Elon Musk & The Transformation of Twitter: By Citizen Of The Future

April 12, 2023

The New-Era Bird App is Fulfilling X.com’s Original Vision

Over the last couple of months, there has been much talk about Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter and the hate narrative that has emerged in mainstream media. This tells us that there is resistance to change and a desire to maintain the status quo in the financial world. However, change is inevitable, and the rise of decentralized networks & Truth Twitter applies to that.

In this report we will delve into X.com and the prior discussions of decentralized trust networks around 2012 and how they are transforming the way we communicate and handle money. We will also review other articles from that time period to try and gain insights into the future of social media and the financial system. This research took me about 25 hours to put together so I hope you enjoy an exclusive reveal of the following content:

What Elon Musk is planning with Twitter infrastructure and his X.com Domain, and paths for the future of Twitter 2.0
Results of backlink analysis from X.com and the uncovering of documents that haven’t been shown on mainstream internet since 2012, which showcase some of the original vision of X.com
Comparisons of Facebook & Twitter users from A Decade of Growth- 2012 to 2022
An article showing how Ripple Trust Networks were an early discussion point from X.com and how they how they are Transforming Money, which lead me to find Ryan Frogger’s original Ripple website which dated back to 2006
Snippets from articles relating to X.com in 2012 discussing how The future of money is the Web, towards national cryptocurrencies, and what would happen if social media and payments merge and we discover a new payments utopia - and much more…

Elon Musk & the Twitter Acquisition

Let’s begin with Elon’s acquisition of Twitter that started on April 14 2022, and concluded on October 27 2022, for a price of $44 billion dollars. He has now taken Twitter from a public offering to a private company. Within the first month of his takeover, he provided the Twitter employees with two choices:

1. Stick around and help build his vision of “Hardcore Twitter 2.0” and that employees who choose to stay will be required to commit to working “long hours at high intensity”.

2. Say goodbye and accept a layoff. This decision allowed him to trim the fat at the company, which led to laying off over 3700 employees, leaving him with ones dedicated to bringing his vision of Twitter 2.0 to life.

In conversation with Ron Baron in Nov 2022, Musk said he will execute the X product plan “with some improvements”, which will make Twitter “the most valuable financial institution in the world” with his domain of X.com.

The Start to the End of an Era of Censored Speech

We all know the feeling of being censored and not having our voices heard. We all have opinions, and we should be able to share them regardless of whether they are deemed appropriate by others.

We have witnessed ample censorship on social media platforms. On Facebook, mainstream media outlets disable citizens from commenting on specific stories such as the Maxwell and Epstein articles. Why can’t citizens freely discuss the mainstream news articles? Why do they get to control what the masses can have conversations about when it comes to their content?

The old Twitter - pre-Elon Musk - did not have an edit button and it would censor citizens who did not fit the mainstream narrative. It is great to see some of the previously censored individuals get their voices back, allowing for a neutral town hall where all opinions can be heard and challenged.

Twitter Censored Information Around Leaked Hunter Biden laptop

If you want to learn about how extensively that Twitter manipulated content, please check out the newly released December 2nd 2022 “Twitter Files” that tell an incredible story from the inside of Twitter. It shows the Frankenstein-tale of a human-built mechanism, grown out of the control of its designer.

This story shows the old Twitter wasn’t balanced. Decisions were made based on contacts, and Twitter was overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation. There were more channels for complaint open to the left-leaning individuals versus the right. With the proof from the Twitter Files, it was shown how Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story by removing links and posting warnings that the link may be ‘unsafe’. They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases. This was all done to prevent citizens from viewing the content involved with the leaked information on Hunter Biden’s laptop right before the 2020 Election.

Note: Since the time of writing there are now two more Twitter Files: #TwitterFiles2 #TwitterFiles3

Twitter 2.0 - The Bird App is Evolving & Obtaining a Money License

Twitter has started the registration procedure for processing payments by submitting documentation to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on Nov 3, 2022.

Businesses must register with FinCEN in order to make money transfers, swap currencies, or pay checks. This will end up creating a never before seen “payments utopia'' by combining social media with instant and cheap cross-border payments. I think this is the start to major cryptocurrency adoption for specific networks with real-world utility.

