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The SEC Security Disaster

We’ve been talking about the spot Bitcoin ETF for over 6 months now. As I said back in June, most crypto bros have the same three dreams:

• To get rich.

• To see SEC Chair Gary Gensler sent to the black cells.

• A spot Bitcoin ETF.

For the most part, we’ve been making progress toward those goals. The beginning of the bull market has been helping the get rich cause, while it’s been widely reported that a spot Bitcoin ETF is painfully close.

The one thing we haven’t been able to do is give Gary Gensler the boot.

Well, that might be changing soon.

At around 4 pm today, the SEC tweeted that all spot BTC ETF applications were approved. Crypto X went wild. Champagne bottles were popped. Ticker tape was thrown from the heavens.

But then, a few minutes later, disaster struck. And it came from the mouth of Gensler:

Which led to Bitcoin flushing from $48,000 all the way down to $45,000. In other words, the SEC’s lax security resulted in the evaporation of an obscene amount of money.

And before you think that it must’ve taken some super hacker to bust into the SEC’s X account, think again. It turned out that all it took was a sim swap.

Yep, the institution designed to protect investors didn’t even have 2FA enabled.

Regardless of what happens next, nobody can ever say that crypto is boring.

A Sneak Peek: ETH pumped more on the “news” than BTC. Perhaps people are excited about a potential spot ETH ETF?

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TECH

• X will have peer-to-peer payments soon.

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• Meta is here to protect your kids.

• It’s a bad time to be working in gaming.

AI

• Humane is already laying off people.

• The EU is poking around Microsoft and OpenAI.

• Microsoft cooked up a new battery material with AI.

• OpenAI is calling BS on the New York Times.

SCIENCE

• We are out here restoring vision in mice.

• These transparent MicroLED screens are ridiculous. 

• What’s better than one screen? Two screens.

• mRNA drugs are absolutely revolutionary.

CRYPTO

• The spot Bitcoin ETF fees are going to be cheaaappp.

• Don’t fumble the bag. 

• Is it SocialFi szn?

• Developers really like Solana.

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Stat: 5.6%: The current “Grayscale Discount”, the lowest it’s been since April 2021. Bring that ETF to me NOW.

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This is getting out of hand.

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