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Cryptocurrency: WARNING Farage Debanked, Get The Fuck Out Of Fiat If You Want To Live
by grarpamp 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

If you don't have at least some life-rebooting portion of your total worth self-custodied in a high quality crypto, you're at risk of getting canceled out of life... https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1674507257248116746 https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1674357026921623552 nitter.it Logo Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Watch Farage on @GBNEWS, Mon-Thurs at 7pm. United Kingdom nfarage.com Joined January 2009 Tweets 19,436 Following 518 Followers 1,766,576 Likes 335 Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Pinned Tweet Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 13,956 17,878 4,192 46,097 3,245,133 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 9h Do we really live in a free country? 1,459 2,300 293 6,773 154,494 Nigel Farage retweeted GB News @GBNEWS 11h 'If you debunk, Nigel, you get debanked.' Toby Young of the Free Speech Union discusses his personal experience with having his bank account closed, after @Nigel_Farage was also debanked. 🖥️GB News on YouTube bit.ly/3vAYaw0 148 391 26 1,030 27,633 Nigel Farage retweeted James Heale @JAHeale 11h Nigel Farage criticising Sir Chris Bryant on GB News for claiming in March 2022 in the Commons that he: “Received £548,573 from Russia Today in 2018 alone, this is from the Russian state.” Fifteen months later, Bryant has not retracted that claim spectator.co.uk/article/fact… Fact check: did Farage get £548,000 from Russia? Chris Bryant has been keen to make the most of the Ukraine crisis, demanding greater sanctions on Putin’s cronies at every turn. The Labour MP scored an early hit when he used parliamentary privilege... spectator.co.uk 50 78 3 281 Nigel Farage retweeted Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin 12h Using bank account cancellations as a political weapon is insane. Short sighted people will celebrate it when it happens to their political opponents but it is a can of worms no side should ever open. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 230 1,046 24 5,515 Nigel Farage retweeted WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop 12h Without access to politically neutral banking, we are moving ever closer to losing our democracy in everything but name. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 52 194 5 820 Nigel Farage retweeted Matt Le Tissier🌸 @mattletiss7 12h Wow. Love or loathe him. I don’t think there are many people that would support what the banks are doing to him. 🤬 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 641 729 38 4,350 Nigel Farage retweeted Christina Jordan 🇬🇧 @CJordanjb 17h This is troubling, and outrageous. Wrong on so many levels. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 49 111 4 689 Nigel Farage retweeted Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus 13h This is really really worrying and needs to be dealt with as a matter of urgency by the government. It's functionally impossible to operate in society right now without a bank account - banks cannot have the power to remove people from society. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 134 229 8 1,034 Nigel Farage retweeted Steven J. Miller @StevenJonMiller 16h 🚨 Whatever your politics, this should concern us all. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 65 120 9 649 Nigel Farage retweeted Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 @montie 15h This is outrageous. Can you explain yourself @RhonddaBryant? Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 290 279 16 1,367 Nigel Farage retweeted Nana Akua @Nanaakua1 13h This is horrendous.. They could target anyone of us !! Watch @Nigel_Farage tonight 7pm @GBNEWS Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 344 242 17 1,254 Nigel Farage retweeted Bruges Group 🇬🇧 @BrugesGroup 16h This is simply appalling. For years, many conservatives have backed economic policies which have been favourable to big, multinational corporations. It is time for the right to recognise them as the globalist threat they are. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 93 194 9 735 Nigel Farage retweeted Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton 13h Many banks refuse to open a bank account for organisations involved in politics. Why? That's relatively new thing. The @financialombuds should clarify PEP policy. Any denial of services must justified, overseen and subject to appeal to ensure there's no political discrimination Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 29 99 4 447 Nigel Farage retweeted Leo Kearse - see me on YouTube & Headliners @LeoKearse 15h Social Credit Scores, pioneered in China, have reached the West. If you have opinions that the establishment doesn't approve of, your access to banking is cut off. It's affected Triggernometry, The Free Speech Union and it'll affect you soon. You might be thinking "oh but I have the correct opinions, this only affects people I've been told are 'bad'": 1) Future governments may decide that different opinions are wrong and they already have the precedent to do this; 2) The scope of acceptable opinion will undoubtedly narrow; 3) It's morally wrong to discriminate against people for holding lawful opinions. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 108 557 14 2,279 Nigel Farage retweeted Jeremy Brier KC @jeremybrier 15h If you invoke Parliamentary privilege to allege illegal conduct, causing a citizen to be unable to bank in the UK (or otherwise suffer harm), then: (1) You should provide the evidence; or (2) You should withdraw the claim. Or else the privilege becomes a tool of oppression. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 118 586 32 1,846 Nigel Farage retweeted Tom Slater @Tom_Slater_ 15h This financial unpersoning of people is a menace to democracy — the cutting edge of corporate tyranny. Whether or not you like or dislike Farage is completely irrelevant. Everyone needs to stand up to this now, or it will only grow and grow. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 185 368 19 1,441 Nigel Farage retweeted Neale Hanvey MP ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊ @JNHanvey 15h I disagree profoundly with much of @Nigel_Farage’s politics - especially on #ScottishIndependence, but this is a disgraceful way to treat anyone in a mature democracy. If you thinks it’s okay “cause it’s just Farage” then don’t expect any sympathy or help when the do it to you. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 271 291 9 1,450 Nigel Farage retweeted Jason Miller @JasonMillerinDC 15h This is insane! Political persecution and cancel culture is a problem everywhere the globalists can pull the levers! We have your back, @Nigel_Farage! Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 106 249 10 903 Nigel Farage retweeted Neil Oliver @thecoastguy 15h This is extraordinary: Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 436 33 1,868 Nigel Farage retweeted Alfie Best @AlfieBestSnr 19h We no longer live in a democracy #fact Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 77 151 2 825 Load more nitter.it Logo Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Watch Farage on @GBNEWS, Mon-Thurs at 7pm. United Kingdom nfarage.com Joined January 2009 Tweets 19,436 Following 518 Followers 1,766,576 Likes 335 Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Nigel Farage retweeted Rupert Lowe @RupertLowe10 16h This is disgraceful. 100% behind Nigel. All decent and fair-minded people should be outraged by this. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 414 545 29 2,596 Nigel Farage retweeted Dr Philip Kiszely @KiszelyPhilip 17h I watched this earlier today. It’s taken me a while to process… If they don’t like what you think, they can close your bank account. And once that happens, it’s all but impossible to open another one. We’ll see many more of these stunts in the near future. How long before they come for you and me? Apologetic but firm: you don’t share our ‘values’, so alas there is no place for you. Britain simply cannot function in this way. I never thought I’d say it, but part of me just wants to leave and never come back; surrender this car crash of a nation to the activist agenda that is hell-bent on destroying it. Has destroyed it. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 417 975 31 3,673 Nigel Farage retweeted Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs 17h This is disgraceful. On my show tonight we will be debating #CBDCs the consultation at @bankofengland closes tomorrow. If you think it’s easy to do stuff like below, beware centrally controlled digital currency. It will be next level!! Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 210 515 9 1,850 Nigel Farage retweeted Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman 19h It’s dystopian Whatever your politics, right/left, leave/remain, having a system that enables politicians’ bank accounts to be closed for no reason is a chilling echo of the sort of thing that happens in Russia or Turkey There should be outrage from all sides I’ll wait… Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 1,220 670 62 2,815 Nigel Farage retweeted Darren Grimes @darrengrimes_ 19h This is happening A LOT now. Without a bank account, you cannot function. Unless there is clear evidence of being up to no good (the law), there can be no justification for the banking world's ability to effectively form a cartel that refuses accounts over its owner’s politics. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 489 565 21 2,252 Nigel Farage retweeted Bad Education. @LKidsalone 19h If you think this is a good thing just because its Nigel Farage, then you're seriously deluded. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 57 136 5 762 Nigel Farage retweeted The New Culture Forum @NewCultureForum 19h Orwellian in the most fundamental and frightening sense. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 34 118 586 Nigel Farage retweeted Bo @KingBobIIV 19h You can delight in this or realise, you could be next. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 163 153 5 863 Nigel Farage retweeted Howard Cox @HowardCCox 19h Nigel, you have always had the establishment against you. This is more than disgusting, it has to be illegal. You are hitting every woke raw nerve and they simply can’t debate, so like Putin they try to eliminate the opposition. Sick sick! You have 0000000s behind you Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 157 294 11 1,252 Nigel Farage retweeted أبو عمّار @MaajidNawaz 19h As I forecasted on @joerogan over a year ago, globalists are now closing bank accounts of political adversaries This was done to me by my accounting firm (2009) & HSBC US account (2010) This is why Central Bank Digital Coupons (CBDC) are dangerous, why cash must be kept alive. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 140 1,858 60 4,678 Nigel Farage retweeted Charlie Thompson @CharlieRefUK 19h Reguardless of your politics this should be concerning to everybody Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 22 103 2 468 Nigel Farage retweeted Andrew Neil @afneil 17h If this is anywhere near a fair and accurate account of the situation — and it looks to me that it is — then it really is quite the story. And very troubling. