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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Epstein's Arrest Shook The Blockchain

Jeffrey Epstein's arrest seems to have set off a wave of suspicious crypto payments that have heretofore gone unexamined.

1. The 2nd highest volume day in bitcoin history came a week after Epstein died.

2. #Stablecoin transfer volumes doubled less than 48 hours after Epstein was arrested. In particular #Tether, the stablecoin whose money is managed by Epstein's next door neighbor and #Trump's current Secretary of Commerce, saw on chain volumes skyrocket.

Also there's the matter of a bunch of suspicious deaths among Epstein's crypto circle.

(RTs appreciated)
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/epsteins-arrest-shook-the-blockchain

Four years after bidding $28 million to take a suborbital ride on a #BlueOrigin #NewShepard rocket ship, #crypto billionaire #JustinSun finally takes what he calls his first step to #space. "We will have more," he says. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/crypto-justin-sun-28m-blue-origin-space/

#Greed #CryptoCurrency #Billionaires #JustinSun #Manipulation #Arrogance #Wealthy #trump #WiteHouse #Memecoin #Alt

Heather Cox Richardson 7/24/25
BILLIONAIRE JUSTIN SUN PUPPET MASTER

Tron’s Justin Sun says he’s buying another $100 million of Trump’s memecoin - doubling his stake to $200 million

Sun, who is planning to take his company TRON public through a reverse merger with SRM Entertainment is working to resolve a civil fraud case with the Securities and Exchange Commission

#JustinSun #TrumpCrypto #TrumpMemecoin #Tron

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/trons-justin-sun-100-million-trump-memecoin.html

Trump Meme Coin Expands to Tron with USD1 Stablecoin – Can This Push TRUMP Above $12? - The official Trump meme coin has expanded to the Tron network, alongside the launc... - https://cryptonews.com/news/trump-meme-coin-expands-to-tron-with-usd1-stablecoin-can-this-push-trump-above-12/ #altcoinnews #donaldtrump #justinsun #trump #tron

not that anyone cares, but a business partner of the president of the united states (Justin Sun) is running a #cryptocurrency marketplace (#HTX) that appears to be shipping millions of dollars worth of #Tether to #Iranian #crypto businesses.

https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/TQuwAEdSpYcxuKb2L4nQzmcic8PdJTezDv

#Tether just mass blacklisted 42 blockchain addresses in a single go - one of the biggest batches of blacklistings ever. All of the wallets were all on the Tron blockchain (AKA "the crime chain") which is owned and operated by a business partner of the president of the united states (Justin Sun).

The wallets only have $5.7 million USDT in them to seize but over their lifetimes they collectively received ~$877 million. Haven't really dug into the data yet but my hunch is that most of these are related to #Iranian money laundering and were frozen at #Israel's request.

Other possible explanation is the mass bust of #NorthKorea's american laptop farms a few days ago.

raw data: https://dune.com/crypto_oracle/eth-tron-tether-usdt

a russian hosting service that takes payment in crypto, Aeza Group, was just hit with #OFAC sanctions.

they've sent funds to a bunch of the shadiest crypto exchanges - #Cryptomus, #MEXC, #Binance, and (of course) #HTX, the crypto exchange run by the business partner of the president of the united states.

also looks like they took payment in #Tether, the #stablecoin whose money is managed by america's secretary of commerce howard lutnick.

* OFAC press release: https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20250701
* Wallet: https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/TU4tDFRvcKhAZ1jdihojmBWZqvJhQCnJ4F

a few weeks ago right before #Israel attacked #Iran #Tether froze a #Tron wallet that had over the course of a year managed to receive almost $2 billion, at least $1.2 bn of which came from #Binance (which historically did huge business in Iran).

there was only $2.5 million in the wallet at the time of the freeze but in terms of how much money flowed through it, it's the 4th highest volume wallet ever frozen.

based on the fact that another wallet frozen ca. the same time w/similar usage patterns turned out to be linkable to #Hezbollah, the govt of #Iran, and a dark market for nation state sized orders of weapons & #drugs (#HuionePay / #HuioneGuarantee), I have a hunch this wallet was also used by the #IRGC to fund its proxies in the region like the #Houthis and #Hezbollah and #Israel has chosen not to disclose that it was responsible for the seizure yet.

* arkham view of wallet: https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/TPAUZAQFjhPvbNdSp22KqzSHHkAvKLgXjn
* similar wallet: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114746678768755105

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Since #Israel attacked #Iran Tether has frozen 112 blockchain wallets on Tron and Ethereum (the #crypto equivalent of freezing a bank account, usually on suspicion/proof of money laundering).

- Collectively those wallets received ~$700 million before being frozen
- The top 40 of those accounts are *all* on #JustinSun's #Tron blockchain
- Iranian exchanges almost exclusively use #Tether on Tron for USD xfers. They even publicly instruct their users on how to avoid #sanctions
- The Iranian govt, including the #IRGC (a sanctioned #terrorist group), has long been rumoured to be among the Iranians using Tether to move money to their proxies like #Hezbollah and #Hamas
- Israelis hacked the largest Iranian crypto exchange #Nobitex for $90 million last week. Nobitex is the largest user of USDT that I know of in Iran
- Justin Sun is now Trump's biz partner (and #HowardLutnick has been Tether's partner for yrs)

Lots more details here:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1937696509040165020.html

whenever the price of #bitcoin starts to drop because of global instability (or any other reason) “investors” immediately decide to send billions of dollars to #Tether, a financial company that more or less openly works with #Iran, has almost no employees, has been linked to hundreds of financial crimes, and has never produced an audit to prove it actually has all the money it says it does to back its #stablecoin #USDT. it's like clockwork.

today’s crash saw an immediate creation of $2 billion USDT, 100% of it on Donald Trump’s new business partner Justin Sun’s blockchain Tron (AKA “the crime chain”).

Justin Sun's #Tron blockchain (AKA "the crime chain" that exists primarily for #Tether) plans to go public via reverse merger, forming a new "borrow money to buy bitcoin" company except this company will borrow money to buy Tron tokens (TRX) instead of bitcoins. Eric Trump will become an executive at the company.

reminder that Justin Sun was charged with fraud by the SEC and was almost certainly under investigation by the DOJ until he gave Trump ~$57 million and got his charges dropped. what we're looking at here is the co-opting of the US financial markets by chinese organized crime.

https://www.ft.com/content/13a6cead-af71-4811-9b90-553f233ac45f

Trump's #stablecoin #USD1 has been issued on Justin Sun's Tron blockchain, AKA "the global organized crime blockchain where ~$70 billion worth of Tether lives”.

All of these factors put together amount to literally a license for Donald Trump to run his own Federal Reserve, printing unbacked dollar equivalents whenever he wants.

What could go wrong?
https://x.com/SilvermanJacob/status/1933284401540182648

Justin Sun’s Trump Jr. Photo-Op Fuels TRX Rally—Is Political Clout the Secret Weapon for Crypto’s Next Surge? - Tron’s TRX token rose up to 3% overnight on May 29, 2025, after founder Justin Sun... - https://cryptonews.com/news/justin-suns-trump-jr-photo-op-fuels-tron-rally-is-political-clout-the-secret-weapon-for-cryptos-next-surge/ #altcoinnews #donaldtrump #justinsun #tron

"#Stablecoins remained the primary choice for #terrorist financing organizations" according to #TRMLabs (who have a questionable history as far as downplaying things like crypto's terrorist financing use cases but are at least more reliable than #Chainalysis)

and when they say "stablecoins" they really mean "#Tether on the blockchain (#Tron) owned by #Trump's new business partner #JustinSun".

(h/t @cybeardjm)