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Jun 26 • 11 tweets • 12 min read
🧵#Coinflex situation getting... weird. see @DougPolkVids tweet.

telegram groups have gone berzerk.
- wallet phishin bot takeovers
- 1000s of banned users
-pinned msgs about being hacked

see reddit link for details.
🧵👇for more

@CoinFLEXdotcom / @CoinFLEX_US #MarkDavidLamb
@DougPolkVids @CoinFLEXdotcom @CoinFLEX_US #CoinFLEX_US telegram (VIDEO)
(only #CoinFLEX telegram that's not a bot warzone)

(6/10) 0:00 @DougPolkVids in chat
(6/13) 0:17 Coinflex 6th biggest CEX by volume?!?
- 0:28 withdrawal issue earlier than known
(6/14) 0:41 Market makers vanish
(6/15) 1:36 $USDC liq pool issues
- Non US #CoinFlex / CoinFLEXdotcom telegram pinned msg: ⚠️SCAMS⚠️
- MarkLamb (?) in weird "coiinflex" grp (May)
- so many deleted users in official channel
- wallet hacking spambots ImageImageImageImage
More of CoinFLEX_US telegram channel the only one with humans... confused and abandoned humans. #CoinFLEX responses are weird until they seem to vanish. @CoinFLEXdotcom
@CoinFLEXdotcom withdrawals halted; mods (maybe #CoinFLEX employees?) deleting messages, $USDC liquidity pool issues (tied to $FLEX, maybe?) ImageImageImage
@CoinFLEXdotcom announcements contains notice of issues way back on June 14th, well before the withdrawal halt announcement by #CoinFlex... then promises more info tomorrow, June 27th.

i'm not optimistic about that new information... Image
@MarkDavidLamb being shady with his desperate users on the day withdrawals were officially halted on 6/23. of course the earlier telegram chatter makes it seem likely withdrawals were halted much earlier. ImageImageImageImage
There seems to be active discussion re: #Coinflex / @CoinFLEXdotcom in a Chinese language Telegram channel called "coinflex_official". no idea if it's official because i cannot read chinese, but if you or someone you know does maybe poke around in there?
t.me/coinflex_offic…
if you haven't followed the #CoinFLEX drama catch read about it on reddit.

tl;dr: pattern of facts suggests $90M in $BCH disappeared from the backing pool of @CoinFLEXdotcom's "stablecoin" $FLEX... only to appear in @binance where selling began.

reddit.com/r/btc/comments…
if yr behind on #CoinFLEX drama catch up on reddit.

tl;dr: pattern of facts suggests $90M in $BCH disappeared from the backing pool of @CoinFLEXdotcomx's "stablecoin" $FLEX...

reappeared in @binance hot wallet and selling began. (thx @Great_Refusal)
reddit.com/r/btc/comments…
lol at "#FlexUSD will be the default $BCH stablecoin"

#FlexUSD is now at $0.89. oh, and its backer, #CoinFLEX, has halted withdrawals (and maybe trading).

why do people think crypto bros like @rogerkver have any idea what they are talking about?

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Jun 28
🧵about stuff I've learned about @CoinFLEXdotcom and @MarkDavidLamb. started looking into these characters in depth a few days before they became a hot item so this is an attempt to consolidate what i've learned.
Q: What is CoinFLEX?
A: It's not an average crypto exchange.

Start with the fact that this mostly unknown CEX does huge volume. Some days its volume makes it the 3rd largest #CEX in the world on CMC.

Nums are manipulated but Binance owns CMC. I'm sure top 10 spots aren't free.
Many days CoinFLEX's volume makes it a peer of major exchanges like Coinbase, FTX, and Huobi. See yesterday's CMC rankings in pics.

Retail traders think of CoinFLEX as a small market mostly built around a small altcoin, $BCH (Bitcoin Cash). $BCH trades can't create this volume. Image
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Jun 27
#Coinflex CEO Mark Lamb just went on BloombergTV. talked about a plan to raise $ to cover for an "ultra high net worth" whale who isn't paying up. $rvUSD... r. v.... @rogerkver?

