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MARA's $5B Bitcoin Bet: Will Main Street Profit or Just Wall Street?

MARA's $5B Bitcoin Bet: Will Main Street Profit or Just Wall Street?

MARA Holdings, aka Marathon Digital, is currently sitting on a pile of highly concentrated grass – about $5 billion worth of highly concentrated grass to be exact. They’ve increased their ownership by a massive 175% yoy, thanks to the Bitcoin craze. And analysts are bandying about numbers like $150,000 by...
Maple Finance DeFi's Bridge to Wall Street or Another House of Cards?

Maple Finance DeFi's Bridge to Wall Street or Another House of Cards?

The allure of DeFi is undeniable: a permissionless, transparent, and efficient financial system built on blockchain. The better question is not whether DeFi will supersede traditional finance, but when, in what fashion and at what expense. Maple Finance is paving the way for the revolution of undercollateralized lending to institutions....
Figure Markets: Democratizing Finance or Just Another Wall Street Game?

Figure Markets: Democratizing Finance or Just Another Wall Street Game?

As I delve further into Figure Markets, one question continues to plague my mind. How are they going to achieve their lofty vision of powering a DeFi-Fueled marketplace for everything from HELOCs to tokenized stonks! The promise is seductive: a seamless, transparent, and efficient system that cuts out the middleman...
Crypto's $5T Dream: Will Main Street Finally Benefit or Just Wall Street?

Crypto's $5T Dream: Will Main Street Finally Benefit or Just Wall Street?

According to Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse, the entire crypto market will double, reaching $5 trillion this year. That's a staggering amount of money. But let's be real: who really benefits? Are we really still in a place of a rising tide lifting all boats, or is it just the Wall...
Bitcoin to $108K? 3 Silent Fundamentals Wall Street Ignores

Bitcoin to $108K? 3 Silent Fundamentals Wall Street Ignores

Willy Woo’s recent prediction of a Bitcoin price at $108,000 is taking the industry by storm, and for good reason. Yet the clamor around price targets sometimes obscures the important underlying mechanics. Are we really comprehending why this is at all possible? Wall Street, so easily distracted by shiny penny...
Bitcoin to $100K: 3 Data Points Wall Street Can't Ignore

Bitcoin to $100K: 3 Data Points Wall Street Can't Ignore

Wall Street. The name alone should inspire visions of mahogany desks, pinstripe suits, and a general aversion to anything definitively disruptive. Bite after bite, for years now, they’ve fed us their scorn for Bitcoin—it’s a fad, a Ponzi scheme, digital tulips. Data is coming in quickly and stacking up. Even...
Bitcoin's 2025 Crossroads: Decentralization vs. Wall Street's Embrace

Bitcoin's 2025 Crossroads: Decentralization vs. Wall Street's Embrace

The champagne corks popped in late 2024. Bitcoin hit a record high. Everyone was talking about it. At last, the promise of digital gold was being realized. Yet behind the glitzy headlines and the noise of “number go up” was a more dangerous change occurring underneath. We’re quickly approaching an...
Wall Street's Bitcoin Takeover: 3 Ways It'll Change Your Life

Wall Street's Bitcoin Takeover: 3 Ways It'll Change Your Life

Wall Street is all in on Bitcoin. It’s no longer a question of “if”, but “how much”, and more critically, “how is this going to affect you”. Put aside the buzzwords, the years of discussions and development surrounding blockchain technology. This revolution is not about technology, it’s about power, money...
Bitcoin's $100K Dream: 5 Cold Hard Facts Wall Street Ignores

Bitcoin's $100K Dream: 5 Cold Hard Facts Wall Street Ignores

Indeed, Wall Street’s already starting to whisper about Bitcoin going to $100,000. Exchange traded funds are the shiny new toy and everyone is patting themselves on the back for finally “figuring out” crypto. Let’s be honest, are they actually getting a complete picture? I'm not so sure. Here’s what they’re...