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btc.. bitcoin.. Cryptocurrency.. been there. done that. They are the so far worst crypto communities. Only thing they do is shilling. You can not criticize a single thing there. It’s like a nightmare. You have to discuss how crypto is the savior of the world all the time. One single criticism? Bam! Your post removed. You are banned!
Buttcoin is not perfect either. But I prefer buttcoin over them. Why? Because I can read non-shilling ideas, comments here. And it’s very useful for me. I wish there was a crypto community which combine all ideas. I mean positive and negative side of crypto should be discussed. But seems like so far we only have subreddits either full negative or full positive. Why there isn’t a combined one, I wonder.

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I'm a retarded GenXer who YOLO'd junior silver miner OTM call options in 2011 and lost a truckload of cash. But I kept my phyzz until a freak boating accident sunk it all. Oh well, this isn't financial advice, I'm a proven idiot, and nobody should listen to me.
I've learned a lot about the silver markets charlatans since then. Mike Maloney is a forever pumper. Peter Schiff is a suit and shill. Doug Casey lives on a ranch in Argentina but has his head far up his ass. Since you retards love to lose it all, go listen to those guys. But there are some very serious voices in the precious metals market that have proven the fraud and manipulation and even come up with ways around it: Ted Butler (commodity analysis), Eric Sprott (creator of $PSLV), James Dines (legendary newsletter writer), and James Turk (creator of goldmoney.com).
Silver is the biggest opportunity for profit that the general public could broadly participate in. If the price of silver goes up, the miners will see amplified gains. Juniors would explode into the alpha centuri (13,000% gains or more, easily). The reason we know this is because it's been tried before by people smarter than any of us (Hunt Brothers 1980, Buffet's 1997-2006 silver purchase, and 2010 mini-squeeze-beatdown). Even that lucky commie bastard Max Keiser tried to rally enough retards together to squeeze silver and "crash JPMorgan" before he got rich off bitcoin. {If you can't read, there is a video breakdown: search "youtube Is a WallStreetBets Silver Squeeze Possible" for a pretty good historical overview}
The forces at play in the precious metals market are global, historical, and backed by the biggest banks, not some meaningless hedgefund. It's the real deal. American's money used to be backed in bi-metallic standard, all coinage had some precious metals (pre 1964 dimes, silver dollars/half dollars and paper currency all convertible to silver or gold). All real silverbugs ultimate goal is to return to a bi-metalic backed US currency. It's a big part of the precious metals folklore, and the fact that the last straw that sealed President Kennedy's fate was signing Executive Order 11110 which would have returned the US to a silver standard. This would have restored faith in our financial system, eliminate the scourge of inflation, balanced the value of labor versus financial assets, and allow regular workers to save instead of being forced to participate in a ridiculous casino just to have a retirement.
Attention CNBC media whores reading this: who is the villain of this story? Blythe Masters. Check her out, she's actually pretty hot. {search: "Blythe Masters wants to upend finance again twitter bloomberg"} And she is a goddamn evil mastermind that created the Credit Default Swap (CDS). Yes, she created the financial weapon of mass destruction that sunk the global economy in 2008, she is first author on the paper. Then she went on to lead the JP Morgan precious metals trading desk to unwind Bear Sterns silver short book by containing any rally (that's how I lost all my money). Now she is working on blockchain technology that can be used by the banking cartels as a weapon to further enslave the entire world. And, yes, you degenerates, she has a sexy British accent and a killer set of legs. {search "egonzehnder blythe masters shares career advice daughters 2019"}
Steven Cohen is a fucking worm to Blythe Masters. Any financial instrument like SLV would be manipulated easily by her and the ilk that inherited her positions at JPMorgan and other bullion banks. There is only 1 way to perform a real silver squeeze: physical ownership (not paper ownership like SLV, there is a big difference). The commodity futures markets is called the COMEX. The COMEX has about a 250 contracts trade for every 1 ounce of actual silver available for delivery. That means if a handful of commodity traders stand for delivery and the physical delivery can't be made it will crash the COMEX. Sure, they might be forced to settle for cash like the Hunt brothers, but it will crash the COMEX and the price will soar nonetheless. It's a real thing, people have done it, there is no stopping that it will happen again. And what happens historically is a giant leap for junior miners: Copper Lake in 1980 jumped 13,000%. The average silver junior miner lept over 2,300%). It was soo easy to make money, even an ape could do it.
So, how do we avoid the manipulation?

