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@lex_node

@lex_node
65 posts
2025-10-24
good move imo and nothing like pardoning SBF despite clowns like Adam Cochran likely having short positions in BNB and SBF sympathizers like “Mr Wonderful” FUDDing nonstop all they had on him is some chats shittalking onerous sanctions requirements he didn't steal users'
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 ...

good move imo and nothing like pardoning SBF despite clowns like Adam Cochran likely having short positions in BNB and SBF sympathizers like “Mr Wonderful” FUDDing nonstop all they had on him is some chats shittalking onerous sanctions requirements he didn't steal users'
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.

2025-10-23
good move imo and nothing like pardoning SBF despite clowns like Adam Cochran likely having short positions in BNB and SBF sympathizers like “Mr Wonderful” FUDDing nonstop all they had on him is some chats shittalking onerous sanctions requirements he didn't steal users'
2025-10-23 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

Pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company  —  President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao …

2025-07-15
wild story the intersection of crypto and global politics will continue to be very risky, intense and dramatic for founders. . . imagine if the market had called Trump and Kamala won, probably Shayne would be in prison. . . still enormous risk in being a crypto founder. . . .
2025-07-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: the US DOJ and CFTC ended a pair of investigations into crypto betting platform Polymarket that started under the Biden administration

A pair of US investigations into crypto-betting platform Polymarket that went full-throttle in the waning days of the Biden administration …

2024-10-01
he is right...if you don't want get forked like this (open source—>enterprise derivative) but still want to be open source, then use a GPL/copyleft license, not Apache. . .it's that simple. . .
2024-10-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Some criticize YC-backed PearAI for forking AI code editor Continue, which has the Apache open-source license, and slapping on a ChatGPT-written closed license

A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with an X post thread and YouTube video on Saturday and created immediate controversy.

2024-08-08
given how aggro Ripple was in pumping XRP re: Ripple biz model, XRP not being a security *and* XRP trxs generally not being securities trxs means the SEC has lost the game corrolary: we don't need FIT21 and it does more harm than good; courts solved (most of) the problem
2024-08-08 View on X
Bloomberg

A US judge orders Ripple to pay a $125M penalty for selling XRP to institutional investors, well below the almost $2B the SEC sought in the case; XRP jumps 20%+

- Regulator had sought almost $2 billion in fines, penalties  — Ripple token XRP surges on court ruling but is flat this year

really can't think of a worse case for the SEC to lose (from the SEC's POV) than Ripple...they did *everything wrong*...tying their business to token price, hiring market-makers to massage the price etc. . . you can literally look on old charts and see how Ripple corp
2024-08-08 View on X
Bloomberg

A US judge orders Ripple to pay a $125M penalty for selling XRP to institutional investors, well below the almost $2B the SEC sought in the case; XRP jumps 20%+

- Regulator had sought almost $2 billion in fines, penalties  — Ripple token XRP surges on court ruling but is flat this year

2024-05-25
alpha on why ETH isn't mooning: —>only 19b-4s approved, not S-1s —>approval was by division of trading/markets on ‘delegated authority’ —>means a commissioner can challenge in next 10 days (also means they are trying to hide the vote b/c it's political) what's really going
2024-05-25 View on X
Reuters

The US SEC approves applications from Nasdaq, Cboe, and the NYSE to list spot ether ETFs, potentially paving the way for them to begin trading later in 2024

but consumers will have to wait to buy them Kelvin Munene Murithi / CoinGape : Breaking: US SEC Approves 8 Spot Ethereum ETF Oliver Dale / Blockonomi : The Wait Is Over: SEC Greenl...

2024-05-24
alpha on why ETH isn't mooning: —>only 19b-4s approved, not S-1s —>approval was by division of trading/markets on ‘delegated authority’ —>means a commissioner can challenge in next 10 days (also means they are trying to hide the vote b/c it's political) what's really going
2024-05-24 View on X
Reuters

The US SEC approves applications from Nasdaq, Cboe, and the NYSE to list spot ether ETFs, potentially paving the way for them to begin trading later in 2024

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday approved applications from Nasdaq, CBOE and NYSE to list exchange-traded funds …

2024-03-29
too little imo as I think he will scam again no matter when he gets out (he is a sociopath and deeply twisted person), but a nice long sentence all the same
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...

