182 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast February 25th, 2023
ASX eat sits writedown on the Digital Asset CHESS debacle, CZ’s $400 million shuffle, President Zelensky sanctions MOEX and there’s Indo-European CCP confusion
Exchange Invest 2594: SBF Faces New Rap Sheet
Another day, another slate with 4 new charges against SBF. Plot thickens, noose tightens…
Exchange Invest 2593: Euronext Allfunds Bid
…This is from an organisation which is still unable to convincingly explain how its ‘independent’ US entity was forced to push $400 million through in a single transaction to a fund controlled by the Binance founder and global CEO.
Exchange Invest 2592: Indo-European CCP Confusion
“In reality, bitcoin has been through four crashes now and recovered each time. That makes it different from a pure asset bubble. Tulips never recovered in price, neither did the South Sea company ever come back from its collapse.
Exchange Invest 2591: Zelensky Sanctions MOEX
Now Gazza G spent the weekend stuck on Third Base with his crypto crackdown but is the home run coming this week or next?
Exchange Invest 2587: ASX Results
There’s a big row ongoing where the crypto kiddies argue stablecoins are not securities but given they look, smell, act (and are allegedly hedged like…)
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 -
Exchange Invest 2582: Binance Pushing For SRO?
Binance fronting an SRO at first glance struck me as akin to say, Cosa Nostra coordinating a small business convention?
Exchange Invest 2581: Euroclear’s Record Year
SBF did however have a setback with no relaxation of his bail contract provisions: U.S. Judge Rejects Bail Proposal For FTX Founder Bankman-Fried (Reuters)
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...
Exchange Invest 2579: HKEX Make Hay In KSA
One of the more fabulously ludicrous moves by some of the political classes was to ‘regift’ SBF’s astounding political influence purchase - sorry that ought to read campaign contributions - which if nothing else demonstrated a phenomenal cluelessness amongst said elected reps.
Exchange Invest 2578: Ion Ransom Paid
Eagle eyed readers may recall Binance allegedly bought WazirX but in the end, it appears they definitely didn’t… As always, transparency aforethought from..oh never mind.
Exchange Invest Weekend Edition 2577: From AI to Stealth Tax
Yet, few have questioned CEO Changpeng Zhao.” Okay that data is a few weeks old but it does raise the intriguing question of just why anybody trusts CZ and Co.
