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Deep Dive into Crypto Predictions, FTX, SBF insights and whats next by Michelle Whitedove
From One of Michelles Final Reports To Humanity From Spirit
February 21, 2023
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From Nov 20, 2022 report,  this is an excerpt of the 33 pages:

There’s so much to cover, but I want to start right out of the gates and share something I hope you know…CRYPTOS NEED USCryptos are to be for the people and when it is all said and done history will show how important they are. 

Look at the big picture.  This is relevant, really important, the Vatican has called in all the money, gold and placeholders (debts) and the governments have no money. Well, they do, but it is hidden, it's underground. The “powers that be” want all the little people to work, but the people aren't working. The powers that be want everyone working so they are trying to make everyone poor so they have to work like little ants. The “powers that be” don’t want the cryptos or the average person gaining financial independence …so what do they do, they are trying to crash everything. We cannot let them do it. If we get a great reset, we are done, it is over. Here’s the secret that “they” don’t know. Great Spirit keeps blocking the “powers that be” from gaining complete control over the cryptos. The “powers that be” thought they had this pretty much sewn up, but it has all blown up, people are learning what is going on, and so much is going to be exposed.  Sure they have slowed down cryptos once again with their manipulation, but this tough lesson (about trusting others with your cryptos, which many people needed to learn) will only strengthen cryptos in the long run. Out with the bad, in with the good. 

I want to touch on the FTX, Sam Bankman Fried (SBF) crime.  SBF.  He's tainted.  He's dark.  He's the epitome of evil, hell, you know what I mean. He is the epitome of gluttony and greed, and he wanted the whole world, and all the people in it. He wanted to be, instead of a Hitler, he wanted to be where everybody would just come to him, and I don't know, praise him and kiss the ring, so to speak. And then the thing was--there were the dark ones coming through him.  You know I'm talking in code. No, I have no mercy for him. You know me, I fight the dark.  You know what; I can see that they don’t know where to put him right now.  They are trying to figure it out. 

I see that he will end up in jail or dead.  Everyone will know if he ends up dead that he was taken out.  They are in a pickle with this.  He's involved in pretty much all funds.  He thought he was going to run.  Well, both his parents are Stanford lawyers, and both involved heavily in politics. And then his partner- that was running another branch of the company, her father is the chairman of MIT economics. And Gary Gensler, who's the SEC chairman, used to work for him. This guy, Sam Bankman-Fried, was meeting with Gary Gensler. This is, why didn’t anyone ask me about this guy?  Maybe we could have outed him.  I need questions, specific questions to catch specific people.  Otherwise I get the general warning that “something huge in 30 to 60 days which has big impact on the markets” and with no reference point I can’t get the whole picture.  This guy (SBF) and all of them connected to him are so bad.  Really, evil.  So many were in on it.  The house is getting cleaned.  Let me see a picture of that Gary Gensler guy, the SEC guy.  I need to see the eyes. Hold on. 

Yes.  He is involved.  He's just a shallow hole. There's nothing in him.  He's just made up. The government and the powers that be are trying to get in, to manipulate it, but they keep getting blocked at different points. And if they had been allowed to keep this Ponzi scheme going, they would've taken all the cryptos down eventually.  If this didn't happen, we would all be done for. It would be war everywhere, throughout the world.  And I know that seems like a big leap, but cryptos are one of the only things that can stop the massive global corruption “They” don’t like cryptos because anything truly decentralized shows the cracks in the system.  Maybe that is why I could not get the specifics on this, it was so big it needed to blow up and if everyone knew then it wouldn’t have happened the way it needed to.  Remember this, crypto markets will not die.  Nothing ever dies. Nothing ever dies. Nothing ever dies. Nothing dies.

And Russia, they're just, well, this will sound crazy, they might be the ones that end up doing something good when it comes to blocking some of the bad actors trying to end cryptos.  Let’s come back to that later because it is important.  Everybody's looking at the map, right?  Think of any world leader.  They are all playing their chess game and moving pieces around.  They all know things are heating up and heading towards an inflection point.  They know things are wobbling and the people are only going to take so much.  It is like all of the world leaders are jockeying for position.  It’s like “The Game of Thrones.”  They are a bunch of hyenas.   

