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Fortune, Debanking hurts everyone. It’s time to end it once and for all, with Austin Campbell (Dec. 2024)
My op-ed in Fortune giving a general overview of the debanking of crypto firms
Medium, Marc Andreessen and the CFPB: Debunking the Debanking Debunkers (Nov. 2024)
A discussion of Marc Andreessen’s comments on crypto debanking and the role of the CFPB
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
Operation Chokepoint 2.0
My four-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
Part IV: Marc Andreessen and the CFPB: Debunking the Debanking Debunkers (Dec. 2024)
I assess Marc Andreessen’s explosive new claims about debanking
Part V: Operation Choke Point 2.0 Goes Mainstream (Dec. 2024)
Piratewires’ Brandon Gorrell summarizes my reporting on OCP2.0 and covers the mainstreaming of the thesis
Overview: Debanking hurts everyone. It’s time to end it once and for all, with Austin Campbell (Dec. 2024)
My op-ed in Fortune giving a general overview of the debanking of crypto firms in Fortune