SBF will end up being a very rich man—again fame from movies and a long media rehab campaign from his corrupt parents and he will be free imo he basically got away with it, should be a life sentence
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...

2023-12-30
>be me >take short nap >wake up >stablecoins are securities
2023-12-30 View on X
Reuters

A US judge sides with the SEC, ruling that Terraform broke the law by not registering four cryptocurrencies, but dismisses the SEC's security-based swap claims

In this case, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") … Cristian Lipciuc / CryptoPotato : Terraform Labs Sold Unregistered Securities, Says Judge Jai Hamid / Cryptopolitan :...

2023-12-29
>be me >take short nap >wake up >stablecoins are securities
2023-12-29 View on X
Reuters

A US judge sides with the SEC, ruling that Terraform broke the law by not registering four cryptocurrencies, but dismisses the SEC's security-based swap claims

A federal judge on Thursday ruled in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on claims that Terraform Labs …

2023-11-21
the same problem with OpenAI's board exists with every DAO that relies too heavily on delegation, esp. delegation to “student groups” and other random policy/governance types lacking skin in the game [image]
2023-11-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Ilya Sutskever and over 700 out of ~770 OpenAI staffers sign a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the board resigns and reinstates Altman

- Majority of OpenAI employees sign letter seeking new board  — Board member Ilya Sutskever is among the signatories

2023-11-20
the same problem with OpenAI's board exists with every DAO that relies too heavily on delegation, esp. delegation to “student groups” and other random policy/governance types lacking skin in the game [image]
2023-11-20 View on X
TechCrunch

Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI

Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …

2023-10-31
regulatory capture is everywhere.... https://www.afr.com/...
2023-10-31 View on X
Australian Financial Review

Andrew Ng, who taught Sam Altman at Stanford and co-founded Google Brain, says Big Tech is lying about AI extinction to trigger heavier regulation of rivals

Key Points  — Big Tech wants tough AI rules that would make life hard for small competitors

2023-10-27
it seems like all of SBF's testimony is oriented around advice of counsel defense the problem: I'm pretty sure the lawyers never advised taking customer money from FTX for Alameda to loan it out to buy real estate and invest in Silicon Valley start-ups and bribe politicians
2023-10-27 View on X
Financial Times

In a testimony without the jury present, SBF says he followed the counsel of lawyers to make critical decisions around passing FTX customer money to Alameda

Former crypto billionaire blames lawyers as court hears first snippets of testimony without jury present

2023-10-21
below is likely the correct read of the Ripple dismissal—instead of the bull signal it might appear, it's really the SEC wanting to appeal the “programmatic sales” and ‘service grants’ holdings immediately nice job by @kkirkbos reading between the lines here
2023-10-21 View on X
CoinDesk

Filing: the US SEC drops charges alleging Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chairman Chris Larsen aided and abetted the company in violating securities laws

How High Can It Soar? PYMNTS.com : SEC Drops Claims Against Ripple Executives Bhushan Akolkar / Coinspeaker : SEC Clears Ripple Executives of All Charges in Lawsuit, XRP Price Shoo...

2023-10-20
below is likely the correct read of the Ripple dismissal—instead of the bull signal it might appear, it's really the SEC wanting to appeal the “programmatic sales” and ‘service grants’ holdings immediately nice job by @kkirkbos reading between the lines here
2023-10-20 View on X
CoinDesk

Filing: the US SEC drops charges alleging Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chairman Chris Larsen aided and abetted the company in violating securities laws

The regulator had included them as defendants in its securities violation case revolving around XRP transactions, and the agency now says it's just pursuing Ripple for damages.

imo Warren and the Biden admin are desperately using crypto as a scapegoat to distract from the fact that the Biden admin authorized BILLIONS of dollars in “aid” etc that likely is the real source of funding for Hamas
2023-10-20 View on X
CoinDesk

The US Treasury's FinCEN proposes labeling international crypto mixing as a “primary money laundering concern”, citing its use by Hamas and other illicit actors

Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto …