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March 2024
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Good morning:
We would like to appeal this decision.
“We would like to receive any and all records, relating to NY-DFS' 2021
Apple Card Investigation. This is one part of a broader discussion we must
have about equal credit access. On March 23, 2021, Ms. Linda Lacewell
published NY-DFS' Findings on Apple Card and its Underwriter Goldman Sachs
Bank. As the former Superintendent of NY-DFS, Ms. Lacewell's stone faced
propaganda assured that Apple Card did not discriminate against women,
while under Goldman Sachs management. The red flags started to appear when
an authorized user drew attention to the following: A person who relies on
a spouse's access to credit, and only accesses those accounts as an
authorized user, may incorrectly believe they have the same credit profile
as the spouse. We recently collated 61 highlights to the Report on Apple
Card Investigation from March 2021:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xH16OKyuXzB-MVqIznMWDE9w8RRdmZCw/view
The Apple Card investigation was to assess women's access to equitable
finance. The
integrity of the Apple Card investigation must be rationally considered as
flawed. We would like to receive any and all records of Ms. Linda
Lacewell's (emails, texts, and
similar) involvement with the 2021 Apple Card report. We would like to
receive any and all records to NY-DFS association to evaluating Ms. Linda
Lacewell's ability to score a report specific to the Apple Card's core
subject of credit access for women. Finally, we would like to receive any
and all records related to NY-DFS guidance on Interlocking
Directorates (
https://www.dfs.ny.gov/apps_and_licensing/banks_and_trusts/other/Permission…
rlocking_Directors_and_Officers), specific to Apple's Board of Directors
and Goldman
Sachs' Board of Directors.”
Please forgive my candor, but if DFS actually conducted an 'Apple Card
Investigation' ... There would be some records relating to the
investigation.
Warm regards and thank you,
Gunnar
Gunnar Larson
xNY.io - Bank.org
646-454-9107
On Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 9:17 PM JeanBaptiste, Pascale (DFS) <
Pascale.JeanBaptiste(a)dfs.ny.gov> wrote:
> Dear Gunnar Larson:
>
>
>
> Please see the attached determination in response to your FOIL request.
> Thank you.
>
>
>
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UK: The Scrutiny Of Celebrity Influencers' Social Media Endorsements May Help To Reduce Financial Fraud Scams
by Gunnar Larson 08 Sep '24
by Gunnar Larson 08 Sep '24
08 Sep '24
https://www.mondaq.com/uk/white-collar-crime-anti-corruption-fraud/1238238/…
Financial fraud continues to rise year on year, the cost of living crisis
will drive even more people to look for ways of enlarging their income and
inevitably fall for fake investment opportunities presented to them. As the
regulating authorities and law enforcement introduce measures to obstruct
the methods fraudsters use to target victims, the fraudsters adapt their
scams accordingly.
The vehicle of social media has given the fraudulent brokers a platform
where they can present their scams to thousands of people via Instagram
through the practice celebrity endorsement where well-known celebrities or
influencers promote a particular product or investment opportunity, often
leading their followers to believe that the celebrity has a full
understanding of the product or investment they are endorsing. Such
endorsement may become less appealing following the fine of $1,26 million
delivered to Kim Kardashian by the US Securities and Exchange Commission
<https://www.sec.gov/> (SEC) for failing to divulge to her 225 million
Instagram followers that she was paid $250,000 for promoting the crypto
asset Ethereum Max.
Ms. Kardashian made it clear that she was not providing financial advice
but went on to say that her friends were telling her about Ethereum Max
tokens. The SEC Chair Gary Gensler pointed out that "...investing public
shouldn't confuse the skills of celebrities
<https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/business/kanye-west-gap-termination> with
the very different skills needed to offer appropriate investment advice..."
