1/ It’s unfortunate I have to make this thread but I am being sued by MachiBigBrother for an article I published in June 2022.
Today Machi filed the defamation lawsuit. The lawsuit is baseless and an attempt to chill free speech. I intend to fight back & defend free speech.
1/ An investigation into how crypto influencer
@thecryptolark
promotes low cap projects to his audience just to dump on them shortly after.
Let’s dive in.
@Safety
@SECGov
Hi
@GaryGensler
this is a reminder to secure your financial accounts as well as protect against identity theft and fraud.
Remember to:
🔒Use strong passphrases or passwords
🔒Set up multifactor authentication
🔒Keep account alerts turned on
#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth
Putting final touches this week on an investigation I have been working on for 15+ months.
By far my biggest project to date and I look forward to sharing it soon.
Expect no other new posts in the meantime.
1/ Let’s review all the direct scams Bitboy has worked with in the past. Just in case you forgot here is the flyer with how much he charges.
I received this a while back by posing as a project interested in a promotion.
🧵 👇
Got bored and tracked the ROI on Bitboy 100x/moonshot videos for all of 2021 for 30 days, 90 days, & YTD.
Will be finally sharing the results of my findings tomorrow.
1/ I am very happy to share the FBI seized crypto, BAYC 9658, AP watch, and Doodle 3114 from the phishing scammer known as Horror (HZ) aka Chase Senecal as a result of my thread.
1/ An investigation into how the influencer Crypto Rover ghosted a project he was paid to promote, mislead followers about his trading positions, and also his shills for pump and dump meme coins.
Stop giving these liars a platform to be heard. Am tired of constantly seeing simp tweets for the people who’ve hurt so many in this space. You’re a part of the problem. Once they reimburse victims then we can maybe have that conversation of a comeback.
1/ This needs to be shared
@0xSifu
is the Co-founder of QuadrigaCX, Michael Patryn. If you are unfamiliar that is the Canadian exchange that collapsed in 2019 after the founder Gerald Cotten disappeared with $169m
I have confirmed this with Daniele over messages.
1/ Throughout this year I have been monitoring someone who has withdrawn 11,200+ ETH ($25M) from Tornado Cash and spent the majority of it on Magic The Gathering (MTG) trading cards.
Here’s my analysis of where the funds went and what the potential source of funds could be.
1/ I’ve received a couple requests for this but here is a master thread of all the different threads I’ve created on shady actors in the space so far.
It is in descending order and will updated periodically.
Enjoy.
👇
30.1K BTC ($2.1B) of Silk Road hack funds controlled by US government is on the move right now.
0.001 BTC ($69) transferred to a Coinbase deposit address so it’s a test transfer possibly.
txn hash
9c3af4b48e66565f1da1da8278036fa1dbb09f2beaaca99c3504475390ba4590
Coinbase…
BALD deployer is potentially revealed here.
Two days ago I noticed they had sent Mike $50K back in 2021 and reached out to him to ask who it might be.
0x0b6e7d5668c4a0a8e13d618b1ffc4406d079141e022381aad379040518dec285
Glad to see he shared this info.
1/ Recently
@0x_fxnction
had his wallet compromised for $240k (2349 SOL). Shortly after my notifications blew up with people tagging me to investigate.
Here’s the story of where the funds went, how I was able to recover a portion of it, & who’s potentially behind the attack
Yesterday morning at 1:30 AM, my wallet was compromised for 2349 $SOL.
First off, I know this is gone. Nothing can be done. Not looking to hunt it down or throw a pity party.
I'm more interested in learning what happened so it doesn't happen again.
Let's take a look 👇
Remember when influencers with a lot of followers start shilling a project launch at the same time it is likely bc they have allocation and will dump their cheap tokens on you.
@BenArmstrongsX
@HitNetwork_
How about all the people who lost money as a direct result of you promoting sketchy projects and more recently meme coins?
