out in rants against Alex running an unregulated business and throwing back the space in primitive times. I mean what's the point here? Voyager, Vauldt, Blockfi did exactly the same as Celsius, yet they get saved and Zach Prince keeps running Blockfi. I don't buy into this general doomsday criticism
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They didn't make the same claims that Alex did. Like "safer than s bank" ... 'withdraw your money from the bank" ect. Simon is an og bitcoiner and goes off tangent but detailed rants all the time. It's juts how he talks.
Been saying not to trust anyone. Nobody is your friend right now.
Blockfi said "don't only buy bitcoin earn it" Nexo says "the leading regulated financial institution" Voyager even falsely claimed to be fdic insured...
The voyager one was Sus. The other 2 are not as mislead as as saying "safer than a bank"
Yeah Voyager falsely claimed funds held in USD in your account were FDIC insured.
They had to make good on their promises or something though
Man this whole CeFi space was full of foolery, snakes oil, false claims, and shady activity.
That's why its defi and cold wallet for me from now on
🎉Welcome to crypto🎉
It's also funny how defi was largely propped up by cefi players liquidity
where everyone is trying to have you give them your coins
The strongest bitcoin maxi often started out as the most burned sh*t coiner….. this is the case for a reason
Why not? Banks can go down as well. Fdic is only up to 250k. Look at leeman. Saying safer as a bank is probably very aggressive marketing. But all lenders played the unsinkable card and wanted to give the impression of absolute safety. Simon Focusing so fanatically on Alex Amas is cheap and makes me suspicious
Banks are held to certain regulations like a minimum capital in reserve requirement ect. So that claim is completely false as no such save gaurds existed. But yes I get the point banks are technically not safe too.
So Nexo claims to have those safeguards, since they are a regulated financial institution. But they don't even disclose their headquarters
Nexo makes claims of over 40 global licenses ensuring compliance with the applicable regulatory frameworks. And Insurance of $775M.
I am not saying that the situation is ideal but making this a major point of criticism and unique to Alex or Celsius celsius is just bs.
In the US, at least, minimums are gone. 0% required now. used to be 10% - but long gone.
All those exist but the insurance of coz is only for hacks not for mismanagement. But all lenders including blockfi wanted to give the impression the insurance is somewhat a general cover.
Insurance was the other bs jargon Alex used. Celsius insurance was from Fireblocks to my knowledge for crypto in cold storage. Now how much crypto do you think was in cold storage or Alex’s piggy bank did defi, mining and no collateral loans?
BlockFi just as bad. They all are. It's a hedge fund trading are money. So much risk and you may never be able to withdraw your money.
Indeed. Still Blockfi valuated at 250M
Yup. Although not how it was presented to anyone until Now
They paid a fine to the SEC and proudly claimed now to be regulated and preparing for ipo
If I'd known I would have never put my money on any of these. I thought it worked more like a bond and lending and borrowing business. Not a security business. Was so mislead.
While they handed out uncolaterlized loans. Regulation won't save us anyway. Bitcoin does not produce yield you need financial engineering.So Simon's approach that all just must be regulated and then you get your 3% is also just bs.
The way the produced yield on BTC was they took out a defi loan on maker and deployed the stable coins at a very high interest rate to market makers
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