| 1 | Nov 9, '22 | CFTC and Democrats were palling around with SBF, suing DAOs and devs, decrying the scourge of DeFi and plotting to regulate websites and wallet APIs while FTX played with customer | 88.8× | 0 | 3.9k | 1k | 174 |
| 2 | Oct 29, '25 | even giga-rich pro athletes are subject to this kind of humiliation from their women nowadays, crazy work | 80.1× | 879k | 38k | 2k | 1.8k |
| 3 | Aug 25, '23 | Proposed treasury regs for crypto asset 'brokers' just dropped and do indeed explicitly characterize various persons involved in DeFi (including operators of websites that communic | 69.5× | 763k | 672 | 159 | 166 |
| 4 | Jun 18, '25 | @toly two forks: one is called Solana, has the ticker SOL, and has the Solana logos one is called Gorbagana, has the ticker GOR and has oscar the grouch.png as a logo which is goin | 67.9× | 744k | 862 | 111 | 80 |
| 5 | May 23, '24 | alpha on why ETH isn't mooning: -->only 19b-4s approved, not S-1s -->approval was by division of trading/markets on 'delegated authority' -->means a commissioner can challenge in n | 59.5× | 652k | 1.6k | 285 | 581 |
| 6 | Dec 2, '23 | ETH vs SOL the real issues, a thread | 53.9× | 591k | 1.1k | 199 | 1.2k |
| 7 | Aug 28, '25 | @karbonbased become an accredited investor with this one weird trick? | 50.4× | 553k | 3.7k | 11 | 84 |
| 8 | Feb 16, '23 | whew lad, lots to digest in the SEC lawsuit vs Do Kwon and Terraform Labs right off the bat, a very interesting fact is that the SEC is being more thorough than usual--specifically | 47.3× | 519k | 717 | 185 | 185 |
| 9 | Aug 2, '24 | we got the psyops girl now it's over for team blue | 35.8× | 392k | 1.9k | 49 | 264 |
| 10 | Oct 23, '21 | @stablekwon and @MarcGoldich are suing the SEC, the absolute madmen Thread soon | 34.1× | 0 | 1.4k | 290 | 57 |
| 11 | Feb 26, '23 | now that Gensler has made clear he regards every single token (including stablecoins) other than BTC as securities under U.S. law, can we start asking "what is the plan here?" some | 30.2× | 331k | 674 | 158 | 165 |
| 12 | Jan 9, '24 | @GaryGensler @SECGov lmaaoooo and you guys want to be in charge of cybersecurity standards??? | 28.8× | 315k | 4.3k | 193 | 11 |
| 13 | Jun 7, '22 | okay, so here are my quick thoughts on the Lummis bill: | 23.1× | 0 | 761 | 223 | 214 |
| 14 | Oct 19, '22 | I have long been a believer in transparency and open discussion of the future of cryptolaw. Accordingly, I have obtained a copy of a draft of the notorious DCCPA circulating secret | 22.9× | 0 | 740 | 237 | 151 |
| 15 | Oct 26, '21 | If you talk to lawyers in the space who are working on SEC defenses for DeFi projects, one of the biggest issues is that internal chats/communications (discoverable by SEC) lapse i | 21.6× | 0 | 855 | 176 | 146 |
| 16 | Apr 22, '25 | again I must stress, I respect the hustle and skill that went into Solana & I understand the worldview & premises behind it & think there is some chance they could be correct, but | 21.2× | 233k | 1.2k | 118 | 93 |
| 17 | Nov 7, '22 | it's dicta, but here the LBRY judge reasons that even if team is completely silent about efforts--no promises, no contracts--but premines tokens, that alone creates a sufficient ex | 21.2× | 0 | 719 | 166 | 78 |
| 18 | Nov 18, '22 | SEC thought they were gangsta; then the Bahamanian Securities Commission walked onto the yard | 18.8× | 0 | 954 | 113 | 41 |
| 19 | Dec 10, '22 | if you make your blockchain into a bundle of contracts with "constitutions" etc., govts/courts/law enforcement will treat them accordingly--immutability is not legal cryptosystems | 18.3× | 0 | 707 | 114 | 46 |
