nitter Logo nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Isle of Yap niccarter.info Joined November 2011 Tweets 51,507 Following 3,093 Followers 356,219 Likes 196,964 3,150 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter 11h alright i'll bite whats the all in podcast 64 6 2 375 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 retweeted John E Deaton @JohnEDeaton1 15h Outstanding article by @nic__carter! This article alone serves as a basis for conducting hearings and bringing unelected regulators before duly elected representatives and asked questions under oath. Subpoenas should be going out. nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 23 Back in @PirateWires once again My latest on the collapses of Silvergate & Signature, and all the unanswered questions that remain And - who are the people behind OCP 2.0? piratewires.com/p/2023-banki… Show this thread 5 50 227 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter 14h OCP2.0 is a conspiracy, but it’s also real. Same sentence. How exactly does that work? 37 42 7 340 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter 14h Basically, if you’re a right winger, and you point out something true, it’s a conspiracy, and you’re probably part of QAnon. Apparently 17 6 167 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 retweeted Ryan Selkis 🪳 @twobitidiot 15h This is a masterful investigatory piece by @nic__carter that consolidates all of the scandalous information we have been tweeting - and that I wrote up in my letter to Congress - regarding the coordinated, extra judicial crackdown on crypto. We need hearings. It’s corruption. nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 23 Back in @PirateWires once again My latest on the collapses of Silvergate & Signature, and all the unanswered questions that remain And - who are the people behind OCP 2.0? piratewires.com/p/2023-banki… Show this thread 13 53 2 293 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 retweeted CZ 🔶 Binance @cz_binance 22h Interesting article from @nic__carter » Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? piratewires.com/p/2023-banki… Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? six weeks later, operation chokepoint 2.0 has brought crypto to its knees… along with america’s entire financial system piratewires.com 650 1,261 105 4,965 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 24 Greenpeace accidentally made the most metal bitcoin artwork to date in their misguided anti-PoW campaign 67 69 12 1,224 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 23 Back in @PirateWires once again My latest on the collapses of Silvergate & Signature, and all the unanswered questions that remain And - who are the people behind OCP 2.0? piratewires.com/p/2023-banki… Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? six weeks later, operation chokepoint 2.0 has brought crypto to its knees… along with america’s entire financial system piratewires.com 88 342 56 1,271 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 23 Six weeks ago, I warned in the same publication that OCP 2.0 was underway... but I couldn't have imagined how bad it would get. In my latest, I sort through the wreckage piratewires.com/p/crypto-cho… Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, And Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs detailing the Biden Admin's coordinated, ongoing effort across virtually every US financial regulator to deny crypto firms access to banking services piratewires.com 17 31 1 217 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 23 And now in inscription format on BTC inscribe.news/view-news?id=0… Ordinal News Standard Setting the standard for inscribing news on Bitcoin. inscribe.news 8 3 2 85 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 retweeted Financial Services GOP @FinancialCmte Mar 23 #NEW: Chairman @PatrickMcHenry and Vice Chairman @RepFrenchHill sent a letter to @FDICgov Chair Gruenberg demanding details on the Biden Administration’s response to recent bank failures. 👇 Read more 🔗 financialservices.house.gov/… 37 50 12 136 Show this thread nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 retweeted Pirate Wires @PirateWires Mar 23 Six weeks ago, @nic__carter warned about Operation Choke Point 2.0. Today, he's back with more explosive reporting that suggests that in its all-out war on crypto, the US government unwittingly started a global financial crisis — piratewires.com/p/2023-banki… Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? six weeks later, operation chokepoint 2.0 has brought crypto to its knees… along with america’s entire financial system piratewires.com 45 185 30 677 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 22 How did it come to this 37 15 2 286 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 22 Treasury learning of the existence of smartphones and laptops in the year of our lord twenty twenty three zerohedge @zerohedge Mar 22 YELLEN: WE HAD NEVER SEEN DEPOSITS FLEE AT THE PACE THEY WERE WITHDRAWN FROM SILICON VALLEY BANK "That was so fast, did you see how fast that was? Damn fast... Oh and keep your deposits in your bank, they're safe, we