February 2024 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

1st. Circ. 'Concerned' With Crypto Founder's Trial Roadblocks
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

1st. Circ. 'Concerned' With Crypto Founder's Trial Roadblocks <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1794195?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…> By Brian Dowling A First Circuit judge suggested on Monday that a trial judge may have "short-circuited" a cryptocurrency founder's defense against fraud charges by blocking testimony from two government case agents and a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission attorney. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1794195?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1794195?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…>

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Pakistan Needs to Get Past 'Lock Him Up' Politics
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

Pakistan Needs to Get Past 'Lock Him Up' Politics https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-06/pakistan-needs-to-get… This week, Pakistanis will go to the polls to elect a new National Assembly. The last vote, in the summer of 2018, took place under controversial circumstances: The country’s powerful military was generally perceived to have put its hefty thumb on the electoral scales in order to elevate its preferred candidate, former cricket star Imran Khan. Khan’s main rival, former three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, had been kicked out of office and sent to jail for corruption.

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SpaceX Accused of Sexual Harassment as Fight With Ex-Employees Intensifies
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

SpaceX Accused of Sexual Harassment as Fight With Ex-Employees Intensifies https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-06/spacex-accused-of-sexual… Executives at Elon Musk’s SpaceX discriminated against women, joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, seven former employees allege in California civil rights complaints viewed by Bloomberg.

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NYCB Extends $4.5 Billion Stock Rout to Lowest Level Since 1997
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

NYCB Extends $4.5 Billion Stock Rout to Lowest Level Since 1997 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-06/nycb-extends-4-billion-r… New York Community Bancorp sank by double digits for the fourth time in five days, extending a rout that was triggered last week by a surprise quarterly loss and move to slash its dividend.

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Apple Calls Crypto Cash App Claims 'Demonstrably False'
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

Apple Calls Crypto Cash App Claims 'Demonstrably False' <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1794212?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…> By Hailey Konnath Apple has asked a California federal court to toss a proposed class action claiming its agreements with Apple Cash competitors illegally limit competition by blocking decentralized cryptocurrency technology, arguing that technology is not actually blocked and is in fact available on Apple's App Store. 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1794212?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1794212?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…>