All of us, the good people, I feel like we have about three to five years to figure out where to put all this money in all the people that are peaceful, and then spread them out.

The powers that be have really screwed up.  The powers that be do not like the cryptos.  Why?  Because it was money that was formed by the people in some kind of crazy way. And then the government's like, "Well, wait a minute. Oh, the people are sitting home figuring the game out.”  And the gov’t is sitting there going, "Oh, the people are starting to play chess and they want to be kings and queens instead of pawns.”  Here’s the good news, if we stick with it, “they” cannot stop it.  “They” will keep trying to control it and slow it though.  We have to hang in there.  There is a lot more going on here than a temporary drop in the market. 

“They” know that all the people everywhere are going to go, "Okay, we're all tired of being boxed in, so we're all going to come out." And if we all come out and we all fight (peaceful protest), we all know what's going to happen.   These idiots don't know what to do with everything they have stolen.  They have all the money--they all got so greedy that they depleted Wall Street, they depleted the cryptos. They depleted the land. They depleted the people. They depleted everything. They depleted everything. Our government sold us out to China.  China's the enemy.  I am not talking about the average Chinese person either.  I am talking about the CCP.  I love all people who are good.  I do not care about race, gender, ethnicity or politics…I care about good people. But the CCP has infiltrated us.  They infiltrated us through money.  Our leaders sold us out.   I'm just so mad. I've just been a mix of emotions of anger, sad, tears, you name it. But you know me, I'm a warrior. You guys are warriors too.

Sorry, I know that was a lot to start out with.  Let me slow up and break things down:  

While these corrective phases are painful to live through, they are vital to expose and wash away the fraud.  They also wash away the remaining people who can’t hang on.  That is why we call them “corrective.”  They correct the fraud and bloat and shake out the tourists. 

If we were still running hot, FTX and other scams would not get exposed.  Down markets expose the bad actors. 

There is something very important I want to bring up again.  It isn’t sexy, but there is a reason that from the time I first got into cryptos I published that I keep only 50% of my liquid assets in crypto and the other 20% in US Dollars and around 30% in precious metals.  Even though I predicted that the market would not get better until very late this year or early into next year, when I miss something specific like the LUNA or FTX crashes and cryptos fall, we have been hedged and you may have noticed your US Dollars going up in value relative to other currencies, cryptos, and precious metals.  Soon precious metals will go up relative to US Dollars.  Soon cryptos will go up relative to the US Dollar, but I always have my “liquid assets” spread out (diversified over multiple asset classes) to draw off of in case I want to redistribute or in case of emergency.  Also, as you guys know, I do not consider real estate and business as part of my “liquid assets.”

Some people are getting scared and selling all of their cryptos to put money in their bank account.  Well, what happens when the banks wobble?  What happens when there is a bank holiday?  A centralized crypto exchange is not good, but banks also present risk.  Why?  Because they are centralized and really they are a huge ponzi.  Centralized = Risk!  I don’t keep my money on exchanges (other than some at Caleb and Brown, but not much) and I don’t keep money, other than bill paying money in the bank.  Some people get emotional and flustered when I say that and ask what their options are.  Cold storage of cryptos, precious metals in your own control.  US Dollars outside of the bank.  You have to be smart.  You have to be creative.  You have to do some research.  You have to be self-reliant.  And I know I have shared this 100 times or more over the years, but I am going to say it again right now.  Have US dollars cash in hand.  Have a means to barter.  Have some credit.  Have some precious metals in hand.  Have backup power.  Have some food and water (maybe one to 3 months) and have a network of reliable people you trust.  Have a means, even if only small, to do some gardening/planting to grow even a little bit of vegetables and or fruit.

AGAIN, the biggest gift is picking a handful of the winning projects (coins) and then hanging on and/or increasing your position (total number of coins) when the market is correcting. 