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 1,175 1,869 111 7,699 Nigel Farage retweeted Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953 19h This cannot be tolerated. It’s like something from a failed state. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 96 144 2 956 Nigel Farage retweeted Richard Tice 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard 19h Truly disgraceful by British Establishment entities to shut Nigel down Metro Bank did same to @reformparty_uk in Aug 2021; no reason given. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 581 868 42 2,947 Nigel Farage retweeted Adrian Hilton💎 @Adrian_Hilton 18h This is outrageous. Whatever you may think of @Nigel_Farage personally, or of Brexit politically, it is intolerable that banking facilities can be summarily withdrawn from a person who is operating wholly within the law. Perhaps someone needs to establish The Freedom Bank. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 350 251 15 1,185 Nigel Farage retweeted Toby Young @toadmeister 18h This is an absolute disgrace. We need to change the regulations so payment service providers cannot withdraw service from customers for purely political reasons. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 932 957 46 3,572 Nigel Farage retweeted Peter Whittle @prwhittle 18h This should alarm every one of us. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 237 214 10 1,157 Nigel Farage retweeted Craig Murray - @CraigMurrayOrg 18h This is absolutely wrong. I don't care how much you disagree with Nigel Farage's politics - and I disagree with him fundamentally. It is precisely the same thing as has just happened to Stuart Campbell. A really chilling attack on those who do not comply with Establishment approved thought. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 102 377 17 1,295 Nigel Farage retweeted Iain Dale ⚒️🇺🇦 @IainDale 18h This is outrageous in a free society. And while im about it, many congratulations to @nigel_farage on his award. Totally deserved. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 426 411 24 2,576 Load more nitter.it Logo Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Watch Farage on @GBNEWS, Mon-Thurs at 7pm. United Kingdom nfarage.com Joined January 2009 Tweets 19,436 Following 518 Followers 1,766,576 Likes 335 Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Nigel Farage retweeted Isabel Oakeshott @IsabelOakeshott 18h We call ourselves a democracy, but our banks are increasingly refusing to serve politicians with views they don’t like. What’s happened to @Nigel_Farage is NOT a one off Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 1,321 858 81 3,397 Nigel Farage retweeted Laurence Fox @LozzaFox 18h We should all be very concerned about this. If they can remove @Nigel_Farage and others you may or may not disagree with the right to transact. I can guarantee that one day it will be you. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 591 1,203 56 3,409 Nigel Farage retweeted Bernie's Tweets @BernieSpofforth 18h UK - It doesn’t matter what you think of Nigel Farage. If you stand for democracy & freedom then you should be terrified that a citizen is having his bank accounts closed because banks don’t like his politics. Imagine what they’ll do when you have CBDCs Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 488 2,107 62 5,827 Nigel Farage retweeted Ben Kew 🏌️‍♂️ @ben_kew 19h The British political and financial establishment are debunking Nigel Farage, who remains one of the most popular and successful politicians of the 21st century. This is all happening under the country's fake "conservative" government. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 41 89 3 467 Nigel Farage retweeted Giles Sheldrick @ExpressGilo 19h Breaking: Farage threatens to leave the UK because he can’t get a bank account, effectively leaving him ‘non-existent’ Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 19h The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too. 62 48 1 235 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 20h Court of Appeal rules against the Rwanda policy. The House of Lords and the judiciary will always do their best to assist illegal immigration. France is a safe country, we should send people straight back there. 2,004 1,473 174 7,086 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 28 This old duffer has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. The Spectator Index @spectatorindex Jun 28 President Biden says Putin is 'losing the war in Iraq' 1,770 1,901 152 11,052 Nigel Farage retweeted GB News @GBNEWS Jun 28 'Proper stuff! Well done Jonny Bairstow for getting that bloke away!' @Nigel_Farage reacts to England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow carrying a Just Stop Oil protester off the pitch at Lord's during today's Ashes test 39 72 5 593 39,253 Nigel Farage retweeted Jason Miller @JasonMillerinDC Jun 28 Congrats to ⁦@Nigel_Farage⁩ and ⁦@GBNEWS⁩!!! 🇺🇸🇬🇧 “Donald Trump wades in on Tric Awards victory and lavishes praise on Nigel Farage - ‘He’s incredible!’” gbnews.com/news/donald-trump… Donald Trump wades in on Tric Awards row and lavishes praise on Nigel Farage - ‘He’s incredible!’ The former US president congratulated Nigel Farage on his huge win gbnews.com 47 130 3 672 Nigel Farage retweeted Media Guido @MediaGuido Jun 28 Where’s Tom Gone? order-order.com/2023/06/28/w… 15 26 2 100 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 28 The @TRICawards have now redone their tweet. Democracy wins! Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 28 Why have @TRICawards deleted their tweet saying I won News Presenter of the Year? This is a disgrace! 603 697 26 3,972 Nigel Farage retweeted TRICawards @TRICawards Jun 28 ⭐️2023 #TRICawards 🏆 Congratulations @Nigel_Farage ➡️ News Presenter 616 326 3,074 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 28 Why have @TRICawards deleted their tweet saying I won News Presenter of the Year? This is a disgrace! 2,436 1,864 203 7,866 232,545 Nigel Farage retweeted GB News @GBNEWS Jun 27 🏆 Nigel Farage is your 2023 TRIC News Presenter of the Year! 👏 An award voted for by you, the people! ▶️ Join Nigel live on GB News, Monday to Thursday from 7pm! 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 83 236 28 1,427 22,888 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 28 This is not helping their cause. #StopJustStopOil 327 276 17 2,016 62,143 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 27 Many thanks to Donald Trump for his congratulatory message on winning @TRICawards News Presenter of the Year. 🏆 625 711 46 4,740 63,766 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 27 They screamed, they shouted and they heckled me. Gosh, I enjoyed it! 🏆 GB News 702 1,157 85 7,251 222,952 Nigel Farage retweeted Ben Briscoe @BenWBriscoe Jun 27 Huge moment for @GBNEWS with two @TRICawards wins. 1. GB News Breakfast WINNER Multichannel News Programme 2023 beating Good Morning Britain. 2. @Nigel_Farage WINNER News Presenter of the Year ahead of Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid. 193 288 25 1,942 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 27 Delighted to win TRIC News Presenter of the Year. Huge thanks to the public that voted, the small and dedicated team that work with me, and those that founded and lead GB News. This great broadcaster is going from strength to strength! 2,929 2,450 377 15,436 Load more nitter.it Logo Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Watch Farage on @GBNEWS, Mon-Thurs at 7pm. United Kingdom nfarage.com Joined January 2009 Tweets 19,436 Following 518 Followers 1,766,576 Likes 335 Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 27 Well knock me down... The main sponsor here has apologised to me, which I have fully accepted. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 27 Not off to a good start here at the TRIC Awards as the main sponsor made me leave the drinks reception area. 355 385 15 3,277 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 27 Not off to a good start here at the TRIC Awards as the main sponsor made me leave the drinks reception area. 1,086 309 92 2,431 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 27 Arrived at the @TRICawards with @GBNEWS! 112 126 7 1,074 5,862 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 27 The latest report into English Cricket concludes the game is "racist, sexist and classist". Behind this nonsense is a loathing for our country, our culture and who we are. Even the Barmy Army come under extreme criticism... Leave our sport alone! 822 861 70 4,245 83,484 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 26 More great work from GB News to expose this Labour councillor. gbnews.com/news/labour-party… Labour councillor hosted Islamist hate cleric at Northampton Guildhall West Northants councillor Enam Haque said it was a ‘great pleasure’ to give pro-beheading preacher tour of civic centre gbnews.com 269 978 37 3,351 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 26 How did the Home Office give radical cleric Enayet Ullah Abbasi a visa? There have been some very serious failings here @SuellaBraverman. GB News 202 630 29 2,027 44,011 Nigel Farage retweeted GB News @GBNEWS Jun 26 🚨 Coming up tonight on Farage at 7pm on GB News... 🔘 Latest on hate cleric Enayet Ullah Abbasi, who travelled to the UK for a tour which was cancelled after a GB News investigation. 🤔 Why did the Home Office let him into our country? 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 46 72 4 278 19,114 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 26 The Usman Khawaja comment about ‘new Australians’ rather proves my point. The majority have changed their behaviour in favour of a minority — it should be the other way round! 119 124 4 560 28,009 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 24 Putin has used the Wagner Group to wreak havoc in war zones. 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If we have to fight this all over again, then we will. 2,314 1,186 181 5,988 110,777 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 23 The referendum victory was a huge blow to the establishment and they have never forgiven us. express.co.uk/news/politics/… Farage warns 'the battle for Brexit is not over' on referendum anniversary EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage has delivered a personal message to Express readers on the seventh anniversary of the historic EU referendum. express.co.uk 1,534 952 77 4,338 Nigel Farage retweeted Calgie @christiancalgie Jun 22 To me, to you-kip 22 32 2 325 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 22 Must-watch analysis from @LiamHalligan. ⬇️ GB News @GBNEWS Jun 22 'We warned that we were going to have a wall of demand hitting an economy that's been shuttered... the establishment didn't want to hear about it.' @LiamHalligan reacts to the Bank of England raising interest rates from 4.5 to 5 per cent. 54 108 1 389 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Jun 22 Farage at Large LIVE from Barnsley tonight at 7pm! 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[ot][spam] Partial Book Experience: Robert Lifton, Losing R / Cults, Cultism, Zealotry
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

