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Sean Casten

@seancasten
22 posts
2026-02-24
Crypto has gotten bigger, but its fundamental value proposition has never changed. It is a tool that is perfectly designed to avoid anti-money laundering rules and it is being used for its intended purpose. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2026-02-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ

Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance's founder, the company dismantled probe and suspended the investigators; Binance denied inquiry ended or staff fired for the concerns

2025-09-17
13. And if the GOP House or Senate leadership gave a damn about ANY of those crimes, they'd be raising holy hell right now.  Instead, they are blocking all of our efforts to do any oversight.  Because cowering before Trump is all they know.
2025-09-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove the outside compliance monitor imposed under its $4.3B 2023 settlement over money laundering failures

Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg :

1. First, in November 2023, Binance (a large crypto exchange) pled guilty to money laundering and agreed to pay a $4 BILLION fine.  Also, their founder CZ Zhao was sentenced to 4 months in prison. www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
2025-09-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove the outside compliance monitor imposed under its $4.3B 2023 settlement over money laundering failures

Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg :

11. Let's make this more real.  Want to smuggle fentanyl into the US?  Traffic children?  Fund global terrorism?  North Korean nukes?  Those things are all made harder by a robust global anti-money laundering regime.  That is what Binance was facilitating.
2025-09-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove the outside compliance monitor imposed under its $4.3B 2023 settlement over money laundering failures

Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg :

10. And now, today, this announcement that Binance - you know, the company that PLED GUILTY TO MONEY LAUNDERING is nearing a deal with Trump's DOJ to get rid of the compliance monitor they have had in place TO ENSURE THEY AREN'T LAUNDERING MONEY. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-09-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove the outside compliance monitor imposed under its $4.3B 2023 settlement over money laundering failures

Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg :

Here's a brief story, with receipts about Trump administration corruption and crypto industry collusion that WILL be investigated once the majority of the House is filled with people who take ethics and the Constitution seriously:
2025-09-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove the outside compliance monitor imposed under its $4.3B 2023 settlement over money laundering failures

Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg :

2025-06-16
This is the reason why our Constitution has an emoluments clause.  And every day that the House GOP refuses to do any oversight of the Trump family's grift is another day that our Republic gets a little more fragile.  Thread: www.ft.com/content/13a6...
2025-06-16 View on X
Financial Times

Digital asset platform Tron plans to go public via a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed SRM Entertainment, after the US paused a probe into founder Justin Sun

Deal involving Justin Sun's digital asset venture orchestrated by investment bank linked to Trump's sons

This is the reason why our Constitution has an emoluments clause. And every day that the House GOP refuses to do any oversight of the Trump family's grift is another day that our Republic gets a little more fragile. Thread: https://www.ft.com/...
2025-06-16 View on X
Financial Times

Digital asset platform Tron plans to go public via a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed SRM Entertainment, after the US paused a probe into founder Justin Sun

Deal involving Justin Sun's digital asset venture orchestrated by investment bank linked to Trump's sons

2025-02-08
There is absolutely no way that the Trump WH is doing necessary security vetting of these people. The entire operation is a national security liability. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-02-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE member, was fired by cybersecurity firm Path Network from an internship in June 2022 for allegedly leaking info to rivals

(Bloomberg) - Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk's squad that's criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing...

There is absolutely no way that the Trump WH is doing necessary security vetting of these people. The entire operation is a national security liability. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-02-08 View on X
Krebs on Security

Chat logs reveal DOGE member Edward Coristine's ties to cybercrime community The Com, and a Telegram handle linked to him sought a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …

2023-08-01
My dad told me when I was little to never pick a fight - but if a bully punches you, punch back twice as hard. So if you have research on hate speech in social media and need help amplifying or protecting in response to this bullying, contact our office. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-08-01 View on X
New York Times

Twitter/X files a lawsuit against Center for Countering Digital Hate, accusing the nonprofit and its backers of “actively working to prevent free expression”

The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter's parent company …

2021-10-25
5/ In other words, the problem is the algorithm. If they are just a “bulletin board” for information as they claim, you don't incite people to do crazy things because most people are not crazy. The crazy gets swamped out by the normal.
2021-10-25 View on X
New York Times

Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous

good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...

14/ If you like CrazyTown, good news. FB has delivered. You'll love the status quo. But if you'd prefer to see thoughtful, sane discourse, even if it comes at the expense of a few FB shareholder dividends... delete the algorithms. And just be a bulletin board. /fin
2021-10-25 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish

Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …

More damning information about Facebook, this time in India. But it's important to understand that this is a VERY fixable problem. The algorithm cannot be simultaneously optimized for FB revenue AND not encouraging extremism. Brief thread: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-10-25 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish

Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …

4/ Even the most charitable interpretation of all the reporting over these last few weeks is that the smartest, most ethical people at FB don't know how to stop this. They are the ones who tried to dial back some of the settings on these algos but still couldn't stop it.
2021-10-25 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish

Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …

5/ In other words, the problem is the algorithm. If they are just a “bulletin board” for information as they claim, you don't incite people to do crazy things because most people are not crazy. The crazy gets swamped out by the normal.
2021-10-25 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish

Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …

14/ If you like CrazyTown, good news. FB has delivered. You'll love the status quo. But if you'd prefer to see thoughtful, sane discourse, even if it comes at the expense of a few FB shareholder dividends... delete the algorithms. And just be a bulletin board. /fin
2021-10-25 View on X
New York Times

Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous

good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...

More damning information about Facebook, this time in India. But it's important to understand that this is a VERY fixable problem. The algorithm cannot be simultaneously optimized for FB revenue AND not encouraging extremism. Brief thread: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-10-25 View on X
New York Times

Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous

good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...

4/ Even the most charitable interpretation of all the reporting over these last few weeks is that the smartest, most ethical people at FB don't know how to stop this. They are the ones who tried to dial back some of the settings on these algos but still couldn't stop it.
2021-10-25 View on X
New York Times

Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous

good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...

2021-10-04
Thank you for your courage. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-04 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Ex-Facebook PM Frances Haugen comes forward as the key source behind WSJ's Facebook Files, saying she became alarmed by how profits came before public safety

The former Facebook employee says her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant  —  The former Facebook Inc. employee …