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StarPlatinum_
Posted - January 29, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Saved - January 29, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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I see 0xb317d2bc2d3d2df5fa441b5bae0ab9d8b07283ae as the most dangerous address in crypto. It deposited $40M USDC on Oct 13, opened about $343.6M in BTC shorts (roughly 3,000 BTC at 10x). The whale controls over $10B (46,295 BTC and $5B staked ETH) and reportedly profited $192M from the Oct 10 crash, opening shorts before Trump’s tariff news. Linked to Garrett Jin via ENS but he denied involvement. The pattern: massive USDC, pre-event shorts, scaled downturns, profits withdrawn to L1. I’ll watch what it does next.

@StarPlatinum_ - StarPlatinum

This is the most dangerous address in crypto right now: 0xb317d2bc2d3d2df5fa441b5bae0ab9d8b07283ae It deposited $40M USDC on October 13 and opened aggressive BTC shorts worth $343.6M (around 3,000 BTC at 10x leverage) This wallet belongs to a whale that controls over $10B in assets (46,295 BTC and about $5B in staked ETH). It reportedly made $192M in profit from the October 10 crash Opening short positions just minutes before Trump’s tariff announcement. Onchain data links it to Garrett Jin, the former BitForex CEO, through ENS records (ereignis.eth → garrettjin.eth) But he denied any involvement. The pattern is always the same: - Massive USDC deposits - Shorts opened before big macro events - Positions scaled during the fall - Profits withdrawn to L1 This whale may have had early access to information or is simply one of the best timed traders in crypto. Either way keep an eye on what he’s going to do next

StarPlatinum_
Posted - January 28, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Saved - January 29, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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I report that in February 2025 a Chinese programmer burned 603.38 ETH (~$1.67M) to the zero address, with long messages about mind-control tech. The main burn was 500 ETH; other burns echoed “wild animals… digital puppets” and “a victim slowly losing all desire.” The same wallet sent 711.52 ETH to WikiLeaks, 591.62 ETH in one transfer. Hedge fund Kuande Investment never replied; the programmer vanished. The blockchain remembers, but explains nothing.

@StarPlatinum_ - StarPlatinum

11 months have passed and this still has no explanation Hu Lezhi is one of the strangest events ever recorded on Ethereum February 2025 - a Chinese programmer burns 603.38 ETH - around 1.67 million dollars - all sent to the zero address - each burn includes long messages about mind control tech and a Chinese hedge fund called Kuande Investment (WizardQuant) the main burn: 500 ETH tx hash: 0x5e8bef5dcb69206fa1bacc8d0b0c0204e12f1e45483d12b9f69dc1829ac74315 message accuses two executives, Feng Xin and Xu Yuzhi, of using brain-machine weapons on employees more burns that same week: - 70.36 ETH “wild animals becoming digital puppets controlled by machines” - 33.03 ETH “a victim slowly losing all desire until becoming a full digital slave” total burned: 603.38 ETH all confirmed on Etherscan the same wallet sends 711.52 ETH to a WikiLeaks donation address 591.62 ETH in a single transfer the message includes a long note where he says he has been monitored since birth by a “brain-control organization” Almost a year later, we are left with: - 603 ETH burned - 711 ETH sent to WikiLeaks - a hedge fund that never replied - a programmer who disappeared after leaving his final thoughts the blockchain remembers everything but nobody can explain what really happened

StarPlatinumSOL
Posted - March 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Saved - March 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I recently shared insights from my first interview since the FTX collapse, discussing my life in prison, including my connection with Diddy and how my perspective has shifted during my time behind bars. I addressed questions about my finances, my thoughts on the new Trump administration and crypto regulation, and the friendships I've formed. I also revealed when I might be released and how old I’ll be at that time. The interview covers various aspects of my experience and reflections on my past actions.

@StarPlatinumSOL - StarPlatinum

THE FIRST INTERVIEW WITH SBF SINCE THE FTX COLLAPSE His connection with Diddy? How much money does he have left? When will be released from prison? Here are the highlights 👇 (1/8) https://t.co/edVlViTKAF

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What is SBF’s life like in prison? Here’s what he does. (2/8) https://t.co/yyemPO73CH

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In prison, there aren't many options for activities. I spend my time reading books, including novels, playing chess, and working on my legal case as much as possible, such as appeals. I also handle whatever work I can from inside. However, the scarcity of meaningful ways to occupy my time is one of the most disheartening aspects of being incarcerated.
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Speaker 0: Well, it's a really good question because there's not a whole lot to do in person. I read books. I've, you know, started reading novels again. I play some chess, and I work on my legal case to the extent I can't, you know, there's there's appeal. There are other things. I do what work I can from in here on that. But the lack of other meaningful things to spend my time on is one of the most kind of soul crushing things about prison.

@StarPlatinumSOL - StarPlatinum

Has he made friends in prison? What’s his current relationship with Diddy? (3/8) https://t.co/47YjrQUupF

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Yeah, Diddy's here, he's been kind. I've made some friends, but it's a weird environment. It's a mix of a few other high-profile cases and a lot of alleged ex-gangsters.
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Speaker 0: So, like, have you made friends there? How do are you hanging with Diddy? I think he's in there with you. Speaker 1: He is. He is. And I it's I don't know. You know, he's been kind. The I've made some friends. It's it's a weird environment. You know, it's sort of a combination of a few other high profile cases and a lot of, you know, ex gangsters or sort of, you know, alleged ex gangsters.