Losing Reality On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry Robert Jay Lifton The New Press, New York, London For my grandchildren Kimberly Lifton Jessica Lifton Lila Lifton Dmitri Itzkovitz We keep coming back and coming back To the real. - Wallace Stevens

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Re: [spam][crazy][personal][wrong] parts of triangle program
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

i am working on spamm8ng the list with oarts of an old software habit to cope. this is authorized because this is a list where hacktivists, criminals, and researchers would communicate. i am thinking about filling a right triangle, in a grid. i am expecting to make steps on rediscovering millenial computer graphics. this is relax8ng to me and helps me kniw i can relearn to write code and solve puzzles.

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[ot][spam][crazy][crazy][random]
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

1+1=triangle sin 3i matrices are triangle spirals !

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Cryptocurrency: Banksters Greenlit To Oppress Manipulate Crypto Markets Down, P2P Wins
by grarpamp 23 Aug '23

23 Aug '23

Analysts have noted that price activity of Bitcoin has elements of repression that Banks have been doing to the price of Gold for decades, and been getting fined and jailed for it. The way to beat the Banks is to buy and remove coins from the market, and to actually use, spend, and replace them in the P2P crypto economy for goods and services, instead of using GovBankPol's Fiat. Unlike Gold which is unlikely to ever be used by the masses again, Crypto is growing into use by the billions. Crush the Banksters... adopt and use Private P2P Crypto.

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[log] Fwd: Receipt for your PayPal payment
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

I didn’t make this payment, despite having dissociated behaviors. It’s easy for me to understand that because I don’t speak portuguese; thank you. The brazilian anarchist bookstore the thief donated to looks pleasant and nice I want to read the zines. I haven’t set aside enough money for taxes this year so let’s be careful. Because I get confirmation codes from a shortcode that looks funded by a non-paypal organization and is described as involved in other phishing-like activities online by different people, spending my money implies to me the thief may be part of a large well-funded organization with many paypal accounts, so the donation choice leaves me interested in what I have wrong, or what is going on. It’s clear now I need to at least change my login information, maybe my case worker can help me do this in a couple weeks if I remember. Ideally we’d make it clear that’s not sufficient but I imagine you’d need me to change it soon to do this again easily, given past patterns, so maybe that’s not where we are yet. I hope you are well and please return and secure and fix my accounts, I think? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "service(a)paypal.com" <service(a)paypal.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:00:47 -0700 Subject: Receipt for your PayPal payment To: Karl Semich <caringmarkedharmful(a)gmail.com> Karl Semich - Here's your receipt. Thanks for paying with PayPal To see the payment details, log in to your PayPal account [https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/home?v=1&utm_source=unp&utm_medium=email…] Payment from Karl Semich caringmarkedharmful(a)gmail.com Payment to Note to payment recipient editora(a)monstrodosmares.com.br, CPF 95297022053 You haven't included a note. editora(a)monstrodosmares.com.br Transaction ID Date 4AD32860F42686045 June 26, 2023 Payment Status COMPLETED Total $5.00 USD Payment $5.00 USD Transaction Summary Total amount of this Transaction: $5.00 USD Payment method : FIVE COUNTY C.U. x- 8436 Payment to recipient $5.00 USD Amount you'll pay $5.00 USD PayPal Customer Service can be reached at 888-221-1161. Not sure why you received this email? Learn more [https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/why-am-i-receiving-emails-from-…] Copyright © 1999-2023 PayPal, Inc. All rights reserved. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131. PayPal RT000403:en_US(en-US):1.0.0:a1c3cfa7b7574

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[ot][spam][crazy] want to move roadkill off road
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 13 Aug '23

13 Aug '23

i want to move roadkill off road i appreciate opportunity to value this it just feels too meaningful, although i don't remember why, and that's a huge theme. lots of amnesia-around-core-things. it's very hard to do this, in a way that has continued and adapted. i want to sacrifice money for efforts that might value these things instead. i hope this can help my behavior change. if [boss-identity] is on board with donating money to causes, maybe could be on board with defending these living beings .... maybe is! idea around: each blade of grass is sentient, so we get used to living among death, as every species does, and we give respect for the death that happens. it is nice to look for ways to change large scale behaviors causing a lot of death. this is important to do when in an area where many are dying.

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Re: Hey Karl...
by grarpamp 11 Aug '23

11 Aug '23

On 6/15/23, Bruce Gustafson, Jr. <bridgecrosser379(a)gmail.com> wrote: > My anal fetish!? How'd you know I'm obsessed with your mom's booty hole? > Fuck off you child molesting bitch. > Bruce Gustafson First words anyone here ever saw was Brucie Boy professing his experience with and suggestion for anally raping people. Now he branches out into disclosing more of his unhealthy obsessions, including being an angry child molester himself since from out of nowhere that's apparently the subject that's also consuming his mind 24x7. This boy wonder is on track to earn himself the next Juanie award. Lol. Get lost.

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Hacks: ZenBleed Breaks AMD CPUs Massive Hosted Data Leaks Coming
by grarpamp 09 Aug '23

