#Cameron Winklevoss

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"I think we'd have to jump out and drown" Winklevoss twins I love you.

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The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)

29/08/2024

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The Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, have urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to withdraw its proposal on event contracts, which they argue could impact prediction markets like Polymarket. In an X post, Tyler criticized the proposal for potentially banning all event contracts in the U.S., limiting access to prediction markets. Cameron shared insights from Gemini’s letter, emphasizing the importance of platforms like Polymarket for transparency and market dynamics.

Coinbase has also opposed the CFTC’s proposal, challenging its definition of “gaming” and questioning the commission’s authority to ban prediction markets. Cameron echoed these concerns, arguing that a blanket ban on such markets disregards their value and historical reliability. He cited the Supreme Court case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo to underscore that regulatory agencies cannot extend their power through rulemaking.

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I rewatched The Social Network for its 13th anniversary. One of my favorite films of all time, and one that convinced me of Armie's extraordinary acting skills. The film is a masterpiece on every level, one of the greatest biopics of the 21st century. In my opinion also David Fincher's magnum opus, together with Se7en, if one could have more than 1. With an inimitable performance of the KILLER soundtrack.

And Armie Hammer was in it!!!

A few review quotes about Armie's performance:

* Hammer and Garfield make the glue that hold it together.

* Although the stand out award I'd like to give to Mr. Armie Hammer. His role is just Tailor fit, literally as his jacket. From his statuesque as a rower all through out as a dapper at Harvard, he is just believable in that field. He is after after all the Winklevoss BrotherS.

* Armie hammer is a best combination of grace and conceit how he played wealthy twins.

* David Fincher's cool, stylish direction and great performances by Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Armie Hammer make The Social Network a worthwhile watch.

* Now that some of the dust has settled, there’s one name that keeps coming up as a comic scene-stealer and awards dark horse: Armie Hammer, who plays entitled twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. In the movie, a Winklevoss twin declares, “I’m six-foot-five, 220 pounds, and there’s two of me,” but since there’s only one of Hammer, that meant the actor was often acting opposite a body double whose face he’d be digitally grafted onto in postproduction (and when you consider the notorious amount of takes that an exacting director like David Fincher requires, Hammer’s nimble pair of performances is all the more impressive). 

* My favorite description of the twins in the film comes from Alison Willmore's review, in which she writes, "Hammer is infinitely amusing in his dual role, exuding privilege and looking like something grown in a vat of J. Crew catalogs and Aryan race propaganda."

* No one could have played Sean Parker like Justin Timberlake, and Armie Hammer playing the Winklevoss twins is fantastic too.

* The quasi-pair of performances generated Hammer Oscar buzz at the time, and he has been a marquee mainstay ever since, appearing in films like J. Edgar (2011), The Lone Ranger (2013), The Birth of a Nation (2016), Call Me By Your Name (2017), Cars 3 (2017), Sorry to Bother You (2018), and On the Basis of Sex (2018).

* What makes Armie Hammer’s  acting performance outstanding is his use of specific body language with each of the two characters.

The different  way he moves, his vocal cadences , and facial expressions makes it so easy to believe that these were two different people on the screen. 

When Armie played Cameron Winklevoss, he played him more uptight and more formal. The formality also came out  in his dialogue. His diction was more precise.

When he played Tyler  Winklevoss,  he leaned back and was more laid back. His speech pattern was more fluid and he even used curse words as Tyler’s character.

I think that Armie’s performance was so great that I would easily see him being a contender for best supporting actor at the next Academy Awards ceremony.

This scene is epic! Great visual metaphor emphasised by this music piece.

#'In The Hall of the Mountain King' #Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross #Henley rowing scene

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According to filings released by the US Federal Election Commission on Tuesday night, Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and owner of X, is now one of the biggest donors to Donald Trump’s campaign. Since publicly endorsing Trump on the heels of the July assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania, Musk has donated close to $75 million to his own political action committee, America PAC, which is aggressively campaigning on the ground in swing states for the Trump campaign.

Musk has been one of many Silicon Valley elites who have expressed their support for Trump. Peter Thiel, billionaire and cofounder of Palantir, has been a longtime Trump supporter (though he said he would not be donating to candidates in 2024), and venture capitalist David Sacks, who is also a friend of Musk’s, has also thrown his support to the Republicans. Trump has also received support from PACs and individuals in the crypto space.

