⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/OpenSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSea</span></a>, the place you buy and sell monkey JPGs & <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> NFTs, is (almost certainly) about to be charged by the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEC</span></a>. Its the latest in a long line of companies in the portfolio of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> converts/megadonors <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MarcAndreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcAndreessen</span></a> and <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BenHorowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BenHorowitz</span></a> to be indicted. </p><p>This is why these <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> are backing Trump (see my 📌 toot for more).</p><p>Their (mostly crypto & AI) venture capital firm <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AndreessenHorowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndreessenHorowitz</span></a>/#a16z also backed disasters like:</p><p>1. the "let's exploit Filipinos" <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AxieInfinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AxieInfinity</span></a> game<br>2. the recently arrested <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BitClout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BitClout</span></a><br>3. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NorthKorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthKorea</span></a>'s favorite money laundry <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Uniswap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uniswap</span></a> </p><p>(A "Wells Notice" is a private letter the SEC sends to say "we're about to indict you, any last words?". Very rarely a co. can talk their way out of trouble but never as far as I'm aware has any co. that made its notice public ever managed to do so.)</p><p>image courtesy <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>web3isgreat</span></a></span>, the best account for news of the rolling catastrophe some call "the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> industry"</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/venture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>venture</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vc</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NFT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NFT</span></a></p>