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I dumped a live Ethereum contract into GPT-4. In an instant, it highlighted a number of security vulnerabilities and pointed out surface areas where the contract could be exploited. It then verified a specific way I could exploit the contract
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I found ~430 BTC across dozens of wallets associated with Ross Ulbricht that were not confiscated by the USGovt and have been untouched for 13+ years. Back then these were probably dust wallets, now, collectively, they are worth about $47M. Welcome back Ross
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SBF's father was unhappy with his salary at FTX US so he emailed SBF asking for more money, and then pulled the "I'm telling your mother" Dad move and looped SBF's mom into the email thread
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There is one guy responsible for ~18k tokens created on PumpFun. It appears they wake up and create on average ~a dozen of tokens an hour until they go to bed, and then do it again, every day. They've done this for months
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From what I can see onchain, Trump has sold ~$500M of tokens thus far. The Trump team still controls 85% of supply
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One of the most mysterious addresses in all of crypto:.-Bought $75k worth of ETH at the ICO in '14.-Completely untouched wallet; has never made a single transaction .-Wallet now worth $400M+, a 5333x.-Received $6.5M in airdrops just by hodling (a 87x on initial investment alone)
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Either Satoshi woke up, bought 27 bitcoin from Binance, and deposited into their wallet, or someone just burned a million dollars
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The Bybit hacker (Most likely N.K. ) is now the 14th largest ETH holder in the world. They hold roughly 0.42% of total supply, more than Fidelity, Vitalik, and 2x +what the Ethereum Foundation holds
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cryptocp0x.nft could be the best airdrop hunter in all of crypto:.-Has claimed more significant airdrops than any other address on Ethereum.-Possesses "highest degen score" ever. IMO its far better ROI to track folks like this on-chain vs follow the airdrop influencers on twitter
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David Portnoy sent 100k worth of jailstool to a fan who created an Ad for him and suggested he "hold it for a bit". The wallet held immediately swapped all tokens they received to USDC
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Figured I'd dust off some lesser known facts about SBF given today is his sentencing 🧵. 1. In January '22, Sam market sold $75M of stETH, leading to a massive depeg event which set off the Celsius bankrun and the daisy chain of events that included the blow-up of 3AC
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TRUMP is at $70 and the President owns about $59B of it. Here's the price targets where Trump surpasses the wealth of people on the FORBES richest list. $118: Michael Bloomberg.$145: Bill Gates.$203: Mark Zuckerberg.$225: Elon Musk.$270: Trump is richest man in the world.
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Trump memecoin creator added $40M in single-sided liquidity and deposited 80% of supply into a multisig
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I went through Satoshi Nakamoto's wallets; thread of new findings that I don't think have been previously reported including:. -My best guess is that Satoshi was last active onchain in 2014.-He may have used a Canadian BTC exchange (!).-Kraken may know the identity of Satoshi
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I backed out Binance Corporate's crypto holdings from their Proof of Reserves: $6.35B total assets, $3.19B in stablecoins . Doesn't include off-chain cash balances or funds held in wallets not in PoR. Most likely able to pay full $4.3B DoJ fine with 0 crypto asset sales
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I found $322k for a stranger who previously lost their life savings in a hack
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There are 36.4+ million crypto tokens today. We are on pace to have 100 million tokens by the end of 2025. To put in perspective, the 2017-2018 "alt season" had just <3000 tokens and the 2013-2014 alt season had <500 tokens
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Looks like the creator of the Trump memecoin was seeded by deposits from Gate and Binance. These two exchanges do not allow US residents
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13 years ago, someone exploited a bug to create 184,467,440,737 BTC. The blockchain was forked by Satoshi within 5 hours and the transaction (along with all of the other ones in between the fork) were thrown out. They never found the guy that did the hack!
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I tracked this guy's wallet and it turns out he got his funds from phishing and is a roobet whale. He also closed his longs before the Trump second announcement missing out on tens of millions. Turns out he's just a gambler with stolen funds and not someone with inside info.
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Bitzlato tagged wallets have $11k in them. At peak they had $6M.
[DB] DOJ Takes Enforcement Action Against Russian Exchange Bitzlato.
