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Matthew Goldstein

@mattgoldstein26
33 posts
2025-02-04
Wired is doing some excellent journalism https://www.wired.com/...
2025-02-04 View on X
Bloomberg Law

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”

Search by Topic  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …

Wired is doing some excellent journalism https://www.wired.com/...
2025-02-04 View on X
Wired

Sources: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old Elon Musk-linked engineer, has admin privileges over Treasury Department code that controls Social Security payments and more

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department.  It's also where, sources say …

2025-01-22
Silk Road no more. At the time it struck many as a very harsh sentence but it was back when most bad never heard of Bitcoin or the dark web [image]
2025-01-22 View on X
New York Times

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, a crypto and libertarian cult hero serving a life sentence since 2015 on money laundering, drug charges, and more

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

2024-08-08
Two advertisers marketing off the assassination attempt on Truth Social [image]
2024-08-08 View on X
New York Times

Analysis: Truth Social is increasingly reliant on niche ad campaigns that target hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives, often with small ad budgets

Donald J. Trump's social network is increasingly relying on a niche of the ad market that caters to hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives for revenue. X: @konrad_it , @m...

TMTG full comment: Having mendaciously attacked our company and our advertisers, and having sent a reporter who was caught pathetically trying to sneak into our office through a back door, the NYTimes continues to set the bar for actual malice, fake news, and political bias.
2024-08-08 View on X
New York Times

Analysis: Truth Social is increasingly reliant on niche ad campaigns that target hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives, often with small ad budgets

Donald J. Trump's social network is increasingly relying on a niche of the ad market that caters to hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives for revenue. X: @konrad_it , @m...

2023-07-04
Some have speculated that Trump Media could be interested in a tie-up Rumble, the conservative media company it already has a number of biz deals with. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-07-04 View on X
New York Times

Digital World Acquisition Corp. reaches a tentative US SEC settlement over its planned Trump Media merger, agreeing to pay $18M and to revise some filings

Search in All.  —  Search in Internal Sections Only.  —  Search in External Sections Only. Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : Truth Social-tied SPAC says it has tentative SEC settlement Ar...

DWAC may have a deal with the SEC to salvage the much delayed merger with Trump Media but is TMTG getting cold feet after all this time https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-07-04 View on X
New York Times

Digital World Acquisition Corp. reaches a tentative US SEC settlement over its planned Trump Media merger, agreeing to pay $18M and to revise some filings

Search in All.  —  Search in Internal Sections Only.  —  Search in External Sections Only. Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : Truth Social-tied SPAC says it has tentative SEC settlement Ar...

2023-06-09
Did Binance find bank enablers in Signature and Silvergate — two failed lenders? story by @flitteronfraud and me https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-06-09 View on X
Reuters

Binance.US suspends USD deposits and notifies customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat withdrawal channels as early as June 13

Binance.US on Thursday said the company is suspending USD deposits while notifying customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat …

Did Binance find bank enablers in Signature and Silvergate — two failed lenders? story by @flitteronfraud and me https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-06-09 View on X
The Block

Court documents: the SEC accuses Binance and Binance.US of redirecting $12B+ in customer assets to entities controlled by co-founder CZ between 2019 and 2021

If you are wilfully violating securities law, I have some advice: do not put … Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg : Elizabeth Warren Says Binance Appears to Have Lied to Lawmakers Wall...

2023-06-08
Did Binance find bank enablers in Signature and Silvergate — two failed lenders? story by @flitteronfraud and me https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-06-08 View on X
CNBC

Court filings: Binance's lawyers allege SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the company in March 2019 when he was teaching at MIT Sloan

- According to a new filing from Binance's lawyers, SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the crypto exchange in 2019.

Did Binance find bank enablers in Signature and Silvergate — two failed lenders? story by @flitteronfraud and me https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-06-08 View on X
The Block

Court documents: the SEC accuses Binance and Binance.US of redirecting $12B+ in customer assets to entities controlled by Changpeng Zhao between 2019 and 2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Binance and Binance.US of redirecting over $12 billion in customer assets …

2023-03-21
FDIC deal with NYCB for some of Signature Bank shows how much in deposits ran out the door the before the seizure: NYCB is taking on $34 billion in deposits but Signature had about $88 billion just before it failed https://www.fdic.gov/...
2023-03-21 View on X
Reuters

The FDIC plans to sell all of Signature Bank's 40 branches to Flagstar Bank, as well as some Signature loans and deposits not in its digital banking business

Bloomberg reports:  —  “Signature Bank's crypto-related deposits will be returned to customers directly … Michael Farrell : I am pleased to announce that Signature Bridge Bank, N.A...