1. $SLV is a scam! SLV's custodian is JP Morgan, the vampire squid sucking on the face of humanity! Don't fall for it. They can never be trusted. Most silverbugs don't even believe they have any silver or gold in their ETFs of any significant amounts, otherwise there would be outside audits which don't happen. Anybody suggesting to use SLV is a pumper, paid shill, or doesn't know the history. And yes, now that JPMorgan has paid almost a Billion dollar fine for manipulating the silver market, they are long silver or at least are holding it as custodian for other players. So if silver goes up will JPMorgan win...yeah maybe. But that's not the point, you'd win, I'd win, the people of the world win.

2. $PSLV is not an appropriate vehicle. PSLV is a closed end fund. Eric Sprott is not going to buy any more silver and issue any more shares. Premium to NAV went over 20% and he didn't do it. PSLV serves a purpose (tax savings), but they don't acquire on commodity exchanges unless a big player takes delivery. If you actually have enough money to take delivery 10,000 oz - then PSLV works.
So what to really do: Buy PSLV or physical For the paranoid, you can create an account on goldmoney.com, put money into silver and it is owned by you, stored in Switzerland and registered in the Island of Jersey (for the most part outside of financial oligarchy control). You have to fill out a form on your taxes each year but buying/selling stonks have the same requirement, just a different form. Again, NOT financial advice - I'm a proven town idiot and hold no credentials no should you listen to me.
Goldmoney.com was created by James Turk, exactly for this purpose. So people can own phyzz without having to hide a 1000lb safe in your wife's boyfriend's basement or sink your phyzz into a pond. And also he set it up outside of the US so if the US government seized physical (like 1934!), his customers would have some chance at taking physical delivery in Switzerland. I wholeheartedly believed that the crash of 2008 would lead to this eventual outcome if silver went really high and it almost did at $50, at $100 the champagne corks stop poppin.
So then what went happened in 2011? Blythe Masters happened. JP Morgan and the other bullion banks beat down the precious metals market in a coordinated attack of naked short selling. Punishing beat downs, if you're into that kinda thing!
The silver spike of 2010/11 happened because some silverbugs bought physical metals and there were shortages at the retail level, just like what has started today. In all honesty, there were probably 10,000 Silverbugs in existence at that time all acting as lone actors on a handful of forums. This time could be much different, if a lot of apes bought silver and the intermediaries held for delivery on the COMEX this could break the back of the silver cartel and Lord Rothschild would roll over in his grave. And silver junior miners would skyrocket!
I love silver, what will I buy? 90-100% into some other form of physical ownership (coins/or goldmoney.com). $PSLV is also an acceptable vehicle but doesn't squeeze LBMA/COMEX supplies {search: "sprott physical silver trust December 2020 fact sheet"}. And 0-10% into long-dated calls or shares of junior minors. Some pumper was saying $AG (First Majestic). Sure maybe, or just use $SILJ a basket of silver juniors that would all explode and give you less single company risk to enjoy the rally. Get your popcorn.
And those boomers, will they help buy silver? Don't count on it, but that's a different type of rant.
TL;DR
Buy either physical silver, $PSLV, or goldmoney.com and also a little bit of silver miners to amplify gainz. Blythe Masters is a demon. Break the COMEX. Restore our heritage of sound money.
Corrections: PSLV has registered to issue $1.5billion more shares. That’s a lot of shiny silver. See the link in the comments below. It’s looks like PSLV will be retails best bet to apply pressure on the physical market. And if bullion dealers become stocked out, and PSLV stands for delivery, this strategy would work.

