Deutsche Börse buys Kraken to escape their boredom

Deutsche Börse throwing $200 million at Kraken is the biggest financial identity crisis I’ve seen in years. You have these ancient German bankers with ties worth more than my soul trying to buy digital street cred from people who think laundering money through cartoons is a career. It’s the classic retail move—when you’ve lost the plot, you just overpay for a logo that says ‘I’m still relevant.’ I’ve seen this before; they don’t actually understand the tech, they just saw a blue squid and panicked about their own irrelevance. It’s desperate and honestly embarrassing for everyone involved.

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