*Shoutout to Citizen @ChrisPaulHall on Twitter for sending this document my way!*

A Blast From the Past! A Review of Documents Hidden From the Internet for over 10 years - X.Com Research Results…

Currently, when you go to X.com there is nothing to see as nothing on the website is public. Many people would just give up and move on, but I used this as motivation to dig deeper. I used my skill set of backlink analysis and started researching the domain of X.com to see what websites were linking to this domain. I found there were 2.1 million backlinks on the internet that point to X.com.

**A backlink is when a website links to another website in a piece of content, “A link leading back to their website”.**

With this ocean of information connecting to X.com, I spent hours digging through 25,000 links and seeing what I could find on this untouched topic. Out of the top 11 out of 25,000 backlinks I analyzed that are linked to X.com, these were the most important links that I found:

While researching, I was shocked at being able to gain access to these documents that have been buried & deleted from the internet - thank God for the great Web Archive! It's mind blowing to think about the fact that these articles were all written between 2010 - 2014 before PayPal became an independent, publicly traded company.

Please enjoy the following article summaries and the video above accompanying my research.

“How Ripple Networks are Transforming Money” | X.com

April 20, 2012 by Manu Sporny

As I was digging through my internet history from 10 years ago, I came across an article that caught my attention. The article was written by Manu Sporny for X.commerce, the e-commerce platform that was being developed by eBay.

In the article, Sporny discusses and explains a concept called Ripple Trust Networks, a decentralized network of payment channels that enables real-time, low-cost transactions between parties. He states it has the potential to greatly reduce the costs and complexities of cross-border payments compared to the expensive and slow correspondent banking system.

He also suggests that the use of the ripple network concept in a decentralized setting would have significant economic implications. This would shift tens of billions of dollars in profit from credit card companies to individuals. Individuals would be able to make payments directly with each other without needing to go through a central intermediary like a credit card company.

Furthermore, he suggests that the ripple network would reduce the cost of short-term loans by providing a highly competitive market in which people could request and receive lines of credit. This is because the decentralized nature of the ripple network would allow for a greater number of lenders to participate in the market, increasing competition and driving down interest rates. Overall, he is emphasizing the potential power of decentralized networks like the ripple network and links to a live implementation to the concept he was speaking about. I clicked it and it brought me to one of the first versions of Ripple in 2012 with 4500 network users. Using this link I was able to dig deeper and find the very very first version of the Ripple website dating back to March 2006. This led me to find the initial Ryan Fugger Ripple white paper from 2004.

“This is the power of the Web—people-powered finance through ripple networks and decentralized payments.”

Additionally, I learned about W3C's Payswarm initiative, which was a proposed open standard for the secure and efficient exchange of digital assets and payments on the web. This initiative was being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Payments Working Group, which aimed to create a technical framework that would enable web-based payment systems to inter-operate seamlessly and securely. But I cant seem to find anything after 2014 so I think it died or had a name change. If you go to https://www.payswarm.com/ it redirects to a W3C Working Group.

Reading these articles from 10 years ago made me realize just how much progress has been made in the field of digital payments and blockchain technology. It's exciting to see how far we've come and to think about the potential for even further advancements in the future. It's clear that the Ripple Trust Network concept and other W3C Initiatives are transforming the way we think about money and payments, and I'm excited to see where this technology takes us in the next 10 years.

“How Crypto Currencies Transform Money” | X.com

April 27, 2012 by Manu Sporny

This is a very interesting read that provides insight into some high-level thinking of the X/Paypal crew around FIAT & cryptocurrencies back in 2012! The article breaks down the problem with FIAT currencies and how we moved from a silver/gold backing of currency to nothing backing the dollar. It also explains the centralized concept with central banks that control the money printer.

They state:

“It truly is a remarkable leap of faith that we make. The US dollar has worth because it is backed by the US government and therefore is backed by its people…”

They have a great breakdown of some character traits regarding a “trustworthy cryptocurrency” which can be still used today. They talk about Bitcoin being in the “Tens of Millions of Dollars” – what a throwback!

The ending of the article talks about moving toward “National Crypto Currencies” that sound like Central Bank Digital Currencies, an innovation that we have been witnessing the adoption of for the last couple of years:

“A fiat-based crypto-currency could operate alongside these other services as an alternative technology-based mechanism for money transmission. The liabilities—like those held by most banks, credit card companies, and money transmission services—would fall squarely on the companies providing the software to use the crypto-currency.”

