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A fake comic panel for my worldbuilding project. Our protagonist deer is standing in front of one of the tethers stretching all the way into space. Interesting challenge drawing a change in perspective within one panel, but I like the result. 

Also I have run out of finished art for buffering the upload, so there maybe won’t be an upload next week. We’ll see.

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Wer mehr über #Lugano, #PlanB und #Tether wissen will: Letztes Jahr hat @toms in der @republik_magazin über die Eigenschaften der "Kryptowährung" #LVGA, die inzwischen dementierten Beziehungen von Lugano zu Bitcoin-Maximalisten (aber in Pressefotos dokumentiert) und die Verflechtungen nach El Salvador und Russland berichtet.

Lesenswert!
@woz
republik.ch/2024/01/16/luganos

Republik · Obskure Bitcoin-Connections in LuganoBy Thomas Schwendener

Lugano. Der Name erweckt Gedanken an sonnige, elegante Entspannung im Süden.

Doch Lugano hat auch eine Vergangenheit als Geldwäscheparadies. Früher™.

Heute ist Lugano seriös geworden. Und dochnlässt sie sich vom umstrittenen Stablecoin Tether aushalten und gibt ihm im Gegenzug Legitimität. Und gibt dem Tether-Chef auch eine Heimat. In dieser Heimat auch sein rein «privates» Büro …

Die @woz blickt hinter die Kulissen der Luganeser Piazza.
#Tether #Lugano #PlanB
woz.ch/2516/lugano-und-der-pla

Illustration: die Sonne spiegelt sich im Tessin im See als Krypto-Münze
www.woz.ch · Lugano und der «Plan B»: Geld für Gelati, Terror und DrogenLugano will Kryptohauptstadt Europas werden und setzt dabei auf eine Firma, deren digitale Währung weltweit zur Geldwäsche genutzt wird.

Legendarily shady crypto bro Brock Pierce, the co-founder of #Tether w/deep ties to Steve Bannon, the #Netanyahu family, and one of America's most infamous pedophile rings (DEN), is currently in #Romania meeting with that country's future president Victor Ponta to spread the gospel of crypto.

Ponta himself has apparently long been dogged by an aura of corruption and underworld connections, which would be appropriate for someone taking meetings with Brock Pierce.

More recently there's been suggestions Brock Pierce is a player in #Qatargate. If you're unfamiliar with the man's sordid backstory I covered most of it here: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/eri

Reminder that a contingent of America's finest MAGA conspiracy theorists flew to El Salvador to celebrate Nayib Bukele's victory over his country's constitutional term limits in June of 2024.

* Donald Trump, Jr.
* Tucker Carlson
* Matt Gaetz (R-Florida)
* Mike Lee (R-Utah)

This was the moment people like me who were aware of the Bukele regime's crypto corruption started getting worried about American Republicans' newfound admiration of Salvadoran #fascism.
xcancel.com/mattgaetz/status/1

more on bukele's crypto connections to the trump administration: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/we-

I’ve been talking about the connections between the #Netanyahu family and some of the sketchiest characters in the crypto industry (esp. #Tether co-founder #BrockPierce) for years so I was glad to see #UdiLevy, the former head of #Mossad's economic unit #Tzalsel, starting to ask the same questions of #Qatargate.

Among other things Netanyahu's niece is a part owner of #Bancor, a defi lending platform that imploded in 2022 in hilarious fashion.

Re: #AryehDeri, the man who triggered the mass protests in Israel in 2023, Deri was seen at the groundbreaking for #BrixSoftware, major vendor for #CrossRiverBank, the single largest purveyor of covid relief fraud in the US. CRB received massive investment from #MarcAndreessen's #a16z, both before and after a massive “investment” from a Malaysian police chief who somehow had hundreds of millions of dollars to invest after he “investigated” the #1MDB fraud.

more: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/eri

#Qatar#uspol#israel

Apparently the #Houthis have been using #Tether's USDT stablecoin to do [whatever], because #OFAC just placed sanctions on a bunch of USDT wallets on #JustinSun's #Tron blockchain that they claim are connected to the Houthis.