TL;DR - I finally realized that my “moon” is just being able to support my family and enjoy my job at the same time.
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My wife and I used to work in the film industry, which shut down completely all year during Covid. In April and May we rebalanced our savings (had been almost entirely stonks) and bought some bitcoin. At the time it seemed like a bold move, but we had no idea when we would be back to work, or what was going to happen. Gold seemed like a good idea, until you actually look into trying to buy gold, and that’s why we revisited BTC, which I had held for some time in 2017 and sold before it crashed, but had basically gotten out of.
So, we started collecting stimulus and unemployment, and I stopped freaking out about when we’d be back to work. Instead, we decided immediately to get some film equipment we’d been looking at, and start shooting a YouTube show of her cooking, and try to put together a Covid-ready shoot of a movie we wrote the script for. We figured - hey, let’s invest this money in equipment and skills. Our thought was we’d start a video production company after the pandemic.
Well, fast forward, we actually managed to shoot our movie safely, and it’s being edited now, and a friend of mine hired me to edit videos for his company. It was basically the ideal job in every respect - work from home, for good friends of mine, start late, editing videos of celebrities talking to each other (I signed an NDA or I would name drop). I have loved working for them, and I was learning some skills to put towards our own business, right? Everything was great... except the pay. It was half what I used to make, plus 1099 instead of W2, plus non-Union so I don’t get any health care benefits and pension. But it’s not all about the money, right? And now isn’t really the time to be picky, I was unemployed for an entire year.
So I took the job and was loving it. Then two weeks ago my wife came to me and told me she is pregnant with our first child. Here’s the funny part - we know the exact day this child was conceived, because we tried exactly one time. So the pregnancy was a bit of a shock. But still, the happiest news I’ve ever gotten.
I started being terrible at my job. Couldn’t focus, couldn’t hit deadlines. All I could think about was the riot at the Capitol, and Bitcoin’s price, and reading about bitcoin, and reading about sound money. Because, oh yeah, I convinced my wife to move all of our savings to Bitcoin right BEFORE we found out we were pregnant. We both agree that on some level we both knew, that the hormones and pheromones were signaling us to make plans for the baby our conscious brains didn’t know about yet. And before we did the pregnancy test, we had already planned to move everything over.
So today I finally wrote them and quit my job. Because I realized there is so much more at stake, and what they are able to pay is not sustainable to raise my kid.
I know what I’m doing is the right decision, but even my father asked “aren’t you supposed to have a new job before you quit the old one”? And I asked him “if Warren Buffet wants to sit in cash and look for a good deal, no one tells him he’s being lazy, right?” He seemed to think that was a good point, so he dropped it.
Here’s where I’m at - my wife and I have everything we could want. We made a movie from a script we wrote together. We have a baby on the way. We have a house with a low mortgage and the money to pay it off if we want to, and we have some bitcoin beyond that still too. We have decided to sit on the sidelines like Buffet and wait this out.
Obviously there’s also tremendous upside of BTC goes to $100k. Then we’ll look like geniuses. But here’s the thing - all we will have done for that money is read a lot and push some buttons. And suddenly wealth will transfer out of society at large and to us. We can’t build a society where all wealth creation is a casino.
And this is why we need Bitcoin. We need sound money, precisely so that no one can push a few buttons one afternoon and become a millionaire. We need the money supply to be stable so that prices can be stable so that we can all plan for our futures, and not keep gambling like we have for the last century.
I know I made the right decision quitting the job, but at the same time, it’s hard not be mad that the whole issue is just a price mismatch between what they have budgeted and what I need to make. The only reason prices fluctuate like this is monetary debasement. Here we have friends working together making things, and just because the fed is printing too much money, that arrangement becomes untenable. It’s insane.
None of this holds a candle to my neighbor, though. He and his partner have several kids. He’s been trying to buy a house, and he’s pre-approved, but then he got offered a Union job that paid double. Same kind of work, he SHOULD take it. But because of the rules they’ve written to protect from bad loans being written, he would lose his pre-approved status if he switched jobs, and couldn’t get it back til he was Union for two years. So he didn’t. In what fucked up world do we live in where he has to turn down a better job to get a house? In what world do we build luxury condos next to homeless people? In what world are there food surpluses and starving kids? A world without sound money.
I used to think holding on for dear life was about the volatility, and I guess it was. But now I realize, it’s about sound money, low time preference, a society that looks forward to the future - it’s about holding on because life is dear.
The baby’s due in September. Between now and then I’m now totally free to get this world ready for them.
Thanks for reading y’all. Happy hodling.

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I am just a retard ....
With unprecedented demand on the retail side and also unprecendented inflows into ETF ... the price of silver gets slammed down on Feb 2, 2021 between 2am-4am in aftepre hours trading on comex futures market. The SLV etf had to buy or lease over 120M oz over a three day period! There are multiple silver ETF's and the custodian for most/all is JPM.
This after hours manipulation is right in your face .... and followed up by a marketwatch headline "Miners decline as JP Morgan downgrades sector and silver prices slide from eight year high" posted at 4:59 am Feb 2, 2021.
This is all documented by Chris Marcus at Arcadia Economics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKZD6cQUGpg&t=121s
Also documented by Ted Butler at silevrseek : https://silverseek.com/article/cats-out-bag
The CFTC ran an investigation into silver manipulation and initially told us that they could find no violations. This is after 10 years of Ted Butler and others pointing out specific days and actions in aftepre hour trading that made no sense. The the CFTC runs another investigation and this time they do find manipulation ... by who ... JPM: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8260-20
A free market is one where there is supply and demand. As the demand goes up the price goes up and when the demand drops the price goes down. This is NOT what we have in the physical silver market ... because regardless of the supply/demand the market are manipulated by future's contract traders.
Feb 2, 2021 is proof beyond any reasonable doubt that the market is and continues to be manipulated.
I suspect the manipulation is by the big 8 commercial banks on the COT and also includes some hedge funds. The little investor always gets the short end of the stick ... The CFTC the SEC and the Department of Justice should engage the FBI to investigate this market manipulation. Here is the press release from the SEC as per the JPM criminal violation: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-233
I want to add some value to this thread beyond the great work by Ted Butler and Chris Marcus.
Lets examine that 920M fine being paid by JPM for market manipulations of tens of thousands of times between 2008 and 2016. How much do you think JPM makes in derivatives trading of commodities in a single year? Lets go and find out ... : https://occ.treas.gov/publications-and-resources/publications/quarterly-report-on-bank-trading-and-derivatives-activities/files/pub-derivatives-quarterly-qtr3-2020.pdf
Look at page 29 graph 9a and 9b (3 quarters 2020 of revenues in commodity and others derivatives)
trading revenue of all commercial and saving and loan banks is 6.062B (1.664B, 2.486B, 1.912B)
trading revenue os all holding companies is 2.777B (646, 905, 1226)
Total revenue 6.062 + 2.777 = 8.839B for first 3 quarters 2020.
Now look at page 35 graph 15 for the amount of derivatives contracts in commodities:
JPM : 39B , HSBC : 12B, Citibank : 10B, BOA : 3B, Wells Fargo : 2B
Now look at page 43 table 7: Trading revenue from commodities and other positions top 4 commercial banks for Q3 2020
JPM : 734M, GS : 0, Citi : 316M, BOA : 6M
So top 4 commercial banks made 1.056B in Q3 alone from derivatives based on commodities and others. I am guessing that the majority of those profits are from the gold and silver commodities.
The fine of 920M basically is a slap on the wrist! Given these guys make 734M in Q3 alone ... what will they make over an entire year?
Since I am a retard .. lets go back and find the data for Q1 and Q2 and then lets interpolate Q4 and see if this 920M is really that much of fine.
In Q2 JPM made 632M from trading derivatives in commodities and others. (table 7 pg49 q2 report)
In Q1 JPM made 389M from trading derivatives in commodities and others.(table 7 pg49 q1 report)
So that totals 389 + 632 + 734 = 1.755B revenue over first 3 quarters of 2020. Lets assume they make another 500M in Q4 ... this is just a guess ... but that would then total 2.255B for the year.
The 920M fine is simply so small it is laughable ... these guys are making over 2B per year and have been doing this manipulation for years.
Retards wake up ... SEC, CFTC, Department of Justice, FBI , are NOT doing enough to protect our markets. The criminals never go to jail ... instead they plea bargain and pay fines that are so small it NEVER stops them from going back and doing the same behavior. Sure they throw a few traders under the bus but those at the top never pay a price. Jamie Dimon is the head of JPM.
This behavior is NOT a free market .. it is corruption and it is criminal behavior by the biggest market players. I am sick and tired of no rule of law in the market.
It is time for all of us retards to stop playing the rigged game. Time for us to move into markets that are not manipulated by big commercial banks via futures market. What is that ... Crypto! I will continue to keep a small silver investment in an etf like sprott. I will no longer play in the rigged game of call options on slv, gld, and or any of the miners. I will move my money out of all the miners gradually and I will build positions in ethereum and bitcoin.
The unintended consequence of allowing corruption in the market is that all of us move our money somewhere else ... and out of the rigged casino.
I would rather take my risks in the crypto markets then have my money stolen by the big banks with their enormous short positions in gold, silver and also in some of the miners like first majestic.
Time for us all to wake up.
The puts on Silver future exchange slammed physical silver price down and it took all my profits on Tuesday Feb 2, 2021 ... and now I am losing money ...
It will not happen again ... JPM, BOA, CITI, GS, HSBC, BOA, WFC, MS, Barclays, Deutsche Bank you have all screwed up the free market ... and now we are all leaving the game.
I regrettable will probably see all these same criminals over in the crypto space over the next few years. My only hope is that fintech will destroy these criminal operations.
This retard has had his fill ... I can no longer wait for CFTC, SEC, Department of Justice, and the FBI to bring down criminal trading desks.

Dear Member,
Hello fellow degenerate gambler! May I introduce you to the Pretty Decent Crew's newsletter for the trading week ending on February 5th? We hope that this email finds you well and sitting on piles of gold like Smog.
First things first, "these unprecedented times" have opened the door for more volatility than we could have ever imagined. I pray that you are already in on GME, AMC, NOK, and every other short you can possibly buy to screw the rich. On that note, you probably missed the boat for this game. Unless you're selling short-term deep OTM puts, you should probably steer clear of this hype train. With this in mind, we need to be looking forward to the outcome of this situation. There are a few outcomes that may arise and none of them involve staying on shorts forever. Options:

1. People lose faith in the system and cryptocurrency's institutional demand increases.
2. The current system is screwed and market volatility continues to rise.
3. Literally nothing changes and the world's greatest casino continues to ruin peoples' lives.

