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Mar
21

Exchange Invest 2615: Happy 160 Stockholm

Nowhere is this clearly than in this gem of drivel from the Brussels Bugle: Humbled 'Crypto Bros' Don Blazers For Boca Raton (FT) which almost but not quite, completely fails to encapsulate last week’s Boca FIA meeting.
8 min read
Mar
02

Exchange Invest 2599: FTC Blocking ICE Black Knight

Coinbase campaign reminds me of the magnificent moment in “Yes Minister” when Cabinet Minister Jim Hacker is informed the PM may close his Ministry for Administrative Affairs.
11 min read
Feb
20

Exchange Invest 2590: Coinbase Concerns

No, AirBnB didn’t make it to profit thanks to “clearing fees” they achieved a move into the black thanks to “CLEANING fees”...
7 min read
Feb
14

Exchange Invest 2585: Options At Tadawul

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is unhappy about the staking ban but I am not sure he appreciates just how far the world has moved on - although it is interesting to see a Monday evening reception being added at FIA Boca by his charge Coinbase -
7 min read
Feb
08

Exchange Invest 2580: Bank Noose Binance

I don’t suddenly feel Binance is the perfect, transparent venue of goodness and light which will be able to keep P2P transfers functioning securely...
6 min read
Jan
24

Exchange Invest 2567: SBF Threatened

SBF has been threatened - #unacceptable - but that only raises more questions about the families assets. ICE launches a nifty new electricity future while the Motley Fool goes bourse operator bullish. Happy scrolling.
7 min read
Jan
19

Exchange Invest 2563: God Mode

We’re discussing God mode in Bitcarnage today while Nasdaq Private Markets buy a data channel and Schwab report results as ICE highlights ESG product certification increases.
8 min read
Dec
27

Exchange Invest Festive Edition 2543: Deals

PLY: Only a few months ago the world was under siege in crypto terms from some guy called SBF with a firm called FTX who were just buying all the licences they needed. Phew! Thank goodness that’s over!
6 min read
Dec
07

Exchange Invest 2526: ASX Board Checkmate?

Jeff Sprecher was at the Goldman Sachs exchange investor conference yesterday and spoke pure unadulterated common sense. Hopefully soon the blob will catch up and stop pandering to the faux exceptionalism of the crypto crowd.
9 min read
Nov
25

Exchange Invest 2516: Tadawul Buys Vendor

PLY: Single branch bank where deposits soared after Alameda bought it and was chaired by the man who co-created Inspector Gadget. #Everydaycrypto.
10 min read
Nov
21

Exchange Invest 2512: Bahamas Flex On FTX

Just as FTX weren’t doing their paperwork and introduced an emoji GUI to expenses payment while it seems carelessly forgetting to actually introduce stuff like accounting, or governance…
18 min read
Nov
11

Exchange Invest 2504: Fashionistas Dump FTX

NB: Caroline Ellison (former Alameda co-CEO) is viral on Twitter “being comfortable with risk very important. We don’t use any stop losses. I think those aren’t a good risk management tool.”
16 min read
Jun
03

Exchange Invest 2367: June 03, 2022

Rescinding accepted job offers reminds us that “my word is my bond” might have been a thing for exchanges but Coinbase is not actually a full exchange.
9 min read
Mar
26

Exchange Invest 2310: Farewell Madeleine Albright

Albright was a great American patriot who understood the world thanks to her roots in the Czech Republic, fleeing the Nazis to the UK and ultimately fleeing the Soviets to the USA post WW2. She was in the parish, a member of the New York Stock Exchange board...
4 min read
Jan
13

Exchange Invest 2248: COIN Buys Exchange Licence

Coinbase said on Wednesday it would acquire FairX, which launched last year and is regulated by the US CFTC. PLY: And lo the biggest listed crypto, er, exchange, actually has acquired at least one formal licence as an exchange.
5 min read