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.Dennis Kelleher spoke to Max Chafkin ([email protected]) Bloomberg about the historic mistake made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on #BitcoinEFT and "unleashing a worthless, useless, speculative, volatile and criminal-preferred financial product on retirees." #crypto bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

> "The conspiracy theory is central bank intervention causes inflation. Bitcoin ideology assumes that inflation is a purely monetary phenomenon that can only be caused by printing more money, and that Bitcoin is immune due to its strictly limited supply." davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/the…

The Case for Banning Crypto — For Finance, the Blockchain’s Risks Far Outweigh Its Rewards foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

> "[You can] understand Bankman-Fried as he really was: Not an exception to the broader crypto culture, but a perfect illustration of it." thebanker.com/Antidisestabli…

I watched Javier Milei speech World Economic Forum on YouTube the other day - a rallying cry for libertarianism; and thought it's a fascinating topic for a podcast or two. Here's the first one. Hope you enjoy it. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/jav…

The cypherpunk vision of decentralised finance has finally reached it's ultimate form — the Depository Trust Company's central ledger.

Most crypto scams are built on reputation laundering. You hire credible tech/legal/policy people to give you a patina of credability, but the core business is dumping illegal securities on the public. The tokens don't *do* anything, it's a pump and dump. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Crypto may have become boring, but it still isn’t legit on.ft.com/3HCXH0Y

Crypto may have become boring, but it still isn’t legit on.ft.com/3OlFpFh | opinion

> "The truth is that, whether the crypto is encased in a nice regulated wrapper and sold to you by BlackRock, or whether you buy it from a pastor who says that the Lord told him to make the sale, there is still no there there" on.ft.com/4bb1ujR

Another day, another #crypto fraud scheme. These cases aren't an outlier but rather a feature of the crypto industry's track record. cnbc.com/2024/01/29/doj…

Set the record straight and forget the noise. Crypto is not innovation. Crypto is gambling. Crypto is plutocracy. Crypto is financial predation. Crypto is financial libertarianism. Crypto is crime. Crypto should be banned.

Martin Wolf: Dissatisfaction with democracy is corrosive on.ft.com/49lagdj

‘Crypto did not level the playing field. It exposed the vulnerable to fraud and scams. It offset risk on to the poorest in society, all while paying lip service to a dream.’ The cruelty of crypto in its promise to revive the American dream aeon.co/essays/the-cru…

What happened to the good life? Do we YOLO because we can't afford a downpayment ? 🛟 My piece on the cruelty of crypto published in aeon today aeon.co/essays/the-cru…

Selling itself as the new American dream, crypto exposes the vulnerable to fraud and scams, and loads risk on to the poor aeon.co/essays/the-cru…

Bitcoin has failed to become a global decentralised digital currency, instead falling victim to fraud and manipulation. The recent approval of an ETF doesn’t change the fact that Bitcoin is costly, slow and inconvenient, argues #TheECBBlog ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat…

Regulators failed the public in not reining in crypto after the 2017 bitcoin bubble; they must not miss their chance a second time, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷 writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/18/cry…