Trusted Fintech Venture Capital Firm Launching to Bridge the Gap Between Traditional and Cryptocurrency InvestingConsistency. Profit. Stability. Efficiency. Trust. These are the words that investors have been patiently waiting to hear in the cryptocurrency world for years.The current rise in investment capital into the world of cryptocurrency in conjunction with the uncertainty in the regulatory sphere and price fluctuation has been keeping traditional individual and institutional investors off of the blockchain train for too long. Lack of security, investment diversification and clarity in direction makes most crypto-based investments a crap shoot at best, and risky to boot. However, when a new sheriff comes into the growing wild west of a new technology offering to bridge the gap of choosing either traditional or crypto investing using smart-contracts on the Ethereum blockchain with regulatory worry and risk mitigated, things start to become more credible to the investing community. A synergy is created rather than a battle.Blackmoon Financial Group (https://blackmoonfg.com/), an existing Fin-tech and investment management company since 2014 is bringing their expertise of traditional investments, legal compliance and blockchain efficiency to launch the Blackmoon Crypto Platform. Already operating in nine countries and six currencies around the world, Blackmoon will integrate their existing investment acumen to the blockchain, implementing smart-contract execution to allow investors to easily and securely participate in both crypto currency and traditional investment vehicles all in a one stop shop.Blackmoon's launch into the cryptospace will be led by an experienced financial, legal and technical team headed by Blackmoon Financial founder and Fin-tech Investment Entrepreneur Oleg Seydak and angel investor and former CCO of VK.com, Ilya Perekopsky. Mr. Seydak was a visionary who co-founded Flint Capital, his venture capital firm whose foresight brought about timely investments in LendingClub and Prosper Marketplace ahead of their launch into the United States as well as alternative lending companies throughout Europe. Combining this with Mr. Perekopsky's experience at the Facebook of Russia (vk.com) led to the foundation that created Blackmoon Financial Group. The addition of Chief Cryptocurrency Officer Alexander Rugarev of SONM and Chronobank and CTO Ilya Remizov of Nanosemantics, and you begin to get the picture.Blackmoon Coin- A Token With a Value Proposition for Investors and UsersThe launch of the Blackmoon Crypto Platform will be a token-driven ownership investment, where both the crypto investor and the fiat investor work together. The creation of Blackmoon Coin will be the ownership portion of the company, while fiat investors and end-users experience the benefits of blockchain and smart-contract efficiency.As an investor in the tokenized Blackmoon Coin (BMC), the token holder will be able to generate an alternative source of passive income from fiat participants while experiencing market capitalization in a risk-mitigated sphere. Some specific benefits to the crypto investor include but are not limited to:• The ability to diversify into traditional investments and take advantage of parity between fiat and cryptocurrency value; • Hold their funds in a lower risk “safe-haven” to balance out risk within their portfolios; • Invest in longer term, stable investments without the hype and fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) driven cryptocurrency valuations. • Passive income generated by holding BMC tokens in a wallet, where income on transactions and management fees are earned on performance of the platform.Fiat investors on the platform through its use will witness a greater returns as well as greater diversification. More specifically, dollar-based investors will win by:• Receiving a higher net return (The cost efficient structure of the tokenized funds will drive down overhead, such as processing fees, excess management commissions, etc.) of the invested assets which loaded mutual funds currently don't offer; • Access to new classes of assets as new funds are built and administered on the Blackmoon Crypto Platform as existing options, as well as modified assets tailor made by the end user to properly assign risk classes. • The ability to trade and move assets anonymously while having the individual transparency of the blockchain (Know Your Customer compliance only applies to funds entering and exiting the funds, not interportfolio movement)While there are plenty of fantastic cryptocurrencies that exist out there that will take your money to invest in their funds, BMC separates itself from the rest with its unique characteristic of ownership, passive income, diversification and end-user capacity. A short summary of other investment cryptocurrencies in the space is as follows:Iconomi (ICN): Iconomi has the same fantastic investment platform which attracts investors that has made the space grow, their limit is in the asset class (only digital assets) and has no ownership rights to profits of success of the platform.Melonport (MLN): While Melonport has a great idea of developing a token for entry by the end-user of the product, the ownership capacity and ability to profit off of the income from Melonport's success only exists in the market capitalization space. (Also, only digital assets).TaaS (TAAS): Their tokenized closed-end fund is built on a profit-sharing smart contract, and allows investors to subscribe to the fund's income stream. But once again, this platform only allows digital assets.Blockchain Capital (BCAP): This Company was one of the first blockchain venture management companies, but their token is only a way to partake in their existing portfolio investment. Although the investment is a tokenized investment in traditional venture capital, they are sector specific and don't allow the customer to craft their own portfolio, nor own a portion of the company for passive income.I do really like the above listed cryptocurrencies and don't advise against any of them. I just am aware that the combination of passive income, ownership and investment outside of the cryptospace while using tokens in the cryptosphere to do so is not what these companies are offering. Blackmoon coin is a different concept and a true diversification and value proposition than any of its competition.So how do you partake in the early stages of this venture? Blackmoon Coin pre-launched it's Initial Coin Offering (ICO) at a discount, allowing early adopters to be a part of this merger of investment diversification.The token's ICO will last for a few more days days and be released to the public on September 12th. As a sign of security and confidence, BMC will maintain 30% of proceeds from the ICO for a guaranteed buyback of BMC tokens at 80% of the ICO price nominated in ETH. The reserve will be stored in a form of differentiated portfolio of major cryptocurrencies to mitigate volatility.Their Pre-ICO launched at a discount price as of yesterday, and using the following Ambassador link, you will receive an additional bonus:Sounds like a pretty good coin, will check this out, thank you for sharing!!Not a problem. Took a long time writing and researching this one.Thanks for the awesome content 🤗 Worth checking outI apologize for coming across this late. I wish I had time to do more than a weekly post but resteemed and will feature your content in tomorrows Crypto-Trail post :)I learned about Blackmoon pretty late but it seems like a really solid investment. Great review!Nice blog. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It's facinating how people invest 10's of millions of dollars in "just an idea". Personally I always use: https://www.coincheckup.com The site is my go to place for crypto investment analaysis and indepth coin research.

At approximately 1 a.m. ET on Jan. 30, somewhere outside New York City, a CoinDesk reporter came across what could be crypto’s next craze. Or perhaps its latest trial. While searching the annals of Clubhouse, the increasingly popular audio-only app, I stumbled across a dark conspiracy: A group of men masquerading as lizards talking about a new cryptocurrency. 

A lounge of men masquerading as lizards had gathered as tokens teleported from an originating contract into their digital wallets. And here, basking in the light of public display, they discussed how to get the word out. A full-on, unfettered conversation.

“Are we on 4chan yet?” one asked, mentioning the pseudo-anonymous messaging board known as a font of memes and anti-social messages. They weren’t, but things apparently had gone awry anyway.

That’s not the type of commentary one would imagine coming from, say, Satoshi Nakamoto when unveiling Bitcoin to the world. But it’s the pinnacle of social performativity that has found a home on Clubhouse. 

Clubhouse is a social media platform open to anyone with an invite and an iPhone. It has become the place to be for tech moguls and, more and more, crypto tastemakers looking to chat. Elon Musk pops in from time to time to talk about bitcoin and dogecoin, while other crypto luminaries including Meltem Demirors, Caitlin Long and Neeraj Agrawal appear more regularly. 

Like any social media platform, Clubhouse is what you make of it. There’s room enough for genuine discussion alongside scammers and multi-level marketing schemes. Some see it as the next vector for crypto adoption, which could be true; others as a way to replace some of the socialization missing during the pandemic age. It can get pretty weird, pretty quick. 

None know this better than Arya Bahmanyar, better known by his alias CoinDaddy, and his coterie of technologists and artists building “Lizard ETH.” Though Bahmanyar would reject being called a Lizard “leader” – there are no “devs,” he said – he was the figure to answer for the group, when a reporter came sniffing around. 

In a message he pinned to the group’s public Telegram channel, Bahmanyar said Lizard is a “meme art project” and a “statement on the absurdity of DeFi and the current state of Ethereum.” It has no prescribed value or use, and anyone can claim LZRD for free (except for Ethereum gas fees). (To be sure, Bahmanyar is not the leader of the group nor the token’s creator.)

Its main utility, in fact, seems to be as an icon around which a group of like-minded friends can talk and s**tpost. “It is a project of friendship,” Vincent Terracciano, a member of the LZRD Telegram channel, told CoinDesk repeatedly. 

In crypto’s decade-long run, the distinction between memes and this novel form of money has become difficult to parse. In 2013, people made sense of bitcoin by calling it “magic internet money.” In 2017, lambos were a shared desire of the nouveau riche. This summer saw the rise of yield farms, where “DeFi degens” would plow ETH into Yams, Sushi and Pickles. 

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CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey went as far as saying money itself has always been a meme. So it makes sense to talk about the “internet’s native money” in terms of a language born on the web. Further, one could expect that anywhere a meme could thrive, crypto would too. 

Like all good and decent technologies, Clubhouse is flattening hierarchies among users and providing a space for anyone to be heard – literally. That may sound odd to say about a company that has thrived on hype around its exclusivity – you have to be invited to the club, for now – but the app’s appeal is more than just FOMO or bragging rights.

“It’s not just a phone call,” Steven McKie, a founding partner at the crypto-focused venture firm Amentum Capital, said over Zoom. “Anyone can randomly pop in and out, so everyone maintains this modicum of professionalism by default. It really does feel like a good episode of [National Public Radio] sometimes.” 

Others have compared the experience to tuning into a podcast, going to a conference or hanging out at a coffee house. This clubby vibe, bordering on yuppie professionalism, hasn’t been lost as the app grows. December’s 600,000 users has surged to six million. Andreessen Horowitz, which invested $10 million in May, reinvested in January at a $1 billion valuation. 

“Everybody loves podcasts in the crypto space. What better than an ephemeral podcast where you just had to be there,” McKie said. “Especially during COVID this past year, we’ve just been glued to our phones, reading things on Twitter, Slack and Telegram. It’s just exhausting.” To the extent that Clubhouse offers something new, it’s by making it easier to engage empathetically with other people, McKie said. 

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Apart from semi-private lizard lounges, this reporter has tuned in for guitar jams and listened to lawyers debating Twitter bans, all in service of the job. There’s always at least five channels dedicated to self-help and often at least one meta-room focused on Clubhouse moderation and etiquette. 

And crypto-specific rooms? There’s investment advice for newbies. Chats about the granularities of bitcoin’s source code. CoinDesk has been experimenting with running rooms focused on news events. Both the number of crypto groups and their relative size are growing along with Clubhouse and CoinMarketCap’s worth. 

A club called “Bitcoin” had just over 12,000 followers on Jan. 15. Less than a month later it’s approaching 20,000. While that particular group, which hosts the Weekly Bitcoin Meetup, is led by the closest thing crypto has to public figures – including Brekkie von Bitcoin, Dan Held, Marty Bent, Amanda Fab, Nic Carter, among others – that’s not the case across the board. 

Many of the most prominent voices on Crypto Clubhouse are relative unknowns on the “it’s always Blockchain Week somewhere” conference circuit. Few have Twitter clout.

“I’ve been educating people on bitcoin since 2013. There’s been nothing like Clubhouse so far,” Lamar Wilson, a crypto startup founder and influencer, told CoinDesk in a video interview.

Wilson is far from unknown among early bitcoin adopters, though he isn’t a name often in the news. He founded Pheeva wallet, an early backdoor to get bitcoin wallets on iPhones (before that portal was slammed shut) and runs the Koinda Facebook group, which boasts about 25,000 followers. 

He also runs the Black Bitcoin Billionaires group on Clubhouse, which has grown past 17,000 followers in under two months. The group holds themed discussions on a daily and weekly basis, frequently moderated by Najah Roberts, chief visionary officer of an over-the-counter desk called Crypto Blockchain Plug. They both put in at least four hours a day running rooms or popping into others. 

Crypto Virgin Hours is probably the best-known chat room. It attracts approximately 200 participants every afternoon, offering a chance for the interested but unanointed to ask basic questions about wallets and coins. 

“Our mission is to onboard the world onto bitcoin,” Wilson said. “People always ask if I have to be Black to be in the group. No – It’s called that just to say it’s run by Black people, but everyone is welcome.” To that end, Black Bitcoin Billionaires partnered with Cash App to get one million satoshis in Black hands during February.

Wilson considers bitcoin to be a tool for Black people to accumulate wealth to pass to the next generation. “Bitcoin is a great equalizer. It’s an asset anyone can have access to without worrying that anyone can take it from you,” he said.

“Clubhouse is the first big social media application that Black people have been an early majority on,” Wilson said. “In every room that you’re in, it’s at least 50% Black. I think it’s because this is what we do as Black people. We go to barber shops, we go to beauty salons and talk. It fits the African American culture.”

On a day I tuned in, Roberts was fielding a lot of questions about dogecoin, generally steering people away from the meme currency. “It has no purpose, it’s a parody coin. I can’t explain it,” she said, with a laugh. “I have some for fun. But I don’t even know what exchange mine is on. I’ve had it since 2017.”

Although she called it a “pump and dump,” Roberts didn’t put investors off, telling them, “If you made money, be comfortable with your profits.”

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While it’d be a mistake to say Clubhouse is a haven of sound investment advice, it seems less scammy than the bowels of Telegram or Discord. In part, that’s from the efforts of people like Roberts, Wilson and others including Cory Klippsten, founder of SwanBitcoin.  

If you spend any amount of time on the crypto side of Clubhouse, you’re bound to bump into a couple of people with “SwanBitcoin” in their usernames, the name of the bitcoin startup for which they work. They’re not there to shill their app necessarily, but usually trying to educate users on the good word of bitcoin.  

Klippsten joined the app in December and immediately got to work bringing others like him aboard. First he brought his colleagues, then his friends, before ultimately spinning up a Telegram chat to “hack” a way to share invites. (Clubhouse gives out invites to each new person who joins, and additional invites for those most active on the app.) He estimates this scheme brought in more than 1,000 bitcoin proselytizers. 

“Now, basically two-thirds of Bitcoin Twitter is on there,” he told me over Zoom. “The purpose is to make sure, if the word ‘bitcoin’ is used, there’s a bitcoiner there in the conversation to explain reality.” This isn’t to say Klippsten is a “toxic maximalist,” an epithet used to describe people who still think of Ethereum as an alt-coin project. 

“That’s what’s great about Clubhouse, you’re talking to real humans. It’s not the same as 280 characters on Twitter, where you fire something off and you’re done,” he said. He recalled one room where someone started “going off” on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, which was quickly moderated. 

“Even if you disagree with some things he’s done – I disagree with some things Cash App has done – that’s inappropriate when you’re doing it on audio,” he said.

That said, the self-moderation of Clubhouse can only go so far. Like other social platforms, there have been numerous reports of misogynist, racism, anti-Semitism and outright bullying. Clubhouse’s founders, who declined to be interviewed, has largely been silent on such issues so far.

“You know, the system isn’t perfect, but it’s a beta platform that’s growing. I do think that there are way more pockets of positivity than negativity,” Bomani X, a pseudonymous artist and former face of the app, told CoinDesk. 

Bomani said one of the biggest draws has been the connections he made in the crypto community. He works as a digital strategist for musicians such as Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne, and chatting on Clubhouse has gotten him to think about how crypto could expand artists’ rights over their own music. 

