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Diogenes Lamp retweeted
BREAKING🚨
New documentary “Finding Satoshi” prediction is that Hal Finney and Len Sassaman collaborated to create Bitcoin
The creator of Bitcoin was never one person
- two cypherpunks
- two different skillsets
one identity
- both part of the cypherpunk movement
- both worked around PGP encryption
- both connected to Phil Zimmermann
shared philosophy
Hal Finney
- software developer
- expert in C++
- built RPOW (proof of work system before Bitcoin)
- first person to ever receive a Bitcoin transaction
Len Sassaman
- cryptographer
- expert in anonymity systems
- ran cypherpunk mailing lists
- specialized in writing and protocol design
October 2008
- Bitcoin whitepaper drops
January 2009
- first Bitcoin transaction
- Satoshi sends BTC to Hal Finney
public interaction or staged?
April 18, 2009
- Hal Finney runs a 10-mile race
photos exist
timeline confirmed
at the same time
- Satoshi is sending emails
- discussing technical details
- actively working
impossible for one person, someone else was there but timeline starts making sense
2009–2011
- Satoshi active
- both Finney and Sassaman alive
April 2011
- Satoshi disappears
July 2011
- Len Sassaman dies
2014
- Hal Finney dies
Satoshi never returns
the theory
- Finney wrote the code
- Sassaman wrote the words
- both shared the identity
maybe Satoshi was one person
maybe it was two but if it was a team this is the closest answer we’ve ever had
Diogenes Lamp retweeted
What does a TRILLION dollars even look like? I vibe coded it to find out.
trillions.emilylai.com
Diogenes Lamp retweeted
Jon Ossoff was 16 when he finished reading John Lewis’s memoir and wrote him a letter. He asked if he could interview him, spend some time with him, anything that would let him learn from the man whose book he had just read. He didn’t expect an answer. Lewis wrote back and invited him to work in his congressional office.
There was something about that letter Lewis would have understood. He had written one himself at 17. A college near his home in Alabama had never answered his application, and Lewis wanted to challenge its segregation. He wrote to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without telling his parents or his teachers. King did not just write back; he sent Lewis a round-trip Greyhound ticket to Montgomery so they could talk in person.
Oh my!
The first time Lewis and Ossoff sat down for a meal, Lewis spent about an hour and a half telling him about the rabbis and Jewish activists who had marched alongside him in the South. Ossoff was a Jewish kid from Atlanta. He knew from the book what had happened to Lewis on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where a state trooper fractured his skull during a march for voting rights. Now Lewis was telling him who had walked beside him.
The internship lasted a few months. The friendship lasted 17 years. In 2017, when Ossoff ran for Congress and lost, Lewis was there on election night. A reporter saw him sitting in a small room next to the party, looking out into the room. Later that night, Lewis came out and told the crowd how glad he was that he had answered the letter Ossoff sent him in high school.
Lewis died in July 2020, six months before Ossoff won his first Senate race. When Ossoff took the oath of office, he had copies of two old passenger lists in his jacket pocket. One recorded his great-grandfather Israel’s arrival at Ellis Island in 1911. The other recorded his great-grandmother Annie’s arrival two years later. In his hand was a book of Hebrew scripture that had belonged to Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, who led the Atlanta synagogue where Ossoff had his bar mitzvah (this is a Jewish coming-of-age milestone for a boy, usually at age 13).
In 1958, white supremacists had bombed that synagogue. Rothschild and his wife, Janice, grew close to Martin and Coretta Scott King in the years afterward. Janice lived long to see Ossoff take the oath with her late husband’s book
This week, Georgia reelected 39 year old Jon Ossoff to the United States Senate. At his victory speech in Atlanta, he thanked his wife, Alisha, and their daughters, Eva and Lila. Then he talked about a conversation he expects to have when Eva is older. He imagined her asking what he did when people were losing their health coverage and voting rights were under threat. He told the crowd what he hoped he would be able to say to her.
“The year you turned five, Georgia sent me back. Here is what we did with the time they gave us.”
Isitoshe,
After his win in Georgia, Jon Ossoff is now the prediction markets’ favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. He has the gift of gab and, some women are saying he is easy on the eye. But if he runs, the first test will be South Carolina, where Black voters helped turn Joe Biden’s campaign around in 2020. Ossoff will have to make his own case to those voters and when he talks about John Lewis there, he will tell them about the man who wrote back to him at 16, sat down with him over lunch, and was still in his corner the night he lost his first race.
May the day break
This is very high inflation, which is seriously eroding purchasing power. Are all businesses under audit by KRA? Are businesses depressed and morale low in the economy?
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Weaponization of the grey list
𝗪𝗔𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗨, 𝗖𝗢-𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗞𝗘𝗦 𝟭𝟭𝟳 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗬 𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) welcomes the sentencing of former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Ndung’u Waititu Babayao, his wife and two other individuals and corporate entities following their conviction for money laundering.
The Milimani Anti-Corruption Court imposed fines of up to Kes36 million on the accused persons and companies, with default prison terms ranging from two to 13 years.
The sentences followed a High Court decision delivered on October 14, 2026, which reinstated money laundering charges against Waititu, his wife Susan Wangari Ndung’u, and Charles Chege Mbuthia and his wife Beth Wangechi Mburu who are directors of Testimony Enterprises Limited.