Personally, I think we will see a combination of the three. Cryptocurrencies will take a big hit with India possibly banning all private crypto, but the steady rise in demand will continue with its massive bull and bear runs. Please note the volatility of all cryptocurrencies is unlikely to change for a very long time. That being said, cryptocurrency mining operations should rise in value given the ever waning Bitcoin available.
Here is my biggest current look: VXX/VIXY. The current short-squeeze obsessed market has caused the rest of the market to fluctuate dramatically. SPY down 2% Friday alone and ~3.75% on the week. The fear is that so many people are getting involved in the squeeze (which they know nothing about), that money is moving in and out of places it never would have before. The other side is based on rumor. This would be that all the major hedge funds are either being screwed by the squeeze OR getting in on the squeeze to screw their competitors. This would make sense given the immense purchases of GME and AMC that have been seen throughout the week during short ladder attacks. All of this play and movement make the volatility go up dramatically. If this continues for another week, or even two, VXX and VIXY will continue to rise. BUT: if this madness does truly set off a major problem that causes the market to enter a tumultuous time, the volatility will continue to rise beyond the next few weeks and we could cash in on VXX/VIXY.
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• VXX (or VIXY)
  • "The VIX reflects investors' expectations about the short-term direction of the S&P 500 by assessing current prices for put and call options tied to the widely followed index."
  • The market is getting volatile. VXX is up 28% this week alone. If the shorting surge continues over the next week or two, the VXX is going to pop. A lot of people are going to say this doesn't mean anything, but that's a lie and we all know it. WSB has grown by over 6,000,000 in the last two weeks. This of course dilutes the quality of content, but it increases the number of degenerate gamblers making absolutely horrendous bets on stocks that aren't worth anything at all.
  • Full disclosure, I intend to hold VXX calls for the next 6-8 weeks at least. If the squeeze hype continues, I'll hold calls through April.

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• MARA
  • "Marathon is a digital asset technology company that mines cryptocurrencies, with a focus on the blockchain ecosystem and the generation of digital assets."
  • Draw back last week, moving up this week towards new ATHs. Cryptocurrency will likely continue to rise over the coming year. The play here is obviously not short term returns. The play is holding a company that will be worth 2-3x in the coming years.

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• RIOT (Listen, I know it's basically MARA but already in action.)
  • "Riot Blockchain is focused on supporting the bitcoin ecosystem through proof-of-work mining."
  • RIOT had a bad couple of weeks and is now right back on track with its three month moving average. The volatility here is inevitable given the movements in BTC and associated blockchain infrastructure. The goal here is to cash in on peoples' interest in leaving the traditional market and moving a portion of their portfolio into crypto.

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• CCIV
  • Let's be real, buying SPACs in hopes of acquisition is basically like buying naked calls. We are all hoping and praying that it goes through, but the chances are low. Here is the deal, they have a possible acquisition of Lucid motors and I want to be in on it. For the record, there were 10 very successful SPACs last year so it's a possibility. Also, it might drop right back to $10 so YOLO.

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• PSTH
  • This is another SPAC (*sigh*). This one is owned by Bill Ackman and has some huge rumors floating around who they're going to acquire. The thing here is that the opportunity could be massive, and the downside is it could go right back to $22 a share (or less). I'm not going all in on this, but I'm 100% willing to hold a stack of shares to gamble on the opportunity.

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• ICLN / LIT - These have had terrible weeks, but if we zoom out and look at our moving averages.
  • LIT down 9.2%, same position as four weeks ago.
  • ICLN down 8.3%, same position as three weeks ago.
  • These two are NOT short term holds. I still believe in Sleepy Joe showing up to save the day for LIT and ICLN in the next year. The idea of these completely collapsing is crazy during the Biden presidency. The primary look here is slightly OTM calls for July 2020 and January 2021. Given the slide over the last week, this is a huge opportunity to buy low premium calls for January 2021 specifically (December 2020 for LIT).
  • Full disclosure the LIT premiums suck across the board until you get deep ITM (obviously) so I'm probably not touching this nonsense.