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Nothing is in the works right now, but he’s thinking about how blockchain can refigure broken payment models for artists and create new opportunities for fan engagement. “I definitely would love to see what the music-crypto space has to offer, especially as a creator myself,” Bomani said. 

Meanwhile, Ayra Bahmanyar said Lizard “is a completely neutral canvas everyone who feels they want to can paint on.” 

That’s true for Clubhouse, too.

UPDATE (2/20/21, 16:00): Clarifies Arya Bahmanyar’s role in Lizard ETH. Replaces Bahmanyar’s photo. Bahmanyar contacted CoinDesk post-publishing to emphasize that the LZRD tokens have no utility and are no longer claimable. They were created as “social commentary on the absurdity of Clubhouse’s rampant Bitcoin Maximalism,” he said.

Key facts:

During the holiday, the Chinese sell their bitcoins to have cash and to travel.

Analysts believe that the market disruption for the Chinese New Year is a “fabricated attribution.”

Major social, economic or political events in the world are factors that often influence the variation in the price of bitcoin. Hence, it is considered a volatile asset. The celebration of the Chinese New Year is one of those events of the year, which is believed to affect the price of the cryptocurrency.

The beginning of the event coincides with the phenomenon of the new moon that occurs between the months of January and February because the Chinese calendar corresponds to the lunar cycles.

This 2021 the celebration happens from February 12 to 15. For Chinese culture, it is a very popular event, characterized by being the time when millions of Chinese go on vacation and travel to meet family and friends. In fact, this mobilization is considered the largest annual migration of the planet or chunyun (spring transport, in Chinese).

Another of the customs that the Chinese have, in a time that resembles Christmas for Western culture, is to give money in red envelopes as a symbol of prosperity and good luck.

On the influence of this event on the price of bitcoin, the vice president of cryptocurrency wallet Cobo, Alex Zuo, explained that Chinese merchants “tend to withdraw their crypto assets and collect cash during this period. It’s akin to the way people in America profit from stocks before Christmas. “

Likewise, users of the Bitcoin Talk forum discussed the issue in 2018 and related it to cryptocurrency mining. They indicated that the end of the Chinese year would have “a small impact on the price”, as the miners sell assets like bitcoin.

Another aspect that has possibly influenced the market is that, being a moment of celebration in China, the miners also decide to make a stop in their activities, so that the Chinese over-the-counter (OTC, for its acronym in English) ) also close. This generates volatility in the price of cryptocurrencies, according to the Boxmining medium.

According to the bitcoin mining map, designed by the alternative financial center of Cambridge, the Asian giant remains the first place, with 61% of the average monthly hash rate (processing capacity) in bitcoin mining.

However, this is something that may change in the coming years, if miners migrate to countries like Russia, the United States or Iran. This is due to tougher regulations from the Chinese government, increased inspections by authorities, and lower production capacity by equipment manufacturers, which puts pressure on miners.

By making a detailed review of the market movements during the days leading up to the Chinese New Year of the year 2017, it can be identified that, by January 3 of that year, BTC exceeded the all-time high (ATH) that it had at that time, when it exceeded USD 1,000. Then during the Chinese celebration on January 28, bitcoin fell to $ 914, which was an 80% drop.

In 2017 bitcoin reached the milestone of reaching the price of USD 1,000. Source: Coingecko.com

A similar situation arose in 2018. During the holiday, the value of bitcoin went from USD 9,741 to USD 5,947, a 61% drop in the price of the cryptocurrency.

The outlook for bitcoin did not change during 2018, although its value was at USD 9,000, it fell to USD 5,947 before the holiday. Source: Coingecko.com.

The year 2019 was no exception for what would be a “normal” behavior of bitcoin during the months of January or February, on the dates of the Chinese New Year. At that time, the price of bitcoin fell to $ 3,358 from a seasonal high of $ 3,646.

The value of bitcoin in 2019 during the Chinese celebration was more stable. Source: Coingecko.com

With one bitcoin above $ 9,000, the year 2020 arrived and on January 19, six days before the Chinese New Year, the price dropped to $ 8,610.

The scenario set for that year changed with the appearance of the coronavirus, which spread from China, where the outbreak began at the end of 2019, the holiday being interrupted by the quarantine in that country, so there was not the expected mobility. Then governments in various countries of the world confined their citizens and the cryptocurrency market did not escape the onslaught of the pandemic.

On March 12, bitcoin lost 40 percent of its value in 24 hours, leading to the so-called “Black Thursday.”

The coronavirus in 2020 caused months after the Chinese New Year the well-known “Black Thursday” when bitcoin lost 40% of its value in one day. Source: Coingecko.com.

This year the landscape has changed for bitcoin and for everyone who has invested in the cryptocurrency. Although the coronavirus continues to affect a large part of the world population, the boost given to it by institutional investors By entering the cryptocurrency market, you have increased the value of the currency exponentially.

A clear example of what these investors can do is the effect caused by the decision of billionaire Elon Musk, who through his company Tesla invested more than USD 1,500 million in BTC, taking the value of the cryptocurrency to a new all-time high of $ 48,000, a few days before the Chinese holiday.

During this year, bitcoin has broken its own mark in terms of its price, reaching USD 48,000. Source: Coingecko.com

As for the influence of the Chinese holiday that begins this February 12, there are analysts who assure there is no effect in this period of the year in the bitcoin market. Despite that approach, the price of bitcoin has risen significantly on the eve of the celebration.

Jake Wujastyk, TrendSpider’s chief market analyst, doesn’t think the market volatility can be attributed to the Chinese New Year. “It’s natural to be drawn to a fabricated attribution, but in this case, it’s just normal behavior after a great career,” the analyst told Chinese media.

For Wujastyk the reasons that influence the rise or fall of the price of bitcoin, are related to the printing of money by the Federal Reserve of the United States, as well as other central banks that have taken on the task of printing money and keeping interest rates low.

On the other hand, the CEO of GoCoinstream.com, Michael Vogel, considers that, although it is true that there has been a decrease in the price of bitcoin in recent years during the celebration of the Chinese New Year, the trend is conservative so it is may consider a natural market behavior.

Vogel argues that miners “have weathered bear markets in the past and it can be challenging to remain profitable, depending on the size and cost factors of the operation.”

The executive also says that the costs of electricity, mining equipment and other expenses that can be generated by maintaining such an infrastructure “must be paid for in some way.”

For China’s specialized bitcoin outlet, 8BTC the cryptocurrency market has reached a point of maturity, not being fully stimulated by China, despite the fact that it remains a leader in the cryptocurrency mining sector.

Widespread adoption of the valuable currency in other countries could balance the balance. As such, some analysts argue that the holiday’s influence will not be strong this year because institutional investors in the US and Europe have been the main drivers of the current bull run. That contrasts with the bull market of other years, strongly driven by retail investors in Asia.

They thus consider events such as the Chinese New Year it will not affect the prices of cryptocurrencies, especially the value of bitcoin.

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The American Cancer Society and The Giving Block have created a new research fund that accepts crypto donations. American Cancer Society Launches First-Ever Crypto Cancer Fund

In collaboration with crypto donations company The Giving Block, the American Cancer Society has set up the Cancer Crypto Fund, which seeks to raise at least $1 million by early 2021 to fund ongoing research initiatives.

Donations to fund cancer research plunged 50% in 2020, reaching the lowest this century, according to the American Cancer Society. The sharp drop-off was attributed to the economic impact of COVID-19.

According To The American Cancer Society:

“The crypto community’s contributions will help re-establish crucial research funding for new discoveries and better treatments to save the lives of family and friends.”

The first crypto donor to contribute $250,000 or more will have the chance to rename the fund, either in their name or that of a loved one. Donors who give $10,000 or more will appear on the fund’s wall of honor.

The fund accepts donations in Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Zcash (ZEC), Gemini Dollar (GUSD), Basic Attention Token (BAT) and Chainlink’s LINK.

“We want as many people to join us in our mission as possible,” said Jeff Klass, the American Cancer Society’s interim chief digital officer. “To do that, we need to ensure people can give to the fight against cancer when, where and how they choose.”

The Giving Block has spearheaded several initiatives to bridge the gap between charity and cryptocurrency. It teamed up with Cointelegraph on Dec. 18, 2020 to deliver the first-ever “Crypto’s Biggest Brain” virtual trivia contest, which brought together some of the biggest names in blockchain to support charitable causes focused on homelessness, childhood hunger, disaster relief, cancer and education, among others.

The fundraiser generated $175,000 in crypto donations. The biggest donation, sent anonymously, was 5.6 BTC, or roughly $186,000 in today’s value.

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Bitcoin remained the most popular cryptocurrency for the Tor Project’s donors in 2020, followed by altcoins like Ether, Monero and Zcash. Tor Project’s Crypto Donations Increased 23% In 2020

The cryptocurrency community has been doubling down on its support to privacy-centric applications like Tor Browser in 2020, according to new data.

The Tor Project, a non-profit organization behind the anonymous Tor Browser, saw a 23% increase in cryptocurrency donations in 2020. A spokesperson at the Tor Project told Cointelegraph that crypto-powered donations surged from $189,637 in 2019 to $233,019 in 2020.

According to a Jan. 25 announcement by the project, crypto donations made up nearly 26% of total individual donations, which amounted to $913,110. According to a Tor Project representative, Bitcoin (BTC) was the most popular cryptocurrency for their donors in 2020, followed by Ether (ETH) and privacy-focused altcoins like Monero (XMR):

“We have seen that Bitcoin remains the most popular cryptocurrency for our donors, followed by Ethereum and Monero — these two currencies are about evenly split for second most popular. Next most popular is Zcash.”

The Tor Project has emerged as a major Bitcoin-friendly nonprofit, having started accepting BTC donations back in 2013. In March 2019, the Tor Project expanded the number of supported cryptocurrencies for donations, adding eight altcoins including Ether, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC) Dash (DASH), Stellar Lumens (XLM) and others.

The project’s move to support more cryptocurrencies for donations was apparently widely appreciated in the crypto community as Bitcoin holders got an opportunity to keep their BTC and donate in other digital currencies instead. In September 2019, Matt Odell, a Bitcoin maximalist and co-host of the Tales from the Crypt podcast, urged the community to support the Tor Project with altcoins, not Bitcoin. “Donate shitcoins. stack sats,” Odell wrote in his XLM transaction to the Tor Project.

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin were becoming increasingly popular as a tool for donations in 2020. Dave Portnoy’s Barstool Fund — an initiative to support small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic — started accepting crypto donations through The Giving Block in late 2020.

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Experts say building custody solutions is tricky, but will become crucially important as crypto grows more valuable. Deutsche Bank To Offer Bitcoin Custody Services

As multiple banks prepare crypto custody services, holders now have to flip an old Bitcoin saying on its head: are the banks prepared to be their own (and others’) bank?

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Last week BNY Mellon, the oldest bank in the United States, announced they would be providing custody solutions, ceding to pressure from institutional investors.

Likewise, documents from December indicate that Deutsche Bank is also planning a custody solution, along with trading and token issuance services.

However, while both banks are well-established and have experience handling a wide range of assets, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re prepared for crypto custody.

“Digital assets are totally different than traditional assets like bonds, stocks, and treasury bills. Digital assets are decentralized by design and their ownership is therefore relying on a totally different model that cannot reuse the existing centralized infrastructure of the traditional banking world.

To custody crypto assets you need a brand new infrastructure in place,” said Jean-Michel Pailhon, the vice president of business solutions at Ledger in an interview with Cointelegraph.

Even for institutions that are crypto-native, custody is extremely complex. Just last year the crypto exchange KuCoin suffered from a hack that netted the attacker over $200 million. Having custody over large sums creates an attractive honeypot for would-be attackers, and according to experts not even many major crypto exchanges approach custody security properly.

“Only a few crypto exchanges like Kraken, Gemini and Binance are investing a lot of money to prove proper internal controls over their personal private keys management protocols,” Dyma Budorin, co-founder and CEO of Hacken told Cointelegraph last year.

If the big banks want to approach security right, they effectively have three options, said Pailhon.

“They can contract with an existing regulated custodian, they can build their own custody infrastructure and get it regulated, or they can buy a custody technology from a vendor and use it and get it regulated.”

Particularly if the banks opt to build their own solutions, the expenses and time can pile up quickly. The banks will have to hire dedicated developers, “allocating large investments for infrastructure” including data centers and servers, and run the regulatory gamut — a process that alone can take “6-12 months.”

“The level of efforts and investments required to provide an institution with an enterprise-ready self custody solution is substantially higher than for an individual. It requires slightly different technologies and governance processes to secure billions of dollars in digital assets,” he added.

Regardless of the route the banks take, Pailhon says that it’s a sign of crypto’s growing legitimacy that banks like BNY Mellon want to provide custody solutions. Additionally, as crypto’s total marketcap grows and the value of assets for institutions and even some individuals soars, secure custody solutions will become increasingly important.

“You can’t protect 5, 10, or 50 billion dollars in bitcoin with a garage-based server or an air-gapped computer located in a bunker in the Appalachian mountains. You have to put in place a fully redundant, resilient, secure, certifiable, and auditable custody infrastructure that can scale and empower millions of users and support hundreds of thousands of digital asset transactions in a month.

The future success and adoption of digital assets and of the digital asset management industry will depend on this.”

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Bitcoin momentum stalled at around $19,400 as it began to slip into dangerous territory before breaking its parabolic trend that began in the first week of October. However, historical precedent speaks volumes about bitcoin’s mini parabolic run-up, and what’s to come in 2021.

While hindsight bias could elaborate on what precipitated the sell off, bitcoin’s technical data has already begun to cool-off as level-heads begin to prevail once more. 

On Wednesday bitcoin closed in on $19,500, hitting as high as $19,474 before losing steam. The crypto continued to trend sideways in the following hours, finding brief support at $18,700 before finally finding a temporary bottom at $16,214.

Interestingly enough, the unwinding of leveraged trades came before the technical pullback, per data from Glassnode media. 

According to the above chart, futures funding rates saw a multi-month high over the weekend, reaching 0.098%. Every eight hours, a funding fee is paid to lenders from borrowers who leverage trade bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Typically, a sharp increase in positive funding rate suggests that the market is at risk of cooling-off due to over-leveraged aggressive traders.

However, given that the funding rate started to cool off well before the drop, it could be that the majority of traders were anticipating a pull-back scenario and acted accordingly. This opens up the possibility that other events might have caused the sell-off. Still the most likely scenario is that a domino effect ensued, with one event compounding sell-side pressure over another.

At the time of writing, the funding rate has fallen back to 0.011%, according to Glassnode data.

$800 million liquidated longs

All in all, long liquidations amounted to a massive $800 million, matching the amount of liquidations since the black Thursday sell off in March when bitcoin fell to $4,000. This was further exacerbated by the fact that no technical structure was built during the parabolic run-up, opening the door to a cascading effect of stop-loss triggers and forced liquidations.

Bitcoin parabola fails to reach $20,000

Bitcoin had been in a steady parabola with virtually no pullback for weeks on end, per the below 3-day chart. From a technical perspective, such an incredible run-up beggars belief, as this price-action is reminiscent of 2013 when bitcoin parabolas preceded thousand-percent increases in the following months.

While this pull-back scenario came as no surprise for various influencers and newsletter readers, a good number of crypto influencers expected the $20,000 psychological level to get taken out before a correction. 

However, CNBC’s Brian Kelly was not among this crowd. Indeed, CNBC finally managed to correctly project a bitcoin top, citing the fact that 2017 buyers would be looking to sell their holdings close to all-time highs if the opportunity presented itself. 

