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Alexis Goldstein

@alexisgoldstein
19 posts
2025-12-25
Speed running the messy interconnections of the 2008 financial crisis but with ABS and SPVs held up by graphics cards instead of houses.  🥶  —  Absolutely excellent piece by @tabbykinder.bsky.social giving a broad view of the stakes of the Wall Street debt behind the AI hype www.ft.com/content/0ae9...
2025-12-25 View on X
Financial Times

Analysis: Oracle has moved $66B of debt for building AI data centers off its balance sheet using SPVs; Meta has moved $30B, xAI moved $20B, and CoreWeave $2.6B

Creative financing helps insulate Big Tech while binding Wall Street to a future boom or bust

2025-07-16
Rep. Maxine Waters: “I'm sounding the alarm about the risks of pending crypto legislation, which will open the floodgates to massive fraud and financial ruin for millions of American families.” https://www.msnbc.com/...
2025-07-16 View on X
CNBC

Several crypto regulation bills backed by Trump fail to clear a key hurdle in the US House after 13 Republicans voted with Democrats to block the legislation

For Now; Inside Roman Storm's First Day on Trial Vismaya V / Decrypt : Trump Pushes House GOP to Revive Vote on Crypto Bills Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Crypto regulation bills stumbl...

2021-11-23
Motherboard paid a $75 Ether gas fee to contribute ~$75 to ConstitutionDAO. Of the initial $200 of ETH they bought, $90 was eaten up in fees. To get a refund, they'd have to pay gas fees AGAIN, wiping out their entire investment. Many are in the same boat: https://www.vice.com/...
2021-11-23 View on X
VICE

ConstitutionDAO faces existential questions as a “core team” makes key decisions; high transaction fees mean ~50% of “investors” may lose the money they put in

ConstitutionDAO tried to buy the Constitution.  Now it has a $40 million mess on its hands and entire refunds are being wiped out by high fees.

2021-11-08
In the replies to this thread, multiple users report losing thousands of dollars worth of stablecoins, Ether, and other crypto assets as a result of the exploit on bZx: https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-08 View on X
The Record

DeFi platform bZx says a hacker stole an estimated $55M worth of cryptocurrency assets after spear-phishing one of its employees and swiping two private keys

2021-10-19
“If you give them enough collateral, liquid collateral, bitcoin, ethereum and so on . . . they will mint tether against it,” Alex Mashinsky of Celsius told the FT https://www.ft.com/...
2021-10-19 View on X
Financial Times

Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky says Tether has issued USDT in return for cryptocurrencies, calling into question Tether's claim that it only accepts USD

Stablecoin operator accepts crypto in return for some loans, big customer says  —  A major customer of Tether has said the company lends …

2021-10-16
From the @CFTC settlement, fining Tether $41 million: “Tether held sufficient fiat reserves in its accounts to back USDT tether tokens in circulation for only 27.6% of the days in a 26-month sample time period from 2016 through 2018” https://www.cftc.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-16 View on X
The Block

CFTC files and settles charges against Tether and Bitfinex, ordering them to pay a total of $42.5M for making “untrue or misleading statements” about USDT

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) simultaneously filed and settled charges against Tether and Bitfinex today … Source: CFTC .

2021-08-11
One day after the DeFi industry said they shouldn't be subject to tax enforcement (& reporting) — a DeFi platform gets hacked and tells the hacker law enforcement will go after them https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-11 View on X
The Block

Group behind Poly Network, a cross-chain protocol used for DeFi applications, says a hacker has stolen $611M; one researcher blames the attack on a crypto flaw

Quick Take  — Cross-chain protocol Poly Network has been hacked for $611 million.  — The team behind the protocol …

2021-06-30
Interdealer brokers are most typically used by TBTF banks to trade over the counter derivatives with each other (semi anonymously). Moving into crypto tells me they are hoping for an under-regulated derivatives boom. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-30 View on X
Reuters