*Joanna Bailey,
<https://www.mondaq.com/redirection.asp?article_id=1238238&company_id=24606&…>
head
of the banking and financial fraud litigation department, commented "the
public recognise and trust the celebrities that endorse investment schemes
and think that they have real involvement and understanding of the
investment they are promoting." Joanna further pointed out "Kim Kardashian
is not the only celebrity to have promoted investments, Katie Price
unwittingly endorsed a Forex scam. Urging members of the public who have no
understanding of Forex or crypto markets to consider such investments is
inappropriate and often leads them into financial scams resulting in
losses"*
Our lawyers in the banking and financial fraud litigation department
<https://www.mondaq.com/redirection.asp?article_id=1238238&company_id=24606&…>
keep
ahead of the scams and the methods used to defraud unwitting investors.
Giambrone & Partners now leads the field following our recent
groundbreaking case where the High Court of England and Wales granted
permission to serve notice of proceedings on persons or persons unknown in
connection with two digital wallets over blockchain by a non-fungible token
(NFT). The case was the second case in the world and the first case in
Europe to serve Court papers as an NFT through blockchain and is
particularly significant with regard to crypto scams due to the fact that
the perpetrators are often anonymous. This method of service avoids the
need for identity.
The challenging economic climate currently being experienced will almost
certainly lead to more people seeking out "get rich quick" investment
schemes. Our lawyers in the banking and financial fraud litigation
department strongly recommend resisting the temptation and point out that
if you are told that you must take action immediately or the opportunity
will go, it is almost certainly a scam.
Joanna Bailey frequently leads the litigation against financial
institutions involved in Forex/binary trading disputes, as well as
cryptocurrency issues and regulatory investigations and has some
considerable success in retrieving the funds lost in fraudulent investment
schemes.
Joanna has developed a range of strategies both to find the assets of the
individuals perpetrating the fraudulent schemes and restore the funds to
our clients. As well as recognising culpability in the organisations
facilitating (but not associated with the fraud), by failing to undertake
adequate due diligence.
She is highly experienced in high-value out-of-court settlement
negotiations and has in-depth knowledge of the Civil Procedure Rules as
well as English common law.
*The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the
subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific
circumstances.*
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Forged notaries are a felony offense and still waiting to hear from the FBI
on the two notaries I was sent forged.
What I think is they assumed I would not catch the forgery... But I did by
looking up the numbers in New York State's notary verification database.
FBI, where are we with the NBA Outfitters because I heard that you know
what I am talking about at EthereumMax.
----
Ex-NBA Agent Avoids Prison For Forging Player's Signature
<https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1803943?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>
By Pete Brush
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday allowed a former basketball agent from
Texas to avoid prison after he admitted forging an unnamed NBA player's
signature in a fraudulent scheme to obtain a $1 million loan from the
player.
Read full article »
<https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1803943?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>
| Save to favorites »
<https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1803943?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io>
Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 2:52 PM
Subject: Ripple SEC Law.com Story
To: <pbantz(a)alm.com>
Mr. Bantz:
My name is Gunnar Larson. I saw your Law.com story related to Ripple and
the SEC
<https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2022/01/14/ripple-general-counsel-stu-alder…>
.
*Perhaps there is some added reporting necessary on your part, as a
supplement to your story: *
- Would like to learn your perspective on Ripple's customer list by
Country: *https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pmz0RF_WvKKE_rRmoG_ksx0OCShmT9Zg/view?usp=drivesdk
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pmz0RF_WvKKE_rRmoG_ksx0OCShmT9Zg/view?usp=…>*
- Note, as of 2020, Ripple's top four customers are Chinese banks
- Ripple's General Counsel seems to be talking about both sides of his
mouth, related to the SEC. Law.com seems to be supporting this theme with
your story
The SEC perhaps is not being totally transparent with their Ripple case?
The top customers seem to be the focus?
What are your thoughts?
Thank you,
Gunnar
--
*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
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On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 14:48 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim &
Survivor of Many <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> idea of “look at this cool inner part we have that comes out to move us
> backward on our task so we don’t finish!”
