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JPMorgan Says The Real Threat To Bitcoin Isn't Strategy (MSTR), It's Private Blockchains Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Strategy’s recent bitcoin sales and its formal monetization program have rattled investors, but JPMorgan analysts see a bigger danger to bitcoin: blockchain adoption that routes around public networks and the tokens that ride on them. In a report led by managing director Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou (ZH: available here for professional subscribers), the bank argued that Strategy is not the main structural threat to the asset.  The company sold 3,588 bitcoin for $216 million in early July to cover...

From TINA To TIGA: Diversification Pays Again Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, For more than a decade following the Financial Crisis, one acronym embodied the investment landscape: TINA, “there is no alternative.” The logic behind TINA was that the Fed and most other developed nations’ central banks held interest rates near zero and even below zero in some cases. As a result, Treasury, corporate, municipal, and international bond yields were extremely low for a decade.  Thus, stocks, reasonably valued after the financial crisis, offered a clearer path to meaningful returns. Today,...

"A Lot Of BS, Honestly": Apollo Head Says Everyone Is Measuring AI Wrong The tokenomics debate got its sharpest contrarian voice this morning, and it came from inside the building. John Zito Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg John Zito, co-president of Apollo Asset Management, sat for a fireside chat at the Morgan Stanley US Financials Conference on Wednesday, where he suggested to Bloomberg that measured per unit of intelligence delivered rather than per token, prices are collapsing - even as low-value usage drives the actual bills up. "I think tokenmaxxing and token talk is - it's a lot...