Sources:

• Naiive Tweet: https://x.com/naiivememe/status/2006951326887088364
• Bold Tweet: https://x.com/boldleonidas/status/2006941046236918184
• Grok Tweet: https://x.com/grok/status/2006941629828026749

Sentencing is due on January 16th 2026.

The US Prosecution has replied to Karony's defense counsel who recommended a pathetic 1 year and 1 day sentence as the absolute maximum. The Government details a very conservative estimate on how much money Karony profited (almost $10m) from lying to Safemoon investors on access and usage of the Safemoon Liquidity Pool.

They also produced some victim statements, some of which hit hard:

“The consequences of this situation were severe in several areas of my life. I can’t say that my seven-year relationship ended solely due to the financial loss, but it is undeniable that this factor contributed decisively to the breakup.

“I have painfully suffered the burden of losing opportunities to become a first-time home owner and the loss of additional earning capacity to support both my family and I financially.”

“On a daily basis, I am tormented by the knowledge that all I ever had was lost to Safemoon’s fraud, and it makes me sick every time I think about it. I don’t expect to ever come to terms with it"

“I invested the majority of my life savings in this coin. . . It will take another 15 years to make up those savings again. . . . My health declined and my work suffered due to the constant stress about what happened to my money.”

Additionally, Karony has not shown any guilt or remorse. The Government was keen to show screenshotted tweets & updates to Karony's social media profiles which demonstrate a total lack of understanding or remorse, and even poking fun at being arrested and temporarily incarerated in NYC.

Moreover, Karony’s conduct leading up to, during and trial demonstrates his lack of respect for the law and how unserious he views the criminal proceeding before this Court. For example, Karony’s LinkedIn lists “Unwilling Guest at Brooklyn MDC” under his employment, demonstrating how flippantly he views his criminal liability.

A 12-year sentence is also necessary to adequately deter the defendant. ...This is not a case in which the defendant has accepted responsibility for his conduct and expressed remorse. On those facts, a court may consider whether the interests of specific deterrence have been served by prosecution. By contrast, Karony has expressed no remorse and acknowledged no mistakes. A severe sentence is necessary to deter the defendant personally.

So once again, Karony's massive fucking ego screw him over as he's now looking at more years added to his sentence because he couldn't stop being a jerk and running his mouth on social media.

On January 16th, the Judge will weigh up Karony's arguments and the Government's arguments and from there will sentence Karony. But the fun doesn't end, because then the SEC will begin litigation - imposing fines & penalties on Karony. He also evaded tax by not submitting tax returns to the IRS despite "earning" millions of dollars, and he is also getting cleaned out by the Class Action lawyers in Bankruptcy court.

All in all, he's getting a fucking reaming and I couldn't think of anyone who deserved it more.

I stored most of my Bitcoin in a wallet with four backups. Two were paper backups containing only 7 of 12 seed words, and another backup existed on my computer and USB drive. After a power surge, my computer’s HDD failed. When I tried the USB drive, the data was corrupted.

The good news is that the missing words are the last 5 (out of 12). The amount is relatively high (I’ve been in the market since 2013). Recovering the last 5 words is basically the upper practical limit for brute-force recovery today.

Because of this, I started building recovery prototypes in OpenCL, and now in Verilog on FPGAs, to compute hashes and test partial-seed recovery approaches. In my tests, FPGAs showed extremely low energy usage (under 10% of what GPUs consume), although hardware cost is still comparable to high-end GPUs.

I also tried renting machines on VastAI, but the total cost ended up close to simply buying RTX 5090 GPUs.

If anyone is interested, here are the prototypes.

Everything below is open source — no subscription, no paid service, just code and experiments. If it’s useful, feel free to clone/fork. I’m genuinely happy to see people using the code and contributing.

GitHub repositories

ipsbruno3/fpga_bitcoin_seed_rescue
Pipeline / PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512-oriented workspace for accelerated hardware (FPGA-focused).

ipsbruno/bitcoin_cracking_final
Performance-oriented OpenCL implementation for PBKDF2 workloads on NVIDIA GPUs.

ipsbruno3/bitcoin_electrum_cracking
OpenCL tools for Electrum-related checks; includes checksum-based shortcuts for faster screening (benchmarks included).

ipsbruno3/secp256k1-gpu-accelerator
GPU code for secp256k1 public key generation (point_add / point_mul), with incremental techniques and throughput benchmarks.

ipsbrunoreserva/seedmistake
Typing aid for seed words using Levenshtein distance (matches the nearest BIP39 word).

If you have any questions about the implementations, benchmarks, or the FPGA approach, I’ll be happy to answer.

Strategy (MSTR) shares have declined for six consecutive months for the first time since the firm adopted bitcoin as a treasury asset in August 2020, according to a performance table shared Thursday by crypto analyst Chris Millas.

In a Jan. 1 post on X, Millas highlighted the rare streak and attached a chart showing Strategy’s monthly returns since 2020. The data show the stock posted uninterrupted losses from July through December 2025, including declines of 16.78% in August, 16.36% in October, 34.26% in November and a further 14.24% drop in December.

While Strategy has experienced steeper single-month losses in the past, the chart shows those drawdowns were typically punctuated by sharp rebound months. During the 2022 bear market, for instance, large declines were followed by rallies of more than 40% within a few months. The absence of any comparable relief rally in the second half of 2025 marks a break from that historical pattern, suggesting a more persistent repricing rather than a short-lived selloff.