Keeping that in mind, lots of people look at me and say “oh, she’s the best in the world and should have all the answers.” I’m sorry, but that is not how it works.  God never gives just one person all the answers and God doesn’t give a critical invention or solution to just one person.  Spirit always gives vital information to a handful of people for a redundancy, you know for a backup in case someone gets taken out or drops the ball.  You know, a type of diversification if you will.  That is the model I follow when it comes to putting my betting money in cryptos;  I diversify. 

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)?  What is the story with this guy?  The NY Times did an article presenting him as pretty much a good guy with autism that got in over his head.  Is that the case?   NO!  LIKE I STARTED SAYING AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS REPORT, IT IS THE OPPOSITE OF THE NARRATIVE THEY ARE TRYING TO SPIN.  He is evil.  Why am I seeing celebrities, this doesn’t make sense.  Oh, there were lots of celebrities involved?  Well, put that aside because that is not the main show.  What is really going on is they were used to promote it.  This is all a massive premeditated crime--this guy, he is a Bernie Madoff type of guy.  This is an Enron type of situation, but worse, this reaches to the highest levels and around the globe.  From Ukraine money laundering to Political power funding to the SEC to pretty much everywhere.  It was a methodical attempt to control cryptos.  And this little evil genius and the gang are still working to cover their tracks.  I predict, even though he is connected and part of a much bigger scheme that he will, at some point in the future, either be taken out or do jail time.  He is not walking free in the long run.  No.  I mean, talk about the universe giving us warnings…look at the name “Madoff” (as in he made off with all your money) and “bankman fried” (as in the bank man got fried).  Talk about cosmic satire.  You can’t make this stuff up.

FTX in bankruptcy.  Will people get any of their money back?  This pisses me off.  Sorry, but this was just pure evil and you know that people will only get pennies on the dollar and it will take a lot of time.  It just makes me sick.

Can the contagion from FTX spread even further?  Yes the contagion has spread and will until the ripple effects of this bring us to the bottom. But it won’t end cryptos.  This is going to spread to a couple of more big players.  They are already scrambling in the background.  I don’t get names.  I don’t get names.  Just batten down the hatches and minimize your third party risk.  All the traders out there need to be careful because they are the ones who play on the exchanges and it is a riskier time than ever for leaving money on exchanges and trading platforms.  And the ripsaw volatility will wipe out the leverage traders.  You might see prices drop but hardly anyone gets the good deals because of exchange problems.  You already know this as we’ve been publishing about potential exchange problems for years.  Literally every year for 4 years we’ve predicted people would not be able to get money in or out in super high volume times and at peaks of mania and fear AND this has played out over and over.  Thank you spirit for that vital information as it has kept so many of us safe. 

 

CRYPTOS I Love

🎯Bitcoin Bottom Price?  Some people are projecting Bitcoin (currently around  $16,500 on the 17th of November) continuing to fall all the way down to as low as $3,500.  No.  I do not see that at all.  While I don’t get a bottom number, I get a NO to $3,500.  Now all Spirit is showing me is the target of $120K to $125K.

🎯Cardano.  Ranked 8 and about .33.  They aren’t going anywhere, they are here for the long run.  Years and years ago when I shared it would overtake Ethereum in the future, people just laughed at me, but more and more people will start seeing that is possible.  It will happen.  Sure it will take time, but Cardano will be the top doggie one day.  It is in my TOP 5 for a reason. 

🎯Ethereum Bottom Price?  Ethereum is around $1,200.  Some are projecting it will continue to drop as low as $300 to $400.  I don’t get a bottom number, but I see it going as high as even over $20K in the future.  So maybe it could drop 50%, but I don’t know.  On the other hand, what I’m focused on is that I see it will go up close to 18 X higher from where it is today.  So would I buy it even though it is dropping?  Just a little each couple of weeks or each month, you bet, but that is because I just dollar cost average in some discretionary money when I have it.  I don’t try to time it.   

🎯Persistence.  Ranked 200 and about .57.  People are learning how important decentralized smart defi contracts are and Persistence has been building and getting ready for this.  With the FTX and other centralized problems, pretty soon people will realize that solutions already exist and Persistence will have their day in the sun.  They just have to keep working hard on getting exposure and marketing and partnering with the right projects.  They are working hard and building and they are legit.  It is very rare thing to find a legit gem like Persistence so early in the game.  Still, to this day, virtually nobody knows about them, but we do!   