Back in 2018, CNBC’s ‘moon calls’ often represented bitcoin tops and were jokingly said to be great counter-trade signals. This does not seem to be the case in 2020.

Of course, any number of reasons could be argued for now that the sell-off took place. 

However, despite this turnaround, there’s reason to be optimistic. Indeed, while this sell-off has been bloody and may continue for a while longer, the path of least resistance for bitcoin remains to the upside.

After all, macro bullish factors aren’t going away overnight. On the contrary, they’re only expected to increase. 

Bitcoin’s long-term prospects exist in contrast to short term liquidity grabs, which are ultimately reconciled in the direction that provides the most of it.

This is not financial advice.

Author Credit: Christopher Attard, journalism and content specialist who covers bitcoin and crypto markets. 

Get in touch at contact@chrisoncrypto.com

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This week we noticed 55 contracts marking the primary day of Bitcoin choices on CME, ETF large WisdomTree planing to release a stablecoin, and 21 main crypto business avid gamers that’ll advise OECD on blockchain. We appeared right into a document concerning the most powerful validation of the BTC protected haven concept, and some other one announcing that if BTC and primary altocins do not get started a bull run, trade tokens might decline, but in addition into a possible Bitcoin SV pump & unload as Craig Wright opened the Pandora’s field. Whilst only a few exchanges subject for BTC discovery, Kraken took over Bit Business, Liquid cancelled Gram presale, and corrupt OTC agents despatched grimy USD 1.5bn in BTC to Binance and Huobi. Talking of Binance, it is eyeing the Jap marketplace with a Yahoo Japan and TaoTao partnership.

Bithumb’s greatest shareholder pulled out of a big lawsuit. In the meantime, Polish festival watchdog referred to as DasCoin a ponzi scheme, South Korea’s court docket will rule at the legality of the rustic’s partial crypto crackdown, the Communist Birthday celebration of China licensed a crypto and blockchain guide designed for its prime score executive body of workers, Japan may just settle for regulatory proposals that will see leveraged buying and selling caps slashed by means of 50% on the nation’s crypto exchanges, and the UN informed the Cryptoverse to not go back and forth to the North Korean convention. We noticed that new institutional traders helped Grayscale Investments elevate over USD 600 million in 2019. We appeared into Ethereum 2.0, and as pre-Bitcoin halving race driven mining issue to report prime, we mentioned if BTC halving trend will repeat this yr. After all, take a look at those do’s and don’ts of staking and this VC ‘playbook’ for cryptocurrency startup luck.

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First issues first.

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“I’m bullish on Bitcoin”

THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE

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Now not see you later in the past, you would be spanked for this.

— DonAlt (@CryptoDonAlt) January 14, 2020

Heavy baggage, mild frame.

— Panama Crypto (@Panama_TJ) January 14, 2020

And by means of cryptogod, there will likely be memes!

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Whilst some are observing this…

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— Luke Martin (@VentureCoinist) January 15, 2020

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Bitcoin, child!

Nouriel Roubini is right about BTC, Tether and the criminal cartels that pump the prices of BTC while laundering out real fiat profits through their exchange partners. While tax evasion and general financial malfeasance is problematic enough, one has to wonder what else is occurring with the laundered funds, as it is well known that Bitcoin has a sordid history of being utilized in gray and black market business—like The Silk Road, which has links to Bitcoin.com and supported by Roger Ver. Despite the romantic, libertarian view of Bitcoin subverting the oppression of the centralized fiat economy, in reality, they were engaging in drug smuggling, assassination markets and human trafficking. To be fair, some interesting civil disobedience was occurring as well, but the immorality of their deeds far outstripped any political footing that could have been established in the early era of Bitcoin. 

But, while some of Bitcoin’s ideology of civil disobedience and the hope of building a shining new economy upon the distributed ledger was exciting for a time, the Bitcoin Civil War side-tracked the project heavily. Once Dread Pirate Roberts and The Silk Road was closed down, nastier websites emerged, and so too did some of the shadiest venture capitalists in the world—necessitating the split of the Bitcoin protocol away from the BTC economy in 2017. But that requires some context.

What is Bitcoin actually for? 

The Bitcoin protocol is a rule set that enables the creation of a secure, public data distribution network that allows frictionless payments across an open ledger. It secures that data across multiple cooperating systems so that the integrity of valuable data is maintained even amid attack, while also enabling millions of economic interactions to occur between consenting parties. 

Bitcoin data is money in the sense that any commodity can be money, but the thing that gives the network itself value is the ability to secure and properly price any and all data in real time. That also includes valuable data included in the ledger itself—such as video content, audio or anything else of value that can be saved and served back to the world in perpetuity—a digital Library of Alexandria. That data can also include provably scarce tokenized gold, stocks, bonds and an infinite array of financial vehicles as well as an unlimited deployment of tokenized fiat currency that eliminates the global need for ACH, Swift, MoneyGram and Western Union—as long as it scales, anyways. 

In short, Bitcoin is data money. Hence the name: bit=data coin=money. 

The Bitcoin Civil War, Abridged 

Unfortunately, in the era spanning 2014-2016, venture capitalists created media entities such as CoinDesk and Cointelegraph, development groups such as Blockstream and MIT Digital Currency Initiative, exchanges like Coinbase and Bitfinex, and they hired professional social engineers like Gregory Maxwell and Samson Mow to subvert the narrative of Bitcoin across Twitter, Reddit, BitcoinTalk and other channels of discussion about bitcoin’s roadmap and capabilities. 

These are Blockstream’s Venture Investors: a group of strategic partners shared by most of the major players in the BTC economy. Most of the pictured firms share advisors and board members, making the case for a well-connected racket masquerading as independent firms. Let’s highlight two stand-outs: 

In the 2014-2016 era, these VC-backed usurpers of Bitcoin were able to gut the protocol—turning off most of its capabilities and painting the rhetoric that Bitcoin was merely digital gold, not meant to scale, not meant for the average person to transact upon, and making it impossible to utilize any form of tokenized data as a form of value. They replaced Bitcoin’s economically useful features with a Ponzi scheme-based investment thesis, and replaced professional economists with investment influencers and social media glitz. Rather than building businesses or assisting the economy in moving value on chain, they created the “HODL” meme and deployed a wall-to-wall narrative of “buy Bitcoin” in order to absorb the wealth of unsophisticated investors for the sake of their ever-growing need for settlement liquidity. 

They also built out infrastructure between their connected entities to take transactions off the BTC network and connect them through their privately controlled networks to throttle the flow of BTC to stay within rails that make them money without ceding their power or requiring actual liquidity for movement.

The need for artificial settlement liquidity would be solved by the creation of “Tether” in the same era, and by the same group of financially connected scammers.

Tether: US dollars, but worse

Due to the massive subterfuge campaign, real Bitcoiners left the BTC project to the cabal of well-funded, well-connected criminal cartels who run it today. Bitcoin’s unbounded protocol is set in stone on the Bitcoin SV (Satoshi’s Vision) network, where it can be built upon by real businesses who require reduced global payment friction or increased global data integrity. Bitcoin SV users do not have to worry about petty squabbles or technocratic take-overs any longer. 

But in the absence of Bitcoiners creating an honest and open economy on BTC, iFinex Corporation (parent company to Bitfinex, Tether and all of their subsidiaries) colluded with their partners to conjure up limitless liquidity out of thin air. While BTC advocates criticize the money-printers of the Federal Reserve out of one side of their mouth, they insulate Tether (USDT) from criticism, and defend it violently out of the other! 

Tether has been under investigation for over five years due to their inability to secure banking partners, registered custodians or submit to third party audit. As such, rumors of their fractional reserve holdings made their way to various offices of financial regulation enforcement, and ultimately to the New York Attorney General’s Office. Under pressure in 2019, Tether was forced to admit that the USDT coin is only backed 74% by cash “and short term securities,” calling into question the reserves from which any of BTC’s liquidity and price action is derived. 

In 2020, the supply of Tether has gone up over 400% and the rate of inflation of the supply of Tether is increasing. Just last week, Tether added nearly a billion dollars to the circulating supply amid increasing pressure from the NYAG’s office to come clean about the nature of their reserves especially since both retail and institutional investors have fiat rails on which to buy BTC if they choose. Why spend USD to buy USDT to buy BTC, if you could simply buy BTC directly from USD with registered custodians, OTC desks or directly from mining pools?

Well, research has shown that Tether isn’t being used to make purchases at all, but rather Tether exists specifically for wash trading on and between VC-owned exchanges to stabilize and pump the price of BTC artificially in order to cash out real fiat currency from the private ledgers of those exchanges by connected insiders. Around 95% of BTC trading volume is faked, according to the Wall Street Journal, which begs the question: how much of BTC’s price is truly stored value at all? 

Where is Roubini mistaken? 

His criticisms of BTC are valid, but BTC’s weak points are a product of it no longer being bitcoin. 

BTC is a project that was overtaken by a shadowy group of wealthy criminals who control the narrative. It has been hamstrung to only work within their for-profit silos, a significant portion of the influencers have ties to sex crimes, and the price and liquidity comes almost entirely from market manipulation. 

Fortunately, in all the ways that BTC is a bad form of digital money, Bitcoin SV is superlative: 

In short, Bitcoin SV is a sound money system deployed as a frictionless, electronic cash, connected to a global public ledger and powered by a world-class super computer network. 

We commend Nouriel Roubini for his criticisms of the technical and cultural problems with the BTC network, and we invite him to take another look at the bitcoin protocol that has been restored on Bitcoin SV. We believe it to be superlative in all of the ways which BTC has failed, and we believe it is the single best network in the history of the world for monetizing and serving and spending valuable data.

New to Bitcoin? Check out CoinGeek’s Bitcoin for Beginners section, the ultimate resource guide to learn more about Bitcoin—as originally envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto—and blockchain.

