Top crypto tweets of the day – May 9th by BitlyFool | Posted on May 9, 2023 SBF wants courts to dismiss charges against him JUST IN: Sam Bankman-Fried asks judge to dismiss all criminal charges against him in FTX fraud case, citing not guilty.— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) May 9, 2023 BSV teams return to Bitcoin with BRC20 Literally 98,9% of all transactions in the BTC Ordinals space is produced by ex-BSV teams: unisat (sensible), ordinals wallet (twetch) and ordswap (relayx). We won! #Ordinals #BRC20 https://t.co/gv8rbImteu— B2029 (@B2029org) May 8, 2023 Source: https://t.co/pr483Y2G7O pic.twitter.com/81VyI1VaBn— B2029 (@B2029org) May 8, 2023 The BSV community has extensive participation in Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC 20. Behind Unisat, the core wallet of BRC20, is the Chinese development team of the previous BSV community, which has developed Sensible Contract, a smart contract solution on BSV. By @TechFlowPost— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) May 9, 2023 BTC premium on Binance US raises concern People spotting a BTC premium on Binance US and seem to be jumping the gun saying its a big market maker pulling fundsNo change in market depth on the exchange makes me nearly certain this isn't the case yetIMO more likely Binance US offering slower USD withdrawal times after… pic.twitter.com/HSKaHtB0p1— Conor Ryder (@ConorRyder) May 9, 2023 Current rumor is market maker getting taken out. Causing inflated USD market prices on Binance US.My hunch is Binance getting forced out of US market in CFTC settlement and continuing the rotation from BUSD->BTC->USDT that I said was driving up the market to reallocate funds…— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) May 8, 2023 Otherwise two popular theories are:1) DCG selling to cover payments – seems unlikely2) Wintermute carried out on directional trade – seems less likely but not impossible, just wouldn’t align with all the details either— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) May 8, 2023 No change in liquidity makes me think its nothing to do with market makers leaving https://t.co/A0lMtVzrhm— Conor Ryder (@ConorRyder) May 9, 2023 Gate.io exposed for having lax KYC measure When stolen funds go to a crypto exchange people like to assume that there is a real person with a real identity tied to an accountTo disprove this I was able to create an account on @gate_io and KYC as “Kim Jong-Un” with the email “notlazarus” and within minutes I was verified pic.twitter.com/oCZLK4hBh9— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) May 9, 2023 I went and tested this additional times using fictitious names such as “Jack Hoff” and using other names recently placed on the OFAC sanctions list with email addresses like “harmonyhacker” and “lazaruslover”All of these passed without issue pic.twitter.com/oDkU5cxA3U— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) May 9, 2023 Bitcoin devs are trying to cancel ordinals Bitcoin devs are trying to cancel ordinals pic.twitter.com/FOYCIKTcIS— Frank (@frankdegods) May 9, 2023 Bittrex files for bankruptcy Yes, we filed chap 11. Yes, we still have 100% of all customer funds. Yes, there will be a claims process through the bankruptcy courts. This was the cleanest way to bury the baby – RIP @BittrexExchange https://t.co/BkhtVppln3— Richie Lai (@richiela) May 8, 2023 Another project rugs #PeckShieldAlert Derpman ($DMAN) rugged hours agohttps://t.co/Li7SMBep1K$DMAN has dropped -100%The scammer originally funded 4 $ETH from #Binance & added 3 $ETH liquidity They have swapped 1,200T $DMAN for 48.55 $ETH and then transferred these $ETH to 0x4d1f…915 pic.twitter.com/9EbLuQ3ZuA— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) May 9, 2023 GeniusMeme ($GNS) rugged 33.6 $ETH ~3 dyas agohttps://t.co/2y6S5isw6lThe scammer originally funded 4 $ETH from #Binance & added 3 $ETH liquidityThey transferred these $ETH to 0x3bd5, 0x3bd5 spent part of $ETH to drive the price of $PEPG and $DMAN up & deposited part of $ETH to… pic.twitter.com/SxLRlkAxCM— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) May 9, 2023 Pepega ($PEPG) rugged ~30 $ETH ~2 days agohttps://t.co/9YjCfUEJ3EThe scammer originally funded 3.58 $ETH from #Binance & added 2.8 $ETH liquidityThey transferred these $ETH to 0x3bd5, 0x3bd5 spent part of $ETH to drive the price of $DMAN up & deposited part of $ETH to #Binance… pic.twitter.com/0BuG7qfwyy— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) May 9, 2023 Bitcoin balance on Binance As we've been receiving numerous questions from our users: we cannot confirm notable #BTC outflows from @binance.According to our data, their balance remains in a robust state, very close to all-time highs.? https://t.co/Q5ImFW2NRT pic.twitter.com/7CC2UEUT81— Rafael Schultze-Kraft (@n3ocortex) May 9, 2023 https://t.co/vdtQEgY6GD— Rafael Schultze-Kraft (@n3ocortex) May 9, 2023
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