09 Aug '23

Another huge exploit against shared computing platforms. Expect another wave of massively embarassing database leaks to be dropping all over the news and file sites soon. Just like Intel and ARM do, AMD has been sitting on this public feature release for over TWO MONTHS since at least May 15, which was well after to its official TOP-SECRET inclusion in the chip masks years ago. As usual, Spooks, Corps, Govts and others have been mole'ing, masking, discovering, buying, or running black ops to get them, and are freely running exploits with them since well before any public release. Zerodium and other dark budgets still paying top dollar. There's plenty of fun ways to fuzz them fuzzy fuzzers... #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenAudit , #FormalVerification , #CryptoCrowdFunding , #OpenTrust , #GuerrillaNets , #P2PFiber , #GNURadioRF , #PrivacyCoins , #DropGangs , ... Zenbleed https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html Tavis Ormandy Introduction Vulnerability Exploitation Discovery Solution Conclusion If you remove the first word from the string "hello world", what should the result be? This is the story of how we discovered that the answer could be your root password! Introduction All x86-64 CPUs have a set of 128-bit vector registers called the XMM registers. You can never have enough bits, so recent CPUs have extended the width of those registers up to 256-bit and even 512-bits. The 256-bit extended registers are called YMM, and the 512-bit registers are ZMM. These big registers are useful in lots of situations, not just number crunching! They’re even used by standard C library functions, like strcmp, memcpy, strlen and so on. Let’s take a look at an example. Here are the first few instructions of glibc’s AVX2 optimized strlen: (gdb) x/20i __strlen_avx2 ... <__strlen_avx2+9>: vpxor xmm0,xmm0,xmm0 ... <__strlen_avx2+29>: vpcmpeqb ymm1,ymm0,YMMWORD PTR [rdi] <__strlen_avx2+33>: vpmovmskb eax,ymm1 ... <__strlen_avx2+41>: tzcnt eax,eax <__strlen_avx2+45>: vzeroupper <__strlen_avx2+48>: ret The full routine is complicated and handles lots of cases, but let’s step through this simple case. Bear with me, I promise there’s a point! The first step is to initialize ymm0 to zero, which is done by just xoring xmm0 with itself1. VPXOR xmm0, xmm0, xmm0 > vpxor xmm0, xmm0, xmm0 vpcmpeqb ymm1, ymm0, [rdi] vpmovmskb eax, ymm1 tzcnt eax, eax vzeroupper Here rdi contains a pointer to our string, so vpcmpeqb will check which bytes in ymm0 match our string, and stores the result in ymm1. As we’ve already set ymm0 to all zero bytes, only nul bytes will match. vpcmpeqb ymm1, ymm0, rdi vpxor xmm0, xmm0, xmm0 > vpcmpeqb ymm1, ymm0, [rdi] vpmovmskb eax, ymm1 tzcnt eax, eax vzeroupper Now we can extract the result into a general purpose register like eax with vpmovmskb. Any nul byte will create a 1 bit, and any other value will create a 0 bit. vpmovmskb eax, ymm1 vpxor xmm0, xmm0, xmm0 vpcmpeqb ymm1, ymm0, [rdi] > vpmovmskb eax, ymm1 tzcnt eax, eax vzeroupper Finding the first zero byte is now just a case of counting the number of trailing zero bits. That’s a common enough operation that there’s an instruction for it - tzcnt (Trailing Zero Count). tzcnt eax, eax vpxor xmm0, xmm0, xmm0 vpcmpeqb ymm1, ymm0, [rdi] vpmovmskb eax, ymm1 > tzcnt eax, eax vzeroupper Now we have the position of the first nul byte, in just four machine instructions! You can probably imagine just how often strlen is running on your system right now, but suffice to say, bits and bytes are flowing into these vector registers from all over your system constantly. Zeroing Registers You might have noticed that I missed one instruction, and that’s vzeroupper. vzeroupper vpxor xmm0, xmm0, xmm0 vpcmpeqb ymm1, ymm0, [rdi] vpmovmskb eax, ymm1 tzcnt eax, eax > vzeroupper You guessed it, vzeroupper will zero the upper bits of the vector registers. The reason we do this is because if you mix XMM and YMM registers, the XMM registers automatically get promoted to full width. It’s a bit like integer promotion in C. This works fine, but superscalar processors need to track dependencies so that they know which operations can be parallelized. This promotion adds a dependency on those upper bits, and that causes unnecessary stalls while the processor waits for results it didn’t really need. These stalls are what glibc is trying to avoid with vzeroupper. Now any future results won’t depend on what those bits are, so we safely avoid that bottleneck! The Vector Register File Now that we know what vzeroupper does, how does it do it? Your processor doesn’t have a single physical location where each register lives, it has what’s called a Register File and a Register Allocation Table. This is a bit like managing the heap with malloc and free, if you think of each register as a pointer. The RAT keeps track of what space in the register file is assigned to which register. In fact, when you zero an XMM register, the processor doesn’t store those bits anywhere at all - it just sets a flag called the z-bit in the RAT. This flag can be applied to the upper and lower parts of YMM registers independently, so vzeroupper can simply set the z-bit and then release any resources assigned to it in the register file. Z-Bit A register allocation table (left) and a physical register file (right). Speculation Hold on, there’s another complication! Modern processors use speculative execution, so sometimes operations have to be rolled back. What should happen if the processor speculatively executed a vzeroupper, but then discovers that there was a branch misprediction? Well, we will have to revert that operation and put things back the way they were… maybe we can just unset that z-bit? If we return to the analogy of malloc and free, you can see that it can’t be that simple - that would be like calling free() on a pointer, and then changing your mind! That would be a use-after-free vulnerability, but there is no such thing as a use-after-free in a CPU… or is there? Spoiler: yes there is 🙂 Zenbleed Demo This animation shows why resetting the z-bit is not sufficient. Vulnerability It turns out that with precise scheduling, you can cause some processors to recover from a mispredicted vzeroupper incorrectly! This technique is CVE-2023-20593 and it works on all Zen 2 class processors, which includes at least the following products: AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Processors AMD Ryzen PRO 3000 Series Processors AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 Series Processors AMD Ryzen 4000 Series Processors with Radeon Graphics AMD Ryzen PRO 4000 Series Processors AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processors with Radeon Graphics AMD Ryzen 7020 Series Processors with Radeon Graphics AMD EPYC “Rome” Processors The bug works like this, first of all you need to trigger something called the XMM Register Merge Optimization2, followed by a register rename and a mispredicted vzeroupper. This all has to happen within a precise window to work. We now know that basic operations like strlen, memcpy and strcmp will use the vector registers - so we can effectively spy on those operations happening anywhere on the system! It doesn’t matter if they’re happening in other virtual machines, sandboxes, containers, processes, whatever! This works because the register file is shared by everything on the same physical core. In fact, two hyperthreads even share the same physical register file. Don’t believe me? Let’s write an exploit 🙂 Exploitation There are quite a few ways to trigger this, but let’s examine a very simple example. vcvtsi2s{s,d} xmm, xmm, r64 vmovdqa ymm, ymm jcc overzero vzeroupper overzero: nop Here cvtsi2sd is used to trigger the merge optimization. It’s not important what cvtsi2sd is supposed to do, I’m just using it because it’s one of the instructions the manual says use that optimization3. Then we need to trigger a register rename, vmovdqa will work. If the conditional branch4 is taken but the CPU predicts the not-taken path, the vzeroupper will be mispredicted and the bug occurs! Optimization Exploit Running It turns out that mispredicting on purpose is difficult to optimize! It took a bit of work, but I found a variant that can leak about 30 kb per core, per second. This is fast enough to monitor encryption keys and passwords as users login! We’re releasing our full technical advisory, along with all the associated code today. Full details will be available in our security research repository. If you want to test the exploit, the code is available here. Note that the code is for Linux, but the bug is not dependent on any particular operating system - all operating systems are affected! Discovery I found this bug by fuzzing, big surprise 🙂 I’m not the first person to apply fuzzing techniques to finding hardware flaws. In fact, vendors fuzz their own products extensively - the industry term for it is Post-Silicon Validation. So how come this bug wasn’t found earlier? I think I did a couple of things differently, perhaps with a new perspective as I don’t have an EE background! Feedback The best performing fuzzers are guided by coverage feedback. The problem is that there is nothing really analogous to code coverage in CPUs… However, we do have performance counters! These will let us know when all kinds of interesting architectural events happen. Feeding this data to the fuzzer lets us gently guide it towards exploring interesting features that we wouldn’t have been able to find by chance alone! It was challenging to get the details right, but I used this to teach my fuzzer to find interesting instruction sequences. This allowed me to discover features like merge optimization automatically, without any input from me! Oracle When we fuzz software, we’re usually looking for crashes. Software isn’t supposed to crash, so we know something must have gone wrong if it does. How can we know if a a CPU is executing a randomly generated program correctly? It might be completely correct for it to crash! Well, a few solutions have been proposed to this problem. One approach is called reversi. The general idea is that for every random instruction you generate, you also generate the inverse (e.g. ADD r1, r2 → SUB r1, r2). Any deviation from the initial state at the end of execution must have been an error, neat! The reversi approach is clever, but it makes generating testcases very complicated for a CISC architecture like x86. A simpler solution is to use an oracle. An oracle is just another CPU or a simulator that we can use to check the result. If we compare the results from our test CPU to our oracle CPU, any mismatch would suggest that something went wrong. I developed a new approach with a combination of these two ideas, I call it Oracle Serialization. Oracle Serialization As developers we monitor the macro-architectural state, that’s just things like register values. There is also the micro-architectural state which is mostly invisible to us, like the branch predictor, out-of-order execution state and the instruction pipeline. Serialization lets us have some control over that, by instructing the CPU to reset instruction-level parallelism. This includes things like store/load barriers, speculation fences, cache line flushes, and so on. The idea of a Serialized Oracle is to generate a random program, then automatically transform it into a serialized form. A randomly generated sequence of instructions, and the same sequence but with randomized alignment, serialization and speculation fences added. movnti [rbp+0x0],ebx movnti [rbp+0x0],ebx sfence rcr dh,1 rcr dh,1 lfence sub r10, rax sub r10, rax mfence rol rbx, cl rol rbx, cl nop xor edi,[rbp-0x57] xor edi,[rbp-0x57] These two program might have very different performance characteristics, but they should produce identical output. The serialized form can now be my oracle! If the final states don’t match, then there must have been some error in how they were executed micro-architecturally - that could indicate a bug. This is exactly how we first discovered this vulnerability, the output of the serialized oracle didn’t match! Solution We reported this vulnerability to AMD on the 15th May 2023. AMD have released an microcode update for affected processors. Your BIOS or Operating System vendor may already have an update available that includes it. Workaround It is highly recommended to use the microcode update. If you can’t apply the update for some reason, there is a software workaround: you can set the chicken bit DE_CFG[9]. This may have some performance cost. Linux You can use msr-tools to set the chicken bit on all cores, like this: # wrmsr -a 0xc0011029 $(($(rdmsr -c 0xc0011029) | (1<<9))) FreeBSD On FreeBSD you would use cpucontrol(8). Others If you’re using some other operating system and don’t know how to set MSRs, ask your vendor for assistance. Note that it is not sufficient to disable SMT. Detection I am not aware of any reliable techniques to detect exploitation. This is because no special system calls or privileges are required. It is definitely not possible to detect improper usage of vzeroupper statically, please don’t try! Conclusion It turns out that memory management is hard, even in silicon 🙂 Acknowledgements This bug was discovered by me, Tavis Ormandy from Google Information Security! I couldn’t have found it without help from my colleagues, in particular Eduardo Vela Nava and Alexandra Sandulescu. I also had help analyzing the bug from Josh Eads. You don’t need to set ymm0 explicitly, all VEX encoded instructions that write to xmm automatically zero the upper part.↩ See Software Optimization Guide for AMD EPYC™ 7003 Processors, section 2.11.5.↩ See Software Optimization Guide for AMD EPYC™ 7003 Processors, section 2.11.5.↩ In fact, conditional branches are not necessary at all because of SLS.↩ HOME • ABOUT • CONTACT