In my , I explained why I think Bitcoin censorship is coming without majority of miners being forced to censor transactions. I am pleased with the discussions it brought and I would like to clarify some points. Before you choose to discuss, please read the original article and this article. I know it is long, but in order to have meaningful conversation, we should be on the same page. This article is not about >50% of miners could introduce a censoring soft-fork. It is about other, real world possibilities of introducing censorship and about the fact that it is almost impossible to fight it by changing consensus rules or “forking off the censored chain”. I assume that there is a 10% (example) minority that is forced by a regulator (i.e. government has guns pointed at them) to do these two things: We can also improve the attack by adding one more rule, but we will discuss both scenarios with and without this rule. This additional rule that seals the fate of uncensored bitcoin without majority hashrate being forced: I believe that by introducing this third rule, no sane miner would ever break the first two rules. But let’s look at the scenario with only the first two rules one more time. In addition to miners that are forced to censor, we have these other types of miners: I will show that most rational miners will enforce the censorship rule (without the exchanges). The second, completely different scenario I mentioned is this: First start with the scenario I mentioned. There is a transaction spending censored UTXO in the mempool and miners are building their blocks. Forced censor will just not include the transaction, end of story. So we know that 10% of hashpower will for sure not include the transaction and they will try to orphan any block that does include it in a block. There is not yet a competing mined block at this point. Here I claim that a rational miner will not include the transaction either in most cases – and that even without the third rule, if the third rule is in effect, no sane miner ever would include the transaction. The cost-benefit analysis without the third rule is this: The benefit is the difference of a price of a block+transaction reward of including censored transaction(s) and not including them. If there is one censored transaction paying a $505 fee and if the miner builds this block, he will not include a $5 transaction (because there is not enough block space), the benefit is $500 (please note that rational miner is most often a corporation and their accounting currency is fiat, not Bitcoin, although they might secondarily want some Bitcoin exposure). The cost of this operation is a possibility of losing a block reward including transaction fees. Let’s say that is 6.5 BTC or around $100,000. Of course, we need to account for a probability of losing this block reward. Some people claimed that the probability of losing this reward is 10% * 10% – the regulated miners would have to find a competing block, because they cannot build on top of a block with a tainted transaction and then only those miners would build on top of this block, because current miners will build upon a block that they found first. That might be true if there are only regulated, current consensus following miners (note that I am not including rebel cypherpunk miners). Let’s run the numbers in this case anyway. A $500 profit with a probability of 1% of losing the $100,000 reward is $500 – 0.1*0.1*100,000 = -500. So the transaction fee(s) of the censored transaction(s) would have to be $1,000 higher than standard market fees in order for the rational miner to break even. Now it’s all about their risk apetite – how much more would they need in order to make the risk worthwile? To illustrate the difference, let’s build on the previous scenario when there are two competing blocks – one censored and one non-censored. We introduce rational miners and rebel cypherpunk miners to the game: A rebel cypherpunk miner would follow the censored block. Why? It makes no difference in their effort which block they follow, if they are successful. At this point, finding a new block – built on either of the two blocks – wins. But there is a clear difference, the censored block has lower transaction fee reward and a rebel cypherpunk miner would want the transaction fee of the censored block for themselves, so it is more rational for them to build upon a chain that does not include this censored transaction. This way they are not censoring, they are upholding their cypherpunk values (the censored transaction would be in in case they are successful), and they would be making money on the censored transaction. A rational miner would also follow censored block. There are multiple reasons: But the point is – it makes no real difference to their bottom-line, building on either of those blocks gives them similar block reward. To repeat – miners chosing to build on top of either censored or non-censored block at the same height have zero income from the increased price of the transaction fee of a censored transaction. That’s the previous block’s miner’s reward. Let’s think about the decision to include or not include the transaction in the first place. We know that 10% will not follow a block with tainted transaction for sure. We can reasonably expect that some portion of miners are what I call rational miners that will build on top of whatever block has lower fees and less controversy (yes, they will need to change the software). At first, they will build on top of censored block, but if there are two blocks at the same block-height, they will switch to the censored branch. So will rebel cypherpunk miners, but for a different reason – they want the hefty fee for themselves, they have no reason to give it to the competition. So let’s run the negative side again: The cost of including a tainted transaction is a block is a possibility of losing a block reward including transaction fees. (Let’s say 6.5 BTC or around $100,000). What is the probability of losing this reward? 10% of hashpower will not build upon it and if they find a block, everyone except “current consensus miners” will follow the censored block. So right now (where everyone not censoring is “current consensus miner”), it is still 10% * 10%. As the number of rational miners and rebel cypherpunk miners increases by “upgrading” the mining software with understanding the blacklists and game theory, the percentage will be different. For example 10% * 50% * $100,000 = $5,000. Is it worth paying $1,000-5,000 for moving a censored UTXO? Depends on the value of the UTXO, but consider that at this point, everyone knows it is tainted. You will not just coinjoin it easily (the coinjoin would be expensive), you will defninitely not send it to an exchange. What would you gain if you move it anywhere? Well, you could swap it for untainted coins through lightning or Liquid or some other way – if they don’t verify taint. Liquid will for sure reject tainted transactions if this is the case and any Lightning routing node operator that does not do strict checking on UTXOs of incoming channels will go out of business. So it might be worthwile for now, but when this starts happening more often, the censored UTXO will be unusable. Introducing a soft-fork by economic nodes – OTC traders, exchanges (Kraken, Coinbase, …) and payment processors is even more likely. But that would need a coordinated action. Enforcing AML by punishing non-compliant miners, putting their block rewards on blacklist is very probable and would turn most miners into what I call rational miners – enforcing the censorship. Several people said in a discussion that countries cannot agree on much simpler things and they will not coordinate their effort on censorship of Bitcoin. Yes, it is true that countries cannot agree on coordinated effort on many things, but that does not apply to financial networks. There is a world-wide tax reporting standard that is applied everywhere, including Bitcoin exchanges called OECD Common Reporting Standard (CRS). Please note that while it has been developed by the OECD, it is applied in all countries that have any kind of access to international payment networks and thus international trade. One notable exception is USA, because they introduced reporting before OECD CRS was invented – called FATCA. And they just did not switch from one standard to another. For anti-money laundering, there is an organization called FATF-GAFI: “The Financial Action Task Force, also known by its French name, Groupe d’action financière, is an intergovernmental organisation founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7 to develop policies to combat money laundering. In 2001, its mandate was expanded to include terrorism financing.”(Source: Wikipedia) This organization is headquartered in the OECD building and their whole job is to create international regulations on money laundering. They created the crypto travel rule, by which exchanges have to tag and verify ultimate beneficiary owner of funds moving from one crypto exchange to another. There is not a single country that is actively opposing these regulations, in fact, they are endorsing it as an international standard. FATF-GAFI also creates a “watchlist” of non-cooperating jurisdictions. These jurisdictions are basically under economic sanctions – if a country is on a watchlist by FATF-GAFI, they have trouble accessing international markets and exporting their goods and services. There is not a single country in the world, who would “stand up for a freedom of miners”. If there is a crypto censorship regulation by FATF-GAFI and a miner in Georgia says “fuck them, I am a cypherpunk”, this happens: FATF-GAFI includes Georgia in a watch-list, because they could not combat money laundering. A farmer in Georgia cannot buy a tractor from Czech Republic, because their payment does not go through – a Czech bank sees a transaction from a country on a watchlist and makes it very difficult if not impossible for the tractor dealer to receive the payment. Farmers in Georgia go to their government and say “get us off this stupid watchlist, we need access to international markets”. Georgian government has thousands of angry farmers and one rebel mining company. Police with guns go to the miner’s datacenter and say “implement this FATF-GAFI censorship blacklist or turn off your machines, we need to get our country off this watchlist”. Please show me all the rebel exchanges connected to the fiat network that say “we don’t do KYC and we will definitely not implement the FATF-GAFI crypto travel rule”. Hint: There are none that would say this publicly. And even Bitmex and Deribit who are trading derivatives and are not connected to the fiat network introduced KYC. So I think that even though the scenario was talking about 10% of enforcing hashpower, I think it is coming to 90% of hashpower. Of course, there will be cypherpunk rebels, mining anonymously under their kitchen tables. But what if their rewards end-up on the blacklist? These rules are introduced slowly. Was there a backlash against FATF-GAFI crypto rule? Chain analysis by exchanges? Is any major economic actor saying “Bitcoin is fungible, I’ll hapilly take the tainted coins for the same price as non-tainted?”. These rules are already being introduced. One miner not mining censored transactions. Exchanges implementing travel rule, tagging beneficiary owners in chain analysis databases. This database is being built today. It lives outside of Bitcoin blockchain. Exchanges are connected to them and feeding them, because they have to. They did not wake up and say “let’s troll our customers with KYC, AML and source of funds forms”. If they want to be in business, they have to. Because there is no real opposition to FATF-GAFI rules and most countries and especially payment networks consider them golden standard of anti money laundering, I think this censorship, if introduced by FATF-GAFI after few “test runs” (travel rule, censoring miner, AML at exchanges) can be introduced without a single parliamentary vote in any country. Meaning it would be enforced outside of legislation, just by network effects. The rules are being adapted from FATF-GAFI into legislation. For example here’s a recent FinCEN proposal to introduce an even more strict version of travel rule for all transactions (including crypto transactions) over $250. I did not say that the AML regulations work against money laundering. I am saying that the standards are widely accepted around the world, but they are not effective against money laundering. Bank needs to show they are fighting money laundering, but they are still doing it anyway. Just search for money laundering, there are multi-hundreds-of-millions money laundering cases revealed every few months. But that does not mean that AML standards are not enforced, only that banks have a way around them. With the three-rule AML standard, if introduced, the problem is that miners are creating cryptographic proof of money laundering. Banks can say “ooops, we missed the 300 million dollar transaction from Belarus, we thought it was for gold mining equipment”. Please note, that this would not work if the source account number or company (or country) was on a blacklist. That would be effectively frozen even now. But a miner cannot say “ooops, I did not notice this transaction on a publicly available blacklist, it must have gone there by accident”. It is a public ledger. So how could a government or anyone else tell if a miner is enforcing the rules? I think miners can expect audit requirements in the near future. It can either be private companies (like what chain analysis companies do for exchanges) or public entities. I think private entities are more likely. It would work like this – mining businesses will need to be audited for AML and tax reasons. They will declare hashpower and submit their proof of work (including the content of the blocks) to a third party (private or public). This third party will verify that they do not aid money laundering (by properly censoring transactions and orphaning blocks) and that they properly declare all mined coins as income. For example by requiring all partial proof of work at the same blockheight requiring the same address for block reward. If these entities want a bank account, crypto exchange account or simply have “clean coins”, they need to follow something that is called “source of funds verification”. When you open a bank account or receive substantial amount of money, the bank will ask you – how did you get your money? For now, in many countries, it is enough to say “I mined it” and “here’s a tax declaration on the income and capital gains I submitted to the government”. The problem is this: If you got your money actually by human trafficking and you want to buy yourself a skyscraper in Panama City, you go on a black market and in a few months turn “dirty cash bills” into crypto. Then you fill and submit a tax declaration and come to a bank and say “here’s my clean cash, I got it for crypto I mined, I even taxed it”. Countries (and banks) are slowly understanding that this is happening and audited partial proof of work will be soon necessary. Right now, there are sites which are buying private keys to addresses that contained Bitcoins in the past. I saw an 1:500 exchange rate. They are probably bought by people who want to declare that they mined or got Bitcoin in the past and are now selling it – so they can sign messages using keys that contained Bitcoin in the past, “proving” it was “their Bitcoin”. So every block can be mined without miner branding and at the same time completely audited and verified by independent auditor or a government body. Another objection to my article was that “we will just fork off the censors” and create an uncensored chain. I believe that this is not possible. You can prove that you are not aiding money laundering to the regulators and at the same time make it impossible to fork off your majority chain that is enforcing censorship. Let’s start by explaining various types of consensus rules changes. You can make them more strict (also called a soft fork). A soft fork can be introduced by majority of hashpower, nodes have absolutely no say in a soft fork. A successful continuous transaction censorship is a form of soft fork. A miner would never mine a block with a blacklisted transaction. If you run a verifying (full) node, you just see blocks that conform to consensus rules and you don’t know that someone is censoring. How do the nodes know they are on the best chain? They verify all the consensus rules (transactions are signed, block size is below limit, mining difficulty condition satisfied, …) and then they verify they are on the longest chain (there is no longer chain that also validates). Another type of fork is a hard fork – relaxing rules. For example increasing block size is a hard fork. In order for nodes to follow a hard fork, you need to upgrade all the nodes, because they need to validate the blocks that were not valid under the pre-fork rules. So censorship is a soft fork. It can be introduced by miners (but also enforced by the nodes, if they want to make sure they follow the soft fork). Censored blocks are valid blocks that just do not contain transactions that miners consider tainted (breaking soft-fork rule). A node does not know or choose that they are on the censored chain. If miners are successful in censoring, it just looks like Bitcoin – all rules check out and it is the longest chain. If you want to punish miners for censoring, it is hard to do, because it requires consensus. We achieve decentralized consensus with mining. So it is a circular problem – if there is another way to reach consensus about mining without mining, we would not need mining at all. If you have a previous consensus on what is censorship, you can refuse censored block. But how do you make sure it is a censored block and merely not a block made by miner who did not see the censored transaction? What if only you have seen it, because other nodes don’t even relay those? How do you make sure that other nodes agree that the block is censored? Because if they don’t agree, you forked off the network by yourself. One approach would be to fork based on orphaned blocks. If a valid block contains a censored transaction and the best chain goes around it, orphaning it, you punish the miner. But how? Miners don’t need to identify their blocks. Each block can be unique and “unbranded”. Also, you would need consensus on which block was first. We have a way to reach this consensus – it’s called mining. You cannot tell what happened first if it is not in Bitcoin timechain at different heights. So how do you know if the block was orphaned because of censorship or it was just late? You also need to agree on what is censorship. Two ways: Either you agree on blacklist – how? Do you include a government signed blacklist in the block to decide what was censorship at the block time? Another way would be to prefer block with higher fees. Not mining a transaction with a high fee in the block could be censorship. But how do you know if the miner saw the transaction? We have a consensus on what are known valid transactions – it’s called mining. So really you have to agree on what is censorship before you can punish it (and fork off of it). If you can agree on it beforehand (know which block, which tx, which blacklist), you already reached consensus and don’t need mining. If you know how, please write a paper, that would be huge! Then you need to identify censors. But they can change their identity every time, while still proving to the government/censorship body that they are censoring. They submit their partial proof of work to the government/auditor API, while making their blocks random – new address every time they find a block. Please note, that all nodes need to reach this this conclusion about censorship at the same (block)time. Also note, that if this happens, nothing is won. You did not fork off, the censors can (and will) come to your fork and do it again. Do you hard fork twice a day? The fundamental problem with punishing censors is reaching consensus about who the censor is, in a decentralized and fair way and punishing the censor long term (assuming they can be and stay identified). In conclusion: Soft fork can be enforced by miners and the nodes can do very little about it. They can “fork off” once in a while by introucing a difficult-to-coordinate hard fork, but the soft fork enforcing miners can come back.Your full node does not help in this in any way. Users with full nodes (especially exchanges) can troll miners to force a soft fork (for example enforce censorship), but they can not avoid being soft-forked by miners. Another common objection to censorship is that miners would never do it, because that would make their coins worthless. While at the beginning, the appeal of Bitcoin is that it is uncensorable and anonymous money with predictable inflation and hard cap on supply, right now I think by what most users do, it is safe to say that the hard money use case won. Bitcoin is becoming less anonymous (by things like the travel rule and chain analysis). Censorship resistance is also questionable – there are coins that are tainted and it is not possible to exchange them on par with other Bitcoins, losing fungibility. There are companies that are using the hard money property of Bitcoin by placing Bitcoin investments on their balance sheets as a treasury asset. These people, including many regular HODLers don’t care about censorship resistance. Why would they go and stand out for thieves, money launderers and other people legalizing questionable income? The cypherpunk ideals are nice, but most people just want to get rich by hodling a hard money asset. And censorship makes the asset harder. Yes, some suckers will lose their investment, their UTXOs will be frozen, but less supply, moon sooner! Non-fungibility and thus censorship will be also pushed by chain analysis companies, OTC desks, exchanges and professional custodians. They want to justify their fees. What better way to do regulatory capture than “We cooperate with anti money laundering organizations to make sure you will never get censored! We check all the history of the UTXOs, here’s a bill for our fee!”? Companies with large Bitcoin treasury holdings (or should we call them HODLings?) and ETFs, those precious “institutional investors” that everyone wanted will also love censorship. What better way to go from “Bitcoin is used by money launderers, drug dealers and criminals” to “Bitcoin blockchain is even safer than other assets, ensured by constant auditing and anti-money laundering standards by industry organizations”. If I wanted to convince my board to convert dollars to Bitcoin in my publicly traded company, I would definitely tell them the second story. The truth is, only HODLing is not a cypherpunk ideal. Privacy, fungibility and censorship resistance was there in the beginning, but it’s slowly evaporating. The market decides and it seems market participants want publicly auditable hard money – with auditable supply and no criminal activity. As a feedback to my previous blog, some people said that I was shilling Monero too much. If someone went all this way to censor Bitcoin, they would straight out ban Monero completely. And I agree – I believe Monero will be effectively banned on white market and will become a black market money. But it’s blockchain will not be censored. It will be running from behind Tor, I2P and maybe Nym, for black market transactions, but still uncensored. Because it is very difficult to censor a fully anonymous cryptocurrency, I believe that Monero or something like that will take over the cypherpunk ideal – black market, private, fungible, anonymous money. And Bitcoin will become a white collar inflation protection crypto asset. There will be dark markets connecting the two, creating a bridge and a duopoly of two currencies. Because if Bitcoin is censored, there will never be an uncensored version (it is not possible to fork-off censors from publicly auditable ledger, as I’ve shown above). We will have two types of money, with two use-cases. It does not have to be like that. We should boycott all the FATF-GAFI and other regulations. We should not “talk to the regulators”, we should repeatedly tell them to go away and leave us alone. We should not do “ok, you are right, KYC is reasonable”. If we fail to do it, censorship will come to Bitcoin. For other things we could do to avoid this sad fate, I recommend reading the conclusion of my. The about censorship, if you have not read it. I made a course about how to settle small debts among friends and family and use Lightning network to pay through non-KYC exchanges. If you have never tried Lightning network and don’t know where to start, this might be a good start. Open channels when fees are low, you can thank me later. I also produce a podcast dedicated to increasing our options, thus increasing our freedom. It’s called Option Plus Podcast. There are episodes about opting out, strategies for being more free here and now. If you want to learn more about strategy of parallel societies, I recommend a Cypherpunk Bitstream episode, where Smuggler and Frank invited me and Martin to talk about Parallel Polis – a strategy to achieve more liberty in a communist dictatorship of former communist Czechoslovakia. Yes, we can use this strategy today. If you want to learn more about financial surveillance and how it applies to crypto – and especially how it is made and enforced outside of parliaments and governments, check out my talk from HCPP on Financial Surveillance and Crypto Utopias. You can also follow me on Twitter @jurbed.

From mid-December to early January, Tron (TRX) grew over 2,000% — yes, that’s 2,000% growth in just three weeks. Almost everyone's heard of Tron, but do you know exactly what it is? Or are you still asking yourself, "what is Tron coin?".

If the case is the latter, you're in the right place!

By the end of this guide, we will have covered everything you need to know to answer the question "what is Tron coin?". As well as the basics, I'll also introduce you to:

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To fully understand what is Tron coin, we need to start from the very basics. Tron is a decentralized entertainment and content-sharing platform that uses blockchain and peer-to-peer (P2P) technology.

You can think of it as a next-generation social media outlet on which you can create and share content with anyone, anywhere in the world. Tronix is the basic unit of accounts in Tron’s blockchain. It is the currency that pays you for your content, and is often referred to as its ticker symbol, 'TRX'.

People who enjoy social media, online gambling, and other forms of online entertainment, will enjoy Tron.

Using the Tron cryptocurrency’s ecosystem, not only can you share content with other people, but you are compensated as a content creator for the content and data that you create. This model serves in direct opposition to how traditional social media companies, such as Facebook, monetize user data.

They often do it without the user knowing, reaping in the benefits for themselves. When you use Tron cryptocurrency, you are in control of your data and you will be compensated for your content.

TRX already has some big partnerships, such as the one with oBike. The largest bike-sharing company in Southeast Asia (oBike), based in Singapore, launched its own token, oCoin. The token was launched on Tron’s network. oCoins have real-world utility, as the coins can be used to buy rides on the oBike’s platform. The company enables users to earn oCoins just by choosing to ride oBikes.

Other major partnerships include the one with a semiconductor giant, Bitmain, who is a leading producer and designer of ASIC chips used for Bitcoin mining. Bitmain’s Antminer S9 is one of the hottest products used in the Bitcoin mining community. So when anyone asks you what is Tron coin, don't forget to mention their huge network of partners.