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• SPCE - Full disclosure: I don't believe in this at all!
  • SPCE was shorted heavily and the stock is rising. This much is a fact. The problem is that people obviously want to hop on the bandwagon and then hold. WIth that in mind, the fluctuations currently don't accurately reflect the true changes in "shorting." In addition, the fluctuations may have allowed the short sellers to move positions to cover their losses. If you can find a low premium OTM call for one or two weeks out, this might be a spectacular play, but you also might lose it all. Once we see the short data on Tuesday, we should have a better idea on what will happen. Final thought, I'm grabbing a weekly OTM call on Monday before data comes out just in case the short data makes everyone hop on this hype train too.
  • https://www.reddit.com/smallstreetbets/comments/l8vt47/why\_spce\_will\_go\_to\_the\_moon\_like\_gme\_and\_tsla/

Sincerely,
Lehman Brothers' Risk Management Department p.s. Hold The Line.
p.s.s. Who cares if it crashes the whole market? We're holding crypto and VXX.

Imagine you have zero debt, no mortgage, already invested in individual shares, regularly investing in ETFs and maxing your Kiwisaver contribution.
6months living expenses set aside in a savings account for an 'emergency fund', there is $100k to invest.
a) Drip feed into ETFs/Managed Funds via InvestNow? b) Drip feed into individual shares via Sharesies or ASB/ANZ platform?
c) Casino and a big night out? Bitcoin? Gold? Platinum? Property?
d) Something else?

Your 7-minute Sunday report in 1743 words.

10 notable anti-corruption cases in 2020

10) SIS concluded the investigation of former president Serj Sargsyan's alleged embezzlement of ֏500 million in agricultural subsidies in 2013. Serj appeared in court as a defendant in February. The case continues.
9) ex-HHK MP and ex-Soccer Federation Chief Ruben Hayrapetyan (oligarch Nemets Rubo) was charged with large-scale embezzlement. In February, he was charged with embezzling $1.5 million-worth lands belonging to the Soccer Federation. (he was earlier implicated in the case about organizing the kidnapping, extortion, and torturing of a man who allegedly stole from his restaurant)
8) ex-Yerevan Mayor and Transport Minister HHK Gagik Beglaryan was charged with embezzling ֏230 million in state property. He was also interrogated as part of a ֏23 billion embezzlement in the North-South highway construction project. His brother is implicated in a ֏85 million embezzlement case.
7) ex-Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosyan (wanted) and ex Israel Ambassador Armen Smbatyan (paid a bail) are charged with using an offshore scheme to embezzle the state property.
6) Serj Sargsyan's brother Alexander was a defendant in the case of the 14 stolen paintings by Martiros Saryan. Pashinyan announced that Alexander's $30 million bank account was frozen. Alexander agreed to return the funds to state coffers. $26 million was recovered. $7.5 million was recovered as part of Martiros Saryan's painting case. Another $19 million was recovered -- or as he says, "donated" -- for the army modernization.
5) Powerful Churchman Archbishop Kchoyan (Bentley guy) was charged as part of an investigation of the forceful appropriation of another businessman's property by using an offshore firm, which was run by several individuals, including the churchman and allegedly the former Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. More on that here.
4) Felony case was launched over the purchase of $42 million in weapons that turned out to be dysfunctional. Pashinyan mentioned this on several occasions, blaming the former regime for "wasting resources instead of developing the army." More recently, Pashinyan criticized General Movses "Mosi" Hakobyan, saying the waste took place under his administration.
3) Serj Sargsyan's chief bodyguard Vachagan Ghazaryan and his alleged accomplices had their felony tax-evasion charges dropped after compensating ֏3 billion ($6.3 million) to state coffers.
2) Serj's son-in-law Mikael Minasyan (Povar Ishik) was charged by IRS in March after the "revelation of an unprecedented level of corruption in modern Armenian history". Minasyan is accused of illegal enrichment. The investigation continues. Minasyan is residing in Russia, which won't extradite him due to close connections.
Details on Mishik's case here, here, here, here (laptop recovered with 9000 files), here, here, here, here, maybe here, definitely here, here, here,
1) BHK leader Gagik Tsarukyan was charged with organizing an election fraud during 2017 and financial crimes by his casino Shangri La. The investigation began in late 2019 after a construction firm, with ties to Tsarukyan, paid a bribe to a Yerevan official in an unrelated incident. Tsarukyan likely learned about the pending charges against him and launched a major opposition campaign against Pashinyan, to then frame his charges as "political persecution" for being critical to the government.
https://www.civilnet.am/news/2021/01/03/2020-ի-10-քրեական-գործերը/414983
https://www.evnreport.com/politics/the-political-rise-and-fall-of-tycoon-gagik-tsarukyan

protecting the church from Satanists

Former HHK MPs Shawarmazanov, Vahram Baghdasaryan, Masis Mayor, and their supporters gathered in front of Ejmiatsin cathedral to show support for the church leader Garegin B. The church was lately criticized for being politically-motivated; it has been accused of acting as the former regime's puppet for several years now.
The former MPs condemned the "attacks" and said, "no Satanists can divide our church because it has been our protector for thousands of years."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrnfWxGlguQ , https://youtu.be/Uli2kwKHtTs , https://youtu.be/FrnfWxGlguQ , https://youtu.be/Gy7PqICSYU4