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xNY.io CRYPTOBANK (Whitepaper)
by Gunnar Larson 03 Aug '23

03 Aug '23

I have been hearing some confusion around Coinbase and the xNY.io whitepaper. ... See NEXO.io, sister to Coinbase below. xNY.io CRYPTOBANK Table of Contents Introduction 2 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.qw9a2wl4q92s> Focus, Goals and Objective(s) 3 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.c0rh86mvw9ua> Strategic Intent 4 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.kuxwgdwni6p4> Innovation Strategy 5 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.7ueepdr7oduo> Pioneering Human Resources (HR) Management in Banking 6 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.c2qklq4en1vv> The Bitcoin Blockchain, Human/Civil Rights and Computer Crimes 7 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.e9qgh4ilxr33> Goldman Sachs’ Organization HR Management Analysis (MoneyGram and Ripple) 8 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.6rxby3kdxyer> www.JUMO.World and Banking Africa 9 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.i05ave1q4rbi> Earth_ID: Because Owning Your Identity is a Human Right 10 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.fsblwc7lwh45> CryptoBank Environmental Analysis 11 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.hilka03j6nc> The NEXO.io Conundrum 12 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.q9hwlwczdyhq> The Fireblocks Conundrum 13 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.tkx9xi4801g> Computer Software and the Blockchain Platform 14 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.49okvir8vwmq> Virtual Currency: Computer Software Protocols and Processes 15 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.u1gw0w9y52p> Bank.org: Revolutionary Approaches to Agile Innovation 16 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.2aa81ldquwqy> Conclusion 17 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.wuzm4oh1p4gz> Bibliography 19 <https://docs.google.com/document#heading=h.1qq38owyyhee> Introduction Crypto and Blockchain are each a Human Right. For all, everywhere. 1. How does New York based bank fraud happen from the inside? People who commit crimes comprise departments and divisions of corporate organizations, and some current Human Resources (HR) management cultures lend well to the committing of crimes. 2. What organizational HR management design structures are at play to architectect such fraud for bespoke juristical instances? 3. Is there a unique opportunity for a fresh and clean New York-based international bank such as Bank.org? xNY.io argues that modern and innovative Executive Suites pioneer organizational HR management with the CEO and CFO leading the pack as the most ethical example for members in their organization. This key distinction calls for leaders to always adhere to a very strict, yet progressive, standard of ethics, even when it’s inconvenient. World renowned executive Jack McCullough suggests strict adherence is necessary, especially when it’s inconvenient. McCullough says that if you’re seen as a CEO and CFO “who will compromise when convenient, this approach will cause colleagues to consider all the talk about ethics to be lip service” (McCullough 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10934566&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. The leadership at xNY.io is clear-eyed, recognizing the importance of an extensive review program which seeks to explore all aspects of the following criteria as part of Legal, Compliance, and Governance (Bloomberg 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10935129&pre=&suf=&sa=0>, which is our internal due diligence framework based on first class industry standards and best practices (xNY.io | Bank.org n.d.) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10934818&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. In summary, this HR management innovation essay outlines and explores three key concerns for modern Bank and CryptoBank organizations. These concerns are signaled by our regulators who rightly suggest that it is critically important that the organizers identify, at the beginning of the process, an available management team and board of directors (NY-DFS 2008) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10935584&pre=&suf=&sa=0>: 1. The theory of modern virtual currency cross-border regulation logic (Larson 2020a) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10935777&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. 2. How to protect xNY.io’s strategic partnership with Bank.org and its mandate to pioneer innovation(s) and noble advancement of modern international banking? 3. Whereas, it is essential to safeguard virtual currency and its potential to galvanize international, economic and social advancement of all peoples (United Nations 1948) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10936242&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Most importantly, what organizational HR management structures are necessary to execute the proposed xNY.io and hybrid model framework, while engaging agile innovation to explore the potential of growing Bank.org into the World’s Best Bank and headquartered in New York (NY-DFS 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10936021&pre=&suf=&sa=0>? Focus, Goals and Objective(s) Why would a New York bank build organizational HR strategies with the sole purpose of taking advantage of the most vulnerable for exorbitant profit? xNY.io’s focus is to fill a need in clarifying New York’s virtual currency standards to achieve progressive innovation while constantly promoting respect for human rights and personal freedoms by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance across all global territories of business, protecting all peoples and all nations (United Nations 1948) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10936242&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Our simple strategy rests in the fact that virtual currency has cross-border utilities (European Commission 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951557&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Our real world experience has uncovered the strategy of a New York bank's misemployed Manhattan Island as a walled garden for bad HR management camps while wrongfully profiting off of the back of the most vulnerable across global markets (Law 360 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951562&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Our goal is to profit off the pivot from the textbook definition of marketplace manipulation, discussed herein related to the feasibility of automating stock market manipulation (Association for Computing Machinery 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10937107&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. The Supreme Court placed emphasis on the central role of deception to the concept of fraud.“ (T)he words ‘to defraud’ . . . primarily mean to cheat, . . . usually signify the deprivation of something of value by trick, deceit, chicane, or overreaching, and . . . do not extend to theft by violence, or to robbery or burglary.” (Hammerschmidt v. United States 1924) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10937278&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Bank.org feels confident in our knowledge and our direct dialogue with over 100 of the world’s leading scholars on the subject of international law: (Morris 2008) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10942187&pre=&suf=&sa=0> - The International Criminal Court investigates and punishes people for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes (Wikipedia 2021a) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10942253&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - The International Court of Justice, sometimes referred to as the World Court, has two major functions. Firstly, it settles disputes, which the member countries may bring before it. Secondly, it may give its opinions on legal matters (Wikipedia 2021b) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10942250&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. The objective of xNY.io’s research essay summarizes the discussion of New York bank organizations and the corresponding HR management architectures designed to target maximizing profits through conscious marketplace manipulation structures. The best xNY.io CryptoBank must be concerned with pioneering a business beyond leveraging computer crimes, a marketplace manipulation matter associated with current New York BitLicense architecture and subject to our attention related to cross-border/international organized groups that are cyber-based in New York (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 1989) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10942239&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Strategic Intent Imagine trying to open the best bank in the world and running up against BitLicense regulatory arbitrage (Poster 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959604&pre=&suf=&sa=0> just a few Manhattan blocks away. Composing a richly robust innovation strategy calls for a clear and honest appraisal of current marketplace conditions and identifying the firm’s current status. This requires xNY.io to not only be ambitious but also extremely articulate in outlining our strategic intent. We see our key competitive advantage in cleverley leveraging our vision cohesively with all available resources and modern ideals of Bank.org. Bank.org is aware that our uniqueness is very difficult for competitors to imitate. In her book Strategic Management for Technological Innovation, Mellissa Schilling suggests that the New York banking sector may be characterized as an oligopolistic industry in that there is a low degree of rivalry. Schilling explains that sometimes competitors choose to avoid head-to-head competition as a price collusion tactic (Schilling 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951587&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Being extremely clear and transparent, xNY.io's business models emphasize taking advantage of our competitors who have designed global regulatory abtrigatre frameworks at the expense of our customers (Buchak et al. 2017) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10956108&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Bank.org's stakeholder analysis highlights that many New York banks have ignored the ethical and moral implications of designing HR management structures with the sole purpose of training employees to act as footmen/footwomen in defrauding a global customer base. Furthermore, these bad actors revel in the naivety of potential rivals and government regulators as an operative procedure of HR management. Through an analysis of the best agile innovation strategy for execution, xNY.io and Bank.org have partnered to engage both backward vertical integration AND horizontal integration techniques (Tarver & James 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951616&pre=&suf=&sa=0>: - xNY.io is vertically integrating backwards by producing our own advanced blockchain technology for global payments. - Bank.org aims to actively engage leveraged buyouts of competitor banks, a practice that is considered horizontal integration (Kenton & James 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951605&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. >From the very beginning, xNY.io and Bank.org’s ethical and moral incentives have been strategically integrated into a modern and innovative hybrid infrastructure. Spanning key global functions including (but not limited to) reserve management, international legal counsel, and public and government affairs and relations, we consider ethics to be a quality management concern. Honestly, the implications of our strategic intent are derived from the morals of our founders who seek to efficiently secure the smooth function of our cross-border operations. Innovation Strategy We recognize our competitors see modern innovation as merely improving efficiency of obsolete legacy bank systems and processes to keep their operations afloat. It is extremely troublesome that many New York bank HR leaders’ modi operandi detail strategies of seeking new revenue channels that target the most vulnerable across first to third world markets (Ripple 2013a) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951672&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - As part of our ethical leadership agenda, articulating xNY.io’s strategic intent enables the firm to incorporate