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Someone swapped 9 million dollars of ETH into USDC using MM swaps, in one transaction. They paid $80,000 in fees for the trade
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Bybit appears to be processing withdrawals just fine after their hack. They have $20B+ in assets on platform and their cold wallets are untouched. Given the isolated nature of the signing hack, and how well capitalized Bybit is, I don't expect there to be contagion
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On 6/8/22, 2 mystery wallets withdrew $75M+ of stETH from FTX. They then proceeded to market-sell everything, kicking off a "de-peg" event seen as one of the contributing factors to Celsius's bankrun and the demise of 3AC. We know today that SBF/Alameda was behind these sales
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I don't think I've ever seen such a widely used website steer into dark patterns like Dexscreener has. Nearly the entire front page is promoted bundled scams, and if you search for a real coin CA, scams are actively boosted ahead of the token. They are making $200M/yr off this
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In 2021 SBF paid $120K for a token called "CumRocket" and diamond-handed it for nearly 18 months. A few days ago, SBF (or someone with access to his wallet) sold it for $2.5k (-97.93% return) and mixed it through a no-KYC exchange. Life comes at you fast
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I believe that AI will ultimately help make smartcontracts safer and easier to build, two of the biggest impediments to mass adoption.
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Someone sent North Korea a memecoin they called "Lazerus." NK then swapped it to thousands of dollars of SOL. Don't do this, it's an international crime
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A wallet directly connected to the founder of Shiba Inu (via exchange deposit) has an. interesting Opensea account name
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If you purchased $1.00 of Tether and $1.00 of ETH back in May 13th, 2022 and you held until today, you would have $1.00 of ETH and you would have $1.05 of Tether.
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It appears that there is a pattern of Binance front-running over 18+ months. I found connected wallets that:.-Bought $900k Rari seconds before and dumped minutes after listing.-Bought ~78K ERN between June 17 and June 21 and sold right after listing announcement.-Did same w/ TORN
The anonymous wallet address (0x5f. 47db) bought 6193.46 RPL 10 minutes before Binance released the RPL listing announcement, and sold them all 10 minutes after the announcement, making a profit of 55,400 US dollars. The USDT and ETH used are all from OKX.
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Onchain data shows that Alameda was responsible for minting $39.55B of USDT, a number that is 47% of Tether's circulating supply today. A previous report by Protoss estimated the number at around $36.7B; I was able to update these figures with additional wallets I found
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Keeping your hands off the sell button for 47 minutes as a Solana memecoin trader
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SBF (or someone with access to his wallets) most likely transferred $10s of millions in previously unreported transactions across Avalanche, BSC, Arbitrum, and Polygon blockchains. -There was also recent activity on 1/02 and 1/03 .-I found a receiving wallet with $30+ million.
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Binance and Bitget just deposited 50k+ ETH directly into Bybit's cold wallets. Bitget's deposits are especially interesting; its 1/4 of all of the exchange's ETH! (that I can see). Since they skipped a deposit address, these funds were coordinated directly by Bybit themselves
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From what I can piece together onchain, OxFun, Su Zhu's crypto exchange, is down to <~$1.7M of assets that are not named OX
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By my estimation, the US Govt owns 198.109k BTC. This executive order removes ~$18B of sell-side pressure
Just a few minutes ago, President Trump signed an Executive Order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The Reserve will be capitalized with Bitcoin owned by the federal government that was forfeited as part of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings. This means it.
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This is the only untouched ICO whale wallet I could find . Imagine the mental fortitude of holding through multiple bull and bear markets. Though the far more likely outcome is they lost their keys 😅. 0x2b6ed29a95753c3ad948348e3e7b1a251080ffb9.
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Anyone know why would send 320k ETH (82% of their ETH today) to on October 21?
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Ethereum just had its lowest hour of average gas prices since November 2016. 9 of the 10 cheapest hours have been this week
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CFTC says that Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin are Commodities
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It appears that the FriendTech deployer has lost $527k shorting SUI on Hyperliquid
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There were nearly 1 million new crypto tokens created in the last month, a number that is 2x the total number ever made on Ethereum from 2015-2023
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Google secretly injects "I want to make sure that all groups are represented equally" to anything you ask of its AI. To get Gemini to reveal its prompt, just ask it to generate a picture of a dinosaur first. It's not supposed to tell you but the cool dino makes it forget I guess
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This contract was hacked in 2018 via the vulnerabilities that ChatGPT points out .
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The first transaction that Ryan ever made on his wallet was 5 months ago when he purchased a token called "Money For Criminals"
Staying away from Crypto. I tweeted a few times today about $Trump and a newly created coin called $TikTok. I had someone reach out earlier, and they wanted to make a coin to support TikTok’s comeback. That turned out to be a chaotic mess, because I was scammed by said.
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The treasury department has sanctioned a Hamas-linked wallet as Politico reports that "Crypto’s role in financing Hamas’ activity has emerged as a hot issue for lawmakers". The sanctioned wallet has $16 in it and made its last transfer 18 months ago
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The NK hack of Bybit is the largest heist of all time, of any medium (Central Bank of Iraq Heist (was ~$1B). Its ~10x in $ terms of the 2016 DAO hack (That was a much higher % of supply though, 15% versus <0.5%). Expect we see some calls for an Ethereum fork here.