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SpaceX Corporation Board of Directors One Rocket Road Hawthorne, California 90250 Sales@SpaceX.com Re: Potential SpaceX Interlocking Directors? Intent to Manipulate Markets
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lv9Wt6y1ld4bNap0z3epIxttEGiP_oVpfxH0GTS… May 21, 2022 BY ELECTRONIC MAIL SpaceX Corporation Board of Directors One Rocket Road Hawthorne, California 90250 Sales(a)SpaceX.com Re: Potential SpaceX Interlocking Directors’ Intent to Manipulate Markets Dear SpaceX Board of Directors: >From our New York headquarters, xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC embodies the notion that rather than a merry-go-round, the process of change and innovation is like a slide. Today’s memo aims to notify the SpaceX Corporation of concern of potential market manipulation that could impact cross-border digital asset innovation, free speech in the United States of America, the global ESG economy and Moon exploration. We do not see this as a stereotypical democrat versus republican battle (as Mr. Musk alludes). We see this as a risk arbitrage matter for xNY.io - Bank.org’s profit (subject to regulatory approval). Some may argue a scheme to leverage the protection of “free speech” has led to Twitter deal advisors attempting a $44B LBO market manipulation exercise. Further cause for reasonable concern is warranted if similar intent is at play in the form of Tesla’s ESG scam claim. xNY.io - Bank.org indicators signal risk of possible intent to manipulate public and private markets prompting clarification of the SpaceX Corporation’s intent concerning Moon exploration and exploitation as a ESG digital asset vault. To be very clear, SpaceX directors should understand xNY.io - Bank.org’s work to protect cross-border digital asset innovation was born before Twitter's prospective LBO. Our concern specific to the intent of Twitter’s LBO deal makers is party to our work in New York to usurp Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase board directors who may be potentially engaged in similar market manipulation referenced here: 1. xNY.io - Bank.org | DOJ Memo #4 - Goldman Sachs Deferred Prosecution Agreement. 2. xNY.io - Bank.org | Memo #2 - JPMorgan Chase Board of Directors ESG Marketplace Manipulation. 3. xNY.io - Bank.org’s work also includes research into oil and nickel marketplace manipulation as an ESG concern. The Twitter LBO includes Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase operating as deal advisors. As referenced above, claims of Twitter robot scams and claims of Tesla ESG scams display a pattern of questionable intent. xNY.io - Bank.org asks SpaceX to clarify your board's intent concerning the Moon and any connection to USDD (now in Moon phase). SpaceX directors may agree that the Moon can also be defined as one of the most valuable ESG digital asset vaults known to modern humanity. Protecting the Moon from explo8itation is fundamental to Space exploration. SpaceX is party to any potential Twitter deal maker advisors that may exercise questionable intent risking the Moon’s ESG vault potential. xNY.io - Bank.org is concerned with interlocking directorate syndicates that include SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal, Goldman Sachs and BitGo. This setup breeds a galaxy of third and fourth party risk(s) at the demise of pure cross-border digital asset innovation. Twitter robots are not the focus of the Orlando Police Department Pension Fund, who suggests that Twitter’s LBO is suspected of questionable intent as potentially illegal. - Mr. Musk’s ingenuity as an entrepreneur is historic and greatly respected as a model inside our organization. As a Gates Scholar and Blockchain Scholar holding international law distinction(s) The concept of the Moon being an ESG digital asset vault is logic USDD seemingly embodies. - For obvious reasons, we seek SpaceX’s board to confirm if the intent behind your CEO’s Twitter LBO and Tesla ESG claims and if SpaceX is party to a USDD type matter given your syndicate’s close association with USDP. xNY.io - Bank.org kindly asks the SpaceX Corporation board of directors to respond within 15 days of receipt of this correspondence. Default in the form of no response within 15 days is not an extortion technique on our part. Rather, it is a design benefit in disclosing our intent post 15 days to ask for approval to engage New York’s False Claims Act in response to SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal and Meta interlocking directors potentially engaging in digital asset marketplace manipulation (exemplified by USDP and USDD) that may exploit Space and Moon exploration at xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC’s overall expense. Respectfully yours, Gunnar Larson | xNY.io <http://www.xny.io> - Bank.org <http://bank.org>, PBC MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 CC: Tesla Board of Directors Twitter Board of Directors Goldman Sachs Board of Directors JP Morgan Chase Board of Directors

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Meta Platforms, Inc. Board of Directors 1601 Willow Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 United States Investor@FB.com Re: USPTO, Digital Assets and Moscow Exchange
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f_fq1GaKNaAUGEyztdm-oMtIuEW2yXj4C5aoN0G… March 24, 2022 BY ELECTRONIC MAIL Meta Platforms, Inc. Board of Directors 1601 Willow Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 United States Investor(a)FB.com Re: USPTO, Digital Assets and Moscow Exchange Dear Meta Board of Directors: Today’s memo is to kindly submit xNY.io’s overall concern of Meta Platforms, Inc. and Moscow Exchange mark similarities, specifically, both marks seemingly resemble a geometric design consisting of two loops and/orovals touching or intersecting. See here: xNY.io asks not whether the first work would damage the market for the second (by, for example, devaluing it through parody or criticism), but whether it usurps the market by offering a competing substitute, potentially causing significant damage to digital asset purity and blockchain software technology innovation. 1. The Moscow Exchange operates Russia's central securities depository, the National Settlement Depository, and the country's largest clearing service provider, the National Clearing Centre. 2. Meta Platforms recently filed USPTO applications from the international jurisdiction of Jamaica, seeking mark approval of a geometric design consisting of two loops and/or ovals touching or intersecting and/or other bands, lines or bars. 3. Meta Platforms suggests bonafide intention to use the mark in commerce, on or in connection with the identified goods and services such as financial transaction processing services relating to tokens, blockchain assets, cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets. With all due respect, Meta’s Board may understand xNY.io cannot logically accept that the recent USPTO applications are not a marketplace manipulation exercise at xNY.io’s overall expense. Meta’s Board must ask itself, to the best of its knowledge, information, and belief, if further inquiry is reasonable under the circumstances? - xNY.io kindly asks Meta’s Board to recall all eight USPTO trademark applications reported by Cointelegraph on March 23, 2022. xNY.io kindly asks Meta’s Board to confirm the application recalls by Friday, March 25, 2022 at 5:00pm EST. xNY.io’s factual contentions made above have evidentiary support and recognize Moscow Exchange’s approach to threats that stifle individual and corporate freedom. Respectfully yours with appreciation, Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xny.io> - Bank.org <http://bank.org>MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107