| 20 | Oct 28, '24 | unpopular opinion: all of Ethereum's "problems" would be "solved" if the EF just hired a good marketing department and Vitalik RT'd one great project from the Ethereum ecosystem pe | 18.2× | 199k | 926 | 80 | 152 |
| 21 | Jan 21, '25 | A lot of good people are crashing out on and off the timeline right now, some who got rich from crypto, some who never made it after years in the industry (both versions are repres | 17.8× | 195k | 991 | 137 | 288 |
| 22 | Feb 27, '24 | Many of you have asked what I've been working on in recent months. It's called MetaLeX. Signifying a movement beyond (μετα-) law (-lex), MetaLeX is devoted to cybernetic law soluti | 17.6× | 193k | 653 | 103 | 101 |
| 23 | Apr 14, '23 | an absolutely blistering dissent from @HesterPeirce that will likely be remembered by history | 16.9× | 186k | 748 | 183 | 86 |
| 24 | Nov 11, '22 | `The recent collapse of a major crypto exchange proves that the bill we were colluding with the owner of that crypto exchange to draft after he spent $40M in political bribes to ge | 16.8× | 0 | 762 | 162 | 24 |
| 25 | Jul 2, '23 | go ahead, keep pretending that the Prometheum CEO, Robinhood CEO, & DeepFuckingValue aren't all the same exact guy wearing different funny costumes they have played us for abso | 16.3× | 179k | 1k | 101 | 37 |
| 26 | Apr 18, '22 | Today, @Delphi_Digital submitted to the SEC our strong objections to the SEC's recent proposed amendments to Reg ATS, which, in part, seek to re-define all "communications protocol | 16.2× | 0 | 755 | 157 | 43 |
| 27 | May 11, '22 | I'll join the pain train. Yes, I got completely wiped out to after-taxes negative net worth from Terra. Weirdly, although I'm pretty pessimistic and depression prone as a person, I | 16× | 0 | 1k | 11 | 36 |
| 28 | Aug 19, '22 | from talking to lawyers and devs for the last two weeks re: sanctions stuff, I think USGoV has won Andre Cronje's prediction that DeFi will divide into "regulated DeFi" and "badlan | 16× | 0 | 698 | 101 | 83 |
| 29 | Nov 9, '22 | SEC could've gone after FTT as a security. Instead they sued a small under-resourced YouTube fork that gave tokens to video creators as rewards for their creativity. | 15.6× | 0 | 893 | 128 | 5 |
| 30 | Aug 4, '22 | I now completely understand how OG Bitcoin maxis became the way they are. When you witness scam after scam, you just want to go all-in on something that has standards and a track r | 15.4× | 0 | 890 | 68 | 11 |
| 31 | May 19, '25 | Ethereum will not abandon self sovereignty to take scaling shortcuts, this is what sets it apart. | 15.2× | 167k | 725 | 81 | 16 |
| 32 | May 9, '24 | Robinhood has every possible securities license, TradFi securities relationship, an army of traditional securities lawyers, etc., and even THEY can't figure out how to offer crypto | 14.6× | 160k | 735 | 162 | 92 |
| 33 | Nov 4, '24 | don't worry, we got this now lads | 13.7× | 150k | 1.1k | 74 | 37 |
| 34 | Aug 25, '22 | I sold my ETH at $30 to pay my student loans. I've paid AMT multiple years. Unmarried no dependents. No COVID relief funds. Worked extremely hard for years and can't even afford a | 13.2× | 0 | 735 | 34 | 13 |
| 35 | Feb 13, '25 | starting to think dis crazy trump guy is un-psyoppable | 12.8× | 140k | 726 | 23 | 38 |
| 36 | Apr 11, '22 | a massively underrated aspect of Terra is the huge leap in UX from having a stablecoin as a gas token; it's just so much more intuitive, people like it | 12.2× | 0 | 700 | 70 | 11 |
