Oops Towards the end of 2022 there was a particular shift in the sentiment towards this sector. Choke Point 2, as it became known, targeted the banking relationships of crypto businesses and ultimately took out Silvergate Bank, Silicon Valley Bank as well as a few others along the way. While that was intentional, the knock

Fink so Is it curious that in the week following the virtual take-down of Binance in the US, a flurry of major US operators submit ETF applications? First we had BlackRock, followed 48 hours later by Fidelity (Cathie Wood’s ARK re-submitted their original application last month).  In an environment so clearly hostile to the sector,

I’ll call him I’m reliably advised that it’s been a “terrible week for bitcoin”. I believe the contrary to be true. In the wash up of the SEC movement against Binance, Coinbase and others, several coins have been absolutely crushed having been specifically called out by the SEC as securities. In many cases there simply

Enforcement time Finally! The SEC brought its action against Binance, which has obviously been coming for a while. It immediately caused the BNB token to fall by 10% and the whole market fell on the news. The SEC went as far as posting this on their social media platforms, which might be considered somewhat prejudicial

Excellent reading material I urge you to read this. You will need at least half an hour but it will be worth your time. Written in 2015, its forecasts about the speed of human development are absolutely excellent. Among other things, it predicts that right about now we will have artificial intelligence that is about