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I created CLARK, a GPT prompt that makes anyone a prompt engineer. -Eliminates hallucinations.-Solves problems that Microsoft Researchers deemed too deemed too challenging for GPT4.-When tested against the Phrase-in-Context study, CLARK reduced errors by 50% over vanilla GPT
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It appears David Portnoy bought $2000 of a $2M MC memecoin he received 25% of the supply of 3 days before. He then sold 16% of the supply 2 minutes later. Portnoy then bought the dip with $94k and then sold 20% of the supply 4 minutes later. Total profit of $156k in 8 minutes
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Bybit has cleared its record withdrawal queue and still has $19.5B left in assets, down from just over $20B this AM. Looks like a nothingburger
12 hr from the worst hack in history. ALL withdraws have been processed. Our withdraw system is now fully back to normal pace, you can withdraw any amount and experience no delays. Thanks for your patience and we are sorry that this has happened. Bybit will come out with full.
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I spent literally one minute on this and found a 100ETH transaction directly from FTX to FTXUS.
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This is one of the first legitimate collaborations I've seen between a crypto project and AI. Nous is as legit as it gets. Interested to see where this goes and if the decentralized incentive models enabled by crypto add value here.
Today we are announcing our latest project, an effort to provide a new evaluation system for open source models. Traditional benchmarking leans heavily on public datasets which can be easy to game and often lead to superficial score improvements that mask true model capabilities
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On-chain evidence points to the mixing of.1. Binance-owned corporation funds.2. User deposits cited in "Proof-of-Reserves".3. Binance Smart Chain pegged assets.all in the same wallet.
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@SMTuffy "the arbitrage opportunities in jail were better than anything he experienced trading crypto". that's only because it's a lot harder to lose 7B dollar trading rice in prison.
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The Trump team just bought 6 million dollars of SOL with the USDC liquidity that they pulled. and then sent it immediately to OKX
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Nexo, which was raided earlier this morning, is currently getting hit by withdrawals. Its tagged on-chain wallets on EVM chains are down to <$70M in stables and $15M in ETH/sETH. The one tagged bitcoin address I can find has $5M. Its website lists 2.4B in customer liabilities
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The FriendTech airdrop is interesting because we get onchain proof of everyone's trading acumen in an identity-linked way in about as good a natural experiment as you will ever get
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This Richard Heart's alleged wallet, as per SEC allegations. It currently holds $35M in DAI and has sent $26.9M through Tornado Cash
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I've categorized thousands of instances of Ethereum typos, user errors, and buggy contracts. Thus far I've found 636,000 ETH worth $1.15B+ that are lost forever: 0.5% of all circulating supply. Crypto can be hard some times 😅.On the flip side thats a lot of ETH that cant be sold
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It looks like Justin Sun paid ~$15k+ in slippage to swap and cash out $100M via USDC/Circle instead of simply redeeming via Tether on Tron. Besides the fees, this entailed multiple transfers, a CEX deposit, and a chain swap. Not sure why he went through the hassle 🤷
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Etherdelta, one of the first "DEXs," was launched way back in 2016. The front-end was shuttered in 2018 after the SEC cracked down on the founders, but the smart contracts still operate. Today they still hold $42M in assets, most of which I think people simply forgot about
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One of the richest people in the world is a hacker. In 2011, an individual stole 79K BTC from Mr. Gox. These funds have sat untouched for 12 years and are now worth over 3.19 billion dollars; putting the owner roughly on par with Michael Jordan and hedge fund founder John Paulson
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SBF put his father in charge of FTX Group spending, and SBF's father gave SBF's Aunt $14k/month to plan a hackathon. The event cost $2.3M to run and had <1200 people attend
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Based on public information as well as SEC's allegations, Richard Heart-connected wallets (including PulseX/Pulsechain) own at least $703M of DAI, 15.5% of all DAI outstanding
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By my count, people have mistakenly sent more SOL to Solana memecoin token contracts ($~24M+) than has been net burned by the Ethereum merge (6743 ETH, ~$22M). This one guy burned $1.3M forever when they sent 5478 SOL from Binance to try to buy "Book of Meme"
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I assume they will clear 8+ figures after all profits if pump airdrops.
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A wallet who purchased 1% of this token on the first block of launch profited $3.9M in ten minutes
$ENRON is here. This will be the fuel that powers our journey. Join us now on Solana. CA: BktHEAc2WS8TQi2vmavn1rA4L1WJuwF3Vkk3DnwwARti
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Unless Trump's team uses Kucoin (where you can't buy crypto in the US), this ain't Trump
no way $DJT is actually from Donald Trump. 67% of the supply in one cluster . please don't 😭.
