and with this, ARK sold 100k of shares monday and 70k of shares tuesday to get out some profit
its only a $few million, but still

i personally dont see grayscale getting accepted before blackrock. looking at the legal issues of other DCG drama. the SEC is not confident with DCG compared to blackrock

yes he stole lots of funds but technically he has not risked life or limb of his victims so he is not "of harm to the community" to be jailed/restrained from public... though he is on tag with curfew and told to stay at residence during trial. so not completely free

the judge cannot put him behind bars(prison) until trial judgement= takes time, be patient
the judge cant also deny him certain rights (time to speak with lawyers, gather defense, get medication, eat) else that can cause things like a mistrial.
they are doing things by the book to ensure there are no ways to drop the trial, so that the trial goes through the full process..

we waited nearly a year for the trial... a few more weeks isnt gonna hurt

SBF is not in-charge of FTX anymore. he filed bankruptcy and handed control to an administrator. so now its the administrators job to find the funds. and if you look at those reports it seems he has found alot of the funds..

as for SBF the trial against him is still in the middle(nearing end) no judgement can be made until the end and no sentencing hearing can be made until judgement. its a case of being patient and letting the trial play out

whales do the opposite to their own trading patterns..
when they want the price to be low, so they can buy. they will not want competition pumping the price so they dont talk ultra positive about it.
however when its time for them to sell they want the competition to pump the price even higher so they can sell at max.

you can usually spot a whales trade plan via how pro-con they are about an asset con=buyer pro=seller

if you look at the DCG portfolio. you soon learn how many sister companies chainanalysis has to share information with

chainanalysis aint perfect but with hundreds of businesses FREELY sharing data at no cost with each other. they can link more then just some coming and goings of payment flows, especially when they have exchanges that link to withdrawals of altcoin and subnetwork systems, they are not completely blind

you gotta laugh at their lame excuses for not allowing more transaction flow onchain per block

the old "2mb is bad" yet they allow 4mb of junk meme images that have nothing to do with bitcoin payment flow.. and now say lets not stop the junk.. yet that same 4mb allowance has not caused a 4x of transaction flow. due to the cludgy way they implemented it

if people are emotionally triggered to make gambles based on weak/sided information. they need to challenge their emotions..

currency regulations about money service businesses are not new.  but governments were slow at understanding bitcoin to know whats a money service business.. and.. people wanting to run money service businesses are slow to realise their service is one

but here is where people need to learn.. by reading regulations. what makes them defined as a MSB and then tailor/customise their service to not be a MSB

if you are literally advertising a service that says its function is to take money in, and for a fee process it and hand it back out.. its obviously not advertising itself as a retailer/merchant. nor a taxi cab loyalty point system.. but advertising its a MSB

so these businesses that want to operate without MSB regulations (while resulting in experience of MSB) need to think smarter.
bitcoin has been known to be a currency and fit in the currency jurisdiction for 10 years. so while still defined as currency in law makers definitions, means businesses have to see if their business fits the currency service business.. or is instead a retailer/merchant/auction/property manager

if bitcoin remained as private property decade ago to now. we would not have to think that hard, as governments wouldnt have a fingers worth of power to point at us

he invests in bitcoin, but hypes up a subnetwork. yet he does not hold substancial % of his hoard as liquidity locks in the promoted subnetwork to show he trusts his value to be locked in the subnetwork.. so what does that really say about the subnetwork he prefers people to use for payments

though many comments are repeated from years ago
salyors game for years is to think of his favoured subnetwork as the payment/currency network, where as thinking the bitcoin network as just the reserves settlement/audit network

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i agree its very common for businesses to do this. if it was not there would be no need for unions, strikes or protests..

however the point is the lowest paid people think they are winning, getting a bonus, benefits from accepting such conditions. so much so they artificually inflate the value to make it seem like they are getting a good deal. when in reality, the maths shows they are treated as slaves

luckily i have not needed to work for many years thanks to bitcoin. but when i hear stories of the lowest paid people hyping up their position, they need a reality check and realise they should demand more from their employer, just to get the legal minimum

read it properly.. stop making up things

read more and have a deeper think about it
you can use funds in many ways.

it actually says if a service is defined as a CEX then it needs to be regulated.. it does not say all services need to be defined as a CEX
learn about other services not defined as a CEX.

