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[CryptosRus @CryptosR_Us]

URGENT: FomoPeek iOS versions 1.1–1.2 contained malicious exploit code that could expose crypto wallet private keys and seed phrases. 🚨

If you installed either version: move funds to a new wallet created on a clean device, update iOS, and uninstall the app immediately.

[StarWars | 黃宇宏 @StarWarsOP]

I want to congratulate @coinbase for the shadiest business practice of all time. Setting instant withdrawals as the default so they can charge their customers a 2% fee. I forgot to change it during my second withdrawal - and lost $40 on $2K

Making $ off people getting got 🙌

[Adio @Adiofreak]

My PayPal account has been receiving penny donations every day 20 times a day for over a year now from random accounts that I assume had their accounts stolen.

I contacted PayPal multiple times to which they told me “we are aware, just do nothing”

They then locked my account, I had to prove it was me not stealing money by providing info I shouldn’t have had to provide.

I got that resolved.

Today my account was permanently disabled due to the fraud that I reported numerous times to which they say I can’t appeal.

TLDR: I report issue to PayPal, they fix nothing, they ban my account.

What a dogshit company. Absolute scum of the earth.

[Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ @rstormsf]

One thing before I start: everything in this post is public information from my own docket. None of it is new, and I'm not revealing anything you can't already find in the court filings yourself.

The retrial just got pushed to April 26, 2027. The order came down today (Dkt. 300). My acquittal motion is still sitting there, undecided. I honestly don't know when this ends.

Prosecutors are supposed to protect American interests and go after people who broke the law. A jury deadlocked on the two most serious counts against me. And still SDNY won't stop, because this case was never just about me. It's about setting an example.

Don't take my word for it. Tara La Morte, the chief of SDNY's Illicit Finance and Money Laundering Unit, said it herself at a New York City Bar Association event (Law360, Feb. 23, 2024; filed on my docket as Doc. 25-2):

"We want the industry to take notice."

"What we're trying to do is sort of bring the industry into compliance, and I think Tornado Cash is an example of that."

An example. Out of a developer who wrote code.

At that same event, her deputy praised the government's blockchain-tracing partner, Chainalysis.

Here is what they didn't tell the audience. All of it is from the public docket in my case.

According to the trial transcripts, Chainalysis was running its OWN Tornado Cash relayer, and earning fees on the transactions flowing through it.

- Chainalysis's own lawyers admitted to "a relayer node that Chainalysis operated"; my subpoena sought documents on Tornado Cash relayer(s) "used from March to August 2022." (Dkt. 211)
- In open court, the prosecutor said it plainly: "I think the parties agree as to that part of the testimony, that the Chainalysis relayer earned fees." Same hearing: "there's zero evidence that the defendant was in any way aware that Chainalysis was running a relayer." (Dkt. 259, July 25, 2025)

So the company that helped trace my "criminal" transactions was itself profiting from Tornado Cash transactions, while I was prosecuted over software I helped create.

And when my lawyers subpoenaed them to testify?

- Chainalysis moved to quash. (Dkt. 211)
- The government backed them: "Your Honor, we agree with the position outlined in the motion." (Dkt. 255)
- The night before, prosecutors called Chainalysis's counsel. The judge asked point-blank: "Did you let them know that they were potentially subject to investigation or prosecution?" The answer: "We have discussed at a high level some of the issues surrounding the relayer with Chainalysis." (Dkt. 259)
- The Chainalysis witness took the Fifth. My lawyers learned about that call only afterward, from Chainalysis's own lawyer. (Dkt. 263)

The jury never heard any of it.

This spring, at the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, something happened that I still can't quite believe. The Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, and the FBI Director, Kash Patel, sat on a panel called "Code is Free Speech."

Think about that. The two top law enforcement officials in the country. Blanche told thousands of developers: if you're a coder and you're not the one committing the crime, "you are not going to be investigated and not going to be charged." He said the last administration's crypto cases were "outrageous attacks on the industry." Patel praised "the Chainalysises of the world" as FBI partners.

And when the moderator pointed at the elephant in the room, my case, Tornado Cash, Roman Storm, the Acting Attorney General called it a "lingering case" they are "continuing to deal with."

So here is my hypothetical question. If code is free speech, why am I still being prosecuted for writing it? And if the Chainalysises of the world are the partners, the same Chainalysis that ran its own Tornado Cash relayer and earned fees from Tornado Cash users, while I never did, why is it off the hook?

They made an example out of a developer for writing code. Their own vendor ran the same infrastructure, pocketed the fees, and got a phone call instead of a prosecution.