🎯Polkadot.  Ranked 11 and about $5.73.  It was around $50 at one time.  It has a nice 10 X run in 2021 from where you first rated it Purple.  How about now?  It is important, you know, it is designed to allow all of the different chains to work together.  That is how it will play out in the future.  We won’t have a bunch of separate pieces that don’t function together like it is right now in the early stages of crypto.  In time, it will all be connected and it will seem seamless to the average person. 

🎯Theta.  Ranked 46 and about .91.  Like all of the others that are good and trying to get through this rough market, they are all going "Crap. What do we do?" They're regrouping.  Spirit says that Theta's not out of the game. They're regrouping. Let's put it this way. Theta is resting right now, to recover. They have to work their way back up now.  And they will. They will.  Big mainnet will happen soon and that is important.  People who aren’t paying attention just cannot understand why this has been a top pick of mine for so long, but they just keep building and building and building.  You hear pundits and “talking heads” who wax poetic about how cryptos have no use case and they say silly things like “cryptos are a solution looking for a problem to solve, there is no use.”  Well, people who say things like that are not dialed into what is happening.  Theta has a huge “use case” and will see large scale adoption over time.  It just takes time. 

Predictions for 2023.  What do I think cryptos will look like in 2023? We're rebuilding and we're making progress.   

When will cryptos be super super good again? Like mania good?  I don’t get a year, but it feels 2024’ish, but we can have some unexpected runs before then, like some good periods in 2023.  Bottom line, not to sound like a broken record, I just can’t time it precisely.  I keep saying that and some people keep wanting me to give it a try. 

Parting message.  I want everybody to ... I want them to know, from me, word for word, that God looks out for each of you --sending you love and laughter and joy.  Now it's time for them to dig in and be busy and working, because we have to rebuild.  One of the first messages I was to share today was “cryptos need the people” and it is also the closing message spirit wants me to share.   

The powers that be are trying to hold all of the keys. The government's trying to get in. They can't, so they're trying to make it commercialized and over regulated.  But there's a big block. And guess who's going to help block it? It's really messed up and hard to comprehend, but I figured it out. I know this is going to sound absolutely insane to you, but somehow, Russia stops the one world gov’t total reset ... Russia somehow finds some common sense, and says, "Nope."  

Yeah, we have three to five years here, to play around with this stuff, for people to really get their act together and I’m not just talking about money.  I’m talking about on the spiritual side, on the side of light, and living healthy and good and clean.  Greed and gluttony need to go bye bye.  It needs to be about love, not money.  I understand that money is important, but any who make it their primary mission or focus will continue to run into problems.   I know you guys understand that it's not about the money, honey.  It’s not about the dollar. It's about love and family and true friends. And that's where you grow.  And love is the only thing you take with you when you depart


Love's the only thing-- that's what some have forgotten,

Michelle Whitedove
17 Nov 2022

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Young entrepreneurs are minting ten-figure fortunes faster than ever. In addition to the Mercor trio and Coplan, 15 other Under 30 alumni—including ScaleAI cofounder Lucy Guo, Reddit’s Steve Huffman and Cursor’s cofounders—became billionaires this year, while Guo’s cofounder Alexandr Wang and Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev (both former Under 30 honorees) regained their billionaire status after having fallen out of the ranks.

The budding billionaire has long been fascinated by markets and tech. When he was just 14, Coplan emailed the regional Securities and Exchange Commission office to ask how to create new marketplaces. “I did not get a response, but it’s a really funny email,” he says, grinning playfully as he thinks of his younger self. “It just shows that this stuff takes over a decade of percolating in your mind.”

Two years later, Coplan showed up at the offices of internet startup Genius uninvited after multiple emails of his asking for an internship went ignored. At age 16—at least a decade younger than anyone in that office—he secured his first job after making a memorable impression with his “wild curls” and “encyclopedic knowledge of billionaire tech entrepreneurs.” “If he chooses to become a tech entrepreneur, which seems likely, I have no doubt that we’ll be seeing his name again in the press before long,” Chris Glazek, his manager at the time, wrote in Coplan’s college recommendation letter.