2023-03-16
Remember FTX? https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-16 View on X
FTX

An FTX bankruptcy filing describes $3.2B+ in payments and loans to founders and executives, chiefly from Alameda Research, including ~$2.2B to Sam Bankman-Fried

Identify Over $3.2 Billion in Transfers to Founders and Key Employees  —  Forensic Work Continues on Intercompany and Other Transactions

2023-02-15
The $400 million FTX gave the Modulo hedge fund in the second half of last year has been sitting in plain view in a JPMorgan bank account, which ultimately is good news for FTX creditors https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-02-15 View on X
New York Times

Sources: FTX lawyers and hedge fund Modulo are negotiating the return of Sam Bankman-Fried's $400M investment in Modulo, currently sitting in a JPMorgan account

The founders of the trading firm Modulo Capital are in talks with FTX about returning the investment that Sam Bankman-Fried made in the fund.

2023-01-24
Sam Bankman-Fried's tangled web with the founders of a little known hedge fund startup. Story via ⁦⁦@yaffebellany⁩ me and Royston Jones in the Bahamas https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-01-24 View on X
New York Times

A look at Sam Bankman-Fried's $400M investment in obscure hedge fund Modulo, shortly before FTX collapsed; Modulo's executives had close ties to SBF and FTX

After the collapse of FTX, prosecutors and lawyers have scrutinized its discredited founder's huge investment in Modulo Capital. Tweets: @niubi , @niubi , @jessicakmathews , @macro...

2023-01-13
“Unfortunately, the DOJ moved to arrest me the night before, preempting my testimony with an entirely different news cycle.” from SBF substack just out https://sambf.substack.com/...
2023-01-13 View on X
Axios

Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence even after ex-executives pled guilty

think there shouldn't be a paying option anymore... Dave Weisberger / @daveweisberger1 : https://www.wsj.com/... It is tiresome to read SBF's half truths. 1/ His claims about Binan...

2023-01-12
“Unfortunately, the DOJ moved to arrest me the night before, preempting my testimony with an entirely different news cycle.” from SBF substack just out https://sambf.substack.com/...
2023-01-12 View on X
Axios

Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence, even as ex-executives plead guilty

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday published his account of how the crypto company collapsed.

2023-01-10
Days after it agrees to pay $50 million fine and spend $50 million on bolstering it's KYC and AML compliance programs https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-10 View on X
CNBC

Coinbase plans to lay off a further ~950 employees, or ~20% of its workforce, seeking to reduce its operating expenses by 25% QoQ; Coinbase laid off 18% in June

- Coinbase is cutting a fifth of its workforce following an 18% staff reduction in June.  — CEO Brian Armstrong pointed …

2022-12-26
Former FTX executives Caroline Ellison and Zixiao “Gary” Wang entered their guilty pleas on Monday, Dec. 19. Pleas were not docketed as to not tip off Bankman-Fried and his counsel before he had agreed to extradition and was on a plane back to the U.S. (1)
2022-12-26 View on X
Los Angeles Times

FOIA emails detail Sam Bankman-Fried's courtship of US federal regulators, including hiring former regulators and dining with ex-CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz

Before his mid-December arrest, cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly claimed that he was a responsible business leader …

Former FTX executives Caroline Ellison and Zixiao “Gary” Wang entered their guilty pleas on Monday, Dec. 19. Pleas were not docketed as to not tip off Bankman-Fried and his counsel before he had agreed to extradition and was on a plane back to the U.S. (1)
2022-12-26 View on X
Reuters

Plea hearing court transcript: Caroline Ellison said she and Sam Bankman-Fried knowingly misled investors, lenders, and customers that Alameda borrowed from FTX

bond packages only require around 10-15% of the total amount to be paid. Teflon Tom / @agrizzi8 : This case offers an insight into the world of crypto. Rather than accidental, the ...