| 37 | Aug 24, '24 | Had no idea the EF is spending $100M / year-- but they seem to be dumping even more than that. It's clearly not being spent with a strong enough focus on maximizing ETH value, or a | 11.1× | 122k | 712 | 94 | 147 |
| 38 | Nov 5, '25 | it's honestly hilarious, we basically had true DeFi professionalized to an insane level when you look at Uniswap, Curve, Aave, and Yearn decentralized/autonomous, transparent, some | 11× | 121k | 1.1k | 96 | 105 |
| 39 | Jun 13, '24 | a lot of people are saying they want to donate to Joe Biden's campaign with crypto, but they're nervous it will be traced to them and they'll be shamed by @twobitidiot for doing so | 10.3× | 113k | 745 | 95 | 22 |
| 40 | Jun 11, '24 | very interesting feature of the ZK token....not to do a "premine" or "treasury mine" as such...much cleaner from a tax/legal POV imo than holding some huge % in a DAO treasury, whi | 8.3× | 91k | 234 | 29 | 75 |
| 41 | Jun 18, '24 | interesting points from cobie...we might see the meta change... | 8.3× | 91k | 393 | 36 | 114 |
| 42 | Jun 18, '24 | seems like a smart strategy--set airdrop wallet $ fairly high, don't waste time or weeks/months of attention on more exact sybil-detection, launch when market is low, realize farme | 8.0× | 88k | 234 | 19 | 27 |
| 43 | Nov 10, '25 | once worked for a BigLaw firm where in our particular office, all the women were older (40s+) or frumpy for years the older matronly office manager responsible for staff hiring got | 7.6× | 83k | 916 | 19 | 179 |
| 44 | Jan 2, '23 | this is it. this is the world now. | 7.5× | 82k | 712 | 118 | 47 |
| 45 | Jun 10, '24 | a propos of absolutely nothing, if a client got me to ~8 fig wealth I would simply not leave them in their time of greatest need when all the advice I got paid for is actually fina | 6.7× | 73k | 153 | 12 | 13 |
| 46 | Jun 11, '24 | this is the type of atty/client relationship I'm looking for... | 6.5× | 71k | 225 | 30 | 12 |
| 47 | Jun 11, '24 | I'm rooting Shkreli on this one. The case seems pretty weak as well. | 5.3× | 59k | 107 | 19 | 8 |
| 48 | Feb 8, '23 | @dystopiabreaker I don't know what you're talking about. I took a selfie with the new Samsung and it's 100% real with no evidence of AI processing. | 5.3× | 58k | 729 | 6 | 3 |
| 49 | Jan 22, '25 | I have no inside baseball on this but Konstantin is consistently one of the highest-integrity founders/investors in the space and an ETH diamond-hand, so this would be unfathomably | 5.2× | 57k | 737 | 46 | 22 |
| 50 | Jun 19, '24 | I get this a lot and the answer is that everyone in crypto in the U.S. is assigned a lawyer, and that lawyer is your handler if you don't have a lawyer, you're assigned Adam Cochra | 4.9× | 54k | 162 | 18 | 10 |
| 51 | Jun 10, '24 | what "code is law" really means and why it remains an important ethos of DeFi no, it was never a prediction of how the legal system would view code--i.e., no one was ever so stupid | 4.7× | 52k | 104 | 17 | 50 |
| 52 | Aug 31 | As a corporate lawyer, I've been incorporating companies for 17 years, & it's a mess. Somehow we really got robots & AI before a halfway decent startup app. So I built it m | 4.4× | 49k | 303 | 36 | 96 |
| 53 | Jan 6, '25 | @pet3rpan_ ...aaand this is why they will never outcompete the U.S. | 4.2× | 46k | 1k | 8 | 19 |
| 54 | Jun 12, '24 | this is my breakfast, you cannot compete with this | 4.1× | 45k | 150 | 18 | 7 |
| 55 | May 22, '25 | we love you @VitalikButerin | 3.9× | 43k | 894 | 33 | 15 |
