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June 24, 2023 By Asi de Silva

SEC vs. Coinbase

Dispatch #6 shares excerpts of our thoughts on the SEC vs. Coinbase lawsuit, and its implications for the broader ecosystem, from a letter to investors of the RockDen Digital Assets Fund last week. The document was finalized on June 16th, and some of the charts will be dated as a result. The Bitcoin price is […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: Binance, Binance Lawsuit, bitcoin adoption, bitcoin ETF, BlackRock, BlackRock bitcoin, Coinbase, Coinbase lawsuit, crypto legislation, crypto regulation, crypto securities, EDX Markets, Fidelity, SEC crypto ETF approval, SEC crypto lawsuits, SEC vs. Ripple

November 17, 2022 By Asi de Silva

FTX Bankruptcy

The FTX Bankruptcy and contagion to other platforms is likely to be the Lehman moment for crypto assets. While we don’t know the exact details leading to the failure, on-chain analysis shows the 3AC failure in June as a flash point. We wish the analysis had been presented a few weeks prior, and not after […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: Blockfi, Coinbase, crypto fraud, crypto regulation, crypto selloff, crypto yield, Elizabeth Warren, FTX, FTX bankruptcy, Genesis

August 13, 2022 By Asi de Silva

Crypto Selloff Exposed Incompetence

The 2022 crypto selloff exposed the incompetence and hubris in many traditional crypto companies. For example, Celsius had a $1.2bn balance sheet hole on client assets of $4.7bn by the time it filed for bankruptcy. Listed Canadian company Voyager had to declare bankruptcy because it provided a loan of $674m with zero collateral. Other companies […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: bear market, bitcoin selloff, Celsius, Coinbase, crypto bankruptcy, crypto selloff, insider trading, OFAC sanction, Tornado Cash, Voyager, Zipmex

October 30, 2021 By Asi de Silva

Pension Fund Announces Crypto Investment

The Houston Firefighters’ Pension Fund announced crypto investment last week to become the first US institution to disclose an allocation to digital assets. While there has been speculation of institutional investor participation, the $25m investment in bitcoin and ether by the $5.5bn asset fund, is the first official announcement. Could this event lead to the […]

Filed Under: The Dispatch Tagged With: a16z, bitcoin adoption, bitcoin institutional adoption, BlackRock, Coinbase, Cream protocol, crypto hack, crypto lobbying, Defi, Defi exploit, Digital Asset Policy, Energy prices, FTX, Houston Firefighters' Pension Fund, Magazine Covers, on-chain metric, tax policy, Wealth tax

September 11, 2021 By Asi de Silva

Social Security Insolvency is Looming

Dispatch #29 – 2021 September 10th, 2021 Looming Social Security insolvency, highlighted in the 2021 Trustees Report, is the lead story this week. The retirement Trust Fund (called old-age insurance) is set to run out in 2033 and the Medicare Trust Fund will be empty even earlier in 2026. How’s that for just around the […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: bitcoin adoption, bitcoin institutional adoption, Bored Ape, Coinbase, Defi, Metaverse, NFT auction, NFTs, SEC, Social Security, Social Security insolvency, sotheby's

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