But Musk has put more money into the Trump campaign than nearly any other individual from the tech industry. In addition to his support for the America PAC, he also donated more than $289,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee. While some companies and institutions in Silicon Valley, like venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, have backed Trump, individual donors from those same companies may not. For instance, Marc Andreessen and his business partner Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5 million to the pro-Trump Right for America PAC last quarter. Andreessen has also donated to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; Horowitz has backed Democratic campaigns as well, and in early October said he would support Harris rather than Trump going forward.

The graphic below focuses specifically on donations that help Trump directly, rather than GOP giving more broadly. You can see a breakdown of how much each person gave—and where the money went—by scrolling over or tapping each name.

Sacks donated only $6,600 to Trump’s campaign directly, but $114,500 to the Republican National Committee and $250,000 to the Trump 47 PAC. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who run the crypto exchange Gemini, each donated more than $350,000 to the Make America Great Again PAC, which supports the Trump campaign. The twins also donated $250,000 each to the America PAC. Shaun Maguire, a partner at the venture firm Sequoia Capital, has donated $500,000 to the America PAC, $300,000 to the Trump 47 PAC, and $6,600 to the Trump campaign directly. Billionaire and early Tesla backer Antonio Gracias donated $1 million to the America PAC, as did Palantir cofounder and venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale. Kenneth Howery, a PayPal Mafia member and former ambassador to Sweden under Trump, put $1 million into America PAC in addition to smaller direct contributions to the Trump campaign.

Musk has contributed more to the Trump campaign than all of them combined, several times over. That puts him in a league with Trump’s most lavish donors, including Miriam Adelson, the widow of Sheldon Adelson, who donated $95 million to the pro-Trump Preserve America PAC over the past three months—including $45 million in September alone. Billionaire Timothy Mellon, heir to the Mellon railroad fortune, remains the campaign’s largest donor, having put at least $115 million in the Make America Great Again PAC just this year.

Musk’s largesse, combined with his vocal support of Trump on the platform he controls, has been a windfall for Trump in an increasingly close presidential race. He’ll continue trying to get out the vote in person this weekend with a series of appearances in Pennsylvania.

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From La Stampa (translated from Italian):

“Make Finance Great Again,” Trump family makes its own cryptocurrency and allies with Silicon Valley It will be called “World Liberty Financial,” will have tech investors and real estate developers from Chase Herro and Zak Folkman to Steve Witkoff inside. Sons Eric and Donald Jr. will coordinate. And his backer Tyler Winklevoss jokes, “Donald has been orange-pilled, indoctrinated.” Jacopo Iacoboni Sept. 17, 2024 Updated 11:00 a.m. 3 minutes of reading

They want to do a kind of “make finance great again,” along the lines of MAGA, the election slogan and the Make America Great Again campaign. Donald Trump's sons, Don Jr. and Eric, of course with their father's imprimatur, are about to launch a new cryptocurrency platform that will be called “World Liberty Financial,” and will allow users to make even massive transactions without a bank getting in the way and extracting fees (and with a very low level of tax tracking, it should be added). A couple of concepts familiar to bitcoin fans, for example, but which the Trump family now has ambitions to decline on a large scale. It is not certain that this marriage between Trumpism and decentralized finance, DeFi, is a harbinger of only positive developments. The board of “World Liberty Financial” will also consist of former crypto investors such as Chase Herro and Zak Folkman, and Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer and old friend of Trump. But thanks to documents filed with the U.S. Federal Election Commission that we have been able to read we know that in general the entire Trump campaign - Make America Great Again Inc. - received money not only from Musk, but cryptocurrency from billionaire twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who lead the cryptocurrency company Gemini: about $3.5 million in Bitcoin on July 19, the day after Trump's speech at the Milwaukee convention. The Winkelvosses also poured in money to America PAC, the tech investor-backed group that Musk helped launch in 2024 (Trump had bragged that Musk was giving him $45 million a month; Musk said his contribution is “at a much lower level”). Another co-founder of a cryptocurrency exchange, Jesse Powell, boss of Kraken, and venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz (who created a16z) who have invested billions of dollars in cryptocurrency startups, have also made endorsements and poured money into Trump. In short, for the Trump family to embark on this big cryptocurrency project is a natural consequence of the fact that these are almost becoming a Republican asset in the campaign, and the “libertarian” wing of the old Gop is now a kind of very, very rampant ideologized “cyberlibertarianism.” The real boss of the “tech bros” according to many is not Elon Musk, but Peter Thiel. Zuckerberg's longtime partner in Facebook, co-founder of PayPal, Thiel's fortune has at least doubled during the Trump presidency. Palantir-a much-discussed software company variously accused of extracting data from Americans and profiling them-has managed to get a contract from the Pentagon. Other donors to MAGA Inc include Jacob Halberg, Palantir's princely analyst, and Trish Duggan, a wealthy Scientology funder and friend of the tech bros. Trump's vice presidential candidate, J. D. Vance, traveled to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, celebrating a dinner at the home of BitGo CEO Mike Belshe, 100 people each pouring in between $3,300 a plate and a $25,000 roundtable. Trump in 2021 called bitcoin a “fraud against the dollar.” A few weeks ago, speaking in Nashvill at the bitcoin fan conference, he promised, “The United States will become the crypto capital of the planet.” Better than his friend Putin's Russia, although this Trump did not say so explicitly. The fact is that after his speech, Tyler Winklevoss ran on X (now the realm of cyberlibertarians) and joked that Donald had been “orange-pilled,” making a Matrix analogy, had been “indoctrinated,” or had finally seen the real reality behind the appearances.

