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Zach Rosenberg | GC, @Ethena_Labs | Principal, Rosehill Legal | Not your lawyer, unless I am | Tweets are not legal advice

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There's a decent chance Coinbase becomes the AOL of crypto
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Most of crypto twitter seems to WANT a massive global recession and I don’t think they understand what that would entail
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just realized most of you are too young to know what I mean
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6 years
How many fucking times can it be the “last chance” to pick up cheap alts?
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ICOs are not dead Non-compliant ICOs are dead
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Spend 10 minutes in an ICO’s telegram and you’ll understand why most people invested in crypto will lose everything
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2 years
The SEC complaint against Kraken alleging that its staking program is an illegal offer and sale of securities is available here: Highlights:
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Gladiator is probably one of the five best movies released in the last 20 years
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Being fat should not be normalized or accepted
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🚨CFTC specifically calls ETH a "digital commodity" this is actually crucial considering recent public statements by CFTC officials
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6 years
Happy “everyone’s a securities lawyer” day!
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The best life advice I’ve ever gotten was from my dad: 99% of life is showing up. Work, family events, meaningful times for friends, all of it. Nothing is more important or easier than just showing up. The rest follows.
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6 years
Just got this text from my wife. How to even begin responding?
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The insane Alameda Research LLC tax bill circulating is real. The major balances don't have detail, but in part it appears the IRS went back and reclassified ALL employees from contractors to employees and hit them for unpaid employer-side employment taxes.
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Everyone’s getting hilariously rich and you’re geoblocked
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Coinbase is a public reporting company. Some of the named assets were trading on the platform when the SEC approved the S-1. This is epic gaslighting.
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Coinbase’s alleged failures deprive investors of critical protections, including rulebooks that prevent fraud and manipulation, proper disclosure, safeguards against conflicts of interest, and routine inspection by the SEC.
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1. Get a job.
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I had a dream last night I’d traded my account up to 300 btc and btc was over $15k on a parabolic rip but when I tried to sell 100 btc Coinbase glitched and told me I needed to identify the counterparty I was trying to sell to or else I couldn’t sell what does it mean
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I'm sure much ink has been spilled on this already but Coinbase winning on the SEC's Coinbase Wallet allegations at this stage is a pretty giant win for browser-based wallet extensions, application front ends, and other similar applications.
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To be clear, the Paxos/BUSD shutdown ordered by @NYDFS is almost certainly driven by money laundering / sanctions concerns, not securities regulation concerns.
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Vaccinate your children you dipshits
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declares an emergency over 32 confirmed cases of measles in the state
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It’s unclear to me how you could look at crypto charts for the past 3 years and say “no no no, we need MORE pain and shakeouts!”
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Believe it or not, I've increased my net worth during this 2018 bear market. Was quite easy, actually. If you're interested in my process, and some additional words of wisdom to build your own wealth, please see below for a comprehensive checklist of items:
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What if @jack is actually talking about Bitcoin Cash
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Shout out to the dudes carrying a belt around the gym even on days they don’t use it so everyone knows they’re a powerlifter and not a regular fat guy
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Just heard from an FDA insider Literally, his first comment was: Stay away from kale I'm not even kidding.
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Believing you deserve a bull market strictly because you stuck out a bear market is akin to believing you deserve a promotion at work because you’ve been there a while doing the bare minimum
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Guys
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My gym is experiencing a flood of newbies wearing lifting belts for every exercise. It’s Ichimoku all over again.
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If you can buy a fraction of a share of Tesla on Robinhood why on earth would casual investors buy crypto?
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Some fun nuggets in the CFTC complaint (won't repeat facts and allegations from the SEC complaint):
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, FTX TRADING LTD D/B/A , AND ALAMEDA RESEARCH LLC,
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Is there a legitimate argument that the lottery is NOT a “stupidity tax?”
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2 years
What an absolute gem
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I don't even blame the people with ridiculous takes after reading the BlackRock Bitcoin Trust S-1. The SEC's "disclosure" regime designed to inform investors has simply become an exercise in the lawyers stuffing as many risk disclosures into the filing as possible *just in case*
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Golf is not a sport
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I’ll never understand what my wife is doing for those last ten minutes that always make us late
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Some personal news: I’m joining the team @ethena_labs as general counsel. Rare to find a team shipping elite quality at an impossible pace building something this ambitious with a commitment to innovating responsibly and transparently - a unicorn I’m excited to be a part of.
