sorry but cryptography and distributed systems are fake and scams now because some guy in the bahamas overleveraged his hedge fund and stole $10B of customer deposits

Granting financial stability and “defending” the #Euro does not mean to generate FUD. The level of the European Central Bank blog is astonishingly poor and its contents conflict with what the @EUCommission1 is trying to build. A very bad service to European citizens and businesses.

Crypto Litigation: An Empirical View What cases have been litigated in US courts when it comes to crypto assets (since their inception)? What's next? In this Essay, I offer the first empirical analysis of all crypto-related cases litigated in the United States. A thread

5/ A key quote on Disclaimers: "The defendants each included on their Twitter accounts that they were not providing stock recommendations or financial advice. But they intended for their followers to act on their promotional tweets and understood their followers would do so”

Humble request to please Google "personal recognizance bond" before pressing the blue button on that "where'd he get $250 million" tweet.

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"Today’s Commission tells entrepreneurs trying to do new things in our markets to come in and register. When entrepreneurs find they cannot, the Commission dismisses the possibility of making practical adjustments to our registration framework to help entrepreneurs register ...

Today the Court in Bitfinex & Tether ats. Anderson et al in the SDNY dismissed the plaintiffs' complaint in its entirety, without prejudice. This action was without merit from the beginning. Tether's announcement here: tether.to/en/tether-and-… 1/7

Judgment Entered for Tether and Bitfinex After U.S. District Court Denies Motion for Leave to Amend Class Action Lawsuit Read more: tether.to/en/judgment-en…

Tether Appoints Paolo Ardoino (Paolo Ardoino 🤖 ) as CEO Read More: tether.to/en/tether-appo…

More of people misunderstanding the market. This strikes me as peak navel-gazing US exceptionalism and abject denial of reality. Here is the truth, with apologies to all the Tether truthers that have been losing many many millions of dollars shorting an “obvious” fraud: 1 -

Life’s too short to be stuck at a job you hate. Instead, you should pivot by leaning into your unique superpower (whatever that may be) and bet on yourself aggressively. In this week’s article I explain how it’ll all play out when you do. alexofftherecord.com/p/betting-on-y…

Tether just froze the Ledger exploiter address

There are no coincidences.

Tether made more money last quarter than Goldman Sachs. Tether: $2.85 billion Goldman: $2.01 billion

It brings me no joy to be an ETH ETF bear. I’ve been working for Ethereum in one sense or another for 5+ years. I want the ETF to be approved. It should be. But I’m calling it like I see it, and I see an SEC that: (1) dislikes crypto as a concept, sees no value in the

This. Given everything we've seen over the last few years, it doesn't seem reasonable to expect quick approval of an ETH ETF. If we do get one, I suspect it will only happen after number of denials, a lot of delay, and a court order forcing the Commission's hand.

US govt declared Coinbase an illegal brokerage, and then proceeded to use Coinbase as its brokerage

The lawyers who will do best in the coming decade are those who are deeply skeptical about how lawyers have practiced for the past decade. Aggressively embracing AI is obviously going to be table stakes (already is, IMO), but the change is much broader than that. Clients will

reminder that saying “this is not financial advice” before proceeding to pump your own bags is not a get out of jail free card. Just ask Kim Kardashian