March 2024 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

The Silk Road Investigation: A 'Pattern of Bad Behavior and Double Agents' ? Bitcoin
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Bad behavior like preening, posing and posturing as a peace loving agorist in public while trying to hire hitmen to kill targets and their flatmates is like the opposite of what cpunks are all about. ( Privacy for the poor and transparency for the powerful ) Ross Ulbricht has earned killing. He's almost as bad as a USG agent or Palantir employee. But do I repeat myself? Lets you and him fight is a good look for most US agents and most Silicon Valley corporados. I wish we had some respectable crypto currency media that could arrange it. Maybe one day. Marc Andreessen. You suck. Go die. Ditto Horowitz. Your fucked company is being richly rewarded right now . Katy for president? / CEO bitches You're old - we're young - and thats life.

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New York State Department of Financial Services Imposes $30 Million Fine in First Cryptocurrency Enforcement Action | White & Case LLP
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/new-york-state-department-financial… On August 2, in its first ever cryptocurrency enforcement action, the New York State Department of Financial Services ("NYDFS") announced it had imposed a $30 million fine on Robinhood Crypto, LLC ("RHC") for failures in its Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering program ("BSA/AML Program") and its cybersecurity program, and for non-compliance with notice requirements in its January 2019 supervisory agreement with the NYDFS ("Supervisory Agreement"), which RHC entered into with the NYDFS as a condition of obtaining its virtual currency business license. The NYDFS charged RHC, the cryptocurrency trading division of Robinhood Markets, Inc. ("RHM"), with violating the Department's Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500), Virtual Currency Regulation (NYCRR Part 200), Money Transmitter Regulation (3 NYCRR Part 417), and Transaction Monitoring Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 504). RHC holds a Virtual Currency license ("BitLicense") in New York under 23 NYCRR § 200. As a BitLicense holder, RHC is subject to NYDFS-mandated BSA/AML Program and cybersecurity requirements, among other things.

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Biden Launches $30 Million Ad Blitz by Joking About His Age
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Biden Launches $30 Million Ad Blitz by Joking About His Age https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-09/biden-launches-30-millio… President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is launching a new television ad poking fun at his age, part of a $30 million battleground state advertising buy following the State of the Union speech.

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Compassionate Release Grants Needed Now More Than Ever
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Compassionate Release Grants Needed Now More Than Ever <https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1807429?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e4…> After the U.S. Sentencing Commission's recent expansion of the criteria for determining compassionate release eligibility, courts should grant such motions more frequently in light of the inherently dangerous conditions presented by increasingly understaffed and overpopulated federal prisons, say Alan Ellis and Mark Allenbaugh at the Law Offices of Alan Ellis. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1807429?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e4…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1807429?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e4…>

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'It Erases Us': Sex Abuse Survivors Troubled By Wash. Bill
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

'It Erases Us': Sex Abuse Survivors Troubled By Wash. Bill <https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1809089?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e4…> By Hannah Albarazi Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is expected to sign into law a bill that eliminates time limits for bringing child sex abuse claims in the future, but survivors say they are disappointed by an amendment stripping the bill's retroactivity, saying the legislation doesn't go far enough to hold abusers accountable. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1809089?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e4…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1809089?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e4…>

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Debt-Stricken Homeowners Fight Back After High Court Ruling
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Debt-Stricken Homeowners Fight Back After High Court Ruling <https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1792439?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e4…> By Andrew McIntyre Ten months after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision finding a Minnesota county wrongly held onto excess proceeds it reaped after seizing a woman’s condominium and selling it to settle a tax debt, states are scrambling to reexamine their laws as financially distressed homeowners file new suits challenging the practice. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1792439?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e4…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1792439?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e4…>

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America?s TikTok Addiction Isn?t Just China?s Fault
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

America’s TikTok Addiction Isn’t Just China’s Fault https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-08/tiktok-america-s-addi… There are few things that can get both the American left and right as exercised as the idea that a foreign nation is perverting the minds of their young. When that country is China, the full force of the US political system weighs in. That has resulted in the unanimous approval of a bill that would stop internet service providers and app stores from offering TikTok to consumers, unless the social media firm’s Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. sells it within six months.