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Musk had indicated that he planned to start his donations in July to the America PAC, backing former President Donald Trump's presidential run.

The total contribution from the Tesla CEO and head of social media platform X will be a stunning $45 million a month.

Lonsdale Enterprises and the Winklevoss Twins were among the donors to America PAC.

The firm donated $1 million and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss each contributed $250,000

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Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss — as well as Barry Silbert — have defrauded investors at a similar scale to Sam Bankman-Fried. They convinced customers that they were putting money into an interest-generating account, tricking them into believing that this was a stable, risk-managed investment, one that was continually liquid (“withdraw your assets instantly”), as opposed to the reality that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss knowingly funneled customer funds into an unstable, undercollateralized lender.

A Billion-Dollar Fraud In Plain Sight

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#Crypto #News:

Crypto’s next bull run will come from the East: Gemini co-founder Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss believes the next crypto bull run will come from Asia, while America has two options — embrace crypto or be left behind. https://t.co/nPudGylEAp

— BitRss News (@RssBit) Feb 20, 2023

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Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the biggest individual crypto donors this election cycle, giving a combined $10.1 million, or slightly over $5 million each, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by crypto market and blockchain analyst James Delmore and independently verified by CNBC.

With 50 days to go until the November general election, political donations from, or in support of, the crypto industry are up to around $190 million, as some of the biggest names in the sector open their digital wallets to help elect candidates sympathetic to their interests.

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Crypto Industry Pledges $25M to Trump at 2024 Bitcoin Conference

Key Points

Former U.S. President Donald Trump raised $25 million from the crypto industry at the Bitcoin Conference 2024.

The event was attended by notable figures, and Trump announced a strategic Bitcoin reserve and regulatory reform plans.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump received significant financial backing from the cryptocurrency sector at the Bitcoin Conference 2024.

David Bailey, CEO of Bitcoin Magazine, the event host, disclosed that Trump’s fundraising efforts at the conference amounted to $25 million, marking it as one of his most successful fundraisers across his three presidential campaigns.

Fundraising at the Bitcoin Conference

The funds were mainly raised during the Bitcoin Conference fundraiser at the Nashville Music City Center on July 27, where Trump delivered a highly anticipated speech.

The event required a hefty $844,600 per person for a roundtable discussion with Trump, and a minimum of $60,000 for a photo opportunity with the former president.

The fundraiser saw approximately 100 attendees, including prominent figures such as Gemini co-founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, American singer-songwriter Kid Rock, professional boxer Jake Paul, and singer and actor Billy Ray Cyrus.

Trump’s interaction with the crypto community seems to have been fruitful, earning him the support of several industry leaders.

Trump’s Crypto Initiatives

He announced a strategic Bitcoin reserve and expressed intentions to dismiss crypto-critic SEC Chair Gary Gensler, which resonated with many attendees.

Critics were quick to react to these developments. Economist Paul Krugman criticized Trump’s vice-presidential choice, JD Vance, in a New York Times article, labeling him a representative of “paranoid” Silicon Valley “tech bros” with a fondness for cryptocurrencies.

In response to this critique, Bailey defended Trump’s crypto initiatives and highlighted the significance of a potential U.S. president wanting to establish the country as the “crypto capital of the world” and create a strategic Bitcoin stockpile.

The substantial funding from the Nashville event is a significant addition to Trump’s campaign fundraising efforts.

In May, Trump announced his openness to accepting digital asset donations, leading to his campaign securing $4 million in crypto from industry leaders, including over $2.15 million from just 19 donors.

Meanwhile, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another crypto-friendly candidate, has also gained popularity within the crypto sector.

Kennedy announced plans for Bitcoin integration into the U.S. economy during the Bitcoin Conference, promising to encourage the government to purchase Bitcoin until it matches the nation’s gold reserves.