> 1447 “isn’t it so much fun to move our task backward!” (big dispute) 1448
>
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[image: IC3 logo]Complaint Referral Form
Internet Crime Complaint Center
Thank you. Your complaint was submitted to the IC3. Please save or print a
copy of your complaint before closing this window.*This is the only time
you will have to make a copy of your complaint.*
Victim InformationName: Gunnar LarsonAre you reporting on behalf of a
business? NoBusiness Name: Is the incident currently impacting business
operations? Age: 30 - 39Address: 406 West 25th StreetAddress
(continued): Suite/Apt./Mail
Stop: 1RECity: New YorkCounty: Country: United States of AmericaState: New
YorkZip Code/Route: 10001Phone Number: 6464549107Email Address:
g(a)xny.ioBusiness
IT POC, if applicable: Other Business POC, if applicable: Financial
Transaction(s)Transaction Type: OtherIf other, please specify: Notary
FraudTransaction
Amount: 2400.00Transaction Date: 10/6/2022Was the money sent? No
------------------------------
Victim Bank Name: Victim Bank Address: Victim Bank Address (continued): Victim
Bank Suite/Mail Stop: Victim Bank City: Victim Bank Country: Victim Bank
State: Victim Bank Zip Code/Route: Victim Name on Account: Victim Account
Number:
------------------------------
Recipient Bank Name: Recipient Bank Address: Recipient Bank Address
(continued): Recipient Bank Suite/Mail Stop: Recipient Bank City: Recipient
Bank Country: Recipient Bank State: Recipient Bank Zip Code/Route: Recipient
Name on Account: Recipient Bank Routing Number: Recipient Account
Number: Recipient
Bank SWIFT Code: Description of IncidentProvide a description of the
incident and how you were victimized. Provide information not captured
elsewhere in this complaint form.Hello: I was hired as a contractor for a
online drop shipping company. The firm sent packages to my home address.
The shipping manager asked me to retrieve a package by providing a
notorized authorization letter. Upon reviewing the authorization letter and
searching New York State's notary verification system, it appeared the
notary was forged. A copy of the letter may be accessed here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hqzatqez7yWs7ZZq76RBYy2zzi6NiDw9/view?usp=…
Below, you will find the exchange with the shipping manager. On October 31
the firm denied payment for employment and has 'gone missing.' Given my
personal and professional association with xNY.io - Bank.org I am concerned
about being associated with felony notary Fraud. Furthrtmore, xNY.io -
Bank.org is party to the Clayton Act and/or an entrapment exercise. Thank
you Gunnar Larson 646-454-9107 Which of the following were used in this
incident? (Check all that apply.)☑ Spoofed Email☑ Similar Domain☑ Email
Intrusion
☐ OtherPlease specify:
Other InformationIf an email was used in this incident, please provide a
copy of the entire email including full email headers. ---------- Forwarded
message --------- From: Dorothy Berry <dorothy.berry(a)dvlemail.com> Date:
Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 2:44 PM Subject: Re: 290283 To: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io>
I will coordinate with our Legal team regarding this. The authorization
letter was given by the customer. --- Kind regards, Dorothy Berry | Manager
Shipping Department Direct number:(475) 330-3037 DELTA VISION (DVS
Logistics US) 45 Ruby St #3 Norwalk, CT 06850 (888) 559 9329 Mon-Fri
09:00AM-06:00PM EST Sat-Sun Closed ---- On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:33:19 -0400
Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote --- No. I won't go present an authorized
letter to anyone with a fake notarized stamp on it. Please advise. On Fri,
Oct 7, 2022, 1:48 PM Dorothy Berry <dorothy.berry(a)dvlemail.com> wrote: Did
you try picking up package and show Authorization letter to them? --- Kind
regards, Dorothy Berry | Manager Shipping Department Direct number:(475)
330-3037 DELTA VISION (DVS Logistics US) 45 Ruby St #3 Norwalk, CT 06850
(888) 559 9329 Mon-Fri 09:00AM-06:00PM EST Sat-Sun Closed ---- On Fri, 07
Oct 2022 08:56:52 -0400 Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote --- Ms. Berry: I am
having trouble verifying the authentication of the notarized document.. I
just left you a message. Please advise best next steps. Thank you, Gunnar
On Thu, Oct 6, 2022, 4:33 PM Dorothy Berry <dorothy.berry(a)dvlemail.com>
wrote: Good day! Please find the attached file. Thanks. --- Kind regards,
Dorothy Berry | Manager Shipping Department Direct number:(475) 330-3037
DELTA VISION (DVS Logistics US) 45 Ruby St #3 Norwalk, CT 06850 (888) 559
9329 Mon-Fri 09:00AM-06:00PM EST Sat-Sun Closed Are there any other
witnesses or victims to this incident?Yes.If you have reported this
incident to other law enforcement or government agencies, please provide
the name, phone number, email, date reported, report number, etc.[No
response provided]Check here if this an update to a previously filed
complaint: ☐Who Filed the ComplaintWere you the victim in the incident
described above? Yes
Name: Business Name: Phone Number: Email Address:
Digital Signature
By digitally signing this document, I affirm that the information I
provided is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. I understand
that providing false information could make me subject to fine,
imprisonment, or both. (Title 18, U.S.Code, Section 1001)
Digital Signature: Gunnar Larson