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Fwd: 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 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 22-CV-14102-MIDDLEBROOKS DONALD J. TRUMP, Plaintiff, v. HILLARY R. CLINTON, et al., Defendants. ORDER ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Brody Larson makes 190 highlights to UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 22-CV-14102-MIDDLEBROOKS DONALD J. TRUMP, Plaintiff, v. HILLARY R. CLINTON, et al., Defendants. ORDER ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JUQtPF8f6ckSRHwLcu3S_joyF5xQoA-A/view?usp=… BACKGROUND Plaintiff initiated this lawsuit on March 24, 2022, alleging that “the Defendants, blinded by political ambition, orchestrated a malicious conspiracy to disseminate patently false and injurious information about Donald J. Trump and his campaign, all in the hopes of destroying his life, his political career and rigging the 2016 Presidential Election in favor of Hillary Clinton.” (DE 177, Am. Compl. ¶ 9). On this general premise, Plaintiff brings a claim for violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”), predicated on the theft of trade secrets, obstruction of justice, and wire fraud (Count I). He additionally brings claims for: injurious falsehood (Count III); malicious prosecution (Count V); violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) (Count VII); theft of trade secrets under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”) (Count VIII); and violations of the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”) (Count IX). The Amended Complaint also contains counts for various conspiracy charges and theories of agency and vicarious liability.