Zag- S&W, another one of Tron’s partners, is a leading international law firm that focuses on commercial and corporate law. This is a promising addition, because the firm is part of the Legal 500, which has an extended network to some of the biggest companies in the world.

This partnership will offer comprehensive support in digital asset transactions, operations, risk management, and legal adaptation across jurisdictions. As Tronix is listed on more and more exchanges, the need for legal support only increases. This partnership is very strategic.

This is not a surprising move from the non-profit foundation behind Tron.

The Tron Foundation is a non-profit entity based in the Southeast Asian industrial strong-arm of Singapore. The foundation mainly engages in operating the Tron crypto network in the principles of openness, fairness, and transparency in supporting Tron’s development team.

The team behind the Tron Foundation considers regulation and compliance to be the highest of values. They have approval by the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority and they are under the supervision of the Company Law of Singapore.

Still wondering, what is Tron coin? Learning more about the founder, Justin Sun, will help you understand the coin better.

The leader of the Tron Foundation is the young Justin Sun, who has an insanely impressive background for someone at any age, let alone, someone who is 27. To start with, he founded the Peiwo app which already has 10 million users. Justin Sun has led Peiwo to become the first live streaming app to receive cryptos. The Peiwo app is one of the leading members of the online audio content community.

Forbes listed Sun as 30 under 30 in Asia. So when someone asks you what is Tron coin or why to choose Tron coin, always keep his successful founder in mind. He is also the protégé of Jack Ma who is the founder of the Ali Baba group. Jack Ma handpicked Justin Sun to study at the prestigious Jack Ma Hupan University, which has a lower acceptance rate than Princeton.

Justin Sun is also a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania. While the relationship between Ali Baba and Tron is still unclear, some of the top developers from Ali Baba are leaving Alibaba to go to Tron, which makes the issues even more clouded.

Beyond Jack Ma, Sun surrounded himself with an even wider team of all-star mentors, including Feng Li and Tim Berners-Lee. For those of you that don’t know, Feng Li is an advisor of Ripple and led investment at Coinbase. Tim Berners-Lee is famous for inventing the World Wide Web.

Beyond the team, there are a growing number of key influencers in crypto that believe the TRX coin will succeed, including Hacker Noon.

The biggest benefit of using Tron crypto is that you are empowering artists and content creators all over the world into having ownership over the content they create.

Tron is leading a movement that some refer to as the third web. Although it sounds futuristic, the third web, or web 3.0, will enable people to use the internet as it was originally intended to be used for - as a decentralized, open network.

During the dotcom bubble, the internet had taken a turn away from its decentralized origin. Social media giants in Silicon Valley built on top of the infrastructure that was given to them and rewired it so that Tech Giants could make money from user data. Cambridge Analytica is the case and point of this system. However, in the Third Web, Tron will put the power back in the users' hands, so that they are in control of their own data.

By using Tron crypto, you are leading the internet back down its original path. You are putting data back under your control where you have the choice of not disclosing or monetizing data for your own gain. So one of the answers to what is Tron coin is something that will lead the internet back to its original purpose.

From a developer’s standpoint, Tron is also special because it’s currently being built in a way that allows the use of any high-level language for smart contracts. This means developers in the future will be able to use whichever programming language they prefer to build on top of the open-software design.

One of the biggest products developed on Tron thus far is crypto puppies. Just after crypto kitties were first released, Tron attempted to play off the upcoming Chinese year of the dog. Tron dogs are still selling for the equivalent of $18. This is just one of many examples of successful products on the network.

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To help you fully understand what is Tron coin, I will give you a glimpse into how this coin's transactions work.

Like many other digital currencies, TRX coin transactions occur on a public ledger. On this public ledger, the history of each transaction can be traced all the way back to the first transaction. The transaction model that TRX uses is similar to the transaction model that Bitcoin uses. The only difference is that Tron has improved Bitcoin’s model by providing additional security. The model TRX uses is called UTXO.

In a UTXO model, there is a basic output which is an amount of money sent to a TRX user’s address alongside a set of rules that will unlock that specific set amount. The final product is an output that is called the UTXO.

But to fully understand what is TRX, you don’t really have to know too much about the UTXO model. That is more so for the developers and nerds who might know more than they should (not that there's anything wrong with that at!).

You should focus on the bigger picture, sticking to the overall utility that Tron delivers to people who want to regain control of their data and still use social media.

Since you already have a pretty good idea about what is Tron coin, time to discuss its potential. Justin Sun’s relationship with Jack Ma begs the question of whether there will be a merger or convergence of the two entities in the future. Any such news would be monumental and certainly catapult Tronix down an already well-trodden path to success.

Tron is still brand new and it is just getting started. But still, you can’t be too overly optimistic.

Tron crypto may fail to grow because of the way Justin Sun handles communication, which at times has angered investors. Sun has the reputation to deliver updates that simply announce that a big announcement will be announced in the future, which is understandably quite frustrating. People also view Sun as being too youthful and perhaps too naive to run a blockchain that has the magnitude of Tron.

Other negative shots to Tron and Justin Sun’s reputation surfaced in early 2018 when news circulated about Tron using some of Ethereum’s code and violating Ethereum’s copyright license. This has since been corrected. Around the same time, there were also rumors regarding Justin Sun cashing out $1.2 billion worth of his own coins. This turned out to be a false rumor, too.

Some consider that string of mudslinging as a FUD campaign in an attempt to destroy Justin Sun’s reputation. Sun’s reputation often comes under fire when people ask, "what is Tron coin?". Regardless, the coin is only at year one of a road map that spans all the way until 2023. In other words, it’s still very early days for Tron, so news like this will vanish in time.

Look at Jed McCaleb from Stellar. People forgot all about Mt. Gox when news about the Stellar partnership with IBM surfaced. Again, it’s early days for Tron.

If you are using Tron’s platform, the reputation around it has been pretty good thus far. The budget seems to prioritize security, which I can gather from Tron’s recent hire of a highly-demanded security engineer, Jorge Guo. He has received acknowledgment for his work from the likes of Google, Qualcomm, Huawei.

Guo will handle all research and development for Tron’s security.  He helps answer security-centered questions related to the topic, "what is Tron coin?".

When it comes to holding TRX itself, you just have to be smart.

Like holding a secure passcode, you need to treat however you store your coins very sensitively. You can choose to store the coins in a wallet, like the Ledger Nano S, but if you use a wallet like that, be sure to write down your private key. If you don’t write down your private key, you can lose your coins forever.

Since cryptocurrency is decentralized, many wallets do not store your information at all. They do not have backups of your username and password. You cannot have an email sent to you to reset your password if you forgot it. You need to have the private key you are given access to when you signup. That’s it. That’s the only way to get into your account.

The same can be said about buying Tron coins, too. You should always choose a reliable cryptocurrency exchange platform (or a trustworthy payment middleman), and make sure that all of the security measures are in-check - only by doing so can you remain assured that no harm will come to your funds and assets in the purchasing process, and afterwards.

Just like any other digital asset, Tron can be exploited, and its security can be breached. That is a risk that you have to take in the age of digitization. You can follow basic security techniques like securing your private keys using a hardware wallet. Such techniques will increase your ability to protect your assets.

However, maybe you are your own biggest enemy when it comes to abusing TRX. Like other digital currencies, you can use it to do some pretty illegal stuff when it comes to tax evasion or illegal trading (although it should be known that Justin Sun’s TRX will be locked until 2021, so he cannot touch his supply like c-suite executives on Wall Street).

Like many other coins or really just assets in general, TRX can be used for the likes of hiding money or tax evasion. As a matter of fact, up to 36% of Bitcoin owners plan to commit tax fraud this year, according to an article by the Motley Fool.

As regulation on cryptocurrencies increases, there is less room for criminals to use cryptocurrency illegally. Concepts such as KYC (Know Your Customer) are becoming more prominent to identify and verify people using digital currency. KYC is good for the identification of asset owners, but in a way, KYC also benefits the owners themselves by reassuring them of the legitimacy of the platform they are using.

Insider trading can also take place with Tron just like it may occur for any other coin. Suspicion of insider trading is rampant in crypto. No unusual rumors concerning Tron and insider trading have surfaced barring the debunked rumor concerning Justin Sun taking a billion USD worth of TRX for himself.

Sun taking money for himself should not lead you to believe that Tron is a bad coin if you’re still trying to answer the question "what is Tron coin", though.

Across aspects through and through, TRX coin is solid. The technology and the personnel behind Tron come with little concern. The team is slowly being built with developers from Alibaba and other tech giants. Justin Sun is young, but that just means he is of the same generation that cryptocurrency is — he understands a youthful audience. This coin is definitely worth watching.

With an energetic young leader in Justin Sun, this coin is going places. The founder is one of the most well-connected people in crypto. The fact that he can call Jack Ma, the founder of the Ali Baba Group, as well as the founder of the World Wide Web, members of his inner circle shows how powerful he really is. Think of Justin Sun’s network when you answer the question "what is Tron coin?".

Have you ever heard the quote "show me who you surround yourself with, and I’ll show you who you are"? This quote applies to business mentorships, too. Justin Sun’s first-degree network, as well as his vision for the future of Tron, are powerful assets. This project is still very new, and I am terrifically excited to see what the future holds for Tron!

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TO THE MOON! Tether has gone up by nearly two billion USDT over just the past few days, and is at 24.392 billion USDT as I write this! [Tether Transparency, archive]

(Remember 2017, when 600 million tethers was the total supply, and that was considered a shocking amount?)

Popular Tether derivative Bitcoin has gone up too, breaking 41,000 USDT yesterday — though it crashed down to 36,675 USDT earlier today. I was hoping for 50,000 USDT by the end of this weekend — speaking as the famous Bitcoin perma-bull that I am.

Frauds tend to keep growing until they can’t — and Tether is at the spiraling out of control stage.

The deadline for iFinex to provide the New York Attorney General with information in discovery on Tether is Friday 15 January. This doesn’t mean that a bell will ring at 00:01 15 January, and all the tethers turn into pumpkins — but that’s when the next act of this interminable saga starts.

(iFinex’s strategy appears to be to submit a massive unsearchable document dump. [Twitter] This might work, if the NYAG had done no work at all since 2018 on the issue, and hadn’t already formed a fairly well worked out opinion of iFinex’s behaviour.)

In screaming about the evil of The Federal Bank and its Fake Money for so long, the bitcoin people organically created the precise scam they think the government pulls.

— Helene J. (@_scaryh) January 10, 2021

More likely to cause issues is the forthcoming FinCEN regulation about documentation required to move crypto into and out of money services businesses — if you want to transfer more than $3,000 of Convertible Virtual Currencies on or off an exchange, they must collect your name and address. [Treasury; Federal Register, PDF]

This is the same rule that presently exists for cash — it’s fundamentally a further clarification following FinCEN’s May 2019 clarification of how existing law applies to cryptos.

FinCEN has put this rule through on a “substantial national security concerns ” basis, stating that the comments period is only token — this rule is absolutely going through. The US government is deadly serious about the sanctions regime — see chapters 10 and 13 of Libra Shrugged — and the Department of Justice has already prosecuted over cryptos being used by North Korea for money laundering. Per the rule, “U.S. authorities have found that malign actors are increasingly using CVC to facilitate international terrorist financing, weapons proliferation, sanctions evasion, and transnational money laundering.”

The crypto industry is absolutely crapping itself about this new rule, as if it’s the end of the world. Coinbase and Andreesen Horowitz plan to fight it in court. [CoinDesk; The Block]

For some of them, it will be the end — because even the cleaner players know they’re no more than one or two steps removed from dirty money, and this will affect the flows of all sorts of questionable cash.

Given the absolute panic going through crypto, I think this is rule is a likely explanation for the Tether printer going nuts right now.

Further new year gifts from FinCEN — foreign crypto holdings now require reporting in the same manner as foreign bank accounts. [FinCEN, PDF]

If you don’t report your foreign holdings, then the IRS can find you $12,921 for each non-willful violation; for wilful violations it’s $129,210, or 50% of the account balance, whichever is greater. [IRS]

— Palley (@stephendpalley) November 20, 2019

God help me, people keep messaging me — of all people — and asking for advice on how to get into trading crypto.

First: don’t. You will lose your money. It’s a completely fake bubble right now — and you’ll be left holding a bag of unsaleable coins, and waiting for the next bubble.

You’re going to do it anyway, of course — you’ve made your decision, you just want to tell yourself that you did your due diligence.

So. You can totally make money in crypto! I would never say you can’t.

But you’re much more likely to lose your shirt.

The crypto market is highly manipulated, and all but unregulated. It’s a pool full of sharks, and you look tasty.

Treat it as gambling, not investment. You know how you can gamble and lose all of your money in an instant? This is like that.

What about the market cap? Well, if you take the price of a beanie baby and multiply it by the number of those beanies, and add this up for all the beanies, you have the “market cap” of beanie babies, here in the year 2000!

This is a very real and informative number that tells you anything you can use to make your fortune in beanies. Or maybe it isn’t.

If you read any press article going “gosh, isn’t Bitcoin’s price high! Here’s some speculation as to why, from people with an interest in selling you on bitcoins” and it doesn’t mention tethers, you can disregard it.

If you have coins you’ve been stuck with since 2018 — sell your cost basis, the money you originally paid for them. Then every gain from there is for free.

Finally: don’t do it. You will lose your money. You are lining yourself up for a role as one of the suckers. Read Part 3 again.

— warrior cop (@wyatt_privilege) January 10, 2021

As always, I recommend Patrick McKenzie’s 2019 piece as the definitive text on Tether: “Tether is the internal accounting system for the largest fraud since Madoff.” [Kalzumeus]

Kristian Johansson — a Bitcoin holder and advocate — wonders about the bizarre lack of mainstream media coverage of Tether’s role in the price of Bitcoin. “If it is true that more large institutions are buying Bitcoin now, then surely they would have done a detailed risk analysis and Tether would have popped up as a very real risk and something that would be discussed more openly?” [Seeking Alpha]

(People keep suggesting Grayscale’s Bitcoin fund as evidence of massive quantities of institutional actual dollars going into Bitcoin. Grayscale’s GBTC fund states assets under management in dollars — but it accepts direct BTC deposits. An unknown proportion is just Grayscale acting as a custodian for their fellow whales — reputedly almost all of it, because they don’t break out this number. It’s not real-money institutions giving Grayscale actual dollars to buy bitcoins, not at all.)

Why does Tether issue on weekends and holidays, with Bitcoin pumps on weekends and holidays? It coincidentally matches with when CME Bitcoin futures settle — “bitcoin faced selling pressure in the days ahead of the expiry, as well as on the day itself. The event was also followed by selling over the weekend, leading to a gap down on the CME chart, which doesn’t include weekend data.” [CryptoNews, 2020]

Is Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme? I’ve long held that Bitcoin technically isn’t a Ponzi — it just works like one. Tr0lly details how Bitcoin is like a Ponzi, and why it’s important that it isn’t one legally in the US — it’s a much more complicated scheme. [Tr0lly]

Jorge Stolfi, however, describes why he thinks Bitcoin is a Ponzi — with answers to common objections. [Jorge Stolfi]

If you call Bitcoin a Ponzi, bitcoiners will dive in claiming that normal investments, the government, etc. are also Ponzi schemes. Claiming everything else is a Ponzi scheme really, if you think about it, is a standard excuse from Ponzi schemers — e.g., Bernie Madoff saying in 2011 that “The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.” [New York]

Why you can’t cash out pt 2 still applies — UK banks still really, really don’t like crypto. Good luck turning your paper gains into actual money. [The Times]

Telegraph: Bitcoin’s wild ride to $34,000 fuels fresh warnings of an impending crackdown — with a quote from me. [Daily Telegraph]

Cas Piancey: a new Tether primer. [Medium]

Kiffmeister’s Daily Digest by IMF researcher John Kiff, on the Tether Question. [blog post]

This is absolutely the worst way to present a good blog post, even worse than posting an essay as an extended Twitter thread. Everyone, go suffer through squinting at the text in a graphic. [Twitter; Twitter]

The following pair of tweets are real: [Twitter, archive]

The media, and bitcoiners, have gone wild with a JPMorgan analyst’s note that projects a Bitcoin price of $146,000! This means JPMorgan is going all in with crypto!!

