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Hayes says bitcoin is the antithesis of statist money “that is here for us, the people”
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The “root lesson to be learned,” Ahluwalia says, is “not to borrow from Genesis to go levered long on your own product”
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“Please stop looking at TVL as a useful metric if you’re at all a serious investor,” Jain insists
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As is often the case, the roast begins with laughs — but quickly turns to hard truths
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The Van Eck CEO says conditions are leading to a “close to perfect setup” for crypto
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FinCEN’s broad definition of “convertible virtual currency” mixing includes “basically anything in DeFi,” Variant’s Jake Chervinsky says
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Crypto is decoupling from other markets “exactly at the time you would hope it would,” Vance Spencer says
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According to Forman, 500 to 1000 different RWA pilots are set to launch in the next couple years
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Current credit card transactions are like sharing private keys with merchants, Yakovenko says
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Innovative blockchain activity is moving to “things that really hit the end user,” Monegro says
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“In [traditional finance] when you ask, ‘is it priced in,’ the answer is almost always ‘yes,’” says Ippolito. “In crypto, it is almost always ‘no’”
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Hougan explains that the establishment deeply feared the new financial mechanism for two reasons
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“You don’t want to become riskier as you get bigger,” Kazemian says. “That’s not a recipe for a good ending”