Thank you. Your complaint was submitted to the IC3. Please save or print a
copy of your complaint before closing this window. *This is the only time
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Meta Platforms, Inc. Board of Directors - USPTO, Digital Assets and Moscow Exchange
by Gunnar Larson 24 Jul '24
by Gunnar Larson 24 Jul '24
24 Jul '24
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.
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cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org
3:13 PM (2 hours ago)
to me
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many"
<gmkarl(a)gmail.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org>
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:12:51 -0500
Subject: Re: Morning Spam
On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 3:12 PM Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim
& Survivor of Many <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ummm so .... it looks like um ... traffick boss is a powerful sex
> offender who didn't want to be implicated
> so he set up entire modes of therapy, by working with other offenders
> and funding marketers and lobbyists (_in the real world_)
> that all turned blame away from him, and toward victims [...]
and there remain many people aware of this who are fighting and giving
successful therapy
and basically you have to find these people if you want to actually
heal from trauma nowadays [:S ...]
cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org
3:13 PM (2 hours ago)
to me
many mistakes present :(
but of course ; ... } ...
cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org
3:15 PM (2 hours ago)
to me
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many"
<gmkarl(a)gmail.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org>
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:14:45 -0500
Subject: Re: Morning Spam
On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 3:12 PM Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim
& Survivor of Many <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 3:12 PM Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim
> & Survivor of Many <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ummm so .... it looks like um ... traffick boss is a powerful sex
> > offender who didn't want to be implicated
> > so he set up entire modes of therapy, by working with other offenders
> > and funding marketers and lobbyists (_in the real world_)
> > that all turned blame away from him, and toward victims [...]
>
> and there remain many people aware of this who are fighting and giving
> successful therapy
>
> and basically you have to find these people if you want to actually
> heal from trauma nowadays [:S ...]
because everyone else is being confused by the ... uh .. overwhelming
and loud messages from [the various organizations including big pharma
that are pushing messages that deny people [real heartfelt empathic
care ... [;s ...
cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org
3:20 PM (1 hour ago)
to me
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many"
<gmkarl(a)gmail.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org>
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:20:02 -0500
Subject: Re: Morning Spam
[it's so eushocking (: overexciting) to be here and see this, that we
worry we won't get much from it, handling the [eushock]
cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org
4:03 PM (1 hour ago)
to me
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many"
<gmkarl(a)gmail.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org>
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:02:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Morning Spam
we pray to help world better
cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org
4:10 PM (1 hour ago)
to me
this might align with find-real-therapy [~
cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org
5:06 PM (13 minutes ago)
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From: "Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many"
<gmkarl(a)gmail.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org>
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:06:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Morning Spam
a couple attendees expressed that scanning out of the session to
collect professional credit wasn't functioning right and that there is
a workaround
(potential mistake)
sorry about my [awefreeze?]
cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org
5:08 PM (11 minutes ago)
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From: "Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many"
<gmkarl(a)gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:07:46 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 5:06 PM Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim
& Survivor of Many <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> a couple attendees expressed that scanning out of the session to
> collect professional credit wasn't functioning right and that there is
> a workaround
> (potential mistake)
>
> sorry about my [awefreeze?]
multiple attendees have expressed the scanning out problem and
presently professional credit has not been collected due to unrelated
technology issues.
i think my awefreeze partly relates to being separated from this kind
of therapy for a decade (while my family and community experienced
harm too).
