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The Breakdown

Poloniex leaves Circle & the USA / Binance 125x leverage / BIS says BTC failed & stabelcoins a threat

The Breakdown

Blockworks

Investing, Business

4.8806 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Circle is spinning out Poloniex and the exchange's new honors want to build away from the US. Is this more evidence of the "companies leaving US" narrative or just competitive pressure? Speaking of exchanges, Binance hit $1B in cumulative profit this week and announced 125x leverage because reasons. Finally, the big boss of the financial system Bank of International Settlements released a paper effectively calling bitcoin a failure but identifying private stablecoins like Libra as a threat.  Watch: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribe via email: https://nlw.substack.com/

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another crypto daily three at three. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, October 18th. We're just flying through this month. And we are back with another three at three. So yesterday, for those of you guys were here, know it was a little bit more of like a video op-ed, you could say, right? We talked a lot about this question of Bitcoin and whether it can be institutionalized

0:26.0

without losing its censorship-resistant roots.

0:28.5

Basically, it was us digging into a conversation.

0:30.6

Today is back to more news.

0:32.2

So if you're interested in the news, we got you.

0:34.9

So today we're going to talk about first Pol Polonex leaving Circle, being spun out from Circle

0:39.8

and actually leaving the US entirely.

0:42.3

Second, we're going to talk about Binance, just continuing to tear up the world and introducing

0:47.3

this new leveraged trading product.

0:50.3

And three, we're going to talk about a new report for the bank of international settlements, better

0:55.1

known as Big Boss Bowser in the world of money, about Bitcoin and more particularly stable

1:01.8

coins like Libra. So let's start with Circle Pay. So classic Friday news dump, we saw one last

1:07.6

week. This one was a little less dramatic than last week's everyone leaving Libra, but still kind of a big deal. The block here says, breaking. Circle Pay is spinning out

1:15.7

Poloniacs, which it purchased for $400 million last year. The new entity will invest $100 million

1:22.2

to expand Poloniacs, which will no longer serve U.S. customers. So both Circle and Polonex wrote about this.

1:31.0

Circle said today we're announcing that Poloniacs will be spinning out their circle portfolio

1:34.4

of businesses into a new independent international company with backing from an Asian

1:38.7

investment group that plans to spend $100 million for development and expansion.

1:42.5

The move provides the Polonex team with significant

1:44.3

new resources and freedom to deliver the product features and marketing strategies needed to be

1:48.0

competitive in the global exchange marketplace. Circle remains focused on growing its core

1:53.5

crypto financial businesses, including its USDC stablecoin service, crypto brokerage and training

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