An investigation over the past three months has led us to amend our complaint after we discovered that Barry Silbert engaged in an 11-year long racketeering Enterprise against me and my company.
Among other things, we proved that Silbert hacked our mining pool PROHASHING and conducted $22 million in hacks against it, allying himself with Chinese miners to sabotage an American business. The purpose of his theft was to win the "block size war," which limited the bitcoin protocol's capabilities so that people were forced to "invest" in Wall Street ETFs (which he profited from) and "lending" companies (which generally abused and lost customers' funds.)
After the theft, he then spent this entire decade in a series of increasingly desperate coverups - signing a $1.1 billion promissory note, creating a sham contract with investment bank Jefferies, assisting in the filing of a baseless lawsuit, and more. As DCG would not exist but for the destruction of PROHASHING, which was a prerequisite for Silbert's "Digital Gold" strategy, the best damage estimate of what PROHASHING would have been is the enterprise value of DCG, with RICO trebling, to $14 billion.
The complaint contains the "Digital Gold Logs," a set of A1Z26-encoded messages left by an insider detailing everything that happened inside DCG for a decade.
The full complaint is located at https://stevesokolowski.com/sokolowski-v-fraud/#mdpa-second-amendment and contains 967 pages of evidence.
This market will resolve to the date (Eastern time) when the story breaks in the first mainstream media outlet. Cryptocurrency-specific outlets are excluded, although widely read technology focused sites count. Places with user-submitted content, like social media sites, are also excluded, and blogs with only one contributor also don't count.
The complaint does not need to be linked for the market to resolve, not does the article even have to mention me or PROHASHING or Christopher's name. The article simply needs to cover the facts or consequences of the complaint and also explain the reasoning, like that the Bitcoin protocol was stolen from America by foreigners, why DCG declared bankruptcy, that Jefferies stock is crashing because the bank's shareholders have found out about the lawsuit, that Microstrategy dumped bitcoin because of allegations made about "Digital Gold," or that BCH has soared to $2,000 because of something that happened in Pennsylvania.
In the unlikely chance that the facts are not covered by any mainstream media outlet by December 31, 2026, the market will resolve to December 31, 2026. More date ranges may be added before then.
Update 2026-01-29 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Due to a Third Amended Complaint being filed (which will be ~100 pages and summarized), the market will resolve based on media coverage of facts from either the Second Amended Complaint or the Third Amended Complaint.
If media reports reference any of the 660 pages of evidence from the Second Amended Complaint, this counts for resolution
If media only includes the summary story from the Third Amended Complaint without referencing the evidence from the Second Amended Complaint, that is insufficient for resolution
1,000@SteveSokolowski Fwiw, making your twitter private doesn't affect its discoverability, and in fact, under Rule 26(a), you likely have to turn over all of your twts about the case.
@KevinBlaw https://digitalgoldcapture.org/.
Discovery is coming soon in New York. You might win this market on a technicality (because the Jefferies contract won't be the 2nd complaint) but DCG doesn't file a 22-page opposition brief to a motion for an extension of time for no reason.
@SteveSokolowski The reason is that they're sick of your BS, which is transparently the product of disordered thinking. The case will ultimately be dismissed, the question is simply when, and how much of everyone's time will be wasted in the interim.
Sorry to have to say.
@SteveSokolowski the technicality that no one gives a shit? Or a fuck? That Iran can openly use it to launder money and no one cares? That technicality?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/opinion/crypto-trump-bitcoin-clarity-genius.html
What did they get wrong @SteveSokolowski
I think crypto being pointless is why no mainstream media wants to cover this story. If you get scammed at this point, the cat is out of the bag.
@SteveSokolowski shutting down Prohashing when he did was such a genius move. When he drops this case and gets a job, the next step is a girlfriend, and then LOOK OUT! There'll be no stopping him. Substituting a real life for BTC is an amazing trade.
@FrederickNorris You're right. I would much rather have a real life than a "BTC life." But sometimes, you decide you need to do important things because you're the only one who can. Putting an end to this DCG scam that has harmed millions of innocent people is something that only I can do.
@SteveSokolowski So you're halfway there. Nothing you can do will ever stop scammers. You are wasting your life and your youth on this nonsense. You think I'm being hard on you, but the honest truth is, I'm trying to help you. You walked away from your BTC experiments with a lot of money. Think of it as a success, and move on.
The recent R&R granted leave to amend the complaint as we requested, which requires that the new complaint is not futile or meritless - but at the same time stated that he wanted a summarized version that was 100 pages instead of 250 with a few easy fixes. This will be a Third Amended Complaint and will not contain as much evidence. This version will be filed on or before April 2.
When the media reports on the story, they will likely look at the Second Amended Complaint because it is the version that has all the evidence. Therefore, if any of the 660 pages of evidence reaches the news, this market will resolve to YES. If a reporter only includes the summary story without referencing the evidence in the second complaint, that is insufficient. If any news is reported before the Third complaint is filed, the market resolves to YES.
@SteveSokolowski Why don't you make a settlement demand for $1 billion instead of $14 billion? They might be interested.
@SteveSokolowski Steven, this is a serious question. Did you calculate what your effective sale price was when you sold your bankruptcy claim? If the prices dip below that figure, you could have major problems.
As I see it, shutting down Prohashing before the crash was a lucky accident for you.
Hoping you're able to turn the page and look forward to a crypto-free future!
@KevinBlaw It is correct that the censorship, particularly on reddit, is not organic or natural.
However, it is not correct that I plan to create a rap video to solve that problem.
@KevinBlaw Oh, I'm sure it can. But, given that the "system" has succeeded in banning my reddit accounts (again), and for the first time marking my X account as "limited reach" due to spam, I doubt the rap video would make waves.
Isn't it interesting how the "Digital Gold" secret you imply is nonsense seems to warrant such censorship? I suppose I just never realized that the average grandmother had 10 accounts banned from social media sites.