Unfollow and block all of the influencers who were shilling you any of these vaporware projects to you as the next bluechip (
@CryptoGodJohn
,
@TheCryptoKazi
,
@crypto_TomTom
,
@cryptostasher
, etc)
$scale - ScaliaInfra (-95.3% 24hrs)
$tpu - TensorSpace_Ai (-96.3% 24 hrs)
$ntd -…
If I make a post before devs or insiders dump their tokens then people say i
I am trying to harm them with FUD.
If I wait and sit on that info until after insiders or devs sell then people tag or DM me saying I should have done something.
Just cannot win.
In May 2023 the rank 1 DeGods NFT was stolen from a victim after visiting a phishing site and sold for $177K (99 ETH).
I am pleased to share I was able to help recover a decent chunk of the stolen funds which have now been returned back to the victim.
While recovery can be a…
I have been borderline harassed by
@IRS_CI
agents on 4-5 occasions now in the past few months with a blatant disregard for any professionalism so I have decided to now share this publicly.
They have shown up irl to old addresses, contacted personal emails using private data,…
Over the past 1.5 months one person has created 114 meme coin scams.
Each time stolen funds from the scam are sent to the exact same deposit address.
0x739c58807B99Cb274f6FD96B10194202b8EEfB47
1/ Time for an investigation into the
@beeple
Twitter hack which resulted in $450k+ stolen, where those funds are now, and tracking down the three people responsible.
Let’s jump in.
I am pleased to share
@pokerbrat2019
aka Robert Robb was arrested earlier today in Las Vegas according to Henderson Police records.
In December 2023 I made a post detailing how he stole $1.2M+ from 11 individuals and exposed his prior criminal history of fraud. Since then I…
I have received an increasing number of threatening DMs since my recent investigative article was published. Don’t plan on going anywhere but at the end of the day personal safety does come first.
Love you CT.
Only 1 month has passed and 12 of the Solana presale meme coins have been completely abandoned after raising >180,650 SOL ($26.7M).
Would avoid any future projects launched by these founders.
I sincerely meant this and as a result will be officially ending community requests for research moving forward.
It has been a nice ride the past 22+ months and I’ve been more than generous with my time. Some of you forget I am a volunteer.
It’s getting very tiresome of people demanding I spend hours of my time helping them out. I have a never ending list of requests.
In the past I’ve not charged for my time and only have accepted donations but in the future this potentially may change if it continues.
1/2 Really am unsure how much longer I can continue doing this. It’s been fun but burnout is a real thing and it has taken a toll on other aspects of my life.
I’ve tried taking a break but unfortunately it didn’t really help much at all.
Not that people in this space will care but
@GROKERC20
$GROK was created by a scammer.
Same exact X/Twitter account has been reused for at least one other scam.
X/Twitter ID: 1690060301465714692
Hello
@MarioNawfal
why is my name appearing in a deck to shill your marketing services when I have never done paid promotions or spoken with your IBC team?
Unless you count my services as the times I called you out for spreading misinformation during the FTX incident.
Remember when KSI posted
“All of a sudden, my $XCAD bag is looking juicy again.
#HodlGang
”
Then proceeded to dump $850,000 worth of XCAD over the following days from his wallet address.
1/2 North Korea’s Lazarus Group had a very busy weekend moving $63.5m (~41000 ETH) from the Harmony bridge hack through Railgun before consolidating funds and depositing on three different exchanges.
1/ An investigation into the French dev Jolan Lacroix who recently stole $900K from the TICKER presale on Base before spending the funds on meme coins and Milady NFTs.
