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@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-10-26 20:41:34

From a Bloomberg newsletter. I guess if enough people believe Btc holds real value, then by definition it does, by analogy with gold. Still makes my skin crawl.
#Bitcoin

From a Bloomberg newsletter: It's beginning to look like the big banks are putting more than a toe in when it comes to that ocean of funny digital money out there. It turns out that JPMorgan plans to allow institutional clients to use their holdings of Bitcoin and Ether as collateral for loans by the end of the year. That would be a major dip into the pool of crypto integration. The program is said to rely on a third-party custodian to safeguard the pledged tokens, and builds on JPMorgan’s earl…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-10-18 08:48:23

"#crypto leverage — whether through borrowing programs, margin trading, or perpetual futures — creates a cycle of risk that can rapidly snowball"
Again, of course. Leverage was one of the main drivers of the great crash of 1929. People then mortgaged their houses to buy stocks; now, to buy #Bitcoin

Anatomy of a crypto meltdown
October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

@Xavier@infosec.exchange
2025-08-11 20:35:12

Found another wild @… post on #imgur.
#bitcoin