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Here’s how has prison changed SBF’s perspective (4/8) https://t.co/MN4QrDFIdH

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Intelligence and hard work are important, but there are other factors that contribute to a person's success. These additional qualities are hard to define, but they allow some people to be more impressive, successful, and productive than others might expect. For example, we saw many people at FTS with unimpressive resumes outperform almost everyone else at the company. They had grit, instincts, dedication, and knew how to work with others. They also knew how to find solutions to problems. These qualities allowed them to excel.
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Speaker 0: How has that changed your your views? Well, you know, I would say it's part of a larger whole, which, you know, it's one of the most sort of profound things that I've come to learn over my life, but still something I don't fully understand, which is obviously, you know, what we call intelligence or IQ or whatever. It matters. It's important. Working hard matters. It's important. But there are other things, things that we don't have good words for. I still haven't found the right words for. But things that can make someone an unbelievably impressive and successful and productive person that seemed to kind of outshine what IR others would expect of them. Obviously, it's not everyone. Everyone's in different places. Something we saw a lot at FTS, we find someone with an absolutely shit resume. I mean, just nothing to recommend themselves. No real relevant experience. And all of a sudden, we realized they were outperforming almost everyone else at the company. Just because they had the grit, they had the instincts, they had the dedication, they knew how to work, how to interface with others, and how to see solutions to problems.

@StarPlatinumSOL - StarPlatinum

Here’s what SBF thinks about the new Trump administration And crypto regulation. (5/8) https://t.co/WfRW2zNrt2

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When the Trump administration came into office, they said a lot of good things, but the follow through is what matters. Financial regulators are big bureaucracies that aren't used to changing overnight, and they've been obstructive towards crypto for a decade. The US makes up 30% of the world's finance, but only 5% of the world's crypto, entirely because of regulations that make it uniquely difficult to work with. The big question is whether the administration will do what needs to be done when rubber meets the road and figure out how to do it.
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Speaker 0: Hopefully, is what I would say. You know, you look at what the Trump administration said, you know, going into office, there are lot of good things. There are lot of things that, you know, were very different from the stance that the Biden administration took, that that, you know, Gensler and the SEC took. Obviously, you know, the follow through is what matters. And that's the stage that we're at now, which is what will come of this. And, I mean, not surprisingly, like, changing the guard helps. But financial regulators, they're big giant bureaucracies in the federal government. They're not used to changing overnight. And they have been playing a really obstructive role for, you know, a decade in crypto. You have US, it's 30% of the world's finance. It's about 5% of the world's crypto. And the reason is entirely regulatory. It's just The US was unique in its difficulty to work with. So I think the big question is, will you know, when rubber meets the road, like, will the administration do what needs to be done and figure out how to do it?

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When asked if he still has any money left This is what Sam Bankman had to say. (6/8) https://t.co/p2ysZ7mUAB

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Do I have any money left? Basically, no. The company that I used to own, or maybe still do own, is in bankruptcy. If nothing had intervened, today it would have about $15 billion of liabilities and approximately $93 billion in assets.
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Speaker 0: Do you have any money left after all this? Well, basically, no. The company that I I used to own, maybe I still do own. I don't know. It's in bankruptcy. Had had nothing intervened, Today, it would have about $15,000,000,000 of liabilities and about $93,000,000,000 of assets.

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When will SBF be released from prison? This is how old he’ll be when that happens. (7/8) https://t.co/wISgYCChWB

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Okay, so I turn 33 tomorrow. If I don't get pardoned, calculating my release age is tricky because of First Step Act stuff. Just adding my sentence to my current age would put me in my late fifties. I misspoke earlier. Factoring in potential reductions, it might be my late forties. But the basic calculation is: I was 32 at conviction, received a 25-year sentence, which totals 57 years old upon release.
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Speaker 0: So okay. So you'll be 33 tomorrow. If you are not pardoned, all things being equal, how old do you be when you get out? Speaker 1: It's a complicated calculation, which I don't understand all the details of because of, like, first step back stuff. And if you just add, you know, my prison sentence, my age, so to speak, you know, then the answer is in my late forties. Speaker 0: Wow. Could you handle that? Speaker 1: Sorry. What I said was wrong. I I misspoke. If you had my prison sentence my age to late fifties, if you include all of the possible decreases, it might be the late forties. But but the raw answer is, I mean, it's 32 when I was convicted, and I got a twenty five year sentence. So that's fifty seven.

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Sam Bankman was jailed for his role in the collapse of FTX. After two years behind bars, he finally gave his first interview from prison. These were the key moments from it. Watch the full interview here: (8/8)

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Sam Bankman-Fried is doing 25 years behind bars, and is now sharing a cell block with Diddy. He joins us from prison for an update on his new life. (0:00) What Has Prison Been Like? (2:28) Was SBF Ever on Adderall? (4:42) SBF Meeting Diddy in Prison (7:01) How Prison Has Changed SBF’s Perspective (9:37) The Democrats Refused to Rescue SBF Despite His Large Donations (15:24) The Future of Crypto Under Donald Trump (21:17) Does SBF Have Any Money Left? (24:42) Tucker Confronts SBF About His Effective Altruism Cult (31:13) Will SBF Ever Actually Get Out of Prison? (36:41) Why All of SBF’s Friends, Family, and Co-Workers Abandoned Him Includes paid partnerships.

