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Ari Paul

@aridavidpaul
40 posts
2025-10-24
@coffeebreak_YT Going rate for a pardon is lm$10-30m from what I hear, but wouldn't be surprised if CZ paid a lot more. A really untenable environment to be an ethical actor. Basically anyone can just steal $1b and buy a get out of jail free card for ~$20m. And that guarantees that the
2025-10-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality

The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

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@coffeebreak_YT Going rate for a pardon is lm$10-30m from what I hear, but wouldn't be surprised if CZ paid a lot more. A really untenable environment to be an ethical actor. Basically anyone can just steal $1b and buy a get out of jail free card for ~$20m. And that guarantees that the
2025-10-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have ...

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@valardragon @lex_node He directed client assets to his personal trading shop. Same as what SBF did, stealing FTX funds to Alameda. And like with CZ, SBF was sure he'd profit and pay back the stolen funds before anyone noticed. https://www.reuters.com/...
2025-10-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have ...

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@JTLonsdale He's in business with CZ, profiting and laundering money as we speak. You make it sound like Trump is a patsy. It's very clear and deliberate. Not to mention the pay for pardon scheme going...have no idea what CZ paid, but most cases have been $10-$30m from what I hear.
2025-10-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have ...

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@lex_node I never saw any serious counter to the on-chain “proof” that he stole customer funds. CZ never offered one. Was covered by Reuters, verified by anyone who wants independently on-chain. CZ stole customer funds in a similar manner to SBF. The difference was CZ was able to pay
2025-10-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have ...

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@lex_node I never saw any serious counter to the on-chain “proof” that he stole customer funds. CZ never offered one. Was covered by Reuters, verified by anyone who wants independently on-chain. CZ stole customer funds in a similar manner to SBF. The difference was CZ was able to pay
2025-10-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality

The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

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@JTLonsdale He's in business with CZ, profiting and laundering money as we speak. You make it sound like Trump is a patsy. It's very clear and deliberate. Not to mention the pay for pardon scheme going...have no idea what CZ paid, but most cases have been $10-$30m from what I hear.
2025-10-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality

The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

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@valardragon @lex_node He directed client assets to his personal trading shop. Same as what SBF did, stealing FTX funds to Alameda. And like with CZ, SBF was sure he'd profit and pay back the stolen funds before anyone noticed. https://www.reuters.com/...
2025-10-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality

The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

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2024-11-28
@cameronmattis ... I'm pretty skeptical of anti-Biden propaganda coming in this form, but I believe it. That matches Biden admins public statements and signalling on AI regulation.
2024-11-28 View on X
Business Insider

On Joe Rogan's podcast, Marc Andreessen criticizes the “raw administrative power” of US agencies like the CFPB, SEC, and FTC, talks Elon Musk and DOGE, and more

- Marc Andreessen discussed Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency on Joe Rogan's podcast.

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2024-03-29
I offered to bet anyone who held this conspiracy theory (or anyone who thought he'd get no jail time via judge or jury), unfortunately there were no takers. Our judicial system is far from perfect, but imo, it's the best functioning branch of government we have, and mostly works...
2024-03-29 View on X
Reuters

A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+

Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cite...

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2/ as for the sentence itself, seems reasonable to me. Yea Madoff got more, and convicted rapists often get less, but this was a pretty standard result relative to his crimes and the context and imo, sends a strong enough message to would be scammers. Imo, the thing to complain...
2024-03-29 View on X
Reuters

A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+

Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cite...

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2023-07-03
Imo, AI the first “tool” in human history that's not a tool. Even the first gen models we have today contain a feedback loop - they produce outputs based on what humans want. That's a full production cycle w/feedback enabling ongoing optimization and evolution. /1 https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-03 View on X
Benedict Evans

An analysis of whether AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs in the coming years like other waves of automation, or if this time is different

Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change …

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2023-05-10
Recently re-read 1984. Weirdly applicable to both Musk/Trump's “right wing” populism and the radical left's too. 1. Negate absolute truth, don't trust tradition/authority/science, 2. Replace with constant changing dogma issued by you. Musk/Trump and radical left doing same. /1 https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-10 View on X
VICE

Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a Texas mass shooting a “psyop”, remarking that the case was “odd”, “very strange”, and “gets weirder by the moment”

and only if you are not particularly insightful. https://twitter.com/... @dangoodin001 : In today's installment of why it's hypocritical for activists and journalist to stay on Twi...