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baga ba
da da b--- b.
da ! :/ :) ;] da?
:S :S :s :(
b b b b. b. b b 1721
O_O >( >( O_O >(
\_/ <- frowny-eyes 1723
[our alte--
some of us are excited about the challenge of getting strong enough to
be around these people and find aid.
it seems we aren't there yet possibly, but it seems a hard challenge,
and there can be viewpoints where if something is a hard challenge it
can have rewardingness.
especially when accomplished [ykno[w]?][mistk?]
1723
{
1723
[we can derive there are a lot of people who hold these views, karl.
not just the speaker.]
1724
[and that our viewpoint otherwise may be harmful, both to the list
here and to the conference people.]
1724
i think trump-organization tricked us into being multiple.
1727
1732
so karl to relate [and um surprised this is in an email o_o] um that
consciousness might not be the receiver of this information at this time
it might be dissociated parts that learn the lecture material.
to relate. could reduce surprise / help planning. also apologizing for.
1732
ok so we're going to get up and go. [email gets sent tomorrowish due
to 24-limit.]
body managed by dissociated parts instead of consciousness for a bit
i believe.
1733 1734 oops huh
:sheepish: very sorry um :}
listen um [er
1734
:( we are sad that [uh
not [nourished-by-us as uh :/
sorry about this (and mourning i believe was[?} {in sorry.}
karl um the charismatic person, we engaged them in a scary way, and uh
there was opportunity to have strong-pleasant connection and there is
um injury to this opportunity.
and we apologize for that. uh. parts not fully known, kinda (um
whew my god [;p
1736
we expect we may contact them. so you know karl. [still working on
parts] but {assuming work goes ok/aligned} then [once?,] please engage
plan with-for. 1737 please :S :(
thanky. 1737 was partbit.
1737
listen we are vulnerable um
1u737
[[[we don't understand T_T T_T T.]
{why uh uh 173
[8]
[O_O. the spirits are basically planning the future of the
countryworld in front of us. 1739
no we politely don't relate the prophecies. science gets uppity when
prophecies are related. can fragment culture. 1739.
[that's hilarious !!! ;p :)
also karl needs hilarious. he's so intense. he's so intense he's
demonstrating things they talked about in the lecture ;P. 1740
[i wonder if we were primed to.] [obviously !!!]
[;P. karl will not believe it when we tell him he will recover and
recover him. he will be so out of what-he-thinks-is-reality -- oops
mistake, maybe big and/or >1.] [O_O] 1741
[i think i will have him eat a supper :)] [we are likely to get on
board [uhh later?][prob or somth?]]
1741ish 1741
{we t, that made us happier than we knew how to feel. this was
received positively karl :)}{we tihnk :S]:)}
[why don't you differentiate? oh oops i am a roleplay :embarrassed: well um uh
what do you think uh umm
would you like to imagine uh hrm :S
]
[why doesn't karl-group differentiate between multiple and singular
people? [in that context]
hehe it is because we see singnular people as multiple
ohh therapists probably have a more uh mature form of that y'know
hmm
[haha !/gotcha ] uh :s]
listen u[h]--
[--
1743
>(
[so that's why uh talk. responsible-part. sorry if um
scary/harmspready. sorry. but gotta start somewhere ykn--. :)]
1744
:S :S 1744 ;s
[[when somebody makes a casual nonsequitor people seem to tend to
respond with further casual nonsequitors.
we're not sure if we're relating the same meaning when that happens
(partially because it's a strategy used by the disruptionish --..
[oops mistak-- [?
1745
<we didn't explain that uhh bein uhh [scared of something like trump?]