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Life in prison is dystopian. Though I'm not in physical danger and some staff are helpful, being confined with others charged with crimes is tough. Logistical problems, like trial prep, were a nightmare, with limited access to legal work. Days are spent reading, playing chess, and working on my case, but the lack of meaningful activity is crushing. I've reflected on my communication style, realizing I was ineffective, especially during the initial crisis. I got lost in details and missed the bigger picture. I've made some friends, including Diddy, who's been kind. It's a weird mix of high-profile cases and alleged ex-gangsters. The chess skills of some inmates surprised me, highlighting that intelligence isn't everything.
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Speaker 0: So where where are you? Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm well, I'm in MDC, Brooklyn in a little side room. Speaker 0: What's how long have you been there? Speaker 1: I I've been in prison for about oh, boy. What's it been now? It's been about two years. Speaker 0: So what what's it like? Speaker 1: It's I mean, it's sort of dystopian. You know, the the fortunate thing, the place I'm in, I'm not in sort of I'm not in physical danger. And, you know, frankly, a lot of the staff, they're trying to be helpful. They're trying to, you know, do what they can given the constraints. But, you know, no one wants to be in prison. And you can imagine what happens when you take sort of 40 people, you know, all of whom have been at least charged with crimes and walk them in a single room for years on end and throw out the key, which is the the the the most trivial things become all that people have left to care about. Speaker 0: Yes. Have have you had any problems? Speaker 1: Not of the sort of acute kind. Like, haven't had you know, I haven't been attacked or anything like that. I've had a lot of logistical problems and, you know, the biggest, frankly, was when I was on trial, trying to get access to legal work was nearly impossible. I would, you know, on a typical trial day, they'd wake me up at 4AM. I'd spend five hours in various buses, vans and holding cells until my trial started in the morning. Then trial straight through to 5PM, another four hours in holding cells and vans. You know, I'd get back at 9PM way after any access to legal work was caught off for the day. So that was the biggest problem. Speaker 0: So what do what do you do all day when you're not on trial? Speaker 1: Well, it's a really good question because there's not a whole lot to do in prison. I read books. I've, you know, started reading novels again. I play some chess and I work on my legal case to the extent I can. You know, there's there's appeal. There are other things. I do what work I can from in here on that, but the lack of other meaningful things to spend my time on is one of the most kind of soul crushing things about prison. Speaker 0: I gotta say we we've never talked before, but obviously, I've I've watched you from afar. And and I I just also say I feel sorry for every man in prison no matter what he's accused of or dead. I just I don't think we should be locking people away. I know I guess we have to, but I I feel sorry for everyone in prison. I'll just say. Call me liberal. But you you do you do seem kind of healthier and less jumpy, I have to say, after two years in prison. Speaker 1: You know, I've had a lot of time to reflect on how to communicate. And in retrospect, you know, I was I think I was not effective at communicating, especially when the crisis first hit. And, you know, in the in the months thereafter, I made a mistake I often make. I get swept up in in details and forget to meet the bigger picture. Speaker 0: You seem like you were just flying high on Adderall every time I saw you on TV. You don't seem that way now. Were you? Speaker 1: No. I wasn't. But I was my mind was freezing because there were, you know, a billion things to keep track of. You know, we serve typically I have and back when I was surrounding FTX, you know, I I go on to have an interview. But, you know, while on the interview, there would be two issues I'd have to resolve with the company. So I'd have sort of one eye on Slack open responding to messages, and I I knew that I had something else I had to do right after the interview that I hadn't had time to prepare for yet that I was preparing for in the back of my mind. Speaker 0: So maybe like the digital world is bad for us. Is that, I mean, like what's your view of that? You've been taken away from your phone. That's kind of big. Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, it is. I prefer having the digital world. That, you know, at the end of the day, like, it's but but I will say that when I say that it's less from a perspective of like enjoyment or or or or, you know, pleasure or leisure and it's more from a perspective of productivity and ability to have impact in the world. You know, from that perspective, it's it's so hard to do anything. Don't have the digital world. Speaker 0: So like have you made friends there? How do are you hanging with Diddy? I think he's in there with you. Speaker 1: He is. He is. And I it's I don't know. You know, he's been kind. The I've made some friends. It's it's a weird environment. You know, it's sort of a combination of a few other high profile cases and a lot of, you know, ex gangsters or sort of, you know, alleged ex gangsters. Speaker 0: Definitely alleged. So what what's Diddy like? Speaker 1: I you know, obviously, I've I've only seen one one piece of him, which is, you know, Diddy in prison. And, you know, he's been kind to people in the unit. He's been kind to me. It's also it's it's a position no one wants wants to be in. You know, obviously, he doesn't I don't as you said, it's it's kind of a soul crushing place for the world in general. And you know, what we see are just the people that that are around us on the inside rather than Speaker 0: Yeah. Speaker 1: Who we are on the outside. Speaker 0: Oh, I'm I'm sure. And it I mean, you're two of the most famous prisoners in the world in the same unit. What what are the other what are like, what are the armed robbers think? Speaker 1: Well, it's a really interesting question. And if of course some of them are think are thinking like wow this is sort of a big opportunity like you know to meet people they wouldn't otherwise get to meet which is shock me to the first time I get that. Right? It makes sense. Their perspective, but like boys, that's not I think about prison. Sorry. Speaker 0: Sorry to laugh. No. That's such a good bet it's not how you think about it. No. Speaker 1: It's not. And laughing is all you can do sometimes. You know. There's there's no better alternative. They're good at chess. That's one thing I learned. Like, you know, former armed robbers who don't speak English and, you know, probably didn't graduate middle school are surprising number of them are, like, fairly good at chess. Like, you know, not I'm not saying they're grandmasters, but, like, you know, I lose games to them all the time. I was not expecting that. Speaker 0: Wow. So how is it that's so interesting. How has that changed your your views? Speaker 1: Well, you know, I would say it's part of a larger whole, which, you know, it's one of the most sort of profound things that I've come to learn over my life, but still something I don't fully understand, which is obviously, you know, what we call intelligence or IQ or whatever. It matters. It's important. Working hard matters. It's important. But there are other things. Things that we don't have good words for. I still haven't found the right words for. But things that can make someone an unbelievably impressive and successful and productive person that seemed to kind of outshine what IR others would expect of them. And obviously, it's not everyone. You know, everyone's in different places. But you know, something we saw a lot at FTS, we find someone with an absolutely shit resume. I mean just nothing to recommend themselves. No real relevant experience. And all of a sudden, we realized they were outperforming almost everyone else at the company just because they had the