Dovey
Jan 31, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Western media’s dooming thesis and sepculation on the Wuhan #Cornoavirus only shows how a black box 📦 China is still to most westerners ..

A few big misunderstanding from what I’ve seen so far (thread) Image
1. The outbreak is primarily due to eating 🦇 and other wild animals

The first case is indentified on Dec 1, without exposure to that sea food market (where wild animal were on sale). Among the first 4 cases, 3 has no exposure. So hard to tell the exact source of the virus Image
2. The “Quarantine” order is legally enforced to make citizens to stay at home

Different municipalities quarantine at different levels, but none of them, even in Wuhan makes a “martial law” like quarantine for not letting individual walking on the street
Most citizens in the epicenter like Wuhan and other areas in Hubei stay at home voluntarily afraid of being infected when contacting strangers. The quarantine order mostly hit public transit and most form of transportation hence business have to shut too
I have no problem walking out in Guangzhou/Shanghai/Beijing, dozen local business are still operating, food delivery is still serving, SF express and China postal (like UPS and USPS in China) are working too

Hence the quarantine is not like what you imagine as a total shut down
There are many other absurd statements which I can’t recall.

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Jun 16, 2023
I get we need something positive, but the imaginary China narrative is pretty dumb considering how predatory mainland situation is for crypto founders

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Apr 22, 2023
On “Bio Hacking”

Always got friends ask “how to bio hack”

I don’t like the term “bio hack” as it makes us think there is magical quick fix in achieving bio vitality

but in reality most of us are not even getting the basic right: good sleep, food, mood and moves

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So simply plan the day following the sun angle: enough sun exposure and activities in the day, dim the indoor light in the night, stop accessing artificial light after 10pm

This is the best “hack” I figured for good sleep

Nothing feels better after an optimal sleep

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Apr 12, 2023
Will be on the panel of Cefi vs Defi in the afternoon as the only Defi rep😅

HK is largely a Cefi hub as the gateway for China so not everything is "politically right " on the stage

I posted what's really on my mind about this topic here, with HK context

A thread -
1/ At the macro level, most countries (except China and Russia and a few handful others ) in the world have no monetary sovereignty, including HK here unfortunately. HKD is a synthetic US dollar. The slow rug from the Fed has been extremely costly for HK to maintain the peg
2/ duration mismatch has rekt the commercial banks, the synthetic peg will rekt central banks

similar to "don't fight the fed" and for years traders have been "don't fight the HKMA" as it ALWAYS pegs at all cost, with help from sugar daddy PBOC

peg is a confident play
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Mar 24, 2023
Aftermath of #SVB on Chinese outflow and Singapore inflow

1/ My private bankers in SG said they have seen massive Chinese wealth outflow from US after SVB crisis into Singapore

SVB is not just a Sandhill VC bank but also bank to offshore GPs and Chinese tech firm under VIE
2/ just anecdotally one of my Chinese tech investment (a series B company) had $10m in SVB

It’s a bank to global tech money and HNW tech persons

Most Chinese HNW post 2000 (age between 35-60) are made under tech, who used to considered US bank as ironclad not anymore
3/Chinese wealthy can’t trust both Chinese and American financial systems, Singapore is making the real killing in between (western common laws and market structure+ eastern doctrines) and has become 1st choice for capital out flow

The viral meme 👇🏻 is quite a explanatory
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Mar 12, 2023
Just read the @circle announcement on USDC circle.com/blog/an-update…

last year I ask @jerallaire their repo experience and how it's time to stress test it. They are well aware of all risks and should have rehearsed the liquidity ops for an extreme situation like this ...
I believe Circle and the team will go through this and might have to raise an equity cushion (or bridge loan) to buy time while FDIC process their uninsured claims

this should be an easy ie to collateralize their bond interest for the raise
after all these this will accelerate related stablecoin policy making hopefully, to eventually get Circle a full Fed account just like Alipay

and if that's the case, using USDC will be like a quasi CBDC and Circle will become the digital reserve bank sit on top of Fed
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Mar 11, 2023
now it's the WORST time to unwind or swap USDC, USDC holders and Defi vault operator with USDC don't panic

1. the actual loss of Circle's 3.3B deposits will likely take ~25% haircut so <1B, which can be primarily covered by its 2022 income from $32.B short-term T-bill yield imo
2. Coinbase publicly said will resume redemption on Monday, even if you don't have CB account, there will be on-going arb as long as the redemption is there. So the onchain exchange USDC will be relatively peggish as long as redemption is open

3. 25% haircut is already pretty doomed case and assuming no bailout

the impact to let SVB free fall is a big slap on the face of Fed/Treasury and will significantly ruin financial backbone of tech in US

Damage is much more than just money so gov will have to do something
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