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2/ but Musk is saying “trust nothing” and Trump was draining swamps, and radical left just trying to censor hate...no. The “good faith” honest versions of all of that doesn't insist on replacing the reasonably distrusted and criticized authorities with fast changing nonsense.
2023-05-10 View on X
VICE

Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a Texas mass shooting a “psyop”, remarking that the case was “odd”, “very strange”, and “gets weirder by the moment”

and only if you are not particularly insightful. https://twitter.com/... @dangoodin001 : In today's installment of why it's hypocritical for activists and journalist to stay on Twi...

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2023-04-19
It's bad enough that the SEC brings charges before specifying that the activity in question is prohibited. But to refuse to specify even *after* bringing charges? In a Democratic society we don't face penalties for rules that the rulers refuse to say are prohibited. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-19 View on X
MarketWatch

During a hearing, House Republicans grilled SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, who refused to state whether ether is a security, despite saying bitcoin is a commodity

#SEChearing Tweets: @warrendavidson : 🚨I'm calling to restructure the @SECGov and the removal of Chair @GaryGensler. Watch my closing remarks from today's hearing where I lay out t...

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2022-12-06
With rise of deep fakes, cryptographic signing likely only solution...but...we've known that for 10+ years (not just in crypto, but in tradfi, defense, etc as well), and made very little progress on infrastructure. Easy tech, hard social problem. /1 https://avc.com/...
2022-12-06 View on X
Stratechery

A look at the effects of ChatGPT, which has caused an explosion of interest in OpenAI's capabilities and led to questions about AI's impending impact on society

It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class …

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2022-11-28
Indeed. We're trying to reinvent the world with crypto, but proving solvency for a centralized exchange? There's a reasonable way to do that from tradfi, this is kind of worst of both worlds. It makes use of cryptography but to provide misleading conclusions. /1 https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-28 View on X
The Block

Binance releases its proof-of-reserves system, starting with BTC, claiming it has 582,485 BTC and 575,742 BTC user balance, a reserve ratio of 101% for users

Tim Copeland / The Block :

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2022-11-27
Indeed. We're trying to reinvent the world with crypto, but proving solvency for a centralized exchange? There's a reasonable way to do that from tradfi, this is kind of worst of both worlds. It makes use of cryptography but to provide misleading conclusions. /1 https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-27 View on X
The Block

Binance releases its proof-of-reserves system, starting with BTC, claiming it has 582,485 BTC and 575,742 BTC user balance, a reserve ratio of 101% for users

- Binance has put out its proof-of-reserves system, in light of FTX's meltdown.  — It shows a reserve ratio of 101% for its users' bitcoin balances.

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2022-11-26
Indeed. We're trying to reinvent the world with crypto, but proving solvency for a centralized exchange? There's a reasonable way to do that from tradfi, this is kind of worst of both worlds. It makes use of cryptography but to provide misleading conclusions. /1 https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-26 View on X
The Block

Binance releases its proof-of-reserves system, starting with BTC, claiming it has 582,485 BTC and 575,742 BTC user balance, a reserve ratio of 101% for users

- Binance has put out its proof-of-reserves system, in light of FTX's meltdown.  — It shows a reserve ratio of 101% for its users' bitcoin balances.

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2022-11-09
I'm kind of confused about how an FTX bail out was necessary for liquidity when customer deposits can't be legally lent out. I'll be curious to learn from forthcoming details. I'd suggest one question for the industry at this point - if same happens with Binance, who backstops?
2022-11-09 View on X
@cz_binance

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the company signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire FTX.com and help cover its liquidity crunch, pending due diligence

This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire FTX.com and help cover th...

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