grit, they had the instincts, you know, they had the dedication. They they knew how to work, how to interface with others, and how to see solutions to problems. Speaker 0: Yeah. I mean, I've known on the flip side a number of extremely stupid people have gotten rich in finance. They're clearly have a kind of brilliance that I can't see. Yeah. They seem like morons to me. Speaker 1: I'm I'm interested in what types there are. I I was on Wall Street in a former life, and there are a variety of people there. Speaker 0: So there's been a lot of talk about changes to The US tax code, especially changes that affect cryptocurrency investing. What are those changes? Well, what if there was already a way to invest in the market with tax advantages? Well, iTrustCapital makes that possible. ITrustCapital is a software platform that lets you invest in crypto using a self directed IRA. That means with a traditional IRA, taxes are deferred, and with a Roth IRA, you won't have to pay taxes on your crypto gains, just like a retirement account. On top of that, the crypto market never closes. You can buy or sell $24.07 in case you stay up late. ITrustCapital makes investing easy, safe, and accessible. You don't have to be an expert. Their website has easy to understand articles, videos, and if you ever need help, you can speak with an actual person in The United States because the whole thing is based in The United States, the whole company. So if you're looking to add crypto to your retirement portfolio, sign up today at iTrustCapital.com/Tucker and use a promo code Tucker for a hundred dollar funding bonus. So, I mean, big picture without getting into, like, all the details of Yep. Your case, but it it does seem like you guys made a decision at your company to form political alliances through political donations, which is not singling you out. You're hardly the only Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 0: Businessman who's done that. It's actually kind of par now. But you gave so much to Democrats that I kinda thought they would rescue you in the end. Where where were all your friends in the Democratic Party? They usually keep their friends from going to jail. Tony Podesta never went to jail. Why did you? Speaker 1: Oh, it's a really good question. Obviously, I can only guess with the answer to that. I can only speculate because I'm I'm not in their minds. But, you know, one fact that might be relevant is, you know, in in 2020, I was kinda center left and I gave to, Biden's campaign. I was optimistic he'd be a sort of solid center left president. I spent the next few years in in DC a lot. I meant made dozens of trips there and was really, really shocked by what I saw, not not in a good direction, from the administration. By late twenty twenty two, I was giving to Republicans privately as much as Democrats. And that started becoming known right around FTX's collapse. So I probably played a role. Speaker 0: Why were you shocked? I know you spent a lot of time in DC. There are pictures of you with, you know, every you met everybody. What what was shocking about it? Speaker 1: Some of it was just more extreme versions of what I worried about. Crypto regulation is a good example. You know, I never thought that frankly the democrats in general would be the party taking the lead on good financial regulation. But you know, there were good and bad people in each party and a lot of thoughtful players. But Gensler's SEC was something out of a nightmare. I you know, a company go offer something in The United States, Gensler would sue them to the ground for not registering. So you go to Gensler to register. Say, hey, you know, we'd love to register. Office says what you want, what you we register us. And they cc you and say, well, well, there's nothing for you to register us. We don't have any ideas. And there's just no solution. They required licenses that they didn't know how to give. And every company in crypto ran into this. You know, they basically failed to register a single person ever. So that that was like one pretty disturbing thing that I saw and, you know, go for it. Speaker 0: So can I just ask you to explain a little bit there? It it's obvious to non experts like me that, know, Gary Gensler is obviously corrupt. I mean, that was clear. Right. But it was his motives were less clear. Like, what was that? What what was his goal? Speaker 1: It's a really good question. And, again, I'm not in his brain, but here are some impressions I had. You know, he I he really like being in the center of things. Power, everyone likes that. Yeah. Not every most people. He's no exception. You know, part of this is a turf war. He wanted his agency to get more power even if he didn't want to do anything with it except block industries. You know, why did he make everyone register with them while he loses power, you know, otherwise? Even if he didn't know what to do with them. I you know, he had there are lots of stories about him, you know, being very politically ambitious and feeling like if he could, you know, get on CNBC enough, make a big enough stink about things, raise his profile that, you know, maybe be treasury secretary, something like that in the future. And he I mean, he's remarkably successful. Like, he he became sort of one of the few faces of democratic financial regulation. Speaker 0: Interesting. That sounds right to me. I mean, those sound like Washington type goals. I've seen those before. Right. So Speaker 1: It wasn't moral. It's not like he had like deeply rooted communist beliefs or anything like that. Speaker 0: Right. No. No. I I knew that. Right. No. No. It's not like or any beliefs. Self advancement. So of when things started to go south and you were criminally charged or thought you might be criminally charged, you know, you've given so much money to the Democratic Party that I think it's pretty leaving aside moral judgment here, but it's pretty normal in business for the donor to call the person he's donating to and saying, hey. I'm in trouble. Can you help me? Did you call Schumer or any of the people you had supported and say, you know, hey. I need your help. It's the Biden justice department. Help me. Speaker 1: I didn't for multiple reasons. One was, you know, I didn't wanna do something inappropriate. A second was I many parts of it very quickly made their positions known and were running away as quickly as they could. You know, I had I had this good relationship probably better with Republicans in DC as with Democrats by that point in time. Although that wasn't wasn't public, so it wouldn't have been easy to see that from the outside. And at the end of the day, there's a long story here. Involves a law firm that took a pretty unusual and active role in the case. But before I even gave up control of FTX, before it was ever filed for bankruptcy, the DOJ had already made up its mind. Speaker 0: And so there was you didn't call in any favors or tried to? Speaker 1: No. Speaker 0: Interesting. What what do you think of the future of crypto? I mean, obviously, you're must have complicated feelings since you ran a crypto company or in jail because of it, but you know a lot about the topic. You you sort of feel like things are moving very fast on crypto. Do you think they're moving in a good direction? I know it's sort weird to ask you this question, but I can't resist. Speaker 1: No. Hopefully is what I would say. You know, you look at what the Trump administration said, you know, going into office, there are a lot of good things. There are a lot of things that, you know, were very different from the stance that the Biden administration took, that that, you know, Gensler and the SEC took. Obviously, the, you know, the follow through is what matters. And that's the stage that we're at now, which is what will come of this. And, I mean, not surprisingly, like, changing the guard helps. But financial regulators, they're big giant bureaucracies in the federal government. They're not used to changing overnight. And they have been playing a really obstructive role for, you know, a decade in crypto. You The US, it's 30% of the world's finance. It's about 5% of the world's crypto. And the reason is entirely regulatory. It's just The US was unique in its difficulty to work