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  1. @calavera see also: the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin started moving on chain within a week of #AlexanderVinnik being released from US custody back to #Russia.

    this is *exactly* the situation bitcoin was designed for.

    reuters.com/world/us/us-releas

  2. @GossiTheDog i find it hard to believe he could be arrested without russian cooperation.

    [dons tinfoil hat] feels like part of whatever back room deal between Trump and Putin is going on with #AlexanderVinnik.

  3. On the day #Putin and Trump exchanged prisoners (BTC-e bro #AlexanderVinnik for teacher Marc Fogel) someone moved ~$700 million worth of bitcoin that was last moved the week after BTC-e was shut down for money laundering 8 years ago in 2017.

    This is what the kids call "sus".

    IMHO someone got paid off to get Vinnik out of US custody. Whether it was #Trump and/or his negotiator / crypto partner #SteveWitkoff just taking a bribe or Putin who got paid off to ask for Vinnik we may never know.

    The funds are currently just parked on chain in a new wallet.

    Fun fact: BTC-e is known to have been involved in laundering money for #Russia's use in #Ukraine way back in 2015/2016, in the early #Donbas battles.

    * 2017 txn: mempool.space/tx/1824411759a53
    * February 10th, 2025: mempool.space/tx/929169aa18186

    #BTCe #AlexanderVinnik #corruption #RUssia #eupol #uspol #crime #VladimirPutin #NAFO #bribery

  4. "After five years in a Russian prison, American #MarcFogel is finally back home. The #WhiteHouse and the State Department are both adamant that Fogel’s release was not part of an #exchange. But all signs point to Russian money launderer #AlexanderVinnik being released from custody in California, and the #Kremlin said there was an exchange.

    ...it’s never a good sign when the American leadership is less truthful than #VladimirPutin.'

    thebulwark.com/p/when-presiden

    #Russia #US #Politics #News #Press

  5. "After five years in a Russian prison, American #MarcFogel is finally back home. The #WhiteHouse and the State Department are both adamant that Fogel’s release was not part of an #exchange. But all signs point to Russian money launderer #AlexanderVinnik being released from custody in California, and the #Kremlin said there was an exchange.

    ...it’s never a good sign when the American leadership is less truthful than #VladimirPutin.'

    thebulwark.com/p/when-presiden

    #Russia #US #Politics #News #Press

  6. "After five years in a Russian prison, American #MarcFogel is finally back home. The #WhiteHouse and the State Department are both adamant that Fogel’s release was not part of an #exchange. But all signs point to Russian money launderer #AlexanderVinnik being released from custody in California, and the #Kremlin said there was an exchange.

    ...it’s never a good sign when the American leadership is less truthful than #VladimirPutin.'

    thebulwark.com/p/when-presiden

    #Russia #US #Politics #News #Press

  7. "After five years in a Russian prison, American #MarcFogel is finally back home. The #WhiteHouse and the State Department are both adamant that Fogel’s release was not part of an #exchange. But all signs point to Russian money launderer #AlexanderVinnik being released from custody in California, and the #Kremlin said there was an exchange.

    ...it’s never a good sign when the American leadership is less truthful than #VladimirPutin.'

    thebulwark.com/p/when-presiden

    #Russia #US #Politics #News #Press

  8. "After five years in a Russian prison, American #MarcFogel is finally back home. The #WhiteHouse and the State Department are both adamant that Fogel’s release was not part of an #exchange. But all signs point to Russian money launderer #AlexanderVinnik being released from custody in California, and the #Kremlin said there was an exchange.

    ...it’s never a good sign when the American leadership is less truthful than #VladimirPutin.'

    thebulwark.com/p/when-presiden

    #Russia #US #Politics #News #Press

  9. @emptywheel.bsky.social And this? :
    "everyone remembers that #SteveWitkoff, the guy who negotiated the release of russian money launderer/ransomware facilitator #AlexanderVinnik, is Trump and #JustinSun’s partner in Trump’s OG crypto venture World Liberty Financial, right?

    fun fact: Witkoff is also the US envoy to #Israel."

    universeodon.com/@cryptadamist

  10. everyone remembers that #SteveWitkoff, the guy who negotiated the release of russian money launderer/ransomware facilitator #AlexanderVinnik, is Trump and #JustinSun’s partner in Trump’s OG crypto venture World Liberty Financial, right?

    fun fact: Witkoff is also the US envoy to #Israel.

