Wincent x @wyden_io 🤝 Wincent is now integrated with Wyden, expanding access to our deep, institutional-grade crypto liquidity for banks and brokers worldwide. Through this integration, financial institutions can seamlessly tap into Wincent’s market making capabilities via Wyden’s infrastructure. Read more: wincent.com/featured-insight…

This was fun! Thank you @AndrewSteinwold for having me!

My first crack at this podcasting thing! (CZ/SVK only unfortunately)

WALL STREET JUST BANNED BITCOIN COMPANIES FROM THE STOCK MARKET January 15, 2026. Mark it down. MicroStrategy gets deleted from every major index on January 15, 2026. $9 billion in forced selling follows automatically. The biggest financial exile in modern history happens in 55 days and almost nobody knows it’s coming. Here’s what actually matters: Michael Saylor spent five years building a machine. Buy Bitcoin with shareholder money. Stock price goes up. Raise more money. Buy more Bitcoin. Repeat. It worked flawlessly. MicroStrategy accumulated 649,870 Bitcoin. Worth $57 billion today. They became the largest corporate Bitcoin holder on planet Earth. The machine just broke. MSCI’s rule is simple: when cryptocurrency exceeds 50% of your assets, you’re not a company. You’re a fund. MicroStrategy is at 77%. They crossed the line months ago. On January 15, 2026 … every pension fund and index tracker that owns MicroStrategy stock must sell. Not because they want to. Because the index forces them. Algorithms don’t negotiate. The premium already died. MicroStrategy used to trade at 2.5 times the value of its Bitcoin. That premium let Saylor raise $20 billion extra. Today it trades at 1.11 times. The market already priced in the funeral. What this actually means: The five year experiment where companies could disguise Bitcoin buying as corporate strategy just ended. Wall Street drew a permanent line. Bitcoin is its own asset class now. Want exposure? Buy an ETF. Every future dollar that would have gone into MicroStrategy flows to BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF instead. The game didn’t just change. The board got flipped. Tesla holds Bitcoin. Block holds Bitcoin. They’re safe because they stayed under 50%. They’re still companies that happen to own Bitcoin. MicroStrategy became a Bitcoin fund that happens to own a software business. That’s why they’re getting exiled. This is the reset. Corporate treasuries can hold Bitcoin as one asset among many. But build your entire strategy around it? Wall Street just showed you the exit door. 55 days until the most boring document in finance rewrites the entire rulebook.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Read what’s happening - open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

Warren Buffet, the ultimate inspiration

Wincent at The Bridge, New York 🇺🇸 We’re heading to The Bridge by @TheTieIO in New York City, joining top institutional leaders, funds, and innovators shaping the future of digital assets. Meet our team on the ground: @sebosik — Chief Business Development Officer Paul Howard — Senior Director, Institutional Sales Anya Leasor — Sales & Head of Relationship Management We’re looking forward to connecting with partners and peers to provide liquidity in digital assets. 🤝 Let’s connect in New York! 🗽 🔗 bridge.thetie.io #TheBridge #TheTie #NewYork #Crypto #OTC #DigitalAssets #Networking #Wincent

Some friends of mine run a top crypto MM responsible for 1% of global volume. They are currently looking to hire an HFT quant/trader based in HK and a Chief Legal Officer. HK Quant/Trader: jobs.ashbyhq.com/wincent/d7c… CLO: wincent.com/careers?ashby_ji…

I wonder if you’d make the same argument of distributions in kind had crypto continued it’s decline 🤔

Some of the ADLs from last Fridays crash have been a bit ridiculous. Its time to talk about ADLs📉📉📉

🚨 Kids on Roatan just received 775.778 sats (~$460) for their education efforts on @Get_Yzer. 👇This is how our new project "Miners4Kids" works: We decided to run an experiment. "What if we connected one miner we have in Paraguay and make it mine #bitcoin directly for kids on Roatan?" And if the community crowdfunds the electricity for a particular month over @geyserfund , we distribute all the sats mined in that month to kids based on their "proof of learn", not just as a pure charity donation. We said: "Lets's try it out." We rolled it out at @BTCPrague. And to our surprise, during the conference we crowdfunded over @geyserfund the funds to cover the electricity all the way till November 2024 😲geyser.fund/project/miners4k… Yesterday we distributed the funds to kids who joined the project based on how many XP points they earned on @Get_Yzer (the Duolingo for Bitcoin) during July. 👏The most passionate learner, Claudio, received almost $150 worth of bitcoin for studying Bitcoin itself. All of the kids in the project are graduates of @MyfirstBitcoin_ Bitcoin Diploma on Roatan so they had a previous knowledge of Bitcoin and had their wallets set up. Making a direct connection between our bitcoin mining and bitcoin education within @AmityAge , utilizing the "proof of learn" approach was the idea worth exploring. We believe to inspire more kids to join for August and onwards and more communities to explore similar approaches for their own education activities. We believe that injecting bitcoin in various ways into the economy is a crucial cornerstone of building a proper Bitcoin circular economy. And kids receiving their sats is a foundation for them to learn how to manage them well for future and learn about financial responsibility in a hands-on approach. We would love to scale this project in future to encompass more communities around the world, connecting them with miners and education platforms. Let me know what ideas you would include or how to include more communities to take part. Follow our journey and let the bitcoin learning experiment continue 💪🔥

Great timing! :D

I counted 1010 traders that are down $100k today and 206 traders that are down $1M today on Hyperliquid 358 of those accounts lost everything and have ~0 balance, including one person who lost all $19M in their account