CryptoCurious

Sharing my observations on crypto

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@JasonOlympics @DailyMail @JasonOlympics why?

The service charge? Or something else?

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@CodeByNZ Who’s the reporter in the video?

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@Sherifdeenolat2 @DPTheseus @a3voices @Sherifdeenolat2 he’s asking if you’re Black or White?

Because he’s sceptical about the profile photo you have and the country you’re based in.

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@carm1nee Who is he / what’s his name?

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

Glad they got caught!

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

The FBI literally built a FAKE CRYPTO token to catch SCAMMERS.. and EVERYONE fell for it.

The token was called NexFundAI.

It had everything a REAL project has: a token, website, whitepaper, tokenomics, 100 billion supply, and promises of passive income.

Except none of it was real.

Behind the scenes, the “founders” were undercover FBI agents trying to catch market makers who say YES to pumping it.

According to DOJ, several firms agreed.

1. Gotbit - The FBI asked how fast they could push NexFundAI’s volume to $1M/day. Gotbit said "6 hours." Cost? About $200.

2. MyTrade - The operator literally described the psychology on a recorded call: "make the chart look like a roller coaster, retail jumps in, we dump."

3. CLS Global - Bots generated 98% of its trading volume. They'd even sync fake spikes with fake news drops.

4. ZM Quant - Ran bots that fired off 10 to 20 trades per minute across dozens of wallets, making wash trading look organic.

When the FBI finally shut the operation down, they seized $25M in one day and indicted 18 people.

But that's NOT all.

The story got worse when the FBI found real people had bought the fake token.

Retail saw the volume spike, assumed the chart was bullish, and aped in.

So now, the FBI had to launch a restitution portal to pay back real victims who lost money.

And then somehow, the story got even more insane.

Within 24 hours of the announcement, someone cloned the FBI's contract, launched a copycat token, and walked away with around $127,000…

At that point, even the FBI’s fake token immediately became the blueprint for another scam.

This STORY just became the most crypto thing that has ever happened.

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@suriyahsays @I_W_A_4 @suriyahsays true. But if this enables more people to get on the property ladder, then it should actually push house prices up, because there’ll be more demand!

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

Retweeting this for myself

[ludoonchart @ludoonchart]

How a math PhD built a $10,000,000,000 empire with exactly ZERO human traders.

Alexander Gerko founded XTX Markets. They trade $300 Billion every single day. No charts, no financial news, no stress. Just pure machine learning predicting price action.

While retail traders draw support lines and panic, his automated models systematically extract their liquidity.

Bookmark & watch Bloomberg break down his "no humans" strategy. Then read below to see exactly how these quantitative systems are built

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@HappyPunch David fought well.

But was it his elbow that broke Zurdo’s face?

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@iDrSunny @HiltonHotels @metpoliceuk @iDrSunny is there an update on this?

Were any of the guys able to secure the items?

I’m genuinely intrigued!

And agree that success should be respected, not envied!!

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@dpinsen @BDSixsmith That was a very smart answer!

It’s the best way to answer the question, because I’ve seen so many people get tripped up on Bible verses!

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If AI agents can be used to book flights and restaurants, I’m sure they’ll be used to trade crypto across different exchanges and networks, in the future.

Re-posting this for myself.

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[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

Yikes:

[Adib Hanna @adibhanna]

Had an interview with a “crypto” recruiter. We talked for about 40 minutes, and then they asked me to look at some code.

Their first instruction was to clone the repo. I didn’t. They seemed surprised, so I told them I wanted a moment to check whether it was safe first.

I ran a quick analysis with Claude.

Turns out the code had a backdoor. It would copy my environment variables and send them to a remote server.

The recruiter went speechless and ended the call pretty quickly.

Be careful who you talk to. Scammers are real.

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@nursebro01 @iDrSunny @ctangio @nursebro01 you have an awful attitude, for someone who’s a nurse!

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@Twonington @policy_uk @Twonington sorry, I didn’t get notified when you responded!

But I appreciate your response!

Didn’t know they’ve even gone as far as making that their business model! Shame on them!

But it’s useful to know that you can look up reviews of service charge companies-thank you!

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@_MiaaDior @Erm42453065 @_MiaaDior there was a big girl in a black dress that slammed Rielle with Rielle’s car door, when Rielle was trying to get away!

I think Rielle had meant to target her, instead of of Klaudia!

And Rielle was getting rushed by other people!

The outcome is very sad, all around.

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@mrexposed77 @Sandra428871735 @rielleUK @mrexposed77 why SNAP instead of other social media?

[cold @coldtrz]

This guy has been buying $10 of bitcoin per day for 7 years straight

He has spent a total of $25,500 and his portfolio just hit $10m in value

[Ethan Kho @ethanrkho]

You can pump a $50M coin to $1B with $1.5M of real buying.

Scott Phillips (@ScottPh77711570) on how new token listings actually work:

"There's a huge industry of market makers operating out of Dubai. Their business model is: we're gonna pump your coin, and we want 30% of the profit when we dump it on exit liquidity day."

"They run the ball up. Buy, sell, buy. Create momentum ignition. Retail finally buys in the middle of a bull run — and then it dumps."

"Buying 20-day highs works best on the top decile. By the fourth decile, you get negative momentum effects."

"Anything in the bottom 20% of market cap on Binance perps that makes a 20-day high — short it. That is a very strong edge."

"The market maker contract runs 90 days. It's priced as a call option on the 7-day VWAP after launch."

"Once the strike kicks in, delta hedging from market makers drives these coins down."

"Wait 7 days. Short it for 90 days. I kid you not."

"That's not an edge big enough for institutional. That's an edge for retail guys with a small account."

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

@Twonington @policy_uk @Twonington may I ask which area in London, please?

That increase is outrageous!

[CryptoCurious @MrCryptoCurious]

Very wise words about SEED PHRASES

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

This isn't just one guy.

50+ victims.

$9.5 million stolen in 7 days.

All from one fake app that Apple let through their review process.

The app asked for your seed phrase.

People typed it in because they found it on the OFFICIAL App Store.

Never type your seed phrase into anything that isn't your physical Ledger device.

Never. Not once. Not ever.