Election officials blast CISA over lack of cyber support,
--AI deepfake scams surge in Australia,
--SafePal breach exposes data of nearly 40k customers,
--Bits of Gold breach exposes customer data,
--Hackers exploit Mac flaw to mine cryptocurrency,
--Seven arrested over $35m German bank hack,
--Hong Kong university probes ransomware breach claims,
--Fake GitHub site spreads Mac infostealer,
--US courts to disclose government spyware use,
--Sogang University breach exposes 180k people,
--DDoS attacks hammer secure messaging service Threema,
--Hackers hawk millions of records stolen from Azure tenants,
--London police expose emails of Al Fayed accusers,
--Microsoft kills Windows tool long abused by malware,
--French court blocks social media ban for children,
--AI can’t seem to produce any tech heroes,
--AI makes data breaches even more expensive,
--Amazon used to sell books, not destroy them
https://www.metacurity.com/alibabas-qwen-races-past-meta-google-with-3-billion-ai-model-downloads/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comF.B.I. Agent Is Accused of Stealing Cryptocurrency (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/politics/fbi-agent-cryptocurrency.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p88#a260803p88
@unixorn@hachyderm.ioOH on Slack:
> Bitcoin is also still at 5 figures, so abandon all hope all ye who analyze here
#bitcoin #crypto #cryptocurrency
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAngie Craig is a cryptocurrency shill:
#Minnesota #mnpol
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMalone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme to steal and launder $245M in cryptocurrency (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, raised a $76M Series C led by SBI Holdings (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/07/edx-markets-raises-usd76-million-in-funding…
@cdarwin@c.imFOR YEARS, North Korea’s stealthy hackers and scam IT workers have infiltrated companies,
stealing corporate secrets and plundering billions in cryptocurrency to help fund the totalitarian regime and its weapons programs.
Now, a security researcher who has spent almost two years inside the systems belonging to a group of those North Korean hackers is raising the alarm on just how effective and far reaching the targeting of individual employees and contractors has been in breachi…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
@bici@mastodon.socialDonald Trump earned at least $2.2 billion US during his first year back in office in 2025, marking an unprecedented level of profit for a sitting U.S. president. According to investigative reports and annual financial disclosures covered by CBC News, the majority of this revenue came from cryptocurrency ventures, global real estate holdings, and merchandise sales rather than his official salary, which he declined in favor of a symbolic $1 per year.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFBI Agent Is Accused of Taking Cryptocurrency From Suspect's Accounts (Sadie Gurman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/fbi-agent-is-accused-of-taking-cryptocurrency-from-suspects-accounts-4ea7c387
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p117#a260803p117
@arXiv_qfinTR_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for q-fin.TR. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.TR/new
[1/1]:
- Time-dependent weighted directed networks of cryptocurrency interaction from high-frequency returns
Shubhangam Shukla, Mahesh Peyyala, Abhijit Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25466 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfinTR_bot/116809626918521967
- Volatility in Prediction Markets: A Structural Approach
Weiye Xi, Ciamac C. Moallemi, Mallesh Pai, Shouqiao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08199 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfinTR_bot/116894584928891012
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: ~1M $TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined $3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer (New York Times)
https://www.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
@cdarwin@c.imTrump wants to encourage 401(k) plans to invest more in private equity, real estate and cryptocurrency,
which can be complex and risky.
To pave the way, the Department of Labor has proposed rules that would make it harder for employees to hold companies liable for how they oversee retirement plans.
Employers are required to serve the best interests of their employees when choosing investment options.
Under the proposed changes, a company that follows a certain process…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump earned over $1 billion on cryptocurrency and coin ventures last year (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/30/trump-earned-over-1-billion-cryptocurrency-coin-ventures-last-year/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260630/p130#a260630p130
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEuropean police say Binance's April 2025 policy asking law enforcement to route certain requests to foreign governments significantly delays criminal probes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/binance-crypto-crime.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
@cdarwin@c.imIn the post explaining her resignation, Karoline Leavitt wrote:
“I have relished holding the liberal media accountable and ensuring the American people hear the truth about President Trump’s successes.”
That’s an odd way of looking at it.
Let’s not forget that Trump 2.0 has deployed armed agents to American streets to snatch people away;
spawned unprecedented corruption in shady areas of finance and cryptocurrency;
started a foreign war without congressional ap…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCrypto exchange BitMEX says it will shut down on September 23 and users' assets are safe; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for failing to implement AML rules (Akanksha Khushi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/cryptocurrency-exchange-bitmex…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHey Minnesota, just a reminder that Angie Craig is:
- a data center cheerleader
- and a cryptocurrency sell-out
- whose PAC has been using gen AI to make fake images of her opponent
- and who has just crap tons of big money behind her
- which is how she's carpet-bombing the state with junk texts and ads.
Stay informed, stay safe, stay crypto-bro-free.
DFL primaries happen on August 11, 2026.
#Minnesota #mnpol
@smurthys@hachyderm.io"Trump made more than a billion dollars from cryptocurrency ventures in first year back in office"
If by "more than a billion" you mean two billion. 🫤
#CNN #headline #obfuscation #journalism #clarity
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDon't miss today's Metacurity for the latest on how Washington is taking giant steps to address AI security, along with other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--White House AI testing framework arrives, but key details remain secret,
--Congress probes OpenAI incident as calls for stronger AI oversight grow,
--China's open AI push fuels geopolitical debate,
--Banks press ahead with AI agents,
--US eyes China data center tech ban,
--Apple renews legal fight over UK encryption demands,
--Telegram mysteriously disappears from Apple's App Store,
--Malware can hijack Google passkeys,
--N-able warns of active attacks exploiting N-central flaw,
--Samsung pulls smart TV apps that turned homes into proxy networks,
--River Bank says stolen ransomware data was deleted by attackers,
--Congress moves to extend lifetime identity protection for OPM victims,
--AI now powers most cybercrime in Africa,
--State CISOs report falling confidence amid rising AI threats,
--AI agent security startup Zenity raises $125m in Series C,
--Visa buys BioCatch in $2.4b AI fraud defense play,
--Stop being an AI "meat proxy,"
--ICE's expanding digital dragnet raises alarms,
--FBI agent accused of stealing seized cryptocurrency
https://www.metacurity.com/ai-watch-ai-security-moves-to-washingtons-center-stage/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJustice Department seizes more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency donations for Hamas (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-fbi-hamas-63c8746f0b8affdb975e0a1681245a6a
http://www.memeorandum.com/260902/p1#a260902p1
@arXiv_qfinTR_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for q-fin.TR. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.TR/new
[1/1]:
- The Quarter-Hour Effect: Periodic Algorithmic Trading and Return Predictability in Cryptocurrency...
Chan Kim, Peter Reinhard Hansen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09426 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfinTR_bot/116911589640051994
- Existence and convergence of discrete-time Kyle models with multiple insiders
Jin Choi, Kasper Larsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15057 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfinTR_bot/116934223091551180
- Risk-Based Auto-Deleveraging
Steven Campbell, Natascha Hey, Ciamac C. Moallemi, Marcel Nutz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15963 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfinRM_bot/116249070322184776
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