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Molly White
Molly White
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

Binance bitcoin bailout

#crypto #cryptocurrency

Headline: Binance to shift $1 billion user protection fund into bitcoin amid market rout Binance will convert the stablecoin holdings in its $1 billion Secure Asset Fund for Users to bitcoin over the next 30 days, with plans for regular audits
Headline: Binance to shift $1 billion user protection fund into bitcoin amid market rout Binance will convert the stablecoin holdings in its $1 billion Secure Asset Fund for Users to bitcoin over the next 30 days, with plans for regular audits
Headline: Binance to shift $1 billion user protection fund into bitcoin amid market rout Binance will convert the stablecoin holdings in its $1 billion Secure Asset Fund for Users to bitcoin over the next 30 days, with plans for regular audits
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Madagascar_Sky
Madagascar_Sky
@Madagascar_Sky@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@molly0xfff

Fuckin hell

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Frank Nord
Frank Nord
@fenkt@social.tchncs.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@molly0xfff $IBIT holding 65 Bn, Strategy ~35 Bn alone, not counting whales.
One Bn is like feeding a cherry to a cow.

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Preston MacDougall
Preston MacDougall
@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@molly0xfff “ #Bitcoin (and other #crypto currencies) is like rat poison squared.” - Warren Buffett

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Sky 🌋🌊☄️
Sky 🌋🌊☄️
@yks@privacysafe.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@molly0xfff Bitcoin has already been succeeded by more useful coins but it doesn't matter anyway, the reason is because it has no real world use case outside of being a more efficient version of western union.

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katzenberger
katzenberger
@katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@molly0xfff

The word "plans" is the most frightening here.

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troy_friz_zell
troy_friz_zell
@troy_frizzell@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@molly0xfff

I'm confused.

How could $1 Billion of fake, fiat currency prop up a real, stable hard asset like bitcoin?

Shouldn't that be the other way around?

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The Polish Dispatch
The Polish Dispatch
@ThePolishDispatch@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@molly0xfff Fast forward 30 days...

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Sex Crazed SaltShaker of Death
Sex Crazed SaltShaker of Death
@dsmdexter@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@molly0xfff
Where do you think this is heading? Is the billion enough to get bitcoin to seem secure, or will it keep dropping?

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Molly White
Molly White
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

it does not seem to me to bode well that they’re getting this nervous when the bitcoin price hasn’t even dropped below $80,000

#crypto #cryptocurrency

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Major Denis Bloodnok
Major Denis Bloodnok
@denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@molly0xfff How nice to see good news from you for a change. :-)

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GadgetGav
GadgetGav
@gadgetgav@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@molly0xfff Couldn’t an announcement of this size trigger the run they’re trying to hedge against?

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Tizian 「ティツィアーン」
Tizian 「ティツィアーン」
@raisondetredev@mastodon.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@molly0xfff I don't really understand this situation. Is this connected to the continuous devaluation of the US-$ in the last weeks?

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Molly White
Molly White
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@raisondetredev it mostly reads to me that they’re nervous about sinking bitcoin prices, and hoping to bolster them by a) injecting $1B of demand and b) publicly declaring their plans to do so in hopes that it will trigger others to buy

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Tizian 「ティツィアーン」
Tizian 「ティツィアーン」
@raisondetredev@mastodon.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@molly0xfff That sounds stupid.

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Henryk Plötz
Henryk Plötz
@henryk@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@molly0xfff Injecting $1B demand is nice, but ... what's on the other side of that $1B? Isn't that supposed to hold up the stablecoin or something? Is the stablecoin now bound to bitcoin?

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Molly White
Molly White
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@henryk no, USDC is reserve backed. the seller either decides to hold the USDC instead of the bitcoin, sell it for some other crypto asset, or redeem the USDC with Circle. it changes the seller’s portfolio, but USDC remains reserve-backed.

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lor
lor
@lor@goingdark.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@molly0xfff

Criminals doing crimes.

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