In Today’s Email:
- Citadel moving into crypto?
- Argentina inflation hits 52%
- Coinbase Offers Employees 4 ‘Recharge Weeks’
Citadel Raises $1B+ From Paradigm and Sequoia
Citadel is a market maker - essentially a used car salesman for the market. They buy an asset and hold it (ideally for as short as possible) until they can find a buyer on the other side.
And Citadel is run by Ken Griffin. (The villain against Wall Street Bets and the group that tried to buy the constitution)
I mean look at this guy. He looks like the bad guy in a wall street movie.
*googles the company..*
.. holy shit Citadel is big! In 2020, they made $4.1B in EBITDA on $6.7B and hadn’t raised any outside capital previously.
They make about as much money as Nike, Starbucks, and Paypal. Jeeezus!
Until now - Citadel hasn’t touched crypto. So why would the biggest crypto fund (Paradigm) invest in Citadel?
Paradigm’s Co-Founder Matt (aka the guy I keep sucking up to until he lets me invest in his fund) basically just confirmed that they’re gonna move into crypto after this investment.
Excited to announce @paradigm’s investment in Citadel Securities alongside our friends at Sequoia. We’re excited to partner with them as they extend their technology and expertise into more markets and asset classes including crypto. citadelsecurities.com/news/citadel-s…
— Matt Huang (@matthuang)2:23 PM • Jan 11, 2022
I’m not sure exactly what this means going forward, but I think this guy, Krane, hit the 3 potential scenarios on the head:
trying to think through what this means: 1. citadel doing something within crypto. 2. paradigm prepping for a bear market by moving funds over to tradfi 3. paradigm raised 2.5 billion, no crypto farm can provide yield on that, so give to citadel because unsues capital
— krane (@0xkrane)1:11 PM • Jan 11, 2022
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Bitcoin Payments Are Coming To Argentina 🇦🇷
In 2021, El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender.
In 2022, I’m betting we’ll see more countries make it easier to buy things using Bitcoin.
First up: Argentina
Today, in Argentina hyperinflation is terrible. Annual inflation last year was 52%.
Fifty freakin Two percent!!
It’s so bad that the government had to “fix” the prices for 1,500 goods so people aren’t spending a month salary on toilet paper.
Quick guessing game. What do:
- peso moneda nacional
- peso ley
- peso argentino
- austral
- peso convertible
Have in common?
Answer: All 5 have been the national currency of argentina at some point in the last 100 years.
It reminds me of when I used to play games with my sister (5 years older than me) and she would just arbitrarily change the rules of the game anytime I started to do well.
Es no beuno! This is one of the true hopes for crypto. Aside from making me and all of Milk Road's readers filthy wealthy, crypto needs to solve the problem of shitty governments creating shitty currencies. If it doesn’t do that…then what the heck is the point?
One bit of good news today. Strike, the company that lets you get paid in bitcoin, just announced they are opening up for new users in Argentina.
That means you can get paid in a currency that isn’t going to systematically devalue by 50% a year. Bueno!
Coinbase Recharge Weeks
Crypto never sleeps. It’s New York City on speed.
That’s why Coinbase is moving to one week off per quarter for the entire company.
Spring Break x4.
In addition to coinbase, Bolt (a payments company I invested in that’s worth ~$10B+) now does 3-day-weekends…every week!
It’s clear there’s many ways to win and it’s competitive out there to compete on talent, so we'll see more of this.
Can someone plz update this meme to go up to $100k now? thx
- Mr. Fungible
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