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Digital Asset Treasuries, Stablecoin Strategy & Infrastructure for Corporations.

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“Bitcoin loans are being priced around 12% interest rates.” — @Eric, Partner of Epoch VC

Yates emphasized at the The Bitcoin Mena Conference that his focus wasn't on Bitcoin's volatility, but rather on its market structure.

He argued that Bitcoin lending looks expensive not because the risk is unmanageable, but because banks aren’t participating. In a market dominated by non-bank lenders, pricing reflects capital scarcity, not necessarily credit fundamentals.

What stood out:
✅ Non-bank dominance driving high lending rates
✅ Banks’ cost of capital as a structural advantage
✅ Lending as a cleaner balance-sheet entry point
✅ Bitcoin framed as reserve exposure via credit

The interesting signal is strategic. If banks enter, margins may compress — but balance sheets could quietly expand into Bitcoin exposure through lending rather than outright holding.

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“Bitcoin is a digital bearer asset. It’s the only truly bearer asset that a bank can lend against.” — Alan Lane, Former CEO of Silvergate Bank

Lane's insights at the Bitcoin MENA Conference stemmed from his banking experience rather than external speculation.

He pushed back on the industry’s obsession with stablecoins and reframed Bitcoin lending as the most conservative on-ramp for banks — not because it’s exciting, but because it’s structurally clean. Overcollateralization, clear collateral, and no issuer risk.

What stood out:
✅ Bitcoin treated as collateral, not a payment product
✅ Overcollateralization doing the real risk work
✅ Stablecoins introducing liability complexity
✅ Regulatory limits shaping bank behavior more than demand

The signal here wasn’t ideological. It was pragmatic. If banks engage with crypto at all, it may start where balance sheets and risk committees feel most comfortable: secured lending.

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“Bitcoin is a decentralized central bank.” — Chris Lane, CTO of Silvergate speaking at The Bitcoin Mena Conference.

Lane offered a banking-native way to think about where Bitcoin actually fits.

Instead of competing with banks, he framed Bitcoin as something banks eventually use — a neutral settlement layer sitting above institutions, accessed the way banks already access one another through correspondent relationships.

What stood out:
✅ Bitcoin positioned as final settlement, not a liability
✅ Stablecoins as training wheels for digital plumbing
✅ Clear separation between claims and bearer assets
✅ Correspondent banking as the mental model

The signal here is architectural, not ideological. If Bitcoin becomes a reserve rail, adoption won’t look disruptive — it will look boring, slow, and very familiar.

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“Now the question really is how.” — Changpeng Zhao founder of Binance speaking at The Bitcoin Mena Conference

Zhao’s talk felt like a marker of where the market actually is — not where it wants to be.

He wasn’t defending crypto’s existence or selling a future vision. Instead, he described a world where governments are already engaged and asking practical questions about regulation, reserves, and integration into financial systems.

What stood out:
✅ Governments shifting from theory to implementation
✅ Regulation viewed as a forcing function, not a blocker
✅ This cycle driven by institutions, not retail enthusiasm
✅ Macro liquidity starting to matter more than four-year cycles

The interesting signal wasn’t optimism — it was normalization. When the debate moves from why to how, the asset class stops being optional and starts being infrastructural.

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“We’re close to one million bitcoins purchased by institutional investors this year.” — André Dragosch, PhD Head of Research at Bitwise Asset Management .

Dragosch made a compelling case that Bitcoin’s market structure is quietly changing under the surface at Bitcoin Amsterdam 2025.

What stood out:
✅ Institutional demand eclipsing new supply
✅ Halving cycles losing explanatory power
✅ ETFs and treasuries reshaping liquidity
✅ Macro policy replacing miner dynamics

The takeaway wasn’t about price targets — it was about regime shift. Bitcoin may still be volatile, but the forces driving that volatility are starting to look very different from prior cycles.

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Seems like you’ve been in the community for a while now Alex. I agree although I’m finding the Maxi megaphone Kool-Aid community to be exhausting at times never really taking accountability fueling Hopium to retail.

I’m hoping institutional flattens a lot of of these narratives out and we as a community start to press forward to figuring out adoption
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“Compounding sell pressure from all previous cycles.” — @therationalroot reframes Bitcoin’s maturity in a very human way.

Calling this Bitcoin’s “IPO moment” felt apt — less spectacle, more structure, and a market learning how to live with its own history. IPOs “trend” to dip initially as institutional speculation takes hold.

What stood out:
✅ Early holders steadily monetizing gains
✅ Halving effects fading into the background
✅ Institutions absorbing supply rather than chasing momentum
✅ A shift from parabolic cycles to gradual appreciation

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2. wss://a.nos.lol/
3. wss://nostr.hifish.org/
4. wss://relay.primal.net/
5. wss://relay.chorus.community/
6. wss://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/nostr
7. wss://nostr.stakey.net/
8. wss://itanostr.space/
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“Bitcoin is digital capital.” — Michael Saylor Chairman of Strategy

@Michael Saylor's session wasn’t really about Bitcoin price or even yield — it reiterated his points about translation.

He framed Bitcoin as raw capital: volatile, scarce, and non–cash flowing by nature. The innovation, in his view, isn’t trying to make Bitcoin behave like a bond, but building structures around it that convert volatility into something institutions can actually use.

What stood out:
✅ Bitcoin treated as capital, not income
✅ Treasury companies acting as financial intermediaries
✅ Overcollateralization used to tame volatility
✅ Equity and perpetual instruments repackaging risk

The interesting signal here is behavioral, not technical. This is about meeting institutions where they already are — in regulated credit, predictable income, and familiar wrappers — rather than forcing them to adapt to native asset volatility.

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“When you have a money printer, you go to war and you can keep printing money until the value of all the money held by everybody in the country is destroyed.” — Dr. @Saifedean Ammous

Ammous zoomed out far beyond crypto and markets, tracing how monetary systems quietly shape political and social outcomes over decades.

What stood out:
✅ War duration linked to monetary flexibility
✅ Inflation framed as a hidden cost mechanism
✅ Gold-backed systems historically constrained state behavior
✅ Currency debasement shifts burden away from governments

The session wasn’t about policy prescriptions — it was about recognizing how money design changes incentives long before anyone votes on them.

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