Lamb also confirmed there are huge futures trades in private markets... and involving his exchange.
@rogerkver the weird part: i did a kind of much too long analysis that lead me to the conclusion that #CoinFLEX's $BCH retail trading operation is, if not a front, then not their main business.

based on info I could get, CoinFlex looked like derivatives market...
reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/com…
here's the full Mark Lamb (#coinflex CEO) interview on @BloombergTV

@sonalibasak letting him pitch a snake oil 20% APY shitcoin as a way to give his users back the money he owes them is a disgrace to journalism

madoff offered 12%. do yr job @sonalibasak

bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
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Jun 27
#TheCryptocalypseChronicles, Vol. I

A collection of reports, observations, and analyses I put together over the past two weeks of #cryptocurrency carnage.

🧵👇 for a glimpse of a spreadsheet built with @ApeDigest to track these disasters in real time.

medium.com/@michelcryptda…
@ApeDigest Data @ApeDigest and I added to his excellent spreadsheet.

The number of #CeFi, #DeFi, #CEX, and #DEX companies that have imploded already/are on the brink of imploding boggles the mind. Equity at risk is tens of billions.

The #CeFi list:
(comment if we missed any) Image
Deformed denizens of the #DeFi depths:

(@viresfinance, @solendprotocol, @InverseFinance, @mangomarkets, @Bancor, @creamfinance, etc.) Image
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Jun 23
and there goes another exchange. @CoinFLEXdotcom has not just limited withdrawals, they have shut them off altogether.

@coingecko puts #Coinflex as ~30th largest by vol.
@CoinMarketCap has it at #3 (!!)

exchanges are really falling like dominoes now
coinflex.com/blog/coinflex-…
@CoinFLEXdotcom @coingecko @CoinMarketCap here's what @CoinMarketCap and @coingecko have to say about size of #CoinFlex / @CoinFLEXdotcom / @CoinFLEX_US.

tl;dr coingecko says it's roughly the size of @krakenfx, coinmarketcap says it's way bigger than #FTX.

all numbers in this market are fake... but this is huge ImageImage
kind of a serious LOL at those @CoinMarketCap / @coingecko rankings of the size of @CoinFLEXdotcom / @CoinFLEX_US though.

the ratio of trading volume to weekly visits (AKA "the one un-fakeable number") CMC/CG are showing is... kind of hard to believe/bordering on preposterous
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Jun 13
in depth analysis of a $BTC collapse scenario posted saturday playing out #contagion scenario that i thought had a 10% chance to destroy crypto by Monday.

most important single event will probably be when a $BTC bank stops withdrawals... now #Celsius

reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/com…
now that #celsius has closed its doors exactly in line w/my worst case scenario for $BTC / $ETH / #crypto, i suspect #cryptocollapse is coming at us a lot faster than people expect.
if you have people you care about who have coins, i recommend you encourage them to sell ASAP. and don't leave the sell proceeds in your #crypto exchange #CEX/whatever - get them into your bank account. leaving them on the exchanges is honestly almost as risky as staying in $BTC
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Jun 12
#TetherIsInsolvent, part 2. this is a followup to analysis @patio11 (link) and i did independently showing #Tether must be insolvent based on Tether's stated financials due to the crypto selloff. But this time... it's about foreign exchange rates. kalzumeus.com/2022/05/20/tet…
On May 19th #Tether announced that it had reduced its commercial paper reserves by $4.3B between 2021-12-31 and 2022-03-31 and that they had reduced their paper another 20% ($4B) since that March 31 "attestation" was done. Here's their press release:
tether.to/en/assurance-o…
@ZekeFaux did some (maybe pulitzer-worthy) reporting for Bloomberg in Oct '21 where he reported he could not find anyone at a major bank who had sold tether any paper, and further that he had seen documents stating that at least some % of tether's paper was from Chinese companies
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