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Chris Blec

@chrisblec
47 posts
2024-05-01
🤯 @rogerkver was arrested by the U.S. for alleged tax fraud that he committed AFTER he renounced his U.S. citizenship. You can renounce, but if they want to get you later, they'll find a way. We really are prisoners, aren't we... https://www.justice.gov/...
2024-05-01 View on X
Fortune

The US DOJ charges Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with filing false tax returns and more to evade paying nearly $50M

The Justice Department announced on Tuesday it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with mail fraud and filing false tax returns.

2023-08-24
The Tornado Cash indictment is so full of misleading nonsense that it's a bit shocking. Of course Semenov would say the below. Because he didn't have the ability to change the smart contract logic. They present it here as if he's somehow lying and trying to evade the law. [image]
2023-08-24 View on X
Blockworks

The US DOJ charges Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm, of Washington, and Roman Semenov, a Russian national, with money laundering and sanctions violations

Katherine Ross / Blockworks :

2023-07-26
Flashbots uses Ethereum L1 MEV to ensure that its clients can successfully frontrun your trades. Quite the business model.
2023-07-26 View on X
The Block

Flashbots, whose service proposes blocks for validators running the Ethereum blockchain, raised a $60M Series B led by Paradigm at a $1B valuation

RT Watson / The Block :

2023-07-15
Amazing story. Dude gets thrown in jail, admin keys to Multichain are on his computers, sister eventually uses his computer to steal money, now she's in jail too. THIS IS WHY WE DECENTRALIZE. Tech will never defeat human nature.
2023-07-15 View on X
The Block

Crypto bridging protocol Multichain ceases operations after confirming Chinese police detained its CEO, Zhaojun, and his sister, who held ~$220M of user assets

Tim Copeland / The Block :

2023-04-27
Very important if you use Google Authenticator. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-27 View on X
9to5Google

Google plans to add E2EE to Google Authenticator “down the line”, after researchers warned that its new feature to sync 2FA codes is not E2E encrypted

On Monday, Google Authenticator launched the ability to sync 2FA codes to your Google Account.

2023-04-08
Wow. Here we go. It's on. The U.S. Federal Government, via the Treasury Dept, is officially recommending stronger KYC/AML enforcement for DeFi. They're even suggesting implementing KYC via zk-proofs, as I predicted. https://home.treasury.gov/... https://home.treasury.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-08 View on X
CoinDesk

The US Treasury warns that DeFi services that aren't compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk”

US Treasury Damilola Lawrence / Cryptopolitan : U.S Treasury report reveals how North Korea and criminals use DeFi services to facilitate money laundering Florence Muchai / Cryptop...

2023-04-07
Wow. Here we go. It's on. The U.S. Federal Government, via the Treasury Dept, is officially recommending stronger KYC/AML enforcement for DeFi. They're even suggesting implementing KYC via zk-proofs, as I predicted. https://home.treasury.gov/... https://home.treasury.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-07 View on X
CoinDesk

The US Treasury warns that DeFi services not compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk”

The department's first analysis of illicit finance risks associated with DeFi recommends the U.S. look at enhancements to its existing anti-money laundering regime.

2023-04-04
I just want to clarify: There is NOTHING decentralized about Arbitrum or Optimism. Just because you can use a network without permission doesn't mean it's decentralized. Both can halt the chain, modify any code, censor any transaction, freeze any wallet, or steal from the DAO.
2023-04-04 View on X
CoinDesk

After a revolt, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up its controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation

Nothing here is intended to minimize that there was very clearly a shortfalling in communication. Danny Nelson / CoinDesk : Arbitrum's First Governance Proposal Turns Messy, With $...

Vote is underway for @arbitrum to steal 750m $ARB from treasury for its “Foundation” to hand out “Special Grants”. No votes on these grants. No mention of security or oversight. 3 ppl control the Foundation. This is a SLUSH FUND for Arbitrum VCs. Total embarrassment. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-04 View on X
CoinDesk

After a revolt, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up its controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation

Nothing here is intended to minimize that there was very clearly a shortfalling in communication. Danny Nelson / CoinDesk : Arbitrum's First Governance Proposal Turns Messy, With $...

2023-04-03
Vote is underway for @arbitrum to steal 750m $ARB from treasury for its “Foundation” to hand out “Special Grants”. No votes on these grants. No mention of security or oversight. 3 ppl control the Foundation. This is a SLUSH FUND for Arbitrum VCs. Total embarrassment. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-03 View on X
CoinDesk

After an uproar, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up a controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation

Arbitrum will hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation.  —  Join the most important conversation in crypto …

I just want to clarify: There is NOTHING decentralized about Arbitrum or Optimism. Just because you can use a network without permission doesn't mean it's decentralized. Both can halt the chain, modify any code, censor any transaction, freeze any wallet, or steal from the DAO.
2023-04-03 View on X
CoinDesk

After an uproar, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up a controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation

Arbitrum will hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation.  —  Join the most important conversation in crypto …

2023-02-26
It was only a matter of time. 1) Court orders DeFi project to use multisig to steal money back from hacker 2) DeFi project says “OK!” and uses its multisig to exploit its own code 3) DeFi users are like “oh crap.. what?” What a total joke. https://blog.oasis.app/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-26 View on X
Blockworks

After Oasis complied with a UK high court order and upgraded a DeFi contract, Jump recovers ~120,000 ether, worth $140M, stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit

There have recently been two high-profile cases … CoinDesk : Oasis Exploits Its Own Wallet Software to Seize Crypto Stolen in Wormhole Hack Born Bored/CK News and Updates News Lett...