Italian city Osio Sopra officially recognizes Artsakh Republic

grazie
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039469.html

Iranian & Chinese products to replace Turkish

Armenia will import 2250 types of products from Iran instead of Turkey, amid the 6-month ban on Turkish product imports. "This will be a good opportunity for Iranian producers. In the next step, [Armenia] will supply its required raw materials from Iran," said the chief of the Iranian trade agency.
The govt had earlier met Chinese representatives to discuss the replacement of other Turkish items with Chinese ones.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/167965/Armenia-to-import-2-250-goods-from-Iran-instead-of-Turkey

border "demarcation" process continues in Syunik

The process to install Armenian and Azeri troops continues on the new borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in the Syunik province. The border was formerly Syunik (Armenia) - Qashatag (formerly Artsakh).
Syunik's Shurnukh and Vorotan were built on the immediate internationally-recognized border, and some of them were on the Azeri side. As a result, a dozen buildings will go under Azeri control. Shurnukh village mayor complained about losing several houses and Azeris being too close.
Syunik governor said border guards have been installed in areas surrounding Shurnukh. Russian and Armenian guards are placed in certain parts of this 21 km border.
https://factor.am/325886.html

POWs

European Court for Human Rights has approved a petition by Armenia to implement emergency measures to require Azerbaijan to share information about the conditions of 23 POWs.
"So far, such petitions were approved for 80 POWs, 18 of whom have already returned home," said Armenia's representative in Court.
Armenia's HR Ombudsman Tatoyan criticized Aliyev for calling Armenian POW soldiers "terrorists" and for keeping them arrested, which delays the swap process.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039433.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039480.html

New Years Eve memorial concert in Yerablur Pantheon:

https://youtu.be/eDiK0KZRkH4

casualties & search operations

1145 bodies have been found on battlefields since the ceasefire; 10 of them on Saturday. Several crews continue the search in Martuni, Martakert, and Jabrayil regions.
3330 bodies have been found since the beginning of the war. Some of them are yet to be identified. 436 were identified by DNA analysis, 871 are pending. The DNA process is slow so the govt decided to buy the second device.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039447.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039483.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039500.html

Azeri civilian wounded from a landmine explosion

... in the Fizuli region that went under Azeri control during the war. Azeri prosecutors launched an investigation. In turns out, some Azeri civilians visit these areas without allowing the sappers to clear the areas from landmines first. So far, 10 Azeris have died or received injuries from such explosions after the ceasefire.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039473.html

Russian sappers in Artsakh

... have cleared 400 hectares of lands, 151 km of roads, and 617 buildings from 16,000 explosives. Video of URAN vehicle helping sappers to clear land: https://youtu.be/uZOXWsE4Pvw
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039508.html

Russian peacekeepers to live in modular housing

They built the second rapid-deployment modular mini-town in Getavan, after finishing one in Stepanakert earlier. Another one will be built in Berdashen this month. The blocs will house 300 peacekeepers. They will have access to various convenience shops.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039452.html

Russian humanitarian aid in Artsakh

Russia sent 5,000 m² glass for window replacement, 70 tons of metal parts, 34000 bedding items, to Martuni and Martakert cities. Earlier they sent 20 mobile electricity generators to help the areas that were cut off from the main electric grid.
Russian doctors have so far treated 1044 Artsakh residents with various complaints. There are medical teams that travel in rural areas to provide care, including mental health services. The doctors received New Year's gifts from the medical administrator Oleg Bagayev.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039453.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039463.html

more Artsakh refugees return their homes

220 did so on Friday. So far, 47000 residents crossed the Lachin road while returning to their homes.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039462.html

GazProm has extended the gas contract with Armenia

... with the same pricing until 1Q21. More negotiations will take place later.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039439.html

oil, gas, and... crypto mining??