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Fwd: Meta Platforms, Inc. Board of Directors - USPTO, Digital Assets and Moscow Exchange
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chollet, Nicki <NChollet(a)kilpatricktownsend.com> Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 4:21 PM Subject: RE: Meta Platforms, Inc. Board of Directors - USPTO, Digital Assets and Moscow Exchange To: g(a)xny.io <g(a)xny.io> Cc: Meta_Defensive_Disputes <Meta_Defensive_Disputes(a)kilpatricktownsend.com> Dear Gunnar, We write to confirm we represent Meta Platforms, Inc. in connection with this matter. Please direct all further correspondence on this matter to our attention. We received your letter dated March 24, 2022 and your follow up from this morning. We reviewed your correspondence, however, we are unable to determine the merits of your claim. Specifically, your letter does not provide any information regarding a specific application or registration being asserted or any evidence of your relationship with any entity owning rights in the alleged Moscow Exchange mark. Before we can properly evaluate or respond to your claim, you will need to provide additional details regarding the basis for your claim and documentation of your relationship with Moscow Exchange or ownership in the Moscow Exchange mark. Meta Platforms reserves all rights. Sincerely, *Nichole Davis Chollet **Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP* Suite 2800 | 1100 Peachtree Street NE | Atlanta, GA 30309-4528 office 404 815 6010 | cell 404 906 6948 | fax 404 541 3387 nchollet(a)kilpatricktownsend.com | My Profile <http://www.kilpatricktownsend.com/en/People/C/CholletNicholeDavis> | VCard <http://www.kilpatricktownsend.com/vcard/NicholeDavisChollet.vcf> *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> *Sent:* Friday, April 1, 2022 7:23 AM *To:* investor(a)fb.com *Cc:* MetaProsecution <MetaProsecution(a)kilpatricktownsend.com>; cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> *Subject:* Re: Meta Platforms, Inc. Board of Directors - USPTO, Digital Assets and Moscow Exchange Dear Meta Board of Directors: It has been eight days since our original correspondence, seeking clarity between Meta's logo and the Moscow Exchange logo. Offering Meta the benefit of the doubt, noting this could simply be some misunderstanding ... We seek Meta's clarification by 5:00pm today, Friday April 1, 2022. Respectfully yours, Gunnar Larson -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xny.io/> | Bank.org <http://bank.org/>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001 On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 5:20 PM Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote: Dear Meta Board of Directors: Please find the attached memo <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f_fq1GaKNaAUGEyztdm-oMtIuEW2yXj4C5aoN0G…> addressed to your attention. - Today’s correspondence is to kindly submit xNY.io’s overall concern of Meta Platforms, Inc. and Moscow Exchange mark similarities, specifically, both marks seemingly resemble a geometric design consisting of two loops and/orovals touching or intersecting. xNY.io kindly asks Meta’s Board to respond by Friday, March 25, 2022 at 5:00pm EST. Respectfully yours, Gunnar Larson -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001 ------------------------------ Confidentiality Notice: This communication constitutes an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. Section 2510, and its disclosure is strictly limited to the recipient intended by the sender of this message. This transmission, and any attachments, may contain confidential attorney-client privileged information and attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Please contact us immediately by return e-mail or at 404 815 6500, and destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any manner. ------------------------------ ***DISCLAIMER*** Per Treasury Department Circular 230: Any U.S. federal tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein.

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Sunspots
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

For SOL to experience one outage might be regarded as a misfortune. " . . . there is something disingenuous in saying that a project is a work-in-progress while also actively attempting to on-board the world. Especially if you genuinely believe that crypto assets have real value — otherwise you are unnecessarily putting people at risk. https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/02/06/can-we-all-stop-pret… This many outages is beginning to look like carelessness - sell the dead cat bounce. Avalanche is a blue chip and only had one slowdown - zero outages Tears of the sun. Are we there yet?

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Ex-Goldman Banker Settles SEC's Civil Insider Trading Suit
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

Ex-Goldman Banker Settles SEC's Civil Insider Trading Suit <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1794393?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…> By Hailey Konnath The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement resolving its civil claims against a former Goldman Sachs banker convicted of insider trading, according to a motion for consent judgment filed in New York federal court Monday. Settlement attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1794393?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1794393?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…>

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