What happens when Swift integrates with Tether?
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CFA Institute quote “the problem with crypto is it’s borderless.”
Tokenization of equities and treasuries is of great interest for institutional activity around the repo market. They are seeking greater efficiency of their capital.
Fidelity has been mining bitcoin since 2015.
The legal counsel for the XRP DAT was probably the most ideological speaker today. And she didn’t want anything to do with the Bitcoin DATs.
Strive will make it through. What treasury companies won’t? How many get acquired in 2026? Still a net positive of institution growth by years end?

Met a guy who conducted analysis for trading violations from Credit Suisse for 18 years and now is doing it privately.
He said Bitcoin seems like a pyramid scheme to him and that’s why all the hype is needed. To get more people in.
Another guy specializing in AML thought Lightning was a product of a company. Couldn’t understand why it’s needed if base layer or tradefi products can do T+0.
There are so many that don’t seem to know even the basics.
I don’t argue back. Sometimes I ask a follow up question. But I think they at least respect me because I don’t get defensive about it. And they’re forced to sit with whatever they declared.
Is 100 hours a real baseline to be able to absorb what Bitcoin is and does?
Athletes of the Kobe era are wild.
I zapped a car crash @Gigi
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