with. So I think the big question is, will, you know, when rubber meets the road, like, will the administration do what needs to be done and figure out how to do it? Speaker 0: I I mean, I remember when the concept of crypto first arrived in the popular press, and the whole idea was that this was a currency that could restore to the individual his freedom of commerce. I get to buy and sell things without the government controlling me, and I could do it privately. It would restore my my privacy as well. And that obviously has never happened. It doesn't seem like it's ever going to happen, and I don't hear anybody say it anymore. And now it just seems like it's kind of another asset scam. Whatever happened to I mean, these are broad brush statements, but whatever happened to the privacy thing? Speaker 1: It's a really good question. And there's sort of a related thing about the technology. Right? Payments, remittances, like all the things that are not just an investment, but ways that crypto could actually be useful for the world. You know, they happen on longer time scales than investments do, basically. You know, with what social media has become, you see bubbles, you know, grow and pop and grow and pop on a daily to monthly basis. Technology is built out on a decade basis. So, you know, right now, crypto is not quite at a point where it could become an everyday tool of, you know, a quarter of the world or something. The tech isn't there yet, but it's not that far away. And if and this is an if. If the industry keeps making progress rather than getting distracted too much by market prices, then, you know, five, ten years from now, you could imagine a world where all of a sudden, it is the case that anyone can have a crypto wallet, you know, billion people could use it each day, with privacy, with security, fast, cheap, international, all the things that, you know, that was promised and that absolutely get are distracted from by police mean points. Speaker 0: You you think world governments would allow that? I mean, if you actually allowed the world's population to conduct financial transactions without the control of governments, then governments would collapse instantly, wouldn't they? Speaker 1: Well, it's an interesting question. And there are a lot of degrees here about the level of of oversight control that it can have. You look at something like Bitcoin and the wallets are anonymous, but there is a public ledger of every transfer that happens. So it is possible for governments to have some level of knowledge without having control of of it. That being said, not all the governments in the world view this the same. And the United States government over the last thirty years has taken one view towards control of, you know, the not just The United States' strength, the world's monetary, you know, dealings. And and and and you see, I mean, a different viewpoint, much more authoritarian, but also much more insular in a lot of sort of dictatorships. But half the world doesn't try to have nearly the level of government involvement in day to day financial transactions that The United States have. Speaker 0: So the people who built this country built it because they wanted freedom. One word, freedom. They wanted freedom from oppressors who forced them to buy overpriced tea, then blockaded them when they tried to dump it into the ocean. How'd that work out? Well, we built America in response. So it's time to throw your big overpriced wireless contract overboard to a new tea party. You don't have to pay a hundred dollars a month just to use a phone. Most people don't use that much in services, but they pay it anyway. Our cell phone company PureTalk says no to those prices. With a qualifying plan, you can choose an iPhone 14 or a Samsung Galaxy for nothing, 0. Get premium service on America's most dependable five g network. It only takes a minute to switch. We highly recommend it. No hassle, no gimmicks. Just honest to goodness wireless priced right. So you get your iPhone 14 or Samsung Galaxy for nothing, $0 with a qualifying plan. Go to puretalk.com/tucker. Visit puretalk.com/tucker for details. America's wireless company. Do you have any money left after all this? Speaker 1: Well, basically, no. The company that I I used to own, maybe I still do own. I don't know. It's in bankruptcy. Had had nothing intervened. Today, it would have about $15,000,000,000 of liabilities and about $93,000,000,000 of assets. The answer should be, in theory, yes, that, you know, there was enough money to pay everyone back in kind at the time or today with, you know, plenty of interest left over and tens of billions left for investors. But I that's not how things worked out. And instead, it all got rolled up in a and, again, rolled in in in a bankruptcy where I the assets were dissipated incredibly quickly by those controlling it. They're siphoned off, tens of billions of dollars worth, and I it's been a a colossal disaster. And, I mean, not stopping that from happening is by far the biggest regret of my life. Speaker 0: So you knew everybody else in the crypto business. You're one of the most famous people in the business before the charges, before, you know, all of this happened. Being as honest as you can, do you think you were the biggest criminal in the crypto business? Speaker 1: I don't think I was a criminal. So certainly the answer to that is no. I mean, I think that DOJ thinks that I may have been, but I don't care their people. Speaker 0: Yeah. You're you're in jail. They definitely that's their claim anyway. But but I wonder and I'm not you know, I've certainly criticized your business and other businesses like it in in the past. And, I'm not even getting into the details of your case because it's, like, Byzantine. But I'm I'm just wondering, like, do you think there's a lot of shady behavior in the crypto business? You know, being honest. Speaker 1: Yeah. Ten years ago, the answer was clearly yes or at least yes relative to the scale of the industry. You know, you look in the the mid, you know, 2034 to 2017 sort of era and there is not you know, the industry is a lot smaller than it was today. And and a lot of the transactions I saw or at least a higher fraction of them were well, different people use different words for it, but it's Silk Road, you know, as an example. Right? People purchasing narcotics online was a common use of crypto back ten years ago or so. Obviously, there are always gonna be criminals in any industry, but over time, the fraction of the industry that that represents has fallen off really substantially. Both because of sort of growth of older areas of interest in crypto and also because of more government involvement on the anti money laundering side. So, yeah, there's still some, but not it's not as as prevalent as it once was. Speaker 0: So you were famously identified with a worldview and ideology, maybe even a religion called effective altruism, and the idea was that, as I understand it, that you, you know, do the greatest good for the greatest number. You make money in order to help the maximum number of people, and some have pointed out irony that in the collapse of your company, like a million people lost their So there were a lot of individuals hurt in an effort that you described as, like, the greatest good for the greatest number, and I wonder if all of this has made you rethink the precepts of effective altruism. Speaker 1: It hasn't made me rethink the precepts. Obviously, I I feel terrible about what happened. It's not at all what I intended. Right. And whatever one's intentions are, I you know, if you screw up, then the results might be different. You know, people have their money back at the end, but it is too excruciating years waiting for it. They got it back dollarized rather than in kind. And I and certainly, all of the good that I've been hoping to do for the world ended up dissipating or at least most of it did when the company collapsed. Speaker 0: I guess what I'm saying is do I mean, I think it's hard for most people to understand the idea that it's more virtuous or valuable to help people they've never met than it is to help the people right in front of them. In other words, like, it's way more virtuous to help your