It was only a matter of time. 1) Court orders DeFi project to use multisig to steal money back from hacker 2) DeFi project says “OK!” and uses its multisig to exploit its own code 3) DeFi users are like “oh crap.. what?” What a total joke. https://blog.oasis.app/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-26 View on X
Molly White

The recovery of ~120K stolen ether by Jump and Oasis demonstrates the centralization of DeFi enabled by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts

Wormhole, Jump Crypto, and Oasis demonstrate the centralization threat introduced by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts.

2023-02-25
It was only a matter of time. 1) Court orders DeFi project to use multisig to steal money back from hacker 2) DeFi project says “OK!” and uses its multisig to exploit its own code 3) DeFi users are like “oh crap.. what?” What a total joke. https://blog.oasis.app/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-25 View on X
Blockworks

Jump Crypto recovers ~120,000 ether, worth $140M, stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit after Oasis upgraded a DeFi contract following a UK high court order

The Chicago trading firm appears to have recovered the 120,000 ether stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit.

2023-02-15
Several @a16z delegates have voted against a16z's interests in the current $UNI poll. The results of this vote could end up costing a16z a lot of money. Why would a16z keep these delegates if they're actually costing them money & opportunity? Will be interesting to watch.
2023-02-15 View on X
CoinDesk

Uniswap token holders vote to deploy to Binance's BNB blockchain using the Wormhole bridge, with 66% in favor, a move a16z voted to oppose with its 15M UNI

their first vote was to deploy on Polygon. No surprise: Variant is an investor in Polygon, Aztec Network, Scroll, and Aptos. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

2023-02-06
🚨 @a16z just used its full voting weight to squash a $UNI proposal to launch Uniswap protocol on BNB chain using @wormholecrypto bridge. a16z is a large investor in Wormhole competitor, @LayerZero_Labs. Open your eyes. 👀 Anti-competition cartels in DeFi are REAL. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-06 View on X
The Block

a16z used all 15M of its UNI tokens to vote against a proposal to deploy Uniswap V3 on the BNB Chain using the Wormhole bridge; voting concludes on February 10

- A16z used all 15 million of their UNI to vote against the proposal.  The proposal would use the Wormhole bridge for the Uniswap V3 deployment.

Perhaps you don't get it yet, UNI holders. Let me spell it out for you: a16z OWNS Uniswap protocol. They are the CONTROLLING OWNER of the protocol. THEY will decide on what future Uniswap versions look like. THEY control the treasury. It is THEIR'S. Not YOUR'S. Capeesh? https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-06 View on X
The Block

a16z used all 15M of its UNI tokens to vote against a proposal to deploy Uniswap V3 on the BNB Chain using the Wormhole bridge; voting concludes on February 10

- A16z used all 15 million of their UNI to vote against the proposal.  The proposal would use the Wormhole bridge for the Uniswap V3 deployment.

2023-01-21
1. Gemini bribes MakerDAO to collateralize DAI with GUSD 2. Greedy MakerDAO mints 500m DAI for 500m GUSD supplied by Gemini VC Parafi 3. Genesis falters, MakerDAO wants out of GUSD 4. Parafi says nah, we're all in this 2gether now brahs 5. Genesis is bankrupt 6. ???
2023-01-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Crypto lender Genesis Global files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, listing the estimated range for both assets and liabilities as between $1B and $10B

the parent company of Genesis - continue to refuse to offer creditors a fair deal. Fred Walton / @fredwalton216 : 1) Crypto thread on January 19. DCG allegedly has received offers ...

2023-01-20
1. Gemini bribes MakerDAO to collateralize DAI with GUSD 2. Greedy MakerDAO mints 500m DAI for 500m GUSD supplied by Gemini VC Parafi 3. Genesis falters, MakerDAO wants out of GUSD 4. Parafi says nah, we're all in this 2gether now brahs 5. Genesis is bankrupt 6. ???
2023-01-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Crypto lender Genesis Global Capital files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, listing the estimated range for both assets and liabilities between $1B-$10B

Cryptocurrency lender Genesis Global Capital filed for bankruptcy, the latest firm to collapse in the aftermath of FTX's swift downfall.

2022-11-25
The Uniswap team includes: • former Chainalysis exec * former NYSE president * former Obama senior spokesman * former Federal Reserve economist * former BlackRock executive ...and you're surprised they're collecting your data? WAKE UP!! https://www.theblock.co/...
2022-11-25 View on X
CoinDesk

ConsenSys says it collects user data related to its on-chain wallet service MetaMask, following a similar announcement by decentralized exchange Uniswap

This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how ConsenSys Software Inc. … Tim Copeland / The Block : DEX aggregator 1inch to protect MetaMask users from frontrunning Ken Macon / Recla...