our innovation practice into Bank.org’s cross-border development and rollout. Capital investments are required as part of a multidimensional performance architecture, along with real-time systems and computational analyses. - Our honest deliberation and critical assessment of xNY.io’s strategic intent and development of new computational technologies brought to light the concern of competitors' engagement in computer crimes discussed in the following section. We recognize that true innovation goes beyond juvenile process efficiencies. Our innovation strategy constantly anticipates the future by recognizing where industry peers are failing today. This allows us to identify and execute products and services that are better - extremely better - than what the industry offers today. Schilling notes that successful and innovative firms question existing price performance assumptions. They attract customers by developing and introducing products that extend well beyond current market requirements and help mold the market’s expectations for the future (Schilling 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951587&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. This separates us from our competitors' desperate attempts to cut costs rather than ethically addressing and improving their HR operations with corresponding moral incentives. Pioneering Human Resources (HR) Management in Banking As international scholars (Mills 2006) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951797&pre=&suf=&sa=0>, our founders believe in the future of virtual currencies and blockchain platform computer software. This belief has been cultivated and nurtured by some of the most recognized pioneers of the global blockchain industry (Bourne et al. 2018) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951810&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. We consider virtual currency and blockchain technology to be precious, appreciating assets with various growing benefits over the course of one’s lifetime. Rolling Stone profiles the New York bank JP Morgan Chase and the bank’s HR management techniques, highlighting the conscious disregard of the ethical and moral standards from Chase’s Executive Suite knowingly excited the peddling of bad products stuffed with scratch-and-dent loans to investors without disclosing the obvious defects of the underlying loans (Taibbi 2014) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10961062&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Chase has repeated deal after deal with the same poor and fraudulent organizational HR management methodology, as did many other banks. Rolling Stone goes on to say, “It’s theft on a scale that blows the mind.” New York banks and Silicon Valley technology firms have a long history of not only challenging but actively attacking beliefs that virtual currency and blockchain are innovative tools for means of payment and stores of value, going so far as to launch an ever-popular campaign: “Bitcoin has no value at all” (Torpey 2018) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951846&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. It is safe to say that between New York and Silicon Valley, many organizations, through their various HR management structures, have made calculated efforts to kill the blockchain economy before it even got off the ground (Al-Naji et al. 2018) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951869&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - For example, New York, Europe and Africa are connected by a freeway of cross-border arbitrage frameworks. Due to easily exploitable laws in developing countries, some BitLicensees’ operations straddle New York, Europe and Africa to evade detection and prosecution from law enforcement. - Through various HR management structures, New York banks have consciously exacerbated regulatory loopholes resulting in virtual currency market manipulation affecting international computer technology systems and software such as the Bitcoin blockchain (Conway 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951897&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - Speaking generally, at least during the Bitlicense’s 2015-2020 implementation phase, New York banks likely leveraged the BitLicense seeking to increase profits from cross-border virtual currency market manipulation (Pettinger 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10960704&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - The entire design for executing a loophole virtual currency standard only comes into practice if a group of New York HR managers, at the direction of the Executive Suite, puts together a scheme in secret to manipulate a bunch of technical rules that laymen don’t understand to deprive people of their money (Bagchi 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10948490&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. >From the position of absolute and essential need of becoming a leading international bank, Bank.org has no other choice than to pioneer a necessary HR culture that supports our primary activities of operation. It is true that xNY.io came into existence as a tech-based response to the stated problems that specifically addresses both the threats of future damage and the current cross-border computer crime merry-go-round responsible for extortionate damage already inflicted. “We’ve got to change the cost-benefit calculus of criminals and nation-states who believe they can compromise U.S. networks, steal U.S. financial and intellectual property, and hold our critical infrastructure at risk, all without incurring any risk themselves...” (Wray 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10936531&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. The Bitcoin Blockchain, Human/Civil Rights and Computer Crimes Bank.org is wise to objectively research and strategically organize its HR leadership position as a pioneer, in comparison to current New York bank management structures. Given that honest and fair dealing of virtual currency is critical to blockchain technology, should admitted felons and serial miscreants (Martens & Martens 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10948539&pre=&suf=&sa=0> be allowed to further expand their racket via global regulatory arbitrage and/or computer crimes? 1. Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper states, “What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party” (Nakamoto 2008) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951932&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. 2. New York State Human/Civil rights laws are applicable internationally. “If a resident person or domestic corporation violates any provision of this article by virtue of the provisions of this section, this article shall apply to such person or corporation in the same manner and to the same extent as such provisions would have applied had such act been committed within this state except that the penal provisions of such article shall not be applicable” (N.Y. Executive Law 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10952341&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. 3. Congress amended the definition of “protected computer” to make clear that this term includes computers outside of the United States so long as they affect interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States. This change addresses situations where an attacker within the United States attacks a computer system located abroad. This change also addresses situations in which individuals in foreign countries route communications through the United States with intent to extort from any person any money or other item of value, transmitted via interstate or foreign commerce (U.S. Congress 2002) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10952375&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Courts have interpreted expansively to define not only schemes to defraud individuals of money or property, but also schemes to defraud individuals of intangible interests and rights. Additionally, both mail and wire fraud statutes have been expanded to include schemes to deprive individuals of “honest services” (Eltringham 2015) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951979&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. What organizational HR management techniques are required for an enterprise to actively convince hundreds, if not thousands, of employees, clients and customers to pursue their strategy while knowing it was fatally flawed? Goldman Sachs’ Organization HR Management Analysis (MoneyGram and Ripple) MoneyGram, which has about 227,000 global money transfer agent locations in 191 countries and territories, was recapitalized in 2008 (same year of Bitcoin's whitepaper). Goldman Sachs acquired an equity interest of 63 percent in MoneyGram for about $710 million. Per the 2008 agreement, MoneyGram also received $500 million in debt financing from Goldman Sachs (Cordeiro 2011) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10952410&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Walmart is the only MoneyGram agent, for both the Global Funds Transfer and Financial Paper Products segments, that accounts for more than 10% of revenue. In 2020, Walmart accounted for 13% of total MoneyGram’s revenue and 16% in 2019 and 2018. Goldman Sachs (Investor) has a Participation Agreement with Walmart Inc. (Walmart) under which the Investor is obligated to pay Walmart certain percentages of any accumulated cash payments received by the Investor in excess of the Investor's original investment in the Company (MONEYGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10952491&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. In 2016, Ripple received New York’s First NY-DFS BitLicense for an Institutional Use Case of Digital Assets (Larsen 2016) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10953308&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Shortly after being NY-DFS accredited, Ripple announced it was teaming up with MoneyGram to test payments using Ripple’s xRP virtual currency. During this time, Ripple was making headlines as the xRP digital currency had surged — and fallen — dramatically (Browne 2018) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10953324&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Soon after, Ripple announced a $50 million investment in MoneyGram snagging a 10% equity stake in the firm. Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple’s CEO, added that his firm would support MoneyGram’s “further expansion” into the European and Australian payment corridors (De 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10953333&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - Connecting the dots, MoneyGram is now one of the most expensive transfer providers (Tierney 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10953437&pre=&suf=&sa=0> on planet Earth. Customers incur fees for postal mail, telephone calls, electronic mail, and other computerized messaging services. - Computer crimes as a threat are no less of a threat because it is contingent, because the speaker does not intend or is unable to carry it out when the threat was not directly communicated to the MoneyGram customer as a target, or because the language used might be considered cryptic or ambiguously not part of the current New York BitLicense mandate. - Ripple simply made MoneyGram’s business more efficient, thus accruing more profits for Goldman Sachs directed out of Manhattan. From 2019 - 2020, MoneyGram received more than $40 million in market development fees from Ripple Labs in return for providing liquidity to its On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) network. It can be calculated that 10%-15% of the proceeds came from Walmart customers, who are some of the most disenfranchised Americans financially. Over the last five years, through conscious organizational HR management, Goldman Sachs created layer upon layer of New York BitLicense-related disguises and cross-border systems under potential conspiracy and plausible deniability to computer crimes and marketplace manipulation. Goldman Sachs' various direct and/or indirect BitLicensee connections profit daily from virtual currency market manipulation computer crimes with cross-border reach, operating as a large syndicate group from lower Manhattan. www.JUMO.World and Banking Africa What is astonishing is that Ripple is powering some of JUMO’s bank customers (Ripple 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959408&pre=&suf=&sa=0>, in a troublesome manner similar to MoneyGram. New York banks have a long and