wife, girlfriend, mother, daughter, brother, college roommate than it is to help, like, a village in a country you've never visited. I think that's how most people feel intuitively, But you you disagree. Speaker 1: I disagree. Although, there is a caveat to it, which is that, you know, a classic mistake which people make and I may have made at some points is with people who you don't know who are distant from you, thinking you know what they need when you don't. You know, being paternalistic, kind of condescending, and, you know, there's so many foreign aid type projects that have gone awry and they have been complete wastes of money because no one knew the people they're giving to. No one knew what their lives were like. And Speaker 0: Right. Speaker 1: They're just guessing at what they're speaking. It's just wrong. And and, you know, they show up with, like, a bunch of water pumps to a veggie fillet that has plenty of water and no food. And, like, you know Perfect. Exactly. Shipped in from Harvard to go hand out these water pumps no one wants. And, you know, there's there's, like, example after example of this going around. Whereas, obviously, like, when you're dealing with people you know, you know, you have much better sense of how to help them, and that's real. Like, that effect is absolutely real. And, you know, even if I think the life matters as much in one place as another, that doesn't mean that you know as well how how to help one as you do the other. Speaker 0: Well, see, I think you're sort of making a counter case. You're arguing against your own position. I mean, isn't it I mean, I guess the problem I have with effective altruism is just too easy. I mean, it's like it's easy to cure polio. It's really hard to make the same woman happy for thirty years. So maybe it's better to do the hard thing. Speaker 1: Well, I think what I'd say is, look, you look at I mean, malaria is a good example here. Right? No one dies of malaria anymore in The United States and basically no one does. But globally, it's what? Like a million people a year or something die of it. And that's horrible that it happens. Like, this is just a disease people shouldn't be dying from anymore. We know how to basically eradicate it, and we should absolutely be doing that as a world. But, you know, because it's it's sort of like easy in some sense, that shouldn't stop us from being able to help people, you know, at home. You look at, like, the scale of resources that would be required to many of these, you know, interventions in the poorest part of the world, and it's not that big. It's not making it would not take a big bite out of our domestic health if it were done efficiently. But the efficient part is a big piece of this. You can throw as many useless water pumps at villages without food as you want without curing anyone. Speaker 0: No. I think I mean, you make a I mean, that's demonstrably true, and sixty years of aid to Africa has shown that as life expectancies decline. But I I guess as a moral matter Yep. How can you justify worrying about malaria when your cousin is addicted to Xanax? Shouldn't you fix that first? Speaker 1: If I could, but, you know, at the end of the day, we have responsibilities to each of us. And, you know, if I know my cousin well and I know how to solve his problem because I'm his cousin, then absolutely, like, I have her responsibility to do that. But if I've tried and I'm flailing at that, I can't figure out how to make progress, but I can figure out how to save lives internationally or if someone can, then I don't think it takes away from the good that they can do internationally that they couldn't figure out how to solve their cousin's problem. Speaker 0: Right. So do what you can. I I don't I don't think that's a crazy point. Last question on this topic. Yep. Can you think of a big recent international aid project that was an unequivocal success? Speaker 1: So sort of, but I'm not gonna name the it's not gonna be a government aid project, to be clear. They're private projects that happen. Speaker 0: Right. Speaker 1: You know, I actually think malaria is a good example where a substantial fraction of the world's malaria has been cut down already by mostly private contributions from people in South Saharan Africa and India that, you know, saving probably hundreds of thousands of lives a year right now for, you know, thousands of dollars per life on average, which is, you know, sort of a stunning success on a relative scale. Now we're not talking about a trillion dollars. We're talking about single digit billions of dollars directed by really careful work by philanthropists. And, you know, of course, you can look at gigantic government programs that did absolutely nothing. You know, if you want the government approach, I mean, I don't know, the Marshall Plan, like, it's sort of digging pretty deep in history, but rebuilding Germany after World War two was probably a a huge success on on many fronts. Speaker 0: Yeah. I think we've we've undone it by blowing up Nord Stream. But but yeah. No. I think You know? I think it's a it's a fair point. So how how old are you now? Speaker 1: You know, I the funny thing, it it's it took me a second to to think of the answer to that. Prison time changes when you're in prison. Becomes sort of an amorphous concept when every day is is sort of like the last and they just blur together. The answer is well, I guess my birthday is tomorrow. So as of as of right now, I am I I'm 32, but I will be 33 soon. Speaker 0: How are you gonna celebrate your birthday? Speaker 1: I'm not. Was never big on birthdays on the outside, and celebrating another year in prison just doesn't feel like all that exciting to me. Speaker 0: So you're not gonna tell Diddy it's your birthday tomorrow? I don't believe you. Speaker 1: I someone else might tell him, but I I don't plan to. Speaker 0: So okay. So you'll be 33 tomorrow. If you are not pardoned, all things being equal, how old will you be when you get out? Speaker 1: It's a complicated calculation, which I don't understand all the details of because of, like, first step back stuff. And if you just add, you know, my prison sentence, my age, so to speak, you know, then the answer is in my late forties. Speaker 0: Wow. Could you handle that? Speaker 1: Sorry. What I said was wrong. I I misspoke. If you had my prison sentence my age to late fifties, if you include all of the possible decreases, it might be the late forties. But but the raw answer is, I mean, it's 32 when I was convicted, and I got a twenty five year sentence. So that's 50 seven. Speaker 0: So having done two out of the 25 so far Yeah. Do think you could could you make it? Speaker 1: It's a good question. I'm not sure. I mean, the hardest thing is just not having something meaningful to be doing in here. And Yeah. You know, and you can look at their studies. I have no idea how good they are, but they show, you know, you age at roughly three times the normal rate in prison. So, you know, you had three times 25 to my thirty two years when I was convicted and I, you know, that gets you an answer of maybe. Speaker 0: So I mean, it strikes me there's a kind of weird it's I mean, you went maybe more than anyone I've ever talked to from one world to a completely different world. So you were in the world of digital money. Now you're in a world with no money. Oh, yeah. What's the medium of exchange in prison? Speaker 1: You know, it's whatever people have and, you know, muffins, like these old so, like, little plastic wrapped. You know, like, you go to, like, a like, a gas station and, like, on the counter, there might be, like, a plastic bowl with little individually wrapped plastic muffins that have been sitting there for a week at at room temperature. You know, imagine one of those. That sort of that that's like standard is that a a packet of ramen soup or a hand disgusting looking little foil package of fish in oil at room temperature? Speaker 0: Oh. Yeah. So you went you went from crypto to to the muffin economy. Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 0: That's How would you how would you compare them? Obviously, it's harder to move muffins internationally, but Speaker 1: Right. I don't think they're gonna be Speaker 0: a currency. Speaker 1: Anytime soon globally. I don't think it's gonna be a strategic muffin reserve. So you know, they're a they're a currency of need. They they wouldn't be anything else. They they don't have that much to recommend themselves. But at the end of the day, they're kind of fungible. They're not exactly fungible, but they're close enough. You know, two muffins are kinda similar, so you can kinda trade them for each other. They they kind of work as long as you're never dealing with more than like $5. Right? Because if if you wanted to do a $200 transaction in muffins, like what you know, like the I mean, it doesn't work physically. Right? Speaker 0: And It's unwieldy. Speaker 1: Yeah. It's unwieldy. So one of the things that, like, you realize really quickly is, I mean, the scale of everything is so diminished in prison. You know, you see people getting into a fistfight over a single banana. Not because they even care about it that much, but because what else is there to channel your caring into? Speaker 0: Oh, that's grim. Have you do you eat the muffins by the way? I just hoard them. Speaker 1: I I no. I just hoard them and and yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't actually eat them. I I mostly eat rice and beans and ramen. Speaker 0: Wow. Well, it looks like it's been it's been good for you. Do you have you gotten any tattoos? Speaker 1: I I have not. I I know some people who have, but I have not gotten any prison tattoos. Speaker 0: Have you thought about it? Speaker 1: So, you know, there's a part of me that's always, like, thought about getting a tattoo, but talking with the inmates about their, you know, sanitization procedures or lack thereof for the needles sort of, you know, that that cured that idea in my mind. Not no no interest anymore. Speaker 0: It's not worth the hep c? Speaker 1: It's not worth the hep c. It's you know, I would say, like, maybe they go to, like, four people or so before bothering to sanitize a needle. Oh. Yeah. Speaker 0: Oh. Okay. So you're not you're not doing that. So since since you've been away and you're facing, I guess, twenty three more years, I always wonder, like, the people you helped I mean, you're in prison because you hurt people, but you also helped a lot of people in Washington by giving them many, many millions of dollars. Did any of them call you to say, you know, good luck. I hope you're doing okay. Don't join a gang or say anything to you at all? Speaker 1: Right when the collapse hit, like, the immediate wake of it, I got a number of really nice messages from a lot of people, including some in DC. By six months later, none. And so by the time trial happened, whereas, you know, put in prison, nothing. And it's it became too politically toxic. It became the incentives were too skewed against people, you know, risking their necks. I even heard, frankly, about people saying third hand, like, nice things about me, but no one wanted to be in contact with me directly. Speaker 0: Did anyone contact you? I mean, I I noticed that your I thought it was your girlfriend testified against you. Like, you know, there did you have any friends who stayed loyal and supported you or and continue to? Speaker 1: Barely. Yes. But very, very few. I was surprised. It makes sense in retrospect. Anyone who was close to me ended up with a gun to their head, you know, being told that they had two options, and one of them involved decades in prison. And, I mean, I I think Ryan Salem is sort of the saddest example of that, the most disgusting example from the government's perspective where, you know, they charged him of totally bogus crimes. He he said, no. I'll see you in court. So they went back and said, alright. Well, how about your pregnant wife? What if we put her in prison? And so he pleads guilty because there wouldn't put his wife in prison, which no same legal system would make that a permissible thing for a prosecution to do. And then and he was even charged with most of what the other people who pled guilty were charged with. You know, Ryan, he doesn't testify at trial because he hasn't want to lie. He hasn't wanted to say what the government wants him to say, and he ends up getting four times as much prison time as the other three guilty pleas combined. And, like, they couldn't send a clear message. Is it because he was a republican or is it because he refused to power the government's lies at trial? Like, those are the only things I can imagine why they give him seven and a half years in prison. Speaker 0: It's disgusting. And I It is. I had him to my house, and I interviewed him, and I think they charged his wife as well. It's totally immoral what they did. Speaker 1: Totally right. They went back on their promise and and charged his wife anyway. Like, you know, just just to sort of disabuse any notion of them sort of, like, operating in good faith. It's it's disgusting. He's he's a good guy. I you know, he didn't serve any of that. Speaker 0: Has it dawned on you you know, I don't know what kind of news coverage you're getting, kind of contact you have with the outside world, sounds like not too much, but that things are moving so quickly out here Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Speaker 0: By the time you get out I mean, AI, for example, it sounds like we're reaching AGI or some Yeah. Speaker 1: Something singularity like that. Yeah. Speaker 0: Soon. Yeah. That you may emerge whenever you do into a world that that doesn't look anything like the world you left. Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel pretty acutely. And it's, you know, the sort of feeling of the world moving on without you. Speaker 0: Ugh. Is having children part of your effective altruism philosophy? Speaker 1: No. Different people in the community have different views on it. And at the end of the day I mean for, you know, five years I felt like I had about 300 children most days, my employees. Like it was obviously, I couldn't be a father in the same way to all of them, but I felt responsible for them. I mean, feel terrible about all their work being tossed down the drain. But I didn't have time for my personal life at all, basically, when I was running FTX. And, I mean, I certainly am not in a position to have kids from in person. So Speaker 0: Have any of those 300 employees visited you in jail? Speaker 1: No. Think the answer is is no to that. You know, there's one or two Speaker 0: Probably ought to have some real kids at some point, don't you think? Because they when things go bad, they stick around. Speaker 1: You know, it it it's got me thinking about what it means to have real friends. And it's and and about the amount of power that some systems in our country end up having and the amount of intimidation that can be achieved implicitly. But I but also about, yeah, having people I know I can count on. Speaker 0: Yeah. Other people are all that matter. Sam Bankman Fried, I I I'm grateful that you did this, and it's probably the only interview you ever do where you don't get pressed on your business because there are other people to do that, but I was glad to talk to you and I hope you'll give our best to Diddy. Speaker 1: I I will absolutely Speaker 0: do that. I can't believe you're in jail with Diddy. Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. Right? It's you know, someone told me three years ago like you'll be hanging out with with Diddy, you know, every day. I'd like, oh, that's interesting. I wonder how that's gonna happen. I guess he gets into crypto or something. It's this is fucking fucked. Speaker 0: Oh, life is so weird. Godspeed. Thank you. Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.
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I’ve been following the story of Jeremy Cahen, also known as 0xPauly, who has been involved in various scams and controversies in the NFT and crypto space. He gained notoriety for supporting claims against Bored Ape Yacht Club and was sued by Yuga Labs for selling fake NFTs. His actions led to significant losses for investors, including launching a memecoin that resulted in wallet drains. Despite claiming to support creators, his alleged scams and manipulations have left many wary. Currently, he’s listed as one of Puerto Rico's most wanted.

