Discussion

• @kashhill Kashmir Hill on x

  A great @matt_levine newsletter breaking down how the Bitcoin billionaire couple got fingered by the feds. Crypto laundering is hard: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @billspacman @billspacman on x

  All the government had to do was look on TikTok 🤦‍♂️ https://twitter.com/...

• @ommiii_ @ommiii_ on x

  @BarrySilbert @fintechfrank https://twitter.com/...

• @matt_levine Matt Levine on x

  This newsletter is for the entrepreneurs. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @techemist Fran Strajnar on x

  You are telling me this is a sophisticated multi-billion dollar money-launderer? I call BS. #Bitcoin https://twitter.com/...

• @samir_madani Sam on x

  Pro Tip: Get rid of your laser-eyes profile pics. https://twitter.com/...

• @lanceroberts Lance Roberts on x

  I own #bitcoin because it's secure. Nobody can steal it because of the digital....what???? #sarcasm Interesting story. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @etbrooking Emerson T. Brooking on x

  One weird consequence of crypto volatility: it around an ~$80m heist when the crime actually happened. Which is still an insane fortune, but not the truly unfathomable sum it is today. https://twitter.com/...

• @gerritd Gerrit De Vynck on x

  if this ever gets to sentencing, does the judge look at it as a theft of $71m or $4.5b? https://twitter.com/...

• @sub8u Subrahmanyam Kvj on x

  Matt Levine is a global treasure, exhibit #12191010 “These people are charged with money-laundering conspiracy, but their real tragedy is that they allegedly did a lot of conspiring without a whole lot of laundering” https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jessysaurusrex @jessysaurusrex on x

  We're going to get one hell of a streaming service limited run series out of this one https://twitter.com/...

• @robertjdenault Robert J. DeNault on x

  This reminds me—when is Alexander Vinnik, a Russian in French prison who DOJ accuses of taking billions in stolen Bitcoin and sending it to others through other Russian financial platforms—getting extradited? https://twitter.com/...

• @maxlynch Max Lynch on x

  What?! He was a @UWMadison grad?! 🤯 https://twitter.com/...

• @deantak Dean Takahashi on x

  Hopefully this is not where all the NFT sales were coming from. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @larsen_espn Porter Larsen on x

  Don't look into this any further unless you're interested in a rabbit hole of cringe... Also: Zero percent chance they are the masterminds here. They're the scapegoats. https://twitter.com/...

• @rklau Rick Klau on x

  “In a sense, turning stolen Bitcoins into physical gold is a money-laundering success. In another sense, giving your driver's license to a regulated financial institution so that it can ship the gold to your home address is, in hindsight, not.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @jchervinsky Jake Chervinsky on x

  If you somehow don't already get @matt_levine's newsletter, here's a perfect entry: the best take on the Bitfinex arrests you'll find anywhere. Pretty much everyone in finance has been reading Matt daily for a long time, & he's on the crypto beat more & more lately. Subscribe. ht…

• @sokane1 Sean O'Kane on x

  I have still not read the DOJ complaint so thank you to Matt here for pointing out that the alleged Bitcoin thieves *also* got an $11,000 PPP loan https://twitter.com/...

• @chriscillizza Chris Cillizza on x

  This is my favorite newsletter currently. Brilliantly written. https://twitter.com/...

• @ntaylor963 Nathan Taylor on x

  Matt Levine on the $4.5B of stolen bitcoin ($). Very little managed to get laundered. “They allegedly set up seven accounts at AlphaBay and six accounts at a legit crypto exchange to withdraw $186,000 of their millions, and it got frozen anyway.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... htt…

• @business @business on x

  It is surprisingly difficult to launder stolen Bitcoins https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @bopinion

• @s_m_i Stacy-Marie Ishmael on x

  “In a sense, turning stolen Bitcoins into physical gold is a money-laundering success. In another sense, giving your driver's license to a regulated financial institution so that it can ship the gold to your home address is, in hindsight, not.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @pkafka Peter Kafka on x

  “These people are charged with money-laundering conspiracy, but their real tragedy is that they allegedly did a lot of conspiring without a whole lot of laundering. They were allegedly billionaires in ill-gotten Bitcoin, and they couldn't spend it.” https://twitter.com/...

• @petergleick Peter Gleick on x

  I've never pretended to understand cryptocurrency, but I always thought the only real selling point was its security. I guess not. https://twitter.com/...

• @kosherhotdogz Alex Friedman on x

  it's not real. how can it be seized? how can it be laundered? i could not understand this less and do NOT try to explain it to me https://twitter.com/...

• @sandofsky Ben Sandofsky on x

  With the $3.6B in stolen Bitcoin, Ilya Lichtenstein is technically YC's most successful alumni.

• @nkulw @nkulw on x

  These are the two people indicted for laundering $4.5B in stolen crypto https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...