Crypto Twitter of the Week: Did SBF Move Money? Manchester United’s NFT is on fire. Eisenberg Arrested!

the market is mostly frozen this weekwhile most major cryptocurrencies saw little movement towards the end of the year, an unfortunate few, notably Solana and Dogecoin, suffered double-digit percentage declines.

It was a week of relatively low hiring activity and cryptocurrency shipments from Washington. The industry has all eyes on the courtroom narrative of unraveling FTX. But there were still enough news moments to get Crypto Twitter excited.

News broke on Tuesday that New Yorker Abraham Eisenberg had been arrested. milking millions From crypto exploits.

Eisenberg’s name resurfaced in October when he stole over $100 million Returned $67 million from crypto trading platform Mango Markets, claiming (at the time) that his actions were in the interests of depositors, were perfectly legal, and were backed by the larger organization behind him. Claimed and got away with it.

Meanwhile, the widow of Hal Finney, an early Bitcoin contributor and recipient of the first transaction on the network, is raising money for research into ALS, the neurodegenerative disease that killed Finney in 2014. , announced a Bitcoin-themed fundraising marathon.

A disgruntled investor at crypto investment firm Multicoin Capital shared a document that should have been sent back in November when the FTX crisis began. Multicoin appears to be heavily impacted by both direct and indirect exposure to FTX, especially his whale-sized Solana (SOL) hoard.

SOL has been in freefall for the past two months due to Solana’s strong ties to FTX.it just hit lowest price in 2 years While struggling to hold the $10 support level.

Vitalik Buterin tweeted Thursday his support for the deeply disappointed Solana community of developers and fans.

Hawkeye NFT Enthusiasts on Tuesday @ clown vamp Manchester United’s new Tezos-based NFT collection has uncovered what appears to be complete plagiarism, with ClownVamp tweeting compelling evidence in a thread.

The next day, a fan-made parody of FTX’s South Park and its infamous former CEO made the rounds on CT.

Finally, on Friday, like an on-chain detective @ZachXBT I noticed a 7 figure fund from a wallet linked to Alameda Research was moved Via a transactional privacy mixer.

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was quick to deny any involvement, but Twitter was quick to denounce him.

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Sam was back online an hour later to provide a follow-up offering to advise the regulator. While he is indicted on his eight counts of fraud, it seems unlikely that will happen, but anything is possible in cryptocurrency.