Another day, another pathetically transparent attack against Binance this time coming from the disgrace that is the WSJ: "Binance still handles “substantial” Russian ruble trading volumes, helping clients transfer funds from sanctioned banks into balances on the platform via intermediaries. It cited data pulled from Binance websites, user screenshots and messages in official chat groups to back up the claim...The report said the platform facilitates peer-to-peer trades of Russian rubles to cryptocurrencies that involve banks blacklisted in the U.S."

Uhhhh so? Is Binance US doing this? If not then the keyboard monkeys working at the WSJ should go learn how international law works. You know something, as many issues and grievances I've had with Binance over the years, I've never really envisioned a situation where I'd find myself siding with them on almost a consistent basis. And I can tell you it's not because I've had a change of heart about the exchange, no it's because that's how inaccurate and ridiculous these "media" headlines and constant negative reports on Binance truly are.

It would be very easy for me to close my eyes to what's happening or sink even lower and go side with these reports to smear my old archenemy, but only a fool would think the issue here is Binance. It wasn't about "North Korean hackers" either when it came to Tornado Cash, just like it wasn't about ETH being a "security" or Bitcoin being POW and "polluting", no it's all about totalitarian power. That's it, that all this is and if you on any occasion are foolish enough to side with it you should know that sooner or later it will be coming for you when their bigger opponents are taken down and you are at your most vulnerable. This is just the way these things get done, this is how it was always done. Where you think Niemöller's quote came from? I'm by no means comparing this battle we have in crypto to WW2, but if you want a horrifying example about the most ruthless totalitarians you should read up on how the Nazi Germans operated.

Why you think the Nazis first systematically murdered all the imprisoned Jewish men? You think they wanted to spare the women or felt sympathy for the children? No, each death camp specifically went about it this way to avoid a greater power (thousands of men who realized their families had been murdered and had nothing more to lose) start rebelling and fighting back. Having the women or children rebelling after they mass murdered most of the imprisoned men was considered a much smaller threat for obvious reasons. If you thought this was cold and ruthless, when the Nazi officers and especially leadership in Berlin got aware how particularly killing women and children was messing with the minds and mental health of the Nazi soldiers, they didn't have a change of heart and decide to at least spare the children, no they invented the gas chambers. I just want you to think about how absolutely deranged the mindset totalitarians have is: Instead of not mass murdering millions of people, instead of sparing women and children, they invented a method of mass execution that would be less harmful for their own. That's absolutely mind boggling and a sure enough example as any as to why you can neither comprehend their mindset nor can you reason with them in any way, shape or form.

Rethinking these events got me all down and miserable and it's not even May. Let's move on to another crucial report: Does Blackrock have a Bitcoin wallet? There has been this sudden massive whale wallet that now outranked even Binance's wallet and is among the three biggest BTC hodlers. No one knows who it belongs to, but if you are in 2023 catching up to Binance's BTC holdings in less than four months then you will be drawing attention whether you like it or not: "An unknown wallet has accrued more than $3 billion worth of Bitcoin in the last three months, sparking a wave of theories about the potential owner...the wallet address first received Bitcoin on March 8. Over the course of the next three months and two weeks, the wallet had accrued a staggering 118,000 BTC...comes in third place, and is then followed by another Binance cold wallet in fourth place."