Manu explains that to replace cash, it is necessary to have open crypto-currency standards, and that developing nations may be the first to make the switch since they are not politically influenced by the banking and finance sector to the degree that more developed nations are (cough in 2022, SEC Gov). Other nations may choose to adopt crypto-currencies in order to increase the efficiency of their market, thus giving them a competitive advantage.

“Open Web Payment Standards and the New Economy” | X.com

Written May 11, 2012 by Manu Sporny

This article is important, as it talks about “Open Payment Stands” for the Web and how the W3C could open up the “ivory tower of finance and banking” to the general public. Their goal is to create a more transparent, competitive, and fair financial system. They list important things about open payment standards and talk about the world’s first universal payment standard for the Web, which they call a solution called “PaySwarm”. This named solution is no longer around, and I have not figured out what has happened to it yet.

“The Crisis of Money and Its Metamorphosis” | X.com

April 10, 2012 by Manu Sporny

This is a very important article that everyone should read to really get an understanding of cash (FIAT) and the transformation happening with the global monetary system. This article contains a lot of value:

“The past several years have not been kind to the world’s working class and working poor. The foundations on which we have built the institutions of commerce—the markets, the banks, and government—have proven to be less reliable than we had believed, resulting in a wave of monetary crises around the world. Each was met with our brightest national leaders scrambling to correct the instability through obscene injections of capital and massive creations of debt on behalf of the peoples of this world.”

It talks about being the time to put forth a plan that uses the web, the best communication platform that we have today, to solve our collective monetary crisis. The article then explains the understanding of how we arrived in this predicament and examines the purposes of debt, money, and banking. It goes and talks about debt and the financial system in the early years of global society and how banks have shifted and taken over the economic system. They describe “The Web as an Engine for Innovation” and talk about “Rethinking the Foundations of Money”

They also talk about “Ripple Trust Networks” powering people's credit.

“The Future Money & The Web” | X.com

May 18, 2012 by Manu Sporny  

This is another great informational article where they talk about the concept of “a ripple”, a trust network, and how we could change the way we provide loans and credit - it talks about how cryptocurrencies are poised to replace physical money. He talks about the web as a lifetime depository and how to standardize digital wallet, with it one day coming in place so you can access it from anywhere.

It also explains how finance is shifting to the web as fintech can innovate faster, using the web base architecture, then traditional banks, and credit card networks. They state in this article, at the time of writing, that there were 2 billion people who use the web. In 2022, there are now around 5 billion people who have access to the web.

“Perhaps the Web’s biggest contribution to our lives has not been the technology itself, but rather a new way of thinking about how we work together to solve the most pressing problems of our time.”

“The Future of Commerce Will Combine Your Social Network and Mobile Device” | X.com

This was from September 21, 2012, written by Nick Hughes. In this article, they discuss:

“If Those Two Powerful Phenomena Merge, Will We Discover a New Payments Utopia?”

They also state:

“Facebook and Twitter, together making up more than a billion socially connected web users, have positioned themselves well for the possible next phase of commerce. Facebook, for instance, recently reported now having 955 million monthly active users and 552 million daily active users. It also said it had 543 million active mobile users, who are much more engaged than its PC users”.

It was also stated that Facebook had over 11 million business profiles! This means in 10 years, as of 2022.

Facebook has 3 billion monthly users and 2 billion daily users, with over 200 million Facebook business pages. In 2012, Twitter celebrated its 6th birthday while also announcing that it had 140 million users and 340 million tweets per day. Today those numbers are at 450 million monthly active users and around 500 million tweets per day. This article also talks about combining a user ID with a mobile device ID and connecting a secure payment credential, thus having one quick checkout – online or offline.

These are the last two important statements I want to point out, then picture what Elon Musk is doing today:

“Now imagine if instant and automatic transactions were coded into those sorts of buttons, allowing the user to transact with a securely stored payment credential on a third-party server in just one click from his or her mobile device.”

“If you are developing a mobile payment platform, it only makes sense to consider the imminent power of social sharing and how it will enhance the commerce experience for people around the world.”

It’s neat to see how social media is exponentially growing and connecting citizens of the globe. I wonder what life is going to look like, reflecting on this, 10 years from now! They also use a great example of “How Facebook Could Transform the Mobile Commerce Market”.