| 56 | Jun 11, '24 | FWIW I did predict SEC would drag its heels a bit on the S-1 approvals...it will ultimately get approved though and I bet it won't be much longer (July?) | 3.8× | 42k | 84 | 14 | 5 |
| 57 | Jun 10, '24 | these are my top clients, ngl I don't even think they know what paying a bill is | 3.7× | 40k | 78 | 7 | 3 |
| 58 | Jun 12, '24 | brb, adding a "weekend in jail" perq to the @MetaLeX_Labs engagement letter | 3.6× | 39k | 58 | 11 | 6 |
| 59 | Jun 10, '24 | View post on X | 3.6× | 39k | 35 | 6 | 2 |
| 60 | Jun 12, '24 | don't be a cuck; side with the side that supports you...if they betray you later, withdraw your support and offer it to others simple as | 3.5× | 39k | 77 | 9 | 7 |
| 61 | Jun 12, '24 | believe me, I am no fan of Terra, TFL or Do these days--I still have not recovered financially or mentally or reputationally from falling prey to Do's nonstop psyops that being sai | 3.4× | 37k | 130 | 23 | 10 |
| 62 | Jun 18, '24 | no need to say, we already know the culprit-- only David Hirsch could mastermind something so diabolical.... | 3.3× | 36k | 106 | 19 | 9 |
| 63 | Jun 18, '24 | no govt agency can keep up with this scale, it is why securities laws need a complete reform or special subrules for crypto... it is also why the SEC can only use one strategy for | 3.2× | 35k | 104 | 14 | 10 |
| 64 | Jun 18, '24 | buy & burn is GOATed study Nikolai... honestly, you can not do better than Nikolai for decentralized autonomous system design; he had it wired | 3.1× | 34k | 86 | 13 | 14 |
| 65 | Jun 12, '24 | it is very interesting that the determination of investment contract status is based on what the public reasonably expects, yet the SEC somehow always needs oceans of private infor | 3.0× | 33k | 91 | 21 | 9 |
| 66 | Jun 18, '24 | localhost 8545 raising pre-seed KOL bridge round at $500M pre-money | 3.0× | 33k | 58 | 14 | 4 |
| 67 | Jun 19, '24 | 🚨🚨🚨 TODAY IS WORSE THAN 9/11 FOR CRYPTOLAWYERS✈️ ✈️ ✈️ 💥💥💥SHKRELI INSULTED PALLEY ON SPACES 🌌🌌🌌 💯💯💯WE NOW SUPPORT PLEASUREDAO, NO MATTER HOW RETARDED🥴🥴🥴 😡😡😡WE DO | 3.0× | 32k | 320 | 34 | 10 |
| 68 | Jun 18, '24 | I beat the allegations. | 2.9× | 32k | 103 | 17 | 8 |
| 69 | Jun 20, '24 | this is the kind of attorney/client relationship I am looking for | 2.9× | 32k | 102 | 17 | 2 |
| 70 | Oct 12, '24 | turns out it was tradfi, not crypto, funding fentanyl | 2.8× | 31k | 739 | 74 | 28 |
| 71 | Jun 12, '24 | some great info here... | 2.8× | 30k | 51 | 11 | 5 |
| 72 | Jun 19, '24 | I have two kind of category-defining things coming out soon showing how cybernetic law should be done. Think after that I'll take a long break from personally drafting big complex | 2.7× | 29k | 104 | 16 | 6 |
| 73 | Jun 13, '24 | want to do basically anything on the internet that could possibly be accessible to or used by Russians? yeah, you're gonna need a license for that current Dem leadership makes Demo | 2.5× | 28k | 124 | 24 | 9 |
| 74 | Jun 19, '24 | I don't say this sort of thing often but huge props to the @Consensys legal team. They went into attack mode and played this whole thing beautifully... | 2.4× | 26k | 310 | 28 | 3 |
| 75 | Jun 13, '24 | if I didn't want to get sued by the SEC over my memecoin I would simply not shill it on the literal floor of the New York Stock Exchange | 2.3× | 26k | 140 | 19 | 7 |
| 76 | Jun 18, '24 | lawyers way ahead of the game on this one... measuring life in priced 6 minute increments? been there! | 2.3× | 25k | 82 | 12 | 8 |
| 77 | Jun 18, '24 | today @cyberfund has published its thesis for @MetaLeX_Labs ... we are privileged to have a supporter who has thought through our product so deeply & shares the vision, and thi | 2.3× | 25k | 59 | 16 | 5 |
