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Alistair Milne

@alistairmilne
36 posts
2023-12-28
For the 100th time: Stop Selling Your Bitcoin To This Man
2023-12-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: MicroStrategy acquired 14,620 BTC for $616M in cash, taking its total holdings to 189,150 BTC, worth $8B+, or almost 1% of the 19.58M BTC outstanding

BTC's Surge Above $50,000 Soon? Ronaldo Marquez / NewsBTC : Major Acquisition: MicroStrategy Grows Bitcoin Reserves By 14K BTC Ahead Of ETF Approval Brandy Betz / Unchained : Micro...

2023-12-27
BREAKING: Barry Silbert resigns from the board of Grayscale Investments LLC [image]
2023-12-27 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Grayscale Investments, which runs the world's largest BTC trust, says Barry Silbert resigned as chair, succeeded by Mark Shifke, and doesn't explain why

2023-05-18
Tether will be buying ~$420mil of Bitcoin each year, or $35mil/month This will increase if/when their AUM grows but is obviously very interest rate dependent Having a larger buyer DCA'ing in non-stop at a constant rate has never been seen before & should underpin the market
2023-05-18 View on X
The Block

Tether plans to invest up to 15% of its profits in bitcoin, as the stablecoin developer shifts its reserves toward crypto and away from US government debt

- Tether is set to purchase bitcoin on a regular basis from its profits.  — It held $1.5 billion in bitcoin as of the end of the first quarter …

2023-05-17
Sure, you *could* use Ledger's new ‘Recover’ service and give them the your private keys controlling your assets as well as a copy of your ID and other personal information... ... but why then bother with a hardware wallet in the first place? [image]
2023-05-17 View on X
Cointelegraph

Crypto wallet startup Ledger faces criticism after unveiling an optional seed phrase recovery subscription service that some security experts say is insecure

Many members of the crypto community believe Ledger's latest seed phrase recovery feature is a bad idea.  —  362 Total views

2023-01-18
Narrator: if it received significant inflows from non-US FTX just before bankrupcy, then it probably wasn't and isn't https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-18 View on X
CNBC

FTX identifies ~$5.5B in “liquid” assets for recovery, including $415M in “unauthorized third-party transfers” possibly tied to a hack found after its collapse

- FTX has identified about $5.5 billion worth of digital assets for recovery, a number that includes $415 million in “hacked crypto.”

2023-01-03
Happy New Year? Guys? Guuuyys? https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-03 View on X
Bloomberg

In an open letter, Cameron Winklevoss accuses Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert of engaging in “bad faith stall tactics” after Genesis halted withdrawals

Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group Vignesh Karunanidhi / Watcher Guru : Cameron Winklevoss Accuses Barry Silbert of “Bad Faith Stall Tactics” Walter O'Leary / LinkedIn : Wal...

It couldn't work for FTX as the hole was too big and there was obvious fraud and malpractice, but a $BFX-style token rebought every month by Grayscale / DCG would work here imo https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-03 View on X
Bloomberg

In an open letter, Cameron Winklevoss accuses Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert of engaging in “bad faith stall tactics” after Genesis halted withdrawals

Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group Vignesh Karunanidhi / Watcher Guru : Cameron Winklevoss Accuses Barry Silbert of “Bad Faith Stall Tactics” Walter O'Leary / LinkedIn : Wal...

2023-01-02
It couldn't work for FTX as the hole was too big and there was obvious fraud and malpractice, but a $BFX-style token rebought every month by Grayscale / DCG would work here imo https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-02 View on X
Bloomberg

In an open letter, Cameron Winklevoss says Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert has engaged in “bad faith stall tactics” since halting Genesis withdrawals

Crypto entrepreneur Cameron Winklevoss is accusing fellow businessman Barry Silbert of “bad faith stall tactics” …

2022-12-05
SBF sent this Alameda balance sheet to the media in August Note the lack of any USD (even mislabelled FTX users' USD! 🤡), and lack of any #Bitcoin or even ETH Literally all-in illiquid shitcoins to pamp his net worth on paper https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-05 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Bankman-Fried admits involvement in two of Alameda's largest uses of funds: spending $3B to buy out Binance's FTX stake and pouring $4B into venture capital

Exchange's former CEO says he was close to key decisions at nominally separate trading firm  —  Speaking from his bed in Nassau …

2022-11-30
Most bullish thing I've seen all year https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-30 View on X
TechCrunch

The European Central Bank says that bitcoin is “rarely used for legal transactions” and is on the “road to irrelevance”, without citing any strong data points

European Central Bank officials alleged on Wednesday that bitcoin is “rarely used for legal transactions …

Bit more information in this one. It sounds like Alameda must have had a position roughly equivalent to the size of all customer assets on FTX🤡 Because Alameda was set to ‘never liquidate’ there was no other side to the trade who made what Alameda lost https://www.youtube.com/...
2022-11-30 View on X
Fortune