Coplan went on to study computer science at NYU, but dropped out in 2017 to work on various crypto projects that never took off. In 2020, he founded Polymarket to create a solution to the “rampant misinformation” he saw in the world: The company’s first market allowed users to bet on when New York City would reopen amid the pandemic. He soon expanded into elections and pop culture happenings, among other events.

But it didn’t take long for the company to butt heads with regulators. In January 2022, Polymarket paid a $1.4 million fine to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for offering unregistered markets. It was also ordered to block all U.S. users, but activity on Polymarket skyrocketed particularly during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, with bets totaling $3.6 billion. A week after the election, the FBI raided Coplan's apartment and seized his devices as part of an investigation into a possible violation of this agreement. Shortly after, Coplan posted on his X account that he saw the raid as “a last-ditch effort” from the Biden administration “to go after companies they deem to be associated with political opponents.”

In July, the Department of Justice and CFTC dropped the investigations—after which Sprecher reached out to Coplan for dinner—and less than a week later, Polymarket announced it had acquired CFTC-licensed derivatives exchange QCX to prepare for a compliant U.S. launch. QCX applied to be a federally-registered exchange in 2022—an application that was left dormant for three years before receiving approval less than two weeks before the acquisition was announced. When asked about the timing of the deal, Coplan points to CFTC acting chairwoman Caroline Pham, who President Trump tapped to lead the agency in January. “Caroline deserves a lot of credit for getting every single license that had been paused for no reason approved, as acting chairwoman in less than a year,” he says. Coplan had realized an acquisition might be the only way for Polymarket to legally operate in the U.S. as early as 2021 due to the lengthy federal approval process, a source familiar with the deal told Forbes.

Just two months after the acquisition and days after Donald Trump Jr. joined Polymarket’s advisory board, the company received federal approval to launch in the U.S. (Trump Jr. has also served as a strategic advisor to Polymarket’s main competitor Kalshi since January.)

Polymarket’s rapid rise has drawn critics. Dennis Kelleher, co-founder and CEO of Washington-based financial advocacy group Better Markets, told Forbes in an email that the current administration’s deregulation around prediction markets has unlocked a regulatory “loophole” to enable “unregulated gambling” under the CFTC, “which has zero expertise, capacity or resources to regulate and police these markets.” Kelleher added that with backing from the Trump family “who are directly trying to profit on this new gambling den… the massive deregulation and crypto hysteria will almost certainly end badly for the American people.”

Investors and businesses are scrambling to seize the moment of deregulation. “We had opportunities to invest in events markets earlier, but there was a lot of risk,” Sprecher says, listing the regulatory changes in favor of crypto and prediction markets under the current administration. “This was the moment to invest if we wanted to still be early in the space.”

In the last few months, Trump’s Truth Social and sportsbook FanDuel, as well as cryptocurrency exchanges Crypto.com, Coinbase and Gemini all announced their own plans to offer prediction markets. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said prediction markets, which were integrated into its platform in March, were helping drive record activity for the retail brokerage in its third quarter earnings call.

“People are starting to realize right now that the opportunities are endless,” says Dubin, the billionaire hedge fund veteran who invested in Polymarket earlier this year. He points to sports betting companies, which have been regulated by states as gambling activity and taxed accordingly. States like New York can tax up to 51% of sportsbooks’ revenue, but federally-regulated prediction markets can bypass state laws, avoiding taxes and operating in all 50 states. With the realization that prediction markets could upend the sports betting industry—which brought in $13.7 billion in revenue in 2024—businesses are quickly jumping on board despite pushback from state gambling regulators. In October, both Polymarket and Kalshi secured partnerships with sportsbook PrizePicks and the National Hockey League, and Polymarket announced exclusive partnerships with sportsbook DraftKings and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The disruption won’t be limited to sports betting. Alongside its investment, Intercontinental’s tens of thousands of institutional clients including large hedge funds and over 750 third-party providers of data will soon have access to Polymarket data, as it gets integrated into Intercontinental’s products such as indices to better inform investment decisions. It also hopes to work with Polymarket to work on initiatives around tokenization—or converting financial assets into digital tokens on blockchain technology—to allow traders on Intercontinental’s exchanges to trade more flexibly at all hours of the day, Sprecher says. What’s more, in November, Google Finance announced it would integrate Polymarket and Kalshi data into its search results, while Yahoo Finance also announced an exclusive partnership with Polymarket.