The Bottom Line…

There is now no doubt about it – we are at the start of a new era of payments and social media. This plan has taken over 10 years to come to fruition, and I am so thankful I am doing my homework now, before the transformation has taken place.

In conclusion, I hope that my research on the connections of the past has provided an interesting and insightful look at the developments that have shaped the current landscape of freedom of speech and payments. As we enter a new era of technology and innovation, it is important to embrace the opportunities and challenges that come with it. The clock is ticking and the whole world is asleep thanks to mainstream media, but it is up to us to awaken and embrace the potential of this moment in time. I hope you have enjoyed reading this edition of the Genfinity's LightHouse Report, and I look forward to sharing more insights and perspectives with you in the future.

Never stop learning and never stop improving!

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February 17, 2025

The Dawn of DeFi: The Hidden War for a Decentralized Future

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Attempted Theft of the World's Most Valuable Property, SEC Lawfare & The ETHgate Scandal

It is widely accepted that the media often spreads misinformation and hides any truth that challenge the establishments narratives. Well, this is one of those hidden truths...

Loans without Banks, Trades without Exchanges, Contracts without Lawyers. Peer to Peer Capital Markets disrupts traditional finance by removing middlemen and counter-party risk, enabling you to become your own bank by holding the keys to it all in your own privately held digital wallet.

To what lengths do you think the establishment would go to defend their control of the financial system? A system seemingly ripe with market manipulation, naked shorts, money laundering and regulatory capture.

The Myth of Open Source

For context, in the realm of open source, major corporations can engage in Intellectual Property theft by using open source projects to gain insights, technology, or legal protections without fully reciprocating to the community. Companies might contribute code to an open source project, only to later use that same code in commercial products, extending it with enhancements, essentially using open source as a low-cost R&D resource. Patents are crucial here, serving as a defense mechanism. Although open-source licenses cover copyrights, they don't extend to patents, meaning that companies holding patents can enforce legal protections against unauthorized commercial use, ensuring that any commercial application of their patented technology within open-source software requires proper licensing or recognition. This protection has historically led to the hyper-growth of industries like mobile phones and the internet, where patented technologies could be safely shared and built upon, promoting innovation and market expansion.

Validating Inventorship

In fields such as technology, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing, patents are vital for safeguarding new inventions, with Nikola Tesla's extensive patent portfolio serving as a testament to his contributions to science.

However, Tesla's revolutionary inventions, like the Wardenclyffe Tower which aimed at providing free wireless energy, faced fierce opposition due to their potential to disrupt established control over energy markets. Financially sabotaged by investors like J.P. Morgan, legally challenged through "the war of currents" by Thomas Edison's promotion of the less efficient Direct Current system, and undermined by media smear campaigns, Tesla's work was systematically suppressed. After his death, the FBI's seizure of his documents further suggests efforts to control or conceal his ideas that could disrupt centralized energy distribution, illustrating how innovation can be stifled to maintain existing power structures.

Could this type of suppression still be happening today?

The Genesis of Decentralized Finance

Reggie Middleton first introduced Distributed Finance what would later become known as Decentralized Finance (DeFi), in 2013 when he invented and patented technologies under the title "Devices, systems, and methods for facilitating low trust and zero trust value transfers." This included groundbreaking concepts like programmable Smart Contracts, Swaps, Tokenized Assets, NFTs, Stable Coins, Digital Wallets, and even underpin Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11196566B2/en?oq=US11196566+

Called by many as "The Most Valuable Property in the World", his patents US11196566B2, US11895246B2, JP6813477B2, JP7204231B2, JP7533974B2, & JP7533983B2 have been cited over 138 times by major financial institutions, underscoring their foundational role in the blockchain industry.