profitable history of exploiting regulatory arbitrage. Similar to the MoneyGram instance, some evidence shows that Goldman Sachs also seems to have entered Africa. Given that several enforcement actions and lawsuits in the United States specifically targeted banks’ treatment of minority borrowers (Taibbi 2014) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10961062&pre=&suf=&sa=0>, it may not be surprising to learn of www.Jumo.World or “JUMO” (Buchak et al. 2017) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10956108&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. A domain extension, in this case “.World” domain, is the targeted subject area of a computer program. It is a term used in software engineering (Wikipedia 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10968017&pre=&suf=&sa=0>: - During the fourth quarter of 2018, JUMO successfully finalized a $65 million capital raise that was led by Goldman Sachs in New York. JUMO is a full technology software stack for building and running financial services, targeted at the world’s most disadvantaged populations. - Today, JUMO operates across numerous African markets including Tanzania, Ghana, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, and most recently in Pakistan, with plans to expand further across the sub-continent. - Since its launch in 2014, more than 15 million people have saved or borrowed on the JUMO platform, with over $1.6 billion in funds disbursed to customers. Nearly 70% of JUMO’s customers are micro and small business owners. JUMO targets the unbanked population across several emerging and developing markets. A variety of JUMO’s partnerships with leading banks and mobile network operators creates a marketplace where consumers can access financial services and banks can access a new pool of mobile money customers (Vostok Emerging Finance Ltd 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10955874&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Given the regulatory environment in Africa, it could be suggested that from New York, Goldman Sachs and Ripple’s organizational HR management structures once again aim to profit from some of the most vulnerable of the human population. Earth_ID: Because Owning Your Identity is a Human Right The modus operandi of JUMO’s business is a type of malicious bank software designed to encrypt or otherwise block access to valuable data (e.g. Digital Identity) until the victim agrees to provide a specified payment. The population of the African continent is approximately 1.2 billion people. Imagine a whole continent of people with no proof of identity and therefore no chance of having access to financial services, economic opportunities, or formal employment. These are basic services that are taken for granted and sadly are all too often denied to so many in our world today. Many countries in Africa lack the necessary means to establish and maintain basic systems of identity management, such as the registration of births, especially for the rural poor and underprivileged (Plumer et al. 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10956171&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Earth_ID has plans to pilot the launch of it’s decentralized digital identity platform in collaboration with University of Nicosia’s (UNIC) very own African Partner, UNICAF. UNICAF has a physical presence on eleven campuses throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. We welcome the students and staff of UNICAF to be Earth_ID’s very first adopters, community leaders and validators in trust to our decentralized identity solution. Goldman Sachs from New York is a lead investor in UNICAF (Chege 2018) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10958197&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. According to the United Nations Digital Solutions Centre, the creation of a unique personal United Nations ID (Earth_ID) using blockchain technology, which is portable across organizations (Dumitriu 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10956154&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - The proposal foresees that every United Nations organization could become a trusted authority writing information onto the blockchain. The organizations could run their own nodes separately, while the system will ensure scalability and interoperability. - The Inspector recommends that the executive heads of the United Nations organizations support the creation of a United Nations digital ID. This will have multiple long term positive consequences in terms of saving time and resources, facilitating staff mobility in allowing certification and recognition of their knowledge and skills, reducing bureaucracy, and enhancing system-wide coherence. The descriptive definition of regulatory arbitrage suggests that New York banks’ organizational HR management, with direction from the Executive Suite, seeks to saturate lending to markets with more minorities and worse socioeconomic conditions (Buchak et al. 2017) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10956108&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. CryptoBank Environmental Analysis How can xNY.io innovate from underdogs to elite high performers, becoming the best in the world? xNY.io - CryptoBank wants to create the best World Crypto Bank known to humanity, and we plan to do that expeditiously in 40+ countries and fiat currencies. xNY.io has a problem: We are displeased with Ripple powering customers like MoneyGram, Santander Bank and the other 300+ banking customers. Our frustrations hinge on Ripple seeming to be propping up the same bad banks that more or less rival Bitcoin's entire mission (Larson 2020b) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959063&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Furthermore, instead of putting the MoneyGram and other bad traditional banks out of business, Ripple is looking to profit off of cross-border payment startups similar to our best World Crypto Bank (Ripple 2013b) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959314&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Market segmentation determines groups of customers with common needs and wants. All over the world, young people strive to make money. Those who are at the beginning of the life road plan to grow financially. The high-interest rate of xNY.io deposit accounts will help customers make desirable choices for healthy and prosperous financial futures. Moreover, geographically, xNY.io has a keen focus to improve banking in developing countries on the African continent to help deprived people obtain the rights of digital identity and interdependent modern bank accounts with innovative products and services. - Digital asset trading platforms like NEXO.io in Europe powered by Fireblocks in New York hop from more regulated jurisdictions to less regulated or unregulated countries, leading to so-called regulatory arbitrage or currency speculation (Pettinger 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10960704&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - NY-DFS and FDIC regulators have more trouble detecting and blocking illicit digital asset flows as virtual currency transactions are diverted away from compliant regulated Fireblocks in New York to unregulated trading gateway venues and peer-to-peer protocols that are directly against NY-DFS’ BitLicense mandate (FTI Consulting 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10960677&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. The chain of financial service providers includes several intermediaries, each drawing their own commission against the services provided. These operating principles date several years back, and it is difficult to make a paradigm shift from this existing operational hierarchy. This constraint is being utilized by middlemen and the established market players. Financial conglomerates use their supremacy, as well, to make sure their operations continue unchallenged. The industry generally fails to serve a sizable part of the community and this gap can only be bridged by new players. However, the strong market hold of the established players makes it seemingly difficult for innovators to contribute. The NEXO.io Conundrum Our role model for creating the best World Crypto Bank is NEXO.io. While Ripple's business of leveraging digital currency and blockchain technology is disheartening, the great success of NEXO's crypto bank and card is impressive. Case in point, NEXO's token and overall business solution is a better example (Trenchev 2018) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959329&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. NEXO is a great example for our best World Crypto Bank' but is funded by Goldman Sachs (Roony 2018) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959512&pre=&suf=&sa=0>, Which could be argued to be worse than Ripple. Goldman's blockage of crypto/blockchain development in the United States (U.S. Congress 2002) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10952375&pre=&suf=&sa=0> and Digital Identity in Africa (Plumer et al. 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10956171&pre=&suf=&sa=0> cannot be overlooked. While Ripple is supporting the bad behavior of MoneyGram and other traditional banks with cards, NEXO is just the best bad version of Ripple funded by Sachs. Both are probably gaming the digital currency market and global blockchain innovation, and possibly humanity as a whole. Obviously, NEXO could get into trouble for operating an unregulated bank fast (Jennings 2018) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959529&pre=&suf=&sa=0>: 1. Moreover, NEXO is, at various levels, illegal in the United States where the federal government regulates most banks (NEXO 2019 <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959498&pre=&suf=&sa=0>). For example, in New York, some of the NEXO token benefits are forbidden by NY-DFS (Sokolowski 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959577&pre=&suf=&sa=0> . 2. Nexo doesn't have a Bitlicense, but they still operate in New York (u/zylstrar 2019) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959567&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. New York State Attorney General Letitia James has made it clear that virtual currency firms must abide by the BItLicense or risk being shut down (Sharma 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959571&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. 3. Additionally, United States authorities could force NEXO to offer Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance on its accounts (Buchak et al. 2017) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10956108&pre=&suf=&sa=0> . It could be argued that Ripple (xRP) and NEXO.io (NEXO) built entire global operations as direct/indirect BitLicensees with intent to profit from various cross-border computer crimes such as market manipulation while being partially funded and/or directed out of New York (U.S. Congress 2002) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10952375&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. However, NEXO operates like a bank. To explain, clients put cryptocurrency in a wallet, borrow against it and receive funds through the NEXO wallet. NEXO claims it can tap some huge markets that include crypto investors, crypto miners, and hedge funds. Hence, NEXO looks like an investment bank. Tellingly, NEXO looks a great deal like Goldman Sachs’ Marcus platform. For example, both NEXO and Marcus offer loans and savings accounts. The Fireblocks Conundrum A few blocks south of Times Square in New York City, Fireblocks (Google Maps 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959908&pre=&suf=&sa=0> powers the global operations of NEXO.io headquartered in Europe. The CEO of Fireblocks has discussed his firm's $135 million investment led by BNY Mellon and others: “‘While we have no plans to become a bank, we believe our infrastructure will lend itself perfectly to power an entirely new era of financial services,’ Shaulov added. ‘Developing products to bridge digital and traditional assets is foundational to the future of custody.’ Roman Regelman, BNY Mellon’s asset servicing CEO and digital head said, ‘Following significant due diligence and market research, we recognize Fireblocks as a market leader in providing secure technology to support digital asset services’” (Shome 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959918&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - As previously noted, New York, Europe and Africa are connected by a freeway of cross-border arbitrage frameworks. Due to easily exploitable laws in developing countries, some BitLicensees’ daily operations straddle New York, Europe and Africa to evade detection and prosecution from law enforcement (Larsen 2016) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10953308&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) identifies the “Travel Rule,” also known as “Regulatory Arbitrage,” as a stand-out concern that is perhaps the most glaring example of the lack of global harmonization of policies designed to combat illicit financial flows in the crypto markets. Fireblocks in New York powering the European based NEXO.io’s Global CryptoBank (Metodiev 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10961027&pre=&suf=&sa=0> operations at worst fueled a black-market financial system and at best purposely and deliberately existed outside of the NY-DFS BitLicense and bank industry regulations (Cyber Digital Task Force 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10960464&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Fred Ehrsam, co-founder and managing partner at Paradigm (Ehrsam 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959925&pre=&suf=&sa=0>, is a lead investor in Fireblocks where he also serves as a board member. Previously, Ehrsam co-founded Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency company in the US, and held the role of president from 2012 to 2017. Ehrsam purchased his first Bitcoin in 2011 and has been an angel investor in some of the space’s most formative companies. Prior to Coinbase, Ehrsam was a foreign exchange trader at Goldman Sachs in New York. Ehrsam holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics with honors and departmental distinction from Duke University (Fireblocks 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959593&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Computer Software and the Blockchain Platform International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is one of the world’s largest computer firms and is headquartered in New York (Wikipedia. 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959864&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. IBM distinguishes the blockchain platform technology as computer software (International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959869&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Given IBM’s modus operandi, it could be concluded that the Bitcoin blockchain is also computer software. Yet, New York banks can use those same innovations for their own illegitimate ends, imposing great costs on the public. Today, few technologies are more potentially transformative and disruptive—and more potentially susceptible to abuse—than virtual currency (Cyber Digital Task Force 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10960464&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Virtual currency fraud is a serious problem for such a developed country as the United States, whose bank regulators have drawn attention to the increase of these crimes. Having discovered that an unregulated virtual currency sphere (such as in Africa, or other developing markets) is very popular among virtual currency fraudsters (Prior 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959948&pre=&suf=&sa=0>, the SEC has alluded that this kind of regulatory arbitrage fraud was concerning (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) n.d.) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959942&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - An uncoordinated regulation can potentially have a stifling effect by way of creating inconsistent regulatory requirements on top of increased compliance costs to the industry. Virtual Currency: Computer Software Protocols and Processes The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) classifies virtual currency such as Bitcoin as a computer software code. For example, Bitcoins counted at 21 million corresponds to a specific number of mining rewards that can be given, and this is all written into a code (Yamalis 2018) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10960440&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. 1. xNY.io’s key definition of virtual currency computer crimes is a consistent message across markets. These crimes are relatively new, having been in existence for only as long as Bitcoin has, which explains how unprepared society, and the world in general, is towards combating these crimes (Larson 2021a) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10948534&pre=&suf=&sa=0> . 2. Technological innovation and human flourishing are complementary concepts, but the former does not guarantee the latter. Good public policy along with ethical CEOs and CFOs at New York banks operating international HR management organizations pioneer innovation of such policy (Eltringham 2015) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10951979&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. 3. Marketplace manipulation and virtual currency regulatory arbitrage undoubtedly stifles innovation and human flourishing. The absence of protection under the law can endanger progress across both dimensions. It takes careful consideration, and a deep and ongoing immersion in the facts, to understand when and how law should intervene (FTI Consulting 2021) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10960677&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Even in societies where transformative scientific and technological advancements are achievable, ethical and moral CEOs and CFOs play a critical mediating role. In the wrong hands, or without appropriate safeguards and oversight, these advancements can facilitate great human suffering. Keeping all this in mind with a positive/optimistic attitude, a series of smart and calculated leveraged buyouts can innovate beyond New York banks’ cross-border computer crime(s) such as (Prior 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959948&pre=&suf=&sa=0>: 1. Conspiracy to Commit Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers 2. Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud 3. Intentional Damage to a Protected Computer 4. Transmitting a Demand in Relation to Damaging a Protected Computer The U.S. government could appropriately assert jurisdiction over such offenses anywhere in the world, consistent with due process, under the principle of protective jurisdiction. That principle holds that, “[F]or non-citizens acting entirely abroad, a jurisdictional nexus exists when the aim of that activity is to cause harm inside the United States or to U.S. citizens or interests” (Cyber Digital Task Force 2020) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10960464&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. Bank.org: Revolutionary Approaches to Agile Innovation A prerequisite to protecting our future customers' lifelong returns and Bank.org’s profits calls for Bank.org’s engagement of agile innovation in manufacturing new and revolutionary approaches to international banking from our New York headquarters. The key aim of the Bank.org endeavor, and our primary goal, is to attain the legitimate financial inclusion and economic prosperity of all people, including the excluded, under-privileged and under-served. Bank.org is taking advantage of the New York banking industry at a crossroads. On the one hand, digital banking services are rising to the forefront and drawing increasing interest from customers. On the other, brick-and-mortar banking remains an important way to connect with customers on a local and personal level. Bank.org intends to be a true borderless enterprise serving customers in over 200 jurisdictions and 40+ fiat and virtual currencies. 1. Bank.org has the luxury of an opportunity to be fresh, clean and pure in comparison to many of our legacy “multiple felon” bank peers directing global operations out of New York. 2. Citibank has become the latest bank to be sued by a British currency investment firm over allegations that its traders manipulated foreign exchange markets for profit. Furthermore, expanding litigation accuses the company of trade front-running. 3. Bank.org’s scope as an international bank engages xNY.io to lead our virtual currency innovation practice. xNY.io is a pioneering instrument to elegantly complement Bank.org’s international bank operations. The best bank in the world has energy to pioneer relentless HR innovation with passion to create those means, build those processes and those systems that will facilitate inclusive solutions to those problems which rob so many of a chance to realize their goals and achieve their full potential. Bank.org’s barriers to global market penetration include government(s) that sponsor our peers who historically do not factor in the social benefits of bank competition or of effective natural monopoly regulation of global New York firms like Goldman Sachs. That is, regulators may grant licenses to firms that are operating at a high level as state firms and so appear valuable to private markets. This experience is supported by Bank.org’s analysis and vision of the best performing global online institutions (versus money center banks), which shows the principle in practice. Conclusion 2021 in New York now brings us to cooperation versus competition and rationality versus altruism. As with many situations in real-life, the games are often not zero-sum, but by cooperative efforts all players can be better off (Larson 2021b) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959166&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. In 1973, John Maynard Smith presented an idea explaining game theory and how alpha culture exists in societies. Maynard’s hypothesis asked you to imagine a world with doves and hawks. If there would be only hawks, their fights would be devastating to their population. If there would be only doves, they would be susceptible to any intruders, therefore such a population would also not be stable. But the right combination of hawks and doves would be evolutionarily stable (Smith & Corbin 1973) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959298&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. - We witness again and again that US American enterprises (aka New York Banks), in particular, are being built by one or two supposedly shiny figures (CEO or CFO) who have questable ethics and morals. - The qualitative effect on organizational HR Management is an Executive Suite that assembles subpar teammates around him or her. - The firms focus on the growing experience and network of that single person and are closely associated with the individual’s character. Business relationships are being entered and trust being built with that individual rather than the firm as an institution. Startup companies like xNY.io and Bank.org that dare to explore more novel approaches and non-hierarchical structures, though, show successes, as do larger organizations formalizing and adopting respective strategies. However, within the New York banking community with its various regulators, there appears to be a window of opportunity for smart innovation. Anecdotal observations yet again identify the root cause in the vast multidisciplinary nature of the domain, and in the all-so-technical backgrounds of its protagonists where Executive Suites and organizational HR managers cling to their old habits while placing less importance on innovation and executing modern organizational insights bank wide. Behavioral and organizational research impressively underline a very simple “game,” in which the conditions for survival (be nice, be provocable, promote mutual interest) seem to be the essence of ethics and morality. While this does not yet amount to a science of ethics or morality, the game theory approach has clarified the conditions required for the evolution and persistence of cooperation, and shows how Darwinian natural selection can lead to complex behavior, including notions of morality, fairness, and justice, beyond alpha culture. In the 1980s, Professor of Political Science Robert Axelrod ran a tournament inviting strategies from collaborators all over the world. Axelrod found that the winning strategy that performed the best overall (not in every game, but on average), was “Tit-for-Tat,” also called look-back strategy or reciprocal altruism. It worked simply by starting the first iteration with cooperation, then looking back at the opponent’s last move and copying it in the next iteration (Axelrod 1980) <https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10959358&pre=&suf=&sa=0>. In summary, the best strategies were found to have these surprising properties: 1. 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