Community Alert: The group of scammers who stole 8 figs with Magnate, Kokomo, Lendora, Solfire, etc is back with a new project on Blast
@Leaperfinance
Last week they funded an address on Blast with ~$1M of laundered funds from the previous rugs and have begun adding liquidity…
Another day another influencer
@DannyCrypt
dumping on their followers undisclosed
He received 2% of the supply to assist with marketing but within 15 minutes of receiving the tokens market dumped the majority of them for $57k (31 ETH)
Meanwhile he tweeted “hodling my HODL coin”
It appears
@Ripple
was hacked for ~213M XRP ($112.5M)
Source address
rJNLz3A1qPKfWCtJLPhmMZAfBkutC2Qojm
So far the stolen funds have been laundered through MEXC, Gate, Binance, Kraken, OKX, HTX, HitBTC, etc
While I do appreciate the gesture I am not keen on keeping controversial donations so I have donated $10K USDT to charity
@SavetheChildren
via
@TheGivingBlock
0x73249d34d01a0dd2c43521a34304ddf3a8cbc62e7a685dd29c2a8547c1c2c199
@zachxbt
Hey bro, I just send you $10,000. Keep up the good work for this industry, buy your mom some flowers and take your father out for a nice dinner
1/ I have seen a ton of misinformation being spread on Twitter and in the news about the FTX event so let me debunk the three most common things I’ve seen
“Bahamian officials are behind the FTX hack”
“Exchanges know who the hacker is”
“FTX hacker is trading meme coins”
So
@Pixelmon
raised over $70m at 3 ETH per mint just for them to reveal like this. I think it’s fair to say all the buyers were rugged.
Stop supporting cash grab NFT projects.
@NFTbark
crypto was founded on anon culture and there is nothing better than not needing to know the location, gender, language, etc of the person I interact with on a daily basis and instead base it on the work you actually do.
*mutes post*
All of my work is done solely with donations so if you find my work helpful any support is appreciated.
Address:
0x9D727911B54C455B0071A7B682FcF4Bc444B5596
ZachXBT.eth
Gitcoin:
A short investigation into how
@kyledegods
faked a hack and stole SOL from his project
@NuddiesNFT
before spending it on NFTs and lying to holders about how devastated he was about the incident.
On March 3, 2024 Kyle made a post in his Discord server claiming his wallets had…
@neil_xbt
I just followed the money and determined you should never write a thread again.
0x063e is an exchange address related to the service Sardine.
Let’s check in on a few of the recent presale coins
-7000 SOL sent to
@Sartoshi0x
who secretly pocked 62% of SOL from presale & did not fully distribute tokens
-2100 SOL sent to
@Jared_eth
a fake Jared MEV bot account (people sent another fake Jared account $440K for a presale…
Hundreds of millions of dollars are now flowing out of FTX wallets, some speculate liquidators but it's late on a friday night, not typical times for such rapid heavy movements. Some withdrawals are being swapped from Tether to DAI. Hack or insider actions? $26 million here
1/ It’s time we take a deep dive into how
@cryptomanran
@crypto_banter
have continuously lied to their audience by using them for exit liquidity to dump low tier private sale allocations
He claims they have an ethics policy they abide by but I will show you how it’s not the case
1/ It’s time we take a deep dive into how
@cryptomanran
@crypto_banter
have continuously lied to their audience by using them for exit liquidity to dump low tier private sale allocations
He claims they have an ethics policy they abide by but I will show you how it’s not the case
@zachxbt
You’ve probably realized, we won’t waste time responding to baseless allegations made by anon Twitter accounts . Our ethics are clear-
We are audited annually & the findings will be made public.
Send the auditors your concerns - they will do their work.
1/ Well all too often NFT scammers decide to stick around on Twitter and this group sadly is no different.
Four people from Croatia have rugged 9 different projects since September 2021 & have stolen at least $2.8m all together.
Let’s dive in.
Over the past four months $13.3M+ has been stolen as a result of 54 SIM swaps targeting people in the crypto space.
When an account is compromised scammers attempt to create a sense of urgency with a fake claim to drain your assets.
Never use SMS 2FA and instead use an…
Almost 473k total followers between ProTheDoge, Borovik, Fity yet they happen to shill low cap garbage called BAYC2.0 at the same time.
>Borovik says he sold after 12 min
>$6k liq and $17k mkt cap
Thanks for the masterclass in how to rekt your followers.