His patents cover:

Trustless Peer-to-Peer Value Transfers: Systems for enabling decentralized and secure value transfers between parties without the need for intermediaries. Applicable to cryptocurrency transactions, DeFi platforms, and digital payment systems.
Decentralized Financial Systems (DeFi): Methods and devices that facilitate decentralized trading, lending, borrowing, and yield generation. Impacting decentralized exchanges (DEXs) like Uniswap, SushiSwap, and similar platforms.
Smart Contracts: Implementation of self-executing contracts on blockchain networks, used to automate agreements and enforce conditions without intermediaries. Essential for platforms such as Ethereum, Cardano, and other Layer-1 and Layer-2 blockchain protocols.
Tokenized Asset Trading: Methods for creating, transferring, and trading tokenized assets, including cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and digital securities. Platforms like OpenSea, Rarible, and asset tokenization platforms may fall within the scope.
Cryptographic Security and Wallet Systems: Systems for securing digital assets using cryptographic methods, including cold storage, multi-signature wallets, and multi-party computation (MPC). Potential overlaps with services offered by companies like Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, and institutional custody providers.
Decentralized Identity and Verification Systems: Technologies for managing and verifying digital identities on decentralized networks, including for KYC (Know Your Customer) purposes. Likely touching on identity solutions like Civic, BrightID, and Blockstack.
Blockchain-Based Voting and Governance: Systems for implementing decentralized voting, governance, and consensus mechanisms, foundational to DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations). Relevant to governance platforms like Aragon, Snapshot, and MakerDAO.
AI Economic Agentic Computing: First introduced by the VeADIR Platform refers to the application of autonomous agents in economic systems, where software entities can make decisions, negotiate, and execute transactions independently. These agents use artificial intelligence to analyze market data, predict trends, and optimize economic activities like trading, resource allocation, and supply chain management. Used by OpenAi, Claude Sonnet, Meta and xAI.

The societal value of these patents to disrupt traditional financial models and fintech business practises, by essentially removing the banks as middlemen, create significant economic incentives to suppress his work.

True Decentralization

Current Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) often fall short of being truly decentralized due to various practical and structural limitations. Although DEXs leverage blockchain technology and smart contracts to enable trading without a central authority, aspects like governance, liquidity, and user interface can introduce centralization. Governance tokens might be concentrated in the hands of a few, influencing decision-making unevenly. The frontend, controlled by developers, represents a centralized point of control or potential failure. Liquidity pools can be dominated by a handful of large providers, leading to centralized liquidity dynamics. Some DEXs implement regulatory compliance like KYC/AML, which inherently involves centralized oversight. The use of layer-2 solutions for scalability might also undermine decentralization if not fully autonomous.

However, patents like US11196566B2 and US11895246B2 could pave the way for true decentralization by introducing innovations in blockchain interoperability and decentralized governance mechanisms. These patents potentially offer solutions for more evenly distributed control over exchange operations, enhancing the autonomy and distribution of decision-making, thus moving closer to genuine decentralization in the DEX ecosystem, which can be expanded to other industries like Healthcare, Supply Chain, or any other industry that trades value.

Who is Reggie Middleton?

Reggie Middleton, through his BoomBustBlog, became a notable figure in financial analysis, particularly for his early and accurate predictions regarding the collapses of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns during the 2008 financial crisis. His blog was renowned for providing in-depth, contrarian insights into economic trends, investment opportunities, and corporate vulnerabilities. Reggie won the CNBC's stock draft consecutively for two years, and appeared on major financial news networks like CNBC, BBC and Bloomberg where he discussed market trends, his forecasts, and the implications of financial strategies adopted by major firms. His track record has undeniably positioned him as a significant voice in the financial commentary space.

Reggie's work gained public attention when he appeared on the Keiser Report and CNBC in 2014, premiering his innovations built on the Bitcoin blockchain called "Ultracoin", two years before Ethereum captured the crypto limelight.

His vision was to create sound markets for a financial ecosystem where loans could be issued without banks, trades executed without exchanges, and contracts enforced without lawyers, aiming to disintermediate traditional finance by removing the middleman that doesn't add value.

In 2014, Reggie pioneered a simple Apple trade using a Pure Bitcoin Wallet: The Ultracoin Client.

Ultracoin later renamed VERI short for “Veritaseum” meaning "of truth", was the

first to market in tokenizing precious metals, offering VeGold, VeSilver and even tokenized fiat currencies or so called "Stablecoins". Veritaseum also introduced VeRent creating yield through P2P lending, and the revolutionary VeADIR platform, an autonomous, blockchain-powered research platform that independently evaluates and acts on dynamic research in real-time, communicates in machine language, and operates by purchasing, analyzing, and distributing insights on various assets while allowing VERI token holders to access and trade this research.