Reminder that Justin Sun is Donald Trump's business partner in #WorldLibertyFinancial and #HowardLutnick manages Tether's money, so now you have a situation where Trump & co. are profiting from the same people they are bombing.

#crypto#uspol#eupol

sometimes when you're ESL you don't understand the subtle negative connotations of being called a "barker" and instead choose to understand it as a "navigator"

(ICYMI #JustinSun is an "advisor" to Trump's 2nd crypto scam #WorldLibertyFinancial, as well as a major player in #Tether and a million other frauds)

(also the "Forbes cover as indicator of financial crime" pipeline remains undefeated)

Trump Media (AKA "#TruthSocial") signs agreement to partner with #CryptoDotCom and launch ETFs.

(note that i'm having a bit of trouble confirming this, though I don't doubt it at all.)

I'm reminded of a tweet by #Tether CEO #PaoloArdoino a few years ago attacking #CryptoCom as being out of money and about to collapse, but either way CDC used to be and probably still is part of the Tether cartel with #JustinSun etc.

More on Crypto.com's financial woes a few years ago: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cry

Trump's #WorldLibertyFinancial has apparently deployed a new stablecoin (#USD1) on the #Binance blockchain (BNB Chain).

World Liberty Financial is a partnership between the Trump family, chinese crypto billionaire and #Tether bro #JustinSun, and Steve Witkoff's family (Witkoff is the guy who is currently Trump's negotiator with #Putin and #Netanyahu).

The upcoming STABLE and GENIUS acts currently working their way through congress are designed to allow people to print their own stablecoins.
bscscan.com/token/0x8d0d000ee4

p.s. i predicted last year that everyone was going to launch a stablecoin and, well, here we are.

lawsuit filed by #CelsiusNetwork creditors against scamalytics firm - sorry i mean "blockchain analytics company" - #Chainalysis for aiding and abetting the Celsius Network fraud.

Chainalysis is the company that the government hires to track down crypto fraud but they are hopelessly compromised / in cahoots with firms like #Tether.

* complaint: cases.stretto.com/public/x191/
* long thread by me about Chainalysis's dodgy numbers: threadreaderapp.com/thread/182

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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: El Salvador's Gulag Cryptopelago (new, spicier title)

#ElSalvador's in the news a lot right now because the Trump administration shipped a few hundred people off to that country's incredibly dangerous new mega prison, #CECOT.

What seems to have gone unnoticed in all the reporting, however, is Salvadoran dictator #NayibBukele's outsized role in the world of cryptocurrency and through that his direct connections to the Trump administration via Commerce Secretary #HowardLutnick and #Tether.

Retoots appreciated.

cryptadamus.substack.com/p/we-

Realized I had forgotten my favorite #Bukele / #Tether factoid when I published my piece on #ElSalvador yesterday, so I added a short bit about the time Tether claimed to have launched a bitcoin mining operation in El Salvador and as proof posted obviously photoshopped images of shipping containers with the Tether logo on them.

Foreign journalists who attempted to actually see the mining rigs were forcibly removed from the area having never seen an actual computer.

You'd think a country America whose mega prisons Trump is now sending venezuelans (and soon other groups) to die in without due process would at least have a better photoshop team.

cryptadamus.substack.com/p/we-

According to a report from Dune Analytics #stablecoin activity "on chain" is now more than double that of Visa... and yet it's almost entirely #moneylaundering and speculating on things like FartCoin.

#Tether volume on #JustinSun's blockchain #Tron accounts for almost half of the entire total... and that's pretty much just all money laundering and crime. Recall that Tether's reserves are managed by American Commerce Secretary #HowardLutnick and he owns a stake in the company.

* Report: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/d