Some of you may not be aware because it only affects Canadian customers but Ledn has reached an agreement to acquire Arxnovum Investments (the moronic name alone should tell you everything you need to know) which is a Bitcoin, ETH and defi investment firm. In other words they are shitcoiners using Bitcoin's good name as lipstick on their pig of a business.
In order to become certified shitcoiners, Ledn must bend the knee to Canadian regulators and screw the plebs that allowed them to build their business. So they will no longer be offering savings or loan services to Canadian customers, unless you are an accredited investor that wants to get rugged by their new shitcoin business of course.
I shouldn't be surprised or perturbed by this after the news last month that they had exposure to Genesis. I am a Ledn customer and have a small B2X loan with them that is completely irrelevant to my stack or net worth but this really pisses me off because I only opened the account to support the business, as a Canadian bitcoin only company, after hearing Mauricio on a couple podcasts and being acquainted with someone who did some work for the company. I essentially paid 2x interest compared to what I could have using my line of credit to achieve the same result to try and support these guys. Now they are discarding my business to become shitcoiners.
Oh well. I will be closing out my loan, moving the sats to cold storage and closing my account. They can Have fun rugging boomers.
Cheers, GR
Why does it seem that every sponsor the What Bitcoin Did podcast has ends up rugging, shitcoining, or bankrupting?
I wonder if it speaks to the kind of companies that blow money on sponsorship?
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Breedlove hand picked sponsors for What is Money podcast:
  • Ledn
  • Casa
  • that physical art fractional securitization NFT play (which actually is one of the least deranged uses of NFTs IMO)
  • ...who's next?
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I believe this is the rule ... the exception is a few companies that are still BTC only :)
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The poisoned chalice of raising venture capital.
You must keep showing growth in order to prevent a down round. Positive cash flow and sustainability are secondary priorities at best, so expedient short term decisions to shitcoin will always be taken in order to keep the revenue chart going up. It’s all about making it to the next funding round.
Employee packages are linked to stock options too, so it’s not just the investors and founders who are motivated to grow. VC money is a death sentence unless there’s an explicit plan to avoid the trap.
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Bear market tests everyone, breaks many 😔
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I had a very small stack with Ledn earlier too but now its in cold storage.
THe red flag is they deal with Gemini/Genesis (not sure which one) .... but anyways both are fucked
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Re-hypothecated bitcoin is a shitcoin anyways. CeFi businesses eventually go full fiat shit coinery
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I pulled everything off last night, waiting for everything to leave. Takes 2-3 days which is stupid in my opinion.
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Arxnovum Investments (the moronic name alone should tell you everything you need to know)
wdym? I don't get it 😂😂
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They did raise 100 million from firms that aren't exactly bitcoin only, as earnings compress with less trading and leverage useage and people pull funds out of fear you have less AUM to extract fees from and I guess this is where it becomes make or break, which we saw with Casa
Not making excuses, every business needs to make this call and we see where the chips lay in the end
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