Despite flashy investors, partnerships and a record $2.4 billion of trading volume in November, Polymarket has yet to launch in the U.S. or turn a profit. Coplan and his investors have hinted at ways the company could make money one day—selling its data, charging fees to users, launching a cryptocurrency token (similar to Ethereum or Bitcoin)—but decline to confirm any specifics. For now, the only thing that’s certain is the bet Coplan is making on himself. “Going for it and having it not pan out is an infinitely better outcome than living your life as a what if,” he says.

Standing across from the New York Stock Exchange building, Coplan tilts his head up as he watches a massive banner with Polymarket’s logo get hoisted onto the exterior of the building. It’s been five years since founding. One year since the FBI raid. He’s taking it all in. “Against all odds,” the bright blue banner reads, rippling in the wind alongside three American flags protruding from the building.

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Epstein-Linked Emails Expose Funding Ties to Bitcoin Core Development — Here Is What the Documents Reveal
  • Newly released emails show Jeffrey Epstein helped fund MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, which supported Bitcoin Core development.
  • The documents also confirm that Leon Black donated to MIT’s Media Lab through Epstein-directed channels.
  • The revelations reshape part of Bitcoin’s early institutional funding history and highlight long-hidden influence from controversial donors.

Newly unsealed emails from the House Oversight Committee have shed fresh light on Jeffrey Epstein’s hidden financial influence inside MIT’s Media Lab — and more importantly, how some of that money flowed into Bitcoin Core development. The correspondence reveals that Joichi Ito, then-director of the MIT Media Lab, relied on Epstein-connected “gift funds” to rapidly launch the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) in 2015, the research hub that became one of the primary sources of funding for Bitcoin’s core developers.

Emails Show Epstein-Connected Money Helped Launch MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative

In the newly surfaced emails, Ito directly thanked Epstein for the financial help that allowed MIT to “move quickly and win this round,” referring to the formation of DCI — a program explicitly designed to provide long-term support for Bitcoin Core contributors after the collapse of the Bitcoin Foundation. Ito’s forwarded message to Epstein described how the foundation’s implosion left core developers without stable funding, creating an opening for MIT to bring them under its umbrella.

He explained that three major developers — including Wladimir van der Laan and Cory Fields — agreed to join MIT, calling it “a big win for us.” The email also highlighted early support from prominent academics, including cryptographer Ron Rivest and IMF economist Simon Johnson. Epstein simply replied: “gavin is clever.”

Funding Numbers Reveal a Much Larger Financial Trail

MIT publicly claimed that Epstein donated $850,000 to the institution, with $525,000 flowing to the Media Lab. But journalist Ronan Farrow later reported the true figure was closer to $7.5 million — including a $5 million anonymous donation connected to Epstein associate Leon Black. The new emails appear to confirm that Black not only donated, but did so through Epstein’s direction.

One email from Ito to Epstein reads: “We were able to keep the Leon Black money, but the $25K from your foundation is getting bounced by MIT back to ASU.”

 

Epstein responded: “No problem — trying to get more black for you.”

The documents reveal Epstein’s influence reached deeper into Bitcoin circles than previously acknowledged, even including early conversations with Brock Pierce — another figure with documented ties to both Epstein and controversy surrounding early crypto foundations.

MIT’s Internal Concerns and the Fallout

The emails also expose MIT’s internal unease around anonymous or reputationally risky donations. After the scandal broke, Ito resigned in 2019. MIT later tightened donation policies, warning that “everything becomes public” eventually — a statement that now seems prophetic given this week’s disclosures.

Developers like Wladimir van der Laan say they were unaware of the extent of Epstein’s involvement and noted that DCI’s funding transparency “was not great back in the day.” The Media Lab and DCI declined to comment.

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