HKMA The stablecoin race gathered a little pace this week. The United States regulatory bill is making its way through the Senate but rather more interesting is the action on the other side of the world. Hong Kong actually passed stablecoin legislation, establishing a licensing regime for fiat-backed stablecoins. It wouldn’t matter so much but

KYC Before we throw eggs at Coinbase for their KYC debacle, let’s take a look closer to home. Right across the board then, public to private, data is stolen all the time. Indeed, there are identity factories in Asia that will sell you any and all the KYC you could wish to buy on pretty

A slow climb The slow price climb continues. I’ve written about the scale of the psychological barrier that is $100k before. Back in February “it will take time” Then we had this in December. It’s now May. We are still where we were. We can make all sorts of excuses about global trade wars and

Aye You Free stuff! I was particularly drawn to Labor’s contribution to men’s health, $32million or $2.30 each. In fairness to Albanese he actually had some policies while it was not absolutely clear that his principal opponent had any at all. What is most striking across all the parties was the complete lack of any

Unrealised CGT It’s only on superannuation, it’s only on balances over $3m, it only affects about 80,000 tax payers. Less than half a per cent of the population. It’s a nothingburger. The general reaction suggests to me that this argument is winning. Most people are not concerning themselves because they are not really in any