    thehill.com/homenews/administr

    #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics #Trump #AlexanderVinnik #MarcFogel #JustinSun #WLFI #WorldLibertyFinancial #crypto #ransomware #infosec #WorldLibertyFi

  11. everyone remembers that #SteveWitkoff, the guy who negotiated the release of russian money launderer/ransomware facilitator #AlexanderVinnik, is Trump and #JustinSun’s partner in Trump’s OG crypto venture World Liberty Financial, right?

    fun fact: Witkoff is also the US envoy to #Israel.

    thehill.com/homenews/administr

    #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics #Trump #AlexanderVinnik #MarcFogel #JustinSun #WLFI #WorldLibertyFinancial #crypto #ransomware #infosec #WorldLibertyFi

  12. everyone remembers that #SteveWitkoff, the guy who negotiated the release of russian money launderer/ransomware facilitator #AlexanderVinnik, is Trump and #JustinSun’s partner in Trump’s OG crypto venture World Liberty Financial, right?

    fun fact: Witkoff is also the US envoy to #Israel.

    thehill.com/homenews/administr

    #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics #Trump #AlexanderVinnik #MarcFogel #JustinSun #WLFI #WorldLibertyFinancial #crypto #ransomware #infosec #WorldLibertyFi

  13. everyone remembers that #SteveWitkoff, the guy who negotiated the release of russian money launderer/ransomware facilitator #AlexanderVinnik, is Trump and #JustinSun’s partner in Trump’s OG crypto venture World Liberty Financial, right?

    fun fact: Witkoff is also the US envoy to #Israel.

    thehill.com/homenews/administr

    #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics #Trump #AlexanderVinnik #MarcFogel #JustinSun #WLFI #WorldLibertyFinancial #crypto #ransomware #infosec #WorldLibertyFi

  14. Trump Trades Russian Bitcoin Fraudster Vinnik for Marc Fogel

    coinpedia.org/news/trump-secur

    In a recent development, as per the New York Times, President Trump has facilitated a prisoner swap, where Russian prisoner Alexander Vinnik was exchanged

    #AlexanderVinnik #MarcFogel

  15. Trump Trades Russian Bitcoin Fraudster Vinnik for Marc Fogel

    coinpedia.org/news/trump-secur

    In a recent development, as per the New York Times, President Trump has facilitated a prisoner swap, where Russian prisoner Alexander Vinnik was exchanged

  16. #AlexanderVinnik, the OG russian crypto money launderer and ransomware facilitator who ran BTC-e and laundered billions of dollars of Russian money through crypto way before that was cool (he was arrested in 2017) got let out of prison, apparently in a prisoner swap.

    BTC-e was also involved in the legendary #MtGox hack (IIRC a lot of stolen #bitcoin was laundered through BTC-e).

    Suspect there's a lot of reasons Putin and the rest of the oligarchs wanted Vinnik released (and why Trump wanted to release him).

    reuters.com/world/us/us-releas

    #BTCe #Putin #Russia #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #ukraine #uspol #uspolitics #eupol #corruption #moneylaundering #infosec #cybersecurity #ransomware #BTCe #BTC

  17. Poland arrests ex-CEO of Russian crypto exchange WEX for US extradition: Report - The former crypto executive was previously arrested in Poland in 2021 ov... - cointelegraph.com/news/poland- #alexandervinnik #rzeczpospolita #extradition #dmitryv #arrest #mt.gox #btc-e #wex

  18. Poland arrests ex-CEO of Russian crypto exchange WEX for US extradition: Report - The former crypto executive was previously arrested in Poland in 2021 ov... - cointelegraph.com/news/poland- #alexandervinnik #rzeczpospolita #extradition #dmitryv #arrest #mt.gox #btc-e #wex

  19. Poland arrests ex-CEO of Russian crypto exchange WEX for US extradition: Report - The former crypto executive was previously arrested in Poland in 2021 ov... - cointelegraph.com/news/poland- #alexandervinnik #rzeczpospolita #extradition #dmitryv #arrest #mt.gox #btc-e #wex

  20. Poland arrests ex-CEO of Russian crypto exchange WEX for US extradition: Report - The former crypto executive was previously arrested in Poland in 2021 ov... - cointelegraph.com/news/poland- #alexandervinnik #rzeczpospolita #extradition #dmitryv #arrest #mt.gox #btc-e #wex