Here’s the relevant paragraph from that analyst. It’s not the fount of optimism that enthusiastic (lying) bitcoiners have been painting it as. In fact, the number is a wild hypothetical as part of a quite negative outlook: [LinkedIn]

Mechanically, the market cap of bitcoin, at $575bn currently, would have to rise by x4.6 from here, implying a theoretical bitcoin price of $146k, to match the total $2.7tr private sector investment in gold via ETFs or bars and coins. But this long-term upside, based on an equalization of the market cap of bitcoin to that of gold for investment purposes is conditional on the volatility of bitcoin converging to that of gold over the long term. The reason is that, for most institutional investors, the volatility of each class matters in terms of portfolio risk management and the higher the volatility of an asset class, the higher the risk capital consumed by this asset class. It is thus unrealistic to expect that the allocations to bitcoin by institutional investors will match those of gold without a convergence in volatilities. In fact, an argument can be made that, in terms of risk capital, bitcoin has largely equalized with gold already given that bitcoin and its biggest fund on average currently consume x4.3 more risk capital than gold and its biggest fund.

What do crypto advocates worry about from the forthcoming Biden administration? The threat of someone who’s finally interested in doing something about the crime against humanity that’s called Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency mining. [Twitter thread]

Frances Coppola looks closely at MicroStrategy’s numbers — and why Michael Saylor is turning the company into a Bitcoin hedge fund. “Do you have a poorly-performing company that you don’t know what to do with? Bitcoin fixes this!” [blog post]

Bitcoin in the enterprise: Funke Media Group is given massive incentives to Bitcoin adoption, and is looking at 6,000 licenses — I’m sorry, Funke Media Group has 6,000 PCs locked by ransomware. [DW]

— Peter Huminski (@Thoriumwealth) December 31, 2020

Ever since the SEC’s hammer came down on Ripple and XRP in December, everyone’s been back-pedaling at the speed of light away from the coin and the company — in the hope of not getting any on them.

Bitstamp stops XRP trading for US customers as of 8 January. Other countries are not affected. [Bitstamp]

Coinbase is delisting XRP as of 19 January. Why so late? Well, there’s a lot of big holders around Coinbase. [Coinbase blog] You can still hold coins there, for some reason. Coinbase apparently spoke to the SEC “multiple times” while working out what to do about XRP. [Twitter]

Ripple got venture capital funding, presumably in the hope of looking more like a “real” company. One of the investors, Tetragon, wants their money back — now. Their deal apparently involves Tetragon being able to cash out on Ripple going public, and they’re saying the SEC declaring XRP a security that was sold to retail counts as taking company stock public. Stephen Palley has a Twitter thread on what we know about the case. [Bloomberg; Twitter]

Ripple’s XRP validator network was always functionally centralised — and couldn’t even reach consensus if it split. The model was always handwaving to fake decentralisation, where “decentralisation” is a word meaning “I want to dodge legal responsibility.” [GitHub]

The pretrial conference in SEC v. Ripple will be in February 2021. [Conference order, PDF]

— Cas “The Wolf of No Street” Piancey (@CasPiancey) January 9, 2021

Bittrex brings good news for privacy coins! Monero, Dash, Zcash, and Grin are being delisted from from Bittrex Global. This will have been due to pressure from banks who are worried about following money-laundering rules. [Bittrex]

White House Market, the largest currently-existing darknet market, no longer accepts Bitcoin — just Monero. So much for Bitcoin’s use case. [Twitter]

I’m shocked, shocked to discover that the Bitcoin exchange with racially and sexually discriminatory employment practices underpays its black and female employees! The New York Times was sent a trove of data from 2018 and 2019 by a disgruntled Coinbase insider. [New York Times]

India considers imposing an 18% sales tax on cryptocurrency. Note that this does not require India to make crypto legal — evading sales tax on illegal goods is also a crime. [Times of India]

Here’s a nice rundown of SEC enforcement actions against ICOs. The only thing I’d question is that the SEC did contact all these companies quite early, and was trying to avoid having to take action — the eventual actions come after a year or two. Perhaps the SEC could go faster, or state how long they were trying to resolve things in the press releases. [The Dig]

Bitcoin is secured by math, which is why HK$3 million of bitcoins mathematically belong to a gang of robbers now. Their cryptographic proof must have been more robustly peer-reviewed. [SCMP]

— Ely Kreimendahl (@ElyKreimendahl) December 31, 2020

BeInCrypto: Why Blockchain Won’t ‘Revolutionize’ Healthcare and Education Anytime Soon — with a quote from me. [BeInCrypto]

Frances Coppola: Crypto’s Choice: Join the Financial System or Fight It — if you want real money, you have to follow the rules of real money. [CoinDesk]

Tim Swanson: Parasitic stablecoins — how, instead of hyperbitcoinisation, the crypto world has gone as fast as possible into pseudo-dollarisation. WIth an appendix by Tim and Martin Walker. This goes into extreme detail about the legal issues around stablecoins, and how being utterly reliant on the conventional finance system is going to work out for crypto. [Great Wall of Numbers; Great Wall of Numbers]

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Full Moon: Will Bitcoin Break Out During Today’s Celestial Event? Bitcoin’s halving is less than one week away. The crypto asset is trading at the top of a multi-year chart formation. And tonight is the Full Flower Moon. Is the stage set for a major halving-fueled Bitcoin breakout during tonight’s full moon? Stars Align For Major Cryptocurrency Breakout Bitcoin price is currently trading at over $ 9,300. The key level has acted as resistance throughout 2019 and 2020. However, the cryptocurrency may finally have all the necessary ingredients for a break out soon. The asset’s digitally-coded block reward reduction occurs on May 12. This cuts the amount of Bitcoin released into circulation with each new block added to the blockchain, by 50%. Related Reading | One Week Away: Comparing Past Pre-Halving Bitcoin Price Action  Miners will begin to receive just 6.25 BTC instead of 12.5 BTC, but the cost of production remains the same. Much of the recent price action has been driven by crypto investors speculating that the halving would come with a dramatic influence over the asset’s valuation. But the recent rally is also due to cryptocurrencies consolidating for two years of bear market, and are primed for a break out soon. There’s also potentially a celestial reason for Bitcoin‘s bullishness, and it could result in a breakout tonight. Will Tonight’s Full Flower Moon Cause Bitcoin to Spring to New Highs? Tonight is a full moon. But this isn’t just any normal full moon, this is the Full Flower Moon. According to Farmer’s Almanac, this moon got its name due to May bringing about new blossoms of life after a cold, hard, winter thaw. Bitcoin and other altcoin assets are also coming out of a long crypto winter and hoping to see some green during the Spring months ahead. Could this Full Flower Moon be the start? Full moons are said to have a powerful influence over human emotion and behavior. It’s led to tons of lore, such as werewolves and other mysterious occurrences. Related Reading | Mercury in Retrograde: Can Astrology Predict Bitcoin Price Cycles?  With Bitcoin and crypto being such speculative assets, the chance that moon cycles influence price charts is not far fetched. In fact, full moons appear before most major Bitcoin impulses. In the chart above, the following major impulses have been accompanied by a full moon: The September 2019 crash following the Bakkt launch.” The October 2019 “China pump.” The November 209 collapse to $ 6,000. The December 2020 bottom. January 2020’s initial rally. The February 2020 push above $ 10,000 and subsequent top Black Thursday in March 2020. Zooming out further, full moons all market major moves in Bitcoin price charts, over the last several years. It’s not just moon cycles, other astrological events are said to have an impact on financial markets. Some theories, such as the legendary W.D. Gann used key dates, lunar cycles, and more to predict tops and bottoms with uncanny success. Will tonight’s Full Flower Moon cause Bitcoin to moon also? NewsBTC