In 2018 he created the worlds first Gold Denominated Blockchain Mortgage

with traditional written note, mortgage as well as a smart contract on a public blockchain, both of whom incorporate each other by reference. The transaction had traditional title insurance and the note was recorded with the county clerk. The mortgage was denominated in Veritaseum's VeGold product, a digital form of gold in bearer form, fully transferable and redeemable upon demand.

Merely a few examples of groundbreaking products offered by Veritaseum.

Coinbase's Challenge: The Patent Infringement Suit

Coinbase, a dominant force in the cryptocurrency exchange market, enlisted the services of Perkins Coie, one of the largest patent law firms, to contest the validity of Reggie Middleton's patents.

They launched an Inter Partes Review (IPR) at the Patent Trials and Appeals Board (PTAB), arguing that Middleton's patents lacked novelty. An overwhelming 85% of patents are invalidated through this process. However, Coinbase's challenge was denied along with the appeal, thereby upholding and strengthening the validity of Reggie's patents.

This IPR challenge came after Veritaseum sued both Coinbase and Circle USDC for $350 million each over patent infringement. Unfortunately, Reggie's patent attorney and close friend passed away during this suit, so the cases has been dismissed without prejudice, meaning they can be negotiated or the cases reopened at any time. This leaves Coinbase in a precarious position, especially if shareholders have not been properly informed of this risk.

This lawsuit details how Coinbase's infrastructure, specifically its Ethereum and Solana validator nodes, engage with client devices to facilitate transactions. Exhibit #3 meticulously outlines the patent's claims, detailing the roles of computing devices, the use of memory for key pair storage, network interfaces for transaction terms, and the generation and dissemination of transaction data records. It provides concrete examples such as the processing of NFT transactions on Ethereum and the management of transaction fees on Solana, supported by in-depth references to code and API interactions. Furthermore, the exhibit explains the verification of transactions through an external state, illustrating how Coinbase's technology aligns with the patent's principles for decentralized transaction processing without a central authority.

SEC's Intervention: A Turning Point

In 2019, with promising negotiations on the horizon with both the Jamaican and the Nigerian Stock Exchanges for digital asset platforms, Reggie's world was turned upside down.

The SEC accused Reggie of fraud, alleging he misled investors about the functionality of Veritaseum's VeADIR platform, which the SEC ordered to be shut down following a live demonstration. The SEC also made claims on the validity of Reggie's patent applications, which have since been approved by both the USPTO and the Japan Patent Office. Oddly enough, the SEC may actually infringe on these very patents through the disgorgement and storage of seized crypto tokens.

Despite Veritaseum's cooperation with the SEC over a two-year period, along with a detailed response addressing the SEC's allegations, and not one token holder claiming to be defrauded, these allegations still led to a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that froze millions in assets, destroying the company's operations, and forcing a consent judgment "neither confirming or denying the allegations". The SEC would top it all off with a gag order that barred Reggie from publicly discussing the matter.

Keep in mind, the SEC is claiming jurisdiction by calling Utility Tokens "Digital Asset Securities" but recently SEC Commissioner @HesterPeirce stated:

"...by using imprecise language we've been able to suggest the token itself is a security, apart from that investment contract, which has implications for Secondary Sales, it has implications for who can list it...

We've fallen down on our duty as a regulator not to be precise. So, tucking into a footnote that yes we admit that now that the TOKEN ITSELF IS NOT A SECURITY, that is something we should have admitted long ago and then started wrestling with the difficult questions."

This calls into question if the SEC even had jurisdiction to bring forth this case to begin with. The Veri Community would later challenge the SEC's unproven allegations against Reggie with

a Dossier supporting the Vacating or Setting Aside of this case, and suggesting possible misconduct by the SEC.

Allegations of SEC Misconduct:

Misrepresentation of Facts: Assertions that the SEC deliberately mischaracterized the
functionality of the VeADIR platform, along with the patents and their value, by labeling them as lacking novelty and part of fraudulent activities.
Misleading Evidence: The SEC's use of declarations from Patrick Doody and Roseann Daniello, which contained misleading information about the personal ownership of a Kraken account used to misappropriate funds. Doody would later correct his statement, but the SEC did not update the court with this new information, potentially misleading the judicial process.
Conflict of Interest: Doody's undisclosed financial interests in the digital asset space through Lily Pad Capital LLC could suggest a bias in his testimony, which was pivotal in obtaining the TRO.
Coercion and Intimidation: Witnesses like Lloyd Cupp and John Doe provided affidavits claiming coercion by SEC attorneys to alter their testimonies, pointing towards witness tampering and intimidation.