promise" 44 144 8 1,303 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 22 Sequel to OCP 2.0 article coming soon. We went from "choking off" to decapitation... your faithful correspondent investigates 27 19 1 389 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 21 It's the same playbook at Choke Point 2.0, but for accounting Harass the [bank/audit] regulators and demand that they tell [banks/CPA firms] to stop supporting the crypto space Crypto firms end up un-[banked/audited] and thus have a much harder time operating 3 12 129 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 21 Already as an exchange it's insanely hard to get a CPA firm to supervise your routine PoR ... thankfully this is changing with boutiques like @The_NetworkFirm. I hope the Big 4 come around eventually too 5 3 2 94 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 21 And Warren is going to lose this battle, because of legislation like TX's pending PoR law, authored by Rep Capriglione (who was on my panel today at the DC Blockchain Summit), which will normalize PoR usage. capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup… 3 5 125 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 21 Needless to say, it's beyond insane that she is alleging that bank collapses (which she encouraged!) were somehow the fault of... audit firms helping with Proofs of Reserve (!!!???) The point of PoR is to prove the full-reserve nature of exchanges... to avoid bank runs.... 5 10 2 191 nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter Mar 21 she just lives in a completely bananas, upside down, topsy turvy bizarro world, thankfully sanity will prevail eventually but my god is it painful dealing with her endless torrent of BS 27 13 2 333 Show this thread Load more nitter Logo Pirate Wires @PirateWires technology, politics, culture piratewires.com Joined March 2020 Tweets 351 Following 4 Followers 19,125 Likes 279 41 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Pirate Wires @PirateWires 10h Big stories in tech, AI, and crypto this week on Pirate Wires — here’s a recap of what we published. Also, a bunch of tweets from this week that won't put you in a bad mood. Comments are open. piratewires.com/p/good-tweet… Friday Open Thread: Tweets From This Week That Won't Make You Feel Bad introducing a weekly list of tweets that pirate wires staff enjoyed, all mercifully non-political or culture-warry (most of them, at least), with comments open to all piratewires.com 3 5 17 Pirate Wires @PirateWires 10h Tweets from @NeerajKA, @BrianRoemmele, @martsharter, @mrgreen, @barstoolsports, @Sofi_Shvets, @evilratperson, and more. 1 3 Pirate Wires retweeted kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 11h .@DavidSacks discusses @nic__carter's article on Operation Choke Point and if the Biden administration plans to ban crypto: •SEC lawsuit against Paxos •SEC target Kraken for staking •Gensler label crypto securities •Senate hearing crypto environment •Bill proposal tax… nitter.pw/i/web/status/163… 40 224 11 760 72,090 Show this thread Pirate Wires retweeted ashtyn.eth @ashtyn_eth 11h I really enjoy these long form reads from brilliant minds in our space. @nic__carter dropped some 🔥🔥 on us yesterday. We're in unprecedented times, and these features always round out my knowledge. Much appreciated, Nic & @PirateWires! piratewires.com/p/2023-banki… Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? six weeks later, operation chokepoint 2.0 has brought crypto to its knees… along with america’s entire financial system piratewires.com 1 2 7 Pirate Wires retweeted nic 🌠 carter 🧙♂️🚿 @nic__carter 14h OCP2.0 is a conspiracy, but it’s also real. Same sentence. How exactly does that work? 37 42 7 340 Show this thread Pirate Wires retweeted 🇺🇸 Lauren- Don’t Think You’re Safe BC I’m Gone😉 @RogueLou18 23h I would read a thread about any congressional hearing if it was always written in this style. Mike Solana @micsolana Mar 23 TikTok hearing begins. Out of the gate, Cathy Rodgers asserting her desire to ban TikTok, directly alleging the CCP uses TikTok to spy on Americans. Moving on: propaganda, self-harm, and drug abuse. This is by far the most aggressive congressional tech hearing I’ve ever seen. Show this thread 3 11 Pirate Wires retweeted Matthew Foldi @MatthewFoldi 13h If you didn't tune in to yesterday's TikTok demolition, @micsolana's latest in @PirateWires is the best line by line writeup of everything that went down piratewires.com/p/tiktoks-co… (106/xxx) TikTok’s Congressional Disaster pirate wires #93 // amidst growing bi-partisan support of a ban, summary and analysis of tiktok’s first congressional hearing piratewires.com 2 8 1 21 Show this thread Pirate Wires retweeted Mike Solana @micsolana 15h yesterday, tiktok ceo shou zi chew appeared before congress for a raucous, grueling 5 hour hearing on the question of whether his company should be banned. my summary and analysis for pirate wires: piratewires.com/p/tiktoks-co… TikTok’s Congressional Disaster pirate wires #93 // amidst growing bi-partisan support of a ban, summary and analysis of tiktok’s first congressional hearing piratewires.com 18 16 7 97 Pirate Wires retweeted