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🏂 Olympic Snowboarder Busted as Crypto Cartel Boss

🏂 Olympic Snowboarder Busted as Crypto Cartel Boss

November 20, 2025 | Market Mood: Brother, we are cooked! 🫨

DayTrading Dispatch
November 21, 2025

🔥 Featured: 🧊 Crypto, Cocaine & the Olympics — Meet the Modern Escobar

A former Olympic snowboarder just got slapped with U.S. Treasury sanctions for allegedly running a crypto-powered cocaine empire. This week’s main character is a gold medalist turned cartel middleman who apparently swapped half-pipes for cartel pipelines.

📌 Key Details:

• 🏂 Ex-Olympian Ryan Wedding accused of running a cartel empire
• 🚨 Treasury sanctions Wedding + 18 others linked to drug ops
• 🧠 FBI: “He’s Escobar and El Chapo rolled into one”
• 💵 Crypto allegedly used to launder cartel money worldwide
• 🎯 Big win for U.S. agencies tightening surveillance on crypto flows

👉 Washington now has fresh ammo for the “crypto funds crime” narrative. Compliance heat incoming. [Full story ]

💀 📊 This Week in Chaos

📉 Bitcoin Eats Pavement — Drops to $92K

BTC slid nearly 10% this week as its Nasdaq correlation spiked to 0.8, turning every tech selloff into a crypto body slam. Altcoins across the top 100 got obliterated.
👉 Charts & fallout »

🏛️ IRS Rage-Quits Its Own Rule

The IRS backed off expanding the “broker” definition to DeFi platforms. Relief for builders, but turbulence for tax plans.
👉 What changed & why it matters »

🧨 WLFI Scandal Hits Before Launch

Trump‑linked crypto project WLFI admitted user wallets were hacked via phishing before launch. Big red flag for investors.
👉 Inside the breach »

📉 Tech & AI Stocks Bleed Out — Crypto Follows

Big-cap tech and AI saw four straight days of red, dragging crypto deeper with them. If your portfolio felt lighter this week, that’s why.
👉 Market carnage recap »

🧪 Poll of the Week

Whale Frenzy as Bitcoin Crashes — What’s Really Going On?

BTC whales just cranked out one of the biggest transaction weeks of 2025 as Bitcoin slipped under $90K. We’re talking 102,000+ transactions over $100K, 29,000+ transactions over $1M, and a full pivot from selling to accumulating.

What Do You Think the Whales Are Cooking?

👉 Cast your vote before the whales do something weird again.

📚 RESOURCES WE LIKED THIS WEEK

🔗 Public vs. Private Blockchains: Which One Actually Delivers in 2025?

A clean breakdown of where enterprises are actually building and why decentralization isn’t always the winning pitch.
👉 Read the guide »

🏛️ What Is World Liberty Financial? The Trump Family DeFi Project Explained

WLFI has been in headlines non-stop — here’s the definitive explainer on what it is, how it works, and why it’s already drowning in drama.
👉 Deep dive »

⚠️ Top 5 Crypto Trading Mistakes Even Pros Still Make (With Case Studies)

The screw-ups that blow up accounts every cycle. Learn them, dodge them, thank yourself later.
👉 Avoid the traps »

📊This Week’s Big Movers

☝️Cherry AI (AIBOT) +2397% ☝️Felis (FELIS) +2095% ☝️Edel (EDEL) +262%

☝️Starknet (STRK) +85% ☝️Grass (GRASS) +59% ☝️ZCash (ZEC) +30%

👇LadyLuck (LUCKY) -100% 👇CATX (CATX) -96% 👇DeAgentAI (AIA) -66%

👇SOON (SOON) -49% 👇Canton (CC) -21%

🔮 What to Watch Next Week

📄 FOMC Minutes Drop (Nov 19): Traders are hunting for any rate cut clues. One hawkish sentence could nuke risk appetite — or light the fuse=
🪙 SEC Crypto ETF Decisions Incoming: Late-Nov to early-Dec rulings could swing institutional flows depending on approvals or delays.
🤖 “Legion” AI DeFi TGE (Nov 25): A new AI-powered asset manager wants to raise $3M. Early degens are circling.
🎮 Gaming + Solana TGE (Nov 27): A $1M raise across gaming, memes, and Solana’s most hyped launchpad yet. Expect volatility.
🟢 🧑‍💼 India’s Apex Bank Flags Crypto Risk: The Reserve Bank of India just said crypto and stablecoins are “huge risks” while backing its own digital currency plans.