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Adam Back

@adam3us
13 posts
2026-02-03
In 2014, during Blockstream's seed-round investor roadshow, the company was introduced to then MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito. Subsequently Blockstream met with Jeffrey Epstein, who was described at the time as a limited partner in Ito's fund. That fund later invested a minority
2026-02-03 View on X
Wired

The US DOJ releasing emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kicks off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage

The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein.

2026-02-02
In 2014, during Blockstream's seed-round investor roadshow, the company was introduced to then MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito. Subsequently Blockstream met with Jeffrey Epstein, who was described at the time as a limited partner in Ito's fund. That fund later invested a minority
2026-02-02 View on X
Wired

Newly-released emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kick off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage

The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein.

2023-12-28
note how this works is $MSTR sold $610m new shares at the market (diluting existing shareholders % ownership), but it uses the proceeds to buy BTC and in fact again BTC/share ratio increased. the net effect is about 1.4% anti-dilutive in #bitcoin/share. https://x.com/...
2023-12-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: MicroStrategy acquired 14,620 BTC for $616M in cash, taking its total holdings to 189,150 BTC, worth $8B+, or almost 1% of the 19.58M BTC outstanding

BTC's Surge Above $50,000 Soon? Ronaldo Marquez / NewsBTC : Major Acquisition: MicroStrategy Grows Bitcoin Reserves By 14K BTC Ahead Of ETF Approval Brandy Betz / Unchained : Micro...

2023-10-12
So that sounds to me more like SBF “need USD liquidity sell BTC, but don't sell below $20k” and not “try to keep BTC under $20k. Ie below $20k is ridiculously cheap wait for higher. https://twitter.com/...
2023-10-12 View on X
The Block

Caroline Ellison's well-prepared testimony painted Sam Bankman-Fried as the ultimate decision-maker at FTX and a corrupting influence on his subordinates

- Government prosecutors completed their direct examination of former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison on Wednesday in the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried.

2023-02-13
speculative thought for gensler's latest. maybe at a stretch, SEC might argue 0% return on BUSD is a howey test pass for “expectation of return”. there is risk, maybe some term-mismatch ladders underneath, and there's a conflict where the operator profits from the risk.
2023-02-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Binance says the NYDFS ordered Paxos to stop issuing more of its BUSD stablecoin, which has 6.2M holders; Paxos will continue redemptions and cut Binance ties

Firm will continue to manage redemptions of the product  —  New York regulators directed a crypto company to stop issuing …

ofc i expect paxos is being relatively prudent, not taking elevated term mismatch or high corp borrower default risks. (paxos manages BUSD underlying USD for binance). but like kraken they might nit-pick disclosures. who knows, we'll seen soon enough i guess
2023-02-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the SEC told Paxos the agency plans to sue the crypto firm, alleging the Paxos-issued and listed Binance USD stablecoin is an unregistered security

The agency has been intensifying its enforcement of major crypto players  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission …

speculative thought for gensler's latest. maybe at a stretch, SEC might argue 0% return on BUSD is a howey test pass for “expectation of return”. there is risk, maybe some term-mismatch ladders underneath, and there's a conflict where the operator profits from the risk.
2023-02-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the SEC told Paxos the agency plans to sue the crypto firm, alleging the Paxos-issued and listed Binance USD stablecoin is an unregistered security

The agency has been intensifying its enforcement of major crypto players  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission …

ofc i expect paxos is being relatively prudent, not taking elevated term mismatch or high corp borrower default risks. (paxos manages BUSD underlying USD for binance). but like kraken they might nit-pick disclosures. who knows, we'll seen soon enough i guess
2023-02-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Binance says the NYDFS ordered Paxos to stop issuing more of its BUSD stablecoin, which has 6.2M holders; Paxos will continue redemptions and cut Binance ties

Firm will continue to manage redemptions of the product  —  New York regulators directed a crypto company to stop issuing …

2022-07-25
web5 just took a big step forward, with the announcement of @keet_Io built with open @HypercoreProto p2p for a bit bitcoin micropayments decentralized application future. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-25 View on X
The Block

Bitfinex and Tether partner with P2P infrastructure developer Hypercore to launch the Holepunch protocol and peer-to-peer encrypted video calling app Keet

- Bitfinex and Tether have launched Keet: a peer-to-peer video calling app.  — The two companies have invested $10 million to date …

2022-06-30
SEC rejecting GBTC ETF was expected. by GBTC lawyers, by commentators, etc me also - the point is and was to get the market rules for ETF approval applied via court. no need to panic! (though cheap sats are nice, have a wire transfer landing this morning). https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-30 View on X
CoinDesk

Grayscale Investments sues the US SEC after the agency rejected its application on Wednesday to convert its flagship Grayscale Bitcoin Trust product to an ETF

The SEC rejected Grayscale's application to convert its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust to an exchange-traded fund earlier Wednesday.

2022-05-11
Really sorry for those who lost in @terra_money LUNA/UST defi. please learn ponzi risk warnings are volunteer education for public safety. Don't be fooled by “maximalist” retorts of promoters, it's a marketing pitch from ponzi promoters to take your money https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-11 View on X
The Block

LUNA and the UST stablecoin continue to plummet; LUNA dropped as low as $1, a ~97% slide in 24 hours, while UST dropped as low as $0.27, a ~60% fall in 24 hours

Quick Take  — The price of Luna has dropped 82% in the last 24 hours.  — Its related stablecoin UST has retreated …

2021-06-06
cypherpunks write code. and build things: “demonstrate that a renewable mining facility in the real world is not only possible but empirically prove that Bitcoin accelerates the world toward a sustainable future” #bitcoin, funding the kardashev type 1 civilization energy grid. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Square partners with Blockstream, says it will invest $5M to build a solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility at a Blockstream Mining site in the US

Square Inc. will invest $5 million to build a solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility at a Blockstream Mining site in the U.S. through a partnership with the blockchain technology pr...

@Louisville_high @BTC_Archive @jack unrelated but @blockstream BMN uses some nuclear https://blockstream.com/...
2021-06-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Square partners with Blockstream, says it will invest $5M to build a solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility at a Blockstream Mining site in the US

Square Inc. will invest $5 million to build a solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility at a Blockstream Mining site in the U.S. through a partnership with the blockchain technology pr...