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BlackRock just plugged into DeFi
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Citi just picked Solana over Ethereum
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Coinbase took Epstein's $3M in 2014
3.5 million pages of DOJ documents confirm what no compliance officer flagged in 2014: a convicted sex offender was funding Bitcoin’s development pipeline. The 2026 Tranche of Epstein files suggests that the roadmap of Bitcoin was a commercial strategy financed by Jeffrey Epstein. But the story is different
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Wall Street's new darling
On Monday, Citadel Securities, the DTCC, the New York Stock Exchange, Google Cloud, ARK Invest, and Tether backed a single Layer 1 called Zero. These aren’t institutions “exploring” blockchain. They’re the operating system of global capital and they just placed a bet on replacing their own plumbing. This
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Tether just put on a suit
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The U.S. crypto battlefield
Hey, it’s Marc & 51 team, Jamie Dimon interrupted Brian Armstrong’s coffee with Tony Blair at Davos. The JPMorgan CEO got in Armstrong’s face and told him he was “full of sh*t” for claiming banks were sabotaging crypto legislation. While CEOs traded insults in Switzerland, SEC
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Why crypto broke
Hey, it’s Marc & 51 team, For 18 months, the crypto pitch to allocators was simple: ETFs brought in real money, regulation was coming, and Bitcoin had decoupled from degen retail. Mature asset class. Uncorrelated store of value. Digital gold. Then three pipes burst at the same time: the
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Hong Kong built the rails. Will the trains arrive?
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What would make this worth 10x more to you?
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Buy Bitcoin. Then What?
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Where regulation meets reality
Hey, it’s Marc Your competitive intelligence just got uncomfortable. While Asia processed $12.5 trillion in stablecoin flows in 2025, the US quietly built the institutional infrastructure to trigger adoption on a scale few have dared to imagine. This is according to Consensus Miami 2026 Global Digital Asset Adoption