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Crypto Wasn’t Hacked. It Was Bought;

In November 2023, @cz_binance and #Binance pleaded guilty to money laundering and agreed to pay more than $4 billion in fines.

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Crypto Wasn’t Hacked. It Was Bought;

In November 2023, @cz_binance and #Binance pleaded guilty to money laundering and agreed to pay more than $4 billion in fines.

Fast-forward to March 2025; the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) launches its own stablecoin, USD1, and shortly after, a $2 billion investment flows into #Binance through a company called MGX.

By May 2025, it becomes clear that the entire $2B was paid in USD1, effectively propping up WLFI’s new coin.
That same month, CZ admits he has applied for a presidential pardon.

In October 2025, he gets it.

➡️ Here’s the kicker:
USD1 is backed by U.S. Treasuries, meaning $WLFI earns $60–80 million a year in yield as long as Binance doesn’t redeem that $2B in USD1.

So let’s get this straight:

Trump’s family business signs a $2B deal with Binance,
and a few months later, Trump pardons CZ, the man who ran a centralized casino that laundered billions and is probably the center of crypto-prices.

Meanwhile, Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet developers are still fighting for their lives in court, for the crime of writing open-source code.

Ordinary people lose their savings, the rich get pardoned, and a big part of CT is happy and bullish.

Again;
Trump moves markets with tweets and Binance can influence everything else in crypto.

....and it should terrify everyone who still believes in decentralization.

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@cz_binance I just want to set the record straight, because there are still way too many people claiming that #Binance and @cz_binance “did nothing wrong.”

Here are the hard, verifiable facts, with all official sources linked.

🔹 1. CZ and Binance pleaded guilty; officially.
On Nov 21,…

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@cz_binance Our project exists for exactly this purpose, to educate, expose, and help.

But that only works if people choose to actively be part of it.

Unstoppable.

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