as for mixer if you are advertising the purpose of the service is to anonymise, obfuscate, distort the lineage of the funds. they you as the advertiser are putting your service into the "mixer" category

again learn about other services not defined as a mixer

learn what the definitions do say then think about what it is not saying. and think about things in the not said category

many things even in fiat are not declared as being a MSB/MTS

ordering a taxi is not a money service business even though people deposit money into a taxi app and the taxi company then sends funds(minus commission) to the driver at the end of shift

a taxi company head office does not do any driving of cabs itself and just facilitates the payments of journeys. yet they get to define themselves not as a MSB but as a transportation service.

so think outside of the box of the definition of money service business and create a service that is described as something else but still produces end result as another withdrawal address gets funds from a different deposit address.. BE SMART.

when you want privacy dont advertise people should use a mixer. tell them to use a driverless car transportation service that offers 99% refunds if the car does not turn up(a lame example)

ive hinted enough without spelling it out. but lets see who is smart enough to do something and work out other methods to get the results they want without being considered a MSB

think harder

learn how regulators define mixers/coinjoin.. then think of practices not within those definitions
EG fiat example
a retailer receives funds. and pays out funds. they are not defined as a MSB/MTS nor mixer

however offering a service that wants to describe itself as a mixer then pigeon holes itself into the category.

think harder.. think about something not described/advertised/promoted as a mixer but allows money flows without MSB/MTS regulation

oh and "taint" is a bitcoin term created far before chainanalysis was even a thing..

you start a topic about how risky NON bip 157 litewallets are

and while i state about them you cry, whinge moan about the privacy leaks at the block/utxo sync, you are ignoring there are other privacy leaks
it seems you are not thinking about privacy leaks but just trying to promote that you think bip157 is the be-all end-all solution to litewallet privacy leaks

you obsess about IP addresses yet the topic post was about bitcoin address associations
tor is tor so yes tor users dont have to think about IP issues. thus not part of the conversation..

but when it comes to details of what wallet has what keys. there are many many leakages of using a lite wallet. which 157 does not solve

so how about formulate your problem again. if its about bitcoin address associations.. talk about that
if its about privacy leaks of bitcoin address associations: dont just think about one narrow use case but realise litewallets have far more leaks

your meandering to now talk about IP addresses has nothing to do with the UTXO stuff you were talking in the topic post. so why keep thinking that people are not understanding it if they are not talking about IP addresses..

i am and was not talking about IP. neither was your topic post. so take the meander of IP out of the conversation and realise i and you were talking about privacy leakage of bitcoin address associations

there are many. realise that litewallets sacrifice privacy for convenience and even with the bips you mention a lite wallet still has many leaks

YOU were the one talking about all the wallets that dont use the bips, ill remind you

and i responded

the wallets which your first sentance of topic eludes to are the ones that would just send out a bitcoin address to a server/peer and in receipt grab utxo of the wallet keys.. which yes is privacy concern
for litewallets that do not download the entire blockchain(their main feature of being different to full nodes). if you were to send a request to any peer or server of 999 random addresses, the wallet cannot establish used random addresses to obfuscate away from the wallets true addresses.. thus any receiver of such request would get 999 addresses of empty unused addresses(because the wallet had to make them up) and then one valid used address which the peer or server would then know thats the significant/intended address trying to hide.

its the needle in haystack game in reverse.. say you have a needle but want to hide it. but you dont have access to the full utxoset to grab 999 other needles of other peoples funds to hide your needle. so you make up random 999 straws of unused addresses.. thus when parsing you the data peers see 999 hollow straws and one needle. they find the needle because its not a straw

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the other thing was even without the address/utxo grabbing privacy leak whether via peers/servers... any intercepting node can just connect to you, knowing you are a litewallet that does not relay all pre-confirm payments of the network, but instead just your own. and just waits until you make a spend to know the addresses you have control over

there are many many many other ways to leak data whether a litewallet linked to a branded server of same brand as the wallet software.. or a litewallet that has some capability of random node connection

the thing is.. light wallets are light for a reason. they dont receive or send all blockchain data, nor all network transactions.. so by default of their feature of being light there are many ways connected peers can learn more about a litewallet user than a full node user.

litewallet users sacrifice privacy for convenience

all wars, if you follow the causes back. all lead back to the bankers


ill let you follow the rabbit hole of the british mandate and the politics of <1947

he is asian. the screenshot above is not jimmy.. jimmy in the screenshot is hiding under a black jacket. the guy in blue is someone else