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My latest

Coindesk, Why You Should (Still) Care About Silvergate (Oct. 2024)
My retrospective on the Silvergate affair and how events have become much clearer with the passage of time

Pirate Wires, Inside the Biden Admin’s Plot to Destroy Silvergate and Debank Crypto for Good (Sep. 2024)
My latest missive on Operation Chokepoint 2.0, a covert and far-reaching Biden administration program to destroy crypto

Whitepaper, Stablecoins: The Emerging Market Story (Sep. 2024)
A survey of on the ground data combined with on-chain data to determine stablecoin adoption in EM

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Operation Chokepoint 2.0

My three-part series in Piratewires on the Biden administration’s crackdown on crypto firms via cover bank regulation

Part I: Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, And Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs (March 2023)
I notice the origins of a coordinate crackdown on crypto banking in the wake of the FTX crisis

Part II: Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? (May 2023)
Amidst the banking crisis of 2023, pro-crypto banks Silvergate and Signature are suspiciously shut down

Part III: Inside the Biden Admin’s Plot to Destroy Silvergate and Debank Crypto for Good (Sep. 2024)
More revelations from the Silvergate bankruptcy filings and subsequent action by regulators confirms my suspicions