One thing that probably did happen - and you saw it in the Mt Gox case as well - is that if you're already covering up a fraud, then the scale of it grows, it's hard to hire competent people to help … (View Post)

What you've described is SBF's defence. As far as I can tell it's total bullshit, and he committed fraud, repeatedly and knowingly. Anyhow we'll see what the jury thinks. (View Post)

They didn't use the random to *work it out*, they used it to deceive people into thinking their money was safe. It's not a cute thing to do by someone oblivious to finance, it's one of the many ways … (View Post)

I don't think either of those is true. The Dems would have better chances with Biden than with Kamala, Bernie, Warren or Bloomberg. The GOP would have better chances of winning with Trump than with D… (View Post)

IIUC a while back Hamas asked supporters to stop sending them crypto because the senders kept getting traced. In principle you can send crypto with reasonably good privacy (don't use bitcoins for thi… (View Post)