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> were extremely specific and were crypto / VCs banks. It's not random banks that failed. They failed specifically because of business they were servicing.

Agree.

Now that the crypto industry in the US have no banks supporting them, perhaps it is time for crypto completely die (and it should) which should reduce the amount of VCs fueling the ponzi scheme.



There are still plenty of banks that serve blockchain and crypto companies: https://cointelegraph.com/news/svb-and-silvergate-are-out-bu...

Most of the scams in crypto probably don't need direct banking services because they aren't running long-term businesses, just quick marketing schemes to pump their token value before cashing out. Unless exchanges world wide are shutdown, this are unlikely to stop.

There are plenty of non-scam blockchain companies that aren't hurting anyone, just building interesting tech. I don't see any reason other than personal bias to want those startups to be debanked since they aren't any worse than the typical startup.


In this case it's the banking system having a crisis (perhaps revealing some Ponzi-like elements). Surely that is a boost to the crypto bros, in the abstract at least.


It is.

Bitcoin went up a fair bit during the SVB/SBNY crisis.




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