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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

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

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