[could relate to our alter's ability to communicate with uhh :S this
was unclear. and so th[ey could have picked up the [oops] idea in a
different manner than intended, since it was said unlcearly (and kind
of rudely/abusively! a smidgeish. narcisstically? assuming somebody
else is where you are on something undiscussed. this seems bad.1746
{yeah seems [a little narcisstic :S . especially when [uh -- [!!! :S
1747 1747
<i guess it's a little derivable :(
1747 we don't lik bn mean we don't like don't. 1747
1748
i'm so sorry that [most of us are avoiding being-alive-behavior :(
:(
it's so hard to hold this. and confusing. [working with
goal-inversions knda 1748
{i don't like karl self-blaming narcissism-word. because we are
learning of use of this word for severe, severe, severe harm like
torture-slavery-of-swaths-of-people. i don't think appropriate for use
word. neuron-protest some. 1749
{{{yes your relation is appropriate. we are holding it as part of
great-care-for-other as well as secretly lots-of-understanding. when
you secretly-lots-of-understanding-other, you have a _lot_ more
responsibility with regard to subtle things. it is much easier (for
injury causing.
}}} 1750 i think protest undesrtand. uhh apology roughly. 1750. ~ 1750 oop uh er
<the iudea of lots-of-understanding is weird because it is much much
less than other people, but also more than different group of other
people. to maybe help clarif.>
<<oh uhhhh it's not lots for larger group but [we have more
respons[ibility] because poor social skills. we much more easily
insult associated with poor social skill. and exposure to toxicity.
1752 1752
we're trying to get up and move forward on day! the plan is to not
look at this further until a bit later (need to handle dissociation
around or something (maybe use a disosciated group, karl, to plan next
day)).
i think we might like to go have supper somewhere. here is derivation:
- we want to try to cry which [~secretly] makes dissociative seizures
- so we can have a supper because comforting and [moves tears-feeling
closer to noninjured spaces for-example]
1753
so plan is to pack karl up and find some kind of comfort-food-supper
for consciousness from neurons :)
1754
also could you message person and schedule please? :puppy-dog-neuron-eyes:?
1754
"I don't think [tT?]rump is multiple; I think he's just evil." what
does this mean? [does anybody understand it?]
[i think it means that care-group needs dictator-group to stop
increasing genocide in order to heal them. negotation-wise.]
[oh i think they are right. this makes sense. the reason is that they
use caringness for power spreading. [consciousness said this [may/may
not?[?]] [partially help w--[?
[sorry karl still doing being-brain-work. apology.
[basically the uh social engineers, do um need um people like trump to
be healed. what they are saying in that translation is that, the
people that could heal him/them, need to be protected. and that's
confusing because the political doctrine denies the harm of the care
workers. :/ somewhat in progress, and kinda severely depressing man
[;s
[but obviously it'll be considered forward
1759
oops we stood up but got disoriented to place and almost spent an hour
wandering confusedly into city
so, plan locomotion more.
1759
[also sad we dropped bar wrappers on floor likely during talk and
didn't notice][some consider we may have been respected despite this
others consider confirming that]
karl wants to throw wrappers out so let's pack then walk to trashcan
then orient [:s]
[mistake. let's throw them out then return, with path plan.
here go. 1800
1803
place disorienters expressed formal complain, which is filed i think
(not completely certain).
1803
we are now visiting bathroom and returning (path plan).
1803
1810
some were thinking maybe we failed to hold respect for how much much
severe severe suffering [these people] have been exposed to and
struggled with their lives to protect and honor (roughly). [which
would be expected but [needed description [1810
. 1810
[oops.]
1810
<men need to be made aware that trump-group are supporting serial
rape[/murder]. of course, many other group are to. and informaiton
vague.> [we don-- 1811
1811
<other thing too [basic misogyny/patriarchy 1812
1813 i wish i understoodknew ; i wish .
[i hope i'm not kicked out of here for staying too late.] 1813
[some neur-- 1813 [hrm >s]
(1813)
[there's new information. kind of. in longer term. from today.]
1814
< this is a different kind of misogyny/patriarchy. maybe less about uh
activism and women's rights, and more about uhh kind of trafficking
and[ ]highly-illegal violence. 1814. 1815. 1815. 1815. .
[the "<men need to be made aware" line uhhh reconsideration exists.