Sources 👇👇👇

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

We've been working on the Clarity Act every day for 10 months, and we'll introduce bill text in the next few days — it's time to land this plane. This is about helping law enforcement fight illicit finance, passing consumer protections and keeping these markets onshore in the US.

[Austin Campbell @austincampbell]

I would like to remind everyone in crypto law that as defined in the bill, this likely covers all forms of digital money, so if IL is not enforcing this against electronic bank transfers, you should sue.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

The Digital Chamber and Illinois Blockchain Association are calling Illinois' new 0.2% crypto tax "substantively unsound, procedurally deficient, and economically destructive."

It was slipped into the state budget overnight with zero stakeholder outreach.

[Thomas (Tom) Lee (not drummer) FundstratDirect.com @fundstrat]

Good data @joechalom 👍

[Altcoin Daily @AltcoinDaily]

Standard Chartered publishes
2030 Crypto Predictions:

Uniswap:
$2.70 ➟ $100

Ethereum:
$1,700 ➟ $40,000

Bitcoin:
$66,000 ➟ $500,000

You aren't bullish ENOUGH!!

[Sharplink @Sharplink]

#Ethereum just hit a major developer milestone.

@joechalom breaks down why this development is the network's hidden superpower.

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

In 2018, Trump withdrew from Obama's Iran deal because it gave sanctions relief and economic reintegration in exchange for limits on Iran's nuclear program.

If reports are accurate, we may now be heading toward... sanctions relief and economic reintegration in exchange for limits on Iran's nuclear program.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

According to the recent NYT article, the person in the administration most against releasing the Epstein files is Trump, who'd have to resign if the allegations in there are true, and the person most in favor of releasing them is Vance, who'd become president if they're true.

[Thomas (Tom) Lee (not drummer) FundstratDirect.com @fundstrat]

Agree 💯

@joechalom

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@romlib_ Crypto is a legit and indeed inevitable technology. Usually such things are net positive.

[JOSΞPH 🌳 @CupOJoseph]

It's called an options collar, and you can do it in about 3 minutes.

Every executive at every publicly traded company does this.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The fact that Trump made so sure to silence Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie makes me more convinced than ever that there's something really incriminating in the Epstein files.

[Dr. Peepee @drpeepee]

a client stiffed me. but im not the only one.

here’s my side of the story:

the company im talking about in the quoted tweet below is @ranger_finance and they owe us nearly ~5 months of invoices, and allegedly owe multiple employees and others outside of the co.

we practically built the brand from day one and we generated nearly ~90% of all graphics/content since spring '24

and yet we went unpaid from july-dec 2025.

i spent many nights working singaporean hours until 5am.

lots of missed nights with the missus.

lots of grinning and bearing it.

when the bill racked up to 20k, the missus grew concerned and i pushed back pretty strongly ~ "they're my friends. they'll pay me back. they gave me the highest compliment a vendor can receive - 'it really feels like you're part of the team.'"

but she was right.

by the end of 2025, i was owed 45k. and to date, I’ve only received 10k in backpay.

meanwhile, there were employees who were allegedly being paid during that time, while i was led to believe otherwise. and some employees who are owed, haven’t even received the courtesy of a response.

im privileged to have a little platform to speak on this, as others aren't in the same position. but its not just me out here; theres a mother on staff who just had a baby last year. shes been floating on her own savings for months because ranger wasn’t paying her between jan-may of this year. she didn't find out about the supposed closure of the company, until she saw the post on twitter last week. send Sunny a shout - she's a fantastic designer and she was more than happy to include her name: @justt_sunnyy

and personally, ive tried everything i can to be made whole and i unequivocally blame no one for this other than the ranger team for what im owed. full stop.

these are the founders:
@0xFA2
@Fibullnacci
@barrett_io

its not easy to air these things out, but ultimately, im driven by the amount of people who are still owed and the creative community who is persistently stiffed. and to put it bluntly - im owed 35k

i love the solana ecosystem and the LA hard tech ecosystem. the number of people reaching out from both, has breathed new life into me. i appreciate all the creatives, founders, engineers and marketers that reached out in DM's from my previous post - it truly means a lot and we're not going anywhere

for agency’s, its clear that there is an expectation of silence when nonpayment occurs - i only wish i’d gone public earlier and potentially saved others from the trouble

but if you're in this position now, maybe you can get paid or maybe you can just wake up lighter like me

if you’ve been on the wrong side of a deal like this, what kept you from going public?

feel free to comment below or DM if you’d rather keep it private

[Godfroy @g0dfr0y]

NOBODY showed up to Ed Gallrein's victory party. Apparently there wasn't a single Kentucky state lawmaker at the event. Does this make sense to.....anyone? Make it make sense?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"Can he run for president?"

— Jessica when she heard they primaried Massie