ECP: NetHappenings NewsLetter Headlines 8-16-23
#Hiring #BTC #ETH #Wanxiang #China
#HIRING
Future of Privacy Forum @futureofprivacy #hiring
Apply for FPF’s Elise Berkower Fellowship! Applications are due October 8, 2023. Get all the details and information to apply
Federation of American Scientists @FAScientists
What would an Energy Security Workforce Training (ESWT) Initiative do? Improve the nation’s ability to advance the clean energy transition quickly and effectively, among other benefits.
https://fas.org/publication/talent-pipeline-for-the-clean-energy-transition/
#BTC, #ETH,#Wanxiang #China
Europe’s First Spot Bitcoin ETF Lists in Amsterdam
The Jacobi FT Wilshere Bitcoin ETF is regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) and will trade under the ticker “BCOIN.”
SEC delays set deadlines for Bitcoin ETF approval to early 2024
How Bitcoin Fixes Big Government Matthew R. Kratter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUW6Pw14qUQ
In this video, I discuss how Bitcoin fixes big government and its overreach by helping to defund it and normalize its size vs the overall economy.
When government is too big, everything becomes politicized, as people seek to weaponize the government against their enemies or use it as a slush fund for their business
Coinbase securing approval from the NFA to operate as a Futures Commission Merchant in the U.S. @coinbase can now offer futures contracts in $BTC and $ETH to eligible customers.
TruthLabs @BoringSleuth Time for a thread
Wanxiang themselves, on their own Website, state that they represent Wanxiang China and act as a entity for US Citizens to deal with them via USD and US Contracts.
Wanxiang, who is THEE Whale behind Ethereum, Prometheum, Longling Capital and a dozen other Ethereum Whale entities, doesn’t even hide who they are on their Website. On their homepage, they state: “Wanxiang America Corporation, The United States Incorporated offices of WANXIANG CHINA.”
If you haven’t heard, @PatrickMcHenry and the @FinancialCmte today called on the @secgov and @finra to explain their shady approval of Prometheum as the only Special Purpose Broker-Dealer for Digital Assets. In the letters to the @SECGov and @FINRA, the @financialcmte talks about the concerning tie between Prometheum and Wanxiang, along with a number of concerns as to why/how this CCP associated company secured the only SPBD to date for Digital assets. In January, I told the world how it was Wanxiang that was behind Ethereum. In April, I called out Gary Gensler of the SEC for teaching a false History on Ethereum at MIT, not once mentioning the backing of the CCP. In July, I let the world know that Prometheum purchased and owned the Crypto Address’: KillTrump.eth and KillTrump.Crypto This is not a joke. Both the SEC and FINRA overlooked this and awarded them LONE access to our markets. Dr. Feng, who is head of Hashkey, setup/funded Longling Capital, Wanxiang Blockchain, and was the original funder of some of Huobi’s exchange wallets doesn’t believe the Crypto they issue needs to be backed by “any underlying assets, and the credibility of the Chinese Government alone is enough to compete with, and even outcomplete, any stable digital currency issuer in the current market”.
MIT & ETHEREUM ICO
Today, when I was documenting the Top 20 Inbound address’ from Kraken’s main address, I found a couple of very interesting things.
1. The Top 20 address’, that sent ETH inbound to Kraken represent almost 10% of Ethereums total supply.
2. Among the Top 20 OUTBOUND address’ is an MIT address! These 3 address received over 290K $ETH! Guess who else is connected to these address’? None other than Wanxiang! As you know Wanxiang is connected to Prometheum, who Gensler, the SEC, and FINRA gave the LONE Special Dealer Broker License for Digital Assets to. As you know, Gary Gensler taught his Blockchain History course at MIT, in which he omitted the Chinese connections to Ethereum from the course. Who owns these wallets?
0x955F150B6FA6260D001AB08b7C20b5d924f43fd2
https://twitter.com/BoringSleuth/status/1691612067025879427
I just found a transaction where Wanxiang sent 2,322 Ethereum to web.MIT.edupayment.eth This could get interesting. Think its MIT? I do. https://twitter.com/BoringSleuth/status/1691643512507257146/photo/1
Protos.com Tether Papers
Tether boasted a $1 billion market capitalization when Bitcoin hit $20,000 at the end of 2017. This year, it’s a $70 billion-plus powerhouse. The makeup of Tether’s reserves and its inner workings are yet to be disclosed in clear detail. Still, the question of who exactly buys Tether directly from its parent company Bitfinex has remained unanswered since its inception way back in 2014.
