We take a look at the recently released Federal Reserve Board 2024 bank stress test scenarios, with an eye towards just how sensitive the stress tests are to disruptions and uncertainties created by …
The World’s Largest Crypto Exchange Settles U.S. Criminal Case for $4.3B – “One of the Largest Fines in Corporate History”
What we were first tracking as classic "creative destruction" now continues to sit firmly in the "destruction destruction" column, as this $4.3B Binance settlement is announced weeks after FTX's Sam …
Tor Network Removes Risky Relays Associated With Cryptocurrency Scheme
On Monday, the Tor Project announced it removed certain relays deemed harmful to the network's integrity. Many of the relays were associated with a for-profit scheme that accepted cryptocurrency …
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How Does Hamas Use Cryptocurrency for Fundraising and Financial Activities?
In our recent post on crypto fraud relative to fraud in the traditional fiat monetary systems, we encouraged our readers to think very critically about the perceptions of and narratives about the …
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Crypto Fraud is Less Than 1% of the Annual $3.2 Trillion in Illegal Activity in the Traditional Fiat Monetary System
The current perception of the scale of fraud in the cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies ecosystem - now based largely on the scale of and level of headlines dedicated to the FTX fraud and …
The Future of Money, Trust, Value Creation, and Blockchain Technologies
OODA CEO Matt Devost and Raymond Roberts, in a fireside chat on The Future of Money at OODAcon 2022, began with a discussion of origins of their interest in bitcoin, the history of money and the …
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Is Elon Musk’s Vision for ‘X’ Already Up Against Signal, Telegram, and Paypal in an Existing Market?
According to the customer development/lean startup model, a firm grasp on "market type" (i.e. creating a new market or entering an existing market) is central to any startup companies success or an …
The Climate Crisis, Texas’ Bitcoin Miners, and European Farmers
Loosely tethered to our previous update - While Texas Declared a Grid Emergency, EU Fossil Generation is at Record Low - two more climate crisis related developments are worth tracking as an indicator …
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The History of Money, Bitcoin, and the Global Fiat Currency Standard
OODA CEO Matt Devost and Raymond Roberts, in a fireside chat on The Future of Money at OODAcon 2022, discussed the origins of their interest in bitcoin, the history of money and the global fiat …
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The Stifling of the U.S. Crypto Innovation Ecosystem has Begun – While the EU Takes the Lead Globally
Binaries fractures - individuals and institutions presented with a choice between different polarities instead of being able to align along a median - is a theme from the OODA Almanac …