Filed under: Hype man of the century When Chinese millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent, was he trying to skirt the trade war? Or fly right in the face of it, no matter the cost? By Sep 29, 2020, 10:00am EDT Illustrations by Alex Castro If Silicon Valley operated under the idea that companies should move fast and break things, then BitTorrent had become an exception. Employees enjoyed patiently tinkering with creative projects and going home at a reasonable time, free from the tyranny of startup culture. The company was founded in 2004, and though its namesake protocol helped shape the modern internet, by 2018, the company was languishing. After all, not all influential things make money. One BitTorrent employee told me they enjoyed the slower pace of work: “It wasn’t growing like crazy or anything.” Establishing new revenue streams was difficult, and the company was starting to look like a distressed asset. And there were rumors someone was actively trying to acquire it, a sign that management’s only means of escaping stagnation was to court a wealthy buyer. BitTorrent had a challenging reputation. Its technology, a peer-to-peer protocol that allows large files to download quickly, was notorious because those large files tended to be pirated movies and music. Its genius came from being decentralized — spreading the burden of bandwidth, and liability, across a number of users instead of one company. The philosophy of decentralization shaped BitTorrent’s laissez-faire view of itself. It supplied a technology and had no responsibility for the pirated content illegally distributed by it. Soon it emerged the BitTorrent acquisition rumors were true. The man buying the company was a young Chinese uber-millionaire named Justin Sun. It seemed like a fit. Sun ran a cryptocurrency company in Beijing called Tron, and like BitTorrent, crypto’s whole philosophy was built on decentralization. Some employees were excited. One told me their initial reaction was, “Oh, cool, crypto, that’s a neat space that I’ve wanted to get into.” Sun was undeterred by BitTorrent’s associations with piracy. Later, employees would discover he was more than willing to embrace it. But right away, Sun struck some BitTorrent employees as a controversial character. For one, crypto enthusiasts noticed striking similarities between a cryptocurrency white paper Sun released and other cryptocurrency projects, including Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. Twitter was abuzz with allegations that the document was plagiarized, borrowing heavily from two other papers. Juan Benet, the crypto developer behind those papers, claims that, of the 44 pages, three also contained a “basic Ethereum contract,” while nine copied exact language from Benet’s decentralized crypto projects. One former Tron employee agreed the white paper was conceptually indistinguishable: “It was cribbed off of for sure.” Publicly, Sun defended himself, claiming the similarities came from problems with on-the-fly translation from Chinese to English. BitTorrent employees watched the controversy quietly and didn’t get any internal explanation from their new boss. New Tron hires would be initiated into Sun’s worldview, and within a matter of months, the company’s internal business strategy was apparently “copy Ethereum,” a former employee told me. The other was “get the pump on the coin.” The oft-repeated phrase meant doing anything to make Tron look flashy and lobby people across the world to convert their national currencies, whether they be renminbi, rupees, or dollars, into Tron’s digital cryptocurrency — thus, pumping up the value of Tron and Justin Sun himself. If cryptocurrency and the BitTorrent protocol were technologies built on the idea of decentralization, Tron’s acquisition of BitTorrent seemed designed to centralize power on Sun. Cribbing Ethereum’s white paper would be just the beginning in a series of ethically dubious moves by Sun: giving away Tesla cars and bidding millions on a showy power lunch; launching products that effectively rewarded piracy and products that exploited pornography. Then there was his alleged abusive conduct, which ranged from threats of violence to actual physical violence in the office. Employees had mixed opinions when BitTorrent was acquired. None of them realized how much their steady, quiet work environment would be upended as Sun’s bravado and self-promotion steered the company into the center of the US and China’s dangerous geopolitical conflict — the trade war — all in an effort to, as Sun might say, get the pump on the coin. Anyone following Justin Sun on social media couldn’t be faulted for thinking his reign over Tron consisted solely of insufferable, nonstop winning. In trying to separate facts from fiction in Sun’s story, and Tron’s, I spoke to former and current employees, both in China and the US, both rank-and-file and senior level, across multiple departments. In all, 18 insiders, current and former, spoke to me on the condition their names not be used out of fear of retaliation, with one exception who is on the record. Sun and Tron did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Sun isn’t outwardly intimidating. He’s been described as a self-styled “whiz kid.” He’s 30 years old and makes sure it’s widely known that he graduated from a special business seminar run by Jack Ma, a co-founder of Alibaba and one of Asia’s top multibillionaires. According to Sun’s autobiography, Brave New World, his meeting with Ma inspired him to become wealthy and successful. In Sun’s first Instagram post, he stands side by side with Ma, holding a graduation certificate. It makes him look like a protégé. Sun’s first major success was an app called Peiwo, which translates to “accompany me,” an audio-based mashup of Tinder and a live-stream chat room with 10 million users. The app matched people using voice clips, but the app also had audio chat rooms where hosts flirted with soundbites that generally contained content that exceeded pillow talk. In fact, a user might drop into a chat room only to discover their host was already in the throes of orgasm. It was easy to understand why the app was successful when its content so often bordered on some kind of aural pornography. Eventually, Peiwo was booted from the Apple and Android app stores, and the Chinese authorities shut it down, along with other content that “disrupts socialist values.” Somewhere between Sun’s constant travel back and forth from Beijing to San Francisco, he bought BitTorrent for $140 million. Part of what made the deal unique was the clash-of-superpowers atmosphere that surrounded it. According to the Pentagon, Chinese businesses have tapped into a roaring pipeline of intellectual property and funneled it back to mainland China. In the summer of 2018, some American experts were saying the US-China trade policy damaged the US economy with little benefit and evoked Cold War paranoia. After the purchase of BitTorrent, Sun suddenly straddled the conflict, with one foot in Beijing and the other in San Francisco. Senior employees at BitTorrent were concerned the US government might scrutinize the merger. Sun was unfazed by the risks of the US-China trade war looming above. “Justin looks at barriers and thinks, ‘I can get around these barriers,’” a former senior employee told me. “In some ways that’s great. It’s kind of the entrepreneur’s mindset,” they said. But “that would include rule-breaking on the less scrupulous side of things.” Sun seemed to push those concerns aside with what became a famous phrase inside the company: “I think it’s okay.” After all, even Jack Ma’s Alibaba is blacklisted by the US Trade Representative for IP infringement. But BitTorrent had survived for so long precisely because the company’s senior employees and lawyers avoided gray areas. They provided a technology. They didn’t distribute pirated content. “We want to make damn sure we’re doing things legally.” Sun’s imagination lay in the globe-spanning Wild West of cryptocurrency. This was a place where the rules were unclear and regulations hadn’t been widely enforced. Since the rise of bitcoin, a bevy of cryptocoins have emerged, jockeying for dominance, their value often entirely speculative. Their sales pitches focus on currency that can’t be manipulated or controlled. “Decentralize the web” is an official marketing slogan Tron uses. Sun’s acquisition came with perks. BitTorrent moved out of its old building encircled by a freeway ramp and into a skyscraper downtown at 301 Howard St. “The new office is fucking beautiful, oh my god,” a former employee said. They marveled at the panoramic of San Francisco Bay. Catered lunches became the norm. By this point, employees knew Sun only through video chat. As one former employee described, “He came off as very casual, just like young-casual. I would say no nonsense, but at this time, it was kind of in a playful way. Not in a threatening way.” Sun finally flew to San Francisco to build his cryptocurrency empire, wearing his signature Gucci sneakers bedazzled with large pineapples over the laces every day. Tron’s “initial coin offering” of its own cryptocurrency, TRX, had gone extremely well. Sun told employees that, for one day, he was richer than Bill Gates. “When you see him in real life, he thinks he’s a celebrity. He doesn’t smile.” He had an assistant bring meals on a platter to his office. Multiple employees claimed that Sun’s ego was easy for sycophants to subtly exploit. One of Sun’s lieutenants at Tron would carry Sun’s bag across the office for him, deferentially walking a half step behind him. It indulged Sun’s own image of himself as famous and powerful. Among English-speaking rank-and-file, he was greeted casually, “Hi, Justin.” But a former employee who grew up in China says Chinese rank-and-file were expected to call him, “Sun Zong,” which is far more formal. “It’s like, I’m terrified of you.” As another Chinese employee put it, “When you talk to your own people, you tend to be worse,” they said. “We are more tolerant of higher pressure and expectations.” Sun fancied one of the conference rooms, so he seized it as his office. It was impossible to see through its frosted glass walls, but employees occasionally entered to fulfill random tasks for Sun and emerged with concerns about what they saw. They were baffled by occasional piles of cash (“stacks of hundred dollar bills!”) that sprouted on his desk, or one time, an envelope of ones (“mad stripper money!”). It was noteworthy because Sun apparently had no lock on the door. He juggled more than five phones and sometimes disappeared to China for weeks, leaving his phones, and potentially proprietary information inside them, laying on his desk. Some employees feared a shakedown if one went missing. While Sun may have played fast and loose with his stacks of cash and phones, his expectations for employees were very different. A former employee says that Sun once began a meeting with a five- or 10-minute diatribe about how his driver accidentally locked him in his car in Beijing. Something about a child safety lock. “Who hired this person?” Sun demanded. The peak of his entitled behavior, according to a former employee, was when he fired his personal assistant because she booked a doctor’s appointment and sent him along in an Uber. Sun was furious. Sun expected the doctor to come see him. HR explained to the assistant that she didn’t know how to serve rich people. “Why did he behave like a spoiled brat?” a former employee wondered, “He reads as someone who ended up with a lot of money and had no idea how to use it.” A former senior employee thought that Sun imagined himself as coming from “the kind of elite in China, where there’s these men who think like, ‘I’m destined for greatness.’” Employees had questions about where Tron was headed and submitted anonymous questions for BitTorrent’s traditional Q&A with the company’s senior leadership. Hours before the Q&A, Sun called together his marketing team “to send him the list of questions,” so he could censor questions he didn’t like, says a former employee officially briefed on the meeting. Sun started reading existential questions about Tron’s future, such as, “What if TRX [Tron’s crypto] drops to zero?” Sun’s mood soured instantly. “He took it extremely personally.” According to the employee, he began yelling and threw a tantrum. “Whoever asked this question, we’re going to track them down,” Sun seethed, before threatening “to kill their entire family.” The Q&A took place well after work via Zoom. The office’s central conference room filled with about 10 employees at a long table flanked by frosted glass walls. Sun and Tron leadership in Beijing joined remotely. A senior Beijing employee answered questions, and employees’ concern over the survival of the company bubbled up again. The Beijing employee dished out a tongue-lashing, “essentially saying none of you should question Justin. He knows what he’s doing, he’s gotten this far, how dare you question the ability of Justin? It’s disrespectful, it’s spoiled to ask this.” Employees exchanged looks with each other and dug in, defensive about their unlimited vacation policy. The reply: “Nobody can tell you when you can take vacation. Only the Chinese government can tell you when you can take vacation,” a former employee recalled. “That’s when the culture shift started coming in.” “What if TRX drops to zero?” stabbed at the heart of every cryptocurrency’s dilemma. It derives its value from people actually using it, which is why Sun evangelizes Tron. As one former employee told me, “I would say he’s the hype man of the century.” It’s an odd accolade. On one hand, it’s a compliment. On the other, it’s a warning. Because he was born in a poor, rural province of China, Qinghai, Justin Sun always felt he needed to prove himself. “From the very beginning he had this dream to do something that was apparently impossible,” a former employee told me. Sun’s autobiography says his mother was an unrelenting “tiger mom,” and his dad was a penny-pincher who hated throwing away old belongings. As a child, Sun left home to study the ancient game Go in Wuhan. Other articles say that while he was away at Go school, his parents divorced, but he didn’t know until he arrived home. He overcame his disadvantages with cleverness and focus. “He’s a machine. He can work 20 hours a day.” Sun started to believe he should impose his work ethic across his company. Sun flooded the San Francisco office with articles from the Beijing PR shop. “A lot of them were about Justin Sun and how he is a genius and how talented he is and his leadership. Really just singing the praises of Justin Sun,” a former employee said. “It was really disgusting.” Other articles came through the transom, all about a new company work culture: “9-9-6.” As one former employee who grew up in China explained, “Basically, a lot of internet companies in China work this 9-9-6 schedule from 9 AM to 9 PM, six days a week.” The first article that caught everyone’s attention featured Sun’s hero, Jack Ma. In the article, Ma demanded employees be grateful they have a 9-9-6 job, that people envied them. “I shared the article and people were really confused in the US office,” a former employee told me. “Like, what is he implying? Is he trying to say that we should start this 9-9-6 bullshit?” Some of the Tron employees in San Francisco witnessed 9-9-6 culture in the Beijing office. During one 5AM call, Beijing time, SF employees were surprised by the appearance of the lead engineer on the call. “He turned on the video and he looked like he just rolled out of bed or something. He said, ‘I slept in the office tonight,’” a former employee recalled. “I really feel for them.” “Americans by contrast, they’re lazier, but they’re more creative,” a former senior employee recalled Sun explaining. “So he’d kind of give the grunt work to the Chinese team,” they said, “the engineers, the developers, no question, they’re working 9-9-6.” There was an irony in Beijing, though. While the engineers were indentured to the 9-9-6 credo, coding at all hours, everyone else at the Beijing office ignored it. So long as they maintained “the illusion.” Sun, after all, was in San Francisco. HR mandated that employees replace Slack with a Chinese equivalent called DingTalk. It came with added surveillance features that went as far as using Apple Health to count people’s steps and pinged users at all hours. “DingTalk is spyware,” said one former employee. Another employee asked HR what might happen if they refused to install it. HR replied that a list of noncompliant employees was being compiled and sent directly to Sun. The former employee harkened back to the moment. “Okay so we’re doing threats now?” Employees had difficulty gauging what changes in Tron’s work environment were attributable to Chinese tech work culture, where management generally exercises far more control, or whether these changes were specific to Sun’s leadership. A couple of former employees told me about their past experiences working in Beijing. They saw aspects of China’s corporate culture in Sun, but thought he was actually an outlier, “one of a kind.” Sun had more in common with another powerful American, which earned him the moniker “The Chinese Trump.” On at least one occasion, Sun fawned over Donald Trump’s marketing at a meeting. A former employee also believed both had an affinity for dictatorial power. Sun only selects “yes men” for his inner circle, former employees explained, so they stake their future on him. One compared Sun’s apparent insistence on loyalty to Trump’s control over the Republican Party, except Sun is “many levels better than that.” Despite Sun’s evangelism for a “decentralized” internet where ideas compete and the best one wins, he and his tight clique of lieutenants dictated terms to his workforce. His penchant for control also bled into Tron’s business dealings. A former employee says when Tron was pilloried on a popular Reddit thread, Tron paid the moderator, “perogies,” to allow the company to erase negative posts. A former employee said perogies was actually “a hardcore-fucking-Redditor to the bone, all about free speech.” Free speech is part of the ideology of decentralization, where ideas flow without gatekeepers. Tron started deleting any post it wanted. Bristling, perogies threatened to reveal his payments publicly. The Beijing office took over, the former employee said, “and he disappeared into the fucking night, never heard from him again.” Even though Sun went to extremes to control Tron’s public image, his own app store, called the Tron Network, was a free-for-all. Users purchased some apps with Tron’s cryptocurrency, and the company sometimes took a sliver of the app’s revenue. The most successful were gambling apps, employees told me, and Tron preferred to “squash” any app by imitating it. Sun eventually built an office in Shenzhen, China, where programmers worked on copycats. Meanwhile, questionable developers gathered on the Tron Network like ants to sugar. “We didn’t know who they were. We had zero way of contacting them. So these people would get on our blockchain and scam. Scam all day, 24/7. It never ended,” a former employee said. Complaints streamed in, like, “Hey, I just lost my life savings!” A former employee recalled Sun and the senior Beijing employees ignoring the scam warnings during weekly meetings and sometimes mocking English-only employees’ ideas in Mandarin, before telling the interpreter, “Don’t translate that.” Scammed users tried to fight back. Letters from the Better Business Bureau arrived in Tron’s San Francisco office one month. “They were coming in quite frequently,” said a former employee, “like, piles building up.” Even though Tron succeeded in deflecting scam victims and criticism on Reddit, the company was about to suffer a very public self-inflicted wound. As a promotional stunt, Sun raffled off a Tesla. Sun tweeted a pre-recorded video of the drawing, but people noticed a flash on the screen, which, slowed down, showed an image of the winner’s Twitter profile before the announcement. Crypto watchers thought it was a sham. Sun blamed Twitter’s video compression, calling it a “glitch.” “Somebody fucked up and the graphic came on the screen before [Sun] read the winner,” a former employee says, “which to any Internet conspiracy theorist is like, ‘This is bullshit, they literally came on the screen before he picked it!’” It was a real contest, employees insisted. But the online furor was too much, and Sun retracted the Tesla. Sun did a new drawing, with a new winner, but the controversy continued. So he gave away two Teslas, one for each winner. Sun’s leadership style caused the “fuck-up,” a former employee believed. “Justin doesn’t care about how to actually run a business,” they said. “He just cares about making loud noises and getting results.” When employees reviewed the Tesla sweepstakes in a meeting later, they realized, “Wow, this is actually illegal.” The Tesla debacle was important, internally, for another reason. “That’s probably his biggest meltdown,” a former employee said. Multiple former employees could hear Sun screaming at people in his office, his shouts echoing down the hall. Sometimes he leapt out of his office, slammed the door, and unleashed a rageful howl at no one in particular. His assistant sitting outside his office didn’t budge. Employees talked about times when they could hear him kick his door while eviscerating workers in his office or over the phone. Everyone dreaded meetings. From then on, “there were always rumors that he wanted to fire a bunch of people.” After the disaster, a Tron employee ran into a top communication manager for Justin Sun’s hero, Jack Ma, at a function in the Bay Area. “As soon as I mentioned Tron and Justin Sun, she said, ‘Please tell him that we don’t want to have anything to do with him.’” Nearly everyone I talked to said the cornerstone of Sun’s business wasn’t necessarily technology, but using marketing to extract money from users. In a meeting, Sun once compared the marketing team’s objectives to the business of a “whorehouse.” With the failure of the Tesla stunt, the answer, to Sun, was to pursue a bigger, even flashier stunt: be the highest bidders at a charity auction for lunch with Warren Buffett. “He thrived on just doing anything for attention and clout,” a former employee says. “Clout-chasing, as the kids call it.” Sun won the auction, costing him $4.57 million — roughly the value of 130 Teslas. When the marketing department asked Sun how high he was willing to bid, Sun replied, “I don’t care, I want to win it regardless.” There was no cap. “It’s hard to get him to pay a bill but it’s easy to get him to spend money.” The media hype was considerable. But as a CNBC interviewer pointed out to Sun, Buffett had “compared Bitcoin to gambling