TheMarkPenney

An Artist (painter) living on and working from Vancouver Island Follow #themarkpenney on Instagram, or find me on Facebook. @themarkpenney for shakepay

[Randi Hipper @missteencrypto]

Teaching a Bitcoin 101 class at a high school. My full lecture 👇

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

@girlintheverse @TetraDigitalGrp @TOtechweek The US had to charge TD Canada trust to stop laundering drug money - they paid the biggest fines in history the Canadian government refused to intervene.

How long before US law would have to intervene with a Canadian CBDC scam ?

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

@girlintheverse @TetraDigitalGrp @TOtechweek You can’t trust the Canadian government to handle money -

CBDC ; So they can turn your assets off without having to call the bank?, they used to have to talk to a judge.

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨THE FBI CREATED A FAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY.. LISTED IT ON UNISWAP.. HIRED MARKET MAKERS TO PUMP IT.. THEN ARRESTED EVERYONE WHO SAID YES..

THIS IS THE CRAZIEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!!

The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising "passive income through AI-powered investing"..

It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point..

Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said "we need you to fake our trading volume"..

Every single firm said yes..

Here's what they recorded..

Gotbit.. A firm run by a 26-year-old Russian who publicly bragged in 2019 that he built a business faking trade volumes.. His team kept internal spreadsheets with columns literally labeled "fake volume" vs "market volume"..

When asked how fast they could pump NexFundAI's volume to $1 million per day.. They said "6 hours.. It will cost about $200"..

$200 to fake $1 million in daily trading volume..

MyTrade.. Run by a guy who called himself "the mastermind".. He explained the exact psychology of the scam on camera..

"We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride.. That's where people jump in.. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit"..

He said that on a recorded FBI video call..

CLS Global.. A Dubai-based firm.. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI's total trading volume.. When the FBI asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements.. They said absolutely..

ZM Quant.. Bots executing 10 to 20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets to look organic..

All of them knew it was fraud.. All of them did it anyway.. All of it was recorded..

And the clients were even worse..

Saitama.. A meme coin that hit $7.5 billion market cap.. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats.. Sent "pump it" memes while manipulating the price.. Then dumped on retail investors..

$7.5 billion.. Built entirely on fake volume.. Every penny of real money came from retail investors who thought the momentum was organic..

One founder left Saitama and started Robo Inu.. Used Gotbit again.. Another launched VZZN.. Same playbook..

Lillian Finance.. Founder claimed to be a defense contractor who addressed Congress.. Marketed the token as funding children's hospitals.. Pocketed everything..

When the FBI shut it down.. They seized $25 million in one day.. 18 people indicted across the US, UK, and Portugal.. The CEO of Gotbit was arrested in Portugal and extradited.. Sentenced to 8 months plus $23 million forfeiture..

But here's the part that broke my brain..

Real people bought NexFundAI..

The FBI's fake token.. With zero utility.. Zero real developers.. Created solely to catch criminals.. Attracted real retail investors because the fake volume made the chart look bullish..

When the FBI pulled the liquidity to end the operation.. Those people lost real money.. On a government-issued token..

The FBI had to set up a restitution portal to pay them back..

And it gets worse..

Within 24 hours of the DOJ announcing the sting.. Someone cloned the FBI's exact smart contract.. Launched a copycat token.. Rode the viral momentum.. And made $127,000 in a single day..

Using the exact same manipulation tactics the FBI just arrested 18 people for..

Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore..

IRS forensics showed that in one firm's trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular..

The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected..

The volume is fake.. The charts are painted.. The momentum is manufactured..

And every time you buy a token because "the chart looks bullish".. You might be the exit liquidity.

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

LEEEROOOY JEEEENNKIIIINNNS!

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

Leeeeeroy Jeeeeeenkins!! Turns 21 today 😂

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Bitcoin miner/water heater featured on the CES 2026 show floor

- Built with ASIC Bitcoin miners mounted on a 50-gallon water heater.
- Same energy usage as a standard electric water heater while producing BTC
- Mining revenue could fully offset water-heating expenses

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

@girlintheverse worst degenerate news ... why can't Canada just stack gold + bitcoin. like Ukraine does?

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

@TheSoloMiningCo ON my desk! what a showpiece!

omg - I wants this 🥰

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

ooooh Man, I'd love one of these on my desk

[TheSoloMiningCo (I Am GPIO) @TheSoloMiningCo]

🚨 GIVEAWAY 🚨

We’re giving away a BitForge Nano Ghost Edition — a home-worthy Bitcoin miner designed to be seen, not hidden in a shed.

To enter:

Follow @TheSoloMiningCo
Repost this post
Reply with where you’d put it and why.

Winner announced 1st June 2026

The Solo Mining Co: Your Rigs, Your Rewards. ⚡

[Kamil Z @0xKamilZ]

For the first time, Canadians can borrow against their bitcoin... without selling it.

Last week, @shakepay rolled out bitcoin-backed loans:

• Up to $50K CAD
• ~9.5% APR
• No origination or prepayment fees

Why it matters:
→ Keep your upside
→ Avoid taxable events
→ Unlock liquidity when needed

This is a big step for crypto in Canada 🇨🇦

Would you borrow against your bitcoin? 💰

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

Ballin'

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Built clawsweeper, which runs 50 codex in parallel around the clock, scans issues/prs deep and closes what is already implemented or what makes no sense.

Closed around 4000 issues today, a few thousand are in the pipeline. (rate limits are rough) https://t.co/AiNNDcvGke

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Admiral Paparo says the United States is running a Bitcoin node.

"We have a node on the Bitcoin network…We're doing a number of operational tests to secure and protect networks using the Bitcoin protocol."

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Canada is not a democracy. It's not even a free nation anymore.

How could it be when Parliament is sidelined for eight months, allowing the executive branch to reign unchecked?

Or when foreign interference is ignored and elections are gamed?

Or when courts rule that the government broke the law and nothing changes?

Or when the state controls your speech, your property, your energy, your news, your guns, your healthcare—and offers you assisted suicide when the wait times get too long?

Canada has become something else: a managed oligarchy with democratic trappings, where the individual exists to serve the state.

Look how far Canada has fallen. Because this could be America's future overnight.

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

@altair_tech @karpuzmining Maybe I could win one! I've already paid for one!

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

A resonable take :

Claude Mythos is trying to scare us - but not a new story https://t.co/mhYv9EbFq6 via @YouTube

[ollama @ollama]

🦞Ollama's cloud is one of the best places to run OpenClaw.

$20 plan is enough for most day to day OpenClaw usage with open models!

To make the switch, all you need is to open the terminal and type:

ollama launch openclaw

Choose a model:

kimi-k2.5:cloud
glm-5:cloud
minimax-m2.7:cloud

If you are affected, Ollama welcomes you!! ❤️

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

@steipete @davemorin I’m impressed with Ollama sub and the Kimi model in particular. $20/mo gets you access to a pile of LLMs

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

@FinanceCanada *cough* *bitcoin* *cough*

[TheMarkPenney @thatmarkpenney]

@MarkJCarney June 24–25, 2025 Canada agreed to pay 5%

You're celebrating paying 2% while owing another 3%?