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Is there anything more useless than decaf coffee?
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I distinctly remember people in Q1 saying they were buying "all the sub-$1,000 $ETH they could get their hands on." Who could have imagined this? Key lesson of 2018 is open-mindedness. Too much money was lost as we refused to believe what was possible, even probable.
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@swifteagle8 @onemanatatime It’s more nuanced than that. Would you trade one year, right now, for $1 billion? Very different question, right? It’s not a linear analysis.
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Ho hum, VanEck ETF decision delayed, as expected. Final deadline is February 27, 2019. Was always going to go the distance.
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Extrapolating this, it's really hard to imagine *ANY* secondary market sales could be "investment contracts" and therefore securities. Like, analytically impossible.
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the key here is the buyers did not know they were buying from Ripple so there could not have been any promises made
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@notsofast @nypostbiz “Lost 15k” “Planned to cash out for a home and a car”
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My wife is an elementary school teacher. There is no universe in which the correct answer is to put a gun in the room with her and 25 seven year olds. If this somehow becomes a Thing I guarantee at least half of all teachers will quit and your children will grow up stupid.
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If history has taught us anything it’s that dumping alts after a 20+% $btc pump is always a prudent move
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$POLY Did you guys not catch that move? Sad.
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My brother-in-law’s grandmother, who died in 2016, received her stimulus check last week.
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Did you know you can own an entire bitcoin?
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You should operate under the assumption that everyone you interact with in this space has nefarious intent and will steal your money the first chance they get
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Wife comes downstairs, Dr. Dre playing on the speakers. “I forgot about that guy, what do you think he’s up to?” THAT’S LITERALLY THE ONE THING YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO
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At $60 per $xrp, at current levels of reported circulating supply, the market cap would be $2.5 trillion, or about 10% of the total market cap for the entire S&P 500. At $589 per $xrp the two would be roughly equal.
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Everyone is calling this the longest crypto bear market ever as of today with the prior one ending at the absolute bottom. By that standard, unless a new low is made, this one finished weeks ago. You can’t just move goalposts like that.
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Customer deposits are not "collateral." It should not be possible for an exchange to experience a "bank run."
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Met an institutional investor who asked me in a condescending tone, “Your 2 minute pitch, why should I buy BTC.” I told him, “why are you asking me, I’m a talking head. Isn’t it literally your job to figure that out?” The rest of the discussion was “is a hot dog a sandwich?”
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Buying supplements at the gym (rather than the internets) is a colossal waste of money
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Form 8300 (used to report transactions under the statute), updated in December 2023 for use to report transactions occurring after December 31, 2023, doesn't mention digital assets...so we don't actually have any official means of reporting yet
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New crypto tax reporting obligations took effect on Jan 1. If you receive $10k or more in crypto you now have an obligation to report the transaction (including names, addresses, SS numbers, etc.) to the IRS within 15 days under threat of a felony charge.
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It should be illegal to advertise the lottery
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People arguing about trading styles reminds me of diet evangelicals. If it works for you that’s all that matters, and what works for others may not work for you. Don’t try to force it on yourself or others. At the end of the day, being smart and disciplined is usually enough.
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My goodness, could you imagine NOT making skirt steak tacos on a Tuesday?
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This is misdirection. It does not matter whether FTX had *other* assets that could *potentially* cover deposits (*laughs in 99.9% liquidity discount*). Customer deposits were used for other means. By FTX's *own terms* the company never had the right to touch those deposits.
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17) I know you've all seen this, but here's where things stand today, roughly speaking. [LOTS OF CAVEATS, ETC.] Liquid: -$8b Semi: +$5.5b Illiquid: +$3.5b And yeah, maybe that $9b illiquid M2M isn't worth $9b (+$1b net). OTOH--a month ago it was worth $18b; +$10b net. ---
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How much time and productivity was wasted in early 2018 reading useless whitepapers trying to gain an edge?
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All "fat burning" supplements are nonsense
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Remember when people were selling Bittrex accounts?