1/ Cameron Redman is the alleged person responsible for the hacked NFT Twitter accounts over the past few months
Does the name ring any bells? Well it should bc in February 2020 he SIM swapped a single person for $37 million worth of Bitcoin & Bitcoin Cash
Time for a thread
1/ Part 1 of an breakdown into how
@TraderNJ1
@PetaByteCapital
have deceived multiple projects by leveraging the names of other influencer to obtain free tokens from CBOT and BABYSHIB to dump on followers undisclosed.
If you haven’t realized already the influencer life cycle is:
1) Larp as a expert/trader
2) Gain followers
3) Do paid shills undisclosed for 1-2 cycles
5) Get rich off your followers & become a “thought leader”
6) Lie about how you did it
Ex: Ran,Bitboy,Birb,Nekoz,Scott Melker
Here is proof Trader SZ is larp who relies on shilling garbage.
SZ received AIOZ for his allocation which was immediately dumped for $180k
SZ then made a video mapping out his trigger entries with targets.
Why would you post a trade plan if you had already sold your tokens?
1/ Since Dec 2021 we’ve seen 600+ Discord servers compromised & 12+ NFT related Twitter accounts hacked as well. This has resulted in millions of dollars being stolen.
Welcome to part 2 of tracking down the people responsible.
1/ Cameron Redman is the alleged person responsible for the hacked NFT Twitter accounts over the past few months
Does the name ring any bells? Well it should bc in February 2020 he SIM swapped a single person for $37 million worth of Bitcoin & Bitcoin Cash
Time for a thread
@GrindingPoet
It’s been an hour lol. I’ll give you $10,000 if you can find and prove an undisclosed promo. They don’t exist.
We haven’t even done a sponsored video since January and we are never doing coin promotions again. You are living in the past man. Stuck in 2006.
Four different devs hired by the Munchables team and linked to the exploiter are likely all the same person as they:
>recommended each other for the job
>regularly transferred payments to the same two exchange deposit addresses >funded each others wallets
Github Username…
One thread revealing the identity of a serial NFT scammer coming tomorrow.
I will then be away for some time as I put the final touches on something I’ve been working on for 7 months now.
Community Alert: There is currently a fake
@Ledger
Live app on the official
@Microsoft
App Store which was resulted in 16.8+ BTC ($588K) stolen
Scammer address
bc1qg05gw43elzqxqnll8vs8x47ukkhudwyncxy64q
It’s getting very tiresome of people demanding I spend hours of my time helping them out. I have a never ending list of requests.
In the past I’ve not charged for my time and only have accepted donations but in the future this potentially may change if it continues.
An account impersonating
@blknoiz06
phished >$2.6M today just by replying to each of his posts taking advantage of the recent meme coin craze.
The largest single victim lost ~$1.2M.
Theft address
BUYgBfavHoGbfGYseyTWpzqKNeeYFjoJsgxiQcH4in4v
Hi
@retlqw
since you deactivated your account after I messaged you.
I've traced addresses back to your account from the
@Platypusdefi
exploit and I am in touch with their team and exchanges.
We’d like to negotiate returning of the funds before we engage with law enforcement.
I am very pleased to share that today it was publicly revealed another one of my investigations on the $6.3m NFT rug pull Animoon is currently under criminal investigation by the French authorities.
1/ Part 1 of an breakdown into how
@TraderNJ1
@PetaByteCapital
have deceived multiple projects by leveraging the names of other influencer to obtain free tokens from CBOT and BABYSHIB to dump on followers undisclosed.
@_CryptoTrending
@Cobratate
Please never write a thread again
The address with $6.2m you claim to be his address is a hot wallet for a crypto exchange
0xa5D7F0F7027fa8F4D1BE8042E1e43bbdEc36951e
1/ It has almost been a year now since my first thread on Scott Melker when he got exposed for dumping tokens on his audience after tweets.
Well new information has finally appeared so let’s dive in!
2/ This is a classic David & Goliath story. My understanding is that Machi is very wealthy. I am not. He is using his money to try silence me. I’m asking for your help so this doesn’t happen & the truth survives.