Binance files for protective order against SEC
U.S. regulators sued Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao in June for allegedly operating a “web of deception,” listing 13 charges including claims the company artificially inflated its trading volumes, diverted customer funds, failed to restrict U.S. customers from its platform and misled investors about its market surveillance controls.
Cumberlands ties to Wanxiang are very concerning. they appear tied to the hip from the very Genesis of of Ethereum. Knowing that Cumberland is the #2 minter of Tether, mostly directly thru Binance (per @protos), only behind the defunct fraud @AlamedaResearch, is even more… https://t.co/DS8wCfC47T
— TruthLabs 🫡 (@BoringSleuth) August 15, 2023
SAM BANKMAN FRIED
@DOJCrimDiv files superseding indictment against @SBF_FTX that alleges Bankman-Fried directed more than $100M in illegal campaign contributions to Democrats and Republicans.
This indictment alleges that SBF lobbied members of Congress and “other high-level government officials to promote cryptocurrency regulation that would favor his business and personal interests.” This may make Gary Gensler a witness. Which means SBF’s lawyers would be able to cross-examine Gensler under oath at trial.
No wonder Gensler’s been doing all he can to “crackdown” on crypto – the guy’s trying to cover his own back, it was never about protecting investors and always only about protecting his own neck. SBF put GG and the rest of those involved against the wall. Well played unless this trial is pushed to post 2024 election. Perhaps leading to the rumors of No Clarity Gary being replaced by Hester Pierce.
RENT STABILIZTION LAW
@jul1arock writes about a billionaire-backed (and corruption-prone) Supreme Court case that could spell the “end of New York City”
FRIENDS OF THE COURT ask SCOTUS to RAISE RENTS Billionaire real estate interests
Bezos-Backed Startup Lets You Become A Landlord With $100
https://www.benzinga.com/real-estate/22/10/29268850/bezos-backed-startup-lets-you-become-a-landlord-with-100-dollars
Clarence Thomas’ Billionaire Benefactor Tied To SCOTUS Bombshell
At least one group petitioning the court to take the case has substantial ties to both Harlan Crow, the GOP megadonor and Justice Clarence Thomas benefactor, and Paul Singer, the hedge fund billionaire who provided an undisclosed private jet flight to Justice Samuel Alito.
The Supreme Court just gutted wetland protections after lobbying by Harlan Crow’s business interests.
#IP / #PRIVACY
Food Wars You can’t label it feta:
Europe ignites food war with US, demanding that only cheeses produced in their origin region can use ‘historically trademarked’ names.
India enacted the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (#DPDP) on August 11, completing a major milestone in its years-long journey towards a comprehensive data protection law.
TOP IT ALL OFF WITH
Grocery prices rose in July by the most since early this year, and those costs are 23% higher than they were at the start of the pandemic, per Bloomberg.
The current #1 track on iTunes that zoomed to the top of the charts in less than a week is an antigovernment folk song from an off-grid farmer. Let that sink in.
The 14th Amendment has already disqualified him from running for office.
Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan should follow Georgia’s lead in pursuing criminal charges against MAGA sedition plot leaders who tried to overturn their elections as well in 2020.
After all the public investment in the research and production of vaccines, I just had to leave the pharmacy without my daughter’s shots because the flu is $68 and COVID is $110. Who can afford $178 PER KID for shots before the school year starts??
It took almost two weeks for Twitter to turn over Donald Trump’s pronouns to DOJ.
4 indictments,
91 FELONY charges,
2 impeachments,
1 act of sedition, and
threatening civil war.
26 women alleging sexual assault.
1.13 million Americans dead from Covid.
And he is the front runner of the ReTHUGlican Party.
A RICO indictment calls him out as the head of a criminal enterprise, a statute often used for mob bosses and organized crime. There are still 147 members of Congress who voted not to certify the results.