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Re: Meta Platforms, Inc. Board of Directors - USPTO, Digital Assets and Moscow Exchange
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Dear Ms. Chollet: Hope you are doing well from our September 1, 2022 conversation below. Are you still representing Meta Platforms on this matter? Thank you, Gunnar -- Gunnar Larson xNY.io | Bank.org MSc - Digital Currency MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-917-503-9179 New York, New York 10001 On Thu, Sep 1, 2022, 3:20 PM Chollet, Nicki <NChollet(a)kilpatricktownsend.com> wrote: > Dear Mr. Larson, > > As we have previously stated, 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 (for example, trademark > registration certificates evidencing your ownership of the alleged marks in > question). Until we receive this information, we will not respond further > to your correspondence. > > 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:* Wednesday, August 31, 2022 4:53 PM > *To:* Chollet, Nicki <NChollet(a)kilpatricktownsend.com> > *Cc:* Meta_Defensive_Disputes < > Meta_Defensive_Disputes(a)kilpatricktownsend.com>; cypherpunks < > cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org>; investor(a)fb.com > *Subject:* Re: Meta Platforms, Inc. Board of Directors - USPTO, Digital > Assets and Moscow Exchange > > > > > > > > Ms. Chollett: > > > > We have not heard from you. Is there some reason why? > > > > Gunnar > > > > Gunnar Larson > > xNY.io - Bank.org > > > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 6:05 PM Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote: > > Ms. Chollett: > > > > Are you free to discuss this tomorrow? > > > > Meta seems to be fanning the flames. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Gunnar > > > > Gunnar Larson > > xNY.io - Bank.org > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 4:44 PM Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote: > > Ms. Chollett: > > > > Thank you, kindly, for continued correspondence related to Meta Board > questions specific to xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC's concern to protecting > cross-border digital asset innovation. > > > > xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC first became alarmed through Meta's obvious > digital asset market problems related to Libra, Diem, Novi and USDP. > Through Meta's continued digital identity transitions, xNY.io - Bank.org, > PBC has pioneered cross-border digital asset logic(s). Moreover, the Moscow > Exchange and Meta introduced market events over March that jeopardize > digital asset market purty. Ms, Chollett, xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC will not > pay for market effects related to Meta's cross-border disruption of digital > asset innovation, related to Meta's obvious mark exactness (by definition) > to the Moscow Exchange. > > > > *Ms. Chollett, we cannot concern ourselves with Meta's intentions, good or > otherwise, given clear problems that exacerbate market risk: * > > - March 11, 2022 > <https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/russia-moves-to-declare-meta-an-ex…>: > Russia's leader, who is in charge of the Moscow Exchange cites Meta as an > 'extremist organization' ... > - March 14, 2022 > <https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ff9f1af5-cc8a-473a-822b-8890…>: > Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC Benjamin G. Murray published SDNY insights > to a Russian State-Sponsored TV Network's Attempt to Dismiss Copyright > Lawsuit On Fair Use Grounds Denied. > - March 17, 2022 > <https://www.sberbank.com/news-and-media/press-releases/article?newsID=cd44d…>: > Moscow Exchange is the backend to Russia's largest bank, Sber. The > announcement on 03/17/22 confirmed Sber (via the Moscow Exchange > technology, at various levels) would issue digital assets. > - March 18, 2022 > <https://cointelegraph.com/news/meta-files-8-digital-asset-and-web-3-0-trade…>: > Meta Platforms Inc. filed USPTO mark applications for a mark EXACTLY > DEFINED to that of the Moscow Exchange. > > > - Ms. Chollette, below my signature you will find Meta's filing > numbers and descriptions related to a mark defined as Moscow Exchange, with > plans to engage the mark in commerce related to digital assets and virtual > reality. > > > - March 24, 2022 > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f_fq1GaKNaAUGEyztdm-oMtIuEW2yXj4C5aoN0G…>: > xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC contacted meta, with a memo introducing our direct > plan to protect cross-border digital asset innovation. Ms. Chollette, > please note that Russia has labeled Meta as an 'extremist organization' ... > So who really knows what the Moscow Exchange will thi > > xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC is a very reasonable digital asset pioneer, and > sitting in Manhattan the jury is in on market contributions from Libra, > Diem, Novi and USDP. Ms, Chollette, Meta and the Moscow Exchange matter > really suggest only losing marketplace contributions, obviously potentially > devastating digital asset marketplace innovation(s). We aim to solve this > problem immediately: > > 1. Ms. Collette, xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC recently shared Citigroup's > Metaverse and Money > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1REoa87GCmt2uhDp7ZYswbTRw4ygQgjsL/view?usp=…> > whitepaper, with 33 highlights to our grave concern to Meta's potential > marketplace delinquency related to Meta's mark exactness to Moscow > Exchange. > 2. Furthermore, Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Putin are both highlight quotes > to Citigroup's Metaverse and Money research. > 3. With the date order, footnotes, and highlights xNY.io -Bank.org, > PBC kindly petitions Meta's board to understand the opportunity ... The > Moscow Exchange is not our problem, and for whatever reason Meta will have > no opportunity to make mark exactness our problem. > > The United State of America's cross-border approach to digital asset > innovation will be cultivated, fostered and protected by xNY.io - Bank.org, > PBC. > > We aim not to be adversarial with Meta, but we will stop at no cost to > invest in claim rewards if necessary. Perhaps, we can organize a time to > discuss potential resolutions in the immediate term. > > > > xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC must reserve all rights specific to harm from March > 14, 2022 > <https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ff9f1af5-cc8a-473a-822b-8890…> > > and March 18, 2022 > <https://cointelegraph.com/news/meta-files-8-digital-asset-and-web-3-0-trade…> market > events. > > > > Please feel free to call or email anytime. > > > > Sending you the very best from New York City, > > > > 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 > > > > 97320155: Online social networking and dating services, including a > specific branch tailored for networking between cryptocurrency investors. > > 97320153: Design and development of computer hardware and software > relating to Web3, including gaming, e-commerce, blockchain transactions, > etc. > > 97320149: Entertainment and electronic publishing services, partly within > virtual reality. > > 97320147: Telecommunication services for electronic assets held on its > platform. > > 97320146: Financial transaction processing services relating to tokens, > blockchain assets, cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets. > > 97320144: Advertising services via virtual or augmented reality networks > and the metaverse. > > 97320140: Wearable peripherals for video games connected to virtual > reality. > > 97320136: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application, > such as for user authentication, online charitable fundraising and most > notably, for hardware or e-wallets. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Confidentiality Notice: > This communication constitutes an electronic communication within the > meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 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