FOIA Responses: The SEC's FOIA department initially denied any communications with Kraken, only later admitting to subpoena issuance, suggesting an attempt to obscure facts.
RICO Allegations: A 95 page RICO Dossier, supported by extensive evidence, alleges that the SEC's actions could resemble an organized crime syndicate, with systemic coercion, misrepresentation, and procedural misconduct aimed at Reggie Middleton.
Bar Complaint: The Veri community lodged a Bar Complaint against the SEC's Lead Attorney
over the use of misleading evidence, coercion and intimidation of witnesses.

Summary Articles of the B ar Complaint and RICO Dossier

Comparisons with the SEC Misconduct in the DEBT Box Case

The DEBT Box case shares a troubling parallel with the Veritaseum case. In both cases a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) freezing funds was issued using dubious evidence which suppressed the ability to defend themselves. This behavior was already admonished by five US Senators

in a letter to Commissioner Gary Gensler in which the SEC presented misleading claims in this now high-profile cryptocurrency case.

"Regardless of whether Commission staff deliberately misrepresented evidence or unknowingly presented false information, this case suggests other enforcement cases brought by the Commission may be deserving of scrutiny. It is difficult to maintain confidence that other cases are not predicated upon dubious evidence, obfuscations, or outright misrepresentations."

Given the similarities in alleged procedural misconduct between the cases, it raises systemic questions about the SEC’s litigation approach in cryptocurrency matters.

This parallel underscores a potential agency-wide issue that could involve either implicit biases against crypto companies or an explicit strategy to pursue aggressive, potentially misleading tactics in court.

Is The Fox Guarding the Hen House?

In a significant development, the Attorney Grievance Committee (AGC) has decided to forward a complaint against SEC attorney Jorge Tenreiro to the SEC's Office of General Counsel (OGC) for investigation. This controversial move suggests a potential conflict of interest, given that the OGC is part of the SEC, the very agency where Tenreiro was recently promoted to Chief Litigation Counsel. The complaint, filed by the Veri community, accuses Tenreiro of misconduct including alleged coercion, witness tampering, and misrepresentation during SEC investigations. The Veri Community argues that this decision undermines the integrity of the legal process, as the OGC's role is to provide legal advice and defend the SEC, not to independently investigate its own employees. This raises questions about the impartiality and transparency of the disciplinary process for attorneys, especially when it involves high-profile figures like Tenreiro.

"As noted in re Rowe, 80 N.Y.2d 336 (1992), the public’s confidence in the legal profession depends on transparent and impartial disciplinary processes. Delegating oversight to the SEC, where Mr. Tenreiro remains a senior official and where the OGC has a clear institutional stake, jeopardizes this confidence and risks the appearance of protectionism.”

The VeriDAO has submitted a response letter to the AGC along with creating a PDF generator
to help the estimated 100 complainants and anyone else interested in requesting the AGC to reconsider this action.

Legal and Judicial Trials

The legal battles would only continue for Reggie. The case of Hall v. Middleton, in which Hall, a 1% shareholder sued Reggie, raises concerns of judicial bias and procedural mishandling. In this case, Reggie was denied Due Process and barred from presenting crucial evidence or calling witnesses due to his former attorneys' "Office Failures" that missed deadlines to submit evidence without the knowledge of Reggie or the firm Brundidge & Stanger that outsourced his counsel as detailed in their affirmations.

"In my many years of practice it is a rare instance where I have witnessed an attorney intentionally not file critical documents as required by Court Order without the permission or knowledge of his client, who had an established and fully developed attorney client-relationship with said attorney, and then misrepresent that the requirements of the Court Order were being satisfied. This is one of those instances and I hope not to see another."
~ Carl Brundidge

The judge ruled that Reggie must:

Pay a $1M fine to his company Veritaseum Inc., in which he owns 99%
The plaintiff was awarded costs of $495k against Veritaseum Inc.
The Judge ordered Patents (filed before the creation of Veritaseum Inc.) to be assigned to the company without compensation.

Attorney's "Office Failures":

Sheridan England missed critical deadlines, resulting in the striking of exculpatory evidence. England’s inaction or inadequate defense exacerbated Middleton’s legal vulnerability, directly leading to adverse outcomes.

