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Patrick McKenzie
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Yes, he’s an anonymous Twitter troll. Yes, he’s not infrequently off base. Yes, he doesn’t present like a finance professional. All of these are true. But why is he *always* the one who has primary source material already archived when it is deleted? And why does he notice?
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Patrick McKenzie
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This is not a once off thing! Not a thrice off thing! No! He has been doing this since 2017! I have watched him lap the entire financial press! Since 2017! He got to this story years before Bloomberg! Which has a crypto arm!
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Patrick McKenzie
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Because of course he was in the WhalePool chat where they did it! Because of course he would be! Because of course he knows what this is! Because of course he understood they’d take it down once they realized what they had said!
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Patrick McKenzie
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Note that I am a Dangerous Professional who knows what libel is. Do you know why I have been utterly unconcerned, for years, about saying "criminal enterprise"? Because his audio says, and this is a direct quote: "We learned to bank like criminals."
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Patrick McKenzie
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I always thought that, given that background, the only response one would need to a nastygram is "I refer you to the reply given in Arkell and Pressdram."
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