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In this aide, we will serve the two kinds of peruser, giving instinctive clarifications that give the "higher perspective" of Bitcoin's financial aspects yet in independent segments we will dig into the genuine mechanics of Bitcoin for the peruser needing to know more. Anytime in this aide, in the event that you the peruser start to feel overpowered by the specialized subtleties, we encourage you to skirt ahead to the following area. Insofar as you basically allow every one of the segments an opportunity, we are sure you will leave understanding the mechanics and financial matters of Bitcoin far superior to toward the beginning.
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Bitcoin is a digital, decentralized, partially anonymous currency, not backed by any government or other legal entity, and not redeemable for gold or other commodity. It relies on peer-to-peer networking and cryptography to maintain its integrity. Its proponents argue that Bitcoin has many properties that could make it an ideal currency for mainstream consumers and merchants. For example, bitcoins are highly liquid, have low transaction costs, can be used to send payments quickly across the internet, and can be used to make micropayments. This new currency could also hold the key to allowing organizations such as Wikileaks, hated by governments, to receive donations and conduct business anonymously.
Amazingly, as of October 2011, a bitcoin (currency ticker BTC) is worth about two U.S. Dollars (USD), there are about $20 million worth of bitcoins in existence, there are probably around 20,000 Bitcoin users, and over $300,000 worth of bitcoins are traded every day.
Although the Bitcoin economy is flourishing, users are anxious about Bitcoin’s legal status and the possibility of a government crackdown. Some point to Bitcoin’s ability, like all digital and anonymous currencies, to facilitate money laundering, tax evasion, and trade in illegal drugs and child pornography. Indeed, the U.S. government prosecuted and shut down the creators of e-gold, a digital currency backed by gold, under state and federal laws for conspiracy to commit money laundering, and also for providing services to those involved in “child exploitation, credit card fraud, and wire (investment) fraud”. Others point to governments’ purported interests in protecting their economies and monopolies on minting new money. These individuals point to the successful prosecution and conviction of the creator of the Liberty Dollar, a paper and coin based currency backed by gold and other precious metals.
Hence, no faith or trust towards the financers or politicians was required in case of Bitcoin, but only in Nakamoto’s well-designed algorithms. Not only the public ledger of Bitcoin, i.e. the ‘block chain’ seemed to fend off fraud, but also kept the money supply of Bitcoin growing at a predictable rate due to the prearranged release of the virtual currency. The Bitcoin network came into existence with the release of open source Bitcoin client and with the issuance of the first Bitcoin. Satoshi mined 18 the first 50 Bitcoin which are famously known as the “Genesis Block”.
In the same year the exchange rate of Bitcoin was first published by liberty standard at $1 for 1,309.03 BTC. Within a couple of years, around February 2011, Bitcoin achieved dollar parity and was now being accepted all over the world as a mode of payment for a plethora of products.
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“crypto friendly” banks
Or, why all residents should be allowed to opt into
accounts at the central bank
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2. Disclaimer
The views expressed in this presentation are mine alone and do not necessarily
reflect the views of my employer and any company I advise.
Note: I am not a lawyer.
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3. Unfortunately due to how prevalent conspiracies are in the
coin world, we have multiple competing timelines. The
canonical one is constantly being Sybilled by coin
lobbyists and their donors.
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4. What we all kind of agree upon…
(1) Centralized (crypto) lenders received rehypothecated collateral that was
pledged to other lenders by bullish traders both of whom had poor (or no) risk
management systems or controls.
(1) Anchor - an asset management dapp - unsustainably juiced yields for UST
(TerraUSD) deposits. This came to a head in early May 2022.
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5. (Second) Terra / Luna depeg
May 10, 2022:
UST was a native token on the Terra blockchain - that attempted to peg to the U.S. dollar - and suffered an existential
depeg event and never recovered.
Luna, the staking token for the Terra blockchain, also collapsed. Together between $40-$60 billion in paper value
evaporated in less than a week. Do Kwon, one of the founders of Terraform Labs, journeyed to Southeast Europe.
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6. What happened during the first depeg?
On February 16, 2023, the SEC sued Terraform Labs (TFL), naming Do Kwon as
one of the defendants.
Without naming the trading firm involved (likely Jump in Chicago), we learn that
during UST’s first depegging event in May 2021, TFL asked for help from market
makers to help restore the 1:1 peg. As part of the deal with Jump, it received
heavily discounted Luna. Yet in public, Kwon and others state that the algorithm
organically restored the peg.
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34. But this is factually incorrect. The waves of withdrawals
began in November, when FTX collapsed, not in
December.
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35. U.S.-based pegged coin issuers often deposited the bulk of
their “reserves” in a handful of midcap banks including
SVB.
Upon the collapse of SVB, Coinbase, the co-issuer of
USDC announced it would halt redemptions.
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38. What actually happened
● CEO of SVB personally lobbied for dereg in 2018
○ But with ~2.5% liabilities insured via FDIC, SVB was “de facto a shadow bank masquerading
as a real bank”
● As did Barney Frank who then became a board member of Signature (and
netted ~$2.5m in director fees)
● 2018 dereg that both Lael Brainard (then Fed governor) and Liz Warren
fought against
● SI, SVB, Signature… fundamentally: these were all niche banks servicing a
highly cyclical sector dependent on cheap money.
● “Coup” at FDIC in 2018 via “hot” deposits (brokered deposits)
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39. Barney Frank and other coinvangelists are wrong
According to Martin Gruenberg, Acting chairman of FDIC:
● 68% of Silvergate's deposits were withdrawn after FTX collapse
● The ten largest deposit accounts at SVB held $13.3 billion in the aggregate.
(probably why VC billionaires were freaking out on social media)
● Signature Bank lost 20% of its deposits in a matter of hours on March 10, the
day SVB was shut.
● Signature had a negative balance at the Fed at the close of business, and
“bank management could not provide accurate data regarding the amount of
the deficit.”
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44. Victory lap? Grave stomping? How about bonafides from
over two years ago.
Twenty six months ago I literally named two of the banks -
Silvergate and Signature - that could go bankrupt creating
the conditions for a peg break, thereby exposing users to a
depegging event for USDC.
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47. Yes, I named two of the specific banks and how ultimately
they would need to be backstopped by the Fed and FDIC.
But that didn’t prevent a bank run.
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62. Dominoes
● Ultimately every major centralized “crypto” lender collapsed in
the past 12 months taking down with it a number of other coin
companies with it.
● And this had a knock on effect in the real U.S. financial system
because customers and clients attempted to withdraw and/or
transfer their assets from a handful of mid-tier banks.
● This in turn led to an unintentional run on the very banks that
had pivoted into “crypto” banks, including two that held
“reserves” for at least one pegged coin issuer.
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63. Discussing the (mini?) banking crisis is a topic for the
Appendix at the end but before we go…
● There is plenty of blame to go around but fundamentally the collapse of the
centralized (coin) lending ecosystem last year was self-inflicted due to a lack
of accountability and financial controls, specifically around collateral
management. Counterparties repeatedly lied to one another and LARPed
their way to riches.
● Creating external scapegoats and boogeymen is part and parcel to the
conspiracy theories that some coinfluencers resort to, but most of the blame
falls squarely on the shoulders of an industry-wide affinity fraud: coin traders
trusted other coin traders and few questioned the solvency as long as
“Number Go Up.”
● One way to mitigate this type of fraud in the future is to require collateral be
deposited on-chain at all times. One of the few survivors of this debacle were
users of the “defi” lending dapps such as Aave.
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