In an interview, SBF claims he donated about the same amount to both parties in 2022 but the GOP donations were “dark” money, discusses Alameda, FTT, and more

Sam Bankman-Fried's donations to Democrats are well documented.  In an interview released Tuesday …

Trying to listen to this and it is *painful* @SBF_FTX talking about FTX as if it is a hedge fund that was caught in a bad trade Why is no-one asking “where did customer BTC go - did you sell it?” or “Why were you trading customer assets?” https://www.youtube.com/...
2022-11-30 View on X
Fortune

In an interview, SBF claims he donated about the same amount to both parties in 2022 but the GOP donations were “dark” money, discusses Alameda, FTT, and more

Sam Bankman-Fried's donations to Democrats are well documented.  In an interview released Tuesday …

2022-11-24
Note how he denominates assets and liabilities in USD If he wasn't trading customer crypto assets, then both would decrease *together* when market down Overall, this is basically an admission that he was trading other peoples' property in favour of propping up $FTT, etc. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-24 View on X
CoinDesk

SBF claims FTX had ~$60B in collateral in spring 2022, before a credit squeeze, market selloff, and “run on the bank” reduced it to $9B and led to bankruptcy

and Themselves” Now he has become a doormat apparently. https://twitter.com/... Cas Piancey / @caspiancey : Remember when the FDIC forced Brett Harrison, former CEO of FTX US, to d...

Note how he denominates assets and liabilities in USD If he wasn't trading customer crypto assets, then both would decrease *together* when market down Overall, this is basically an admission that he was trading other peoples' property in favour of propping up $FTT, etc. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-24 View on X
New York Times

FTX sister firm Alameda paid $11.5M for control of a small WA-based US-licensed bank, raising questions about why federal regulators approved the deal

Through a subsidiary, FTX invested $11.5 million in the parent company of Farmington State Bank, which has a single branch and, until this year, just three employees.

2022-11-23
Note how he denominates assets and liabilities in USD If he wasn't trading customer crypto assets, then both would decrease *together* when market down Overall, this is basically an admission that he was trading other peoples' property in favour of propping up $FTT, etc. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-23 View on X
CoinDesk

SBF claims FTX had ~$60B in collateral in spring 2022, before a credit squeeze, market selloff, and “run on the bank” reduced it to $9B and led to bankruptcy

The former FTX CEO did not address concerns about customer funds being misappropriated or other recent revelations about the company.

2022-11-21
FTX owes 10 clients >$100million/each FTX owes 20 clients >$50million/each FTX owes 50 clients >$20million/each Just the top 6 client accounts exceed $1billion in creditor claims
2022-11-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Court documents: FTX owes $3.1B to its 50 biggest unsecured creditors, with claims ranging from $21M to $226M; ten claims are over $100M each

I recall hearing or reading that the top dog of Aurora … Brad Dress / The Hill : FTX owes more than $3 billion to biggest creditors: court filing The Information : FTX Owes Top 50 ...

2022-11-20
Everyone's talking about ‘regulatory clampdown’ in the wake of FTX ... ... but I'm fairly sure that regulations/laws against theft, ponzis, fraud, etc. already exist globally
2022-11-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at the dispute between FTX's new management and Bahamian regulators over who should control the company's assets, and how the fight may affect customers

Liquidators in the Bahamas are embroiled in a dispute with FTX over who has control over crypto assets held in the country

Everyone's talking about ‘regulatory clampdown’ in the wake of FTX ... ... but I'm fairly sure that regulations/laws against theft, ponzis, fraud, etc. already exist globally
2022-11-20 View on X
Financial Times

FTX CEO John Ray III plans to attempt to sell or reorganize its businesses after a review found many of its subsidiaries have “solvent balance sheets”

Many of collapsed crypto group's subsidiaries have ‘solvent balance sheets’, John Ray III says

2022-11-11
My best guess (99% speculation): SBF was running a ponzi, using customer funds to take over the industry and pick winners/losers with the benefit of the biggest warchest (FTX deposits) and insider info Huge marketing campaigns were designed to keep inflows higher than outflows
2022-11-11 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Source: SBF told investors that Alameda owes FTX ~$10B and FTX extended loans to Alameda using customer funds, describing the decision as a poor judgment call

Wall Street Journal :

My best guess (99% speculation): SBF was running a ponzi, using customer funds to take over the industry and pick winners/losers with the benefit of the biggest warchest (FTX deposits) and insider info Huge marketing campaigns were designed to keep inflows higher than outflows
2022-11-11 View on X
@sbf_ftx

[Thread] FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried apologizes, says he “fucked up” and his priority is “doing right by users”, plans to raise funds and close Alameda, and more

1) I'm sorry. That's the biggest thing. I fucked up, and should have done better.