| 78 | Jun 19, '24 | hopefully SEC capitulation on ETH signals we're back in "sufficient decentralization" William Hinman land for determining such matters nature is healing. . . | 2.3× | 25k | 166 | 17 | 3 |
| 79 | Jun 13, '24 | F | 2.2× | 25k | 52 | 12 | 6 |
| 80 | Jun 13, '24 | what an insane rug...holders might as well send it to $0 as revenge | 2.2× | 25k | 72 | 13 | 5 |
| 81 | Jun 13, '24 | "ETH is an app store" sounds absolutely cringe and redacted but I'm honestly so far removed from the normie mind at this point I can't assume it's the wrong marketing ploy... anywa | 2.2× | 24k | 104 | 14 | 11 |
| 82 | Jun 18, '24 | EVERY DAY WE STRAY FURTHER FROM GOD* *a healthy LTV on our Aave positions | 2.1× | 24k | 66 | 11 | 4 |
| 83 | Jun 13, '24 | crypto-X: ewww how dare that one guy who never sold a token to VCs and remains perma-bullish on his own protocol and saved himself from liquidation for years finally get liquidated | 2.1× | 23k | 99 | 22 | 6 |
| 84 | Jun 13, '24 | the FTX bankruptcy plan seems utterly insane, corrupt and self-contradictory...seems it's getting rammed through after professionals have plundered all they reasonably can... | 2.1× | 23k | 85 | 17 | 4 |
| 85 | Jun 13, '24 | if you think this is bad, just wait till the entire market structure is bifurcated under two different regulators (SEC and CFTC) in two separate markets for each token depending on | 2.1× | 23k | 75 | 13 | 6 |
| 86 | Jun 19, '24 | me, @post_polar_ @DrNickA and @apolynya are the cypherpunk rebels worth delegating some $ZK to for a bit of governance diversity | 2.1× | 23k | 50 | 13 | 2 |
| 87 | Jun 13, '24 | You're bearish? Trump just ignited an international Bitcoin mining arms' race and you're bearish??!!! | 2.1× | 23k | 81 | 13 | 6 |
| 88 | Jun 19, '24 | seeennnd ittt!!! | 2.0× | 22k | 99 | 11 | 3 |
| 89 | Jun 13, '24 | hearing rumors Trump will support a bill to slap "Made in America" on every UTXO mined in the U.S. | 2.0× | 21k | 84 | 12 | 3 |
| 90 | Jun 13, '24 | this is the kind of chad crypto needs believe in something you cowards | 1.9× | 21k | 63 | 17 | 4 |
| 91 | Jun 13, '24 | okay @PleasrDAO take the "DAO" out of your name rn | 1.9× | 21k | 37 | 7 | 2 |
| 92 | Jun 19, '24 | bro am I like the only dude in crypto who can't make $100M bets as a flex 😭 | 1.9× | 21k | 111 | 9 | 2 |
| 93 | Jun 13, '24 | just need a girl who thinks like this to fix me | 1.9× | 20k | 71 | 14 | 5 |
| 94 | Jun 13, '24 | you actually could've been donating crypto to Biden this entire time | 1.9× | 20k | 49 | 12 | 3 |
| 95 | Jun 13, '24 | get ready for Solana KOLs to suddenly be cool with Stage 0 L2s bwahaha | 1.9× | 20k | 51 | 11 | 5 |
| 96 | Jun 19, '24 | wow I'm really downbad, I had no idea, you're telling me this for the first time... | 1.8× | 20k | 38 | 10 | 1 |
| 97 | Jun 19, '24 | very normal behavior to deposit the proceeds of a whitehat hack into TornadoCash immediately afterwards.... "all part of the service...white-glove, all-inclusive..." | 1.8× | 20k | 176 | 20 | 5 |
| 98 | Jun 19, '24 | fellas is it gay to bet less than 10 figures? | 1.6× | 18k | 66 | 12 | 1 |
| 99 | Jun 19, '24 | TIL I'm gay | 1.5× | 17k | 29 | 5 | 1 |
| 100 | Jun 13, '24 | F...had some bangers in the last 24h but just wasn't enough to stay in the top 50, sorry bros I tried | 1.1× | 12k | 100 | 17 | 4 |
| 101 | Jun 1, '24 | death grips is online | ⚡ 1.0× | 86k | 55 | 4 | 3 |
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