Kennedy was the first candidate to accept crypto donations in May 2023, but there is no evidence that he secured any crypto funding during the Bitcoin Conference 2024 event.

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‘Showcasing Philanthropy: Winklevoss Twins Contribute $1 Million Bitcoin to John Deaton, the American Hero’

Key Points

The Winklevoss twins have donated $1M in Bitcoin to John Deaton’s campaign, criticizing Elizabeth Warren’s stance on crypto.

Polymarket’s data reveals Trump led with 64%, while Biden fell to fourth place with 5%.

In a surprising development, Gemini founders Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, collectively known as the Winklevoss twins, have each donated $500,000 in Bitcoin [BTC] to John Deaton’s political campaign, making a total contribution of 16 BTC or $1 million.

Winklevoss Twins’ Stand Against Warren

This significant donation is intended to bolster Deaton’s political campaign and his challenges against U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. Tyler Winklevoss, explaining the reasons behind this move, stated on X (formerly Twitter) that Elizabeth Warren is a significant threat to American prosperity, especially when it comes to crypto.

Winklevoss also criticized the Biden administration’s approach towards crypto, stating that Warren is the chief architect behind their war on crypto.

Support for Crypto-Friendly Candidates

This recent donation follows the Winklevoss twins’ earlier contribution of $2 million worth of BTC to former President Donald Trump’s campaign. Their continuous financial support highlights their commitment to endorsing candidates who advocate a more crypto-friendly regulatory environment.

Winklevoss further accused Warren of using government agencies to hinder the crypto industry, employing methods such as debanking and bad faith enforcement actions.

He praised Deaton as a pro-Bitcoin, pro-crypto, and pro-business candidate, while criticizing Warren’s stance.

This highlights the significant role of cryptocurrency in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, revealing that Biden’s position on crypto is not a top priority for many crypto voters. This was further confirmed by Polymarket prediction data, where Trump led with 64% of the vote, followed by Kamala Harris at 22%. Biden, on the other hand, had dropped to the fourth place with just 5% of the total votes.

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Republican figureheads from Silicon Valley are rallying behind former president Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio senator J.D. Vance as his running mate.

Top Silicon Valley leaders like Elon Musk came out in support of Vance as Trump’s vice presidential pick in the hours after the official announcement was made on Monday. Musk said that the Trump-Vance ticket “resounds with victory” and called it an “excellent decision” by Trump. David Sacks, a prominent GOP donor and venture capitalist, wrote on the social media site X, “This is who I want by Trump’s side: an American patriot.”

Musk, Sacks, and former Fox News Host Tucker Carlson all lobbied Trump over the weekend to choose Vance, according to a Tuesday Axios report.

The tech industry’s excitement over Vance comes as little surprise. Vance, a venture capitalist himself, has worked alongside major investors like Peter Thiel and AOL founder Steve Case. When Vance ran for US Senate in 2022, Thiel donated $15 million to support his campaign. Sacks also donated $900,000 during the Senate election, according to Open Secrets.

Despite his investing history, Vance has also become a vocal critic of the tech industry over his two years in the Senate. He’s called for Congress to shrink the liability protections provided to social media companies by Section 230. He’s also supported efforts to break up big tech companies, accusing them of monopolistic behavior. Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has received massive amounts of backlash from the tech industry for her efforts to rein in some of its most major players, and Vance has praised her work.

Vance’s past regulatory positions seemingly haven’t diminished his tech-industry support. “If Trump/Vance wins, it will broadly be extraordinary for startups and capitalism broadly,” Jason Calacinis, investor and All In podcast cohost with Sacks, wrote in an email to WIRED on Monday. “Silicon Valley is largely libertarian—not left … They consider Biden a “decelerist” (decel), so Trump/JD have won—it’s game over.”

The pick hasn’t wooed all right-leaning investors. On Monday, The Washington Post reported that Ken Griffin, manager of the hedge fund Citadel, opposed Vance.

Still, Vance’s Silicon Valley backers could offer massive amounts of cash to support Trump’s reelection. On Monday, The New York Times reported that the pro-Trump America PAC, a new group backed by tech entrepreneurs like brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, could receive significant financial support from Musk. Later, The Wall Street Journal suggested that Musk would be donating $45 million each month.

Many of the same tech entrepreneurs who announced their support for Trump over the past few weeks are America PAC donors, like Shaun Maguire.

“Billionaires and corporations are literally rooting for J.D. Vance: They know he and Trump will cut their taxes and send prices skyrocketing for everyone else,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, the Biden-Harris campaign chair, said in a Monday statement.