You all know the story. Crypto and banks don’t get along: frozen wires, awkward questions, accounts closed without a word.

I work for a regulated financial intermediary in Geneva whose job is reducing that friction. We’ve helped over 400 crypto millionaires into Swiss and Monaco private banks, and very few of them had tidy histories (because easy stories are able to obtain an account easily), here are some examples of the kind of profiles that I have helped:

• Early miners with no receipts, just old hardware and pool accounts (or solo miners)
• Early buyers whose records died with Mt. Gox, BTC-e, Cryptopia etc
• DeFi users with hundreds of thousands of transactions across a dozen chains
• MEV and algorithmic traders whose P&L no compliance officer could read
• ICO participants, and people who were simply paid in crypto for legitimate services

The money was clean, we don't take sketchy cases. What they lacked was a story a bank could follow. That's where we stepped in, we wrote a compliance report that explained the source of wealth and funds of each client in a format that the compliance officer can understand, converted their crypto into fiat and presented the report to a partner private banks that has the risk appetite for these types of cases.

And some of you genuinely don’t give care about banks. Fair enough. This is for people that wanted a house, a mortgage, or some of it parked in stable traditional assets that don’t move 10% on a random Tuesday. These people almost never fully get out of crypto, they just take some chips off the table.

Ask me anything. I won’t name clients, banks or give tax advice. Everything else is fair game.

Just saw the news about Anthropic filing for an IPO yesterday. Kinda crazy how much hype there is around AI right now.

What’s even crazier is that people are already trading Anthropic’s valuation on crypto platforms before the stock is even listed lol.

Not sure if that’s actually a smart way to get in early or just another way to gamble on hype. Are you trading these pre-IPO markets or not?

Bitcoin slipped under $80K on Saturday (low around $79.2K) and has been hovering around that line since.

What's weighing on it:

- Iran tensions pushing oil up, which feeds inflation fears

- Leveraged long positions getting liquidated on the way down

- About $773M pulled from Bitcoin ETFs over Thursday and Friday

- Everyone de-risking before the Fed

The Fed announces its rate decision Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET. Markets mostly expect a hold, but the Fed already hiked in September and a December hike is widely expected. A surprise hike Wednesday would probably hit crypto hard.

Levels people are watching: around $79K support, $78K below that, and $82K to look healthy again.

Not financial advice. What are you doing before Wednesday? Holding, selling, or waiting to buy the dip?

Why did you invest in crypto? Obviously many people make investments because of the perceived returns. But I would like to know the motivation. Is it the belief of what crypto will do and therefore, your hope that at a time in future, the project will gain value and change the world or was it honestly due to speculation? What is your current feeling about crypto?

Say a small coin dumps 20% in one candle and blows straight past your stop

With Pump fun adding TP/SL for EVM positions now, im curious how people handle that. are you getting filled anywhere near your trigger or just wherever the liquidity is when it hits?

Timeline so far:

- Oct 20: Keystone detects an intrusion on its website

- Oct 24: discloses a customer data leak (names, addresses, order records)

- Oct 26: reveals the attacker also got the WebAuth key used to verify devices as genuine

That key is burned into devices at the factory and can't be changed, so in theory it could let counterfeit wallets pass Keystone's authenticity check. Keystone is destroying 18,835 devices in stock and holding orders until new ones ship with a new key.

Not affected: recovery phrases, private keys, wallet passwords.

Keystone says devices verified before Oct 20 are considered safe. If you got one after Oct 20, they ask you to contact support. And with names and home addresses leaked, expect fake "Keystone support" refund scams. Never type your seed phrase anywhere.

Anyone here using a Keystone? Sticking with it?