TP ICAP, the world's largest interdealer broker, says it is launching a cryptocurrency trading platform with Fidelity Investments and Standard Chartered

2021-06-28
“Binance Markets Limited is not permitted to undertake any regulated activity in the UK” https://www.fca.org.uk/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-28 View on X
Financial Times

UK's Financial Conduct Authority orders Binance to stop all regulated activities in Britain by June 30 and issues consumer alert against the company

FCA also issues consumer alert against sprawling cryptocurrency group  —  The UK's financial watchdog has ordered Binance to stop …

2021-05-18
In the last 6 months, the @FTC received nearly 7,000 reports from consumers about cryptocurrency scams. The median amount consumers reported losing to the scams was $1,900. https://www.ftc.gov/... https://www.ftc.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-18 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk is either trading on his unique ability to move the price of Bitcoin and Dogecoin, or just trolling, and both scenarios are bizarre and incredible

As Elon Musk reverses his Bitcoin sentiment … Matthew Fox / Insider : Ethan Allen stock is soaring as traders confuse its ticker with the identical one for ether Scott Chipolina / ...

In the last 6 months, the @FTC received nearly 7,000 reports from consumers about cryptocurrency scams. The median amount consumers reported losing to the scams was $1,900. https://www.ftc.gov/... https://www.ftc.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-18 View on X
The Verge

FTC says that US consumers have lost $2M+ in cryptocurrency to scammers impersonating Elon Musk over the past six months

2021-04-05
While Facebook comms is saying this data is from 2019, that doesn't address the fact that it has now been posted online for anyone to see. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-05 View on X
Insider

Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019

- The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.

2021-04-04
While Facebook comms is saying this data is from 2019, that doesn't address the fact that it has now been posted online for anyone to see. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-04 View on X
Insider

Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019

- The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.

2020-07-31
This whole “pretending we aren't a monopoly” thing is getting ridiculous https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Facebook has made deals with Sony, UMG, and Warner Music for the right to show music videos and approached artists about exclusive rights to videos

- Social giant also could bankroll some video production  — Music videos have surged on YouTube during the pandemic

2020-07-23
The current Acting Director of the @USOCC, Brian Brooks, used to be a lobbyist for Coinbase, a crypto exchange. Now, the OCC will let banks hold crypto. https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-23 View on X
The Block

US bank regulator grants national savings banks and federal savings associations the authority to provide cryptocurrency custody services to their customers

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has opened the door for federal savings associations and national savings banks …

2019-11-22
Zuckerberg meets with all kinds of people who all happen to only be Republicans https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-22 View on X
NBC News

President Donald Trump hosted an undisclosed dinner with Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel at the White House in October, Facebook confirmed on Wednesday

a major Trump donor—had a secret dinner with Trump. This is corruption, plain and simple. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan : Don't forget: Mark Zuckerberg ope...

2019-11-21
Zuckerberg meets with all kinds of people who all happen to only be Republicans https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-21 View on X
NBC News

President Donald Trump hosted an undisclosed dinner with Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel at the White House in October, Facebook confirmed on Wednesday

The meeting took place during Zuckerberg's most recent visit to Washington, where he testified before Congress about Facebook's new cryptocurrency Libra.

2019-11-10
The rot at FACEBOOK is pervasive. I didn't realize the company has its own, sort of internal 4chan a that's been used to sling anti-Black racism https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-10 View on X
CNET

Facebook issues an apology after an anonymous Medium post alleged an ongoing culture of racism at the company against black, Latinx, and Asian employees

The social media company has been accused of empowering “racism against its employees of color.”  —  Facebook apologized Friday …

2019-11-09
The rot at FACEBOOK is pervasive. I didn't realize the company has its own, sort of internal 4chan a that's been used to sling anti-Black racism https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-09 View on X
CNET

Facebook issues an apology after an anonymous Medium post alleged an ongoing culture of racism at Facebook against black, Latinx, and Asian employees

The social media company has been accused of empowering “racism against its employees of color.”  —  Facebook apologized Friday …