A Hero’s Life?
Once again the chest beaters of Binance are eager for us all to know they did something to help US Authorities Freeze $4.4m Linked To DPRK Cybercrime Orgs (Cointelegraph). Millennial immodesty or an attempt to save face and posterior simultaneously given the many clouds hanging over the ‘organisation?’
Elsewhere Bitcoin fraudster Alexander Vinnik is endeavouring to become part of a US-Russian hostage swap after Mad Vlad lifted a WSJ journo recently in Moscow.
Russian Lobbies To Be Part Of Potential Prisoner Swap For Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan
CBS News
Founder Of Crypto Exchange BTC-e Eyes Prisoner Swap With WSJ Journalist
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If you have difficulty keeping up with your Russian Bitcoin fraudsters (let alone the US ones or even the broader global theme of crypto crooks, there are even several Canadians), Vinnik was arrested way back in 2017 before there even was a Binance or an FTX. He is not to be confused with other Russians incarcerated in the US such as Anatoly Legkodymov, the majority owner of Bitzlato who was lifted in Miami a few months back.
We can’t make up our minds if the idea a convicted Bitcoin fraudster can tag onto a Russo-US hostage swap with an accredited WSJ journo is plausible or amounts to peak millennial crypto kiddie hubris.
There was a moment of detente this week when China Central Television Aired A Crypto Segment In Rare Move (Cointelegraph) which got the famous Canadian entrepreneur Changpeng Zhao very excited. The headline in The Block read: Binance's CZ Says China Is 'Buzzing' After Bitcoin Seen In TV Segment…and then… a void: Chinese State Media Removes Video On Crypto After Binance CEO Calls It ‘Big Deal’ (Cointelegraph).
Is there a rapprochement looming? “I think it’s too early to tell” as the old political story goes…
In other crypto news, we have some positives, investments et al:
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