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“Accredited investor rules are bs, I understand the risks. Let me make my own mistakes!” Leaves coins on notoriously shady exchange, exchange goes bankrupt, might lose everything “THIS IS THEFT”
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The amount of effort some people put into tearing down other people they’ve never met and have nothing to do with is weird, regardless of who actually did what
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If the SEC was going to Black Swan this market now would seem as good a time as any
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This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard
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I’m on a bachelor party with a guy who actually works at a firm day trading traditional markets and woo boy do we know nothing
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Won’t lie, seeing George Floyd having a full-on funeral when I was one of only ten people allowed at my grandfathers gravesite to lay him to rest with no true funeral service is upsetting, even if restrictions have been eased some.
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The critical endpoint here is that (1) staking through Kraken fundamentally changed the typical staking process and procedure, thereby making it a different product, and (2) participants relied on Kraken to generate the returns.
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"We will pump off the bottom extremely quickly, leaving most sideline investors stuck in fiat."
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Developing a theory that democrats actually wanted 4 more years of trump
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I think having a full-time, demanding job saves me a lot of money in my trading
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It would be pretty hilarious if US traders had mostly unfettered access to altcoin trading platforms during an extended bear market and then got mostly closed off from them right before a massive bull market
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@jack Phew
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IMO, the two biggest killers here were: 1. The opacity of Kraken's process for determining payouts, and making payouts on their own schedule 2. Holding back a liquid bucket of tokens (i.e., directing use of the funds themselves)
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The key argument in the complaint is that the staking service and pooling of staking assets provides for advantages and increased returns relative to those that customers could achieve on their own, which inherently differentiates staking via Kraken from staking independently.
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Everyone assumed we'd have the usual blowoff top to sell into - we obviously never got that. What if we don't end up having the usual protracted period to buy near bottom this time?
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Don sets a great example for sticking by your own analysis. He was ridiculed for being bear the entire way down but stuck to his guns, instinct, and analysis and made $$$. Always chart for yourself before opening twitter. Then you can check for perspectives you’re not seeing.
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$BTC weekly update: Absolutely gorgeous close. A trifecta of a monthly, weekly and daily retest. Hopped into another long right after the close. Looking for an explosive reaction to those levels. Support on all timeframes: 7k Resistance: Weekly: 8k Daily: 7.3k~ Monthly: 9k
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Ultimately this can provide a sort of road map as to what to avoid going forward along with potential hints that perhaps LSDs may just make it...
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Laid my grandfather to rest today. No funeral; ten people (including the rabbi) allowed at the gravesite for a short service. Virtual shiva only this week. Things are so weird right now.
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When “retirement bag” becomes “retirement from crypto”
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My inclination is that if the SEC is going to go after LSDs it will be under a theory other than Howey
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None of you nimrods understands what's REALLY going on in the market right now. There are forces at play you cannot possibly fathom. Let me spell it out for you: *pulls up Wall Street cheat sheet*
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No. This is not what happened. Why can't anyone read?
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BREAKING: SEC Chairman confirms Ethereum is not a security
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RE: the Kraken suit, apart from the forum shopping angle others have covered, if the SEC is just going to sue you for something else later on I'm not sure why anyone would bother settling with them on anything in the first place. Completely devoid of good faith.
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Fidelity now recommending a 1-3% crypto allocation in your portfolio. Gateway drug. What happens when that 1-3% becomes 3-6%? Slowly then suddenly.
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There's a reasonably (probably uncomfortably) high chance that R*****t is the next FTX, but on purpose. Hoping it doesn't get too big before that plays out.
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@napgener he still owns a fuckton of Class B (like 33 million shares) this was a rule 10b5-1 planned conversion of Class B to Class A and sale, been in effect since last August
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I was in a coffee shop with my dog when we heard a man berating a mother for not vaccinating her child. My dog interjected, scolding the man that vaccinations perpetuated patriarchal rule and all diseases could be prevented by arming the child in school. Never been prouder.
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My wife: “I don’t understand why your scrambled eggs are so much better than mine” Also my wife: Turns burner on medium heat
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I came here to grill meat and trade bitcoin. And I’m all out of bitcoin.
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THE WEIRD KOREAN ACCOUNT
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Alright, let's do this.
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SEC VS DO KWON 🫡
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If you're anonymous, why?
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This oil dump is the bailout the airlines really needed
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