This is so wild. Assuming it was financially motivated, wouldn't the involved party stand to benefit more by shorting and posting that the ETF was denied?
Perhaps. There were an odd couple of "likes" made by the SEC X account during the same time period though (they've since been "unliked"), and Chair Genlser + a follow up post by @SECGov both specifically say that the account was compromised.
You could still make money on the way down and then the way back up. And you’d probably move the market more than the ~3% that it was moved because the market consensus already gives a high probability to an approval this month.
I get your point that it may not rebound quite as much because the hack itself lowers the odds of approval, but imagine the optics of Gary Gensler saying “it's not true that we denied the ETFs” -- bitcoin boosters would read that as a signal that it will be approved.
And most familiar to me as the capital of the Barony of New Canaan in Stephen King's The Dark Tower. Albeit no balm in this story (that I recall). https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/Gilead
Bahaha! I started getting into DnB in the mid-nineties and have left shows because of MCs that I just couldn't tolerate.
And while we're on the topic, and because it's rare for me to get to chat about DnB with anyone... here are some fun short stories from over the years:
A friends Dad happened by when I was listening to DnB without headphones and said "THAT is NOT music... it sounds like a toilet flushing".
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I like listening to DnB during focus-intensive work. On a road trip with friends I'd been working without music for a bit and when I finally put headphones on with some DnB my friends were cracking up saying that I started typing at warp speed once the music started. Hey, it works for me!
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I was wearing a Bass Drive radio t-shirt underneath an unbuttoned long sleeve shirt, so if you can picture it opened down the center and partially obscuring both sides of the large "Bass Drive" logo, and a friend starts staring at my chest and chuckling. I ask what's so funny and he says "Heh-heh... why're you wearing an "ass doctor" shirt?". "ass Dr", ha.
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I use to work on the computer late into the night at a friend's house and he had a roommate who lived in the basement. I usually worked at the dining room table, which happened to be directly above the roommate's bed, with a hardwood floor between us, and on more than one occasion he'd come upstairs half-asleep and say "PLEASE stop tapping your feet on the floor". The last thing I'd ever want to do is torture him awake with that, but I'd be so into the DnB in my headphones that it was happening subconsciously.
Bassdrive ftw! That's my go-to when I really need to get shit done and focus. I used to buy DnB mix CDs (High Contrast's Fabriclive.25 is one I still put on from time to time) but once I discovered Bassdrive that was much easier than dealing with CDs.
Heck yeah, cool! Similar experience here too. In only a few hours I got a basic working custom JavaScript space shooter going, and I've since started a Whac-a-Mole style game.
GPT explaining it along the way and allowing me to have a reasonable conversation with it when something isn't working as-expected has been a rewarding and fun learning experience.
Nature documentaries and in particular rare ones like these deserve wider dissemination and recognition.
This particular scene made such an impression on me when i first saw it that it has always stayed with me. It is a reminder that our Planet still has amazing secrets for us to discover.
> Almost all my trades were on decentralized exchanges
Only the entry and the exit trades were on centralized exchanges then right?
Are there any examples of safe and legal decentralized fiat on/off-ramps? I've heard of "Bitcoin ATMs" (I suppose that would count as centralized though), and I've read stories of people getting into trouble for using P2P services like "Local Bitcoin". It all seems a bit sketchy.