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This man was tied to million-dollar scams Sued by Bored Apes. Nearly destroyed Azuki. His account is suspended after memecoin rugs. The story of 0xPauly no one told you🧵 (1/9) https://t.co/coHFL39mMV

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Jeremy Cahen first gained attention by supporting Ryder Ripps’ claims That BAYC used Nazi imagery and racist stereotypes. To escalate, he and Ripps launched RR/BAYC to mock the collection. (2/9) https://t.co/EJhMfysTxt

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In 2022 Yuga Labs sued Jeremy Cahen (0xPauly) for selling those fake BAYC NFTs Scamming buyers out of millions. By 2024, a judge ruled against them Ordering them to pay $9M in damages. (3/9) https://t.co/fyglwKvDlb

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In May 2022 Pauly exposed Zagabond for abandoning past NFT projects. They linked him through Discord logs, wallets, and ENS records. Pauly threatened to doxx him, forcing Zagabond to confess. Zagabond ended up apologizing and saved Azuki’s reputation (4/9) https://t.co/XVWte0KB36

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In 2023 Pauly launched yougetnothing.eth, An ENS address where people could send ETH with no rewards promised. He raised 600 ETH in a day. Pauly’s true intent remains unknown. Investors never got the money back. (5/9) https://t.co/tdnX7GfJhB

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In July 2023 Pauly0x launched Pond0x, a memecoin that tricked buyers. Early users got cheap tokens, while Uniswap buyers got dumped on. Then a contract flaw let attackers drain wallets Spiking Ethereum gas to 400 gwei. Pauly walked away with 450 ETH. (6/9) https://t.co/a6s50ClScR

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Pauly was also a key figure in $PEPE. In 2024, he dumped $3M, crashing the price. He then used the funds to pump PORK, secretly holding 40%. Once it hit Fugazi valuations, he dumped on holders for millions. (7/9)

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We looked into $PORK created by @pauly0x with one insider managing to make ~$19,000,000 from just $36,000. We explore how it ran from $3m-->$300m in two days, and its biggest winners 🧵 https://t.co/nC6bhbZVuN

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Pauly also created scammy tokens like Fartcoin 2.0 and Trump 2.0 This year he claimed he sent $2M to Matt Furie (PEPE creator) But Matt confirmed it wasn’t his wallet. The community exposed the lie. And Pauly rugged again. (8/9) https://t.co/DxLGra1D0H

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Today, Pauly’s X account is suspended. Puerto Rico police have listed Jeremy Cahen as one of the country’s 10 most wanted. Stay away from anything linked to him. Share this to spread awareness. (9/9) https://t.co/I0P6vtQ1YS

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