{"id":25047,"date":"2023-03-09T17:38:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=25047"},"modified":"2023-03-09T17:38:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:38:14","slug":"crypto-collapse-good-night-silvergate-bank-unbanking-crypto-exchanges-voyager-sale-to-binance-proceeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2023\/03\/09\/crypto-collapse-good-night-silvergate-bank-unbanking-crypto-exchanges-voyager-sale-to-binance-proceeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto collapse: Good night Silvergate Bank, unbanking crypto exchanges, Voyager sale to Binance proceeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update for the most predictable crypto collapse dead pool entry of the week \u2014 just a short one, for this great event. This time it&#8217;s Amy&#8217;s turn to post. [<a href=\"https:\/\/amycastor.com\/2023\/03\/09\/crypto-collapse-good-night-silvergate-bank-unbanking-crypto-exchanges-voyager-sale-to-binance-proceeding\/\"><i>Amy Castor<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In this update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silvergate Bank declares it&#8217;s winding down<\/li>\n<li>Various crypto exchanges are freed from the dead weight of the legacy fiat financial system<\/li>\n<li>Binance purchase of Voyager approved by the judge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, the Buttcoin Foundation has its bitcoin stickers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgerard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@davidgerard<\/a> for this pile of stickers I\u2019ll be leaving all around Portland and Las Vegas in the near future <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c76tEufeFr\">pic.twitter.com\/c76tEufeFr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; glass house rock thrower (@killhamster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/killhamster\/status\/1633296515375722496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it seems to me, you lived your life like a candle in the wind. You&#8217;ve abruptly toppled over and you&#8217;re burning things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2023\/03\/09\/crypto-collapse-good-night-silvergate-bank-unbanking-crypto-exchanges-voyager-sale-to-binance-proceeding\/alex-shaeffer-painting-bank-burning-si-edit\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25048\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25048\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Alex-Shaeffer-Painting-Bank-Burning-SI-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Alex-Shaeffer-Painting-Bank-Burning-SI-edit.jpg 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Alex-Shaeffer-Painting-Bank-Burning-SI-edit-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Alex-Shaeffer-Painting-Bank-Burning-SI-edit-348x215.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small><i>With apologies to <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/04\/29\/artist-specialized-in-painting.html\">Alex Shaeffer<\/a>.<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd it seems to me, you lived your life like a candle in the wind. You&#8217;ve abruptly toppled over and you&#8217;re burning things.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[568,1545,2697],"class_list":["post-25047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-binance","tag-silvergate-bank","tag-voyager-digital"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Alex-Shaeffer-Painting-Bank-Burning-SI-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25052,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25047\/revisions\/25052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}