Christine Lagarde personally called Greece's prime minister to stop Binance getting a MiCA license. The ECB has no licensing authority under MiCA. National regulators grant it, and Greece's had already called the file complete.
Binance withdrew on June 24. On July 1 the passport covering 450 million Europeans closed. The reported reason for the call: dollar stablecoins crowding the digital euro.
None of it is confirmed. The structural point stands anyway. Under the rulebook, the ECB had no say in this. It appears to have had one.
Discretion with paperwork is not a rulebook. Bitcoin's one real feature is that no phone call can end it.
Roger
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