Under the threat of US sanctions, a Norwegian agency will not certify the Russian Nordstream-2 pipeline, which intends to deliver 56 billion (?) cubic meters of gas from Russia to Germany annually. Trump administration has been pushing hard to sell American liquified gas to Europe.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202101031081638832-norways-dnv-gl-intl-registrar-says-cannot-certify-nord-stream-2-due-to-us-sanctions/
Russia has another new gas pipeline called TurkStream. Its section located in Serbia began operating on Friday. It'll deliver Russian gas to Europe through Turkey. The US said it will impose sanctions in the event TurkStream expands with new pipes in the future.
https://www.azatutyun.am/a/31029599.html , https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/additional-line-to-turkish-stream-would-face-us-sanctions/
Azeri gas pipeline TAP began delivering gas to several cities in Italy. Azeri gas travels through Georgia, Turkey, and Greece. It's co-sponsored by BP.
https://www.azatutyun.am/a/31029406.html
Russian energy giant Gazpromneft built a cryptocurrency mining facility in one of its Siberian oil drilling sites. They will dig gas, burn it, turn into energy, then use it to mine the coins. Good luck competing with your NVIDIA RTX crap (that is if you have one, pleb).
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Russian-Energy-Giant-Mining-Bitcoin-With-Virtually-Free-Energy.html

employee of the month

Italian soccer club Roma's midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been declared the best Roman player of December after a voting.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039476.html

chess news

Levon Aronyan (two-times world cup winner) competed in Airthings Masters finale against Teymur Rajabov (current world cup winner). They played two rounds. Rajabov won the tournament.
Aronyan preserves his FIDE ranking. He is the 6th in the world. The leader is Magnus Carlsen.
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/champions-chess-tour-airthings-masters-2020-prelims/8/1/2 , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039458.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039477.html , https://factor.am/325895.html

world's smallest chess playing just for you

Ara Ghazaryan from Los Angeles built the world's smallest chess and made it into the Guinness World Records book. It's 8x8 millimeter.
"Ara Ghazaryan is an Armenian American artist who uses jewelry to express his art and formerly held this record title. The chess board itself is made from 18 k yellow and white gold with Armenian apricot wood and rests on a frame made of platinum, 18 k yellow gold, rubies, and diamonds. The figures measure in height from 1 mm for the pawns to 2.4 mm for the kings."
Photo: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/78603-smallest-handmade-chess-set
https://factor.am/325695.html

COVID stats

+1088 tested. +229 infected. +14 deaths. +451 healed. 12398 active.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039503.html

COVID hotline

Healthcare Ministry has a new "Coronavirus Hotline" number you can call if you've been diagnozed with COVID and need assistance.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039450.html

HimnaDram.org entertains hundreds of children

The All Armenia Fund has transported 600 Artsakh children and their parents, residing in various provinces of Armenia, to watch performances in Yerevan's Tumanyan Puppet theater. Santa, Dzyunanush, and the Elves surprised the children with gifts in the end. The Foundation will help thousands of children by the end of January.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039451.html

daily եռուզեռ in Stepanakert's main market

It's bustling again after a temporary pause during the war:
https://youtu.be/gKMSE9Xf2bs?t=5

donations for Artsakh & recovering soldiers

www.1000plus.am (recovering soldiers & their families)
www.HimnaDram.org (for Artsakh & Armenia)
www.ArmeniaFund.org (U.S. tax-deductible)

archive of older posts

Armeniapedia's archive of my daily news threads:
http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Daily_Anti-Corruption_Reports

disclaimer

All the accused are considered innocent unless proven guilty in the court of law, even if they "sound" guilty.
Edit: corrected typos in church news.

Seeing all the recent posts about removing the duel arena, I thought I'd share my story. English isn't my first language so sorry about any mistakes or weird wording.
I am 26 years old. I started playing OSRS three years ago, and started PKing around a year ago. Soon after, I started staking at the duel arena. At first, it was just small stakes, thinking it would be a fun alternative to PVP, but I quickly lost my entire bank (around 150M) to scams and bad luck. I decided to buy bonds to replace the gold I lost and told myself I would never go to the duel arena again.
Only a week later, I lost my cash stack by dying in an instanced area. I was mad at myself at Jagex for their dumb death mechanics, so I decided to buy back the gold from a website rather than with bonds. I was mad I had lost 100$ and went to the duel arena. I know how stupid this sounds, but I almost felt like I was going to win because I deserved it. But, of course, I lost 200M.
That's when everything started going downhill. I bought back the 200M, staked it, and lost again. Next, I bought 400M and staked it to cover my losses, but lost again. This time I hadn't realized a scammer had an inquisitor's mace hidden in their inventory. I kept doubling up, thinking I would eventually win and be even, but I didn't. I had lost my entire bank account of around 2000$.
That's when things got serious and I started gambling bitcoin on an online casino. I was only trying to recover what I had lost, and never gamble again. But unfortunately, I kept losing, eventually maxing my credit card.
I am now slowly getting out of a 5000$ debt, and getting help from a gambling support group. Several other members of the group also say that OSRS is what started their gambling addiction.
I realize this is all my fault, but gambling doesn't belong in a video game, especially one where it's so easy to trade gold for real-life money.