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- 🚨 Paxful’s $3B Crime Scandal: Bitcoin, Sex Work & Sanctions?
🚨 Paxful’s $3B Crime Scandal: Bitcoin, Sex Work & Sanctions?
December 11, 2025 | Market Mood: Fragile and fearful
DayTrading Dispatch
December 12, 2025
🔥 Featured: ⚠️ DOJ: Paxful Was a Crime Hub, Not a Crypto Exchange
The DOJ says Paxful helped criminals move billions in Bitcoin, knowingly enabling sex work, fraud, and sanctions evasion, while faking compliance policies and promoting zero ID checks.
📌 Key Hits:
💵 $3B in dirty trades from 2015–2019
💸 $29M in profits tied to illicit activity
💻 Linked to Backpage + high-risk jurisdictions
⚖️ DOJ slashed $112M fine to $4M after financial review
💀 📊 This Week in Chaos
🎮 GameStop Posts $9.4M BTC Loss in Q3
The meme-stock legend reported $9.4M in unrealized losses on its 4,710 BTC holdings, with no new buys since May as sales disappointed and shares slipped.
👉 Still HODLing — but it’s not 2021 anymore.
💼 Michael Saylor Doesn’t Quit
While everybody else panicked, Saylor quietly bought more Bitcoin this week, stacking sats like it’s still 2017 all over again.
He now controls 1 in every 150 BTC in existence.
🧱 CFTC Lets Crypto Play with the Big Boys
Regulators just cleared BTC, ETH, and USDC to be used as real collateral in regulated derivatives, which means institutions might actually use crypto instead of just talking about it.
👉 Institutional lanes are opening.
📉 BTC Dips Below $90K After Fed Cut Fizzles
The Fed finally trimmed rates, stocks pumped… but Bitcoin didn’t follow. BTC slid under $90K as traders rotated out of crypto and into equities.
👉 Macro still calling the shots.
🧪 Poll of the Week
Official Trump Crypto Game Drops With $1M in SOL-Based Meme Coin RewardsThe “Trump Billionaires Club” mobile game is launching by year’s end, promising $1 million worth of the president’s Solana meme coin as in-game rewards. Because of course it is. How are you playing this one? |
👉 Vote before the bubble pops
📚 RESOURCES WE LIKED THIS WEEK
📒 The Ultimate Crypto Trading Journal (Template Included)
If your trades look like chaos, this guide gives you structure, discipline, and a clean journal to stop repeating the same L.
⛏️ Top Cryptocurrency Mining Pools: 2025 Guide
Thinking of mining or already hashing away? This breakdown shows which pools actually pay and which ones are tourist traps.
👉 Compare the top pools
🏆 The 10 Golden Rules of Crypto Trading (Beginner Edition)
A no-nonsense starter pack covering the commandments every trader should tattoo onto their frontal lobe.
👉 Avoid rookie errors
💬 12+ Crypto Discord Servers Worth Joining in 2025
From alpha-sharing hubs to technical analysis dens, here are the communities that aren’t full of bots and exit-liquidity traps.
👉 Find your tribe
📊This Week’s Big Movers
👆Ovato (OVATO) +7427% 👆CATX (CATX) +3502% 👆Terra (LUNA) +217%
👆 Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) +123% 👆pippin (PIPPIN) +65% 👆ZCash (ZEC) +17%
👇 Aeris AI (AERIS) -99% 👇Dante Games (DANTE) -94% 👇 Luxxcoin (LUX) -57%
👇 TOMI (TOMI) -52% 👇Legacy Token (LGCT) -27% 👇Hyperliquid (HYPE) -20%
🔮 What to Watch Next Week
Dec 15 | Manufacturing & Retail Reports
Weak data increases rate-cut odds, a potential boost for BTC and risk assets.
Dec 16 | Advance Retail Sales
Stronger consumer spend supports soft-landing hopes. If flows rotate back into crypto, expect upside.
CFTC Crypto-Collateral Pilot
Markets expect follow-up approvals; any move toward spot or perps on regulated exchanges is a major catalyst.
Ethereum Fusaka Upgrade (Post-Effects)
Watch L2 TVL and DeFi volume — early spikes could signal rotation back into ETH ecosystems.
🤣THE MEMEING OF LIFE
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⚠️ Disclaimer: Not financial advice. Do your research before making any trades.