The court imposed the following penalties:
1.Ferdinand Ndung’u Waititu Babayao: A fine of Kes21 million or 13 years’ imprisonment in default.
2.Charles Chege Mbuthia: A fine of Kes28 million or 13 years’ imprisonment in default.
3.Beth Wangechi Mburu: A fine of Kes6 million or six years’ imprisonment in default.
4.Susan Wangari Ndung’u: A fine of Kes2 million or two years’ imprisonment in default.
5.Testimony Enterprises Limited: A fine of Kes36 million.
6.Saika Two Estate (A company owned by Waititu and his wife Susan): A fine of Kes24 million.
The case originated from investigations launched by the Commission in 2019 following allegations that the County Government of Kiambu had irregularly awarded Testimony Enterprises Limited a contract worth Kes588 million for the upgrading of gravel roads to bitumen standards in Thika, Limuru, Gatundu North, Juja and Ruiru sub-counties during the 2017/2018 financial year.
On February 12, 2025, Waititu and his co-accused were convicted of various offences, including conflict of interest, dealing with suspected property, abuse of office, fraudulent procurement practices and wilful failure to comply with procurement laws and regulations.
For these offences, the court imposed the following penalties:
1.Ferdinand Ndung’u Waititu Babayao: 12 years’ imprisonment or a fine of Kes52,749,000.
2.Susan Wangari Ndung’u: One year’s imprisonment or a fine of Kes500,000.
3.Luka Mwangi Wahinya: Seven years’ imprisonment or a fine of Kesmillion.
4.Charles Chege Mbuthia: 11 years’ imprisonment or a fine of Kes297,048,110.
5.Beth Wangechi Mburu: Three years’ imprisonment or a fine of Kes1.4 million.
With the additional penalties imposed for money laundering, the cumulative fines and default custodial sentences for the four individuals are as follows, taking into account the concurrent running of custodial sentences as ordered by the High Court:
1.Ferdinand Ndung’u Waititu Babayao: Kes73,749,000 or 13 years’ imprisonment in default.
2.Susan Wangari Ndung’u: Kes2.5 million or two years’ imprisonment in default.
3.Charles Chege Mbuthia: Kes325,048,110 or 13 years’ imprisonment in default.
4.Beth Wangechi Mburu: Kes7.4 million or six years’ imprisonment in default.
The court further ordered Testimony Enterprises Limited and Saika Two Estate to pay their respective fines within 14 days, failure to which the amounts shall be recovered in accordance with Section 334 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The case marks a significant milestone in Kenya’s efforts to combat money laundering, strengthen accountability for proceeds of corruption and advance the country’s commitment to addressing deficiencies identified by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as it works towards exiting the grey list.
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Diogenes Lamp retweeted
I have had the good fortune to meet @skmusyoka. My view is that he is a determined man. He should not wait for endorsement from political rivals. He should run on his own.
Diogenes Lamp retweeted
"Politics is the path for men without principles to lead men without memory"
Voltaire
Diogenes Lamp retweeted
I want to speak to you directly about what happened.
Bottom line - your money is safe, and we're covering every loss.
Our initial investigation suggests this security incident may have started with a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop. That gave an attacker access to a service container, where they submitted unauthorized withdrawal transactions.
To be clear: the attacker did not simply use one engineer's permissions, and this was not a single "one-click" action. It involved a more complex attack process. Our investigation has not attributed responsibility to any individual.
So far, we have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak.
We'll share a detailed technical post-mortem once the investigation is complete and every fact is verified - and publish an updated Proof of Reserves once remediation is complete.
What you need to know:
• Your funds are safe
• Binance will cover all losses from the SAFU fund and company funds
• Estimated total impact: ~$6.3B, with ~$3B frozen on-chain so far, in coordination with our blockchain partners
• No evidence of any wallet private key leak
• Deposits are unaffected and operating as normal
What we've done:
• Temporarily suspended withdrawals while we complete a security revamp of the withdrawal service and its related addresses
• Revoked the affected address authorizations
• Engaged law enforcement and blockchain intelligence partners to trace and recover funds
Our team hasn't stopped. We're working closely with law enforcement to ensure the matter is handled appropriately - and I'll share what I can, as soon as I can.
Will Smith slapping Chris Rock was a major mistake. Rock has ever since knocked out Smith at every standup
Chris Rock reveals the real reason he didn’t fight Will Smith back after getting slapped at the Oscars.
Chris says he was raised right, and his parents taught him never to fight in front of white people. 😂
But the beef goes back further than the Oscars slap. Years earlier, Jada Pinkett Smith said Chris shouldn’t host the Oscars because Will wasn’t nominated for Concussion.
Chris says she started the whole thing, so he had to finish it—and somehow, her husband ended up giving him a concussion.
He says he spent his whole life loving Will and rooting for him, but things have changed so much that he watched Emancipation just to see Will get whooped.
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Diogenes Lamp retweeted
User funds are SAFU!
Yet, this pregnant lady 👇 pulled an all nighter, along side hundreds of Binancians.
Many industry friends and even competitors (including some previously-not-so-friendly ones) provided very much needed help. 🙏
It hurts, but we will survive. 💪
