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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Epstein's Arrest Shook The Blockchain

Jeffrey Epstein's arrest seems to have set off a wave of suspicious crypto payments that have heretofore gone unexamined.

1. The 2nd highest volume day in bitcoin history came a week after Epstein died.

2. #Stablecoin transfer volumes doubled less than 48 hours after Epstein was arrested. In particular #Tether, the stablecoin whose money is managed by Epstein's next door neighbor and #Trump's current Secretary of Commerce, saw on chain volumes skyrocket.

Also there's the matter of a bunch of suspicious deaths among Epstein's crypto circle.

(RTs appreciated)
cryptadamus.substack.com/p/eps

the arrest of #JeffreyEpstein did amazing things for #stablecoins... average daily on chain volume basically permanently doubled overnight.

this isn’t conclusive but… if we were living in a world where epstein’s arrest suddenly deprived the world of a major money launderer whose customers suddenly found themselves in need of a new provider, and then the provider they chose was #Tether, this is what one would expect the chart to look like…

(also 6 days after #epstein was arrested there was a weird $5 billion issuance of new Tether #USDT tokens followed immediately by a $4.5 billion burn/redemption transaction. I assume that was a fat finger originally intended to mint only $500 million so i stripped it out of the chart… but i will at least note that someone went to issue $5 billion in stablecoins 6 days after epstein’s arrest. i can post that chart if anyone's curious)

data: dune.com/crypto_oracle/epstein

lol back in 2022 both Steve Bannon and Steven Cheung (the trump spokesman whose corporeal form resembles the monstrous outcome of an experiment with an ogre and a donut gone terribly wrong) worked on #BrockPierce's senatorial campaign.

Brock Pierce, for those who remember, was the co-founder of one of the most infamous fully confirmed hollywood pedophile rings in US history and was arrested in Marbella in a house full of guns and child pornography prior to becoming a crypto evangelist. he co-founded #Tether, a massive crypto fraud called #EOS, blockchain capital (current owners of #Bluesky) and so much more. he's also tight with #Netanyahu's son Yair.

* politico: politico.com/news/2022/04/22/b
* more on brock pierce's relationship to epstein: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cry

Continued thread

2/ neither CNBC nor WSJ ran with a headline that even sort of implies Autumn Radtke committed suicide, instead using adjectives like "mysterious" and “unexplained” to describe her defenestration from a Singaporean high rise and subsequent demise.

one of the last people to see #AutumnRadtke alive was Steve Beauregard, chief executive and founder (with #BrockPierce) of #Singapore based GoCoin.

1/ when i wrote my post on Epstein's #crypto connections I forgot #IsabelMaxwell (#Ghislaine's sister) was connected to #BrockPierce even before she invited Pierce to speak at epstein's #Mindshift conference.

Brock Pierce is a big nexus of connection from #Epstein to things like crypto and confirmed pedophile rings (other than his own).

both Maxwell & Pierce were socially close to a crypto broette named #AutumnRadke who died under extremely mysterious circumstances back in 2014. most people think she "fell out of a window", putin style.

* Epstein/Crypto: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist
* NY Post on Radke's death: nypost.com/2014/03/06/bitcoin-

july has already blown away the record for the total number of blockchain addresses seized/frozen by #Tether. one of the wallets with the highest lifetime value received (~$360 million) transacted with known Iranian wallets (specifically #Nobitex, the largest #crypto exchange in #Iran). my hunch is that a lot of these are iranian wallets frozen at the behest of #Netanyahu and co.

raw data on tether blacklist seizures: dune.com/crypto_oracle/eth-tro

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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Epstein's Cryptic Touch

Jeffrey Epstein touched the cryptoverse in a lot of inappropriate places. While no one has yet found any kind of smoking gun tying #Epstein directly to the creation of any major #crypto firms or technologies the timing, nature, and frequency of Epstein’s touchpoints to an industry that more or less exists solely to facilitate #moneylaundering on the scale of a medium sized nation state coupled with his vast and unexplained wealth and many connections to international intelligence agencies is what the kids today commonly describe as “sus”.

Retoots appreciated.

cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cry

@laprice yes (and we know they printed money that at least a few times, when they got caught by NYS for lying about their reserves and then when they created a billion by lending $1 bn USDT to #CelsiusNetwork

unfortunately now donald trump can also print money outside the banking system with his personal stablecoin #USD1.

i suspect trump is even less likely than tether to be audited or scrutinized (and tether has never been audited).

#Tether just mass blacklisted 42 blockchain addresses in a single go - one of the biggest batches of blacklistings ever. All of the wallets were all on the Tron blockchain (AKA "the crime chain") which is owned and operated by a business partner of the president of the united states (Justin Sun).

The wallets only have $5.7 million USDT in them to seize but over their lifetimes they collectively received ~$877 million. Haven't really dug into the data yet but my hunch is that most of these are related to #Iranian money laundering and were frozen at #Israel's request.

Other possible explanation is the mass bust of #NorthKorea's american laptop farms a few days ago.

raw data: dune.com/crypto_oracle/eth-tro