in Las Vegas” and said cryptocurrency was “rat poison squared.” Sun gamely laughed and insisted that one of the world’s most successful investors didn’t have the right sources of information. Not long after, President Trump tweeted that he’s “not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies,” whose value is based “on thin air.” “Mr. President, you are misled by fake news,” began Sun’s reply, “Bitcoin & Blockchain happens to be best chance for the US! I’d love to invite you to have lunch with crypto leaders along with @WarrenBuffett on July 25.” Sun invited Trump to lunch. A week later, Tron’s Twitter account announced the lunch was postponed because Sun had kidney stones. The next day, Chinese newspapers published stories that Sun was not only suspected of illegal fundraising, gambling, and money laundering, but supposedly detained by Chinese authorities in Beijing. That afternoon, Sun’s Periscope account went live. He appeared in his white-walled San Francisco apartment, the Bay Bridge over his shoulder. He riffed about Tron’s business plans, before saying, “I’m completely fine.” Employees told me what actually transpired. The Chinese authorities had been calling Sun for weeks, “essentially saying, you can’t have this lunch,” a former employee says, because Buffett was a “capitalist pig symbol.” Things boiled over when Sun invited Trump. It was apparently intolerable for a Chinese citizen to lunch with the US president during the trade war. The Chinese government kept calling Sun, “and he had been essentially ignoring them,” a former employee says. The authorities targeted Tron. In Beijing, “they raided the office and took six top employees.” They even found Sun’s estranged father in whichever province he was living and detained him, too. Their phones were confiscated, and they were told Justin Sun was under investigation for corruption. One of the detained employees was so scared she began crying. Six hours later, the authorities returned and said, “Here’s your phones back if somebody wanted to call Justin and mention that maybe you shouldn’t have this lunch with Trump.” Their final message: “You can’t mention this to the press.” Sun finally told his inner circle what happened. “He was sort of laughing and he said, ‘Oh you know, one of the women was crying,’” a former employee said. “I thought, I’d be fucking scared. I would have shit my pants if the Chinese government comes in.” Yet, Sun was chuckling about it. “That’s just so callous.” Tron convened an emergency “war council,” and they allegedly advised him to concoct a medical excuse to get out of lunch with Buffett. Kidney stones were the result. The stories emerging in the Chinese press were also false. “China decided they were going to get even with him in the state newspaper,” a former employee recalled, “basically saying that he was a crook.” Sun gathered the company for an all-hands. He sauntered in, laughing. “Now I understand why they say fake news, right?” he said, assuring the workforce the stories were untrue. “My jaw just hit the floor,” an employee said. Only hours before, they were told Sun had kidney stones, yet here he was, in perfectly good health. “It’s like a whole company full of people standing there being lied to.” The lunch was postponed indefinitely. A day later, Sun made a long and strange post to his millions of followers on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter. “I didn’t sleep all night yesterday, and deeply reflected on my memories and was introspective of my behavior and words — I felt ashamed for my over-marketing,” he said, according to a translation. Sun called Chinese regulators “elders” to whom he would “open my heart” and heralded “the rapid development of socialism with Chinese characteristics in our country’s new era.” He closed with a promise: “I will repair my shortcomings, reduce my vocalizations on Weibo, shut the door and decline visitors, reduce the media interviews” in the name of “national interests.” It was the most uncharacteristic apology Justin Sun had ever posted. He deleted it shortly after. While Sun suffered publicly, workplace standards deteriorated: “Everything went toxic real fast.” There were plenty of reasons for co-workers to confide in one another, but instead, an incongruous silence settled in, and events within Tron stayed remarkably well-hidden. During one of those days, a new Tron software engineer fresh out of San José State University, Lukasz Juraszek, arrived at work early, unaware of a shocking incident he was about to witness. Juraszek grew up in Poland and flew to the US to work as an au pair. He met his future wife on the flight over, and the precocious children he babysat helped him learn English. He piled up debt pursuing a bachelor’s degree in computer software engineering. His new job at Tron was crucial to both his career ambitions and complying with US visa requirements. Juraszek was sitting at his desk that early morning at Tron, when Sun rushed out of his office nearby and accosted someone out of sight behind Juraszek’s low cubicle wall. The argument escalated. Juraszek peeked over his workstation divider across the office and saw Sun and the head of engineering, Cong Li, standing a stone’s throw away outside a conference room. “At one point they both looked at me,” Juraszek told me, and he ducked down. When Li joined the company, he was a soft-spoken, diplomatic technical lead with an infectious smile. He scaled the company ranks because “he got Justin to trust him,” a former employee said. But there was another more Darwinian reason Li succeeded. He was one of the few willing to tolerate Sun’s constant demands and in his case, threats. Once, on a call with multiple other employees, Sun half-jokingly, half-seriously, threatened to fire Li if he didn’t do what he said. It seemed to stick with Li. Juraszek sat listening to Sun yell at Li, struggling to focus on his work. “Your hands are shaking, you have cold sweats,” he said. “Then I heard spitting.” Li screamed. Juraszek stood and looked over the cubicle wall and saw Li recoiled, holding his hand on his arm. Sun had just pummeled him. Nearly every worker I spoke to recalled only hearing a fuzzy rumor about it. But it wasn’t some strange unreality. Li later confirmed to another employee, “Justin hit me.” The violence seemed to change Li and the office. Tron refocused on a project called BT Movie. Sun pressured Li to release it as soon as possible and micromanaged him, wearing Li thin, taking his time away with his two little daughters, sometimes calling him at four in the morning with inane requests. BT Movie was a decentralized app designed to distribute videos and movies. Uploaders were rewarded with cryptocurrency. But one employee worried the design might actually encourage the distribution of pirated movies or be “gamed by hackers” who would defraud the company. The employee also said BT Movie might alarm US regulators because other illegal content might pass through Tron’s servers, like child porn. Oddly, according to Juraszek, BT Movie discussions were kept off the record or informally messaged about on DingTalk. Juraszek’s supervisor, a Chinese employee named Zhimin He, was just as concerned about BT Movie. One day, Juraszek was at his desk, when he heard an argument erupt in a nearby conference room that was so loud it cut through the electronic dance music Juraszek was listening to on his Bose noise-canceling headphones. He could see two feet where the conference room’s frosted glass ended, near the floor. It was Cong Li and Zhimin He. There was a loud crack of a laptop spiked on the table inside. Then, Juraszek heard a sound “like a punch, slap, or a strike of a hand.” Li barged out of the conference room, flinging the door wide. Juraszek saw Zhimin He, “apparently extremely disturbed and in an awkward sitting position, leaning back.” Juraszek turned to his teammates, “This is crazy what’s happening at this company. It goes on and on.” He walked to HR, hands shaking the whole way. He felt that he was crossing a threshold, putting his job at risk, and thus, his US visa. “It’s hard to explain to a non-immigrant, but that’s something that’s in the back of your head always,” he said. “If I don’t find a job within a month, I’m going to be deported.” After he detailed what happened, the HR specialist told Juraszek that if there was any retaliation, “Please let me know.” Shortly after, HR introduced a course on workplace harassment. When employees pressed Cong Li with concerns about the legality of BT Movie, he told them they “should not worry about it.” After all, “we just did the engineering.” It matched Sun’s mantra: “I think it’s okay.” Juraszek understood this as a plea of ignorance. At that point, the software supposedly wasn’t operational, but Juraszek was suspicious. He went and booted up BT Movie to inspect. It was already live, and what he saw shocked him. There was a long list of Hollywood movies available for download, starting with The Lion King, which had only been in theaters for a couple of weeks, followed by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Hobbs & Shaw, John Wick: Chapter 3, Avengers: Infinity War, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Black Panther, and others. Juraszek later learned HR inaccurately reworded his complaint about Li, so he corrected them in writing, only to be warned that, according to the employee handbook, he was “disrupting the workplace.” “My stomach sunk,” he said. “It was a confrontation of my values, my principles, what I want to accomplish.” He understood HR to be saying, “You little dude. What are you doing? That’s not your place. Just shut up and do your job.” Juraszek threw the employee handbook right back at HR, listing the litany of incidents that broke company rules. An hour later, the HR email correspondence disappeared. “As if I had never sent it.” That afternoon, Juraszek’s computer stopped working. He was told there were “server maintenance issues.” Puzzled, Juraszek poked around and discovered other people had accessed his Tron email. More emails went missing. Juraszek felt the walls closing in. He opened DingTalk, the office communication app employees feared was spyware, to screenshot evidence. He surfed to the BT Movie discussions and saw a long list of “Message deleted. Message deleted. Message deleted.” Juraszek rushed to the project manager, Tom Mao, and told him that messages were vanishing on DingTalk, and they needed to preserve evidence. Mao agreed but seemed twitchy. After they finished talking, Juraszek peered over at Mao’s screen and says he saw him deleting messages on their back-up Slack thread. “Absolute betrayal,” Juraszek said. (Mao did not reply to a request for comment.) On the train home that evening, Juraszek filled out an IC3 complaint and sent it to the cybercrime division at the FBI. Inspired by whistleblower Edward Snowden, Juraszek tried to filter out his emotions and build a methodical process for collecting evidence before he ran out of time. “There’s no real sleep,” Juraszek said. Several days later, Cong Li, HR, and Tron’s lawyer pulled Juraszek into a meeting. They accused Juraszek of “sharing company information with [at least one] third party.” He was fired. When I interviewed Juraszek, he wore a Tron T-shirt. On his computer, he showed me the source code for BT Movie, which is publicly accessible. The code shows that, as a rule, Tron takes 20 percent of all tips that users send to each other in BT Movie. The coding for the app also uses version control, which logs every single change to the code and who made it. Every person who makes a change has an identifier — a random string of letters and numbers. But they’re not random to Juraszek. He has a list of the unique identifiers that belong to the Tron employees who worked on BT Movie. He showed me that Tron employees uploaded torrents that would direct users to servers where pirated Hollywood movies lived. Then, Juraszek highlighted a bit of code that showed Tron drew the remaining 80 percent of the tips for every movie they uploaded. But were the pirated movies sitting on Tron servers? Impossible to know, Juraszek said. Tron had waded directly into one of the United States’ central grievances in the trade war: intellectual property theft. “It’s an unreal situation,” Juraszek told me, thinking back to his last days and hours at Tron. “It’s a melding of fiction and reality.” The FBI never replied to Juraszek’s complaint. In March, Cong Li resigned. In some ways, Sun had treated his right-hand lieutenant far worse than Juraszek, the whistleblower. Sun never discovered the most important reason why Li was so pliant to his every whim: Li, like Juraszek, was in the US on a work visa. A former employee said Li tried to keep his visa status carefully hidden from Sun. If Li had been fired, his family might have been forced to leave the US. If BT Movie was a liability, it was nothing compared to BT Live. It troubled multiple former employees, and Sun apparently wanted the true scope of the project kept secret. On the surface, it was just a live-stream app. In fact, BitTorrent’s brainy founder, Bram Cohen, originally coded the bare bones. “It got canned and set aside, so it had to be revived.” But it was a “bizarre” situation where the engineers didn’t really know what they were building. Sun demanded “a very, very aggressive schedule.” Employees thought the project was “cool,” but the market was saturated with live-stream apps like FaceTime, Facebook Live, and Skype. A confused former employee wondered, “What’s the selling point?” “It’s not hard to stream video to people on their phones,” another employee said. Then, management added a familiar objective: decentralize it. “And so you say that word and say, ‘Alright, now this is a really interesting problem.’” The idea was to use the BitTorrent protocol to support the live streams. There would be no central system controlling and forwarding the live streams. “And I’m thinking, man, it’d be great if during the Arab Spring this app existed because Syria was turning off the internet and stuff like that,” a former employee says. “So that’s how we got kind of amped for it.” It looked like maybe Sun was pursuing software that dissidents all over the world could only dream of. He attended most meetings and called the shots. Employees had never seen this before. “He gave us a directive, and it’s basically like, ‘Go copy BIGO Live,’” a former employee said, before adding a caveat, “I can’t say that’s a direct quote because almost all the meetings that I was in with him, he did not speak English. And there’s a translator involved.” BIGO Live is a Chinese live-streaming app with chat rooms that users watch. The viewers pay streamers with tips. BIGO Live had used India as a beachhead to get outside the Chinese market. So Tron put Richard Hall, a brash British expat and Silicon Valley veteran, on a plane to India to research BIGO Live. Employees at the time say Hall was initially excited by his findings. He surveyed streamers and discovered BIGO Live ran a sloppy operation in India that would be easy for Tron to beat. Live-streamers earned little to nothing. Since Tron needed streamers to jump-start their audience, Hall’s idea was to pay them “straight up rupees,” a former employee says. “We just give them, you know, a fair amount of money for their time. We’ll easily convert them over to using BT Live.” Then, Hall began interviewing BIGO Live streamers. Typically, they were Indian college girls looking for a side hustle. He learned they endured a daily torrent of lewd remarks. The worst offenders seemed to be wealthy oil emirs from the Gulf. A handful of BIGO Live streamers talked to me on the condition their names be withheld. They confirmed they were barraged with sexual harassment and the platform’s moderation was lacking. One streamer remembered her colleague’s headshot was photoshopped onto a naked body and circulated by a repeat offender. A shaken Hall returned to San Francisco with a simple message: “We cannot not have moderation. We must have moderation.” Hall kept pushing for moderation for several Tron projects. Later, when Hall was preparing for a $10,000 vacation cruise with his family to celebrate his 50th birthday and 20th wedding anniversary, Tron pressured him to cancel it, despite it having been approved months in advance. When Hall started sharing memos of his conversations with management, he was told, “this will not end well for you.” Ultimately, Hall was called to a meeting and fired because he was “not a fit.” He walked to a co-worker’s apartment, had a whiskey, and vowed to sue. (Richard Hall declined to comment for this story.) Sun wasn’t concerned about Hall’s discoveries in India. But former employees say BitTorrent’s CEO at the time, Jordy Berson, who was deeply involved in BT Live, made a commitment: “We will not do it unless there’s moderation.” Besides, the cost of an officeful of moderators in India was negligible. And at least in theory, BT Live wouldn’t survive a single day in the Apple or Android app stores without moderation. Sun was furious with the team’s objections. “He basically wanted to replace the entire team with the China team. He just had it. He had it with us.” San Francisco employees tried commiserating with the head of BT Live’s engineering and product team in China, whose name is Garlic. Garlic called Sun, “Laoban” or “Boss” in Mandarin, and said, “At the end of the day Boss will just do what Boss wants and you just gotta do what he says.” They doubted Garlic would resist Sun’s worst instincts. As Sun pushed forward, no one knew that someone in the San Francisco team discovered his well-kept plans for BT Live. I was told about a product designer on the BT Live team named Oscar Ko. He was an American BitTorrent employee and a churchgoer who washed the feet of San Francisco’s homeless some weekends. And he had a secret skill. “He speaks Mandarin,” a former employee says, “And I didn’t know that. And neither did anybody else on my team.” One day, Ko suddenly quit. A confused former employee asked what happened. “Talk to me offline,” Ko said. At their rendezvous, Ko told a story. Sun walked into the conference room in San Francisco during a meeting one day and explained offhand in Mandarin what his vision for BT Live was, then stood up and left. Ko understood everything. “Justin Sun wants this to be a porn app so it can get around the Chinese censorship laws and Great Firewall.” The key was exploiting the BitTorrent protocol. “Because the nature of [peer-to-peer decentralized sharing] it’s extremely hard to track down and shut down when something gets started and gets seeded and gets transmitted,” a former employee explained. “Best case scenario, people can talk about freedom, democracy, Tiananmen Square, and political reforms and all that stuff.” But it was a Pandora’s box, they explained. Anything could be live-streamed — child abuse imagery, terrorist content. “Even worse, you can have people livestreaming themselves murdering people. And the government and authorities wouldn’t have a way to shut it down.” Now, the team knew and confronted Sun. But his response shocked them. “He explicitly wanted Pandora’s box! To him, because in China, in their environment where everything is restricted, where everything is so tightly controlled, he imagined if he can open this Pandora’s box and then the government can’t shut it down. He would have an exclusive stranglehold on the market in a place where anything goes. Anything that people used to not be able to see, to do, to broadcast... Now, anyone can do that, at any point, and it’s unstoppable.” And everyone would use Tron’s cryptocurrency to buy in. The BT Live team pulled the brake lever, hard. At a meeting, they demanded Sun moderate the app. Sun walked to a whiteboard with an idea. He drew a square. Then he drew a line through the middle, it looked like the front page of a newspaper. Everything above the line, or “above the fold,” was the landing page users would see when they accessed BT Live. All completely moderated. Then, Sun pointed to the bottom half of the square. “Below the fold” is where all the unmoderated content would go. All users needed to do was scroll down. Employees in the meeting were appalled. The team even developed a $9,000 moderation toolset that could be automated. Sun barely acknowledged it. When the team leaders briefed their engineers on Sun’s moderation ploy, one engineer slammed their laptop closed and “rage quit” the meeting. Shortly after, the team demoed the app for Sun. “It’s very clear Justin doesn’t care at all. He’s totally checked out. He’s not paying attention,” a former employee believed. Nevertheless, Berson, BitTorrent’s CEO, sent an email praising the BT Live team for their hard work. He announced his resignation the next day. “He was 100 percent fired,” a former employee says. Sun transferred the project to the Chinese office, where employees suspect it could be completed later. “In my opinion, Justin Sun is an evil genius,” a former employee said. “Nothing can stop him.” Months later, Lucasz Juraszek and Richard Hall filed a lawsuit against Justin Sun: civil charges ranging from fraud to harassment to whistleblower retaliation. They demanded a public trial. Sun’s lawyers requested arbitration. The judge sided with Sun, meaning details from the case may never be public. Juraszek and Hall’s lawyers sent the lawsuit’s 52-page complaint to a US attorney at the Department of Justice in San Francisco, but they never heard back. Decentralization, as a principle, carries the irresistible promise that pervaded the early days of the internet, when it was less regulated and wasn’t saturated with surveillance. It was free in a way that still makes the era feel like a halcyon touchstone. Perhaps decentralization truly could achieve that kind of internet. But it’s extremely difficult to believe that Justin Sun is seriously aiming for such a lofty goal. His business ideas don’t aim to enhance decentralization but merely to exploit the idea for profit, regardless of the harm it could cause. What decentralization has offered Sun is a plausible ideology under which he can continue to avoid accountability. “There’s no bottom to how low he’s willing to go to achieve his goals,” a former employee said. “He doesn’t care about anybody. He doesn’t care about anything.” Wrung out and exhausted for standing up for their beliefs, a procession of employees quit or were fired. The final tragedy being that Sun took idealists and made unbelievers out of them. “I believe in the technology. I believe the technology has purposes,” one said, before thinking about the real-life consequences of how Sun wanted to implement it: “This is not something he would ever even consider.” “I have to see the human cost of all this.”

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