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Ryan

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Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

I'm going to give you a crazy human story of the week.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

I know I was telling you a little bit about this, but there's an emerging story that's happening in crypto that I just think is really odd, only in crypto, kind of interesting.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

The son of a government contractor, the contractor was responsible for custodying a portion of US government crypto funds that were seized.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

Right.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

He is being, it looks like, allegedly, he stole $40 million of USC's crypto funds.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

I think this is primarily in Bitcoin.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

And ZachXBT caught him doing this through some on-chain sleuthing.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

So there's this government contractor called CMDSS.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

And some of the assets, crypto assets seized by the U.S.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

Marshals were being custodied or the responsible custodian in some way was CMDSS.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

The CEO has a son by the name of... His name is John...

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

He also goes by the pseudonym Lick.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

Okay.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

And somebody caught Lick, John, flexing crypto wallets on a Telegram chat.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

So there's a back and forth between John and this other guy.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

And they were talking about their crypto stash.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

And this was all recorded.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

And unfortunately for John, some of the addresses that he leaked during this chat, ZachXBT sleuthed it out and connected it to government custodial wallets and a $40 million theft, quite possibly.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

Now, this is all alleged.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

So this is like ongoing.