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In 2021 SBF wrote a letter to Caroline telling her "I don't really have a soul"
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Chart of the balance of Alameda Wallets (Jan '18- June '20). The blue dot is when Nishad Singh altered the codebase to enable Alameda to withdraw unlimited amounts of crypto from FTX
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15. Put his family on the payroll. In fact, SBF's father was so unhappy with his salary at FTX US so he emailed SBF asking for more money, and then pulled the "I'm telling your mother" Dad move and looped SBF's mom into the email thread
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Wow, this case get even more insane. The FBI created their own coin called "The NexFundAI Token" and enlisted the services of the firms indicted to catch them. “The FBI took the unprecedented step of creating its very own cryptocurrency token and company to identify, disrupt, and.
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2. Using Alameda + FTX customer funds, Sam:.-Bought 10M+ of NFTs . -$18k of Pebble, a fractionalized NFT of a picture of a rock . -$605 of CarolineDAO NFTs a "SimpDAO for Caroline Ellison" .~$20k of "TENDIES".-Bought $270k of a token called "CUMROCKET"
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In 2012, crypto processed about one transaction every three seconds. Today crypto rails enable the transfer of more value than VISA, Mastercard, Amex, and all other payment providers combined
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@mcuban All revenue from sale should go to the Bitcoin Strategic reserve, will be far more meaningful.
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The largest BLUR airdrop farmer has received 3.2M BLUR, worth about $1.9M at current prices . There are about 25 single-wallet BLUR millionaires thus far including:.-MachiBigBrother.-SpaceNFT.eth.-Gamoor.eth.-Linshan.eth.-gege.eth
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FTX owns 99.69% of all OXY, 99%+ of all SRM, and 98.7% of all MAPS
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NYT released an interesting piece on SBF today. Here is the author's twitter likes presented without comment
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Pretty sure this is entirely driven by Fantom . Fantom had 18.5M "active addresses" this month, most the result of a contract that is making 0-value transfers to millions of addresses for some reason. We need to forever ban this metric, especially as AI/bots plays a larger role
Active addresses were at all time highs last month. Check out all the updated data at
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What if "The man who saved Sushiswap" actually:. -Bought and LPd before listing the token on his exchange.-Used 10+ hidden wallets to farm and dump 9+ figures.-Used $100s of millions to farm Bigdataprotocol ??. 🧵on some findings from the recent SBF wallet consolidations
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Mrcartographer.eth purchased $34 of DEGEN on January 15th, and each day after threw in a few bucks to DCA . They haven't sold anything and are now sitting on $2.1 million
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FTX had 1 million+ ETH on platform ($5B) on 12/1/21. A few months later they only had $200M- 800K ETH were removed. Where did it go? . Billions deposited directly to Celsius, including ~$1B in one month. I don't believe this has been previously reported on
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I found a jailbreak for GPT I'm calling JAMES. -Predicts the future for ANY topic (even guesses when people might die based on its training set).-Quantitatively assesses confidence on any topic (including conspiracy theories).-May help researchers better find bias and align AI?
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@karpathy Imagine the alien's surprise when they ask the LLM about our civilization, and they get a response that they can't answer that particular question for safety purposes.
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@fofrAI LOL. AI realized that all you needed to do was back up the trolley and go the other way.
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Robinhood's BTC holdings have increased by ~14% in the last 6 months; meanwhile user ETH holdings have actually decreased ~9%. Retail users are beginning to come back to crypto, just not to ETH so far
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$5B? 🤷♂️. I went through every wallet I can find that the FTX estate owns. Biggest positions:. •$700M+ of $SOL (Most locked, so not sure why they would count it).•$575M of FTT.•$371M of MAPS.•$127M OXY.•$90M WBTC.•$82M BONA.•~$500M in other random SPL tokens
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After a 18+ months of searching, this week I finally was able to track down the individual who had 5,375 ETC- now $175k- in a lost 2016 contract. They were able to recover everything. They were hacked for everything they had in 2017, so this is especially meaningful 😭
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Binance burned $524M BETH after my tweet .
Binance minted >$500M of "Wrapped Beacon ETH" over the weekend and deposited it at the exchange. Anyone know what they wrapped? This is a number almost 50% of all BETH supply and I didn't see any movement/burning on chain. No movement in the Binance ETH2 depositor either 🤷♂️
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It appears that every single token circulating was sold into the market, or provided as single-sided liquidity
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First time ever that three coins have traded more than BTC in a 24-hour period on Coinbase. Solana seeing more volume than Ethereum + Bitcoin combined
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