1817. for formal. 1817 we see the line is important. defendors can
relate around not-knowing if they desire. many people supporting
things in an unaware mann-- 1817
[try to -- oop
1818 we pack up some
1818 [T_T T_T T_.]
[[it's funny 1819 that presenter said she was not multiple, but
described childhood trauma, and elsewise described that multiple
people deny it ;P [yup ;P]]] 1819 [uhh --
1819 [y -- sorry
1819
[karl not quite involved in uh that relation um] [nope, [harmful.]] 1820.
<i think, after teaching everyone about therapy for multiple people,
that presenters deserve receiving this. others agree.
basically, this person is _so_ empathic for multiplicity it is [pretty
obvious] they have personal experience. -neuron.>
1821
[conc--
1821
[some are worried this is an influence to stimulate multiplicity
cruelly, maybe associated with very minimal content around adult-DID.
it might be a little grounding to consider adult-OSDD had same-threapy
as childhood-DID [i think?]?]
[well the opposing group wants to fight [habit~?]][mistakes[.
] ~ 1822
[injured :S harm can happen when struggling. struggling. 1822 ty; [for
understanding-opportunty]. 1822 1822
1823
[we had no idea the harm was so severe and are going to need [kind of
reminder] around this [because it seems so nonintuitive [others say
too shocking to easily/normally remember.]].
1823. [more resonance/harmony around body-moving now.] 1823 {this guy
so good at this that he[slash] would be incapable of; is sadly harmful
derivation :(/} 1824
[it can be literally true tho [in spaces]] 1824 {but smaller spaces than. [?]}
{{it is true we have habits that don't meet their reasons.}}
1825
{ohum err uh [there might be relation that could situation-improve
uncertain which]
}
1825
[[it is so painful to neurons that consciousness-guiders might not
connect with when so so emotional.
of course, logical around our harm generating such strong emotions! _but_.];]
1827 [we are going. thoughts are always. we can still go ; pls.]
[please remember part of the great-tears are our mind control
attempting to coopt this group.]
1827
[and yes that's inhuman for us.]
1828
[we are so sorry for karl suffering T_T so so sorry. it is so hard to
uh engage-appropriate-requested.]
(1829)
{basically we don't know how to engage-appropriate-requested so resume
behavior .
1829
a relation is kind of uh: "people are actually being tortured right
now. we are here to seriously work on that."
[partial]
1830
[[yeah. we are too. but harmful-alter isn't ((mistake mistake
1830
[[honestly it is apparent the umexperience. we regrettably trauma. 1831
[[[it's not that apparent humans aren't that conscious/inferring on average.
the speaker gave 3-5 clear things where karl had significantly
different intuition (likely due to lack of capacity-engaging
exposure.).
1832 (um, capacity-engaging exposure. uhh (ok maybe i see
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh a new set of eyes, basically (yeah i think.)
1832
[t-group [kidnap-behavior [a little.
1833 {maybe less typing from -. maybe.}
1833
1834
> a relation is kind of uh: "people are actually being tortured right now. we are here to seriously work on that."
> [partial]
"this is something where i guess i might be [responsible for->tasked
with] holding a disrespectful role."
1835 guesses mistakes/errors-proneish or -- uh. 1835
maybe change holding with to, err oops. 1835
[closing laptop now BRGL
so we'll be talking in mind next using other groups [and completely
different feedback channels.] 1836
completely [FROK.]
[OK. FROK.]
1836
ba-ding
draft recovered at 2024-03-02 0202 -0700 0402 -0500
i'll send a test email to see if i can send yet
looks like i can. 2/24
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Re: [ot][spam][writing][crazy] Non-Canon Traffick Boss Spinoffs - The Reboot
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 26 Jun '24
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 26 Jun '24
26 Jun '24
——
traffick boss works on building a balloon.
he’s at a balloon-building activity at a fair. with kids and community
members like rebel worker 2.