Mike Solana @micsolana Mar 24 for anyone interested in what actually happened today, my summary and analysis for pirate wires. piratewires.com/p/tiktoks-co… TikTok’s Congressional Disaster pirate wires #93 // amidst growing bi-partisan support of a ban, summary and analysis of tiktok’s first congressional hearing piratewires.com 8 29 5 150 Show this thread Pirate Wires retweeted Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh Mar 24 Entertaining dispatch on todays tiktok clusterfuck hearing from @micsolana “First of all, Chew weakly argued, we are doing a ton of STEM videos. Like, TikTok is basically just educational content. We fucking love science, okay? You love science, we love piratewires.com/p/tiktoks-co…… nitter.pw/i/web/status/163… 1 16 Pirate Wires retweeted Mike Solana @micsolana Mar 24 the comparison of seed funding to actual ownership by a chinese company and a chain of authority that links directly to beijing is another good example of why ben collins’ field of “disinformation reporting” is one of the most spectacular frauds in media history. Ben Collins @oneunderscore__ Mar 23 Every major social app we use was either seed funded by Russian oligarchs (Facebook/Insta, Twitter) or has current ownership stakes with the Saudis (this app here). We need a heuristic data privacy law. If it starts with TikTok, good, but there's something else going on here. Show this thread 24 128 5 915 Show this thread Pirate Wires retweeted Mike Solana @micsolana Mar 24 Today, amidst growing bi-partisan support for a national TikTok ban, CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before Congress to save his company. Summary and analysis of the most brutal tech hearing I have ever seen. piratewires.com/p/tiktoks-co… TikTok’s Congressional Disaster pirate wires #93 // amidst growing bi-partisan support of a ban, summary and analysis of tiktok’s first congressional hearing piratewires.com 8 19 1 103 Show this thread Pirate Wires @PirateWires Mar 23 "We don't know what products they're concerned about,” the company's Chief Legal Officer @iampaulgrewal said in a Twitter Space today. “We've simply been told nothing, even [after we asked the SEC what they're concerned about]." piratewires.com/p/coinbase-w… Coinbase "Willing To Do Anything" To Be Regulated By SEC a recap of coinbase's twitter spaces on the wells enforcement today piratewires.com 2 5 28 Pirate Wires @PirateWires Mar 23 Over the last 9 months, Coinbase met with SEC over 30 times to answer “any question SEC wanted to ask,” @brian_armstrong said. SEC then scheduled a meeting to provide guidance, but abruptly cancelled it at the last minute. A few weeks later, it issued the Wells notice. 1 7 Pirate Wires @PirateWires Mar 23 “We have been effectively begging for rules,” said @karacalvert, who oversees US policy. She urged crypto holders to get involved in Crypto435, an initiative to help constituents advocate for fair crypto regulation to their elected representatives — snapshot.org/#/crypto435.eth… 1 1 7 Pirate Wires @PirateWires Mar 23 Read @brandongorrell's full recap of @Coinbase's Twitter Space here — piratewires.com/p/coinbase-w… Coinbase "Willing To Do Anything" To Be Regulated By SEC a recap of coinbase's twitter spaces on the wells enforcement today piratewires.com 6 Pirate Wires retweeted Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital Mar 23 Follow up from @nic__carter on his previous Operation Chokepoint 2.0 article outlining the USG's upcoming attack on Crypto -- This new article is now in the wake of the damage and several bank collapses. Long form read and good insights and questions asked piratewires.com/p/2023-banki… Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? six weeks later, operation chokepoint 2.0 has brought crypto to its knees… along with america’s entire financial system piratewires.com 10 31 2 129 Pirate Wires retweeted David Taylor 🌎 @davidtayloryo Mar 23 This one is for the history books. piratewires.com/p/2023-banki… Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? six weeks later, operation chokepoint 2.0 has brought crypto to its knees… along with america’s entire financial system piratewires.com 2 9 22 Pirate Wires @PirateWires Mar 23 Pirate Wires' @micsolana live tweeting the House Energy and Commerce Committee TikTok hearing. Full thread begins here — Mike Solana @micsolana Mar 23 TikTok hearing begins. Out of the gate, Cathy Rodgers asserting her desire to ban TikTok, directly alleging the CCP uses TikTok to spy on Americans. Moving on: propaganda, self-harm, and drug abuse. This is by far the most aggressive congressional tech hearing I’ve ever seen. Show this thread 3 14 Show this thread Pirate Wires @PirateWires Mar 23 Six weeks ago, @nic__carter warned about Operation Choke Point 2.0. Today, he's back with more explosive reporting that suggests that in its all-out war on crypto, the US government unwittingly started a global financial crisis — piratewires.com/p/2023-banki… Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? six weeks later, operation chokepoint 2.0 has brought crypto to its knees… along with america’s entire financial system piratewires.com 45 185 30 677 Load more