In modern days, "a Marxist" is just a code word for "a politician who could raise my taxes".

McD is the dangerous one. He’s from Merseyside. Merseyside produces two types of people. The hardworking productive types like me and the anarchist destroyers.

Perpetual chipperness at 35?? Or is it how it looks compared to what comes later?

Interesting read in today's WSJ (paywall):
Lack of Banking Options a Big Problem for Crypto Businesses
Bitfinex’s loss of access to $850 million in customer funds after using a Panama-based processing firm highlights a persistent issue for crypto companies.

An extended excerpt:

"... Crypto exchanges including Coinbase and Gemini embraced regulation and have cultivated normal relationships with banks. Others haven’t. That has made them popular with some of the customers attracted to crypto’s anonymity, but it has also made them off-limits to most banks.

Bitfinex’s problems with Wells Fargo made it increasingly reliant on Crypto Capital. There was no contract between the two companies, even though by 2018 Crypto Capital held about $850 million worth of Bitfinex customer money in accounts at various banks in several nations.

After some Crypto Capital overseas accounts were seized by authorities, Bitfinex had increasing problems getting it to process transactions. “Too much money is trapped with you,” a Bitfinex employee nicknamed Merlin wrote in a text to a Crypto Capital employee he called Oz, according to a report from the New York Attorney General’s Office. “We are currently walking on a very thin crust of ice.”

The report revealed that Bitfinex concluded late in 2018 that it had to go around Crypto Capital, leading the exchange to tap the accounts held by a sister company, Tether Ltd. Tether’s money was supposed to be held in a reserve dedicated to keeping the stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar. Without telling investors or customers, the attorney general’s office said, Tether gave Bitfinex a line of credit allowing it access to up to $900 million of its reserves. "

… Speculative transactions accounted for roughly 60 to 80 percent of all transactions on the blockchain, according to Chainalysis, a start-up that does analysis of the blockchain for big companies and governments. Most of those transactions are Bitcoins moving between cryptocurrency exchanges around the world.
There is still quite a bit of mystery about what accounts for the other 20 to 40 percent of the transactions. No one can force Bitcoin users to register their identity, so Chainalysis and other firms are in the dark about many transactions. But they have identified some useful chunks.
When Bitcoin was introduced in 2009, it was described as a new way to make payments online, without the fees that credit card companies charge. Chainalysis estimates that last year, companies handling Bitcoin payments accounted for 0.3 percent of all Bitcoin transactions, or $2.4 billion...