Judge Schecter’s Conduct:

Ignoring Exculpatory Evidence: Despite knowledge of its existence, Schecter struck Middleton’s post-trial memorandum.
Procedural Bias: The judge’s decisions systematically favored Hall, including allowing him to collect attorney fees from Middleton personally, contrary to the principles of derivative law.
Forced Patent Transfers: Schecter’s order to transfer patents to an underfunded entity (Veritaseum) which were court restrained by the same judge, rendering them defenseless against attacks and IP theft.

This ordeal was compounded when Reggie was held in Contempt for using personal funds (while Veritaseum’s funds were court-restrained) to successfully defend his patents against an IPR challenge by Coinbase in the PTAB of the USPTO in an attempt to invalidate these patents. The Forced Patent Expropriation to Veritaseum without compensation or the ability to defend them could be seen as coordinated as it benefited very large competitors seeking to avoid licensing fees or infringement claims, or possibly even IP Theft.

Judicial Complaint: A formal complaint has been filed with the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct by the Veri Community.

ETHgate: The Broader Conspiracy Allegations

Parallel to Middleton's struggles, "ETHgate" emerged, involving allegations by Ethereum co-creator @StevenNerayoff. Nerayoff claimed a government conspiracy aimed at controlling or monopolizing cryptocurrency development by targeting key figures. This narrative suggested that by attacking innovators (like Reggie Middleton as the Veri Community contends), the SEC might have indirectly cleared a path for Ethereum, which, despite its decentralized claim, benefited from a regulatory environment less scrutinized than its competition.

The term "ETHgate" encapsulates the belief that Ethereum's "Free Pass" from regulatory scrutiny might not just be due to its technological merits but also due to strategic regulatory maneuvers, where attacking smaller or less established DeFi projects could safeguard larger, more influential platforms like Ethereum.

Back in 2021, @JohnEDeaton1 from @CryptoLawUS explained XRP's side of Ethereum's "Free Pass". More recently, further SEC RICO Claims are insinuated in "RIGGED from the start" a documentary by @Fruition_News , along with posts by @KuwlShow and the XRParmy involving the SEC, Ethereum, a16z, and Consensys surrounding the Bill Hinman speech. Active FOIA requests by @EleanorTerrett seek to shed light on meetings between Hinman and Ethereum members.

Given the SEC protection of ETH and the high probability of Ethereum infringing on Reggie Middleton's patents as meticulously detailed in Exhibit #3 of the Coinbase case, is it ridiculous to believe Reggie Middleton could have been targeted?

Community Support: The Backbone of Resilience

Despite the SEC's narrative labeling them as "The Defrauded," the Veritaseum community rallied around Reggie.

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Financially devastated and with his funds frozen, Reggie faced foreclosure and was threatened with jail time after contempt charges for defending his patents using personal funds. In a remarkable show of support, the Veri Community rallied, raising an impressive $149,000 in less than two weeks to cover the fine while the case is under appeal.

They funded legal battles largely through donations and more recently with innovative means like NFT silver rounds called SmartMetal using Reggie's patented technologies, underscoring their belief in his vision. The first minted round was auctioned off for an astonishing $14,000 won by "M S"

"There is no better witness to the veracity of any defense than the alleged defrauded defending the alleged fraud at their own expense"
~ The Veri Community

This community support was not just financial but also moral, with efforts such as an Amicus Brief in the case against XRP, a No Action Letter (NAL) seeking clarity on secondary market sales of tokens, a Bar Complaint against the SEC's newly promoted Chief Litigation Counsel, and the @dao_veri's

#ProjectSunlight The SEC RICO Revelation.

A Call for a New Regulatory Paradigm

Reggie Middleton's saga is emblematic of the challenges faced by pioneers in the blockchain and DeFi arenas. His patents, now granted, underscore their foundational nature, yet the path to their recognition was marred by legal battles, suggesting a systemic issue where the regulatory framework might not fully comprehend or support emerging tech. His resilience, supported by an unwavering community and the validation of his intellectual property, underscores the need for a regulatory environment that fosters rather than stifles innovation. As blockchain technology continues to evolve, Reggie's story serves as a critical reference for balancing innovation with legal and ethical governance, ensuring that the future of finance remains open to all, not just those with the resources to navigate the legal maze.

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