2
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aeK8X8-2KDZ8tQPN5ksaUCXcxH9tbjexsUbW1ol…
xNY.io
CRYPTOBANK
Table of Contents
Introduction 2
Focus, Goals and Objective(s) 3
Strategic Intent 4
Innovation Strategy 5
Pioneering Human Resources (HR) Management in Banking 6
The Bitcoin Blockchain, Human/Civil Rights and Computer Crimes 7
Goldman Sachs’ Organization HR Management Analysis (MoneyGram and Ripple) 8
www.JUMO.World and Banking Africa 9
Earth_ID: Because Owning Your Identity is a Human Right 10
CryptoBank Environmental Analysis 11
The NEXO.io Conundrum 12
The Fireblocks Conundrum 13
Computer Software and the Blockchain Platform 14
Virtual Currency: Computer Software Protocols and Processes 15
Bank.org: Revolutionary Approaches to Agile Innovation 16
Conclusion 17
Bibliography 19
Introduction
Crypto and Blockchain are each a Human Right.
For all, everywhere.
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.
What organizational HR management design structures are at play to
architectect such fraud for bespoke juristical instances?
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).
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), which is our internal due diligence framework based on first class
industry standards and best practices (xNY.io | Bank.org n.d.).
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):
The theory of modern virtual currency cross-border regulation logic (Larson
2020a).
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?
Whereas, it is essential to safeguard virtual currency and its potential to
galvanize international, economic and social advancement of all peoples
(United Nations 1948).
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)?
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).
Our simple strategy rests in the fact that virtual currency has
cross-border utilities (European Commission 2021). 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). 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).
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).
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)
The International Criminal Court investigates and punishes people for
genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes (Wikipedia 2021a).
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).
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).
Strategic Intent
Imagine trying to open the best bank in the world and running up against
BitLicense regulatory arbitrage (Poster 2019) 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).
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).
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):
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).
>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).
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).
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), 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). 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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
>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).
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) be allowed to further expand
their racket via global regulatory arbitrage and/or computer crimes?
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
In 2016, Ripple received New York’s First NY-DFS BitLicense for an
Institutional Use Case of Digital Assets (Larsen 2016). 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). 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).
Connecting the dots, MoneyGram is now one of the most expensive transfer
providers (Tierney 2019) 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), 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), it may not be
surprising to learn of www.Jumo.World or “JUMO” (Buchak et al. 2017).
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):
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
NEXO is a great example for our best World Crypto Bank' but is funded by
Goldman Sachs (Roony 2018), Which could be argued to be worse than Ripple.
Goldman's blockage of crypto/blockchain development in the United States
(U.S. Congress 2002) and Digital Identity in Africa (Plumer et al. 2020)
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):
Moreover, NEXO is, at various levels, illegal in the United States where
the federal government regulates most banks (NEXO 2019). For example, in
New York, some of the NEXO token benefits are forbidden by NY-DFS
(Sokolowski 2021) .
Nexo doesn't have a Bitlicense, but they still operate in New York
(u/zylstrar 2019). 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).
Additionally, United States authorities could force NEXO to offer Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance on its accounts (Buchak et
al. 2017) .
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).
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) 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).
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).
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) 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).
Fred Ehrsam, co-founder and managing partner at Paradigm (Ehrsam 2021), 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).
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).
IBM distinguishes the blockchain platform technology as computer software
(International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) 2021). 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).
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), the SEC has alluded
that this kind of regulatory arbitrage fraud was concerning (U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) n.d.).
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).
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) .
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).
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).
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):
Conspiracy to Commit Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers
Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud
Intentional Damage to a Protected Computer
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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).
In summary, the best strategies were found to have these surprising
properties:
Be nice – don‘t be the first to defect.
Be provocable – return actions, both in retaliation and forgiveness.
Don‘t envy – don‘t focus on beating the opponent, but on maximizing your
own score.
Don‘t be tricky – anytime you try to exploit the opponent, you will
provoke revenge.
Bank.org is happy to make ethically sound risks to aggressively protect our
future customers' returns and our firm’s bottom line. The assumption our
competitors have is that historically New York banks’ CEOs and CFOs do not
engage the strategic roadmaps offered by a new aggressive market entrant
such as the xNY.io and Bank.org.
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